polycules of five or more should be organized like special operations squads. you have a commander you have sexual tension with. You have the sexy one. You have one with glasses. You know what I don’t know enough about squads i think
no no you’re doing great so far
Tron polycule squad assemble! (Keeping in mind that all of them are the sexy ones and at least two wear glasses sometimes lol)
FORTRAN
(polycule name created by @astercontrol, I hope you don’t mind my using it, it’s just too perfect)
F - Flynn: the rogue, the instigator, the idea guy (not always great ideas, but definitely interesting ones)
OR - Yori: the executive function, the commander, the one who knows what to do and where to go
T - Tron: the protector, the muscle
R - Ram: the healer, the sweet caregiver, always has a contingency plan to keep his lovers healthy
AN - Alan: does the taxes and household budget (topless)
And now our squad in action (this is so dumb I’m sorry but I think they would all be so cute in a real world au)
AAAAAA
LOVE THIs
…. okay, though– now that you’ve got them all into the Real World, my overcomplicated brain wants to explore how the polycule could get a little mixed up with their Real World (in-universe) alter egos
since, in the canon of the 1982 TRON movie, three of those five are living computer programs… and, of the two human programmers in the fivesome, one is the creator of one of the programs… and there are other humans (the creators of the other programs) who would definitely be in on this polycule somehow
I guess we can imagine OR stands for both Lora and Yori. while R stands for both Ram and Roy. Convenient that they have programs with similar names.
Flynn also has a program (who is dead in canon, but then so is Ram, and we and our data recovery headcanons laugh at that). He’s Clu, the precursor to the Evil Clu from Tron Legacy. But in the original 1982 incarnation he’s a helpful little sweetheart who just wants to help his programmer find stuff (he’d probably be up front with Yori reading off the directions)
Flynn just had to make things hard for us, not giving his program a name that could share an abbreviation with him.
Flynn, you dingus– you’re the reason we now have to make the expanded ship-name for your polycule into “FORTRAN and C”