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3 what the fuck is ‘Murder Mode Modules, Do Not Touch Except For Situations That Necessitate Lots Of Murder?'
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SecUnit 3 is a CombatUnit.
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Two SecUnits walk into a sporting goods store and have to interact with a human employee.
No one gets hurt.Bookmarked by SatisfiedFish
14 Jun 2026
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‘It… became a casualty.’
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It's not going to kill you, says 1.0 in our private feed. You can stop slinking around like a terrified fauna.
I am not a terrified fauna.
I feel like a terrified fauna.
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I could tell that Eight Nought wasn't all that excited about the thought of me leaving; we'd had more "random" security drills in the last fifty cycles than we'd had in the entirety of my contract up to that point. Seriously, I could recite the protocol for dealing with raiders in my sleep by the end - if you're boarded, try overpowering them; if they're too heavily armed, try to reason with them; if they aren't interested in negotiating, remain calm, send a distress signal, and hope for rescue.
And yet, no amount of drilling actually prepared me for having a raider casually stroll onto the control deck.
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Three flexes its freedom on the open road across Preservation, and learns the basics of solo-travel when it finally checks its social feed.
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- Part 2 of Procedural Learning
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The first planetary visit during our teaching run with ART had been mostly fine.
Mostly.
All the humans had stayed on the path. They had refrained from touching unknown flora. They had given the small fauna we had come across a wide berth. The humans had, overall, been the best behaved clients I have ever had on a planet. I was impressed.
The one, giant, problem was Three.
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It's hard to think for yourself when you've never had to think before. It's worse when your problem-solving is all limited by modules worth less than the load they take in your processing.
Unfortunately, flawed knowledge modules are better than no modules at all, which is what SecUnit003 aka "an idiot" now has to think of a way to get around without alerting either of the smarter, meaner, and cagier MIs that keep pinging it.
I am an idiot and I have made a terrible mistake. Now I have to fix it before Murderbot, y'know, murders me.
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- Part 1 of Procedural Learning
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How to Take Care of Your Bird-Adeptus Boyfriend by starlitwishes
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
14 Jun 2022
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Zhongli was not nearly as surprised as Aether had been upon seeing the bird now perched upon the blonde's shoulder.
"Adeptus Xiao. To what do I owe the honor of being graced by your presence?"
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Xiao assumes his bird form to help recover from the aftermath of his investigation of the Chasm. Aether decides to take care of him.
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Xiao and Aether were together for a total of five years. After high school graduation Aether decided to leave the relationship due to issues that remained unresolved. Two years into college Aether transfers to Mondstadt university only to find himself wrapped up with the very person he can’t keep his feelings concealed from. (COMPLETED!!❤️ + Epilogue Update!)
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Troubled by how he doesn't understand how Xiao thinks, despite crushing on him hard, Aether ends up acquiring a hairclip with Xiao-mind-reading abilities, made by Cloud Retainer, to help him.
Now, Aether has to spend the entire day doing commissions with Xiao and listening to his... really, really noisy thoughts, about how cute Aether is, or how he wants to touch his waist, or run his fingers through his hair, or--
It's gonna be a long, long day.
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“Crap,” Aether says then, taking a step back. “Holy crap.”
It’s exactly what he thinks it is. A whole robanian model lays on the heap of trash before him. Its clothes are tattered, and its facial features and hair are incredibly unfamiliar to him. There are teal undertones to his hair, ruffled from lack of care.
He didn’t think he’d find a full set android lying around in the dump like this, and he’s been lingering around for years. The most of his findings would lead him to about a discarded arm or two. This is like winning the lottery.
“Amazing,” He murmurs in awe. The moonlight sky shines upon the android’s face, reflecting upon his own.
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In a world where owning android companions are the new norm, Aether comes across one who couldn’t find his way back home.
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The Voice Inside My Head (I Miss You) by moonlightflame16
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
05 Jul 2026
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For as long as Xiao could remember, there had always been one constant in his life: his suffering. Simultaneously punished and fueled by his karmic debt, Xiao lived in a relentless cycle, one of endless duty and torment.
He thought the cycle was broken when he met the Traveler. Aether is open, patient, and kind–and more importantly, the first one to silence the screaming in his head. Unfortunately, Xiao’s tragic pattern was not fixed, just mutated.
The voice in his head–Alatus, a bloody reflection of Xiao’s many flaws–screams louder. Xiao finds it harder to ignore him, his demon no longer content to exist only in his shadow. Every moment of peace comes with a cost, and Alatus has no qualms with playing debt-collector.
Growing dangerously dependent on Aether’s guiding light, the darkness no longer simply encroaches on him. Xiao’s become its prey. His tormentor blurs the line between fiction and reality, leaving Xiao uncertain of which feelings are real, or simply a figment of his imagination.
Does Xiao have what it takes to overcome the evil in his own mind, or is he destined for a continued life confined to solitude?
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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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Tangled Together in Threads of Fate by timbitsandpieces
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
19 Nov 2024
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Jason died.
Give me a friend, Tim thought with all the firmness he could muster. Something twisted in his gut, and a weird tingling came from his fingers, the kind he got when his arm fell asleep.
All of a sudden, he was exhausted. What? Tim scowled at the feeling, forcing himself to sit up. It took him a moment to realize, but someone was standing in front of him. The edges of him - it was a boy, practically a grown-up - flickered for a moment, like static on a TV, before turning normal again.
He was dressed in bright colors, red and green and yellow like a traffic light - like Robin. The costume was torn right over where the ‘R’ was supposed to be, and it was kind of bloody - really bloody.
Gotham is a city of tragedies, wrapped up in enough grief that while Tim knows that Robin has died, he doesn't connect that to his new imaginary friend. There's no reason to; Tim is a normal boy, by Gotham's standards.
It turns out Gotham's standards are fairly abnormal.
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- Part 1 of Flight of the Crow
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Tim knows something is wrong with Batman and Nightwing, and somehow it all has to do with the new crime lord on the rise in crime alley. So of course he’s not going to stay at the manor while they’re out risking their lives.
Tim leaves a note and sets out for intel on the Red Hood.Aka.
Everyone is straight up not having a good time
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Danyal had been sent to be a mole in Bruce's care, but while they were heading though Blüdhaven, Chemo attacked destroying the city.
Danyal hadn't been in the city like he was supposed to be and therefore survived. He'd never wanted to play double agent with the that was his father. He ran, and never looked back. Several years and ghost powers later, Vlad Masters has decided that the students need some self-defense lessons, so he hires an organization that specializes in just that.Written for Invisobang 2023!!
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Tim Drake time traveled his way out of the Batfamily. This is the aftermath of that decision.
I’m setting the pieces in chronological order but reading them in the order I posted them is ok too
[Series previously known as ‘For A Different Twist In The Storyline’ but then I came up with a title I liked more.]
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Snatching Snitches by Redflagship (Electrasev5n)
Fandoms: Danny Phantom, Batman - All Media Types
02 Sep 2025
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After Danny regains his mostly human body and flees Wayne Manor, a devastatingly effective ten-year-old does what he must to hunt down his missing house cat.
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- Part 2 of The Saga of Snitches
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Aether's life started to get more complicated within a day of moving in their grandmother's ancestral house in Qingce Village.
Setting foot upon the birthplace of his ancestors, his fate tangled with the past, blending into one. A sinister remnant looming over his life and the people around him. But comes with this are people who swore to prevent the returning doom.
It's up to him now together with the not-so-new people in his life, to separate and completely change his destiny from the one before, if he didn't want to end it in a tragedy once again.
And maybe, to give a certain love story from the past a proper and deserving happy ending.