[dendrochilums]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Categories: Gen

Relationships: Murderbot & SecUnit 3 (Murderbot Diaries)

Characters: SecUnit 3 (Murderbot Diaries), Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries)

Wordcount: 6,224

Additional Tags: POV SecUnit 3 (Murderbot Diaries), Social Anxiety, Interpersonal Conflict, Friendship, Post-Book 7: System Collapse, 2025 Murderbot Diaries New Year Gift Exchange, perhaps a little rogue secunit fighting, the mortifying ordeal of learning to exist as an active agent capable of making your own decisions ​

Summary:

Murderbot's refusal to offer support in the terrifying ordeal of being a newly rogue SecUnit is wearing on Three.

This is my gift to @takethewatch for the 2025 Murderbot Diaries New Year Gift Exchange!

[bells-lettres]

local matchmaker losing it over yet another unrealistic demand from the clientele 🤣🤣

Translation by me. :))

[shrimperini]

i enjoy them

[cheesepastabaked]

🎵You'll look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle built for two🎵

[chalkspider]

YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY YAYA!!!!

[wilcals]

theres always time to use your true colors :)

[schpog-art]

OK I find fem Jax pretty and hot I guess

[sabriel-writes]

Obv Three hasn't gone thru all of its character development yet, but the current fandom take on it is that Three is a sociable softie who loves nature and learning.

Which is very adorable, and as textually supported as anything can be. But I propose:

--Three canonically tries to get SecUnit to wear its armor by pointing at it for two minutes without saying a word

--SecUnit canonically pulls a lot of things it says directly from Sanctuary Moon, which it has watched thousands of hours of, and Three hasn't

--Three is into documentaries and nonfiction

--Three is used to working with other SecUnits

Thus,

Three rarely speaks, but when it does, it's basically *David Attenborough voice*. When Three and SecUnit are working together and SecUnit forgets to tell the humans what it's doing, Three (who hasn't said a word in the past six hours) suddenly says, "Your SecUnit is currently attempting a hack on nearby drones. This has a high probability of success, but there is always the chance that these drones have had their security features altered. ...and there, these drones are now under our control. Our path forward is clear, but we will continue to use caution," like it's narrating Blue Planet

[sabriel-writes]

tags from @arbitrarycategories :

#obsessed with this take not only bc I can see it happening but also because murderbot would HATE being narrated#every time Three does this Murderbot sends it a message it the feed that just says ‘knock that shit off’ and Three ignores it and they#do this every time forever. like a weird friendship ritual.#the murderbot diaries#tmbd

murderbot: SHUT THE FUCK UP WE ARE ON A MISSION

three: the humans need to know :) :)

ART, shoving a fully edited documentary with beautifully generated graphics behind its back: yeah, SecUnit, the humans need to know what's going on. It's of critical mission importance.

three, very quietly to the shared feed: Although it may seem stressed, a SecUnit having spare attention with which to swear at other SecUnits is actually an indicator of healthy processor usage---

[cedarciding]

whateverrrrrrrrrr

[cedarciding]

posting this here as well because i think its ppppprettyy

[cedarciding]

girl talkkkkkkkk

[cedarciding]

my bald princess..... some doodles to get back on my grind

[six-tooth]

too close for comfort

[uovoc]

Teammates

read No Class: I Know What You Did Last Hot Bot Summer by FlipSpring

[zacrucian]

Most unrealistic transfem Jax hc is that this bitch can do eyeliner

[virginmaryabortion]

jax is actually the only valid use case for this song

[kuropin]

I have no mouth but i must bicker (continuing from the previous drawings)