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He shut himself in the bathroom, when Rem and Knives were asleep. He'd wanted to see what caused that look on her face. Staring into the mirror, Vash opened his jaw wide, and immediately realised the problem: his canines had grown in, seemingly overnight.
They were longer than Rem's, than any of the humans' he'd seen in the sleep pods. They jutted out from the rest of his teeth, tapering down to a fine point which threatened to brush his lower lip. Wolf-like. A predator's jaw.
Vash didn't smile with all his teeth after that.
In which Vash reckons with his instincts.
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16 Jul 2026
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The Long Night Ends by Irismatic
Fandoms: Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008), Trigun Stampede & Trigun Stargaze (Anime 2023-2026)
16 Jul 2026
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The closer he got, the clearer the shape became. Whatever excuse for a heart that Vash had began to beat faster when he realised what it was he was looking at.
It was an old escape pod from the colony ships. And as far as he could tell, it seemed remarkably intact.
OR: Vash finds buried treasure in the desert.
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27 Jun 2026
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Taako's first memory went a little something like this.
He was staring up at someone much, much bigger than him. There was a fear flooding the back of his mouth, so thick he could hardly swallow, and this terrified voice in his head. He thought she might be crying, and his first thought was, she shouldn’t ever be so scared. He wasn’t entirely sure how he knew she was a she.
But he knew, before he learned his name, before he learned Lup’s name, before he learned a single thing about the place they were in, the body they shared, all the terrible people he was about to meet, before literally any of that, when it was just him, half-formed, and her, new and brilliant and still-scared: I’m never going to let the world hurt you.
(Or: Taako and Lup are a system of two. Neither of them were expecting the century-long space trip, or the malevolent force hunting them down, or having to ever tell people about the whole there's actually two of us thing. But they're Lup and Taako. Taako and Lup. They'll always have each other.
And also these other goobers they found on the side of the road, or whatever.)
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21 Jun 2026
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Iris invites Murderbot to a casual family hangout.
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12 Jun 2026
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Positive Representation, Complex Emotions, and a Fictional but Semi-Heroic SecUnit in Media by BlatantBookworm
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Apr 2026
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I don’t normally pay that much attention to the credits. In general, I tend to care more about the fictional characters than the real humans playing them, but this had caught my attention.
I mean, it wasn't the first serial that ever put in a SecUnit as a villain instead of a prop. RihaniLane Street had actually made their SecUnit villain sympathetic before it tried to kill everyone. And obviously this fictional SecUnit was going to be a villain, too, because they always were, but that scene was —
The credits said ‘Made and Produced in GoodNightLander Independent.’
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Or, Murderbot has feelings about finding positive representation.
Mostly positive.
Even when humans try, they get SecUnits wrong in media.
(Not the murder, the murders were justified, but the writers made the fictional SecUnit like cubicles)
(It’s still pretty positive.)Series
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30 Apr 2026