#dead tron au

[what-bot]

What do you mean this didn’t happen

[strawberryshortcake1495]

I’ve been wanting to make this post for a long time but I’m so lazy 😭

Remember that Bill Cipher Redemption AU I talked about in Margo’s introductory post? Well, for a REALLY long time, I’ve had this kinda different story in my head since I realized how stupid the whole idea sounded. It’s like an AU inside of an AU. I called it the “Dancing Llama AU” (originally called “Shellshock AU”). So Margo doesn’t kill Bipper and decides to spare him, and what does he do? Throw himself off the water tower. Margo is DEVASTATED and breaks down while cradling Dipper’s dead body when the police arrive and assume she murdered him. Margo ends up going to prison despite Mabel claiming she’d never do such a thing. So Margo ends up in prison alongside Gideon from Sock Opera onwards until Weirdmageddon. Bill promises Mabel to bring Dipper back in exchange for the rift, and he keeps his part of the deal. By possessing Dipper’s dead corpse. Once Weirdmageddon starts, the first thing Bipper does is break Margo out of prison and turns the other prisoners into stone for his throne. When Margo asks him why he spared her, Bipper simply tells her that she didn’t kill him so why should he kill her? So Margo becomes a member of the Henchmaniacs, with Bill renaming her to Sunny. But trust this, this llama is not sunny at all. She’s confused and upset and tries to join everyone in the shack but they don’t let her in because she’s a “murderer”. She even gets one of her eyes ripped out during the Shack-a-Tron fight. So what else can she do? As quoted by J in Murder Drones, it’s better to join the winning side. So Margo Sunny makes her way back to the Fearamid, curls up in the corner, and just…disassociates. The Henchmaniacs are kinda concerned but Bill just leaves her be, telling them she’s just waiting for the party to begin. So the world ends and thus begins Sunny’s new life. She has a new family now, who love her and treat her well. They have all sorts of fun together, like ruling dimensions and fleeing from the dimensional police. But Sunny’s still kinda out of it, like she probably doesn’t even remember half of her “adventures”. This goes on for 4 years, until Sunny is 15 years old. The roots of her hair have blackened, with the brown tips of her hair being the only thing left of Margo Pines. She realizes her 16th birthday is coming up. Her siblings would’ve been 16.

[toomanyfanficsnotimetowriteem]

It's been a hot minute since I posted a Hero Forge model, so let's go with an OC one this time:

So this is Adelaide. A while back, I was obsessed with a certain Tron Wild West AU. I was so obsessed that when I finished reading the complete parts, my mind spiraled off a whole Alternate History for it, including this. I also made these based off the original fic.

More info about Adelaide and the Alt History: (Be Warned. It gets crazy. It involves death from illness and violence against a baby.)

Adelaide is sadly deceased before the main events of the story take place, having succumbed to a grave illness.

Adelaide was Paige's mother. Paige's father, who never married Adelaide, took her from Adelaide when she was a baby. Adelaide was left distraught and soon "found" baby Beck, taking him and raising him as her own. Able took in Adelaide, so he took care of Beck after she died.

Depending on how messed up I want to make it, Paige's father is either some random guy, Tesler, or Clu himself. It's usually Clu for dramatic purposes.

Adelaide was potentially an acquaintance of Tron and Yori but probably didn't know them that well.

[Here's where shit gets really crazy]

Beck is actually Tron and Yori's son in this Alt History. Yori went through a very difficult birth, so she and Tron never tried for another kid. They thought their child was going to a girl and planned on naming her "Rebecca".

Clu is a jealous, evil bitch. Clu let a snake into the unnamed kid's room, hoping the kid would get sick and have to be sent away. Instead, the kid supposedly died.

Being someone who works with the mortician, Adelaide realizes the kid is not dead before he's to be buried. However, she also witnessed Clu letting the snake into the baby's room. He won't be safe as long as Clu knows he's alive. So Adelaide, whose child Clu recently stole, steals the child and fakes the weight of the tiny coffin.

Adelaide disappears with the kid for a while. She names him Beck because she knew Tron and Yori wanted to name their kid Rebecca.

Adelaide returns when she becomes ill, lying to everyone and saying Beck is her actual kid.

Beck will later find a letter Adelaide left for him, telling him the whole truth and giving him an heirloom she stole from his intended coffin. This is a T-shaped silver necklace that Lora (because in this Alt History, Lora and Alan are Tron's parents) had made for Tron. Beck starts wearing it underneath his shirt.

(There's more, but this post is already pretty long, so I'll save the rest for another time.)

[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

[brokenenforcer]

Rinzler rode along this time rather than being carried, pressed to Clu's back with his arms around him, so his low purr moving through both of them. He could never quite shut that off, but Clu seemed to find it comforting.

Clu hated the Games anymore. Hated having to watch his people killing each other, and no one caring about so much death. It hurt him inside, and he always felt sick afterward. As soon as he could, he ran from the sky box, his cape fluttering behind him. Not that anyone would care, the event was over. He could leave.

But he also wanted to be alone. He didn't really know where he was going, but he ducked into a dimly lit room and shut the door behind him. They wouldn't search for him for a while he knew.

A sound made him freeze where he stood. He was not alone in here.

"H-Hello?" He called softly into the near darkness.

The enforcer's broken purr was the only sound in the room, something he couldn't stifle or hide, constantly rattling in his chest. He'd just come from the games himself, though of course he'd been on the other side, the architect of the death Clu was so hesitant to witness. Not that he had any choice. Rinzler rose fluidly to his feet, unsure why Clu was there but bowing slightly to the admin anyway, his posture cowed. His body was shaking slightly, though, just barely noticeable in the dark. It wasn't often anyone so much as touched Rinzler in the games; he was far more skilled than any of the strays and nobodies the Occupation threw at him for execution. But this time they'd tossed in a captured member of the resistance, and something about them had made Rinzler hesitate. A flicker of recognition, maybe, and it was just enough for them to land a blow before Rinzler derezzed them, too. He was injured, but even after the match was over they never healed him - just left him to figure it out.

[yourleaderandbeacon]

Title: Creature Comforts Pairing: Clu x Dyson Summary: Dyson, having been shaken by events in Argon, seeks comfort from his Luminary. Notes: Takes place at the end of, and immediately following the events of Scars pt. 2. Slightly AU. Rating: F for general fluff     Clu hears the doors to his throne room open and he knows from the footsteps alone who it is. “I have returned from Argon with a message from an Old Friend. I saw him with my own eyes.” Clu looks over his shoulder at Dyson, whose head is bowed out of respect. But the Luminary hears the wavering in that voice he knows otherwise to be so confident.     “Tron…Lives.” Clu has had suspicions based on the reports he got from Argon. But at the same time, Clu knew this…Renegade was not Tron. “Interesting… Who else knows about this?” Clu hears the disc being drawn and the single Sentry being derezzed.  

 “Nobody…only us.” And there is so much emotion on that last syllable that it compels Clu into action. He turns and holds his arms open, “Come here, Dyson.” And then Dyson moves to close the distance, trusting himself to those arms which fold about him.     “Good. Let’s keep it that way.” Clu almost purrs as he rests his cheek against Dyson’s head. No one else but them need know that their Old Friend still lived to resist them. Especially since it was more than likely said Friend would be joining them all too soon.     “Sir?” Clu lifts his head to look the Guard in the eye. Dyson’s hands travel up Clu’s arms to his shoulders. Gloved fingers line in red cradle the Luminary’s face and then Clu is not quite prepared for the sensation of a mouth pressed against his own. But he adjusts accordingly to return the gesture.     Their lips part just enough to maintain closeness but to allow them use of their mouths. “If I may be so bold as to request some downtime? Given…recent events, I need some time to myself.” “I understand, Dyson, but you know where to find me should you need the presence of another.” Clu replies as his gloved fingers brush over one particular side of the Black Guard’s face.     “He was…so different then what I remember, Clu. One of his eyes looked dead from scarring but…there was such…anger in them. Directed at me.” And Dyson moved his hands from Clu’s face. The Liberator raised an eyebrow before pressing a small, light kiss to Dyson’s forehead. “He’ll come around eventually. Take all the time you need.”

    “Thank you, sir.” And Dyson makes no move to pull away once the request has been approved and Clu makes no move to make him.

[graedari]

Hey kids... Maybe don't out that Flynn took you to the grid in front of Alan. Flynn might be dead now.

Tron Fights for the User(s' Children) AU is by @radjerda I am simply reveling in it forever and for all time.

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[n3onstroke]

HURT: a sans au x female oc fanfic.

author ramble: noel is the mc, third person bc i can’t write in anything else, noel is a fucking simp for error but i can’t blame her, that man is sexy ong, BISEXUAL MC YES GOD, noel has a gender crisis idk, she uses she/her for now tho, lots LOTS of cursing like noel has no filter, mainly bad sans but i might toss ink and a couple others in there idk, she’s a monster, MC is NOT human 😅😅, zombie mc YESSSS, mc is sick of everyone’s dumbass questions, physical illness suffering mc, mc has OP magic, mc used to be human but shhhhhh 😵‍💫🤫🤫, mc has non-binary shape-shifting older sibling 🤗🤗, lots of trauma, sarcastic and passive agressive mc, she’s a likin park fan, schizophrenic mc, fucking batshit mentally ill crazy mc undercover, gore, light body horror, bad flirting, too many puns go away, humour, eventual romance, mc fucking loves baking, mc loves cheese and diet coke, neol fucks around and finds out, W’s in the chat, FUCK IT INKS A LOVE INTREST TOO, Noel does NOT like ink at the start, error loves that, bottom mc on my soul she is, tsundere mc??, she’s korean and so is her older sibling, english is not her first language, google translate, she’s so sexy, asexual / not really into / considering sex oc?? asexual (????) i don’t even know, the furthest i’ll probably write is making out / a little touching but that’s it, HYPERSEXUAL older sibling lol, dust and nightmare know korean, noel when dust speaks korean: 🤭🤭😵‍💫😵‍💫😣, noel when nightmare speaks korean: 💀💀😒😒🙂‍↔️🤨, is my error bias showing with this or no, noel is a type 1 diabetic, she’s also lactose intolerant but loves cheese idk, she also is fucking addicted to chai drinks, chronic insomina, like it’s so bad this bitch is CHUGGING nightquil while dream’s and nightmares powers don’t do SHIT. possesive everyone besides Noel because she isn’t crazy (lie), yanderes?? yeah probably, oh my god this is so long, killer being her number one opp (also a massive flirt), nightmare being an asshole for like…99% percent of the time, dust just being husband material, horror force feeding her idk, cross being husband material too (i love him holy shit he’s so FINE GAWDDD), error being a little shit and making noel lose her shit, kind of ooc error because im crazy about them, all the skellies use he/him fuck u, i’m fucking in love with error, the brainrot help, mc hates this shit, mc sleeps with stuffed animals, mc loves horror movies, mc is actually really smart, ERROR HAS FIVE TONGUES HOLY SHIT!!!, NOEL PULLS ALL THE BITCHES ON ACCIDENT????

GENERAL RAMBLE: INTRODUCTION CHAPTER, CURRENT PROGRESS 0/45 CHAPTERS.

TW FOR ENTIRE STORY, BUT CHAPTERS WILL HAVE THEIR SEPREATE TW’s!!!

PLAYLIST:

POCKETFUL OF SUNSHINE

BY NATASHA BEDINGFUL

HELL YEAH

BY JULEZ SANTANA, AUGUST ALSINA

PITBULL TERRIER

BY DIE ANTWOOD

LOCKJAW

BY SIR-MIX-ALOT

USE YOUR HEART- INTERLUDE

BY SWV

ANIMAL ATTRACTION

BY SHE WANTS REVENGE

MONOLITH

BY TWIN TRIBES

WHY’S EVERYBODY ALWAYS PICKING ON ME

BY BLOODHOUND GANG

THE MEAT GRINDER

BY JAPANESECOFFEE

BROWN SHUGA

BY SIR-MIX-ALOT

FARBEN (ALARM MIX)

BY ORANGE SECTOR

LIVING DEAD GIRL

BY ROB ZOMBIE

TRON CAT

BY TYLER THE CREATOR

SERIAL KILLER

BY SLAYYYTER

GOTTASADAE

BY BEWHY

YOU ARE ALSO LIKE ME

BY NASTYONA

CREEP

BY RADIOHEAD

LEAVING TONIGHT

BY THE NEIGHBOORHOOD

NO MORE

FREDDIE DREDD

ICH WILL

BY RAMMSTEIN

HOLY DIVER

BY KILLSWITCH ENGAGE

FLATLINE

BY JUSTIN BIEBER

CARRION

BY FIONA APPLE

WALTZ (BETTER THEN FINE)

BY FIONA APPLE

GET HIM BACK

BY FIONA APPLE

GIVEN UP

BY LIKIN PARK

THE DEVIL IN I

BY SLIPKNOT

POINTS OF AUTHORITY

BY LIKIN PARK

WITH YOU

BY LIKIN PARK

NIGHTMARE

BY AVENGED SEVENFOLD

BURRIED ALIVE

BY AVENGED SEVENFOLD

DIVA

BY BEYONCE

SONG 2

BY BLUR

TAKE A LOOK AROUND

BY LIMP BIZKIT

PARANOID ANDROID

BY RADIOHEAD

HAND ME MY SHOVEL, I’M GOING IN!

BY WILL WOOD AND THE TAPEWORMS

RAH TAH TAH

BY TYLER THE CREATOR

JUST

BY RADIOHEAD

AESTHETIC:

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[3-inch-doodles]

My half life knowledge is all second hand really but like do you know the half life decay protags

(they are dating in my mind no I do not care one is implied to be dead on xen)

Anyway yea idk if you know them or would have Tron au thoughts okay goodbye weeeeeeee

i recently watched Skyrionn's lore video on them!! sucks that Gina is kinda canonically dead, yeah, but Valve said we can form our own opinions on op4's canon status so I'm choosing to believe she's alive and she and Colette are very happy and in love i agree with you

i think they would probably be users or programs similar to Yori, working on the port security tests. I don't know what to call that kind of program though

[not-that-dillinger]

Corrupted: Ed's Tron 2.0 AU Open Starter

He should have known something like this would happen. He should have been more cautious, known that Encom wasn't safe, that his father would do anything to control him. But he hadn't expected his father's minions to kidnap him.

He suspected his father had a spy inside Encom, though he didn't know who.

E hadn't expected said corporate spy to fucking abduct him and bring him back to his father, except when regained consciousness (he didn't even remember being attacked or knocked out) he was bound to a chair, face to face with the lens of the digitization laser his father's Rn'D team had recreated from stolen plans.

"Hello, Junior," his father said.

Ed cringed at the name. It was a reminder that he would always be his father's shadow, or his right hand. A tool for his father to use, never to be himself.

"What do you want?" Ed hissed.

His father tssked. "Do not take that tone with me, young man."

"I've already made it clear I will not work for you. That I want nothing to do with you. Release me now or I will out your spy and go to the police to file a report on abduction." Nevermind that he still had no idea who the spy was, but if his father thought he knew, he could use it to his advantage. At the very least, he could tell his boss there was for certain a corporate spy.

"Your education was an investment to the company," his father said, completely ignoring the threat.

Ed wiggled his fingers, trying to get himself untied. His father had, unfortunately been thorough, and Ed was out of practice.

"You have one last chance, or we will make you useful in another way. Give me something. Anything. What you've been working on the past few months. Your server access key.

There were already whispers that Ed was a corporate spy and working for his father. He'd worked hard to dispel them, enough to gain his boss's trust. He had one tenuous ally, and he wasn't about to give that up by becoming what everyone else thought he was.

For a moment, Ed was silent. He stared at his ropes that bound his feet. "I've given you my answer," he said quietly. "It remains unchanged."

"Then you will become useful in another way," his father said. "Rumor has it that Flynn... was digitized, the night he...found the games on the server. We have recreated the laser. All we need is a human test subject."

Ed refused to give his father the pleasure of hearing him scream. He wouldn't beg, even if it meant his death. Better dead than under that monster's control. He stared at the laser and listened to his father's retreating footsteps. He closed his eyes, and listened to the whine of the laser as it powered up.

A searing hot white light burned his eyes behind closed eyelids. Then... nothing, for what may have been a pico-second or an eternity.

And then he was conscious again, and his entire body burned. His stomach ached like he might throw up.

When he opened his eyes, he was in a tiny room with grey walls that seemed to glow with the red light that filled the room. He was no longer tied to a chair, but instead laying on the ground. His skin was cracked, and a sickly lime green light shown through his cracked skin.

For a moment, all he could do was lay on the floor, feeling like he was burning from the inside, until he noticed the floor cracking underneath and around him, the green glow slowly spreading across the room.

He was inside...a computer. fCon's server, probably, and something had gone terribly wrong in the digitization process. His 'file' had been corrupted.

Ed pulled himself to his feet, jaw clenched against the dull ache that permeated his body and the wave of nausea that nearly toppled him again.

He marched to the nearest wall, and put his hands to it, screaming like a feral animal with the single-minded goal to get out. The corruption spread to the wall, and with some effort, Ed managed to break it enough to slip through.

He was a programmer, and a damn good one. He would not let his father control him, and he'd be damned if he didn't at least try to escape. If he took down the fCon server from the corruption in the process... well, his father deserved it.

He had no idea how to get out, but he'd figure it out. He squeezed through the hole he'd made, and ran, uncaring of where he ended up. Anywhere would surely be better than trapped and under his father's control again.

[redwinterroses]

in dark fibre au, who are the Clockers?

Cleo runs the city after her mad-scientist/fibre-inventing partner Etho vanished. (After he... uh... maybe killed and then un-killed her. They have a complicated backstory.) Along with their two sons, Bdubs and Scar, they are the Family and yes: think cyberpunk mafia but also they're also legitimate.

Cleo is like... Kingpin meets Clu 2 from Tron: Legacy meets the Grandmaster. They're truly the villains in this AU but there's some sympathy there because Bdubs doesn't really remember his dad and wants to believe that he wouldn't just abandon them while Scar does remember Etho and hates his guts, even more than Cleo does. Cleo doesn't really care if Etho lives or dies so long as he stays invisible and doesn't interfere with her plans, but Scar wants him dead.

They run the city and the main fibre network that connects everything, and they use fibre access to control the city's inhabitants. Can't work or get paid or call for help or even talk to each other if you don't have fibre, and Cleo wields that weapon as a graceful and clever mastermind.

[eldragon-x]

how angry do you think stan would be if he found out if ford publicly joined bill (though we all know he’s backstabbing him late) in One of Us. like. all stan knows about bill is that he ended the world. and there ford is, JOINING HIM. that would really fuck him up, I think. definitely no shackatron now, because ford needs no saving. unless he attempts to backstab and bill is just like Fuck That and puts him in the same torture situation as canon. except Worse. but then this time everyone would be even less motivated to save him! it’s such a weird situation. and if/when ford gives bill the equation (since bill will inevitability ask for it. unless this is where ford backstabs him) does bill just WIN? i suppose so. how do the pines win from here, if they do at all? :(

Anon this ask has kept me up all morning since like 2 am thank you for giving me the kick to start thinking about oou au. anyway

Speaking from a canon perspective, I don't think there is an equation, but for this AU I'll say there is because if anything, Bill would want it immediately when Ford joins him. He has no reason to wait and the deal is get power and knowledge and everything in exchange for the equation.

Which means yeah, Weirdmageddon does just get global early on. Though I think Bill and Ford would stay behind in the Fearamid because Bill seemed to intend to stay behind when initially trying to send the Henchmaniacs out into the world and he'd probably choose to keep Ford around to sorta show him the ropes and just to spend time with the guy. I've already talked plenty about how I think Bill genuinely likes Ford, I can see him choosing to hang out just with him above the other Henchmaniacs. Also y'know, the fact that they're both pretty much the central characters in this AU but I want to justify that with in-universe reasoning too lmao.

How the Pines win from that point is a whole thing I have yet to unpack but like. Killing Bill does reverse Weirdmageddon and I am not dead set on making this a bad ending type thing necessarily (tho I have thought about putting together ideas for how a successful Weirdmageddon would play out 🤔 mostly in how it would affect Bill long-term).

ANYWAY TO THE ACTUAL QUESTION there might still be a Shacktron? Because even if Ford accepts Bill's deal as early as in the Penthouse scene instead of folding at some point during the torture, the tron was already being built about that same time and I doubt it's going to be noticeable from the town if Weirdmageddon is spreading outside of it. It's just now that when the Shacktron crashes Bill's party it's not gonna be to a scene of the Henchmaniacs cheering as Bill tortures Ford, but to a scene of Bill happily chatting to Ford about how they're gonna rule the universe and stuff.

And about Stan, this absolutely depends on how much he knows about Bill because if we assume all he knows is based on Weirdmageddon happening like the show probably wants us to, yeah there's absolutely going to be resentment, depending on how obvious it is that Ford's hiding a knife behind his back.

But if we assume that Stan saw Ford's private study and saw some of the Journal 3 pages about Bill, despite Ford assuming Stan doesn't know about the study and the show never touching on Stan having looked through the third Journal beyond the portal plans, I think there will be some concern and confusion seeping in. Was Ford being tricked by Bill again? Would Ford get tricked by Bill again??

[spr1ng-b0y]

While I work on tweaking the designs and concepts for this AU, I might as well share what it's about!!

I'm sure most if not all of the fandom views ARMS labs as the not-so-good-guys, but the lore doesn't really elaborate much on that besides things involving coyle and her creations... Soooo, i kinda thought it would be interesting if they had more of a prominent role involving Springman. They already seem to want to override his skill with the manufacturing of Springtron, an eerily one to one scale clone. So instead of just making clones, why not resort to just getting the man himself to join their little schemes.

Initially, I wasn't sure how to go about this since I can't just have massive plot holes lying around, but then I came up with an idea. What if they interrupted the ongoing grand Prix (as seen before, canon) but rather than it being Tron or a Hedlok, why not take advantage of the intimidation factor. Blackmail people!! ARMS labs threatens violence on Springman and the other fighters participating, as well as putting the fans at risk by entering the way the ring the way they do. What's the solution to all of this? Join the "bad guys" anonymously or let them wreak havoc. Soooo, obviously not willing to let his fellow competitors be put at risk, he agrees to join, unaware of their true intentions.

Bla bla bla, dust and smog fill the ring, springman joins their side without anyone catching a glimpse of his disappearance. All that's left behind for the other fighters to discover is his mask, and after long speculation, he is presumed dead.

While the rest of the world bickers and argues about Springman's true whereabouts, he's being fitted with new gear and accessories to be more to the lab's liking and image. With this, he does get a replacement mask although it's tampered with to force him into a neutral state. He's still consciously himself and is aware of the situation, but cares less about returning to how things were.

Time passes, talk of Springman loses traction as he trains relentlessly to become the lab's new "super fighter" much like his metal counterpart and he surpasses their expectations.

A new tournament is held for the new competitor to hold the Springman name, however the true original returns unrecognized after the change he's gone through. Acting much like how Springtron does interrupting the grand Prix, Springman is BRUTAL with his opponents. Since nothing can be done to remove him from the ring during these events, the league just decides to see where things go as he returns time and time again, not quite recognizing his former friends. That is, until one of them manages to finally land a punch, knocking his mask off (or out of place) and everything comes rushing back to him all at once....

From there, we'll see how things go! I've got a lot of ideas up my sleeve but that's basically the general rundown of the main storyline. Lemme know what you think! I'll definitely be working on refining Spring's design, and maybe I'll incorporate a little Tronman or Springjara into it :^

[systemadministratorclu]

Hydra, Aries, and Saturn, from the questions meme for Hal and/or Clu!

From this meme:

Hydra: Favourite sound? 

Clu: Radia's singing. It always helps me when I feel alone or sad or upset. I just play one of the memories from her disc.

Hal: um......I don't really have one.

Aries: Favourite movie? 

Clu: No specific titles, but I like sci-fi. Especially anything about space. I also like space and space exploration documentaries. Have you seen the "Mars: Dead or Alive" episode of Nova on PBS?

Hal: (he's pretty much the same as Clu)

(They both also really like Found Family type stories)

Saturn: Any pets?

Clu: I don't have one, but I've always wanted a Bit. (Bits are a sort of animal on the Grid. There's one in the 1982 Tron movie that I think was supposed to fill the 'cute animal sidekick' spot that a lot of Disney movies have)

*in my AU with @alanbradleyofficial he actually has two pet Bits.

Hal: Sal (lovingly) calls my twin brothers our 'pet idiots'. Does that count?

[copperdaisy]

It’s 3am on Christmas morning and my attempt at going to bed four hours ago turned into a nap. So, here I am thinking about an AU and crossover verse that I haven’t touched in years. Chances are that I will probably never write a full fic for it, because the verse is too massive with a cast size to match, but maybe I’ll get back to writing one-shots for it some day. It is a crossover between MCU, Pacific Rim and TRON that @crystalshard​ and I toyed with for a while during that point in time where all three fandoms were at their height (a little past that for TRON admittedly but not by much). Pretty sure we called it the Marvelous Pacific Grid verse. I can ramble about different parts of it that I remember if people want, but for now I’m just going to ramble about one topic: the Beckets, or more precisely, Yancy. In this verse the Beckets are descendants of an Asgardian who vacationed on Earth at some point in the distant past. For centuries that part of their ancestry remained hidden, dormant. There was nothing exceedingly special about them or their relatives, especially in the modern day. But it was there, and during the events of that cold February night off the coast of Alaska it is the only thing that saved Yancy’s life. By all accounts he should have died. Torn from his Jaeger and cast into the angry seas he should have drowned, should have died from the force of impact alone, from plunging through the toxic Kaiju Blue. But he didn’t (some would say it would have been a much kinder fate than what befell him next).

Of course, being ripped out of an active Drift had its consequences. The violent disconnect and the trauma of the fall left him amnesic. He washed up on some forsaken spit of beach on the brink of death, kept alive by that distant ancestry. Rescue came for him; the people who found him, however, were not PPDC. They whisked him away to a clandestine medical facility where his numerous wounds were treated. It was luck (bad luck but luck just the same) that the sea had deposited him so near the facility, that in a few years’ time would eventually be revealed as a HYDRA base. The news of the Knifehead battle had spread by then, and those running the base were faced with a decision. They could return Yancy to the PPDC once he was well enough to travel. It would be easy enough to sneak him into an ordinary hospital. Or, they could keep him for their own purposes, intrigued by his survival against all odds.  Naturally, they chose to keep him for their own purposes. Yancy Becket was a dead man as far as the world was concerned, his body lost at sea. No one would look for him, and he did not know who he was once he regained consciousness. HYDRA did their best to keep it that way. Over the next year and a half he was subjected to a variety of experiments that pushed him to his limits and beyond. Each time he bounced back to a remarkable degree, though more and more of his humanity was stripped away in the process. The ultimate test came in the form of the super soldier serum, or an attempt to recreate it. As with all of the procedures before he survived it. However, the results were... unimaginable, to say the least. Maybe it was his Asgardian ancestry. Maybe it was the exposure to the Kaiju Blue. Maybe it was both. Whatever the cause, the combination with the serum produced not only a viable super human, but also resulted in the creation of the first human - kaiju hybrid. (Side note: I laughed while watching Pacific Rim: The Black and Boy was revealed for this reason.) This side effect was not discovered until the Breach opened to allow the next beast through and he was dragged into the hivemind and proceeded to ‘kaiju out’. Luck was once again on the side of the scientists in that his first transformation was small and comparatively easy to subdue. It would not stay this way - his kaiju form evolved over time, thanks in no small part to the meddling of the scientists themselves - but they got to enjoy their new toy for several years. (Yes, this included pitting him and Bucky against each other a time or two; their matches usually ended in draws.) All good things must come to an end sometime. And so it was that his time as a HYDRA mercenary and test subject came to an end when the base was found by the Avengers. It was HYDRA’s own fault, really. They probably should not have tried to ransom Tony Stark. But they did, and Yancy (who answered to the code name ‘Hunter’ if he was addressed by any name at all) could not defend the base alone. He was taken, along with the base. It was a somewhat bitter victory for Steve - they had found a super soldier, but it was not Bucky. Next came the question of what to do with their find. It did not take long for them to unearth the soldier’s true identity, but they could not exactly hand him over to the PPDC. The decision was made to keep things quiet for the time being. A cell similar to that meant to contain the Hulk was constructed to contain him as a safety precaution following another opening of the Breach and subsequent ‘kaiju out’ situation. Yancy’s existence was kept a secret as the team and S.H.I.E.L.D worked to restore what could be restored of his memories and undo some of the harm HYDRA had inflicted. He would never go back to what and who he had been. There was no way to erase what had been done to him, and what he had done while serving as one of HYDRA’s pet soldiers. But bit by bit Yancy returned to himself and learned the control his transformations. In time he would be reunited with Raleigh. In time he would accept that he could never step foot in a Jaeger again. In time he would become an Avenger himself, inventively dubbed Kaiju Blue (the alternative was ‘Ginger Danger’ and that suggestion almost got Clint punted into next month). And in time the full extent of the horrors HYDRA had wrought would come to light. (Namely, the use of his mutated DNA in the creation of more human-kaiju hybrids.) But he would survive each and every one of these things. (He would also later survive eating Thanos’ hand along with the Infinity Gauntlet at some point down the line while in his kaiju form. Don’t worry, he coughed the Gauntlet and stones up later before reverting to human form. That is how the whole SNAP! ordeal was avoided in this verse. He also kicks down Newt’s wall door when the hivemind tattles on him messing around with the kaiju brain because Yancy is forever connected to that network now and DON’T YOU FUCKING DARE, GEISZLER.)

[waywardsalt]

song list from my loz space au playlist :)

this playlist is abt 4 and a half hours in total rn.

i dont use spotify or anything so im just going to manually list all of them, grouping together all of the songs from the same sources, and listing the artist or what game/movie theyre from.

(since a few song titles include sections in parentheses, the last set of parentheses is the artist or game/movie of origin)

Howling (Lupus Nocte)

Kakusei (Superfly)

vs. DJ Subatomic Supernova, vs. 1010, vs. Eve (From No Straight Roads)

Dancing Hero (Eat You Up) (Yoko Oginome)

PROMARETHEME, Inferno, BangBangBUR! …n?, NEXUS, BAR2NG 4MA14YON, Gallant Ones (From Promare)

Blue Monday (New Order)

You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) (Dead or Alive)

Oh Yeah (Yello)

The Peacekeepers, Dead or Alive, Housecleaning, Swansong, Arctic Battle 1, Arctic Battle 2, Arctic Battle 3, Ocean Battle 1, Desert Exploration 1, Desert Exploration 2, Desert Battle 2, I Was the Sun (Before It Was Cool) (From Starbound)

End of Line, Derezzed, TRON Legacy (End Titles) (From TRON: Legacy)

What Heroes Do, The Revolution Has Begun, Sakaar Chase, Planet Sakaar (From Thor: Ragnarok)

Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) (Eurythmics)

Neo - Tokyo (Dance with the Dead Remix) (Scandroid)

Holding out for a Hero (Bonnie Tyler)

Fight With Seymour (From Final Fantasy X)

Voyager (From Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number)

Let the Battles Begin! (From Final Fantasy VII)

Those Who Forget History, Goldenvengeance, Three Bar Logos, Stardust Diving, You Were Wrong. Go Back., You Cannot Go Back, The Vengeance of Those Forgotten in Darkness (From Omori)

Harder Better Faster Stronger (Daft Punk)

Core, Death by Glamour (From Undertale)

Big Shot (From Deltarune Chapter 2)

Camel by Camel (Alternative Vocal Mix) (Sandy Marton)

Light Me Up (Cobra Man)

Little Dark Age (MGMT)

Devilman No Uta (Kensuke Ushio)

Hot Limit (T.M.Revolution)

I Really Want to Stay at Your House (From Cyberpunk 2077)

Fly-day Chinatown (yasuha)

Love the Subhuman Self, Armor-Clad Faith, Find Your One Way, The Roar of the Spark (From Guilty Gear Strive)

Battle-A1, Battle-A2, Battle-A3, Battle-B1, Battle-B2, Battle-C1, Battle-C2, Battle-C3, Urban Area A, Shinjuku: Underground District, Ikebukuro: Underground District, Hunter Association, Tokyo, Infernal Tokyo, Tokyo Midtown, Reverse Hills, Infernal Tokyo: Underground District, Camp Ichigaya, Black Market, Roppongi Region (From Shin Megami Tensei IV)