HAPPY BIRTHDAY
DR. MENSAH MADAME PRESIDENT
Fucking love Noma's Mensah so much! It is Noma Dumezweni's birthday today.
Mature-aged Black queer woman as the co-lead of a sci-fi! The most important person in the story to Murderbot! Portrayed as a complicated and complex person! Given the full blorbo treatment with such gems as:
having her survey team being sabotaged
nearly seeing her friend die to a giant alien worm
panic attacks
making a mistake and listening to her compromised friend
climbing a sand dune do you know how hard that is
nearly being squashed by a giant alien worm
managing interteam dynamics
stabbing a person with a mining drill
being chased and shot at
witnessing the person she just saved shoot itself
interteam dynamics and survival
getting blown up in a hopper
trapped in a hopper with a broken secunit
impromptu surgery on the secunit - hands in its spine
witnessing her friends traumatised and lightly shot
giant alien worm on her hopper
witnessing her secunit get beaten up
interteam dynamics
yelled at another of her friends
mistaken priorities
sacrificing herself - almost taken prisoner and tortured
blown up again
off a ravine
saved by her friends broken smashed bloodied ruined body and left sitting with it as it seems to die
forced to buy her friend as an object
not recognised by her friend
emotions as her friend runs away