what-bot:

I couldn’t decide between:

• Alan Bradley being lanky and unathletic compared to Tron, who is buff.
• Alan Bradley being secretly buff, which usually takes the form of him whipping out the crushing iron grip handshake during board meetings with people he doesn’t like.

But I think I’m liking

• Alan Bradley is lanky and unathletic until Kevin introduces him to martial arts after meeting Tron, and he gets really into it and becomes secretly buff.

Okay this is beside the point but I have to address these tags

I think “Tron 1902” would be something like

https://www.deviantart.com/bilih/art/Steampunk-Tron-283925501

…the heavycycle

“trapped within the dimensional confines of Mr. Babbage’s analytical engine”

Or, from my own creative archives…