I feel like my interpretation of Murderbot is that even as it does struggle with being a person, the fact that it is not *human* remains very important to it, so I imagine "it" would continue to be its favored pronoun. Though I think that the idea of something/someone being both an object and a person is a definite ongoing theme. It'll be interesting to me to see how it continues to be explored in the series!

But right? (I feel like it is not a coincidence that the people I've seen wanting Murderbot to be assigned a binary pronoun all seem to think it should be a "him.") But I deeply appreciate the inclusion of so many non-binary human characters, whether they use they/them, neopronouns, or are considered a specific third gender.

My sibling was the one that told me Martha Wells has a background in anthropology, which I hadn't previously known, but definitely made sense to learn, haha.