astercontrol:

Just so you know

When I go looking for a canon detail

And it turns out not to exist

Like so


Aster: omg I am only trying to fiind out whether Ram has a "full" designation (like the TRON-JA-307020 that Tron has) but I am NEVER going to trust any website owned by Disney as an authority on ITS OWN characters on their page for TRON and they are more ready to claim that his allies include the entire cast of THE BRAVE LITTLE TOASTER than to even MENTION RAM Image is Ram just included under "Blue Programs" HE DESERVED BETTER Bowie: NOOOO BLUE PROGRAMS WHAT :saddesteyesonthegrid: I don't think he has a fancy designation, it's time to make up your own!ALT


And I have to make it up myself

Remember

When you send a pattern recognition program to do the job of a random number generator program


You will get PATTERNS

Not RANDOM NUMBERS


I did it– gave Ram a name in my latest I/O Tower fic

Input and Output (From Beta To Release) - big-overload-little-derez (tiliquain) - Tron (Movies) [Archive of Our Own]

Yes I know my name. RAM-JWHJ-0715ALT


…and no. I did NOT totally make the name up.

because guess what, i am NOT a random number generator

and i don’t KNOW HOW to do that


Matteo Jwhj 0715


We know the universe of Tron has slightly different history from our own, when it comes to the release of various works of entertainment.


(This is evident in the Legacy mention of TRON and Space Paranoids being among the most popular games in existence– implying that certain other RL games either never existed, or were released much later.)


So there’s ample reason to theorize that Goncharov (1973) was, in fact, released in the Tron universe

(nearly a decade prior to the events of TRON 1982).


We also have hints that programs written by ENCOM programmers follow a certain naming convention, with a short version of the name followed by a string of eight letters and numbers

(Tron’s is JA307020).


Presuming that this is simply to help distinguish it from other similarly named programs– and that the programmer has some say in choosing this extended name–


I find it plausible that Roy Kleinberg would have chosen JWHJ0715 in homage to the Goncharov co-director

(an admirable figure, both in his outspoken opposition to the Nazis and his bisexuality and support of LGBTQ rights)


Unfortunately, Ram’s life wound up following in a path that eerily echoed his namesake:


(At least as far as any of us know. Like his namesake, many details of Ram’s life are shrouded in mystery.)

(Further works in the I/O Tower series will explore aspects of that life that may *not* have been quite what they seemed onscreen.)

omg

cannot stop thinking about this

what if Tetris and Goncharov are switched

tetris existed in our universe but not in Tron’s

goncharov existed in their universe but not in ours

“flynn why’d you put that T-shape with the four squares on that character in the Tron game. Is this ANOTHER one of your allusions to that dumb meme about that made-up ‘Tetris’ game”

“nah man! that’s just how his suit looked when I SAW him. And Tetris is real in my heart, man”

“that whole meme makes no damn sense, flynn. like if there ever was a game that cool, it wouldn’t be lost media, and Space Paranoids would never have been *nearly* the most popular game, it would’ve been overshadowed by Tetris right away. if you’re gonna commit to a bit about a game that never existed, at LEAST TikTok and their 'pokemon’ version makes some logical sense”

“YOU TAKE THAT BACK”

(goes off in a huff to invent Tetris. but in 2009. it never catches on, except as a very niche cult thing; the right time for it has passed)