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  System Bonds by verersatz

  Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Gen
  • Complete Work

  24 Dec 2022

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries) & Original Character(s)
  • Murderbot & SecUnit 3 (Murderbot Diaries)
  • Asshole Research Transport & Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries)
  • Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries)
  • Original SecUnit Character(s) (Murderbot Diaries)
  • Original Characters
  • Asshole Research Transport (Murderbot Diaries)
  • SecUnit 3 (Murderbot Diaries)
  • Post-Book 5: Network Effect
  • Canon Compliant
  • Canon-Typical Violence
  • Canon-typical swearing
  • Murderbot has PTSD
  • Canon-typical cruelty to SecUnits
  • Murderbot has various feelings and doesn't like it
  • ART and 3 are in this but not the central focus
  • Governor Modules (Murderbot Diaries)
  • Murderbot is having a bad time
  • angst and messy emotions
  • construct relationships (no shipping)
  • tried not to make this TOO depressing but perhaps bittersweet?

  Summary

  While traveling together post-NE, ART and Murderbot stumble across concerning traces of an old familiar enemy. Murderbot sets off to investigate and finds itself trapped, held hostage by a mysterious augmented human with no idea where it is, why, and how it's going to get out of this. To make things worse, it's supposed to deal with having emotions about things on top of all this? Real things, not just Sanctuary Moon? Ugh.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  25,370

  Chapters:

  6/6

  Comments:

  107

  Kudos:

  295

  Bookmarks:

  63

  Hits:

  2,883

  Bookmarked by molecular_machine

  26 May 2026

  Bookmarker's Tags:

  • Eir

  Bookmarker's Collections:

  • Everything I've read starting 11/1/24

  Bookmarker's Notes

  Longfic to hopefully read