Another NSFW Tronblr headcanon… ALAN BRADLEY IS A DIRTY LITTLE CIRCUIT-TEASE.

So, I’ve talked about this before, in relation to how I like to write Program sex scenes.

(Basically: scenes where Tron has no humanoid genitals, but does have that all-too-visible bulge… which is actually where his body keeps a transmitter/receiver for contact with the I/O Tower.)

Premise (for which I have a couple finished fics and a PILE of WIPs) goes like this:

Instead of humanoid sex organs, there’s a system of features involved in communication– which can have responses very much like sexual feelings.
(This of course includes circuits, which are for program-to-program signaling of things like emotional states, as well as being erogenous zones)
But the “I/O transmitter” is for communication with Users. It becomes sensitized in response to a Call from the outside world.
The call feels a lot like arousal.
(Think of Tron making all those pornographic moaning sounds while drinking from the Energy Spring, and then right afterward saying “Alan-1 calls me.”)

Tron, Ram and Flynn drinking from the Energy Spring in the 1982 TRON movie.

The Call can be received anywhere, but the I/O Tower is apparently the only place the Program can transmit back. So, ideally, the urge gets relieved by going to the I/O Tower to contact the User.
But I/O transmitters can also be touched for pleasure, by Programs together or alone.
(Just like how User sex organs evolved for reproduction, but can be stimulated in many non-reproductive ways.)

Soooo that’s how my headcanon goes, basically.

BUT just recently…

It grew a new layer.

My thoughts went back to THIS SCENE.

(Which is an integral part of that headcanon, LOL.)

Dumont asks: Who is your User, program? Tron replies, impatiently: Alan-1. He calls me. May I pass? Dumont begins to recite ritual words, and Tron assumes an odd ceremonial stance, hands clasped over his groin. Dumont continues: All that is visible must grow beyond itself, and extend into the realm of the invisible. You may pass, my friend.

Usually, when analyzing this scene, I focus on the ways it seems to be an echo of human energy– of the spirits of programmers (which is how Walter Gibbs would try to explain the formation of this world).

Specifically, when analyzing this scene I can’t help noting the influence of human sexual energy on the entire ritual.

(Dumont’s extremely phallic outfit.)

(Tron’s groin-clutching pose during the ritual words.)

But…

now I’m looking more closely at Tron’s face, and his utter, exhausted desperation when he tells Dumont that he’s being called.

He is so VERY out of patience.

Because… Alan has been edging him out of his mind.

Maybe for 200 fragging microcycles.

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And now that this has sunk in…. I have even MORE interpretations of The Deleted Love Scene: why it happened when it did… why Tron reacted the way he did during it… and what, indeed, did actually happen there.

For instance, maybe:

Yori tried to help take the edge off for him. But Tron wouldn’t let her go ‘all the way'… he insisted on saving that for his User, even if it drove him insane.
Or… She did go all the way but it was Not Enough. He’s still in pain from The Call, and only his User can satisfy it.
Or….He finally got some relief…. and then Alan called him AGAIN. AND AGAIN.

My guy can’t get a break.

(cries for him)

(But don’t worry, look how happy he is when he finally gets there. )

total blissed out smile on Tron standing in the light of the I/O Tower

(….Anyway, I now want to write ALL of this.)

(Including the follow-up story, about the first time Alan rezzes into the system and Tron confronts him like ALAN-1 do you have ANY IDEA what you have been DOING TO ME)

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