Ayda Mensah
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Name: | Ayda Mensah |
Occupation: | Political Leader, planetary survey |
Relationships: | Murderbot (guardian/employer), PresAux team (leader), Thiago (brother in law), Farai and Tano (marital partners), Amena (daughter) |
Fandom: | The Murderbot Diaries |
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Dr. Ayda Mensah is a major character in The Murderbot Diaries.
Canon
In the first book, All Systems Red, she is the leader of the PreservationAux planetary survey team. She also appears as a major character in the fourth book, Exit Strategy, the fifth book Network Effect, and the sixth book Fugitive Telemetry.
She is the narrator of the short story Home: Habitat, Range Niche, Territory.
Fandom
Mensah is a popular character within the fandom, there is a lot of fic and fanart about her.
Tropes and fanon
- Dr. Mensah is jacked: headcanon that arose in the The Murderbot Diaries 2.0 discord server in February 2021 and gained popularity throughout the fandom. Has lead to humorous fanworks making a joke of overexaggerating her physique and a number of serious fanworks (particularly fanart) drawing her with a more muscular build.
Shipping
- canonically married to Farai and Tano
Example Fanworks
Examples Wanted: Editors are encouraged to add more examples or a wider variety of examples. |
Fanfic
- Dr. Mensah is Jacked by uovoc -- crackfic based around the "Mensah is Jacked" fanon/meme
- #101: "An Inevitable Conclusion; But With Makeouts", Archived version by raven (singlecrow) -- out of curiosity and a desire to better understand Murderbot's perspective, Mensah watched The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon
Fanart
Meta
Other
Links
- Home: Habitat, Range Niche, Territory
- Dr. Mensah (Murderbot Diaries) tag on AO3
- Dr. Mensah is Jacked (Murderbot Diaries) Dr. Mensah is Jacked (Murderbot Diaries) tag on AO3
- Mensah on the Murderbot Fandom.com wiki
- #mensah, #dr mensah, and #ayda mensah tags on Tumblr