mylittleredgirl:

i love how there’s the genre of fix-it fic where the author goes into great granular detail of how our heroes manage to avoid or undo whatever character death or other unpopular choice occurred, in a way that abides by the laws of the fictional universe and definitely required a substantial plot outline, and then there are fix-it fics where the author just went “that’s bullshit and didn’t happen,” and we as readers all go “agreed. carry on.”

Lmao trying to categorize my two different fix-it fics for Ram’s death in Tron (1982)

evidence for “bullshit, it didn’t happen”:

both of them, in different ways, assert that what we saw happen to Ram was not actually death, even though Flynn thought it was, fuck you, he’s totally fine afterwards

evidence for “avoid or undo”:

nothing we saw onscreen is denied, only the interpretation of it is changed. (definitely abides by the laws of the universe and required plot outlines.)

….notably, both alternate interpretations of the death scene coexist in my headcanon, since I’ve decided that part of what “actually” happened was him being copied and creating a backup. Soooo, he has two whole different fates in which he’s totally fine and having fun with friends (one is just more smutty fun)

as he is a computer program, this also fits within the constraints of the universe. Byte me.