#the renegade

[pierppasolini]

The Renegade (1995) // dir. John Rutherford

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Random Tron thingies I made

(creds to @/the_angler_mann in twt for dis one ↑)

[theartofannabellepullen]

“Mrs. Walpole closed her eyes, suddenly feeling the harsh hands pulling her down, the sharp points closing down on her throat.”

-Shirley Jackson, The Renegade

[gillymugs]

A little Beck study in aggie

(reference Marc Mcdonnell?) I could be wrong though since I found the picture on Pinterest with no links

[grantmespace]

Ending the revolution before it begins

Additionally:

[ask-the-becile-boys]

Story. The Renegade

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[ID: Eleven digitally sketched panels in greyscale.]

[Panel 1: Bird's eye view. The scene is still shadowed heavily by the offscreen fire. Hare and The Skull walk toward the van, which is being turned around. The Jack rushes ahead of them toward Scratch, who stands next to the Becile Industries car. Hare asks The Skull, "You OK, big guy?" The Skull responds, "I'll be fine." The Jack calls to Scratch, "Scratch! Your bag is in the car!" From within the van, Dee says, "No, don't drive (em-dash) we can't leave (em-dash)" Riker responds, "We gotta, Dee. I'm sorry."]

[Panel 2: In the foreground, Hare opens the door to the back of the van and steps up into it, saying, "Dee? Dee (em-dash)" The Skull's head can be seen in the corner of the panel as he follows Hare. In the background, The Jack has gotten Scratch's duffel bag out of the Becile Industries car. The Jack says, "I'm (ellipses) I'm so sorry (em-dash)" Scratch, voice rough (denoted by a particle effect around his words), replies, "Blame Lock. Not you. C (em-dash) Can you carry (em-dash)" The Jack quickly says, "O-Of course."]

[Panel 3: The Skull, now standing in the van, reaches a hand out to Scratch, who offers his broken left hand. The Skull says, "Hurry, you two. Give me your hand, Scratch."]

[Panel 4: In the foreground, Scratch looks up with an appreciative look in his eye, half in shadow. He says, "Thank you." In the distant background, two red eyes shine, and a light glimmers.]

[Panel 5: SFX: (all caps) Bang! Scratch gives a gutteral "(all caps) hhk" as he's shot in the back with a dart that sparks green light.]

[Panel 6: The red eyes are revealed to be Agent Ester's. She stands impassively, her robotic eyes partially opened up along the seams, holding a crossbow-like device that has a green light in the barrel.]

[Panel 7: Scratch SFX: "slump"s forward into The Skull's arms. The Skull despairingly cries, " (all caps) No!!" The dark in Scratch's back is shown to have four arms and a center spoke, each with a green light on them.]

[Panel 8: One of the RO-bots SFX: (all caps) "rush!" past Agent Ester, claws extended.]

[Panel 9: The RO-bot runs up behind Scratch and raises its clawed hand to strike.]

[Panel 10: White claw marks on a black background.]

[Panel 11: The Jack stands, flinching, holding the duffel bag aloft. The RO-bot's claws are embedded in the bag and its contents. End ID]

[lady-of-the-puddle]

Welcome Back

Today I will be rating Beck's

Potential Partners?

The question mark is because some of them were definitely his partners, others will not admit it, and some came to...circumstances preventing a declaration of their love...anyway.

1. Bodhi

Literally on screen for 30 seconds max

We all clocked that shit instantly

Never brought him up again (thx to retroactive backstory oops)

Beck was actually visibly sad about him tho to the point his boss/dad had to ask if he was ok

Absolute cute couple though

8/10 I knew him for five seconds and now I have to kill everyone in this room and then myself

2. Paige

Y'all already know. Everyone knows. The whole grid knows.

The sexual tension is palpable

Which brings me to some difficult questions about the nature of programs and what physical functions they may or may not have.

Ugh I'm a sucker for the rivals to lovers thing tho

12/10 top ten hottest bi power couple if they don't kill each other first

3. Tron

I went over this in my tron's exes list but I must reiterate cause reasons

Can you imagine meeting your hero, your icon, your savior and he's....a bit of a bitch??

But you learn and get to know him and he opens up to you and comes to trust you with his life UGH my heart

9/10 I rated this 7/10 before but I'm not scared anymore they're GOOD

4. Cyrus

Look, he gets in with his bffs and the first thing they say to Beck is "you didn't tell us you had a new bf!" (Totally NOT paraphrasing that).

The fucked up stalker/victim pairing is SUCH good tea

And then he tries to kill him later? Delicious.

7/10 this one's for the toxicity 😏

5. Lux (I had to look up her name)

okay this one loses points because they WANTED me to ship this when we already knew Paige existed

I don't like to be told what to do

I mean, it's ok Beck has two hands(more like eight at this point) I can work with it

loved her jaded perspective turning into hope before she was fridged for male pai- I mean derezzed for reasons relevant to the plot 👀 that was definitely neat

Consider: she is pretty though

4/10 they're both a ten but I'm a bitter bitch so sue me

6. Mara

tbh she's such a cutie and deserves way better than whatever incel shit Zed has going on

no wonder she's in love with Tron/the Renegade (I mean, same) I would beg a superhero to save me from him too

she and Beck have such a good dynamic

would be such a cute friends to lovers pair

can you imagine if she found out her bestie was the renegade she's been visibly/audibly thirsting after? Queen shit.

8/10 This one is actually the least toxic here

7. The rebellion leader whose name escapes me (it's Bartik)

so this guy appears in legacy as the rebel leader at Castor's before getting derezzed five minutes later (shocker there)

this one just kinda leaped into my brain when I binged the show directly after watching Legacy

can you imagine inspiring someone to change sides completely and then become the leader of the very fire you sparked long after you're probably gone? Endlessly romantic.

6/10 I have yet to have a really bad ship tbh

8. Pavel

I hate it, you hate it, we all hate it

But it's still pretty hot

8/10 bitch on bitch violence

9. Zed

Ahaha I hate it

he's way too comfortable with the evil bad guy shit happening around him.

honestly I have no idea why Beck is even friends with him

HOWEVER

jock/loser pairing

Beck CAN AND WILL fix him

3/10 I don't think we can save this one boys

BONUS ROUND:

10. Tesler

LMAO I just thought of this

Why do I love it tho

Something about the Darkseid omega beam hands that make me think weird thoughts

Now I wish I had put this on my tron list

1/10 or 9/10 depending on the day

I really do love that Beck is just the most specialest boy, he's the grid's next top model, he's batman, he's everything. Istg this is a harem anime in disguise and I ship him with everyone.

I can think of at least two programs off the top of my head that I didn't include because I forgot until now, so tell me about your rare pairs, etc. I was thinking about rating Clu's crushes that he handles in a completely normal way next but that might be too much. This is what happens when we have no new content for 10 years.

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BECK SKETCH i've been in the mood for sketching more Tron Uprising because mmmmmgood that style

I like to sketch while watching and then I get so depressed when I run out of episodes

[tbone-works]

SUPER FIGHTING....DUDE?

Been Watching too many Mega-Man videos

[solexile]

Entanglement

en·tan·gle·ment /inˈtaNGɡəlm(ə)nt,enˈtanɡəlm(ə)nt/ noun noun: entanglement

the action or fact of entangling or being entangled. "Threads of time are entangled for the Warden."

a complicated or compromising relationship or situation. "I can never be relieved of my entanglement of you, Renegade."

in science: quantum entanglement

a bizarre, counterintuitive phenomenon that explains how two subatomic particles can be intimately linked to each other even if separated by billions of light-years of space.

[dyed-red]

I adore your supernatural fics and would love to hear more about your thoughts on them! If you're still doing the wip ask game, I'd like to learn more about "the Renegade" in particular.

(PS: I'm really excited to hear that you finished "folded at the edges". I'm really looking forward to reading it when you post it to your ao3)

thank you for sending this! sorry i didn't get back to you immediately, my brain sometimes stalls for no reason ^^;

The Renegade is, uh, my favourite thing i've worked on since squint into the sunset. I've been working on it basically since i finished that fic, actually, but it's been set aside for a large portion of that time as the plot grew a bit unwieldly. that being said, i go back and chip away at it continuously, and it is a very plot-focused story.

the premise is that it's a time travel story where a version of sam from a pretty rough post/during-apocalypse timeline travels back in time to try and stop that from happening. except he has no control over which years/times he lands in, and he keeps jumping. it's very "sam winchester has come unstuck in time" with a series of painful complex events and messed up family dynamics and psychosexual fuckery :)

i'd be happy to chat more and answer more questions about it, like delighted, but i'm not always sure how much "spoilery" type info people want on a story without giving away too much upfront.

i've also got a tag for it, as i do with a lot of my fics, if you're interested in the vibe: the renegade

[james-joyces-right-eyeball]

Just read "The Renegade" by Shirley Jackson. Might be her most terrifying story I recommend.

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Stickers of Tron helmets. from left to right, Paige, mara, zed, beck/the renegade, Tron (sum close ups ↓)

[words-and-coffee]

There was nothing but sour wine in me, and that was all for the best, how can a man become better if he’s not bad.

Albert Camus, Exile and the Kingdom - The Renegade

[kerryweaverlesbian]

Read The Renegade short story by Shirley Jackson and then come and talk about it to me bc I'm going to explode this is the best of the collection so far