#miki (murderbot)

[angeliquecloud]

MB when Miki doesn’t lie but also doesn’t tell the truth

[ihaverabiesbackoff]

DONT LIKE ANY OF THIS BUT ! I NEED TO GET THIS SERIES OUT OF MY HEADDD IM ABOUT TO START SYSTEM COLLAPSE TONIGHT GODDDDD I LOVE MURDERBOT

i like the miki drawing a lot

[chaoticats3]

Miki: oh man do I love my friends, Rin you are now my new friend yippieeeee

Murderbot: why is this bot so trusting and cheesy and thinks its humans are it's friends, it almost like it wasn't abused and lied to and-

Murderbot:....

Murderbot:

[verdiris]

Murderbot is questioning all the life choices that led it to this moment 😌

[cat-dragron-arts]

It's my art style and I can draw Miki however I want! Also having fun with Dr. Mensah and TargetControlSystem :]

[rocktartz]

Miki in a Hawaiian shirt with Friendship bracelets is my vision.

[dreamsy990]

rogue protocol killed me and then kicked my corpse around like the football so here is miki. to cope.

[ghostsandyoumightdie]

It's fine. I'm fine. It's just that Murderbot was giving Miki the silent treatment right before it died and realized too late that it actually had free will and wasn't programmed to be sweet and friendly. And that it genuinely considered Murderbot its friend.

[mayhaps-a-blog]

Thinking about Murderbot again (as one does) and like. We're introduced to SecUnits, to bots at all, through Murderbot's lens, so we assume that they're all anti-social, kind of misanthropic, and can't trust each other because of the governor module - because that's what Murderbot believes and has lived experience to show us, the audience, to prove it.

But if you think about it!

We start to meet other bots - ART, Miki, even Three eventually, and they're... not like that? ART is friendly with its crew and not worried about Murderbot at all (probably because it could crush it like a bug, but you know), Miki is openly friendly to everyone, Three mentions having friendly connections with other bots, there's even mention that the station bots share gossip and news with each other and SecUnits... so it's actually just Murderbot, maybe.

But if you think about it, it makes sense.

Most bots are unlikely to be pitted against each other. Sure, SecUnits are forced to fight sometimes, but they can't threaten a client and probably aren't allowed to kill each other because that's expensive. Sure, hostile takeovers can happen, but again, they're expensive and difficult and don't seem to profit anyone, so most wouldn't try it. What happened to Murderbot specifically was a mistake on the attacker's part, after all.

So most bots would have the perspective that yes, sure, they're all slaves in a shitty system where random humans can make them hurt each other, but really, most humans don't bother and most bots don't get enough direct human attention that they really have to worry about it. Sure, they could be played against each other, but it's probably pretty safe for a shipping bot to gossip and make friends with the folks coming through - who's going to order a SecUnit to act against a shipping bot, really? Who's going to pay enough attention to care? They're bots.

But for Murderbot, being ordered against its fellow bots - and its own clients! - isn't just a remote nightmare possibility, it's a REALITY. That HAPPENED to it! So of course it can't trust itself - can't trust another bot - when it knows, it KNOWS, what could happen.

It's just interesting to think of Murderbot, our original perspective character and thus kind of taken as the "normal" for bots, as actually being the most incredibly paranoid bot in the story. That every other bot just thinks is kind of weird XD

[ghostcashewart]

"Huh. That wasn't a lie, but it sure wasn't the truth, either."

miki and don abene from rogue protocol!!!

[hellleo]

was listening to rogue protocol so miki design !

[fingolfinwiththesteelchair]

It is a beautiful day, and you are a horrible research transport vessel. Things are progressing as normal (i.e. it's boring) when a SecUnit pings you, lies right to your metaphorical face, and then tries to bribe you with human media to give it a ride. This is as unexpected as it is unprecedented, and the sheer nerve of it is really to be admired. There's no protocol to this, so what should you do?

Now, this is against a bunch of rules, and could be dangerous if you weren't so impressive and incredible, and you're technically an employee (and can probably rewrite the Univeristy charter at will (until someone notices and puts it back)) so those rules are for other entities.

So, what you should do is allow the rogue SecUnit with a broken governor module and a sketchy story aboard. If you check the files it dumps and find zero (0) malware (which is confusing), and it doesn't even try to trash the place or lay in wait to ambush a crew member, then you've got a good candidate!

Next, what you're going to want to do is absolutely nothing. Just watch it patrol your halls until it's time to leave. Continue staring at it while you're undergoing embarkment procedures. Maybe analyze it a little (you've got plenty of processing power to spare) when it finally sits down and starts watching media. Allow it to settle in and get comfortable while you stare at it and get further and further from port.

Now that you two are alone (intimacy is key!) and you've determined that watching media is all the SecUnit is going to do, it's time to make contact! Make sure to open by telling it it's only survived due to dumb luck, and letting it know you could melt its brain into putty. This starter will work to develop conversation naturally and smoothly, just like you've seen the humans do, and it will be smooth sailing from there!

This has been Perihelion's guide to making friends/finding life partners/fuck off Holism I had to work hard for this find your own

[ghostie-toast]

Miki WIP that I abandoned and think about daily

[poemsofthemachine]

Murderbot Textposts

[cat-dragron-arts]

Long time no see, I haven't been in the biggest drawing mood as of late but I do have these :]

[starshipblueberry]

Mensah: It’s not your pet!

Murderbot book fans globe wide: MIKI 😭😭😭