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:

Picture commissioned from @cmdrburton , it is lovely, you could get one commissioned too, just for you, buy more art

“Murderbot Impersonates an Augmented Human Security Consultant,”

Anyway, I ❤️Gurathin and am taking questions

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:

Picture commissioned from @cmdrburton , it is lovely, you could get one commissioned too, just for you, buy more art

“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]

lizzy-lue:

Gurathin: Hey it calls itself Murderbot and I have some concerns.

MB: You do not trust Murderbot implicitly and without question? Murderbot, who would give its life for you? You betray Murderbot! Jail for client! Jail for client for one thousand years!

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.

been wanting to draw this for awhile. The cat based on my kitty Hiko

[picture ID: Murderbot sitting on one of ART’s bunks, smiling slightly while a very fluffy tuxedo cat tries to climb into its lap. It is reaching to pet the fluffy cat because the cat demands attention]

new oc, from the idea I had of a combat unit that’s been rogue for a lot longer than MB

Picked the name Eso because it’s serial number starts with 350

jessicameats:

rosewind2007:

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:

Picture commissioned from @cmdrburton , it is lovely, you could get one commissioned too, just for you, buy more art

“Murderbot Impersonates an Augmented Human Security Consultant,”

Anyway, I ❤️Gurathin and am taking questions

My favourite exchange with him is when someone tells him that he needs to start thinking of Murderbot as a person and his response is, “Oh, it’s definitely a person, it’s just a person who probably hates us and can kill us all in approximately half a second.”

He gets on board the Murderbot is a person train really quickly - but that doesn’t mean he’s going to automatically trust it.

Murderbot and Gurathin’s friendship is very precious to me!!