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FILL: "Obsidian" (Part 1)

[allronix1]

“Obsidian”
Author: Allronix
Rating: R (dub-con)
Pairing: Rinzler/Repurposed!Yori
Note: Son of a virus...a few shots of rum and WAY too much Nine Inch Nails were required on this one. I need a gorram shower.

The last raid on the City's outskirts brought in one of the final Resistance cells and destroyed a known hideout of the Iso population. Rinzler had been busy fending off the threats. To his programming, there is no difference between the angular, spindly gridbugs and the dark, mysterious imperfections called Iso. One merely looks like a Program while the other does not mask its threat

FILL: "Obsidian" (Part 2)

[allronix1]

Once he is alone with the female, the low whirr becomes one of satisfaction. There is little in this room but his thin cot. Any embellishments would be inefficient. He needs only enough offline time to recover from his wounds. She has not moved from her kneeling position, glittering cape draped over her and making her resemble some exotic creation. She jerks her head up, her eyes full of fear.

His whirring hitches. She is confusing him. He has not had capacity to want since his purification at Clu's hands, but want is what he feels now. It burns like his periodic upgrades on the re-purposing rack. Clu is anything but gentle, but the pain and invasion are necessary. There is no perfection without purification.

The first thing he does is de-rez his helmet and gridsuit as swiftly as he can. Then, he pulls the unresisting female to her feet and pushes her brutally against the wall, hand snaking into her soft hair, trapping her there as he kisses her, trying to scorch away the kiss Clu marked on her and replace it with his own.

She

FILL: "Obsidian" (Part 3)

[allronix1]

His larger frame pins her as she thrashes, the circuit-to-circuit connection driving him insane as energy banks and ebbs between them. Again, he kisses her - hard and possessive. He can feel the power surge, their circuitry blazing with identical orange fire

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[allronix1]

It is several seconds later when Clu sends for Rinzler again. The mask and gridsuit are back in place, double-disks locked into place. Like always, Rinzler approaches Clu's command chair and bows before it, awaiting orders

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[grey_sw]

She'll need a new designation to go with her new loyalties, and part of him thinks a variant of “Jordan” would suit her nicely.

Mwa ha ha haaaaaa. :3

Seriously, this was great. The clash between Rinzler and Yori's rectified personalities (and the moment where it all breaks down) was fascinating, and Clu's calculation was masterful, too.

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[allronix1]

Thanks dear. Dub-con is normally something I won't touch with a ten meter pole.

And the way I view Mr. Clu is to take 1982!Flynn and send the Karma Meter to the basement. All that drive and aggression, all that creativity, all that "brakes? what brakes" ambition, and "hell, yeah, I'm a God on the Grid" cockiness, all those slightly perverted tendencies and petty impulses...

What kept it in check for young!Flynn was that Flynn's a genuinely nice guy when it comes down to it - a classic Chaotic Good. His childish tendencies were tempered with genuine love for his friends, compassion for others, and a desire to do right.

Clu was never given those. Clu understood his directives, but never seemed to grasp the whole concept of empathy. Without it, there was nothing to get him considering that his actions were anything less than completely justified and necessary.

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[grey_sw]

What kept it in check for young!Flynn was that Flynn's a genuinely nice guy when it comes down to it - a classic Chaotic Good. His childish tendencies were tempered with genuine love for his friends, compassion for others, and a desire to do right.

Clu was never given those. Clu understood his directives, but never seemed to grasp the whole concept of empathy. Without it, there was nothing to get him considering that his actions were anything less than completely justified and necessary.

I agree that Flynn was a good guy, but I also think he had a huge blind spot when it came to the programs. To him, they were things, his things that he made so he could change the world, more than they were real people who could be loved. As time went on, that blind spot became Clu's role model, not the good guy; if Betrayal is anything to go by, Flynn stopped being good to Clu many centuries before the coup

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[smiley_anon]

XD *resists... urge... to... redebate...*

Seriously, though, what'd Tron ever do to Clu?

Already flailed at you about this on FF.net, allronix1, but... yeah. Still scary good and beautifully painful. Your excellent Yori-fics are making me want to write her...

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[grey_sw]

Seriously, though, what'd Tron ever do to Clu?

By that, I meant that he Fought For The Users. I think it's fair to say that his directives came before friendship, too...

Betrayal makes it seem as if they weren't really friends since long before the coup, anyway. Tron wasn't into many of the ~perfect~ changes Clu was making. :P

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[smiley_anon]

:D Fair enough, I suppose. Though whether it was an issue of "oh noes, directives" or simply Tron staying loyal to those he considered actual friends, I think could be up for debate. He and Clu clashed about how Clu treated programs (both Basics and ISOs) well before he wound up actually fighting Clu for his user's sake.

That actually interested me a lot in Betrayal-- Tron never actually objects to anything Clu says against Flynn. If anything, he seems to agree on a lot of points, that Flynn set up the system such that it needs him, but keeps ditching them all for cycles. His rift with Clu seems to start when Clu abuses his power over the programs, turning the games to killzones (which really, Clu? Was there a point besides pissing Tron off?) and deliberately targeting ISOs.

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[grey_sw]

His rift with Clu seems to start when Clu abuses his power over the programs, turning the games to killzones (which really, Clu? Was there a point besides pissing Tron off?)

The only thing I can think of is also in Betrayal. Flynn mentions that the Grid was "made to handle a certain amount of traffic" or some such. Given ever-increasing numbers of ISOs, maybe the games were meant to take the pressure off. Clu seemed to see them as a form of natural selection, at any rate.

Pissing Tron off was definitely a bonus, however. As was having a convenient way to keep the population in line... :3

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[allronix1]

I wasn't originally gonna touch this one myself, as the whole idea gave me nightmares.

Then, I fell asleep reading Betrayal on the bus. One world-class nightmare later, and it was "write it out or have it come back." And might as well inflict the bad trip on everyone else in range because I'm evil like that.

As for "what did Tron do to Clu?" Tron knew too much about Users and tolerated User imperfection. He fought for all the citizens on the Grid. Tron may not have liked the fact that Flynn vanished for cycles at a time, but he acknowledged that Flynn had responsibilities and a world of his own to tend to, even if they could not see or comprehend that world. Tron also tolerated the Games as recreation - not as a way to weed out the system's weak elements.

Tron tolerated imperfection. Tron would fight to protect it, even if he couldn't understand it. Therefore, he was just too damn dangerous to be allowed freedom and too damn useful to de-rez.

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[allronix1]

What made this hard to write was that they've been so twisted into near-parodies of what they were, like the Star Trek (Classic) Mirror-verse. Worse, is that I keep seeing re-purpose as something where the poor Program's true self is only intermittently conscious, mostly unable to speak or act, while the overwrite thinks it's the true personality. Most re-purposed Programs, then, are very glad to have the "glitch" of their past selves suppressed or erased.

(Some IRL context for this - a hard drive or other storage medium will retail traces of a file, even if you delete the file. Even data that overwrites that sector may not obscure the previous contents. This is why you never use your home computer to plan a crime and why companies de-gauss or physically destroy hard drives, even after formatting them)

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[noctaval]

Oh man, this was great. And painful. D:

OP

[allronix1]

I've never had someone fill one of my prompts before -- thank you so much, this is so terribly lovely and dark.

The fact that you stepped out of your comfort zone makes it an even greater fill. Normally I don't ask/read non-con/dub-con but I thought it would make an interesting scenario given the characters and you delivered perfectly.

As everyone else has mentioned, you captured the angst that would come with Tronzler and Yori. Rinzler's battle inside himself--!

"Another glitch. They are infrequent now, but still present. He is not yet perfect. It does not matter. The only thing that matters is between his body and the wall."

"He can feel the moment she surrenders. One of her hands grips his shoulder and the other palm centers on his chest, over the obsolete "T" symbol."

"For the briefest of moments, their lines glow blue-silver. Memory and emotion rush back as their eyes lock. This is not perfection - it's a perversion of everything they ever were to one another."

That last one -- oh. My heart. I can only imagine the