Murderbot (character)

Character
Name:	Murderbot (personal name) SecUnit (usual public address) Aliases: Eden, Rin
Occupation:	Political Leader, planetary survey
Relationships:	Mensah (guardian/employer), PresAux team, Asshole Research Transport (mutual administrative assistance friend), more
Fandom:	The Murderbot Diaries
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Murderbot (usually known publically as "SecUnit") is the main character of The Murderbot Diaries.

Canon

Murderbot is the narrator and primary point of view of all published novels and novellas in the series, and also some of the supplemental short stories.

Fandom

Tropes and fanon

• Murderbot with cat ears?

Shipping

Fandom general strongly trends gen, reflecting Murderbot's canon distaste for the concepts of sex and romance. Popular relationships in the fandom include:

• Murderbot & ART
• Murderbot & Mensah
• Murderbot & Preservation Team (or various members thereof)
• Murderbot & Mensah's children
  • especially Murderbot & Amena after the publication of Network Effect

Example Fanworks

Examples Wanted: Editors are encouraged to add more examples or a wider variety of examples.

Fanart

• Murderbot Sit in a Chair Normally Challenge, ^{Archived version} by Cephalopod_Dreamscape

Fanfic

• the static speaks my feed address, ^{Archived version} by torpidgilliver -- Murderbot tells a ghost story
• In Control, ^{Archived version} by Mayasynth -- "Four times having a governor module fucking sucked, plus one time [REDACTED: FILE MISSING]." Murderbot, ART, the Preservation team, takes place after Network Effect.
• On The Trail Of The Killers Of My Father, ^{Archived version} by nenya_kanadka -- a side adventure of Murderbot taking place after All Systems Red.
• Sick Day, ^{Archived version} by avg (AnxiousEspada) -- Overse and Arada are sick, Ratthi and (eventually) SecUnit come over to look after them

Meta

• Meta post about SecUnit's gender (and performance of gender), ^{Archived version} by whetstonefires, with additions by Verso

Vids

• The Murderbot Diaries: A Fan Animation

Links

• The Future of Work: Compulsory, ^{Archived version} -- prequel short story by Martha Wells, featuring Murderbot POV
• Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries) tag on AO3
• Murderbot on the Murderbot Fandom.com wiki
• #murderbot and #secunit tags on Tumblr