Program sense headcanons in Tron.
I have many so there’s a readmore
The existence of the slang terms ‘guardian colours’ and 'monitor colours’ in the same vein as shrimp colours. Guardian colours is for spacing out/having a spiritual experience while monitor colours is for having random anxiety/seeing something unsettling/'When you’re so tired you start seeing spiders’
Clu can sense major changes in
the forcethe Grid
*Yori stands near a spaceship* “This is taking too much processing power. Check for extra polygons”
Someone running through a crowd, and everyone senses the 'in a hurry’ signal and gets out of their way
Program 1: Program 2 are you seeing this?
Program 2: Come on dude you know I have a low render distance
Citizen: My bike’s locked up, can you fix it?
Mara: *hand on the side of it like it’s a dying horse* I think it’s fragged beyond repair, but I can find out why?
Able and Tron have both linked to Beck so they can tell when he’s in trouble. It also goes the other way. Angst potential
Tron in the tubes when Dyson rectifies his team and he can feel them change. He’s unsettled by the way rectified programs feel to be near
When Tron gets Rinzlered, Beck has to wipe the Renegade disc and abandon it so that Rinzler can’t track him. In the same vein, if Anon gets rerezzed they have to spend a lot of time avoiding Rinzler
Tesler enters a room full of minions
Tesler: Your vibes are off. I know one of you broke it
Tron sending a text from the next building over: I heard you were talking smack about me
Paige being able to sense when someone’s getting critically injured, from her medic era
Program holds the hands of a user and can sense their heartbeat, their circuits pulse in time with it
Love all this
So far I’ve pretty much always headcanoned that programs have senses for things about energy and data around them, and that part of that goes into recognizing each other and communicating with each other
But ALL these thoughts are fascinating
I love when fans just go wild analyzing and speculating and it makes us all think
Cooperative brainstorming for the whole fandom it’s so good, we’ll all get something good for our own fantasies out of this