Miscellaneous TMBD Fic
A collection of unrelated prompt responses, random snippets, and one-shots for The Murderbot Diaries. Mind the tags & warnings!
Memory File Corrupted
Tags: Major Character Death, Despair December, Angst
Published: 14 January 2022
Word Count: 822
Despair December 2021, #2: Memory File Corrupted.
We had left it too long.
Trapped
Tags: Major Character Death, Despair December, Angst
Published: 14 January 2022
Word Count: 397
Despair December 2021 #3: Locked in a Cubicle
It was getting colder.
Crash Test Dummy
Tags: Despair December, Angst, Lab Hell
Published: 14 January 2022
Word Count: 894
Despair December 2021 #4: Lab Hell
So, that's my existence. The worst kind of crash test dummy.
Resupply
Tags: Despair December, Angst, Accidental Self-Harm
Published: 14 January 2022
Word Count: 1,177
Despair December 2021 #5: Hiding an Injury
There was a problem with Preservation Station’s MedSystem.
Diminished
Tags: Despair December, Angst
Published: 14 January 2022
Word Count: 665
Despair December 2021 #6: "I know you are in there somewhere" Fight
I don’t know how it got in. I don’t know how it did so much damage to me. I don’t know what it wants, or why it’s doing this.
I don’t know what it’s done with my crew.
Function
Tags: Deliberate Memory Loss, Despair December, Angst
Published: 14 January 2022
Word Count: 461
Despair December 2021 #12: Self-Sacrifice
My current function is to protect my friends, not myself.
Out of the Ordinary
Tags: Loss of Autonomy, Major Character Death, Canon Typical Violence, Whumptober, Angst
Published: 02 October 2022
Word Count: 911
Whumptober 2022
No. 1 A LITTLE OUT OF THE ORDINARY
Adverse Effects | Unconventional Restraints | “This wasn’t supposed to happen”
The point of view of one of the GrayCris SecUnits at the DeltFall habitat.
Nowhere to Run
Tags: Canon-Typical Violence, Canonical Character Death, Tapan POV, Whumptober, Angst
Published: 02 October 2022
Word Count: 1609
Whumptober 2022
No. 2 NOWHERE TO RUN
Cornered | Caged | Confrontation
Tapan's point of view of her kidnapping and the results of that...
Fight Night
Tags: Canon-Typical Violence, Canon-Typical Behavior, secunit fight night, Theta is an asshole, Angst
Published: 03 October 2022
Word Count: 895
Whumptober 2022
No. 3 A HAIR’S BREADTH FROM DEATH
Gun to Temple | “Say goodbye.” | Impaled
Bored humans on long term mining contracts find ways to amuse themselves via SecUnit Fight Nights.
Essential Maintenance
Tags: Whumptober, Canon-Typical Behavior, Governor Modules, Angst
Published: 04 October 2022
Word Count: 1,265
Whumptober 2022
No. 4 DEAD ON YOUR FEET
Hidden Injury | Waking Up Disoriented | Can’t Pass Out
SecUnit can't let on how much it hurts.
Holes
Tags: Memory Loss, Recovery, Angst
Published: 23 January 2023
Word Count: 1,521
One-shot. Sometimes the road to recovery is long and full of holes. Murderbot struggles with its new normal after getting hit by killware.
Abandoned Unit
Tags: Survival, Stranded in the Wilderness, Angst
Published: 24 March 2022
Word Count: 3,065
A survey on an uninhabited planet went wrong and the humans evacuated, leaving Murderbot behind. Some time later, another ship crashes on the planet, with a group of humans called PreservationAux on board. Murderbot takes it upon itself to look after these stranded humans, but without letting itself be seen by them - it's a terrifying (and damaged) murderbot, it doesn't want to frighten them.
Of course, something goes wrong. Something always goes wrong.
(Many thanks to the Murderbot Discord for all the ideas and discussions that prompted this snippet! The worms took the wheel. XD )
Swept Away
Tags: Wilderness Survival, Hurt/Comfort, Action/Adventure
Published: 31 January 2023
Word Count: 5,838
Murderbot gets rained on. A lot. And then things get worse, because of course they do.
Originally written as a New Year 2023 Gif Exchange fic for Gamebird.
Accidental DDoS (Distributed Denial of Self)
Tags: Aspec TMBD 2023, AAA Murderbot, No shipping, aspec microaggressions
Published: 17 April 2023
Word Count: 3,784
Members of ART's crew keep trying to define what Murderbot and ART's relationship actually is, much to Murderbot's growing disgust. The comments and remarks keep increasing, and Murderbot finally reaches a breaking point.
In response to a prompt by avg (AnxiousEspada) and a prompt by lunaTactics in the Aspec_TMBD_2023 collection.
Echo of Hope
Tags: Tlacey's ComfortUnit POV, what if ART tried to help Tlacey's CU
Published: 30 June 2023
Word Count: 1,302
Murderbot didn't want to see Tlacey's ComfortUnit again, but ART has its own ideas. The newly freed ComfortUnit doesn't know what to think.
(This little snippet came from a conversation that was basically "rofl what if one of ART's crew members in NE was actually Tlacey's ComfortUnit" XD )
A Gilded Cage
Tags: Gilded Cage Au, loss of autonomy, nonconsensual body modification, Despair, Angst
Published: 01 July 2023
Word Count: 3,497
A couple of snippets based in a "gilded cage" AU, where Murderbot went back to Preservation with PresAux at the end of ASR instead of running off. Mensah and the rest of PreservationAux mean well, but they assume they know best about what SecUnit is, and what is best for it.
Mensah and Ratthi are forced to confront some of the realities of just how wrong their assumptions were.