is fascinating to me

(as a linguist and someone who, on all levels except physical, is a pattern recognition program)

…how the name Rinzler gets used in fandom

specifically how it seems to get broken up into prefix and suffix

when we talk about the duality of Tron and Rinzler, of course, we speak of Tronzler, which I suppose makes the same sort of sense that portmanteau ship-names do

(and wouldn’t it be interesting to imagine that it is a ship-name! that Tron and Rinzler are two personalities sharing a body and having a deeply toxic enemies-to-lovers-and-back-to-enemies romance in there)

but the direction fandom seems to go from there… is very intriguing

i.e. when we imagine scenarios where the same rectification process happens to Beck, we say Beckzler

I have also seen a few mentions of Ramzler, and even Flynnzler

the linguistic split seems to be the development of suffix -zler

…indicating rectification to that which came before

now

if we were to picture an in-universe, Watsonian instead of Doylist history for this same etymology.

if the -zler suffix meant in canon what it has come to mean in fandom

we would have to find explanations for some things

like: why was the result of rectification to Tron originally called Rinzler, and not Tronzler

one possibility: Tron was an experimental case, in which another previously rectified program was merged with him

this program was the original Rinzler

who was made from a program called Rin

but…

as this is my own brain

and an exercise in utterly ridiculous pattern recognition…

i am not going to simply make up this character

…I am going to ask a search engine who Rin is

and go with the first result I get

and perhaps

perhaps, perhaps the life story of Rin, the origin of Rinzler, may give some hints

to what are the defining characteristics of a “zler” type rectification

here goes

ALT

…

…fuck