Jan 8
Okay I’m having thoughts about Murderbot and mutual administrative assistants again.
Cause like. The most frequent interpretation is that MB rejects ‘relationship’/‘friendship’ because it’s too personal/implies too much familiarity and administrative assistant is less of that. And like. Yeah, that’s a fair read.
But also. Consider what an admin really *is* and then apply it to people with computer brains. Like. Have we considered that it is actually MORE intense?
//This person has full access to the entirety of myself, my mind, my personhood, my deepest shames and darkest secrets, and is trusted to help me keep it running (+ Murderbot’s ptsd)//
#Especially when MB has a history of people accessing its memories and deleting them.#murderbot diaries#the murderbot diaries#murderbot#asshole research transport#mutual administrative assistants#listen. as an aro I am wholeheartedly behind the (canon) aro MB agenda#but like.#yall#the leagues and depths of a nonromatic relationship are vast and complex#those robits would burn planets for eachother. they would expose their weakest points and deepest secrets to each other.#they can and do spend active time making each other better and acting as a support system.#sold together do not separate levels of insanity#AND it is critical to me that they do not define themselves romantically.#they do not kiss. they do not date. they do not want to be perceived as a couple#listen.#something something aroace people allowed to create and define their own relationships outside of the romantic/platonic binary#I may be projecting but I’m not wrong
