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scificrows:

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.

A pie-chart titled "Instances in which Murderbot calls other characters its friends". Data: ART: 8 Bots/Drones/Systems: 5 Ratthi: 3 PresAux Crew (in general): 2 Mensah: 2 Gurathin: 1 Next to the chart is the picture of Murderbot in full armor from the Latvian copy of All Systems Red by Andis Reinbergs. There is a speech bubble next to its helmet that says "frend" with a heart emoticon.ALT
A pie-chart titled "Instances in which other characters call Murderbot their Friend". Data: ART: 2 Miki: 7 Mensah: 2 Thiago: 2 Overse: 1 Next to the chart is the picture of Murderbot in full armor from the Latvian copy of All Systems Red by Andis Reinbergs. There is a speech bubble on its left (coming from "off stage") that says "frend" with a heart emoticon.ALT
A pie-chart titled "Instances in which Murderbot states other characters are not/can not be its friends". Data: ART: 1 Miki: 2 Other SecUnits: 1 SecUnit Three: 1 Next to the chart is the picture of Murderbot in full armor from the Latvian copy of All Systems Red by Andis Reinbergs. There is a speech bubble next to its helmet with a big red "x" cross mark.ALT

Some Thoughts™ I had while putting this together (under the cut):

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