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My two favorite things about the Murderbot Diaries are:
a) the way Murderbot gets so pissed off at ART largely because ART does exactly the same kind of thing as it (prioritizes its humans above all else, uses its weapons and abilities to make a point when necessary, tells the truth bluntly) but to it, and because it's better at interacting with humans, or acts a bit more like a human, and
b) Murderbot is soooo traumatized and everyone cares about it soooo much and it hates that. I'm always like "🥺🥺🥺 you poor baby," when it has a panic attack or is so upset it can't make eye contact, and I know if it saw me doing that it would be furious. The ultimate woobie.
Actually, b) ties into a) because another part of the tension between ART and Murderbot is that ART isn't particularly traumatized. I think Murderbot is aware on some level (despite being in denial about its own trauma) that ART has a certain amount of self-confidence/self-esteem due to having been valued pretty highly, not being forced to kill and fight constantly for a company, not being continuously rented out to new people who treated it as expendable, etc. and as a result isn't carrying that weight or feeling that tension all the time.
a) the way Murderbot gets so pissed off at ART largely because ART does exactly the same kind of thing as it (prioritizes its humans above all else, uses its weapons and abilities to make a point when necessary, tells the truth bluntly) but to it, and because it's better at interacting with humans, or acts a bit more like a human, and
b) Murderbot is soooo traumatized and everyone cares about it soooo much and it hates that. I'm always like "🥺🥺🥺 you poor baby," when it has a panic attack or is so upset it can't make eye contact, and I know if it saw me doing that it would be furious. The ultimate woobie.
Actually, b) ties into a) because another part of the tension between ART and Murderbot is that ART isn't particularly traumatized. I think Murderbot is aware on some level (despite being in denial about its own trauma) that ART has a certain amount of self-confidence/self-esteem due to having been valued pretty highly, not being forced to kill and fight constantly for a company, not being continuously rented out to new people who treated it as expendable, etc. and as a result isn't carrying that weight or feeling that tension all the time.
