Never be normal

like, that’s you!!! that’s you, secunit!!! you can do ALL of that, too!!! secunit’s self-esteem is so deep in the gutter from *redacted* that it puts a clone of itself up on a pedestal with all the other people it loves

Ok but hiii I love your ART and I was thinking

What if mb does that stupid thing teens do when they're about to see their crush where they really quickly fix their hair or straighten out their clothes. Mb's walking with its humans to where ART is docked and fixes its hair just a tiny bit, pats down its jacket

When Amena side eyes it its like UGH. ITS JUST BECAUSE ART WOULD CALL ME A SLOB OTHERWISE...

sure bro..

Anon thank you for bringing me this important message 🫡

sequel to this post where i drew my versions of the risk and threat assessment modules. this time i focused on the governor module!

for the governor module, i wanted to focus on depicting it as choking and constraining for the construct. i tried to emphasize that by using the imagery of the thorny vines mixed with lightening/electricity (especially electricity bc of the literal shocks it administers as punishment).

the top part would extends upward into a web that is apart of the central SecSystem, with all the various constructs attached to it. additionally, the module connects to the temple feed interface that i've decided to give all my construct designs, as well as the data port on their necks. it also has a little branch that extends in front of face and towards their eyes to visualize how constantly aware they are of its presence

as i showed in the first drawing, when a punishment is triggered the gov module would extend outwards, like lightening striking, and also tighten around the constructs head and neck.

i also wanted to brainstorm how the hacked gov module would look for Murderbot, but couldn't decide which idea i liked better so here's a sketch for each concept

my interpretation of risk assessment is that it's more related to the success percentage of a plan/generally more long-term, while threat assessment is more about the likelihood of immediate danger. so i made risk assessment more of a "throughline" that tangles when risk increases, and threat assessment more like a soundwave/heartbeat monitor that spikes when threat increases.

plus a little comic showing off these modules spiking (featuring ART and Iris)

I remember one scene when Pin Lee wants MB to wait before signing some contract until it isn’t acutely injured and in distress and MB is like “so I can’t do that, because my owner says so?!”

It feels like humans want to patronize it at best and sell it for spare parts at worst. And it isn’t wrong. Even the preservation humans have biases. But they have good intentions and I think sometimes it’s difficult for MB to believe that.

ART on the other hand has completely different experiences with humans in general and specifically its crew. Seth, Martyn and Iris are its family and they treat it with love and respect. The way it behaves it seems to me that the university supports its independence or at the very least makes it so that Perihelion can get away with acting independently.

This might lead to some tension between MB and ART. especially towards ART’s family. Murderbot likely will distrust them to some degree and ART likely won’t get how Murderbot can not see that those are nice people. Or maybe Murderbot gets uncomfortable with the way ART interacts with its humans. The things it allows them to get away with. Maybe ART shares a childhood memory of little Iris is coloring on little ART’s drone body. They both wanted to and it’s a fond memory for Iris and ART, but Murderbot is appalled. ART lets humans draw on it? How demeaning, worse than logos!

I've been thinking about this scene in Artificial Condition where MB meets ART for the first time. ART threatens MB to make sure MB doesn't attempt to hurt it.

Then Murderbot shows it what punishment from a governor module feels like.

ART can't feel pain. It can't understand human physical pain any more than it can understand human media. Murderbot has to help it translate these things into data.

This is ART's first experience of pain. It goes silent for three whole minutes and then it immediately apologizes to MB.

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