[omgisyellow]

Mensah said I could learn to do anything I wanted. I learned to leave.

This may be the most important line in Exit Strategy. At first read, this may sound condescending or sarcastic, but I think it meant it literally.

Murderbot hacked its governor module, and still stayed in the company for around four years. It wasn't until after meeting PresAux, and Mensah bought it that it left.

It understood that it was safe, and it had options.

So.

It. Learned. To. Leave.

[cmdrburton]

tombstone of a name

[securityunit-ese]

SecUnit bullying some B-E Units using womens rugby moves :(

[omagpies]

extremely compelled by these two, so here's a sketch page. i don't think i'll go into too much detail about it, but just so that it's clearer what's going on:

top left - "ART kept quiet, though I could tell it was interested in watching me work."

top right - checking smth out together (ART's got it quarantined)

bottom left - media :) :)

bottom right - pov you are arguing with someone who can pull references in real time just to be extra petty

[findafight]

In my heart I know this happened at some PresAux gathering

[i-will-bite]

[theartingace]

a direct followup to my other post of them meeting, which I've already changed how I draw MB 3 times since then, including once since I started this but it's *FINE* we're putting it out anyway because I'm not drawing ART all over again

[annabelle--cane]

the thing about murderbot's narration style is that it'll be chugging along snarkily and with a reasonable level of self-effacement for a while, just sort of chat about nothing, casually drop thee most upsetting sentence I've ever seen, and shrimply move right along afterwards. and the tone isn't even that it's not aware it just said something a tad harrowing, it's more like "[horrific implications about its life and emotional state] (<- ik cringe 🙄) anyway as I was saying--"

[syrren]

shotgunned all of murderbot diaries in the span of what was objectively a week but felt like a subjective 3.2 seconds and now in desperate need for more

[mabsart]

It’s not an ex-SecUnit.

You can’t be an ex-SecUnit until you’re dead.

[siderealcity]

Yeah, this got me, too. But mostly because it shows the arc PresAux has gone through. This is the reason SecUnit ran away in the first place! Because they treated it like it was no longer a SecUnit. Every single thing they say to it in the hotel after its been bought clearly indicates, "You aren't going to be a SecUnit anymore." No, you don't need armor. No, you won't be a bodyguard. You can do whatever you want except be yourself or fulfill your purpose.

And it's the top thing MB lists when ART asks why it left Mensah. "She offered me a home with her on Preservation, but she doesn't need me there. They don't need SecUnits there." When it's captured by colonists in Network Effect, it lists its top three issues as, "Being abandoned on a planet + locked up and forgotten with old equipment + no feed access." Like, they really managed to hit two out of three with that idyllic retirement offer. Go to a planet where nobody needs you and you can be forgotten about and put away safely as a tool nobody uses anymore.

But it comes back to help them when they need a SecUnit. They have to accept it as a SecUnit because they have come to understand that they do, in fact, need one, and that's what their friend is.

The line above from Ratthi is putting into words why they gave it a camera network in the hotel suite on Preservation Station. Why Mensah buys it drones. We get it, this is what you are, and you're our friend, so we'll make space for that.

[mabsart]

Thank you for this perfect addition!

[tadporridge]

some low quality mb :)

(with minor adjustments)

[wishfulsketching]

Sudden desire to draw Murderbot jumping off of a building with Mensah. (Just for the vibes, did not re-read Exit Strategy, so I don't remember the details)

[tadporridge]

my humble first attempt at a murderbot. i think i accidentally took 400 billion creative liberties but that's ok <3 i hope the fandom accepts my offering. please vehicular manslaughterbbot fandom im.baby 🙏

[tadporridge]

refining it

[sunatsubu]

Blending in

[zombiepatch]

i did a background for once! :'D

[mashumaru]

In honor of my favorite "heartless killing machine" and its new tv show I made a cross stitch bookmark for the first time!

Original pattern here on etsy, ended up changing the colors to use the floss I already had and I wanted the little planet to have the colors of Sanctuary Moon.

[tadpole-art]

Been reading Murderbot :)