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2023 Aspec Murderbot Diaries
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2023-04-28
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[Fanart] Many-Colored Strings

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Fanart for the Aspec TMBD event, for a prompt about making traditional soulmate AUs non-romantic.

Murderbot may not know it yet, but so many people who care about it are fated to cross its path.

Notes:

Inspired by this amazing artwork depicting different colored strings of fate besides red. There’s something so emotional about imagining that Murderbot was meant to meet so many people who care about it…and realizing that most of the SecUnits it served alongside would never have had that chance 😭

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A digital drawing, mostly in grayscale. A row of armored SecUnits stands against a plain wall. There is a red letter C for the company logo on each of their chests. Murderbot is in the center, indistinguishable from the other secunits except by the tangle of colorful strings hanging from its left hand. Eight strings in many different bright colors (excluding red) pool on the floor and trail off the right edge of the drawing, and a single dark blue string trails off to the left. The drawing is signed lovedthestars.

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Notes:

This art is on my Tumblr, too! You can find it here (and feel free to say hi!)