astercontrol:

so

in Tron circuit-sex

I don’t think the distinction between “top/bottom” and “dom/sub” is THAT big a deal, compared to human sex scenes.

I mean, because of how I tend to lean toward the circuits-only, null-bulge type of anatomy for most of the characters, most of the time

and well, there is only so much importance that the idea of “penetration” can have, in a world where people don’t mostly even have the equipment for penetration


BUT

HOWEVER

I do still headcanon that the sex drive of programs is an echo from the User world

it’s just that, for programs, it ends up getting focused mainly onto data-transfer, energy-sharing, and User-interface at the Input-Output Tower

and the whole I/O Tower ritual contains LOTS OF THOSE ECHOES of User sexuality

Including echoes symbolic of the “equipment” that programs don’t have.

screenshot of Dumont, the Tower Guardian, in his extremely phallic hat and ceremonial outfit that resembles either balls or boobs. Subtitle shows that he is speaking ritual words: All that is visible...ALT
Dumont continues speaking ritual words while Tron and Yori are shown standing at the foot of his dais waiting for his permission to enter the I/O Tower. Subtitle continues: ....must grow beyond itselfALT
Dumont continues speaking ritual words while Tron and Yori are shown standing at the foot of his dais waiting for his permission to enter the I/O Tower. Subtitle continues: ....and extend into the realm of the invisible.ALT
Close-up of Tron's pose as he accepts the ritual words. He is standing with both hands clasped over his groin. ALT


and… it is here that I do actually see a very significant distinction between Top/Bottom and Dom/Sub

at least. it’s here– in the I/O Tower interface between Tron and his User– that I see what is, um…

a conspicuous disconnect between, um.

who is Subservient and who is being Penetrated

Tron, having entered the I/O Tower to communicate with his User, stands in the light-beam raising his identity disc, which begins to levitate out of his hands.ALT
Tron stands in the light beam, watching his disc as it rises up to the top of the I/O Tower.ALT
View of the ceiling of the I/O Tower, which consists of a very sphincter-like hole, showing Tron's disc approaching it.ALT
View of the ceiling of the I/O Tower, with the opening beginning to dilate and a beam of light enveloping the disc.ALT
View of the ceiling of the I/O Tower, with the opening fully dilated and a beam of light enveloping the disc; the red line of the connection is visible outsideALT
View of the ceiling of the I/O Tower, with the beam of light fully enveloping the disc and beginning to merge it with the red line of the connection that is visible outsideALT
Side view of the I/O Tower from outside, showing that the red line representing the connection extends up into the sky, and turns blue to represent Tron's transmission traveling upward to his UserALT

…tron. you adoring little service top.

Screenshot of Alan, Tron's programmer, sitting at his computer in the outside world. He looks fascinated and slightly startledALT