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You are done running, but your journey isn't complete just yet. A character study of the Sleeper at the end of Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector.
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A Promise Kept by TheGoldenHalla
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age (Comics), Dragon Age - Various Authors
18 Nov 2024
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“It wasn’t darkspawn, that much Evka knew. Her blood flowed leisurely through her veins, hushed if not completely silent. If the creatures were still lurking about it would be singing an aria. Certainly it wasn’t the brave servant boy; he would have succumbed days ago. Someone else was here. Sick, maybe.”
A tale of Antoine and Evka’s harrowing first encounter, in which an oath to an old companion is honored against all odds.
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28 Jul 2025
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Closed Loop System by One_of_Them (greenbean_paste)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
29 Jun 2025
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Unit Communication Log:
SecUnit Two: Atmospheric conditions optimal.
SecUnit One: ...
SecUnit One: Indeed.- Language:
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Bookmarked by regularturtle
19 Jul 2025
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It seems like there should be a very neat line, at least for humans, between dead and not dead, but I’ve seen enough messy half-alive humans to know that there is no such clear distinction. I’ve seen bodies that were still breathing despite missing part of their heads, bodies that weren’t breathing despite their owners being fully conscious. I wouldn’t call either option alive. I wouldn’t call either option dead, either.
For a machine intelligence, the border is even blurrier. It's hard to say which side of it I will stand on when they're through with me.
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My performance reliability dropped but the spike of fear upped my reaction time, and my body moved before I consciously realized that it wasn’t going to work.
I swung at TargetContact with my improvised club, but the force I put into the swing made my wrecked knee joint give out, and the blow only grazed it. I hit the floor again, and TargetContact was on top of me.
Turns out, I was right that this was going to be worse. I just had no idea exactly how much worse.
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Things go a lot worse for Murderbot at the end of Network Effect before they get better. This changes a good number of things, but maybe not anything that really matters. Like how far the people that love it are willing to go for its sake.
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17 May 2025
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How old is SecUnit? I field hesitantly.
Perihelion remains silent for another fifteen seconds.
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13 May 2025