character bingo: Murderbot :)
I FUCKING LOVE MURDERBOT!!!! IT'S ONE OF THE CHARACTERS EVER!!!! IT'S CRACK TO ME
i also really appreciate the story around it. everyone respects its decisions which makes me, an autistic agender aroace thing, extremely happy. very rarely is it forced to do things that are uncomfortable for it identity wise (the closest i can think of is like.... long periods of being undercover as an augmented human)
it's so rare to get a character who chooses no for every option and the narrative validates it. when other people try to convince it otherwise, we as the audience are told pretty explicitly that it's not up for debate.
i want to be a secunit so fucking bad dude
i love that it has trauma and it fucks up, it doesn't know what it wants but it does know what it likes, it's bitter about its treatment in the CR, it's abrasive and it can't make eye contact, it cares about humans and bots and constructs without liking every single one of them. it's got a realistic fucking personality. it's a shithead and it's best friends with the sweetest guy in Preservation and they both watch the same terrible soap opera.
my favorite scene is for sure the one where it decides not to kill the GrayCris assassin trying to murder Mensah. it doesn't do it because it wanted to grant mercy, it does it because it knows Mensah would never trust it again and it can't take that. its show of affection is not killing someone. i eat that shit up dude
"You should be afraid of me. Please don't be afraid of me." -things i will think about forever and ever and ever
and GOD..... murderbot and ART. me and who. it's an ideal partnership to me. i think about them so fucking much. they watch TV shows together. ART trusts it more than its own crew. ART canonically gushed about it to its crew after the second book, so much so that they all knew it had a thing for murderbot.
i need to go reread the series i think