"You know I am not kind."

murderbot saying it would rather get disassembled while conscious again than become a corporate spy 😀 hey can we pause and unpack what you just said.

We all know Murderbot's hero worship devotion to Dr. Mensah of course but I'm thinking about the flip side right now. Imagine, if you will, Dr. Mensah, who grew up in a comparatively utopic commune society with extremely minimal crime where everyone's basic needs were met. Despite her extremely impressive composure and adaptability through the series, I don't think she ever really encountered mortal danger before the GrayCris incidents. So she's having the worst experience of her whole life, and she's got to be in charge of everyone and make sure her team doesn't panic, keep them safe, lead them out of this, despite having absolutely 0 first hand knowledge of what to do. I think she was absolutely breathtakingly grateful for SecUnit, someone whose entire existence was spent dealing with these kinds of situations, who was protecting them despite having no reason to, who was outwardly cool-headed and competent and who threw itself in front of danger time and again. I think it was a relief to have someone on the team that she could lean on, that felt responsible for her in addition to the other way around. I think it made her feel safe. I think she missed it terribly when she was dealing with GrayCris without it and I think after TranRollinHyfa she was even more reliant on its presence. The hero worship might be mutual, yknow? The love certainly is

it loves her, your honor. not like, in a weird way. but it does love her.

sometimes I think about that one single academic citation murderbot throws in randomly in SC. ART's influence in the funniest way.

So Murderbot and ART made a baby together, but the baby is also Murderbot

"Four hours spent putting it together in my sandbox. And it looks like its stupid construct parent."

"Pin-Lee is like a CombatUnit lawyer." "Dr. Bharadwaj is easy to talk to, for a human." "Super boring data analysis isn't boring when I do it with Ratthi" "I really (REALLY) don't like planets, but I would follow Mensah to one indefinitely to keep her safe" are you fucking kidding me right now

robots that are bad at self care. robots that procrastinate cleaning their vents and download too many files and refuse to organise their hard drive and then spend all day complaining about being hot and tired and low on processing space. robots that are adhd icons.......

they don't like the jollybaby vibe i bring to the function