Mirrorthoughts

#Love This #murderbot #murderbot diaries

So, I’m awkward with actual humans. It’s not paranoia about my hacked governor module, and it’s not them; it’s me. I know I’m a horrifying murderbot, and they know it, and it makes both of us nervous, which makes me even more nervous. Also, if I’m not in the armor then it’s because I’m wounded and one of my organic parts may fall off and plop on the floor at any moment and no one wants to see that.

one last fancomic to finish off the year, from asr this time!!

#asks answered #sorry to be a bit aggressive myself but that seriously weirded me out #and I felt a bit attacked #it's one thing to answer to a post or write in that post's notes #it's a completely different to click through to my profile to send me asks about it #anonymus asks too #just to throw some 'facts' at me #I'm sorry if you didn't mean it like that #but that's the impression you gave me nonny #murderbot diaries

Anonymous asked:

All Systems Red, MB says that facial features are assigned randomly, based on the DNA the human parts are cloned from. So no, they don't all look alike. Also, in AC, it recognizes its own face in a newsburst at a quick glance..

Uhm... Hi?

I guess you're talking about this post here that I wrote (actually exactly) two weeks ago?

If you'd looked into the notes of that post (and there really aren't that many...) you would have seen that I was already told as much and looked up some quotes myself, so... Maybe next time best read the notes first and/or answer there instead of sending anonymous asks that, at least for me, sound weirdly patronizing...

I'm not writing a doctoral thesis about the Murderbot Diaries... If I get stuff wrong, so be it!

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obvs mb doesn't need to eat but, like, how does fluid retention work? it never seems to leak enough to cause a whole lot of problems—it mostly seems uncomfortable with it—and, yeah, its veins auto-seal to reduce fluid loss, but loss of fluid is still A Thing. it can sweat from its organics when stressed, but is there a point where it becomes too... "dehydrated" to sweat? if it doesn't have access to a cubicle, what are its alternatives to necessary fluid intake? literally none of this is important, the focus of the story is not actually on How anything works, but i am a silly little guy and i like asking unnecessary questions

#great‚ now I can’t get that out of my head 😂#together with how does MB‘s energy regen actually work?#bc when it leaves Ganaka Pit it’s low on energy #but how does it create more when there isn‘t input?#murderbot diaries

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mensah giving murderbot drones as an accommodation to help it communicate is the best fucking thing. also very autistic of you, secunit

#peer review #bc true #murderbot #murderbot diaries #still Love her (MW And Mensah) to have them framed as such

#murderbot diaries #sei's writing #sei's brain bubbles #seikaze #books #murderbot #state of the sei

Just thinking about Murderbot questions not (yet) answered in the books 😂 (as far as I know - might have overlooked it 😂)

So if there are SecUnits that are all produced with the same cloned material, they should have the same face, right? Are ALL SecUnits (constructs) built with the same cloned DNA (aside from personalized constructs like the ComfortUnits)? Are there different batches of SecUnits that are produced with other cloned DNA? Could you determine through their faces how old a SecUnit is (when you have the data) because of the used DNA?

Muderbot never commented on other SecUnits faces and we do know that all SecUnits have the same body structure (which is kinda logical if they are mass produced) so we don't really know if other SecUnits have the same face as MB or not. Though we also mostly 'see' SecUnits with their armour on, so we don't know if they actually are different or if Murderbot is just used to looking into its own face when seeing other SecUnits. I'm also not sure/I forgot if we actually have 'seen' Three without armour... Does Three actually look different from Murderbot?

And... HOW OLD is Murderbot actually? Do SecUnits/Constructs age at all? They do have manipulated DNA, we know that, but does that mean they don't age like humans? What about older/newer constructs? How different are they from Murderbot (speaking in terms of abilities/functions/etc.)?

I'd guess older SecUnits are upgraded during their stay between contracts if there are new functions integrated in newer models? Or maybe older models just get sent to lower grade contracts and the newer (more expensive?) models get the high grade contracts?

I mean, there are a few hints to some answers to these questions - for example that Murderbot is at least 4 years old bc. the 'killed dozens of people'-incident is more than 30k hours past which at least in human earth terms would be around 3,5 years - plus the months from ASR to NE.

Murderbot also says in ASR that its battery would keep it alive for "hundreds of thousands of hours" so if we invert that and say 'less than a million hours' thats still a max of about 114 years??

And, as I said, I'm not sure if we have a description of Three's appearance in NE (I'm re-reading it right now and we haven't yet met Three and my memory is shit with descriptions and stuff I've only read once 😂) though it probably would be easier if Three and Murderbot DON'T look too much alike. On the other side it would be hilarious if people always mistake them for the other - especially since Three seems to have a personality that's a lot more emotionally stable than Murderbot! (Though that might be of MB's trauma - who knows?)

So yeah, questions, questions, questions 😂😂😂 (and of course that's got nothing to do with Hello World, the fic that started as a Teen Wolf-Murderbot-AU and that my head decided to evolve into a full blown crossover AND I'M NOT EVEN AT THE FUN PARTS YET! ...)

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murderbot my beloved…..

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#murderbot #murderbot diaries #network effect

wanted to try some network effect character designs!!

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#murderbot #murderbot diaries #network effect

“You can still get out of this,” Thiago gasped. “Just let us go. You can take me as a hostage—”

Oh, right, that’ll help. I said, “No hostages.”

a comic for network effect this time….. ratthi my beloved

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#murderbot #murderbot diaries #network effect

assorted mb + amena (+ ART) doodles

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SecUnit is looking down at her. “You can hug me if you need to.” “No. No, that’s all right. I know you don’t care for it.” She wipes her face. There are tears in her eyes, because she’s an idiot. “It’s not terrible.” She can hear the irony under its even tone. “Nevertheless.” She can’t do this. She can’t lean on a being that doesn’t want to be leaned on. Of all the things SecUnit needs, the only ones she can give it are room and time in a relatively safe space to make decisions for itself. Becoming a prop for her failing emotional stability won’t do either one of them any good.

a little scene from the home short story

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another fav scene from fugitive telemetry :’)

(id in alt text)

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another thing I’ve been wanting to draw for ages - a full lineup of my hc designs for the presaux survey team :D

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#murderbot #murderbot diaries #fugitive telemetry

Misdirection, let’s try that. “I would have either disposed of the body so it was never found, or made it look like an accident.”

been rereading murderbot n have a bunch of scenes i wanna draw!! so here’s a small one from fugitive telemetry to start off :’D

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shenanigans

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We shouldn’t have to. We don’t have to. The bot pilot was curious and friendly, but it was no ART, it couldn’t stop me. I could take over the ship’s SecSystem before this human with the temptingly large projectile weapon could blink. I could get that weapon before that human could blink. I wanted to do it, and it bled into the feed.

sketchy comic of a favourite scene from exit strategy