#all systems red
Honestly though: how can anyone read the Murderbot Diaries and not think Gurathin is utterly adorable?
This is the man who says to A ROGUE SECUNIT:
“I can’t tell if that’s you being passive aggressive or you being willfully obtuse.”
Later: Gurathin sighed and rubbed his face and looked off into the distance, like he regretted all his life choices that had led to him standing here right now. On our private feed connection, he sent,
Or you could just show them where you were when this person was being killed.
Gurathin is utterly adorable. He is a sweetie. He is clearly (as, let’s face it, anyone with any sense at all would be) hopelessly smitten with Murderbot. It’s a sensible interpretation of the text. And it likes him too…it even uses its private name with him in Exit Strategy:
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“Murderbot Impersonates an Augmented Human Security Consultant,”
Anyway, I ❤️Gurathin and am taking questions
It’d started with their usual to and fro; suddenly some of the ripostes had been sharp, too much to gently parry. They’d cut.
You said I was a rogue
Acid sharp, clear like lake ice, cruel.
You were. You had hacked your governor module.
Still a little warmth, hint of the old stiffness returning.
You told everyone my private name
Barbs now, trying to catch; draw into a fight…
Dr Mensah asked you for your name, that was your name, was it not?
Dismissive, hint of—what, impatience?
The feed, their private feed, suddenly still: furious resentful silence. Full of the unsaid.
But I was wrong about one thing, you had not killed 57 people you’d been charged to protect. I was wrong about that, and I am sorry.
But I was wrong because you were too.
It got up, silently, and slipped out the door without a backwards glance.
He grimaced, rubbed his brow. In the feed ART wrapped itself around him, warm and gentle. Grateful.
Thank you, Dr Gurathin.
Fifty seven - Rosewind2007 - The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells [Archive of Our Own]
Hey, I just met you, and this is crazy
But here’s my [number] comm interface, so [call me] maybe we’ll come within range of each other again…
“It’s probably using it to encode data for the company. It can’t be watching it, not in that volume; we’d notice.”
I snorted. He underestimated me.
Ratthi said, “The one where the colony’s solicitor killed the terraforming supervisor who was the secondary donor for her implanted baby?”
Again, I couldn’t help it. I said, “She didn’t kill him, that’s a fucking lie.”
Ratthi turned to Mensah. “It’s watching it.”
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The Murderbot Diaries - All Systems Red
1.
“You were very good with Dr. Volescu. I don’t think the others realized … They were very impressed.” “It’s part of the emergency med instructions, calming victims.” I tugged the blanket tighter so she didn’t see anything awful. I could feel something lower down leaking.
[ID: a digital drawing in dark gray and red. Dr Mensah, a stocky woman with short light hair, is visible form behind, standing in front of on open cubicle. The light from the cubicle illuminates her and she casts a long shadow. Murderbot is visible looking uncomfortably to the side, holding a blanket to its chest, with a lot of inorganics visible. The image cuts off without showing Murderbot’s eyes. /end ID]
2.
Pin-Lee leaned over me and I said, “This unit is at minimal functionality and it is recommended that you discard it.” It’s an automatic reaction triggered by catastrophic malfunction. Also, I really didn’t want them to try to move me because it hurt bad enough the way it was. “Your contract allows—” “Shut up,” Mensah snapped. “You shut the fuck up. We’re not leaving you.”
[ID: In the foreground of the drawing, Murderbot is lying on its back, helmet broken and hair visible. It’s looking up at Dr Mensah, who clutching her bleeding arm and shouting, Pin-Lee with her hair tied up looking grim, and Dr Gurathin in the background, using a display device. All three of them are wearing green outdoor suits. They are in a ravine, and the orange sky shows bright shining planetary rings. The image is in brown, green and orange tones. /end ID]
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You know that scene from Brooklyn99? Tell me that isn’t the plot of All Systems Red.
[ID: a two panel comic based on a scene from Brooklyn99. In both, Murderbot is in armour but without its helmet. It holds the PreservationAux humans, who are small and chibi-fied, scrambling all over its hands and trying to escape, in both hands. All humans are wearing a green Preservation uniform. In panel one, Murderbot looks at the small humans and says “I’ve had Team PresAux for a cycle and a half,” in the second drawing it looks past the camera and says, “but if anything happened to them I would kill everyone in this habitat and then myself.” /end ID]
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The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
All Systems Red
Artificial Condition
Rogue Protocol
Exit Strategy
This series of books has been on my TBR list for a while. I have two books yet to read that are not part of the original story arc which follows a robot/clone to becoming a sentient being.
Security Units, or SecUnits, were created as cybernetics to be rented out to provide security by anyone who felt they needed one. The Murderbot…
So, Since there’s lack of MurderBot content on here, I gotta make some.
To start with, I wanna make a TVshow intro cause everyone loves a good intro. For which i need yall’s ideas: Who is your fancast for All Systems Red Tv show?
(For anyone other than MurderBot itself)
