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Your New SecUnits A, B, and C by Benny_IsA_Dog
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
21 Sep 2025
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Ratthi stopped. "Do you have names? Or something you want to be called so we can tell you apart?"
Silence. Then, at the same time, all three of the units’ feed profiles updated: SecUnit A, B, and C. The unit speaking to him was “C.”
Ratthi suppressed the urge to sigh. That would have to be good enough.
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AU timeline where Murderbot hacks the governor modules of the three SecUnits on TranRollinHyfa. Of course, PresAux brings them home to Preservation.
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- Part 2 of Snippets from Discord
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An Hour From the Kitchen Cupboard by noctiphobia
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
18 Sep 2025
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Dr. Gurathin has quietly come to the conclusion they prefer neutral gender identifiers. Murderbot feels indifferent about this. Still, this change somehow sets them on a path to forming a strong, strangely close bond. They end up talking about gender and feelings and learn a lot about each other. It's all very complicated and weird.
"I’d sat down 32.6 centimeters closer to Gurathin. My body had subconsciously chosen to sit in the middle of the couch, when previously we’d been at the two furthest ends from each other. Worse still, in the moment I somehow hadn’t even registered this change. I ran a full retroactive systems diagnostic, but everything came back operational and untampered. Upon seeing this complete report my performance reliability dropped by 2%. What was happening to me?"
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[Do you remember your name?]
[Self.designation: GrayChris ComfortUnit 135729433. Self.designation.humanreadable: “ComfortUnit” OR “sexbot” OR “Hey You” OR “that short-haired one!” OR “the prisoner”.]
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[podfic] System System. Assistance, by Rosewind2007 by speccygeekgrrl, speccygeekgrrl_reads (speccygeekgrrl) for Rosewind2007
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
07 Sep 2025
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There is a big gap between Murderbot hitting the deck and waking up again in Exit Strategy…a little missing scene.
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- Part 44 of speccygeekgrrl's podfic
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Maybe you want to fully understand what it means to be human.
I don’t, I responded quickly. And besides, I will never be human.
No. But you can get close. Closer than you are now, at least. Can’t you?
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There are a lot of security cameras. Usually that means very bad things, especially for secret human spies and their murderbot accomplices. Was I an accomplice? I planned the whole thing. Maybe the mastermind would be better. I knew Gurathin would take issue with that—because that made him the accomplice to a terrifying murderbot, rather than the one in control, and I knew how much it annoyed Gurathin 1. not to be in control, and 2. admit that I was right.
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A podfic of Local Network by blackglass, theleakypen.
"And when it wakes up we'll be here to help it," Mensah says, "in whatever way it wants. We'll do it right this time."
Ratthi and the rest of the PresAux survey team do their best to assist in SecUnit's recovery after the events on TranRollinHyfa.
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Local Network by theleakypen for blackglass
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Aug 2025
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"And when it wakes up we'll be here to help it," Mensah says, "in whatever way it wants. We'll do it right this time."
Ratthi and the rest of the PresAux survey team do their best to assist in SecUnit's recovery after the events on TranRollinHyfa.
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New Project by ArtemisTheHuntress for IHopedTheredBeStars
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
26 Aug 2025
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Everything is over. Everyone is home. Dr. Bharadwaj struggles to write the planetary survey report. She has something else on her mind.
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She takes a steadying breath and reads the words waiting for her in her feed: Don’t panic, I don’t need a lot of air. You will have 1 hour and 6 minutes before you become at risk of suffocation.
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[podfic] Took Me Over Like a Fever, by sweatervest by speccygeekgrrl, speccygeekgrrl_reads (speccygeekgrrl) for sweatervest
Fandoms: Murderbot (TV)
18 Aug 2025
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When you saw Gurathin again, it only confirmed something that made your organic tissue itch: you don’t know everything that you want, but you know that you want him.
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- Part 33 of speccygeekgrrl's podfic
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[podfic] Security Blanket, by Abacura by speccygeekgrrl, speccygeekgrrl_reads (speccygeekgrrl) for Abacura
Fandoms: Murderbot (TV), The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
16 Aug 2025
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I strode across the common area to pick up the blanket, unfolding it to look at it in its entirety. I noticed two things right away.
One, it was incredibly soft.
Two, it was me.
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- Part 31 of speccygeekgrrl's podfic
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I looked around and took in the remains of the habitat I was in. It was a research habitat, with very familiar Preservation logos on destroyed sample boxes.
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Safety is the state of being protected from harm or other danger by ESE (anoano)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
10 Aug 2025
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One nanosecond I was standing behind Mensah, the next my weight transferred forward as my legs started to move me towards the cargo pod. I was so surprised I didn’t feel any emotions and all my thought processes ground to a halt as I watched myself move away from her.
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Emotionally hostile refrigerator by ESE (anoano)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
07 Aug 2025
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I have internal temperature controls and my protective survey clothes (not armour) covered my organic skin from harmful UV rays. I am also able to adjust my eye filters to reduce the intensity of the rays and maintain my position monitoring.
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Forging a Familiar Face by mismatchedmuses
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
27 Jul 2025
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Tapan and her family needed help to recover their research. The security consultant they hired, a shy but determined augmented human, saved not just their work, but their lives.
Months later, Tapan sees a familiar face on a documentary about constructs.
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When you saw Gurathin again, it only confirmed something that made your organic tissue itch: you don’t know everything that you want, but you know that you want him.
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Little vignettes of Murderbot's life post-Exit Strategy.
Tags will update as additional ficlets are added. Each chapter will be stand-alone but within the same 'continuity.'
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1: Cat Tree (literal fluff) • 2: River (injury) • 3: Decor (this is where it becomes curtainfic) • 4: Speed-Based Games (playing tag with Mensah’s kids) • 5: Media Night (the whole PresAux survey team piles into mb's apartment to watch movies)
6: Recreational Explosives (a drabble) • 7: Immobilized (more literal fluff) • 8: Bag (nobody better touch Murderbot's stranger's stuff) • 9: Prickly (Pin-Lee gets Murderbot a gift)
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- Part 1 of Slivers of Existence
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I take hits to my shoulder and back, right through my cheap-ass ACME armor.
The Exit Strategy dock fight, except make it Looney.
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A Ship's Personal Archive of News Reports on the Actions of a Certain Rogue SecUnit by ArtemisTheHuntress for YellowMagicalGirl
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
06 Jul 2025
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ART follows Murderbot's adventures through the newsfeeds to make sure it's all right.
(Primarily in-universe news documents. Murderbot is not exactly subtle sometimes.)