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Chapters: 6/6 Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Murderbot & SecUnit 3 (Murderbot Diaries), Dr. Mensah & Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries), Dr. Bharadwaj & Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries), Dr. Bharadwaj & SecUnit 3 (Murderbot Diaries) Characters: Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries), Dr. Bharadwaj (Murderbot Diaries), SecUnit 3 (Murderbot Diaries), Dr. Mensah (Murderbot Diaries), Original Characters, Dr. Ratthi (Murderbot Diaries) Additional Tags: Vulnerability, Friendship, Lack of Communication, Communication Failure, Mutual Pining, (except it's friendship-style), Light Angst, Murderbot is Bad at Feelings (Murderbot Diaries), POV Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries), POV SecUnit 3 (Murderbot Diaries), The Murderbot Diaries Big Bang 2025, 5+1 Things, A Platonic Take on "Idiots In Love", Hanging Out, Cats, Fanart Summary:

First Three is late getting back to Preservation, then its social calendar seems to be full all the time.

Murderbot's disappointed, but it's not like it can just ask Three to spend time with it. Besides, if Three wanted to hang out, it would say so. Right?

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Or: 5 times Murderbot won't admit it likes spending time with Three, and 1 time it finally gets over itself and does.

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Chapters: 4/4 Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Murderbot (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Dr. Mensah & Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries) Characters: Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries), Dr. Gurathin (Murderbot Diaries), Dr. Mensah (Murderbot Diaries), Dr. Ratthi (Murderbot Diaries), Pin-Lee (Murderbot Diaries), Dr. Arada (Murderbot Diaries), Overse (Murderbot Diaries), Dr. Volescu (Murderbot Diaries), Dr. Bharadwaj (Murderbot Diaries), Original Daemon Character(s) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Daemons, Crossover with His Dark Materials, only so far as there are animals that represent people’s souls, Canon-Typical Violence, Canon-typical swearing, Book One, All Systems Red Series: Part 1 of The Daemonbot Diaries Summary:

As a heartless killing machine, DB and I were terrible failures.

  Constructs have to have daemons, you see. The organic parts of us don’t work right without them. But most humans and augmented humans think of constructs as bots, and it's easier for them to do that when they don’t see your daemon anymore than they see your face.

 Murderbot with daemons inspired by the His Dark Materials series.

Chapters: 9/9 Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Dr. Gurathin & Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries), Dr. Gurathin/Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries) Characters: Dr. Gurathin (Murderbot Diaries), Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries) Additional Tags: Fluff, The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon (Murderbot Diaries), There Was Only One Bed, There was only one cabin Summary:

Murderbot has tickets to watch the top secret filming of the season finale of season 42 of Sanctuary Moon

It would all be perfect except for some asshole of an augmented human, who seems out to spoil everyone’s fun

Chapters: 8/8 Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Murderbot & PreservationAux Survey Team (Murderbot Diaries), Murderbot & Dr. Ratthi (Murderbot Diaries) Characters: Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries), Dr. Ratthi (Murderbot Diaries), PreservationAux Survey Team (Murderbot Diaries) Additional Tags: Canon-Typical Violence, Book 1: All Systems Red, The Murderbot Diaries Big Bang 2025, No beta we die like GrayCris, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence Series: Part 3 of All Systems Redux Summary:

I’d been on planetary surveys before, and scientists are weird. This survey team was the weirdest yet, though.

Murderbot is going to have a harder time than usual keeping its borked governor module on the down low during this survey...

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The art for this fic will appear in the final chapter, so you should wander over to Evrrys's Tumblr to whet your appetite.

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Chapters: 24/24 Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: ART | Perihelion/Murderbot, ART | Perihelion/Murderbot/Original Character(s) (Murderbot Diaries) Characters: Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries), ART | Perihelion, Seth (Murderbot Diaries), Karime (Murderbot Diaries), Original Human Character(s), Tarik (Murderbot Diaries), Martyn (Murderbot Diaries), Turi (Murderbot Diaries), Kaede (Murderbot Diaries), Matteo (Murderbot Diaries), Original Ship Character(s) (Murderbot Diaries), SecUnit 3 (Murderbot Diaries) Additional Tags: Post-Book 7: System Collapse, POV Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries), Canon-Typical Violence, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Found Family, Mystery, Heist, The Corporation Rim Is Terrible (Murderbot Diaries), Lab Hell (Murderbot Diaries), Feed Stuff, Demi Murderbot, Slow Burn, Polyamory, Grumpy/Sunshine/Maniacal Genius Machine Intelligence, Eventual Smut, Eventual Happy Ending, light cannibalism, Moderate Philosophizing, Self-Actualization Through Gratuitous Violence & Media Consumption, The Murderbot Diaries Big Bang 2025 Summary:

"It's wrong to think of a construct as half bot, half human. It makes it sound like the halves are discrete, like the bot half should want to obey orders and do its job and the human half should want to protect itself and get the hell out of here. As opposed to the reality, which was that I was one whole confused entity, with no idea what I wanted to do."

 Six months into its new life aboard the Perihelion, Murderbot has settled into a comfortably aloof routine with its mutual administrative assistant, ART. Then a new crew member arrives and a survey mission goes catastrophically wrong, uncovering a corporate conspiracy that hits closer to home than anyone expected. As events spiral out of control, a harrowing mystery, the indifferent cruelty of the Corporation Rim and (ugh) its own inconvenient emotions all conspire to force Murderbot to reevaluate what it really wants from the universe and what it means to live in a world of bots and humans when you're neither.

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Chapters: 13/13 Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Original Characters, Original SecUnit Character(s) (Murderbot Diaries) Additional Tags: The Corporation Rim Is Terrible (Murderbot Diaries), The Corporation Rim (Murderbot Diaries), Canon-Typical Treatment of SecUnits (Murderbot Diaries), Canon-Typical Treatment of Humans (Murderbot Diaries), Hand-waved physics (I really tried folks), Murder, Ghost Story (Kinda), Fanart, Digital Art, Fan Comics, Original Character Death(s), Fake Character Death Summary:

Intra-corp politics, a SecUnit brand known for odd behavior, and a planet soaking in the radiation of a sun far too close for (human) comfort. It's no wonder that Inspector Marcelle's inspection of Muirmill's new logging installation doesn't quite go to plan.

Several years later, Assistant Supervisor Durant is determined to prove that the Can's fourth habitation block definitely isn't haunted. Unfortunately, Durant is wrong.

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Chapters: 4/4 Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Tlacey's ComfortUnit (Murderbot Diaries), Original Child Character(s), Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries), ART | Perihelion, Tlacey (Murderbot Diaries), Original ComfortUnit Character(s) (Murderbot Diaries), Original Human Character(s) Additional Tags: Book 2: Artificial Condition, Post-Book 2: Artificial Condition, POV Tlacey's ComfortUnit, The Corporation Rim Is Terrible (Murderbot Diaries), but some people there are trying to do right, Canon-Typical Treatment of Constructs (Murderbot Diaries), Slavery, Implied/Referenced Sexual Assault, of a ComfortUnit, Murder, Past Child Abuse, more detailed warnings in chapter notes, Rescue, Adventure, Found Family, Trust, Happy Ending, Embedded Images, Digital Art, The Murderbot Diaries Big Bang 2025 Summary:

“Can I come? Please?” Huck asked.

I hesitated. There was so much trust in that question, but it felt bittersweet, since I’d done so little to earn it. I’d wanted to do more, but with every act of affection or fierce protection curtailed by the governor module, I’d been little more than a reassuring presence.

As Huck looked up at me, his chin dripping tears, I realized how much I valued that trust. I had an answer to a question I’d never been free to ask: What did I want?

After its governor module is hacked, Nova risks its new freedom by returning to the mining installations of RaviHyral to search for Astra, Tlacey’s other ComfortUnit.

Along the way, Nova will encounter an abandoned SecUnit, an illicit troupe of performers dramatizing the injustice of the Corporation Rim, and Tlacey’s son, Huck, a child who is also in need of a chance at freedom from the cruelty of Rim life.

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