Slapdash Neural Wiring | The Murderbot Diaries | SecUnit Nine #2 [✓]
12 parts Complete Mature[Complete] Stealing stuff is supposed to be simple. But when I decide to rescue a ComfortUnit from a company that I faked my own death to escape, and they're hauling "pesticides" that don't seem to have much agricultural value, things get a lot more complicated. Add to that, there are still humans around to get hurt by corporate paranoia/ secrecy/ vindictiveness, and things are...well, yeah. This is going to be a lot.
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From the perspective of an original SecUnit character named Nine (because I'm sensitive to "Murderbot would not say that").
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Content warnings:
- Strong language (swearing)
- Canon-typical violence
- Serious injuries
- Disfigurement or non-consensual body modification (occurs off-page, discussed)
- Minor character death
- Blood and gore
- Fire
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Chemical Weapons
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Other tags:
- The Corporation Rim is Terrible
- Corporate Espionage
- no beta we die like murderbots
- Heist
Silly tags:
- Unreliable narrator(s) but only because of the brain damage
- If sarcasm were rocket fuel we could be an intergalactic civilization by now
- Hurt/ComfortUnit, or HurtUnit/ComfortUnit (pun, no romance)
- Grumpy-sunshine dynamics but the sunshine person is just as damaged as the grumpy person
- If it's unsafe to be yourself, you'll always pretend to be someone else
- If you always pretend to be someone else, you'll never know who you are
- If you never know who you are, you'll never know what you want
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Inspired by *Fugitive Telemetry*:
"I started to say that they never used SecUnits for espionage, and then I realized I didn't actually know that for sure. Take away our armor and alter our appearance and give us the right module..."
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