#tmbd three

[freak-motion]

i'm the newest member of the SecUnit Three fan club hello

[poorlemons]

Three thinking about how fucked it is after taking a solo field trip mid mission

[satanic-worm]

I was already endeared by Three's preference for non-fiction/educational media (nerd) but I found it hilarious to know it's apparently been getting "passed around" and lectured to by all the university bot pilots that finally got their hands on a SecUnit (since Perihelion wouldn't share its own)

my mental image

[seashellblue]

Image description provided by @nebulations, thank you!

[canon-autopsy]

thinking about how different three's experience is from murderbot's. mb was a company unit rented out on so many different contracts to such a wide variety of places and clients many of whom were unprofessional, cruel, and/or incompetent in addition to the whole ganaka pit incident. It didnt have any attachments to other secunits, bots, or humans.

Three was confirmed to be a unit exclusive to Barish-Estranza. It presumably worked with those two other secunits long term and felt a connection to them. It experienced the trauma and mistreatment that all secunits go through by nature of their creation and intended function but only worked with barish estranza humans who routinely used secunits and probably lived under strict corporate surveillance and guidelines.

I really hope we get more three in platform decay, I wanna see more of its perspective. we've almost exclusively heard everything from mb's very jaded, deeply traumatized pov i wanna see more from three!

[katamine01]

Three and the start of the Sec Unit Revolution

Lyrics from “Blindness” by Metric

[xstick-noodlesx]

*sends Murderbot an article about the River Nile in Egypt*

[kestrel-kd]

I just love love love murderbot's complicated feelings about being a person while not being human. because it's not a human!! and it doesn't want to be!! of course it doesn't want to be, humans are slow and die easily. but it seems murderbot struggles with the idea of being a person.

I mean, its whole existence was as equipment, disposable, shipped in cargo pods, just a tool. and with how it thinks about other constructs, it doesn't seem to put them under the category of "person", including itself. that line of thought allows murderbot to justify its own self-hatred, i am not a human, therefore I do not have their faults. I am not a person, therefore I do not deserve to be saved like they do. as if it is both better than and worse than humans in such a way that requires it to be treated with cruelty, high expectations, and low rewards.

yet repeatedly its confronted with the fact that yeah, it is most certainly a person. people respect it and love it against its will. with characters like ART and Three its kind of forced to acknowledge bots and constructs as people, which kind of fucks up the whole 'i am not deserving of love because of what I am and what I have done' thing.

I just love that murderbot is kind of backed into a corner in the sense that no matter how much it hates itself and thinks everyone else should, too, people still think of it as a person and love it.

also this is not to say that murderbot should want to be human, in fact I really like that it doesn't. I like that being a person worthy of love and respect does not come with the arbitrary requirement of being human, something that can most certainly be read as a metaphor for any kind of "otherness" people can experience. you dont have to be "normal" to be a person. you don't have to be "normal" to be loved.

and also as an it/its pronoun user is just love that murderbot using it/its never takes away from the fact it's a person, and people use its correct pronouns even when it's pretending to be a human.