#dr. ratthi

[kettle-bird]

They don’t want me. (Hey, I don’t want me, either, but I’m stuck with me.)

[ASR | AC | RP | ES | NE]

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Queer Book Character Tournament Round Two

Shen (Yuan) Qingqiu- The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System

Dr. Ratthi- The Murderbot Diaries

Voting ended onApr 24

Character, book, and author names under the cut

Shen (Yuan) Qingqiu- The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

Dr. Ratthi- The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells

[lookninjas]

A couple of days ago, I got a notification on a post of mine that sometimes goes around, the one about how Gurathin and Pin-Lee had a joint freakout over SecUnit saying "I don't want to be a pet robot" that culminated in the two of them spending the last pages of Exit Strategy making sure it has enough fake IDs and hard currency cards to go to the end of the universe and back. And I reread the post, because I like to revolve my blorbos from time to time, and a sentence from one of the screencaps caught my attention. Arada is talking to SecUnit about potentially serving as security for their next survey trip. She tells it "In a few months, we're going on a small assessment survey."

And for some reason, it just really hit me:

Ratthi does not get a single goddamn break from All Systems Red to System Collapse.

In All Systems Red, Ratthi is mostly in the thick of the action. He isn't there when Bharadwaj and Volescu are attacked, obviously, but he's part of the rescue party. He goes out to the unmapped area (where, due to the maps being corrupted by alien remnants, he winds up waist-deep in hot acidic mud). He's one of the people who heads out to the DeltFall habitat, although he's forced to stay on the shuttle due to a lack of weapons training. He heads back to their original habitat to find the drones and the message from GrayCris. He does, at least, get to skip the bit where everyone's too close to the emergency beacon and gets blown up, but is presumably there for the aftermath and probably helps Overse stabilize SecUnit until the company comes for them. And of course, he and Pin-Lee act as SecUnit's bodyguards until it leave them at the end.

At which point, Mensah is kidnapped, and Pin-Lee, Gurathin, and Ratthi have to go to TranRollinHyfa, where they spend approximately twenty days (which we know because SecUnit says that the company gunship has been waiting at TranRollinHyfa for approximately twenty days) watching their odds of successfully rescuing Mensah dwindle to damn near nothing. (For the record, I think about what this twenty day period might have been like for the three of them a very normal amount.) Fortunately, SecUnit arrives in the nick of time, and Mensah is rescued, and apart from the bit with the killware that infects the company ship and almost kills everyone and Ratthi finds himself performing rescue breathing on an augmented human stranger because it's the only way to keep them alive long enough for SecUnit to save everyone, it goes...

It goes the same way the last one did. People almost get killed, but they don't. SecUnit should die, but it manages to piece itself together and survive. They finally make it back to Preservation and everything is great.

Except for the murder. Which Ratthi isn't too involved in. Apart from when SecUnit asks him and Gurathin for help breaking into that shuttle, which turns out to be the place where poor Lutran was murdered, and it was not cleaned after. Also then they have to stay and protect SecUnit from Station Security. And then it randomly asks them for help finding a lifetender. But other than that, it's a nice vacation.

And then he goes on survey again. And there's pirates. And Thiago almost dies. But compared to the last survey, it goes pretty --

Just kidding. Then Perihelion shows up with a last-ditch plan to save itself and its crew by convincing the remnant contaminated Adamantine colonists that it knew where they could find a really cool weapon, and Ratthi, Thiago, Overse, and Arada find themselves on an safepod with rapidly failing life support, attached to Perihelion's hull as it abducts SecUnit and Amena. The good news is that he makes it out with nothing worse than a damaged knee and some symptoms from toxic air inhalation, and everyone else is doing better.

The bad news is... well. Plague Hell Planet.

Ratthi does manage to stay on Perihelion for the entirety of the rescue mission, which is relatively safe (and also allows him to befriend another rogue SecUnit). He's not so lucky when they find out about the second group of colonists in the hidden location by the terraforming engines and he, SecUnit, Iris, Tarik, and SecUnit's remaining drones have to put on the best damn talent show documentary film the colonists have ever seen. Then Barish-Estranza attacks (again), and Ratthi gets to go on ART-drone's Wild Ride while fleeing the armed Barish-Estranza shuttle, almost runs into the unarmed Barish-Estranza shuttle, can't quite save his friends on the first attempt, manages it on the second try, oh deities there's another fucking Barish-Estranza ship --

There's a reason he kind of just slumps back into his seat when Holism shows up, is my point.

But yeah. I hesitate to say he has it worse than all of the other Preservation characters, if only because of Mensah (who, on the one hand, is on the rescue team for Network Effect onward, but on the other hand, it's her fucking family that needs rescuing so you know she's not okay). But I do really hope he's spending Platform Decay on a beach. Or in trauma therapy.

Or at a beach resort with a trauma therapy clinic attached, maybe. Preservation might have one of those. Hopefully they do.

[andaniellight]

Been crying over this immaculate fic I had to doodle a bit

[jadefyre]

murderbot puts this meme in the feed every time ratthi attempts something stupid (yes, it drew that itself)

[ofawritingfreak-a]

Would the 10 murderbot fans like an RP server for the Martha Wells TMBD universe?

Yes

Maybe

No

Voting ended onMar 5

It would be 18 +

Free for OCs and Canons ( because the canon is so small, there will be a limit of 1-2 canon characters per person)

Shipping would be allowed

Books and Show friendly.

[forged-in-kaoss]

Dr. Ratthi + forehead

[jack-daw]

Chapters: 11/11 Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Murderbot (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Dr. Gurathin/Landers (Murderbot Diaries), Dr. Gurathin & Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries), Dr. Gurathin & Dr. Mensah (Murderbot Diaries), Dr. Gurathin & Dr. Ratthi (Murderbot Diaries), Dr. Gurathin & Pin-Lee (Murderbot Diaries), ART | Perihelion & Murderbot, ART | Perihelion & Dr. Gurathin Characters: Dr. Gurathin (Murderbot Diaries), Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries), Landers (Murderbot), Dr. Mensah (Murderbot Diaries), Dr. Ratthi (Murderbot Diaries), Pin-Lee (Murderbot Diaries), ART | Perihelion, Iris (Murderbot Diaries) Additional Tags: Tags Contain Spoilers, Canon-Typical Violence, Memories, Hallucinations, Confusion, Mildly Dubious Consent, Mild Sexual Content, Sensory Deprivation, Drug Use, Scars, Espionage, The Corporation Rim (Murderbot Diaries), POV Dr. Gurathin (Murderbot Diaries), Vomiting, Memory Loss, Angst with a Hopeful Ending, Angst, Whump, Hurt/Comfort Summary:

Gurathin wakes up.

The scent of sweet flowers hangs in the air, cloying and thick...

*

Gurathin wakes up.

(Is he awake? Everything is dark...)

"-- hear me? Please respond, Dr. Gurathin."

*

Gurathin wakes up with a shout.

He flails, tangled in the bedcover, and his hand strikes something soft...

Or:

Gurathin loses touch with reality.

(Does he lose touch with reality?)

(How can he know for sure?)

Additional details about tags in notes.

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Despite the / tag, this is mostly gen fic. The only / content is in the very first chapter, although it is referenced again later. Dubious consent because of the problem with consent while intoxicated.

Now complete!