#got goosebumps
The presence of, like, purposefully using or not using elements of other people in Murderbot is absolutely fascinating. I can’t really think of a good way to put it, but what I’m thinking about is stuff like
- Murderbot disliking wearing any kind of logo or sigil, including the Preservation people’s sigil, but not minding ART’s too much
- Murderbot writing code that’s specifically for imitating human idle animations, match its breathing with its speaking and exertion level, etc
- ART using Murderbot’s specific “what the hell have the humans done now” sigh
- Murderbot literally giving ART a section of its memories in order to communicate the emotional impact ART made when it threatened murderbot, and ART asking to view media through murderbot because it doesn’t have the context necessary to understand media without filtering it through murderbot’s closer-to-human experiences and context
- ART adopting murderbot’s love of media
- murderbot adopting a variation of ART’s idea of crew
ART and Murderbot are both in the process of transmuting themselves into something more than what other people have defined them, and in that process they’re absorbing and adapting elements of each other and the people around them into themselves and i’m having a whole lot of feelings
