Murderbot, Mensah, and Maternal Relationships
Two people said they'd read this if I wrote it and that was more than enough to convince me so let's talk about Murderbot's relationship with Mensah. (Also planning to do these at least on ART, Ratthi, and Amena, along with personal headcanons on Gurathin. I can't get Murderbot out of my head.) I often, not really as a joke, refer to Mensah as Murderbot's "mom." Murderbot, of course, refers to her as its "favorite human" at the end of All Systems Red, while explaining why it left. I think it would be absolutely baffled by the idea of a familial relationship with any human, and it's not like Mensah raised it or anything. But I stand by my assessment that Mensah's relationship with Murderbot is that of a mother figure to an adult child. My reasoning: First, when she was planning to bring Murderbot to Preservation initially, Mensah was focused on the educational opportunities it would have. It is a very maternal view, in my opinion, to focus