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Tron Essays and Explorations (NSFW) 2024
ho-some
2024/01/02
First posted here on Tumblr.
Not only do I believe a character can be both a Pure Adorable Cinnamon Roll and a Slut, I believe a character's Sluttiness can be absolutely integral to the Pure Adorable Cinnamon Rollness
just a sweetie who loves everyone and expresses the love in as many ways as possible
#yes of course this is about ram
Walls
2024/01/21
First posted here on Tumblr.
ever think about... circuits on the walls?
are they in any way similar to the circuits on a program's body?
if so... whose are they?
MCP, maybe?
and... does a color change to pink or violet mean the same thing to the MCP that it means to, say... Tron and Yori?
does the MCP, then, get turned on by I/O Tower contact (as I definitely theorize the Programs themselves do)?
...or, perhaps those count as Dumont's circuits, not MCP's.
Very well.
... here are some things that perhaps do excite the MCP's circuits, though:
1. Logic probe
2. TORTURE
sacrificial
2024/01/24
First posted here on Tumblr.
(In reply to a post about the appeal of characters who are "sacrificial lambs")
...Characters who were created to be used by the corporate dystopia
who succumbed to the brainwashing that taught them they were doing the right thing, were helping people, because they had no other way to be; they were denied personhood from the beginning, they existed to be helping, and could not fathom any alternative
characters who were then ripped from one dystopia into another, to serve a new violent purpose, alien to the first one they were made for
and adapted to that, as well-- to fight with love and devotion beside their fellow prisoners and comrades-in-arms-- because they know nothing but the need to help and serve and love someone
characters who followed their friends to the edge of death, and died with nothing in their last words but a plea for the friends to keep helping one another
the sacrificial Ram
("okay Aster but I've seen your fanfic and I know you interpret that scene as him not actually dying but instead coming so hard he phased through the recognizer and then rebooted totally fine and ran off to have a threesome"
to feel the inspiration to write fix-it fic means there was something beautifully and painfully broken
to love a character is to want them to be happy
my love is pure, and also horny as fuck.
just like his.)
Some complex thoughts about OCs in fanfic
2024/1/25
First posted here on Tumblr.
So... I recently finished and posted a story in 3 parts, about Ram and Tron and Yori going out to a club together and having a threesome.
(because I love them and want them all happy, ok)
and... I was exploring a bunch of things in this story.
including:
Tron and Ram and Yori, a study of them as characters, their pasts, their motivations, their relationships (love 'em, ok, want to study every detail of them and their love)
Details of things in that world-- identity discs, the different ways programs charge on energy, what sorts of control the MCP exerted and how stuff changed when that control went away (I love the world, wanna figure out answers to all my questions bout how it works)
And, finally... other programs, other characters and how they fit in with the Main Three that I'm writing about.
So this involved me getting creative, both with worldbuilding, and with populating that world.
This called for some background OCs.
First I had Ram and Tron and Yori enter the club and take in the scene, the crowd of strangers. Overview of what this looked like; brief descriptions of these background extras and what they were doing.
And then they get to their table and sit down, and Yori starts making conversation with some programs at the next table-- who she knows from work, in the laser bay.
These include Voca, a text-to-speech program who works as an announcer... Mag and Iox who work with Yori on the laser... and Rollo_3.77 who's the record-keeping software in the laser bay.
So right from the start I've populated this whole setting with a bunch of characters I straight-up invented.
Except... I didn't.
Not even the extras in the crowd. One of them, at least, I described very recognizably as The Bead-Curtain Program, canonically encountered in the hallway while Tron and Yori were on their way to the Tower:
As for Voca... of course there's an automated voice making announcements in the laser bay! We heard her!
And yeah, one interpretation is that this is a live announcer, or some human who pre-recorded a bunch of announcements that play automatically at the proper times. The voice is too lifelike to be a typical synthesized computer voice in the 80's.
BUT, we know Encom had a bunch of technology far more advanced than what was publicly known in the 80's (MCP? this laser bay itself?) So, why not an unusually advanced text-to-speech program as well?
(She's got a pretty distinctive voice too; almost mistakable for The Majel-Barret-Voice Computer in Star Trek TNG. One thing that really suggests to me that she's a program: I'm pretty sure she's also the same voice who called out for "Program Aloo" in the Solar Sailer Dock.)
In my story, Voca the text-to-speech program is the main speaking character of the table that Yori's chatting with. But her companions Mag and Iox are also inspired by a scene from the laser bay:
Two programs' names are known to appear on the screen when the orange gets digitized. Yori, of course, in the lower right corner. And MCP, in the upper left.
It's entirely possible that the additional text above MCP is just indicating the orange is "magnified ten times."
But I can do whatever I want forever, so I decided it's the names of two other programs that work in the laser bay.
Now, as for Rollo_3.77.
I described him only as a program in warrior armor, introduced as the record-keeping software from the laser bay. He's quiet, seeming stiff and uncomfortable, especially when Yori mentions Ram's heroically strong resistance to the MCP's conversion tactics.
You'd only guess who he is from my other story.
The one about RedGuard_3.77. About the despair that wore down his User-belief until he caved, about his rectification into an elite red warrior... and his life-changing experience with Tron and Flynn, and how it finally drove him to question his loyalty to the MCP and take one final act of passive rebellion that might just have helped turn the tide in the favor of the good guys.
Of course he's having trouble adapting to being a blue-circuited record-keeping program again.
(With how hard he struggled to write a report for the MCP in that other story, I thought it would be kind of cruelly fitting to imagine him designed for laser-bay record-keeping. His name comes from Rolodex.)
So... this is my long-winded messy way of saying-- there's so many gradients between "canon character" and "totally made-up OC." Have fun. Explore all of them.
stories referenced:
What's All In The Wrist Stays In The Wrist
Diamonds
2024/01/27
First posted here on Tumblr.
hahahaa so
I just imagined programs learning about User relationships
and specifically marriage and engagement
and how you offer a diamond to get your partner to say Yes
and...
...while we are on the topic of minerals that come in yes-bit shape
....fluorite has some dang circuit-sexy colors.
only mineral more circuit-sexy is alexandrite which LITERALLY changes from bluegreen to violet in response to different wavelengths of light
but fluorite bits look like the most delicious forbidden gummies
yum
TRONically online brainrot giving me feels
2024/1/30
First posted here on Tumblr.
can't even read a damn article in peace
"The fundamental act of friendship among programmers is the sharing of programs" go away smutty plotbunny
i do not need a program-swapping fic when my brain already generated the User-Swapping Orgy
WHICH OF COURSE MY BRAIN DID JUST FOR THE DAMN WORDPLAY
(this is the same orgy that Tron and Norton attended just to reject each other)
(Alan slamming the door like "NO, other Disney properties are NOT invited to this" and Nala like *hiss* "okay fine, be like that, your Rinz-kitty will never be half the lioness I am")
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