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“Please,” it begged, “I don't want to die.”
“I know,” I said.
I hit it for the last time.
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23 Dec 2025
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“It’s reading a book right now, I don't want to bother it,” Ratthi dismissed.
“I'm what?” burst SecUnit.
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21 Dec 2025
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If you want to pass as human, I can build a specialized drone for you that will mimic the appearance of a daemon from a distance. With time, it may even collect enough dust from you to become something akin to a true construct animus.
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Or: SecUnits don’t have daemons (unless...)Series
- Part 1 of Murderbot Daemon AUs
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21 Dec 2025
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Secret Admirer by scheidswrites for Aphelocoma californica (Aphelocoma_californica)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
11 Jan 2024
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ART takes a ride along on-station to witness a bit of anti-corporate espionage up close and personal. There's just nothing quite like watching its partner-in-crime do what it does best.
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16 Dec 2025
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It's been a while since the last attempted murder/kidnapping, and life is good. Everyone is gathered for a celebration on the Mensah Family Farm.
The rogue SecUnits invent a new sport. Drs Mensah, Gurathin, and Overse talk about work on their day off.Bookmarked by pinglederry
13 Dec 2025
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Two SecUnits walk into a sporting goods store and have to interact with a human employee.
No one gets hurt.Bookmarked by pinglederry
13 Dec 2025
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Dr. Gurathin knows he and SecUnit got off to a bad start when they first met. Although it's been a while and things have improved since then, SecUnit is still pretty rude to him pretty much all the time. And honestly? He's getting sick of that. Hypothesis: SecUnit hates him. Objective: Find out why.
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12 Dec 2025
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[OPENING: fade from black into a slow drone sweep over an alien planetary landscape. The music is dramatic, swelling. We see stretches of ocean, then beaches--]
VOICEOVER: [SIGH.]
[--plains, mountains, jungle--]
VOICEOVER (MUTTERED): Come on. This isn't a nature documentary, no-one cares about the stupid planet.
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12 Dec 2025
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Spencer Tunick and the Giant Ul Qoman Protuberance by Fontainebleau for vass
Fandoms: The City & the City - China Mieville
17 Dec 2023
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The citizens of Beszel and Ul Qoma are skilled in unseeing what goes on in their neighbour city. But some things are more difficult to unsee than others...
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09 Dec 2025
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There is actually a way out from between a reinforced steel bulkhead and a hard place, but you're definitely not gonna like it by Dooiney_Oie
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
25 Aug 2021
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The middle of All Systems Red, but with a few changes to how those pesky combat override modules work, among other things :)
Now with bonus chapters!
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The humans were going to want to know what a combat override module was, what it did, how it worked, and most importantly, why it hadn't worked on me. I could answer the first three things just fine, but short of telling my already-jittery clients I was hacked ("so I'm actually one of those scary rogue units you've heard so much about, but the good news is that a combat override module can't hijack a governor module that doesn't work!"), that last thing was going to be a big problem.
Honestly, even if I did tell them exactly that, which I really didn't want to do, it was going to be a really big fucking problem.- Language:
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30 Nov 2025
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podding, attempted cannibalism, and other teen things by CompletelyDifferent for FlipSpring
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
24 Sep 2023
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Puberty sucks.
This doesn't change when your puberty includes the evolutionary drive to build a cocoon in the shower stall of the super-intelligent space-ship who accidentally kidnapped you.
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28 Nov 2025
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Me, Myself, And Kai by CompletelyDifferent
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Witch King - Martha Wells
11 Aug 2023
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The immortal demon Kaiisteron, Prince of the Fourth House, has once again found himself in need of a body, and since he was in the middle of fighting mysterious invaders from the sky, it's rather imperative he find one quick. Thankfully there's a convenient one lying right there. All the metal embedded in it probably isn't going to be too much of a problem.
[Or: Murderbot gets possessed by a demon. Neither of them are thrilled about it.]
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27 Nov 2025
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I could have become a murderer when the hopper I was being transported in crashed on an uninhabited planet and left just one surviving human crew.
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All Systems Red AU where prior to the PreservationAux Survey, a company hopper carrying Murderbot crash landed on the survey planet, leaving it to fend for itself in the alien landscape.- Language:
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27 Nov 2025
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Interview With A SexBot by CompletelyDifferent
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
14 Mar 2023
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For an upcoming documentary, Dr. Bharadwaj has a conversation with a rogue ComfortUnit about his life, his perspectives, and how he stole his freedom.
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26 Nov 2025
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an unexpected harvest by CompletelyDifferent
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Jan 2023
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Dr. Ayda Mensah isn't sure what to expect on the other side of that wormhole. A hostage situation? An active battle ground? The corpses of her friends and family?
What she expects certainly isn't this.
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25 Nov 2025
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the ship of theseus, an experimental guide by CompletelyDifferent
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
10 Sep 2022
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The Perihelion should not be wasting its processing on philosophy. Not right now. But that seems to be just one other way its systems are failing, for it cannot stop itself.
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19 Nov 2025
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Ever since that disastrous worm attack, the PresAux survey team have been plagued by glitches, errors, and missing information. At this point, all they want to do is get off the planet. But when DeltFall goes silence, they know they have to investigate-- even though their own SecUnit is dead.
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19 Nov 2025
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Considering that it's a grumpy asshole SecUnit who didn't attend any parties, Murderbot wasn't expecting to get any gifts this holiday season.
It was wrong.
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19 Nov 2025
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Operating System Update by CompletelyDifferent
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
23 Jan 2023
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A SecUnit reflects on the process of getting an OS update.
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18 Nov 2025
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draw yourself a map, and don't get lost by CompletelyDifferent
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
14 Apr 2022
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Humans have the first words their soul mates will every say magically tattooed to their bodies. It's supposed to make sure they don't miss each other or whatever, but from what I've observed, both in media and by forcibly spying on contract laborers, they're more trouble than they're worth.
Not that I have to worry about that. SecUnits don't get soul marks.
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18 Nov 2025