#mbs25

[mistymoondragon]

For @murderbotseptember prompt #1 epistolary

[murderbotseptember]

Prompts and rules!

Ahem. So. Time ran away with me. But it's still the 1st so I'm counting it as a win. AO3 collection will be up very shortly.

Some of the prompts are book- or TV-show only, but since there's three prompts for each day plus alts there should be enough whether you've read/watched both or not. Also I tried not to duplicate last year's prompts (except Three's quote which I adore) but that does mean some characters are kinda obscure so feel to ask if you've forgotten who (or what) they are!

Rules and alt text below the cut:

Prompts

Farai | family | epistolary

Leebeebee | corporate takeovers | red

Martyn | company mergers | apocalyptic

Tech Tural | investigations | news clippings

Dr Mensah | Glaw and Ji-Min historical play | orange

Specialist Rajpreet | FirstLanding | meta

Overse | Preservation festival | prose

Arada | trauma | yellow

Gerth | relationships | canon

Iris | Mihira and New Tideland | blackout poetry

Perihelion | transports | green

Murderbot | drones | comic

Combatunit | weaponry | diary

Ratthi | Preservation responder | blue

Trinh | Adamantine documentary | space opera

Gurathin | ex-corporate | social feed

Maro | Umro | indigo

Hirune | grief | dialogue

Karime | UplandGateway one | 5+1

Dr Sunara | Starkwether Shipping Alliance | purple

Bellagaia | Faction One | silence

Sum Total | machine intelligences | poetry

Lutran | people smuggling | pink

Corian | libraries and archives | cyberpunk

Bharadwaj | Makeba Central Medical | found footage

Ras | alien contamination | grey

Landers | drugs | white

Pin-lee | law | outsider pov

Matteo | undercover | black

AdaCol1 | pre-corporation rim structures | military

Alternatives

"There is a lot about what is going on here that I do not understand but I am participating anyway."

"You haven't spoken to me that way in weeks. I've missed it."

"I still didn't know what I wanted. But maybe I had a place to be while I figured it out."

"Fuck you."

"The only choice they are ever offered is obedience or pain and death."

"Human words, there's too many of them."

Rules

Runs September 1-30.

Any kind of media is acceptable (and any length).

There are three prompts per day. You can use one, two, or all three.

Alternative prompts can be used to replace any of the days.

You can complete the prompts in any order.

The prompts can be used as separate chapters in one fic (or equivalent in other media).

You are a completionist if you fill thirty days worth of prompts.

You can combine prompts, but to be a completionist you must create thirty fills.

You do not have to fill all of the prompts.

A Google Form link will be posted at the end of the month. Please fill it in if you participate. You will receive a badge and be added to the hall of fame.

You can use the prompts in conjunction with any other event.

You can post anywhere.

There will be an AO3 collection: Murderbot September 2025, or MBS25.

For Tumblr fills to be reposted use the tags #mbs25, #mbs25day_ or #mbsalt_, and appropriate content tags (eg #mbs25, #mbs25day1, #nsfw, #gore).

[mistymoondragon]

prompt fill for @murderbotseptember #10: blackout poetry

couldn't decide what i wanted to do with it, so y'all get both versions.

[mistymoondragon]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

prompt fill for @murderbotseptember #13: Diary

[murderbotseptember]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Iris (Murderbot Diaries), Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries), ART | Perihelion Additional Tags: Post-Canon, The Corporation Rim Is Terrible (Murderbot Diaries), redacted text, corporate jargon, POV Iris (Murderbot Diaries), Friendship, blackout poetry, Murderbot September 2025 Summary:

Iris and Peri find a memo from the company about SecUnit. Iris takes the heartlessly cruel message and transforms it into something that better reflects SecUnit's true worth.

For the Murderbot September 2025 prompts: Iris | Mihira and New Tideland | Blackout Poetry

[murderbotseptember]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: ART | Perihelion & Murderbot, ART | Perihelion & Murderbot & Murderbot 2.0 Characters: Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries), Murderbot 2.0 (Murderbot Diaries), ART | Perihelion Additional Tags: Grief/Mourning, Introspection, Canonical Character Death Summary:

Thoughts on parenthood from someone who never had the chance to try.

[mistymoondragon]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

prompt fill for @murderbotseptember #18: grief

[murderbotseptember]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Lutran (Murderbot Diaries), "Human One" Refugee (Murderbot Diaries), Lutran's Transport Ship (Murderbot Diaries) Additional Tags: Spoilers for Book 6: Fugitive Telemetry, Book 6: Fugitive Telemetry, Canonical Character Death, Character Study, Worldbuilding, Lutran POV, Lutran's bold outfit also makes an appearance, Missing Scene Summary:

On his twentieth mission helping indentured miners escape, Lutran thinks about what he's accomplished.

(This is the first (and currently only) Lutran-tagged work on AO3! I figured he's a hero who died for his cause and deserves a little POV.)