#Rinzler/Yori

[measlyscrapofseafood]

here to spread my tronzler little spoon agenda

bonus:

[whispering-woodlands]

Really super very messy sketch of Rinzler and Yori that I drew while listening to She’s My Collar by Gorillaz on repeat. Part of a bigger drawing but I want to at least post this in case I never finish it. Anyways Rinlzer is dogcoded and 100% attack dog guard dog and Yori loves them.

[fights4users]

This is so Rinzler/Yori to me. “I know I’m searching for you/someone and the reason has been lost to me but I’m incomplete without you, why won’t you answer?”

It’s even better as apparently this is a rock opera/story based album to do with mindcontrol? Hello?

It also fits so thematically with my definitive Tron/Yori song (modern love is automatic) as part two after everything that happened. Mwah. Point is I’m never not thinking about them

[bookwormlover10]

You know one of my favorites piece of Tron Madea is the manga Tron: atonement

I think it is a beautiful story of Tron having to deal with his gillt with what he did as the rinzler and having to find himself again after the events of legacy.

It's like a battle shonen if anyone is wondering and the fight are fantastic

The art is fantastic with beautiful backgrounds and characters designs ( they drew Tron so fine 🤤)

The seen in the argon ark were Tron reunites with Beck. With Beck not fully trusting Tron and is skeceptical that Tron has fully broken free from clus control. especially what Beck seen what the horrors Tron has done as the rinzler ( Even though in the deepest part of his heart he still Hoped that the Tron he knew was still there,)and Tron realize that beck wasn't the same apprentice he last seen. This is a Beck that has seen the horrors of war and blaming himself for dragging beck into the war and causing beck sofering. I really like the father and son moment after they both defeated general pavil and both deciding to move on and forgive. I also love it when beck decideds that he's going to help Tron on his journey and stays in the cast.( The joke that Tron makes that beck is like a bug that he still needs to teach. For some reason it was really funny to me)

And don't get me started In the Encom ark when Tron is reunited with Yori for the first time in a long time. The way they both looked at each other. Both seeing the other has changed a lot over the many cycles since they were apart but at the same time looking at each other with sad loving eyes. The way Yori put her hand on Trons face rubbing his scar with her thumb and telling Tron with a smile" your still has handsome as ever." And Tron leaning in to her hand and looking at her one eye and saying " and your still the most beautiful program that has ever rez." ( Kill me please(⁠༎ຶ⁠ ⁠෴⁠ ⁠༎ຶ⁠))

This manga also bless us with Sam and Beck geeking out over motorcycles and cars together.

I also think this manga for exploring the father and son relationship between Sam and Alan.

[craigpetersennz]

Had a great convention at Vic Freak in Vic, Barcelona, Spain this weekend! I turned several of my Yori: Hidden artworks into postcards and I think they ended up looking pretty nice!

I also made a couple of additional postcards of some art I did of LadyDevimon from Digimon and an older Mass Effect piece of Garrus Vakarian.

I created some A4 prints especially for the con of Bulma from Dragon Ball (an Akira homage) and The Ghoul / Coop from the Fallout TV series. These were very fun to make!

Lastly, I revised some old art of mine that I still like of Jun from Gatchaman / Battle of the Planets and Hyoga and Seiya from Saint Seiya / Knights of the Zodiac.

[stealingpotatoes]

reason #820 why Yori should have been in Uprising: she would've said what we're all thinking

(more uprising yori)

[fand0mfever]

[betasuppe]

When you keep coming face to face with a masked program who seems incredibly familiar but you can't figure out why...?

[lady-of-the-puddle]

All right I've been holding this back for a while but now you get to see my

Rating Tron's Exes

list

The boy:

See? him face

And now the exes:

FIRST UP WE HAVE

1. Dyson

Bougie Rat Bastard 3000

Is the Worst™

Absolute dork loser

Made a grab for power and betrayed his brother his captain hiS KING

Not even hot

2/10 Sucks like the vacuum he is

2. Clu

Discount fuck boi god wannabe

Okay listen

There's chemistry between them

Even if it's toxic af

He's part of Kevin of course he and Tron dated

Yes it was full of hate

Esp when he was stuck as Rinzler 😏

But sometimes u gotta date an asshole to know what u dont want

0/10 Actual Nazi

3. Able

Daddy? Sorry

FATHER material

Has stable job and income

Firm but kind and caring

Will tell u to stfu

Divorce was mutual and they got split custody of Beck so pretty chill breakup overall

10/10 Need I say more

4. Cyrus

Boundaries Were Crossed

Yet another betrayal *sigh*

My boi Tron knows how to pic em

Somehow more crazy than Clu

But less Nazi at least???

Spectacular revenge plot tbh

Looks pretty sick 😎

World's Messiest Breakup

5/10 Dedicated to the bit

4.1 Beck

CRACK SHIP I SWEAR

I know y'all are about to come for me

But listen

Programs have no concept of age

This ship is purely for fun for me, I highly ship them as father and son usually (see: Able)

Something about the desperation and trust issues between them speak to me

We all know it would never work out

7/10 doomed by the narrative (if we HAD ANY)

5. Flynnster

fuck boi God SUPREME

I am highly biased on this

loves Tron so much he ported him from the old system

Spent more time with him than with his own son (-1 point for that)

named everything after him

Tron was ready to give up his own life to save him

ANGST

never officially broke up but he thought he was derezzed so that counts

9/10 HERE WE STAND WORLDS APART HEARTS BROKEN IN T- ok I'll stop

6. Ram

Cinnamon Roll too pure yadda yadda

Wide eyed sweetheart

Never did anything wrong in his short cycle

Was in a brief polycule with Tron and Flynn

Only broke up because he derezzed

What's not to like

11/10 perfect angle

7. Yori

HER

Unpopular opinion y'all are about to murder me

They were each other's beards

She's a nerd lesbian

Because she's hot and I want a chance with her I want her to be

They simply realized they preferred other programs and amicably broke up

She calls him up from the first system every now and then and they spill some hot tea and rebellion tips

100/10 bc im in love with her here have another pic

Anyone I missed?

In conclusion, all users and programs desire Tron carnally, grid's biggest slut, he's in nothing and is my everything thank you for coming to my TRON Talk next time I'll rate Beck's exes cause that's been overcooking in my brain too

[astercontrol]

so I was brainstorming what sorts of creativeness I could try for next year's Mission Day, if I wanted to try and help reclaim that for the fans

which is me being SUPER overzealous, because I only just found out about the existence of Mission Day yesterday

lol who am I to even get involved in this

(BUT who am I to do anything... and yet I still do.)

... For those who are just a few days more behind-the-times than me:

apparently, back in 2016, there was a line in a TRON game which said that May 14 was "Mission Day." Some fans got excited that maybe something cool was gonna happen that day

akin to the Flynn Lives ARG starting in 2009 where fans were led on a whole fun adventure, following clues through a network of webpages (seriously, if you don't know about THAT, take a look)

but no, this time it turned out nothing happened, and people were disappointed.

and when I heard about that, my own rebellious side went:

Who wants to do this with me?? Like a fanzine but more... interactive, multimedia

Maybe it'll take a year, or more, but, like... what if some May 14 you start seeing fanfics posted on AO3 with mysterious clues in them, leading to a webring of Neocities sites all mysteriously connected in their own cryptic ways

Fanlore, fan-made stories, drawings, maybe even animations and games. Fan OCs getting their own place in all of it

Not beholden to whatever f'd up version of the Hays Code the mouse is currently following. So there'll be all sorts of LGBT stuff, all colors of the rainbow and all colors of circuits....

aaaand THEN

then my brainstorms got tornado-strength and I came back to reality some unknown time later with a mess of crazy plans just for the STORIES that could start this scavenger hunt

(the websites are breeding their own plotbunnies and I will face that later)

(I am still not even slightly convinced that I will have the time or energy for ANY of this)

BUT... there is a whole year til next May 14

so....

just a whole disorganized pile of ideas, starting here

Multiverse

Hypothesis: the spiritual energy that makes programs alive is something that functions on many planes of existence, and can connect different realities.

Someone finds out a way to tap into this with the laser technology, enabling travel between different Tron worlds and different alternate timelines.

(Maybe the "miracle" of ISO DNA somehow ends up being relevant to this? Alan quoted Flynn saying this was supposed to revolutionize everything; he even mentioned quantum teleportation? seems like a powerful mcguffin that never got used, might as well use it)

Some Tron AUs that may connect here:

Post-MCP scenario where the originals of the programs that were copied for the Legacy Grid go on living happily in the ENCOM system (my main headcanon that I write in)

Other scenarios where the programs brought to the Grid were eliminated from the ENCOM system and there's no original left behind

Variations on 82, Legacy and Uprising:

Different interpretations of how digitization works, how consciousness forms within the system, etc.

Post-Legacy extrapolations of Tron's future on Flynn's Grid

Tronzler restored by Alan and Sam;

Tronzler regenerated as an ISO by the Sea of Simulation;

Tronzler regenerated into an eldritch horror by the Sea of Simulation;

Tronzler dead;

Tronzler emerging from the sea still broken and half-rectified

etc

Other post-Legacy possibilities

Clu survived in some form after the reintegration;

Flynn survived in some form after the reintegration;

Clu and Flynn both survived in some form after the reintegration;

Clu and Flynn are one merged entity after the reintegration;

Clu and Flynn are dead;

Sam comes back again;

Sam comes back and brings Alan and Lora and Roy;

Sam never comes back and someone else has to try and make things work;

Yori and Ram are still there;

Yori and Ram are not there because they were never brought;

Yori and Ram are not there because they were killed;

Yori and Ram are still there but different because they were rectified;

Zuse survived;

Zuse survived and he turns out to be an amalgamation of an interpreter program hacked and taken over by Ram and he has an epic bitch session with Tronzler about their various struggles, betrayals, split personalities and changes of identity

ETC.

Various post-Uprising and pre-Legacy possibilities:

Beck and Paige eventually join forces and/or fall in love;

Beck and Paige eventually kill each other;

Mara and Zed find out who the Renegade is;

Mara and Zed die or get rectified before they can ever find out who the Renegade is;

Tron becomes Rinzler because he is later caught and rectified while Beck is forced to watch;

Tron becomes Rinzler because the rectification process in the last episode managed to infect him before he was saved and he ends up suddenly turning bad at the worst possible time for Beck;

Beck becomes Rinzler instead of Tron;

Dyson somehow comes back;

the Uprising team meets Zuse,

etc

Various non-canon-compliant AUs in all these settings

Ram didn't die in 82;

Ram did die and so did Flynn and then Tron defeated the MCP on his own;

Tron tried to defeat the MCP on his own but failed and MCP was never beaten;

MCP was beaten but Flynn died in there and died in real life;

Flynn survived and got out and tried to build the Grid but Alan and Lora managed to stop him from ruining his life by trying to do that alone;

Alan went into the Grid in Legacy instead of Sam;

Tron never becomes Rinzler;

Flynn or Ram becomes Rinzler instead of Tron;

someone else becomes the tyrant instead of Clu;

Able didn't die

etc, etc.

....anyway

imagining a scenario where various versions of characters from all these timelines connect via the Laser (Head)Cannon

(terrible working name, but it amuses my terrible sense of humor, so there)

....gonna re-read Ram: Expanded by kesomon because there's a fic in there (Interlude- Reprieve) about a similar connected multiverse

https://archiveofourown.org/works/25366543

there are many stories one could tell within this.

But I think I want to tell one with the theme of rebellion, throwing off oppression, expressing freedom and autonomy

...

example for one storyline within it:

the "In Ram Jurisdiction" plotbunny

After Ram is recovered and comes back to life in the Encom system, his original insurance company calls for his destruction.

they have their own backup and don't need the Encom copy returned, they just demand that Encom delete theirs.

because he was stolen from them by MCP

even though Roy wrote him at Encom, they bought exclusive rights to his code so they own him.

Ram and Roy and their friends launch a legal battle.

maybe upgrading Ram in the process so he can be considered a protected derivative work under Fair Use

...

also could take some inspiration from the brilliant fanfic "Anthem," a reprise of the story of TRON 1982 for the world of DRM and musical copyright

https://archiveofourown.org/works/28223541

…because

...this theme of seeking freedom comes up in every iteration of Tron

and the feeling behind this whole over-ambitious idea here… is a celebration of the vast diversity of fan-created content

an overarching theme of wanting to claim this world for the fans-- a theme of the copyright-holding corporation as Oppressor

Fan Mission Day Fission Day

(day of splitting, separation, becoming independent)

TRONdependence Day

[riinzler]

18. does your muse suffer from nightmares? how often? what about?

19. out of everything your muse has lost/given up, which hurt the most?

20. what is something your muse wants to tell others, but is too afraid to?

21. how hard is it for your muse to open up to others? what holds them back?

22. looking back, what is one thing your muse wishes they had done differently? 

18: yes!! dreams and nightmares work a bit differently for programs then they do for users, so they generally aren’t very common but when rinzler does have them they are typically related to his imprisonment in the encom system and past moments on the grid both before and after his repurposing

19: the memories of programs he’d cared about, specifically yori ☹️ with my rinzler most of his memories aren’t deleted pre say they are just barred from him, so while they can’t consciously influence him they can do so subconsciously so every once in awhile he’ll see or do something that reminds him of people he’d cared about and while he doesn’t know the reason it still hurts

20: that he isn’t a pet or a weapon. he’s a person!!! rinzler is widely dehumanized both in his personal life and by the grids citizens at large and while he has internalized that message for the most part there is this one tiny part of him that rebels against it, but he’s not about to disagree with clu about it. if clu says he’s a weapon and treats him like one then that’s what he is, clearly him thinking differently is just another glitch in his programming

21: very very hard 😬 rinzler has this mindset where he p much thinks the worlds out to get him, that everyone is just waiting for a reason or opportunity to hurt him in some way and if he lets someone get close they’ll turn against him or try to use him for their own gain. he can’t conceptualize a world where ppl might do things or act a certain way b/c they want to help him, everything is done with an ulterior motive

22: the events that lead to his repurposing are a big regret for rinzler even though he doesn’t remember them. in his mind he’d needed to be repurposed because of his own failing, had he not caused problems or fought against clu’s rule then he wouldn’t have had to repurpose him, wouldn’t have had to damage him and be stuck with an enforcer who could’ve been perfect and instead is always falling short

[measlyscrapofseafood]

affection

bonus doodle

[whispering-woodlands]

This is such a silly thought but…

I can’t stop thinking about Yori teaching Tron to dance. In between skirmishes in her quarters, she teaches him under the bright and beautiful lights that she creates. He’s uncoordinated at first but as time goes on it becomes natural, by the time they are transferred to the Grid they know each move before the other makes it.

So much so that when Yori encounters Rinzler and she grabs his wrist in just the right way that instead of a disc at her throat it’s an arm around her waist. A graceful spin instead of a ruthless kick.

For a moment they are together again.

[fights4users]

Ok so Queensrÿche’s Breaking the silence is definitely the definitive Rinzler/Yori song for me but consider… Yori’s perspective

Thinking about them again.

[solar-siren]

Angstpril Day Twenty-Five: Nothing Lasts Forever

“I can always count on you, can’t I?”

Yori’s core lurches, her systems flooding with shame and guilt. In the memory Tron smiles at her, adoring. Trusting. And the version of her beside him responds so easily, so sure of herself.

“Always.”

She closes the file.

 Yori has never forgotten that promise. It haunts her as much as any of her mistakes—as much as the shadows that hunt her.  Always . She’d meant it in that moment, with her entire being. She’d done everything in her power to keep it. 

She fought beside Tron to take down the MCP. She followed him to Flynn’s system, left her own work and any hope of reuniting with her User behind to stay beside him. 

And things were calm for a little while. It was easy to be there for him, for the two of them to move forward together. 

When tensions on the Grid began to rise, she offered what council and comfort she could. But things snowballed far too quickly. As more conflict arose they spent less and less time together, distracted by their own problems, their own responsibilities. 

Yori wasn’t there when Clu turned on Tron. She wasn’t there when he was tortured, brainwashed and warped beyond recognition. She is far away from the cage Rinzler prowls in now. She may never be beside him again.

Yori would have kept her promise, given the chance. Sometimes, though, she thinks she never should have made it in the first place. 

[craigpetersennz]

Here is part 1 of a 2-part Sea of Simulation scene that I created for my Yori: Hidden fan art series. This was one of the first images I had in my head. I was still developing Yori's costume at this point, but I also wanted to try out a helmeted version. Can you spot the guest character? ;) Part 2 of this scene can be viewed here: Yori: Hidden - Sea of Simulation Part 2