#Tronblr

[astercontrol]

I have zero Yu-Gi-Oh knowledge, I'm here for Tron fandom... but this hit very hard on several parts of me:

the part that was convinced from the very first days of the manhunt that they were gonna pin it on somebody even if they couldn't find an actually plausible suspect

the part that decided Ram (Tron 1982) would have been absolutely devastated about having been actuarial software for an insurance company if he ever found out what insurance companies are really like

The part that later realized -- if Ram got rerezzed years later and had the opportunity for vengeance on what was basically his own personal MCP, he'd do it and get away with it-- but afterwards he'd be even more devastated to realize that his actions led to the persecution of yet another innocent

The part that loves symbolism, and the part that keeps finding themes of role reversal in Tron canon

...the part that sees any sheep and immediately thinks "Ram"

NYPD after 4 days of multimillion dollar pig expenses turned up jack shit

[abraxasvirus]

[Night before the con selfieee :> Can't believe after ALL THESE YEARS I FINALLY get to cosplay Abraxas. Still working on the helmet circuits, will apply them tomorrow morning, then it's convention time]

[sugarjellybear]

I got my hands on him

[what-bot]

Headcanon that programs can sleep standing up, like horses. Might not even really be a headcanon considering the sirens in Legacy.

Having a bed or not is a matter of personal preference. Some instead have wall alcoves they plug into. Or they just stand creepily in the open. Others like sleeping on the ground in weird positions, sometimes in piles.

Plugging into something is preferable, as it makes the process go faster (beds are like those wireless phone chargers). And programs don’t have a circadian rhythm in the same way as humans, only needing sleep when they’re close to running out of charge. Though they often do have regular sleep times in their routines for convenience.

I think of Tron as a standing-up sleeper, which he kind of is in Uprising with the healing chamber. Ram sprawls on the ground, as seen in that one fanart. I seem to remember Beck having a bed. And Tesler, for some reason, plugs into some wires and just…hangs facedown like a puppet.

[astercontrol]

I like how Kevin Flynn, a guy from the 1980's who decorates his room with rainbows and colorful neon, took a look at his own custom system and said: "I want everything in this place to be nothing but black, white, and cyan!"

I KNOW RIGHT!!!

what HAPPENED to his decorating style?? The guy goes from THIS

to THIS

I mean. YES, there's typically a difference between "bachelor pad of a young unmarried guy" and "home of that same guy when older and influenced by being a husband and father"

...and Flynn's certainly a special case. Because the first imageset was the bachelor pad of a guy who's... not 100% straight and who's confident enough about that (in the year 1982!) to not even care about trying to hide it...

and the second imageset is after he's settled down with a woman (supposedly; we never actually SEE Jordan, we just hear news reports about how him being with Jordan was the publicly available story about his relationship status, but that's another whooooole headcanon discussion) ....and become a husband, then a father, then a widower in much too short a time, and then gotten stuck inside a tyrannically ruled computer for a length of time that's apparently centuries for him.

So there are ...a LOT of things that could be influencing this change.

Jordan's influence would be the one I'd consider if it was only a bachelor-to-married-man transition. And it might still be a factor on some level.

I don't think anything is canonically said about her interior design preferences, but she is said to be an architect. She could have had very particular ideas about how the interiors of buildings should look, and overcome Flynn's personal style with hers when they began to share a home.

....Oh god.

Pattern Recognizer is pointing out that this interpretation could tie in with another observation I've made. The one about how-- if you're just going by the tendency toward colorfulness and chaotic creativeness-- Flynn and Yori have weirdly compatible home-decorating styles.

Now, we don't have any proof that Jordan (if she even existed) ever went into the Encom system with Flynn, or that either of them ever got to see Yori's apartment. But we also don't know they didn't.

So maybe Jordan saw a similarity between Flynn's decor and Yori's. Or, maybe she just visited Lora at some point and saw a similarity between Flynn's decor and that. (I mean, we never see Lora's home, but Yori probably has something in common with her User when it comes to aesthetics, right?) And if Jordan was a bit of a jealous spouse, she might have come down particularly hard on Flynn for hanging on to habits that she associated with his ex.

...I don't really believe this interpretation, though.

Because I very, very much doubt that Flynn ever got very far in any relationship with someone who tended toward jealousy. Flynn has "pansexual polyamory" written ALLLL over him. I'm not 100% convinced Jordan was ever anything except a public-facing beard for the Encom Polycule... but if she was actually a real partner to Flynn in any way, I have some serious trouble imagining they had a closed relationship.

Anyway.

The spare, calming, partly-domestic-and-partly-high-tech design of his safe house is very clearly two things. 1. a reflection of his "zen" philosophy, and 2. an extremely obvious reference to the 1968 film "2001: A Space Odyssey."

So, perhaps Kevin Flynn made a deliberate choice here to reject his youthful creativity, and embrace something wholly divorced from his own original thought--

--and, instead, derivative from a specific story that, perhaps, over the years, he came to view as a parable about the dangers of what his own creativity could do.

The rest of the Grid itself doesn't have this specific style. But does seem to follow a similar sparse color palette. We don't actually know if this is how Flynn designed it-- or if he originally made it more colorful, and that was repressed under Clu's dictatorship.

If it was Flynn's choice-- if the chaotic and colorful aesthetics of his youth faded into this more simplistic style around the time he first created the Grid?---then, I'm not sure how to explain it. Jordan's influence, again? Flynn's technical ineptitude for programming any simulation with more complex colors than a 1980's arcade game? Flynn's obsession with making the Grid in his OWN style, uninfluenced by anyone else, to such an extreme that he integer-overflowed into cutting out some of his own style because it was too much like the style of the Original Encom system?

I don't know.

But , if Flynn's original design for the Grid was more colorful, and Clu's dictatorship was just exceptionally effective in repressing all of that...

then, one could imagine that after Clu was destroyed, the Grid might end up taking on more of its true color again.

Just as the Encom system did after the fall of the MCP.

[codekiraqueen]

Time to eat Tronblr 😅😅 I am working on Ram and Kevin too!!!!

...Stickers coming soon 👀👀👀

[siesh-pilmeni]

There should be some clever words for art, but I'm too lazy.

[anntova]

Tron

[shehungthemoon]

i love tron so so much. he's got more action scenes than speaking ones and he's a religious crusader and he only knows how to puppy love and he'd never kissed his girlfriend until another man showed them how to do it and he's died for said man multiple times and he's his world's deadliest gladiator champion and he's ambidextrous and he's also not even the main character in either of the movies named after him.

no one will ever do it like him ever again.

[ekk0klo]

so i just got this super cool tron figure that i didnt knew existed and its now my favorite thing i own :D

[corruptedcodelines]

Ark was on the hunt. Using every skill she had as a System Monitor and a Renegade, she had been working hard to track a program without the program knowing that she was there. Unfortunately, that meant that she had to hang back further than she'd like to, but it was the safest option right now, until she got a better understanding of the situation. If she was correct, this program had a chance to be Tron, which meant she had to be on her best game to stay out of his notice.

This was a risk he shouldn't be taking right now.

He kept his head down as he wove his way through the crowds, his helmet rezzed only over the bottom of his face to keep programs from recognizing either of his appearances. He didn't want to draw undue attention as... either... of his faces.

Well... one was hos face anyway.

He kept his senses flowing through the Grid with every step, his eyes sharp as he tried to find any trace of the being that had been haunting this sector. If his information was correct... they could have another virus problem... if not... well then the worst that could happen would just be a random program having a laugh-

He felt his code shift unsettlingly, his steps stumbling for a moment as his processes slowed by just a nano.

Following. Behind. Careful.

He frowned to himself, continuing on his way down the populated street as he casually looked around. This place wasn't extremely popular by his standard... but it was still hosting twenty or so programs all going about their lives. Nothing... quite out of the ordinary just yet.

Suspicious...

He clenched his teeth, glaring down at his shadow.

You stated that before... and there was no one within a twenty click radius.

Silence for a long moment.

Female. Blue circuits. Blackguard Walk. Following.

He shouldered past a group of young programs gathering at one of the energy bars, their voices loud enough to almost drown out the voice in his head as he shielded his eyes against the lights. He stretched out his senses again to the Grid, closing out the bustle and digital noise of the Common Finctions to hone in on anything brighter.

[lordfries]

imagine the power I’d wield if I woke up with the motivation to create a whole comic

[abraxasvirus]

[After eleven years, ya'll. Abraxas by @abraxasvirus/ @kai-ni, Tron: Evolution, Planet Comic Con 2025]

[wynandcore]

The one and only.

[vppacer]

An old friend :D

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