FIC: Picture Drabbles III [Tron (1982/Legacy)]
Title: Sam finding the keys still in the door to Flynn's lab
Author: Omnicat
Unofficially Adapted From: Joseph Kosinsky & co's Tron: Legacy, Kurt Mattila & co's Tron: The Next Day, and the Flynn Lives ARG.
Spoilers & Desirable Foreknowledge: All of the above, though nothing specific from the Flynn Lives ARG.
Warnings: None.
Characters & Pairings: Sam
Author's Note: Enjoy!
Drag marks carved into the floor tiles?
Huh.
A door behind the Tron cabinet?
Okay.
Underground rooms and corridors, like a store-cellar or a Cold War bunker or an abandoned speakeasy?
Sure, why not.
But the sight of keys still stuck in the door, crusted over with age, almost made him come undone.
How long had he searched for even that much of a clue, a sign, a goodbye? How long had he clung to that futile hope, resenting Alan and Lora for showing more or less of it than he needed at any given moment and encouraging the Flynn Lives people to share it with him?
Hidden doorways and elaborate underground complexes and mysterious signals from disconnected numbers: second-rate spy novel stuff. But his heart leaping from his chest at any sign of life where it shouldn’t be, at every unexpected guest, each box of mementos found at the back of a drawer - moments like that had shaped and shaken the foundations of his reality for far too long.
It had been so long since he last felt like this, he’d almost convinced himself he’d moved on.
This had better be good, Sam thought, and grabbed the door handle.
Title: WHAT! DO! TEENS! LIKE!
Author: Omnicat
Unofficially Adapted From: Joseph Kosinsky & co's Tron: Legacy, Kurt Mattila & co's Tron: The Next Day, and the Flynn Lives ARG.
Spoilers & Desirable Foreknowledge: All of the above, though nothing specific from The Next Day or ARG except the existence of two of the characters.
Warnings: None.
Characters & Pairings: Alan ("You") x Lora ("TheBest") & Willa Frewer & Kurt Hardington (the latter two from the ARG)
Author's Note: Enjoy!
You:
Porn, free stuff, memes, cats.
kitties_meet_cricket.wmv
Exhibit A.
TheBest:
What?
Weren’t you in a meeting?
You:
I’m liveblogging it. The question was: WHAT!! DO!! TEENS!! LIKE!!! But Hardington doesn’t want my answers to anything today.
TheBest:
Sounds fun!
You:
crapbrb busted
False alarm! Willa is on my side today. She says hi.
TheBest:
Hi Willa!
You:
Our boss doesn’t know the word meem/mem/meemee/mehmeh/mehmee/meemay. Any of them. :(
Willa says let’s have dinner and a LAN party to restore our tarnished nerd cred.
TheBest:
Radical. I’ll stock up on laser pointers.
You:
???
TheBest:
For making cat videos.
You:
You’re the best.
Title: A Very Very Visible Computer Failure
Author: Omnicat
Spoilers & Desirable Foreknowledge: Tron (1982)
Warnings: None.
Characters & Pairings: Flynn & Alan
Author's Note: Enjoy!
Flynn snorted; the line crackled. “C’mon Alan. Their programs are so badly coded they had a nervous breakdown. What else are people gonna think?”
“People-schmeople. Nothing says this wasn’t an unfortunate coincidence. I’ll enjoy Dillinger Systems’ humiliation when it’s well-earned.”
“I stand corrected. You’re exactly the man I thought you were. It’s awful.”
“For all we know it could have been sabotage!”
“...”
“You didn’t.”
Flynn shook his head. “Yanno, if I didn’t happen to know better, I’d think you’d berate me for suggesting it even if it was to avenge your oppressed countrymen and fallen brother-in-arms. And that’s just sad.”
Title: Bit in the rain
Author: Omnicat
Spoilers & Desirable Foreknowledge: Tron: Legacy and Tron: Betrayal.
Warnings: None.
Characters & Pairings: Flynn x Jordan & Bit
Author's Note: Enjoy!
Bit seemed permanently stuck in NO-mode, a ludicrously bright red here in the real-world rain better suited for plastic toys than a living thing, while Jordan in her soaked pajamas and slippers looked ready to kill it with her frying pan.
Not how Flynn had pictured this occasion. Guess that’s what he got for leaving a tagalong computer-alien circling his toddler while he went to grab one of the fancy fluffy towels from the bathroom. Only the best for good old Bit…
And judging from the look Jordan gave him, endless explanations and permanent relocation to the couch for Flynn.
Title: Bit in Ikea
Author: Omnicat
Spoilers & Desirable Foreknowledge: Tron (1982)
Warnings: None.
Characters & Pairings: Flynn & Bit
Author's Note: Enjoy!
“That’s the funniest-looking lamp.”
[no]
“And it talks!”
“That’s no lamp. It doesn’t even shine.”
[yes]
“It’s a novelty lamp. Like lava lamps.”
[no]
“Even the lamp doesn’t think it’s a lamp, ma.”
[yes]
“If it’s not a lamp, what’s it doing in the lamp section?”
“BIT! There you are!”
[yesyesyes!]
Bit shot from its lampshade perch.
“GOD ALMIGHTY, IT’S FLYING.”
“Radical! I don’t care what it is, ma, I want one.”
Flynn snatched Bit up, grinning maniacally. “Magnets! All the new flying robot toys have them! This is just a prototype, but expect’em in stores soon!”
And he fled.
Author: Omnicat
Unofficially Adapted From: Joseph Kosinsky & co's Tron: Legacy, Kurt Mattila & co's Tron: The Next Day, and the Flynn Lives ARG.
Spoilers & Desirable Foreknowledge: All of the above, though nothing specific from the Flynn Lives ARG.
Warnings: None.
Characters & Pairings: Sam
Author's Note: Enjoy!
Drag marks carved into the floor tiles?
Huh.
A door behind the Tron cabinet?
Okay.
Underground rooms and corridors, like a store-cellar or a Cold War bunker or an abandoned speakeasy?
Sure, why not.
But the sight of keys still stuck in the door, crusted over with age, almost made him come undone.
How long had he searched for even that much of a clue, a sign, a goodbye? How long had he clung to that futile hope, resenting Alan and Lora for showing more or less of it than he needed at any given moment and encouraging the Flynn Lives people to share it with him?
Hidden doorways and elaborate underground complexes and mysterious signals from disconnected numbers: second-rate spy novel stuff. But his heart leaping from his chest at any sign of life where it shouldn’t be, at every unexpected guest, each box of mementos found at the back of a drawer - moments like that had shaped and shaken the foundations of his reality for far too long.
It had been so long since he last felt like this, he’d almost convinced himself he’d moved on.
This had better be good, Sam thought, and grabbed the door handle.
Title: WHAT! DO! TEENS! LIKE!
Author: Omnicat
Unofficially Adapted From: Joseph Kosinsky & co's Tron: Legacy, Kurt Mattila & co's Tron: The Next Day, and the Flynn Lives ARG.
Spoilers & Desirable Foreknowledge: All of the above, though nothing specific from The Next Day or ARG except the existence of two of the characters.
Warnings: None.
Characters & Pairings: Alan ("You") x Lora ("TheBest") & Willa Frewer & Kurt Hardington (the latter two from the ARG)
Author's Note: Enjoy!
You:
Porn, free stuff, memes, cats.
kitties_meet_cricket.wmv
Exhibit A.
TheBest:
What?
Weren’t you in a meeting?
You:
I’m liveblogging it. The question was: WHAT!! DO!! TEENS!! LIKE!!! But Hardington doesn’t want my answers to anything today.
TheBest:
Sounds fun!
You:
crapbrb busted
False alarm! Willa is on my side today. She says hi.
TheBest:
Hi Willa!
You:
Our boss doesn’t know the word meem/mem/meemee/mehmeh/mehmee/meemay. Any of them. :(
Willa says let’s have dinner and a LAN party to restore our tarnished nerd cred.
TheBest:
Radical. I’ll stock up on laser pointers.
You:
???
TheBest:
For making cat videos.
You:
You’re the best.
Title: A Very Very Visible Computer Failure
Author: Omnicat
Spoilers & Desirable Foreknowledge: Tron (1982)
Warnings: None.
Characters & Pairings: Flynn & Alan
Author's Note: Enjoy!
Flynn snorted; the line crackled. “C’mon Alan. Their programs are so badly coded they had a nervous breakdown. What else are people gonna think?”
“People-schmeople. Nothing says this wasn’t an unfortunate coincidence. I’ll enjoy Dillinger Systems’ humiliation when it’s well-earned.”
“I stand corrected. You’re exactly the man I thought you were. It’s awful.”
“For all we know it could have been sabotage!”
“...”
“You didn’t.”
Flynn shook his head. “Yanno, if I didn’t happen to know better, I’d think you’d berate me for suggesting it even if it was to avenge your oppressed countrymen and fallen brother-in-arms. And that’s just sad.”
Title: Bit in the rain
Author: Omnicat
Spoilers & Desirable Foreknowledge: Tron: Legacy and Tron: Betrayal.
Warnings: None.
Characters & Pairings: Flynn x Jordan & Bit
Author's Note: Enjoy!
Bit seemed permanently stuck in NO-mode, a ludicrously bright red here in the real-world rain better suited for plastic toys than a living thing, while Jordan in her soaked pajamas and slippers looked ready to kill it with her frying pan.
Not how Flynn had pictured this occasion. Guess that’s what he got for leaving a tagalong computer-alien circling his toddler while he went to grab one of the fancy fluffy towels from the bathroom. Only the best for good old Bit…
And judging from the look Jordan gave him, endless explanations and permanent relocation to the couch for Flynn.
Title: Bit in Ikea
Author: Omnicat
Spoilers & Desirable Foreknowledge: Tron (1982)
Warnings: None.
Characters & Pairings: Flynn & Bit
Author's Note: Enjoy!
“That’s the funniest-looking lamp.”
[no]
“And it talks!”
“That’s no lamp. It doesn’t even shine.”
[yes]
“It’s a novelty lamp. Like lava lamps.”
[no]
“Even the lamp doesn’t think it’s a lamp, ma.”
[yes]
“If it’s not a lamp, what’s it doing in the lamp section?”
“BIT! There you are!”
[yesyesyes!]
Bit shot from its lampshade perch.
“GOD ALMIGHTY, IT’S FLYING.”
“Radical! I don’t care what it is, ma, I want one.”
Flynn snatched Bit up, grinning maniacally. “Magnets! All the new flying robot toys have them! This is just a prototype, but expect’em in stores soon!”
And he fled.