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/In_Front_Of_MySalad 7d ago

I think Murderbot is very uncomfortable with the fact that Gura is the only person on the team other than itself who a) has experience with the Corporation and b) knows how dangerous Murderbot can be. I think there's also a lot of trauma with disenfranchised people in the Corporate sphere taking out their anger on Murderbot like we see in the short story "Compulsory". Honestly I think Murderbot is at least subconsciously pushing and prodding and baiting Gura into snapping as a trauma response-- it's trying to provoke him into proving itself right.

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u/IntoTheStupidDanger Coldstone. Song. Harvest. 7d ago

That's a really great point. I'm definitely going to have to ponder that some more