eptsyan:

Do you think Tron grieves the loss of his connection to Alan-One in Flynn’s grid?

I think I remember in the og movie Tron could sort of sense when Alan was messaging him and like, does he miss that? Does he grieve for Alan-One? What’s it like to be severed from something like that?

I think it’s probably the deepest and most meaningful connection he had. (My whole headcanon about program love is complex, but clearly the User is a VERY central loved one)

and I do agree the Legacy version was a copy, and I don’t have any particular headcanon on whether that branch of Tron’s identity got to keep his memories – but either possibility seems kinda horrifying to me.

I agree with some of the other comments that Alan knew more than he openly said in Legacy. I wrote a fic around that premise, a while back, and I plan to write a bunch more eventually… set in the happier post-82 early times, exploring exactly what he (and others) knew back then.

I just need to imagine they got to really know each other, ok, my heart would break otherwise