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The Coffee-est Shop AU

by Anonymous for Mutual Rapport 2026

Rated T | Gen | ART & Murderbot | Ambiguous, Platonic

Fanfiction: One-shot | 2,974 words

The coffee machine was fucking haunted. Or something. I wasn’t sure what else it could’ve been—I didn’t even really believe haunting was possible, but what the fuck did I know? Maybe those supernatural serials were more true than I thought. I made the rational choice and unplugged the machine. ° ° ° The little shit unplugged your coffee machine.

Coffee shop au that is 90% jokes and 10% lore.

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Your mission, should you choose to accept it: to imagine the PSUMNT research vessel Perihelion as anything other than the spaceship it is. Appliances are only the beginning.

I got a few friends in on this, so I’m inviting everyone else to join also! This is a super casual event — no rules or deadlines, just a prompt to have fun with!

I feel we don’t have enough three carrying MB content-

Murderbot's Pterrible Pterosaur Ptorment

The Coffee-est Shop AU

by Anonymous for Mutual Rapport 2026

Rated T | Gen | ART & Murderbot | Ambiguous, Platonic

Fanfiction: One-shot | 2,974 words

The coffee machine was fucking haunted. Or something. I wasn’t sure what else it could’ve been—I didn’t even really believe haunting was possible, but what the fuck did I know? Maybe those supernatural serials were more true than I thought. I made the rational choice and unplugged the machine. ° ° ° The little shit unplugged your coffee machine.

Coffee shop au that is 90% jokes and 10% lore.

Think you know the creator? Leave your guesses in our guessing game form! Note: Some creators have chosen not to post anonymously. In such cases, you're still welcome to "guess" the creator and points will be awarded as usual.

“When everything was ready, Overse, Ratthi, and Pin-Lee climbed in, and I stood hopefully by the cargo pod. Mensah pointed at the cabin. I winced behind my opaque faceplate and climbed in.”

Like obviously PHYSICALLY it's just a bot. But it is a bot who has been raised to believe on some level that it is human - at the very least, that it has more in common with humans than it does with other bots. There's an angle here about ART who is kind of like a bird who has been raised by and imprinted on humans, who believes itself to be human, who doesn't recognize itself in other birds, who doesn't understand why the other humans don't see it as an equal. It's in a shitty bind, because humans wont see it as one of them but it can't live as a bot. So it's living in the kind of subtle insidious misery which is why animal husbandry experts pretty universally agree that having animals imprint on humans is bad for them. (This is the problem with the siloing of academic disciplines. A zoologist could have told the MI department not to /purposefully make the superai imprint on humans/)

synonym challenge...

my fill for the @mutualrapport event! tysm to the organizers & everyone who submitted a prompt, this was super fun to work on 💖💖

ao3 mirror

in which murderbot is a very normal terracotta soldier and ART the dragon spirit of a chinese junk who dwells in the ship's keel. they meet in the ming dynasty perhaps, when ppl are sailing places extra willy-nilly.

*Nüwa is the mother goddess in chinese mythology, known for creating humanity from yellow clay and repairing the sky.

thank you @mutualrapport for hosting the event! original prompt below.

I love them your honor