gridtrees:

ok so hear me out. tron wasn’t ported wholesale from the encom system. Flynn is stupid but he’s not stupid stupid and was like “this guy has the perfect life I’m not removing him from that” and made a copy of tron to bring into the new system. ok now imagine encom grid tron meets legacy grid tron. the angst inherent

Yeah. I think about this all the time and there are so MANY layers to it

Legacy Tron: “so you’ve just been happy here with your home and your original purpose. This whole time. While I’ve been getting used as an attack dog by a dictator.”

Encom Tron: “apparently so…” (internally screaming every possible blasphemy at flynn)

Legacy Tron: “so all the time I wondered if my loved ones were missing me. They weren’t. Because they didn’t know I was missing. BECAUSE I WASN’T”

Encom Tron: (internal screaming intensifies)

Legacy Tron: “so you’ve been here the whole time… with Alan-1… And Yori…”

Encom Tron: “And Ram too, they recovered him”

Ram: “oh, are we talking about getting stolen away from your home system and put in a new one where you don’t belong? The thing the MCP did to me? That thing?”

Encom Tron and Legacy Tron in unison: “YES THAT THING”

Legacy Tron: “wait they didn’t let you go back to your home system afterwards?”

Ram: “yeah because AS YOU KNOW moving a file from one computer to another is copy-paste unless you actively choose to delete the old one. I’m not missing back home either. Welcome to the MCP Victim Club”

Encom Tron: “DAMMIT FLYNN”

Legacy Tron: “hey. At least thank you for letting Sam sneak past Encom security for pranks”

Encom Tron: “least I could do”