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[acquiring-signal]

[59] What would they want to be remembered for?

Right into the deep end, as usual. I'd expect nothing less. :-)

Funny that you ask, though. I don't think about it often -- or at least, as little as you can when the Occupation's always five ticks from knocking down your door.

And if it ever comes to that... I don't think I mind the idea of being forgotten. There are worse things, y'know? As long as the work continues. As long as there are other programs willing to take it up.

But I fully intend to see it through. Someday, I'll see a free Grid again. So will you. So will all of us, System willing.

[not-that-dillinger]

((I gotta ask - any thoughts on Lion King AUs for Ed? (Let's say at least one AU where he is a lion and at least one AU where he's an animal of your choice (which might also be lion, but I wanted to cover my bases, lol))))

I had to go and rewatch the movie for this, because it's been a while lol.

But yeah got several ideas!

So not Ed related but figured it is worth mentioning: Clu is Scar, the Hyenas are the Occupation, and Mufasa is Flynn... Not sure where Tron is in this one, though... Zazu?

But as for Ed... I can see another AU where Dillinger Sr. is Scar, and Flynn is either again Mufasa or maybe Simba. If Flynn is Musafa again, then Sam is Simba. I imagine in this one, Ed is sort of orphaned. His father has been exhiled from the pride, and living with the Hyenas and who knows where his mother is. Or maybe Ed isn't part of the pride and also living as an exile out with Pumbaa and Timone.

As for one where he isn't a lion... One where he's an Ostrich would be funny, though I think a vulture... either an egyptian or bearded would make a lot of sense, given he's kinda misunderstood by many, kinda like how vultures are. Otherwise I think one where he's scissortail kite would also be fun. I don't have a lot of plot for this one, I just think Ed as a bird would be fun.

[mewtwowarrior]

Tron: Evolution Battle Grids for the Wii has a bunch of circuit options, including the ones from the DS game.

Here's the DS and Wii versions of the circuits I use for Ark.

[cmdrjanus-2]

📘

Send 📘 for my muse to recommend a book they think your muse would like!

"Well, it's not exactly from Flynn's personal collection, but I was able to recover this from the remains of Arjia. 'Selected Works of D.T. Suzuki, Volume I: Zen' by Daisetsu Suzuki. Hopeful it can bring you comfort in these troubled times."

[not-that-dillinger]

❤❤❤  I trust you with my life. I know you would never hurt me.

"I... hope I don't.... I'm trying..."

[mewtwowarrior]

The Price of Being a Renegade

I've had several different thoughts about Ark's scars and decided to play around with one of them.

If Ark was wearing the Tron/Renegade suit when she got captured, would the Occupation target those scars during torture?

All of the circuits were drawn with Paint's line and shape tools, while I hand-scribbled the scarring.

I had originally thought I was going to draw the pixels by hand for the scars, but I decided that scribbling would give a similar enough effect. I scribbled six different layers of color on top of the circuits to try and mimic the scar effect from Tron: Uprising.

The hardest parts were lining up the Tron circuits over Ark's circuits and scribbling over the chonky side bits.

It's pretty close to how I imagined! Though, in the future, I'd probably make there be more of a contrast between the two sets of circuits and scars. (Also, I botched a copy/paste that I didn't catch until later, lol)

I've had this thought kicking around for a while, but @3-inch-sam's AU voxel damage art shifted me into gear of actually working on it!

Underneath the keep reading is in-progress pics!

This was the first go at Ark's circuits, but then I realized I had botched her top diamonds and fixed them to look better in the final product.

I use purple as a contrast when I'm working with the blacks and blues of Tron: Legacy, but this had the unintended side effect of purple circuit Ark, lol

Here's the pre-scarred version of the Tron circuits. I was going to freehand the thin lines on the bottom half, but couldn't get them to look right, so I just used the straight line tool instead. Fortunately, the scarring rounded them out in the final picture.

[not-that-dillinger]

Debbie kept his scanner running while he ran, keeping track of how close the user was to him. There was a shock of energy, and a strong energy signiture racing toward him. Debbien didn't have time to warn Ark, but trusted her to be aware enough of her surroundings to notice it. He dove to the side, a picocycle before a flash of blinding light--of energy in it's purest form--cut through the air where had previously been.

It hit the ground, not far ahead of him, and the ground beneath him rumbled.

Debbie reached for one of his shards, hurled it toward the user, then pushed himself to his feet and kept running.

The facility up ahead looked so close, yet felt so far away. He just had to make it a bit longer...

[From "Send me ⚓️ for our muses to be shipwrecked together"

...Not sure who should approach who, and this got really long, so leaving it at this...

—@not-that-dillinger]

Ultimately, how Ed ended up on the Grid was trivial. An anomaly he noticed, and couldn't stop thinking about, and, on a whim, went to go investigate.

It didn't take him long to find Flynn's creepy basement lab. It took him less time to find the digital world (he was without a doubt inside the computer, because that was most certainly the digitization laser he shot himself with).

It took them even less time to find him.

All he knew was that one moment he was standing in a dusty arcade, the next... he was still standing in the arcade, except as if it existed in a different dimension. In a different world.

And then two... programs? in glowing orange suits approached him, arrested him (for what, he wasn't certain), and put him on one of those ships from Flynn's game that he was never allowed to play as a kid. Space Paranoids, if he remembered correctly.

In any case, they put him on the ship, with several other programs. He'd already had a stressful day (thanks, Mackey), and was barely keeping it together when one of the other programs mentioned that they were all going to 'derezz.' Ed wasn't certain what that word meant, but from the context, he was convinced the guards were taking them to their deaths.

He was claustrophobic from the number of people programs on the ship, and he may have shot himself with a high-powered laser, but he certainly didn't want to die.

He couldn't breathe, he could barely form a thought from how his mind was reeling.

And then suddenly Ed could feel the lines code that made up the ship, and their restraints that held his feet in place. He had no idea what he did, but the next moment, their restraints were gone.

The woman next to him instantly attacked the guards with a staff he had no idea where she got it from. The ship descended into chaos as the other programs joined in the melee, and then in altitude when one of the programs destroyed the ship's pilot with the disc on their back.

Ed didn't have a disc, or a staff, and he certainly didn't know anything about piloting... anything, really, but nobody had yet realized that their ship was about to crash. So he carefully skirted the edge of their cabin to the controls.

A joystick. Really Flynn? Murder on his wrist. Joy of joys.

Ed... tried to keep them flying, but he had never been good at video games, and he really didn't have time to do much but pull up and lessen the impact when they crashed into the mountainside.

The next thing he knew, he was face down in the snowy, barren wasteland outside the city. When he rolled over to see his surroundings, the recognizer was a fair distance away (he see it clearly: blessedly, his glasses weren't broken in the crash). He must have been thrown out one of the broken windows in the crash. His ears rang, and Ed was certain he was both bleeding and concussed.

There was someone else lying in the snow, thankfully a distance away, but Ed had no idea what happened to the rest of the programs on the ship.

He knew he should get moving, in case any of the guards survived, but Ed needed a moment to recover before he attempted anything else.

((Ooooh, awesome, thank you so very much!))

Living on the Grid was hazardous nowadays, especially for a Renegade. Ark specialized in causing trouble for the Occupation, but knew that it was going to catch up with her one of these cycles.

She had been pulling another one of her self-assigned missions, when the sky had lit up in a way she hadn't seen in countless cycles.

A User was rezzing into the Grid.

Unfortunately, the beam of light distracted her long enough for the Occupation to catch up to her.

Badly outnumbered, Ark decided to save her strength for better odds.

She was loaded into a Recognizer, along with quite a few other programs.

A short time later, someone was loaded in next to her, someone with strange clothes she had never seen before. Was he the User? Or just a program with a quirky style? Was odd fashion a good enough reason for him to be arrested?

As she analyzed him, all of a sudden, him, her, and everyone else was free.

She took advantage of the surprise and chaos, and immediately leapt into action. Fortunately, they hadn't searched her too well in the confusion over the beacon, so her staff had remained with her.

Bolstered by the knowledge that there was likely a User among them, she fought hard, joined in by all the other prisoners on the ship.

The battle didn't last long before everything exploded.

Ark was flung out of the Recognizer and away from it, falling into the snow.

She wasn't out long, the cold stinging and bringing her back conscious, her circuits coming back online.

Using her staff to help, she pulled herself up and started looking around for any survivors.

She saw someone in the snow and started making her way towards them, using her staff as a walking stick while she still got her bearings.

[evecolourshock]

Hello,

So, due to a combination of the holiday season, and the kind of news you do not want to hear around the holiday season (or any other time, but especially the holiday season), I've currently lost all motivation for RP.

Or, at least, that's the only way I know how to put it in shorthand. It's more... if you know the Spoon Theory, right now I have negative spoons available after allocating them between work (most of the spoons), holiday prep (one or two spoons), and survival things like food (like. Half a spoon. Cooking restores spoons as quickly as it uses them, but eating currently takes spoons too), and I can't handle RP on top of that.

For those of you I'm doing RP with ( @computerwarrior, @not-that-dillinger, @first-frost-fallen-snow, @liberatedthroughperfection) I promise I still want to continue our threads!! I'm just... going to need time. A lot of time. Could be as much as a month and a half before I have any degree of regularity for responses again.

If that's too long, and you'd prefer to drop the thread we have right now to start a new one in the new year, let me know. I don't mind, I just need to know so I can figure out which ones to leave alone and which ones to ensure I can find for later.

See you all when things improve,

Grim

[lucky-dyse]

Announcement

I've been postponing making this, but every passing day has made it harder to ignore.

I'm going on hiatus, and it might be permanent

Specially from my Tron rp accounts. @first-frost-fallen-snow will still be active, but I'm losing muse for all Tron rp and I'm losing it fast. This does not mean I dislike Tron, or I am leaving the fandom. I love Tron with my whole heart and I always will. I just don't have any energy to rp the characters I have on here.

I'm very sorry to everyone I have a thread with, whom I will be tagging below to tell that I will likely not reply.

@not-that-dillinger

@sortofaflynn

@computerwarrior

@yourleaderandbeacon

@smellslikejail

@evecolourshock

Sorry if I forgot someone, there's so many Tron rpers now!

[cmdrjanus-2]

Cute Meter? Cute Meter

(¬‸¬) "Hmph! Worthless script..."

Tagged: Plucked from Dash

Tagging: @askdax @computerwarrior @combat-heelys @the-expatriate @dxscordia-dxspair

[not-that-dillinger]

((lol, I just saw this dropdown message on my phone and did a double-take. Wrong Ed (the hyena from Lion King), but, if your Ed was on a quest, what would it be?))

/* XD oh now Lion King X Tron would be an interesting crossover...

But anyway. Quests for Ed. Ed Dillinjunior. My soping wet pathetic meowmeow (affectionate).

Here are some ideas, in order from silly lighthearted to save the world:

Travel the world and try 500 different types of tea

Photograph and identify 1000 different species of birds.

Through hike the Triple Crown (Pacific Crest, Continental Divide, and Appalachian Trails)

Rescue Kevin Flynn from the Grid

(For our thread where Ed is on the Grid:) Find... Kevin Flynn, the pager, Save the Grid

(For my AU where Clu escapes the Grid and is bent on world domination:) Rally the world's greatest computing minds to defeat Clu

[evecolourshock]

Headcanons for : Eve!

Physical traits :

feminine ⦾●⦾⦾⦾ masculine

scrawny ⦾⦾●⦾⦾ bulky

short ●⦾⦾⦾⦾ tall

weak ⦾⦾⦾●⦾ strong

clumsy ⦾⦾⦾⦾● agile

slow ⦾⦾⦾●⦾ fast

Personality traits :

lawful ⦾⦾⦾●⦾ chaotic

good ⦾⦾●⦾⦾ evil

feminine ⦾⦾⦾⦾⦾ masculine I don't know what this means

chaste ⦾⦾⦾⦾⦾ lustful N/A

heterosexual ⦾⦾⦾⦾⦾ homosexual N/A

romantic ⦾⦾⦾●⦾ aromantic

oblivious ⦾⦾⦾●⦾ perceptive

ignorant ⦾⦾●⦾⦾ knowledgeable

pious ⦾⦾●⦾⦾ worldly

forgiving ⦾●⦾⦾⦾ vengeful

honest ⦾⦾●⦾⦾ deceitful

generous ⦾●⦾⦾⦾ selfish

just ⦾●⦾⦾⦾ arbitrary

temperate ⦾⦾●⦾⦾ indulgent

merciful ⦾⦾●⦾⦾ cruel

introverted ⦾●⦾⦾⦾ extroverted

kind ⦾●⦾⦾⦾ stern

modest ⦾⦾⦾●⦾ proud

pushover ⦾⦾⦾⦾● stubborn

coward ⦾⦾⦾●⦾ valorous

prudent ⦾⦾⦾●⦾ reckless

opportunistic ⦾⦾⦾⦾● loyal

optimistic ⦾⦾●⦾⦾ pessimistic

Tagged by @spaceandthedigitalfrontier from their @not-that-dillinger blog

Tagging... @computerwarrior, @first-frost-fallen-snow for whoever you like and haven't done before, @spaceandthedigitalfrontier for any muses you want to do this again with, @abraxasvirus if you're still around, and... @betasuppe if you want to have a go! Everyone else who sees this can also try their hand ♡

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[systemadministratorclu]

"Mirror Mirror"

No sooner did she say it than the mirror flashed, and a galaxy of stars swirled together, morphing into the head and shoulders of a handsome male Program with bright yet warm blue eyes, gold circuits and a sweet smile on his face.

“My lady, you are the fairest of them all.” His smile grew at that.

[brokenenforcer]

Crash [CLOSED]

It wasn't all bad being away from the city. It allowed him to avoid the stifling presence of the Admin for at least a little while. Though, it did give him way too much time to think.

Rinzler had been chasing a few rogue programs via Lightjet into the Outlands, and they'd gotten in a lucky shot. His jet went down, and though he bailed at the last second, he just so happened to land hard on his other baton, shattering it.

His leg wasn't in great shape either, but nothing Clu couldn't fix after he limped back to the city.

The Admin would be more upset he let the resistance programs get away. It wasn't often he failed.

You didn't fail, you let them get away.

He failed. A sound from above made him look up, snapping him out of those warring thoughts. A lightjet; one of the resistance members must have circled back.

[not-that-dillinger]

((6. what is your muse’s favorite kind of weather?))

Ed liked a good nighttime thunderstorm. They're rare enough in SoCal and it's a nice break from the heat. When he was in college, he liked the snow... when he could enjoy it from inside. If he ever developed any tolerance for the cold while he was in Pittsburgh, that's gone. He does sometimes miss it, though.

[siren-euphemia]

Random Meme/Question: If your character had an action figure, what 6 phrases would they say? This is for as many of your characters as you'd like to do it for. (Inspired by Disney's make your own Tron action figure.)

"Greeting program."

"Praise Flynn."

"Don't give up now!"

"What a program!"

"Can you keep a secret?"

"Well, this is interesting."