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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.

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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