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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: It's blunt, cynical, and standoffish, but also extremely empathetic and compassionate. Murderbot would certainly object to an extent, but it tends to downplay or omit its more selfless actions.
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* ShrinkingViolet: It tends to prefer its own company, and is generally introverted and intensely private.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Murderbot, being part human, experiences trauma in similar ways a human would. Murderbot, being part robot, shows them in a different manner.
** When it had a flash of a semi-constructed/distorted memory of [[spoiler:the alien remnant contaminated human-machine operator eating its leg]], its performance reliability dropped so low in such a short amount of time it had an involuntary shut-down. The humans that saw it happen quickly recognized it as a shock reaction. A human would usually have a panic attack or freeze in place, but since Murderbot's performance reliability index is able to override its systems and shut it down, it did the construct-equivalent of fainting.
** The way it has split-second, involuntary re-starts every time it thinks of or remembers a traumatic event or memory, is akin to how humans dissociate when remembering (or trying to avoid remembering) traumatic experiences.
** When it had a flash of a semi-constructed/distorted memory of [[spoiler:the alien remnant contaminated human-machine operator eating its leg]], its performance reliability dropped so low in such a short amount of time it had an involuntary shut-down. The humans that saw it happen quickly recognized it as a shock reaction. A human would usually have a panic attack or freeze in place, but since Murderbot's performance reliability index is able to override its systems and shut it down, it did the construct-equivalent of fainting.
** The way it has split-second, involuntary re-starts every time it thinks of or remembers a traumatic event or memory, is akin to how humans dissociate when remembering (or trying to avoid remembering) traumatic experiences.
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* HypocriticalHumor: In ''Systems Collapse'', it's very aggravated when Ratthi, hiding from a hostile ag bot, says he's okay and Murderbot shouldn't worry, but repeatedly insists that it's okay itself despite [redacted] making it ''very not''. Later in the same book it notes that it hates when humans don't credit it for the hard work it does but that it also doesn't like when they thank it, and acknowledges that this doesn't make sense.
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* JerkassToOne: Its default is to be blunt and standoffish if it has to interact with humans, but it takes against Dr. Gurathin for his JerkassHasAPoint suspicion of him, and tends to be much ruder to him than other characters.
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* JerkassToOne: Its default is to be blunt and standoffish if it has to interact with humans, but it takes against Dr. Gurathin for his JerkassHasAPoint suspicion of him, suspicion, and tends to be much ruder to him than other characters.
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* GoodIsNotDumb: Described as a "terminal optimist" by others, but after nearly being murdered by [=GrayCris=] she takes up weapons training and becomes a good shot. Murderbot likes working with her, despite her cuddly tendencies, because she's his kind of smart.
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* GoodIsNotDumb: Described as a "terminal optimist" by others, but after nearly being murdered by [=GrayCris=] she takes up weapons training and becomes a good shot. Murderbot likes working with her, despite her cuddly tendencies, because she's his its kind of smart.
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* CultureClash: Encountering people from the Corporate Rim ''drastically'' shakes her worldview as she processes the sheer power of the corps and the very real threat they pose to her family. She's stunned by the fact that corporations would force them to pay out for a rescue and morally outraged that she'd have to claim to ''own'' Murderbot under those scnearios.
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* CultureClash: Encountering people from the Corporate Rim ''drastically'' shakes her worldview as she processes the sheer power of the corps and the very real threat they pose to her family. She's stunned by the fact that corporations would force them to pay out for a rescue and morally outraged that she'd have to claim to ''own'' Murderbot under those scnearios.scenarios.
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* JerkassToOne: Its default is to be blunt and standoffish if it has to interact with humans, but it takes against Dr. Gurathin for his JerkassHasAPoint suspicion of him, and tends to be much ruder to him than other characters.
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* ICannotSelfTerminate: In the first book, when it believes it's about to be forced to kill its humans - one of whom ''just'' went to great lengths to rescue it, something it was deeply impressed by - it tells them they have to kill it and shoots itself in the chest, rather than the head. It didn't really look forwards to dying and it knew this probably wouldn't kill it but ''would'' cause it to go offline and not have to listen when its humans invevitably agreed that there was no other way and killed it. Of course, they rescue it instead.
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* TheShrink: Awesome version. In ''System Collapse'', Murderbot makes frequent reference to offscreen discussions about mental health it's had with Dr. Bharadwaj that make clear Bharadwaj has been acting as Murderbot's therapist to some extent.
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* MentalHealthRecoveryArc: After its painful experiences in ''Network Effect'', much of ''System Collapse'' focuses on Murderbot getting hit with lingering traumatic effects.
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* MentalHealthRecoveryArc: After its painful experiences in ''Network Effect'', much of In ''System Collapse'' focuses on Collapse'', Murderbot getting hit begins suffering PTSD flashbacks that interfere with lingering traumatic effects.its job as a security specialist. This sends Murderbot's anxieties spiraling, because its professional competence as a [=SecUnit=] is so central to Murderbot's self-image. [[spoiler: The book ends with Murderbot feeling calmer after it didn't fail at its job and it accepted help and emotional support from its friends. Murderbot has also tentatively decided to seek out official trauma recovery treatment.]]
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* MentalHealthRecoveryArc: After its painful experiences in ''Network Effect'', much of ''System Collapse'' focuses on Murderbot getting hit with lingering traumatic effects.
