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[ID: Digital illustration in color of Vash and Wolfwood from Trigun Maximum. It’s two 3 panel comics that illustrates the same sequence. The first focuses on Vash. In the first panel, he’s in a hurried motion with a worried expression. In the second, he’s stopped, huffing a breath out as he’s scanning for Wolfwood (not pictured). In the final panel, he breaks out into a relieved smile, eyes lighting up with warm cheeks.
The second comic focuses on Wolfwood. In the first panel, he’s looking downwards to the right with a cigarette in his mouth, wearing a neutral expression. On his face are notable scratch marks to indicate him being in a fight prior. In the second panel, he turns towards the viewer, lifting his head as he notices Vash (as from the previous sequence). In the final panel, he smiles warmly with teeth and holds up a peace sign. END ID]
[ID: Sketchy black and white drawings of Vash and Wolfwood, continuing off the comic. Wolfwood’s back is to the viewer while Vash’s profile can be seen, now by Wolfwood’s side. He has a bright smile as he says to Wolfwood, “You’re safe!” Wolfwood responses, bearing a grin too, “Who do ya think yer talking to? ‘Course I am. Look, I got them alive.” He points to two figures who are tied up and have comically large head bumps. Vash looks to them with an uncertain expression as he says, “Oh! You did, huh… Are you sure they’re alive?” Wolfwood, with a more irritated expression, responds “What, didn’t think I could do it?” Vash says, “No, no! I knew you could!” and pats Wolfwood on the cheek and his head comfortingly. END ID]
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Okay, my brain refuses to think about anything other than Murderbot, so I looked at every use of the word "friend[s]" in TMBD and... created some pie charts. Normal human activities.
Some Thoughts™ I had while putting this together (under the cut):
In All Systems Red, Murderbot notes that the PresAux crew are all close friends (twice! and goes on to explain their internal relationships which I think is very cute). This is pretty much the only use of 'friends' in ASR, except for when Murderbot says that SecUnits can't be friends with each other.
It seems that this may be one of the first times Murderbot has ever really been around a group of friends before? Murderbot notes that this is not the norm for its contracts and admits that the fact that they are all friends and the way they interact with each other make it actually enjoy that contract (before!!!! the hostile attack, so it already enjoys this contract before they start seeing it as a person etc ghghhhh). [Inference: Friendship seems enjoyable.]
The first character that calls Murderbot its friend is ART in Artificial Condition. Murderbot immediately refutes this (and then goes on to call ART its friend to its clients for the rest of the book). [Inference: Maybe ART is Murderbot's friend. And maybe that is... agreeable]
Rogue Protocol has more than twice as many instances of the word 'friend' as any of the other novellas. Why? Miki. Friendship and its implications for non-humans are a central theme because Miki is friends with everyone. Murderbot initially scoffs at the notion that Miki and Miki's humans are friends. At the end of the book, after witnessing how desperately Don Abene tried to stop Miki from trying to save them, and her grief after its death, Murderbot has to admit that she had in fact been Miki's friend. [Inference: Humans can be friends with bots and can sincerely care about them]
In Exit Strategy, Murderbot tentatively uses the word "friends" for its humans for the first time (several times actually). It questions whether it can actually call them its friends or not and later realizes that it had been afraid what admitting that the humans are its friends would do to it. At the end of the book, Mensah tells Murderbot the PresAux crew are its friends, which is the first time a human has directly said that to it (at least on-page). [Inference: Humans can and want to be Murderbot's friends]
In Network Effect, Murderbot seems to be more habituated to the word 'friend', confidently calling ART and Ratthi its friends, like it is no longer just trying the concept on unsure if it fits. There are many instances in which other characters refer to MB as ART's friend or the other way around and Murderbot's humans refer to Murderbot as their friend several times. Generally, there seems to be less hesitancy, because yes, all of them are Murderbot's friends, why wouldn't they be. [Inference: SecUnits can have friends. This SecUnit has friends. They care about it a lot.]
Conclusion: The Murderbot Diaries tell the story of a construct that does not seem to consider the possibility of friendship for itself and is fine with that - until it accidentally starts caring a little too much and suddenly more and more people annex it as a friend (ew) to the point where it can no longer deny that this is happening and has to begrudgingly admit that yes, it has friends now and maybe that is actually not a bad thing.
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I for the life of me cannot find my og post but I shall take the concept and what I remember from it and make this one. So, snippets from that one au inspired by the Kwami from Miraculous Ladybug.
For context, Danny and Vlad are trapped in a necklace and bracelet (iirc) and are both just miniature versions of themselves, an eastern dragon and phoenix respectively.
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Vlad, standing on Lex Luthor's desk with his head raised and a haughty look in his eyes: If you, a mere human, wishes to use my power, you will have to prove yourself worthy of the barest dregs of its embers-
Lex Luthor: No.
Lex Luthor taps his bracelet and Vlad gets sucked back in, finally leaving Lex's office blissfully silent.
Meanwhile, in another city:
Danny, currently flying near Tim's head as he takes up a camera: Hey, hey kid. Wanna use my power?
Tim, currently checking over his camera: Would it help me keep up with Batman and Robin more easily?
Danny, blinking as he questions what the hell is a Batman and Robin in this context: Yes...?
Tim: Deal.
Danny, blinking once again as he thought 'Huh, well that was easy'.
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Lex Luthor, currently in an elevator minding his own business on his way to a shareholder meeting:
Vlad: Luthor.
Lex Luthor: What is it now.
Vlad: We need to go somewhere.
Lex Luthor, raises eyebrow: And that somewhere is?
Vlad: No time to explain but we need to go.
Lex Luthor, questioning how he ended up in this situation: You are aware I have an important shareholder meeting, yes?
Vlad: I know, and I don't care, you can always reschedule those things, but this is more important than that.
Lex Luthor: What could possibly be more important in your eyes?
Vlad, voice barely above a whisper: The Packers.
Lex Luthor:
Lex Luthor: No.
Vlad: You will not deny me this, I have been deprived of them for hundreds of years and I will not be denied the chance to watch them once again.
Lex Luthor: You say hundreds as they haven't been around for a century.
Vlad: Interdimensional time hijinks, not something someone like you would understand but that is besides the point. You will take me to the Packers game currently happening right this instant.
Lex Luthor, fixing his tie: I certainly have no incentive to do so.
Vlad: I will give you a portion of my power if you take me.
Lex Luthor:
Vlad:
Elevator:
Lex Luthor: Truly, a tempting offer-
Elevator: Opens
Lex Luthor, walking through the doors while tapping on his bracelet: -But no.
Meanwhile, in another city:
Danny: Kid, boy, child.
Tim: My name is Tim.
Danny: Right, yea, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim.
Tim, currently standing on the counter as he looked through the cupboard: Yea?
Danny: I saw an observatory while you were out looking for those Batman and Robin dudes.
Tim, taking out some ingredients and checking to see if they're still good: Go on.
Danny: Take me.
Tim: Sure.
Danny, flying loops in the air: Yes!
Tim: But after I finish cooking.
Danny:
Danny: Can't you just buy something on the way?
Tim: Yea but if I do these will go bad.
Danny: Fair.
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Cross x Dream but make it fairies
Soooo, art block has been hitting me over the head these last few months, soooo I revisited some old doodles of mine!
Simple auuuu but the two helped eachother escape from bounty hunters and they are on the run in there magical world.
In this au it might be that passive and corrupted nightmare are different people to, but we will see.
Hope you like itt
Original Dream by jokublog
Original cross jakei95
Also took some inspiration from level 20 Cross who I believe is by withtheworms
<3
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