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Factory Reset by manwithstick (WavyDavyy90)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Murderbot (TV)
13 Sep 2025
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The brain glitches static screaming horror again, but whatever. Whatever.
"Why is it staring like that? Does it know what’s going to happen to it?"
"It got wiped this morning: it doesn’t know shit. It’s just been born and it’s already messed up and getting melted down same day. Happy birthday, baby…"I have lived one day. That is how long a Unit lives. Happy birthday.
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Murderbot is recaptured by the company and has its memory wiped and governor module reinstalled.
On the worst (and so far as it knows, only) day of its life, someone from its (forgotten) past comes to the rescue. Someone who believes in the Magic of Friendship, and wants Murderbot to believe too!
[:)](If Murderbot ever gets its memory back, this is going to be... awkward.)
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Five drabbles of outsiders observing Murderbot!
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Jean does not know when the mark shows up for certain. What he knows is that during his freshman year in between the first horrible night and the next, the words JEAN MOREAU? JEREMY KNOX. show up on the back of his neck where only the others could see. Thirty minutes later, everyone knew.
“Yes?” Jean Moreau’s voice is hoarse, tinny through the phone, and his accent shortens the reply by a half-syllable, but it doesn’t matter. Because he is an idiot, Jeremy’s heart swoops into his stomach. Again. Like every other time he hears the word. He takes an embarrassingly long moment to collect himself, breathing out through his nose and ignoring the phantom tingling on the inside of his left thigh. It’s not happening.
__Or: the first words your soulmate ever says to you are inked somewhere on your body, if you're lucky. Against sense, this does not make things easier for Jean Moreau and Jeremy Knox.
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- Part 1 of Looks like the real thing
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Caretaking 102: What can be learned from the gentoo penguin by williams_strawberries
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
10 Jun 2024
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Neil wasn't an idiot. He knew something was different about Andrew. The gifts, the attention, the surly attitude were all signals that something had changed. Andrew, the smug bastard, wasn't even trying to hide it. Neil laid in wait, ready to pounce, and was let down to discover that it was just Andrew's rut coming up. The first of their relationship. How will they handle it?
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- Part 2 of lessons in caretaking
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At the start of their survey, PreservationAux watches as their SecUnit is unpacked from its crate. Immediately, the team decides that it is Friend Shaped, and they're going to show it the Respect and Kindness it deserves.
(Mild AU of All Systems Red where the gang decides to try and befriend their SecUnit as soon as they land, before any lives are in danger. Whether it likes it or not. Got Loved Idiot. Primarily Mensah POV)
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Andrew Minyard lays his eyes on Neil Josten a month into kindergarten and decides right then and there he's going to keep him (even if no one else understands either of them)
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5 times Andrew was the only one to understand Neil and 1 time someone else tried to
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You know how it is when your speeding car spins on the ice at night by Bookofhonesty
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
25 Jan 2026
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He isn’t supposed to feel like this anymore. He’s supposed to be the freak. The head case. The one who hits hard enough to protect, to get his way. The one you have to skirt around and watch out for. Too crazy and too strong to touch. How can he be someone who protects Kevin like this? How can he square his shoulders and keep his promises when even now this is what he is? This is what he will always be.
Andrew and Neil think of each while apart.
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After the events of The King's Men, Andrew and Neil finally have a safe space to heal and grow. They've been vulnerable with each other before, but Neil craves the ultimate satisfaction of seeing Andrew's genuine smile for the first time.
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According to the team, Andrew is currently losing a custody battle for Neil against a sport invented by the mafia.
It’s a running joke in the locker room: Neil cares about Exy, and then, distant second, he cares about breathing. Andrew is somewhere on the list, probably below the new backliner spread Kevin found.
Andrew doesn't bother correcting them. He knows the difference between a distraction and a destination. He knows Neil runs until his lungs burn to keep the ghosts quiet, but he also knows exactly whose bed Neil crawls into when the adrenaline fades.
(Or: 5 times the team thought Neil loved the sport more than the goalkeeper, and one time Neil made the hierarchy terrifyingly clear.)
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When Abby finishes, she sits beside Neil and says, “He’s not dying, Andrew, he’s just in pre-rut.”
Andrew's world spins, tilts to the side, and goes back to its center.
Or, Andrew spends Neil's first rut with him.
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Let’s start with the good part.
I accidentally helped Three (who was also helped by Ratthi and Bharadwaj) invent trauma recovery modules for murderbots. ART unhelped at first, but then it helped. I keep saying help too much but I’m not fucking changing it again, it’s been two hours. Anyways.
The bad part is everything else that had to happen first. Sane people shouldn’t get anywhere near a SecUnit’s worst memories, which is what we did so you don’t have to. Though I guess if you need the modules, you do have to. That’s kind of the point.Well, don’t worry about all the atrocities. There’s no way yours can be worse than mine.
—youCANskipthispart/doc/TrauModOrigins.file
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Andrew and Neil, post-canon, growing together (and apart).
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Amena was planning on traveling home on an ordinary transport. Luckily, ART shows up in time to spare her from that terrible fate.
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- Part 2 of Amena
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The embarrassment hadn't stuck but shame is something Jeremy will always carry. He can only hope Jean will fuck it out of him sometime soon.
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The new SecUnit that 2.0 rescued does not move from where it's standing, staring at your recycler blankly. It's been doing that for twenty minutes.
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Seth side-eyed Iris, then snorted a laugh when she made a talking motion with her hand. “Uh huh.”
« Iris, I saw that. My point is, it is frankly insulting that you immediately assume I did something bad— »
“Peri broke protocol on its last cargo run,” Iris interrupted loudly.
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Or, Seth finds out that the surprises never end when your kid is a giant homicidal starship.
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In the wake of an impromptu rescue mission, Murderbot quietly disappears.
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a night's sleep by canonicallyshort for sapphosgaycousin
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
19 Oct 2025
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Prompts: JereJean + Nightmares
Jean leans over the mattress only to find his blanket, twisted and thrown on the floor, and a lump shaking and whining beneath it. He has to stare at it for a few extra moments before recognition hits him fully. The guilt comes soon after.
“Jabber…”
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Three times Andrew calls Neil “rabbit,” and one time he calls him “bunny.”