#farai

[maz737]

It’s a bit late for that now

[ablueblur]

Tea time with Sofi and Murderbot.

[katamine01]

From panicking at proximity … to initiating (and even enjoying?) touch

[homosekularnost]

pov you lost the custody battle

[razielim]

Thinking about how... Farai and Naja keep backing it up. In the first half, yes, but increasingly so in the second half, all while Murderbot keeps planning to ditch them or otherwise keep them out of the fray and shoulder all extraction, travel, security, disguise responsibility by itself.

"I'm a strong construct who don't need no human backup!"

>Farai helps it maintain low levels of scrutiny by not letting it wander off to save Leonide's family alone. She and Naja coordinate in advance to ensure its compliance in this, having caught on to its ill-advised intention to ditch all three of them. >Farai works their cover by engaging the tech repair place so Murderbot can do reconnaissance. >Meanwhile, Naja is doing some brilliant escape vehicle planning with built-in redundancies. >Farai quickly and efficiently carries out the objectives Murderbot had assigned her for their flash-incursion into the apartment. >Farai wrecks the fuck out of the bed Janity is chained to. >Farai manages Janity by liberally applying mothering to the situation when the anxious teen locks up in place, delaying their escape. >Farai and Naja help it hide all its bulletholes as it's pulled out of the water, graciously interface for it with all the humans it has to get past on the boat, and otherwise help maintain its "plausibly augmented human" identity in a very crowded situation. >Farai and Naja share ground vehicle driving responsibility with it, allowing it stretches of time to watch its shows, which isn't quite a restart but makes a big difference for both its well-being and job performance. >Sofi (!!) contributes a plan to get across the large port with speed and comfort when all the adults are stumped, discouraged, out of ideas, and out of performance reliability, which helps them all regroup somewhat before the final hurdle. >Farai and Naja double down on managing the group's appearance at the food kiosks as Murderbot's performance starts to drop off and directing extraction strategy increasingly becomes the only thing it can manage on its own. >Naja reliably continues to the shuttle with the two younger kids, ensuring Three can get them to safety without confusion or panic. >Farai stays to back Murderbot up in an emotionally fraught situation, providing the additional warmth and empathy to Janity that Murderbot wouldn't have been able to offer the adolescent on its own, and her contribution was just as valuable to Janity's strength in facing away from her second father as Murderbot's reassuring guarantee of physical protection.

Not an exhaustive list of all the support Murderbot received in its extraction goal from the very humans it was extracting, but I can't sit here all day.

...this started out as a Farai post that ended up having to include Naja's activities in parentheses but I gave up on maintaining that more narrow focus; just gonna give both women (+ Sofi!) their flowers. 💐

[mensahbotcule]

[grimbarbarityposting]

Oh, Farai. I can see why Dr Mensah loves you. Murderbot and Farai are best friends now.

[securityunit-ese]

I LOVE FARAI

OUGH THE NEWEST BLORBO!!!!

She's SO competent! And clever! and smart! And she takes no shit from Murderbot but she's also so eager to impress it because Mensah loves it and trusts it!!

That scene where she tells it to do what it needs to do. Or when they talk about Murderbot and orders and self-determination, or when they talk about trust, WHEN THEY WERE THE PERFECT TEAM to rescue the children!!! And her fear of heights and reluctant to break Murderbot's boundaries and how she trusts it. The way they talk about the polycule and how Murderbot has disrupted it!!!!! And Farai is working on herself about that!!

The way Farai and Murderbot are co-parenting everyone, taking turns driving the caravan (that HAD to be a caravan), saying words at the same time, finishing each others THREATS?!

Mensah has a TYPE.

(and so do I)