#murderbot fanfic

[every-eye-evermore]

id: a drawing of the scene from fugitive telemetry where ratthi and gurathin peak around murderbot to see the crime scene. Gurathin, drawn with light skin and buzzed blond hair, is standing on his tip-toes to be tall enough to see over murderbot’s shoulder. Ratthi, drawn with a medium skin tone and greying brown hair, looks past its side with a concerned look on his face. They each have a hand hovering near murderbot, not quite touching it. In front of them is a pool of blood but the rest of the crime scene off screen. There are drones scattered around the room. /end id

After over a month of reading fics, interacting with fandom, and 30k+ words written for this book series….. I finally started reading fugitive telemetry. Unfortunately, it’s my favorite.

#you cannot tell me CANONICALLY gurathin gets on his tippytoes to look over mb’s shoulder #peaking around it like they’re in a goddamn saturday morning cartoon #it’s so funny #sometimes a super-strong killer robot needs to invite two middle aged men to watch it break onto a ship for moral support #and to block cameras I *guess* #the funniest thing to me is they were both completely down #if only to make sure it doesn’t incriminate itself for murder #mine #not music #murderbot #the murderbot diaries #murderbot fanfic #my art

[ineedlelittlespace]

You checked. Secunit’s face creases in a dubious frown, and Amena reels in the urge to roll her eyes. She feels like she should be a little offended that it always seems so surprised when she—or any of its other humans, for that matter—makes sensible decisions, but she knows that’s a fairly recent development. And not always a consistent one. I did! The bot that handles the registrar is very chatty if you ask questions nicely. Huh. Secunit’s brows rise a fraction, and Amena can’t quite bite back her smile. Someone trained me well, huh? I’m not responding to that.

#murderbot #the murderbot diaries #secunit #amena mensah #murderbot fanfic #my fanfic

[ilovedthestars]

A quiet conversation that takes place in the short time skip between chapters 11 and 12 of System Collapse. Murderbot and Mensah watch the documentary it made, and take a moment to talk about what's happened and what comes next.

This is my fic for the 2024 Murderbot Gift Exchange!! My giftee was @babybluesquid. I was so excited about your prompts, they gave me the perfect chance to really tease out my emotions about System Collapse a bit more! Happy new year, I hope you enjoy reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it!

Big thank you to the @mbd-gift-exchange organizers for all their hard work putting this together. The AO3 collection with everyone else's wonderful gift fanworks is here, go check them out!

#stars fic #murderbot #the murderbot diaries #murderbot fanfic #2024 murderbot diaries new years gift exchange #mbd gift exchange #system collapse #system collapse spoilers

[readythefanons]

i don't know if i ever talked up my murderbot fic

did you know i wrote fanfic for Martha Wells's murderbot series?

in one of them, JollyBaby and the Life Tender start a relationship and have a kid (it's Baymax)

Baymax gets its own embedded spin-off/sequel where it goes on an adventure. (It's not a crossover with Big Hero 6, it just... is. )

"JollyBaby and Blorp go on a date" on AO3

you have to be logged in to view it, i don't remember why but i'm sure it made sense at the time haha

also i wrote one where Murderbot has been writing fanfiction, and ART finds out: data leak incident report: SPECULATION.text

#describe your fics badly fuck yeah #murderbot #fanfiction #murderbot fanfic #jollybaby #blorp

[alex-van-gore]

Drawn as companion piece for this lovely fic by OccasionalStorytelling

[ID: digital drawing of SecUnit Three. It wears a bright orange shirt and loose pants, and no shoes. It has shoulder length black hair, glowing orange eyes, and brown skin. it looks into a room crowded with plants - ART’s hydroponics bay. The light comes from behind it, shining through the open door into the room. /end ID]

#murderbot #murderbot diaries #the murderbot diaries #secunit three #network effect #murderbot fanart #murderbot fanfic

[peachesanmemes]

I have this Murderbot fanfic idea (romance/ship free)

Murderbot gets sent to a junker/recycler planet to find evidence for something and, to its dismay, meets the repaired rogue bots there. Lots of pleasure units living like a real community, basically. MB was already a whole mess interacting with the less human bots on Preservation. Imagine someone motions to a new bot in a crumpled heap and mentions its 'happiness module' busted. Murderbot definitely has some emotions about this.

Story would hopefully play with the idea of privledge and unfairness that some people just have it way better for no effort. Also the jealousy inherent from someone who doesn't have/never had those things. And how that jealousy sometimes causes them to ignore and dismiss any real problems or feelings that more privileged person has (the bot is in a crumpled heap on a junker planet for some reason after all, and happiness modual implies forced feelings on pleasure bots - I'm thinking monkey drug trials levels of unethical - like a hit of dopamine when they do something right and they're dependent people pleaser addicts)

Junker planet why? Recyclers exist right? Maybe this junk planet gets whole ships' worth of decommissioned stuff that companies can't be bothered to filter through a recycler themselves. Like, what do they do with it when a company gathers all the debris from an exploded terraforming operation that they legally have to clean up. Or maybe the junkers go capture it for recycling themselves.

Also could have a scene of murderbot finding "decomissioned" sec units and the horror and sadness of that. Murdebot often struggles with feeling like an object that can be thrown away as soon as it's not useful. But to end up here rotting in a pile of other junk... whole damn fic would be very existential.

#murderbot #murderbot fanfic #is this something? #fanfic ideas #ace characters #aroace #it/its #am I projecting my lack of support and resources growing up onto my blorbo? yes. #It's big feelings... #marketpeaches

[alemongrenade]

anyway read this story

#murderbot fanfic #FUCK it's so good

[24-05txt]

... forgot to post my gift fic whoops

Tags: POV outsider, Character Study, Recovery, Slice of Life, Awkward Social Situations

Summary:

And I swear to every deity known to man that it’s because I’m thinking of it that the damn SecUnit comes ‘round the corner like it isn’t even a thing, like I’m not standing right here. It’s far enough away that I might’ve been able to pretend it was someone—something—other than it is, but I don’t easily forget the face of one who saves my life, one who I shot not five minutes after that, and—almost like an insult—every time my eyes focus on the figure across the walkway, my interface displays it’s feed ID: a damning ‘SecUnit’, stamped above its head like a name.

Surviving the trip from BreharWallHan isn’t the end of it for Human One, she’s not even sure it’s a beginning. There’s no clear end to the effects of her time spent in the backrocks, but recovery is made one step at a time. Recognizing her family, acknowledging her rights, claiming a home… taking a break.

This is what making an effort looks like. It’s harder than it has any right to be, but damn her if she won’t try anyway; and, like a mercy, some things come unexpectedly easy.

#honestly im pretty proud of it #i made it a series with 'why did you' since i consider it related chronologically #even though nothing is mentioned except for similar named characters #murderbot diaries #the murderbot diaries #murderbot #fanfic #murderbot fanfic #i forgot my writing tag #TMBD gift exchange 2023 #fic.txt

[snugglyeldritchjellyfish]

Chapters: 8/8 Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Characters: Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries), Dr. Mensah (Murderbot Diaries), Dr. Ratthi (Murderbot Diaries), Dr. Arada (Murderbot Diaries), Overse (Murderbot Diaries), Dr. Gurathin (Murderbot Diaries), Dr. Bharadwaj (Murderbot Diaries), Dr. Volescu (Murderbot Diaries), Pin-Lee (Murderbot Diaries) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, no beta we die like murderbots, an au retelling of All Systems Red, what if Murderbot had a starfighter Series: Part 1 of Reclaim the Sky Summary:

Before I could even register what was going on, garbled junk data flooded my systems, overloading all my inputs and triggering a cascade failure.

I was completely scrambled; my engines flared and then cut out entirely, leaving me to the mercy of momentum and gravity. I couldn’t tell which way was up, could barely feel the air rushing past my wings and fuselage, could barely think through all my systems going utterly haywire. And now I was in uncontrollable freefall.

It had been such a beautiful day for flying.

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(In this AU, the Corporation Rim is a lot more militarized - the larger corporations have carriers and super-carriers housing squadrons of SecUnits equipped with multi-purpose starfighters. For the most part though, it's a cold war - outright warfare is unprofitable, so corporations hire out some of their SecUnits (either with or without accompanying starfighters, depending how much you're willing to pay) to "protect your assets and investments from the dangers of unexplored planets or actively hostile takeovers! Don't leave yourself undefended!"

Two separate survey teams on a previously unexplored planet have both hired such protection from the company...)

#fanfic #murderbot #murderbot fanfic #people this series is so good #highly recommended

[security-unit]

I'm a sucker for in-universe fandoms and I can't stop thinking about the idea that murderbot writes sanctuary moon fanfics when it's bored and it becomes in-universe fandom famous not only for good fic writing but also for the batshit insane chapter notes such as "sorry for the late chapter, I got shot again" and "if I told you why this chapter is late you'd be able to find out who I am through the newsfeed, so you shall continue wondering. enjoy"

the readers are going insane questioning how it's still alive. also none of them know who it is. it doesn't have any other online fandom presence linked to its fic account. it never reveals any information that can be used to figure out who it is other than it has a very dangerous job and is augmented in some way.

the name I've been going with as a placeholder is "SecRin" but I am open to username suggestions (considering something related to Eden so one of Tapan & Co can be like "I met someone named Eden once, they were very sad and very competent at security" in the big fandom discussion about who the fuck is this fic writer)

anyways Ratthi likes sanctuary moon. Ratthi reads the fics (before going on The Survey) and gets invested. he only finds out MB is SecRin when MB leaves the note and Ratthi reads it and goes "wait a second" because he recognized the writing style

also like. we can't forget the ART and MB interview.

like come on.

#murderbot #the murderbot diaries #tmbd #mb writes fanfic

[deslizada]

FINE I'LL DO IT MYSELF (write a murderbot fic where it and art have to interact with small children who are clones and there's lots of navelgazing about the meaning of personhood and what one individual can do in the face of abusive power structures and also Murderbot Has To Read A Bedtime Story To A Critical Audience (a 5 year old))

#murderbot #i am actually genuinely writing this fanfic i have like 30 pages

[every-eye-evermore]

Baby’s first fanfic :)

> As I stood in an overgrown field, surrounded gnarled flora and tiny buzzing fauna, the enormity of my mistake dawned on me.

Murderbot tries gardening. It even gets its own wagon

#you don’t really need to have read murderbot to get it #it’s simply a robot gardening #this might be gardening fanfic more than it is murderbot fanfic… #I just really like gardening ok? #I had a lot of thoughts I needed to get out #I even put pictures of the garden I work on :) #or at least the part I was thinking of while I wrote it #fanfic #murderbot #the murderbot diaries #murderbot fanfic #my fics

[ineedlelittlespace]

"The one drawback to listing Secunit as one of the emergency contacts on her PSUMNT admissions paperwork is the possibility that someone might actually contact it for an emergency someday." Amena's---and Secunit's---collegiate careers in twelve snippets.

#murderbot #the murderbot diaries #amena mensah #my fanfic #murderbot fanfic

[ilovedthestars]

a trick or treat for @cellarwhales, who was having mysterious technical difficulties with my inbox

you asked for something hopeful or cathartic, so i am going to share some snips from the slightly angsty but mostly soft fic that i wrote after backreading the Murderbot has a Murdercat thread on discord. this wip was inspired by the excellent fic a hero to me by kiore ( @temporalreplicsimile ) and it's really not that far from being finished, but i stalled out on looking thru the books to find some quotes to tie the various snips i wrote into canon scenes.....i should go do that so i can post this!

these snips are scenes from ASR (starting immediately after the rogue discovery scene), but if Murderbot had a cat. because it deserves one.

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A small, furry fauna streaked out of the corner and attacked my feet with its tiny claws. I was so relieved to see it that I didn’t even think before I bent down and lifted it off the floor. It shoved its head into the crook of my elbow and I had to pull my arms close to my body to keep from dropping it. It burrowed its face into my shirt and started to vibrate softly. I realized that all the humans were staring at me. Ratthi said, “Oh, is it yours?” I just stood there, trying frantically to think of a lie or an excuse that would explain why this small fauna had attached itself to me. Anything that wouldn’t lead to it being taken away. Arada said, “It came running out of the cubicle when we opened it, and wouldn’t come back. We weren’t sure how a cat got in with us, but if you brought it with you, that explains that.” Volescu said, “Is that…allowed? For SecUnits to have pets?” I tensed, and clutched the fauna a little closer to myself. Gurathin was frowning at the fauna in my arms. “It can’t possibly be allowed. It must have been hiding the cat, too. I suppose if it was rogue, it could have managed to sneak it in.” He put a little too much emphasis on the word rogue, and Mensah shot him a look. “SecUnit, I would like you to remain part of our group, at least until we get off this planet and back to a place of safety. At that point, we can discuss what you’d like to do. But I swear to you, I won’t tell the company, or anyone outside this room, anything about you or the broken module.” She considered the fauna, and added, “Or the cat.”

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When we left for the rendezvous site, I left the fauna with the big hopper. I didn’t like it, but it wasn’t like bringing a fauna to a hostile negotiation was going to help anyone. It tried to follow me to the little hopper with Mensah. I picked it up and carried it back. “Stay here.” It knew to stay when I told it to stay. If it hadn’t figured that out quickly, it wouldn’t have lasted very long. It was a smart fauna. It tucked itself underneath one of the big hopper’s seats, almost out of sight, and stayed quiet. “Good fauna,” I told it. If everything went to shit, I hoped it would find a way to survive.

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I was hovering on the edge of a system failure. I had flashes, off and on. The inside of the little hopper, my humans talking, something soft pushing against my hand. I felt the scrabble of tiny claws. It was my fauna. It was bumping my hand with its head and making tiny whimpering sounds. I didn’t want it to be scared, but my hand wouldn’t move to stroke it. Then being in the big hopper, as it was lifting up. I could tell from the drive noise, the flashes of the feed, that the pick-up transport was bringing it on board. The fauna licked my fingers. That meant the humans hadn’t left it behind.

#ask game answers #stars wips #murdercat wip #murderbot #murderbot fanfic #murdercat and catbot (two different concepts) are some of the best things to come out of the murderbot discord server

[crabs-brencil]

rahhh finally a full render for tmbd

drew this for IHopedTheredBeStars's fic which you should definitely check out after checking the content warnings

#the murderbot diaries #ao3 fanfic #tmbd #tmbd fanart #tmbd mb #murderbot #secunit #gurathin #murderathin #krita

[alex-van-gore]

Fanart for this fantastic fic

[ID: a digital painting of Three’s face in the mirror. It looks at itself. Behind it, and framing the picture, is murderbot, with one hand ruffling three’s hair. Three has straight black hair and a slightly choppy mullet, silver metal earpieces covering its ears, and is wearing a simple long sleeved shirt. Murderbot isn’t visible because it’s face doesn’t reflect in the mirror, which cuts off below its chin. It wears a dark blue sweater. The entire painting is in hues of purple and blue. /end ID]

#murderbot #the murderbot diaries #murderbot fanart #three #SecUnit three #network effect #SecUnit #fanfic #murderbot fanfic