FIC: Prompt Drabbles I [Tron (1982/Legacy), Misc]
Title: Distressing Balls of Fluff
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 & Alan
Summary: Tron and Alan and distressing balls of fluff.
Author’s Note: For a prompt by kimmykun. Enjoy!
Distressing Balls of Fluff
“Tron, have you seen Luke and Leia?” Alan-One yelled from downstairs.
Tron nearly jumped out of his User-type skin.
“No, sorry,” he yelled back, and snatched another book off the shelf one-handed.
Cookbook. Glitch it.
Crash the blasphemy, only a search engine could help him now.
Alan-One opened the bedroom door. Tron whirled around.
“Maybe they’re under the... bed... Tron, what’s that behind your back?”
He couldn’t lie. Not to Alan-One.
“I broke the kittens,” he confessed miserably.
Alan-One stared. In Tron’s outstretched hands, Luke and Leia rattled - like Rinzler had.
But Alan-One smiled, soothing. “No; you made new friends.”
Title: Hindsight Is A Bitch
Author: Omnicat
Unofficially Adapted From: Steven Lisberger & co’s Tron and Joseph Kosinsky & co’s Tron: Legacy.
Spoilers & Desirable Foreknowledge: Tron and the first 9:10 minutes of Tron: Legacy.
Warnings: None.
Characters & Pairings: Dillinger Jr & Dillinger Sr & Mrs Dillinger & mention of Sark
Summary: Dillinger Senior and Junior have a run-in with the Westermarck Effect.
Author’s Note: For a prompt by spicer-cthulhusummoning-lovejoy. Enjoy!
Hindsight Is A Bitch
“DID I NOT GIVE YOU A GOOD CHILDHOOD? GAVE YOU EVERYTHING, MOVED SOMEWHERE YOU COULD BE YOUR OWN MAN? WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO ME?!”
“Edward, he was only masturbating, it’s natural for teenagers -”
“Only masturbating?!”
“To Flynn’s movie, I get -”
“To SARK.”
“IT’S OKAY TO BE HOMOSEXUAL, EDWARD.”
“Of course it is, but not for Sark. I WROTE THAT PROGRAM!”
“Bisexual,” Ed mumbled. His parents were too busy yelling to notice. “And your program’s ass was made for tapping, so what?”
He got his answer twenty years of Sarksturbation later, when Alan Bradley introduced him to his program.
Title: Real or Not Real?
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: Flynn & mention of Clu 2.0 & Tron & Yori
Summary: Kevin Flynn and the view from our side of the screen.
Author’s Note: For a prompt by grey_sw. Enjoy!
Real or Not Real?
After that first time courtesy of the MCP, Flynn seizes the soonest opportunity to access Lora and Alan’s terminals and pour over their programs’ coding. Brilliant pieces of work, both of them, but he doesn’t know what to think about everything he doesn’t find.
Knew he wouldn’t find.
When he comes back from creating Clu 2.0, he expects... more, somehow. But again there’s nothing - no sign of his unique birth, no evidence of the light of independent thought in his eyes. Of the arm around Flynn’s shoulders.
He doesn’t know which side of the screen to feel more betrayed by.
Title: Showman
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: Lora & Rinzler
Summary: Rinzler helps Lora do the dishes.
Author’s Note: ’Cause let’s face it, ninety-nine percent of those fancy flips of his were purely decorative. Rinzler just likes to show off his mad skillz. ;) For a prompt by luppihara. Enjoy!
Showman
Lora washed, Rinzler dried; it was routine, almost normal. Oftentimes, he would turn the plates over and over in his hands, weighing, considering. Troubled? Lora didn’t ask; pushing Rinzler never helped. He’d get there eventually.
And he did: flinging a saucer high, end over end, catching it on the back of his hand, running it down his arm, and bringing it arcing back over his head, into his outstretched palm.
As Lora gaped, Rinzler caught her eye, raised the saucer, and set it spinning on the tip of his finger.
She applauded, and for the first time, saw him smile.
Title: Empty Chairs at Empty Tables
Author: Omnicat
Unofficially Adapted From: Charlie Bean & co’s Tron: Uprising.
Spoilers & Desirable Foreknowledge: Up until episode 14, “Tagged”.
Warnings: Unsolved disappearances.
Characters & Pairings: Zed & Beck & Mara
Summary: Their legacy to Zed was another 990 cycles under the yoke of the Occupation. Alone.
Author’s Note: For a prompt by ranoutofrun. Based on the state of affairs as of ep 14, “Tagged”; AU as of ep 18, “No Bounds”. Enjoy!
Empty Chairs at Empty Tables
Beck and Mara don’t show up to work one millicycle. Nor the next. Or ever again.
What was left of their friendship dies not with a bang, but a whimper.
Zed knows they probably died. And if so, that they died together.
Zed wasn’t even invited.
They were never any more interested in each other than they were in Zed, which should’ve been his one consolation, but isn’t. He replays his memory files and sees them all tainted with never-would-have-beens and long-since-ceased-to-bes.
What did it say about Zed that they’d both rather die with another just-friend than stay with him?
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 & Alan
Summary: Tron and Alan and distressing balls of fluff.
Author’s Note: For a prompt by kimmykun. Enjoy!
Distressing Balls of Fluff
“Tron, have you seen Luke and Leia?” Alan-One yelled from downstairs.
Tron nearly jumped out of his User-type skin.
“No, sorry,” he yelled back, and snatched another book off the shelf one-handed.
Cookbook. Glitch it.
Crash the blasphemy, only a search engine could help him now.
Alan-One opened the bedroom door. Tron whirled around.
“Maybe they’re under the... bed... Tron, what’s that behind your back?”
He couldn’t lie. Not to Alan-One.
“I broke the kittens,” he confessed miserably.
Alan-One stared. In Tron’s outstretched hands, Luke and Leia rattled - like Rinzler had.
But Alan-One smiled, soothing. “No; you made new friends.”
Title: Hindsight Is A Bitch
Author: Omnicat
Unofficially Adapted From: Steven Lisberger & co’s Tron and Joseph Kosinsky & co’s Tron: Legacy.
Spoilers & Desirable Foreknowledge: Tron and the first 9:10 minutes of Tron: Legacy.
Warnings: None.
Characters & Pairings: Dillinger Jr & Dillinger Sr & Mrs Dillinger & mention of Sark
Summary: Dillinger Senior and Junior have a run-in with the Westermarck Effect.
Author’s Note: For a prompt by spicer-cthulhusummoning-lovejoy. Enjoy!
Hindsight Is A Bitch
“DID I NOT GIVE YOU A GOOD CHILDHOOD? GAVE YOU EVERYTHING, MOVED SOMEWHERE YOU COULD BE YOUR OWN MAN? WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO ME?!”
“Edward, he was only masturbating, it’s natural for teenagers -”
“Only masturbating?!”
“To Flynn’s movie, I get -”
“To SARK.”
“IT’S OKAY TO BE HOMOSEXUAL, EDWARD.”
“Of course it is, but not for Sark. I WROTE THAT PROGRAM!”
“Bisexual,” Ed mumbled. His parents were too busy yelling to notice. “And your program’s ass was made for tapping, so what?”
He got his answer twenty years of Sarksturbation later, when Alan Bradley introduced him to his program.
Title: Real or Not Real?
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: Flynn & mention of Clu 2.0 & Tron & Yori
Summary: Kevin Flynn and the view from our side of the screen.
Author’s Note: For a prompt by grey_sw. Enjoy!
Real or Not Real?
After that first time courtesy of the MCP, Flynn seizes the soonest opportunity to access Lora and Alan’s terminals and pour over their programs’ coding. Brilliant pieces of work, both of them, but he doesn’t know what to think about everything he doesn’t find.
Knew he wouldn’t find.
When he comes back from creating Clu 2.0, he expects... more, somehow. But again there’s nothing - no sign of his unique birth, no evidence of the light of independent thought in his eyes. Of the arm around Flynn’s shoulders.
He doesn’t know which side of the screen to feel more betrayed by.
Title: Showman
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: Lora & Rinzler
Summary: Rinzler helps Lora do the dishes.
Author’s Note: ’Cause let’s face it, ninety-nine percent of those fancy flips of his were purely decorative. Rinzler just likes to show off his mad skillz. ;) For a prompt by luppihara. Enjoy!
Showman
Lora washed, Rinzler dried; it was routine, almost normal. Oftentimes, he would turn the plates over and over in his hands, weighing, considering. Troubled? Lora didn’t ask; pushing Rinzler never helped. He’d get there eventually.
And he did: flinging a saucer high, end over end, catching it on the back of his hand, running it down his arm, and bringing it arcing back over his head, into his outstretched palm.
As Lora gaped, Rinzler caught her eye, raised the saucer, and set it spinning on the tip of his finger.
She applauded, and for the first time, saw him smile.
Title: Empty Chairs at Empty Tables
Author: Omnicat
Unofficially Adapted From: Charlie Bean & co’s Tron: Uprising.
Spoilers & Desirable Foreknowledge: Up until episode 14, “Tagged”.
Warnings: Unsolved disappearances.
Characters & Pairings: Zed & Beck & Mara
Summary: Their legacy to Zed was another 990 cycles under the yoke of the Occupation. Alone.
Author’s Note: For a prompt by ranoutofrun. Based on the state of affairs as of ep 14, “Tagged”; AU as of ep 18, “No Bounds”. Enjoy!
Empty Chairs at Empty Tables
Beck and Mara don’t show up to work one millicycle. Nor the next. Or ever again.
What was left of their friendship dies not with a bang, but a whimper.
Zed knows they probably died. And if so, that they died together.
Zed wasn’t even invited.
They were never any more interested in each other than they were in Zed, which should’ve been his one consolation, but isn’t. He replays his memory files and sees them all tainted with never-would-have-beens and long-since-ceased-to-bes.
What did it say about Zed that they’d both rather die with another just-friend than stay with him?