favorite side character in platform decay
this incredibly feral hauler bot:
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honestly, the last one is giving me 'achilles dragging the body of hector' vibes. very descriptive. epic, almost.
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favorite side character in platform decay
this incredibly feral hauler bot:
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honestly, the last one is giving me 'achilles dragging the body of hector' vibes. very descriptive. epic, almost.

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previous murderbot books spent a lot of time in the corporation rim, but i think this is the first one that concentrated on showing the regular civilians living there. the corporations are greedy, malevolent beasts looking only for profit, but platform decay is filled with the examples of people in the corporation rim helping others with no benefit to themselves. humans fleeing from a rogue secunit shuffling together into transport and warning everyone inside not to get out. multiple occurrences of people offering nanna a seat in the middle of an active emergency or letting her pass with her mobility device. they organized a local militia to keep transit zones safe from corporate infighting. when BE attacked the ship, adults hiding in the tunnels and stairways ferried all the children over their heads to move them further into the shelter. workers at the boat stopped checking tickets and ushered passengers onto the safety of the boat without making sure they paid for transport (think of the lost profit!).
yes, it's terrible there and lives are difficult, but humans are being human, and helping each other when they can.
Perihelion: I like being the biggest, smartest, most dangerous thing around. Being the biggest, smartest, most dangerous thing around makes me good at my function: protecting my crew and helping them complete missions. I care deeply about my crew, who trusts me to fulfill my function with the immense power I have. Because they trust me, I can banter with my crew in ways that would terrify outsiders. Terrifying outsiders amuses me and I will take every opportunity to do so. If they can't handle it, then they can't handle the mission. I don't care what their past experiences are. Trauma? Skill issue. Get over it.
other PSUMNT machine intelligences: We are also huge and smart and good at our jobs. Stop being weird.
Perihelion: >:(
Random rogue SecUnit: I'm often the biggest, smartest, most dangerous thing around and this causes me enormous amounts of stress. You scare the shit out of me but that's nothing new, so honestly fuck you. Here's a compilation of what the extensive amounts of brain torture I've endured feels like. Chew on that, asshole. Oh btw, despite being an anxious, traumatized mess, I'm extremely good at and dedicated to my function: protecting my clients. The very idea that I might snap and hurt the people I've come to care about is so distressing that I'm risking my life and using my newly acquired freedom to find out whether I can be trusted or not. I'll let you do painful experimental surgery on me to help me even though you're the most dangerous thing I've ever met, because while you were using my brain to watch hundreds of hours of TV with me I realized you're really a big softy. Like me. But don't you dare try to talk to me about my feelings.
Perihelion: ...
Perihelion: Please take my phone number.
Jonathan on the 12th: This thing isn't human, I just watched him scale the bloody walls like a fucking lizard, what sort of beast am I forced to be in contact with????
Jonathan on the 15th: Saw the old bastard scaling the fucking wall again and honestly fuck this shit I am so over it hope he falls actually.
The parking attendant paused by the double-length bay. Intended for mobile homes and cars with trailers, it was currently occupied by a sleeping dragon.
No parts of it extended beyond the lines, and the paper ticket was clearly displayed, impaled on a horn.
The parking attendant moved on.
I was going to just queue it for later but then it stuck in my brain, and I decided to make it everyone's problem

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it's a good thing mensah is already married with kids by the start of all systems red because can you imagine trying to make a new longterm relationship work when you have to explain to potential partners that murderbot will be there. no not romantically or sexually. but it is there.
#just you and me and me and you just us and your friend secunit how dare you leave this in the tags op
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There are multiple chapters that are set in hospitals where the characters are attempting to recover from injuries that never fully heal. I must once again stress that my experience in WWI was perfectly normal.
There is a giant horrible mudplain full of unrecoverable and perfectly preserved dead bodies that the characters have to walk through in a land where the air is poisoned gas, and on a compLETELY UNRELATED NOTE: WWI WAS TOTALLY FINE AND NORMAL!!
idk guys sometimes you just have to accept a ship dynamic is unhealthy, insane, and sometimes abusive. and its not real people so those factors just make it interesting
please stop unfolding the origami crane and smoothing it out bc you got worried the paper was hurting from the bends
i liked that mb got to preserve its deus ex machina role in platform decay despite the fact mensah's family was pretty much expecting it to show up and rescue them...you know who wasn't expecting that, though? the militia. from the militia's perspective, a rando with the exact skillset and knowledge they needed appeared out of nowhere on the cusp of a firefight and volunteered its services, nonchalantly pulled one of them out of the line of fire in the nick of time, asked politely for a weapon and exploded an enemy's gun basically instantaneously, and then peaced out and they never saw it again. i think they had an even more quintessential deus ex machina experience than the ravihyral polycule.
we've got a life to love living.
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I love Supervisor Leonide in a “support women’s wrongs” kind of way

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I LOVE FARAI
OUGH THE NEWEST BLORBO!!!!
She's SO competent! And clever! and smart! And she takes no shit from Murderbot but she's also so eager to impress it because Mensah loves it and trusts it!!
That scene where she tells it to do what it needs to do. Or when they talk about Murderbot and orders and self-determination, or when they talk about trust, WHEN THEY WERE THE PERFECT TEAM to rescue the children!!! And her fear of heights and reluctant to break Murderbot's boundaries and how she trusts it. The way they talk about the polycule and how Murderbot has disrupted it!!!!! And Farai is working on herself about that!!
The way Farai and Murderbot are co-parenting everyone, taking turns driving the caravan (that HAD to be a caravan), saying words at the same time, finishing each others THREATS?!
Mensah has a TYPE.
(and so do I)
The description for Platform Decay sure does bury the lead, doesn't it? I mean there's nothing at all in there about how this is a glorious pro-public transit manifesto.