[ The... frankly ridiculous amount of contact is soothing the part of the strange compulsion to be close, physically. This is not a need Murderbot usually experiences; honestly, it usually prefers the exact opposite.
There's another component, this... fondness. It's a little like what it feels about ART, except ART is a massive ship's too-smart bot-pilot, for lack of anything that can actually describe it.
And despite how nearly-incomprehensibly powerful the damn thing is, Murderbot has, in fact, still murdered the ever living shit out of some people who'd hurt it, before.
It's feeling similarly about Castiel, right now. Like if someone harms this person, it's going to enjoy ripping their limbs off one by one.
Now, protectiveness over humans? Weirdly normal for Murderbot. Even humans it just met. No, it doesn't understand it either.
But this degree? It's making its performance reliability sink just considering what sort of bullshit might befall this guy here, in this weird-ass party full of what it can only assume to be rampant alien remnant contamination. And contamination isn't something Murderbot can just... kill the shit out of. Or even protect anyone from.
It may even be a vector itself, by now. It could be contaminating Castiel even as it considers the danger.
ℙ𝕖𝕣𝕗𝕠𝕣𝕞𝕒𝕟𝕔𝕖 𝕣𝕖𝕝𝕚𝕒𝕓𝕚𝕝𝕚𝕥𝕪 𝟞𝟚 𝕡𝕖𝕣𝕔𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕕𝕣𝕠𝕡𝕡𝕚𝕟𝕘.
This is not good. Murderbot has no idea how to process panic that it can't do a damn thing about, and it's sending its whole system into a tailspin. ]
I am-- emergency shutdown.
[ Time to warn its... person, though its ability to process outgoing speech is breaking up. ]
I will-- limp for-- minutes. Just let-- drop. Heavy.
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There's another component, this... fondness. It's a little like what it feels about ART, except ART is a massive ship's too-smart bot-pilot, for lack of anything that can actually describe it.
And despite how nearly-incomprehensibly powerful the damn thing is, Murderbot has, in fact, still murdered the ever living shit out of some people who'd hurt it, before.
It's feeling similarly about Castiel, right now. Like if someone harms this person, it's going to enjoy ripping their limbs off one by one.
Now, protectiveness over humans? Weirdly normal for Murderbot. Even humans it just met. No, it doesn't understand it either.
But this degree? It's making its performance reliability sink just considering what sort of bullshit might befall this guy here, in this weird-ass party full of what it can only assume to be rampant alien remnant contamination. And contamination isn't something Murderbot can just... kill the shit out of. Or even protect anyone from.
It may even be a vector itself, by now. It could be contaminating Castiel even as it considers the danger.
ℙ𝕖𝕣𝕗𝕠𝕣𝕞𝕒𝕟𝕔𝕖 𝕣𝕖𝕝𝕚𝕒𝕓𝕚𝕝𝕚𝕥𝕪 𝟞𝟚 𝕡𝕖𝕣𝕔𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕕𝕣𝕠𝕡𝕡𝕚𝕟𝕘.
This is not good. Murderbot has no idea how to process panic that it can't do a damn thing about, and it's sending its whole system into a tailspin. ]
I am-- emergency shutdown.
[ Time to warn its... person, though its ability to process outgoing speech is breaking up. ]
I will-- limp for-- minutes. Just let-- drop. Heavy.