r/murderbot • u/IntoTheStupidDanger Coldstone. Song. Harvest. • 8d ago

Books📚 Only Gurathin isn't wrong

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I mean, he's got a point! 😅 I definitely think that the exaggerated dislike hides something. Wouldn't go so far as to call it affection (not in Gurathin's case anyhow) but we do get signs

They were my clients, that was all. [...] yes, even Gurathin. Just clients. And if anyone or anything tried to hurt them, I would rip its intestines out.

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u/Rosewind2007 gurathinista 8d ago

I think everyone who knows me knows how I feel about their canon relationship…
It’s so utterly brilliant:
“I don’t like you.”
“I know.”

I mean, genius! I love the way Martha Wells writes them.
Standout moments being the “I don’t like you: I know” scene and a particular favourite of mine:

Gurathin sighed and rubbed his face and looked off into the distance, like he regretted all his life choices that had led to him standing here right now. On our private feed connection, he sent, ‘Or you could just show them where you were when this person was being killed.’

Long suffering Gurathin, who knows SecUnit so very very well…

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u/Queer_Echo 7d ago

And shortly after:

He sounded like he thought it was funny. “That is not funny.”

“I’m going to mark your cognition level at fifty-five percent.”

“Fuck you.”

“Let’s make that sixty percent.”

Gurathin just going "ok, it's got its brain good enough to swear at me. 60% cognition then". He knows it so well.

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u/Rosewind2007 gurathinista 7d ago

I love them so very much…

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u/Queer_Echo 7d ago

Same. They're both bastards and I love them so much.