Murderbot kills me in Fugitive Telemetry. Like sure it's the "quiet" downtime book and a pretty good whodunnit yeah. It has a muder to solve, this is enrichment for it and all its friends are there! and everyone being there just kind of gets to me?? Like I get emotional over it. Seeing it act comfortable with its humans like that is fucking precious okay. Calling its bestie and worstie to watch it break into a transport, scaring the shit out of them later when it calls them for help in the most hilarious way. Bharadwaj getting it to open up and just. Talk. Everyone gets a little spot in its narrative. I know we've been over all this but we need to go over it AGAIN
Most of all though, the real killer to me (not balin) is in the beginning. Despite bitching in its narrative about how slow the humans are at parsing information like its all groaaaan humans could you be any slower, mb is still trying to impress them. You can tell its wary of the humans being assholes to it and you can tell it still stings every time it happens.
And then it will still want to help.
It ends up befriending so many of the people it meets and and will assume they hate it. Like Indah. She was an asshole in the very beginning but I don't think it takes her long to realize how she was wrong about it. then when Murderbot is mistaken about the hack after being so sure about it and its kind of having a little internal breakdown over it thinking about how Indah is gonna know its useless junk and you fucking KNOW that its expression was 🥺
Like what was Indah thinking. Probably close to what the PresAux team was thinking when they first asked murderbot to sit with them.
Oh and the scene after the refugees get rescued and Indah is leading murderbot through the halls away from the refugees and mb is all "she doesnt want to upset them if they see me because im a horrible garbage killing machine and she thinks so too" but its like. No my dude. She doesnt want you upset because THEY JUST SHOT YOU and you're obviously not okay. And probably made you stay out of the action later because YOU WERE JUST SHOT. For most people being shot isnt normal.
