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my turn at this one. ART is the feed? no. ART is the frame
you are FUCKING UP this JOB INTERVIEW!!!!!!
Reading Artifical Conditon again is so funny. Imagine you are a young scientist who has decided to hire a security specialist to help you in a risky endeavor that could break or make your career. You are worried that you cannot afford any security specialist, let alone a competent one. To your surprise, you get a specialist who is extremely good at their job, willing to accept a low pay, saves your life many times, goes above and beyond to help you, and is also gentle and kind. You cannot understand how you got this lucky.
You do not realize your security specialist is two bots in a trench coat, pretending to be human for the first time ever.
Artificial Condition is really like
Murderbot: I'm just an innocent bot hitchhiker, definitely not a serial killer
ART: Yeah, it would be weird for there to be two serial killers on this transport :)
ART about to meet its best friend in the whole wide universe: what if I started this conversation in the scariest way possible
It kills me how SecUnit is this big, scary thing with literal weapons in it’s arms, capable of insane feats of physical strength, nigh on impossible to stop or kill, capable of hacking it’s way into most systems, can lose most of it’s body mass and vital fluids and keep going, can remove its own limbs, records and analyzes everything, eyes and ears in a thousand places at once, smarter, faster, stronger, and more capable than a human could ever be, utterly disgusted with most human things and
It loves a trashy soap opera. It’s so soft and gentle with an injured Volescu. It’s favorite human is a middle aged mom who drives carefully and mom friends at her friends and coworkers. It’s so delicate and considerate with Mensah’s kids. It lets Tapan sleep touching it and turns up it's body heat for extra comfort. It likes plays and musical theatre. It's best human friend is a sunshine nerd from Planet Hippy. It keeps a diary. It doesn’t understand the appeal of human adolescents but it’s so good with Amena. It likes decidedly unrealistic media. It cares so much about humans that it’s never met and wants to keep them safe and happy. It gently frets over Three just minutes after meeting it. It gets flustered and confused when complimented or treated with care. It offers to free other constructs, even while actively fighting them. It has criticisms and strong opinions on media. It’s shy. It “hacks” its way into things by asking the relevant bots to be friends and share media. It only ever really scares Amena when she witnesses it's wild grief over losing ART. It stops, gets back in control, and explains immediately when it realizes it’s causing her distress. It lets ART make media requests, pauses to let it process its own emotions, and re-watches certain scenes over and over again until it’s happy, mere moments after ART scares it so badly it goes nearly catatonic, simply because ART asked. It grieves Miki even though it never really liked the bot in the first place. It’s uncomfortable with physical touch but offers to let Mensah hug it and lets her grab its arm when she’s in distress.
It was created for destruction and violence and pain. It’s the epitome of unstoppable, unkillable, inescapable, inhumane force in every horrific dystopia ever. It is not human and does not want to be. It’s got the abilities of an overpowered superhero. It's a living deux ex machina. It’s actually so soft and gentle and filled to bursting with love for small, soft, silly things and people
My understanding of Murderbot as of four books in
ok heres the other kind of ART (previous, friendlier version here :3)