FIC: Tron Picture Drabbles II [Tron (1982/Legacy), Misc]
A collection of 100-word drabbles based on - surprise, surprise - pictures, all of which came my way via tumblr. Thanks to infiniteviking for starting this off!
Title: Tron’s Hands, One Disc Held In Each
Author: Omnicat
Unofficially Adapted From: Steven Lisberger & co’s Tron and Joseph Kosinsky & co’s Tron: Legacy.
Spoilers & Desirable Foreknowledge: All of the above.
Warnings: None.
Characters & Pairings: Tron x Yori
Author’s Note: Inspired by the observation that only red programs and Game Grid prisoners wear discs in the 1982 movie. Also because I GUESS THIS FRANCHISE WASN’T TRAGIC ENOUGH YET.
Yori remembers the first time she saw a disc, remembers the sense of violation. A row of Reds, marching triumphant into a previously free domain, all of them cracked open to grant Master Control access where only the Users were meant to reach.
“It’s a weapon,” Tron had realised, and pulled her deeper into the safety of the shadows.
“It’s a weapon,” he repeated, face tight and hands trembling, when he returned from captivity for the first time and she wrapped her arms around him only to find that thing. His voice was hard. “And I intend to use it.”
“It feels lighter here,” Tron once confided to her, when Flynn’s world was new and spirits were high. “Flynn’s not my User, but Alan-1 entrusted me to him. If his greatest friend makes it so, I’m sure it’s no longer a blemish to him.”
Yori had kissed him, another gift from Flynn, and Tron’s newfound peace had made the disc sit more easily between her own shoulders. While the User walked among them, the intimacy of sharing code and memory was a blessing.
Now the User is gone, Reds swarm the city anew, and Tron bears two tyrants’ wounds.
Title: Bostrumite!Quorra and Rectified!Sam
Author: Omnicat
Unofficially Adapted From: Joseph Kosinsky & co’s Tron: Legacy and Chris Borders & co’s Tron: Evolution.
Spoilers & Desirable Foreknowledge: All of the above.
Warnings: None.
Characters & Pairings: Quorra &/x Sam
Author’s Note: (Okay, I’m pretty they were Recos, but tanks are more amusing to think about.) Thanks to ExpositionFairy for (unwittingly) inspiring this interpretation!
“It’s the season to be jolly...” Sam lilted, barely audible above the whirr of his disc as he sauntered through the ruins. “Or I think it is. Hard to keep track nowadays.” He raised his voice, kicking a piece of junk data to voxels. “Nice place you got here. Looks like someone took a tank to the interior, though. No - first a virus, then tanks, right?”
Quorra shot from the darkness, a shrieking green-lit shadow. Sam whirled and parried, but her disc came down and down until the violent red of Sam’s circuits blinked out, until only blood was left.
“There are so many reasons I should hate you, and so few why I shouldn’t.”
“None of those were good enough reason before this.”
“You freaks of nature deserved everything you got for taking my father away from me.”
Quorra tightened the bandage; Sam’s voice cut off in a fractured whine. Then his disc beeped on his back and he screamed through his teeth, writhing.
Quorra belatedly evened out her breathing. “Once you’re fixed, I’ll forget you said that.”
Sam laughed hoarsely. “Users don’t break, Quorra. Can’t fix what ain’t broken.”
She hoped he was wrong, for both their sakes.
Title: Dillinger At His Too Sentient Desk
Author: Omnicat
Unofficially Adapted From: Steven Lisberger & co’s Tron and Joseph Kosinsky & co’s Tron: Legacy.
Spoilers & Desirable Foreknowledge: All of Tron and the first four-and-a-half minutes of Tron: Legacy.
Warnings: None.
Characters & Pairings: Dillinger Senior
Author’s Note: Enjoy!
People are always expecting him to be more vengeful.
Hardly surprising. Publically ousted, company usurped, career ruined. And then Flynn unsubtly fictionalized his ruin, turned it into a best-selling franchise. He’s done his jail time, but the true punishment lies in the tale of Tron, Yori, Clu and the MCP - in the indelible tie to his name, remembered not for corporate theft but for tyranny, death matches and ‘Ram! Nooooo!’.
The casual cruelty of it is staggering.
The accuracy, though...
Ed understands how little fiction there is in it. And how grateful they should all be for the happy ending.
Title: Tron Files about Radia, Arjia City, and Arjians
Author: Omnicat
Unofficially Adapted From: Steven Lisberger & co’s Tron and Chris Borders & co’s Tron: Evolution.
Spoilers & Desirable Foreknowledge: All of the above.
Warnings: None.
Characters & Pairings: Radia & Yori
Author’s Note: Source of the pics.
“They wouldn’t take no for an answer. Radia, please explain to your followers that I cannot do anything unless Flynn commands it.”
“I will. I’m so sorry, Yori. Were you hurt?”
“Tron arrived before it got that far.”
This time.
Yori’s gray laser control uniform was a dark omen amidst Arjia’s silvery-whites.
“They’re growing impatient. I feel like such a fool now for sharing my suspicions before Flynn confirmed them.” Voice low, grave: “Surely Flynn wouldn’t teach us so much of a better world, his world, if he didn’t mean to take us there someday?”
Yori sincerely wished she knew.
Title: Satellite Image of Cities in Abraxas-Yellow
Author: Omnicat
Unofficially Adapted From: Joseph Kosinsky & co’s Tron: Legacy, Kurt Mattila & co’s Tron: The Next Day, the Flynn Lives ARG, and Chris Borders & co’s Tron: Evolution.
Spoilers & Desirable Foreknowledge: All of the above.
Warnings: None.
Characters & Pairings: Alan & Quorra & the Flynn Lives forum regulars
Author’s Note: Thanks to remorsebot for (unwittingly) inspiring this interpretation! Please imagine this taking place in the Flynn Lives Discussion Forums. I would try to pretty it up to bear more of a resemblance, but I am not that code-savvy. :(
“Abraxas” Mode Is KILLING Me
MeganRules
That’s one scary simulation you’ve cooked up, ISOlatedThinker. Never took you for a Z-pocalypse prepper.
ISOlatedThinker
I’m full of surprises. So, what do you think?
MeganRules
That it’s a good thing you’re on our side. You and ISO.exe. It keeps slaughtering me and never even drops the smileys.
ISOlatedThinker
Anyone else have better luck?
DonutLuvver
Nope.
SkateItOut
Nada.
CindyGirl
Nothing.
Mako
It’s impossible.
ISOlatedThinker
We were afraid of that.
JustTheFacts
Look on the bright side: with a program like that, there’s a Nobel Prize waiting in your near future.
ISOlatedThinker
I’ll pass. She’s shy.
Title: Tron’s Hands, One Disc Held In Each
Author: Omnicat
Unofficially Adapted From: Steven Lisberger & co’s Tron and Joseph Kosinsky & co’s Tron: Legacy.
Spoilers & Desirable Foreknowledge: All of the above.
Warnings: None.
Characters & Pairings: Tron x Yori
Author’s Note: Inspired by the observation that only red programs and Game Grid prisoners wear discs in the 1982 movie. Also because I GUESS THIS FRANCHISE WASN’T TRAGIC ENOUGH YET.
Yori remembers the first time she saw a disc, remembers the sense of violation. A row of Reds, marching triumphant into a previously free domain, all of them cracked open to grant Master Control access where only the Users were meant to reach.
“It’s a weapon,” Tron had realised, and pulled her deeper into the safety of the shadows.
“It’s a weapon,” he repeated, face tight and hands trembling, when he returned from captivity for the first time and she wrapped her arms around him only to find that thing. His voice was hard. “And I intend to use it.”
“It feels lighter here,” Tron once confided to her, when Flynn’s world was new and spirits were high. “Flynn’s not my User, but Alan-1 entrusted me to him. If his greatest friend makes it so, I’m sure it’s no longer a blemish to him.”
Yori had kissed him, another gift from Flynn, and Tron’s newfound peace had made the disc sit more easily between her own shoulders. While the User walked among them, the intimacy of sharing code and memory was a blessing.
Now the User is gone, Reds swarm the city anew, and Tron bears two tyrants’ wounds.
Title: Bostrumite!Quorra and Rectified!Sam
Author: Omnicat
Unofficially Adapted From: Joseph Kosinsky & co’s Tron: Legacy and Chris Borders & co’s Tron: Evolution.
Spoilers & Desirable Foreknowledge: All of the above.
Warnings: None.
Characters & Pairings: Quorra &/x Sam
Author’s Note: (Okay, I’m pretty they were Recos, but tanks are more amusing to think about.) Thanks to ExpositionFairy for (unwittingly) inspiring this interpretation!
“It’s the season to be jolly...” Sam lilted, barely audible above the whirr of his disc as he sauntered through the ruins. “Or I think it is. Hard to keep track nowadays.” He raised his voice, kicking a piece of junk data to voxels. “Nice place you got here. Looks like someone took a tank to the interior, though. No - first a virus, then tanks, right?”
Quorra shot from the darkness, a shrieking green-lit shadow. Sam whirled and parried, but her disc came down and down until the violent red of Sam’s circuits blinked out, until only blood was left.
“There are so many reasons I should hate you, and so few why I shouldn’t.”
“None of those were good enough reason before this.”
“You freaks of nature deserved everything you got for taking my father away from me.”
Quorra tightened the bandage; Sam’s voice cut off in a fractured whine. Then his disc beeped on his back and he screamed through his teeth, writhing.
Quorra belatedly evened out her breathing. “Once you’re fixed, I’ll forget you said that.”
Sam laughed hoarsely. “Users don’t break, Quorra. Can’t fix what ain’t broken.”
She hoped he was wrong, for both their sakes.
Title: Dillinger At His Too Sentient Desk
Author: Omnicat
Unofficially Adapted From: Steven Lisberger & co’s Tron and Joseph Kosinsky & co’s Tron: Legacy.
Spoilers & Desirable Foreknowledge: All of Tron and the first four-and-a-half minutes of Tron: Legacy.
Warnings: None.
Characters & Pairings: Dillinger Senior
Author’s Note: Enjoy!
People are always expecting him to be more vengeful.
Hardly surprising. Publically ousted, company usurped, career ruined. And then Flynn unsubtly fictionalized his ruin, turned it into a best-selling franchise. He’s done his jail time, but the true punishment lies in the tale of Tron, Yori, Clu and the MCP - in the indelible tie to his name, remembered not for corporate theft but for tyranny, death matches and ‘Ram! Nooooo!’.
The casual cruelty of it is staggering.
The accuracy, though...
Ed understands how little fiction there is in it. And how grateful they should all be for the happy ending.
Title: Tron Files about Radia, Arjia City, and Arjians
Author: Omnicat
Unofficially Adapted From: Steven Lisberger & co’s Tron and Chris Borders & co’s Tron: Evolution.
Spoilers & Desirable Foreknowledge: All of the above.
Warnings: None.
Characters & Pairings: Radia & Yori
Author’s Note: Source of the pics.
“They wouldn’t take no for an answer. Radia, please explain to your followers that I cannot do anything unless Flynn commands it.”
“I will. I’m so sorry, Yori. Were you hurt?”
“Tron arrived before it got that far.”
This time.
Yori’s gray laser control uniform was a dark omen amidst Arjia’s silvery-whites.
“They’re growing impatient. I feel like such a fool now for sharing my suspicions before Flynn confirmed them.” Voice low, grave: “Surely Flynn wouldn’t teach us so much of a better world, his world, if he didn’t mean to take us there someday?”
Yori sincerely wished she knew.
Title: Satellite Image of Cities in Abraxas-Yellow
Author: Omnicat
Unofficially Adapted From: Joseph Kosinsky & co’s Tron: Legacy, Kurt Mattila & co’s Tron: The Next Day, the Flynn Lives ARG, and Chris Borders & co’s Tron: Evolution.
Spoilers & Desirable Foreknowledge: All of the above.
Warnings: None.
Characters & Pairings: Alan & Quorra & the Flynn Lives forum regulars
Author’s Note: Thanks to remorsebot for (unwittingly) inspiring this interpretation! Please imagine this taking place in the Flynn Lives Discussion Forums. I would try to pretty it up to bear more of a resemblance, but I am not that code-savvy. :(
“Abraxas” Mode Is KILLING Me
MeganRules
That’s one scary simulation you’ve cooked up, ISOlatedThinker. Never took you for a Z-pocalypse prepper.
ISOlatedThinker
I’m full of surprises. So, what do you think?
MeganRules
That it’s a good thing you’re on our side. You and ISO.exe. It keeps slaughtering me and never even drops the smileys.
ISOlatedThinker
Anyone else have better luck?
DonutLuvver
Nope.
SkateItOut
Nada.
CindyGirl
Nothing.
Mako
It’s impossible.
ISOlatedThinker
We were afraid of that.
JustTheFacts
Look on the bright side: with a program like that, there’s a Nobel Prize waiting in your near future.
ISOlatedThinker
I’ll pass. She’s shy.