just a little incident involving the boogeyman

when the lyrics you've been mishearing are more clever than what's actually in the song

oh? my god???

#vtmb2 spoilers but like i know obviously safia is just pretending not to recognize the nomad at the beginning of the game but its kinda extra funny listening to her say "noooo.... you couldnt be... the nomad??" when my nomad looks like this

It's so deeply embedded in how Murderbot sees itself that it exists in a society with both construct and human slavery, and that it's role has frequently been that of overseer of human slavery. There are so many layers to it's own identity within an oppressive system when it's been both a victim and an enforcer. It calls itself Murderbot. It doesn't remember how many people it's killed, because of the mindwipes. It identifies itself with the word the people who are afraid of it would use. The thing that pushed it to hack it's governor module and the thing that haunts it the first two books is that it doesn't know if it killed a specific bunch of people on purpose or not. Because it does have hate for humans and it does take pleasure in violence sometimes. It's been the very real monster in people's stories. It's been the boot on their kneck. That's under it's skin. It can't just sort the world into humans and constructs. It knows what it's like to crush a human. It knew that before it knew much else.