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EPIC SPOILERS FOR TRON: EVOLUTION AND POSSIBLY TRON LEGACY, BEWARE!
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mordoriannazgul
Under 18? No
Email/IM: Email - Jaydepuff@aol.com AIM - Jaydepuff
Characters Played at Singularity: Rookie (huragokwhistler)
Character Information ;
Name: System Monitor Anon
Name of Canon: Tron: Evolution
Canon/AU/Other Game CR: AU; explained below
Reference: Tron: Evolution as a suppliment to his sparse Wiki. And here's the whole game, in its entirety, on YouTube.
Canon Point: In 1999, before being derezzed again
Setting: It all began for Anon in 1989, but the whole system really began in the 1970s when a brilliant software engineer named Kevin Flynn was fired from the company ENCOM and the Master Control Program essentially takes over running the company. At the same time, one of his coworkers coded a security program called Tron, and another began testing lasers to 'digitize' objects into computer code and then return them to being undigital. Flynn's attempts to hack into the MCP's system from inside the company led to him being digitized onto the Game Grid to compete until he was killed. However, the MCP made a mistake in doing so, allowing Flynn and Tron to ally with one another and eventually destroy the MCP, thus allowing freedom on the network for programs to do as they please. Through this, Flynn also became the CEO of ENCOM.
Digitizing technology perfected, he began to redesign the Grid with assistance from Tron, as well as creating Clu 2 to perfect the System in his absence. Things seemed to be toodling along fine and dandy, with several cities and a multitude of programs being created for all sorts of purposes. Then, Flynn discovered something - self-created programs called ISOs, essentially the closest that a machine could come to humanity, complete with free will and the flaws that come with that. Flynn was absolutely delighted by this discovery, realizing that it meant the playing field was changing drastically, and for the better. Other programs had mixed feelings about them and their apparent unpredictability, and no one was more wary of them than perfectionist Clu. To that end, he corrupted an ISO into a virus to harm the System and cause general chaos that would allow him to take over and eliminate the ISOs once and for all.
Anon was created as a system monitor and security program before any of this came to light, as Flynn was concerned about the tension between the programs and ISOs. He played a major part during the Purge of the ISOs, working to eliminate the virus Abraxas with extreme prejudice - though losing the cities of Arjia and Bostrom Colony to him, as well as his ally the ISO Gibson - and saving one of his few surviving friends, Quorra, from certain destruction at the cost of his own existence... even if it was temporary. Since then, he has made himself a pest to Clu's regime, breaking whatever he can in an effort to break down the program's grip on the System and ensure freedom for programs once more.
Personality: Much of his personality comes from his function. Ultimately, Anon was intended as a security and firewall program, and is primarily concerned with the security of the System and the freedom of its programs. He isn't particularly fond of threats to this freedom, such as Clu 2.0, or threats to the security such as viruses. This will probably transfer to the station, with him attempting to keep threats to security to a minimum by whatever means are required. And any dictatorship that attempts to rise up will have just as many problems as any individuals making a mess; he is more than willing to track a group down and ruin their stuff to keep them from performing a hostile takeover. Due to his programming, he will often ignore other people or circumstances when a known threat is in the area; he spends much of the game completely ignoring everyone that isn't attacking him or that he isn't tracking, even when those other programs think he's been infected by a virus and turned evil. Being security also means that he tends to doggedly pursue things he is sent after. Much of the game is dedicated to him trying to find Flynn and stop Abraxas, and even Clu 2.0 mentioned that Anon wouldn't quit and was, in so many words, "a plucky glitch".
For all of his bravery, however, there are still programs more well-rounded than him. Given his limited contact with Users/humans/organics/what have you, his knowledge of their universe is extremely limited at best. He's likely to be confused or disturbed by most concepts that others are familiar with, such as grass and sunlight and rainbows. That song by Insane Clown Posse, Miracles? That's pretty much him, but he has more knowledge of magnets. He also has extremely limited social skills, since he's lived for longer as a lone hermit rebel than he hasn't. While he is incredibly capable of emoting his moods to those around him, from panic to frustration to aggression to discomfort, his understanding of social situations is mostly lacking. As well, he's uncomfortable with speaking often, due to his vocal quirk (outlined in AU Justification) and has to be coaxed with direct questions that can't be answered with nods, shakes of the head, or shrugs.
Anon tends to look up to Users - in particular his own creator, Kevin Flynn - and has a fondness for them and those like them such as the ISOs. In particular his short time watching, listening to, and analyzing Kevin Flynn had an impact on him. He'd noticed Flynn's sadness over Clu's dislike of the ISOs and over him destroying the ISOs and taking over the System, as well as Flynn's comradry with Tron and his apparent fondness for Anon himself, and he's come to understand the User is a good man. Unfortunately, he has expectations that other Users he encounters will exhibit at least some of the same traits, and is likely to either be completely disappointed when they don't, or try to ignore their faults for as long as possible.
Also of note is that he's turned into a horrible colorist - anyone wearing or bearing the colors yellow, red, or orange will likely end up with an unfriendly program hounding them, until he's corrected.
Abilities and Weaknesses:
Abilities: According to his Tron File, he has expandable memory and an unlimited capacity for adaptation, easily seen in his ability to upgrade his battery capacity, shielding/health, and his identity disc abilities. He has a great deal of skill in disc-based combat, having fought his way through three cities and a doomsday weapon space station. He also has a fair amount of ability in driving Light Cycles and Light Tanks, and can pilot Recognizers. He is also one of the most mobile programs on the Grid, making use of the martial art of Parkour to get everywhere. Anon is fully capable of and willing to vault over objects, leap over chasms, and run across walls or verticle surfaces to get where he wants to go. As a computer program, he also has at least some ability with hacking, as well as scanning other programs for relevant data - this is being reduced to only scanning other programs from Tron, most of whom he's likely to have met before anyway.
Weaknesses: Anon can drive Cycles, Tanks, and Recognizers. Unfortunately, this has led to some in-game instances of the Indiana Jones Piloting Effect - he can drive the thing just fine, but almost every time he tries to park it, it either tips over or explodes. Yes, even the Tanks. His track record with Recognizers is probably just as poor, given that most of his interaction with them in the game is leaping onto and riding the outside of them - and eventually being squashed by one. And any other vehicles he might as well forget trying.
Inventory: - His armor. Mostly it's so he doesn't get turned into a pancake if his gets mowed over, though it offers some protection from wounds caused by Tron-based weapons - light discs, baton swords, baton pikes, etc. However, against anything User-made (normal swords, guns, etc.) it's basically useless. But it does look kicking and never stains. Notable is that his armor has the white lighting from the end of the game, rather than the blue lighting it has for the bulk of the game. This reflects changes in programming that Flynn made.
- His identity disc. Basically it contains everything of him on it, from his first moments to his last. The data can be altered by Users of sufficient skill, as seen when Flynn updates his programming to allow him to fight Clu's minions, or corrupted by hacking, which is probably why he never lets it out of his sight. It is also his primary weapon, and it has been shown to derezz other programs and - in the film - a human was injured with one as well. However, the most it can cut through is skin.
- His baton. The batons can be used to create a multitude of items, from weapons to vehicles. Having these items depends on having them coded into the baton, and the only one Anon has is his Lightcycle. However, he will likely have to find a way to program holograms on the station to get it back in working order, and it would lack the telltale - and deadly - Light Ribbon that typically trails behind the cycles, as well as the speed being significantly reduced to something more akin with real-world motorcycles.
Appearance: Like most other security programs, Anon wears a black bodysuit with lightweight black armor, complete with a helmet that he never takes off. Also like others from the Grid, he has circuitry/wicked awesome light piping on his bodysuit and armor, which in his case is white - though it used to be blue, and is for most of the game, hence his blueness in his icons. He's shorter than Jalen, presumably in the 5'10" range once pulled off the Grid. Also, his legs and ass are amazing, probably from too much Parkour.
Age: Ten years, or five hundred Tron Cycles, though he looks like he's in his twenties or thirties. If you can tell by the armor, anyway.
OC/AU Justification ;
If AU, How is Your Version Different From Canon, and How Will That Come Across? Anon was derezzed after being crushed under a Recognizer while saving his friend Quorra, as is canon. However, Flynn was able to reboot him from a backup and fill him in on what happened. Anon was also given a new objective - free the System from the rising dictatorship. Anon has spent the last ten User-years causing minor anarchy for Clu's forces, which ends in 1999 with his capture and permanent derezzing. He is being pulled from shortly before this event. Much of his time has been spent in the Outlands or what was left of Arjia and Bostrom City, using the remains of the freeway between them to get around; even with his time spent in the wilds, he has seen little of Flynn and Quorra. Mostly this was a tactical choice for him - if he was captured, he wouldn't be able to point Clu in their direction, no matter what happened.
Basically, he'll be overprotective of anyone that isn't allied with Clu. And anyone that is allied with Clu can expect for him to try to break their shit. A lot. He's also likely to seek out somewhere isolated - and probably cheap - to stay, and only meet his own allies when neither of them are anywhere near their respective bases. Also, Flynn programmed a voice into his coding so he could actually converse. Unfortunately, it means that he has an undercurrent of dial-up modem static when he talks.
If OC, Did You Run Your Character Through a Mary-Sue Litmus Test?
And What Did You Score?
Samples ;
Log Sample: Anon could hear the unmistakable throb of Recognizer engines. They were close now, at least three of them. He tried to guess who they would be carrying, based on the other patrols and the usual compliment of soldiers that he'd recorded now for the last one hundred cycles. A couple scouts, probably, a few of the heavy-hitters. Blackguards, maybe. Clu's people only ever came to the Outlands for two things - to hunt Flynn, and to hunt him. With this many of them out here, maybe they were hunting them both now. Or he'd finally gotten on Clu's last nerve. Since they were all here, at the broken remains of Bostrom Colony, they had to be here for him and him alone.
The odds were bad. Worse than bad - they were horrible. But he'd been programmed to go up against horrible odds, and there was no one left in existance that knew Bostrom the way he did. Every place that still pulsed yellow with Abraxas's infection, every unstable surface and wall and obstacle. The Monitor could take care of them, easy. He hoped he could, anyway, considering his options. He vaulted over an obstruction, using the momentum to nab the jagged outcropping above him and haul himself up. There wasn't much left in the way of battery power, and it took a significant amount to weigh his disc for heavier hits. He'd be better off taking advantage of height and his own mobility. He didn't consider that it might have been a mistake to stay here for so long; too late now. Anon would have to just deal with it.
He ran at one wall, leaping and nimbly planting his feet to run across it for a few microcycles. He bounded away to land on the surface he knew was on the other side, but... suddenly, he was falling. He hadn't misjudged, he knew. It just wasn't there. And some of the wall had come with him into freefall. "Unusual," he muttered, mostly to himself. He wasn't derezzing as he fell... the end of the drop might do it, though. A quick plan had him latching onto the wall, hugging close and hissing a short prayer to the User that it would take most of the impact.
Network Sample: [Several of the settings are run through extremely rapidly on someone's wearable - the video and hologram both show a man in full, lightweight black body armor tugging on the wearable on his wrist in what is probably a combination of frustration and a little panic. Eventually it settles on video, and the man backs into the shadow of a building in Kurzweil, making the white areas of his armor glow a little more prominently. When he finally speaks, it's with an undercurrent of static, and he sounds confused.]
It's bright here.
[There's a pause, and then he adds, more calmly and with more purpose-]
... I need to go home.
Player Information ;
Your Nickname: Jayde
OOC Journal:
mordoriannazgulUnder 18? No
Email/IM: Email - Jaydepuff@aol.com AIM - Jaydepuff
Characters Played at Singularity: Rookie (
huragokwhistler)Character Information ;
Name: System Monitor Anon
Name of Canon: Tron: Evolution
Canon/AU/Other Game CR: AU; explained below
Reference: Tron: Evolution as a suppliment to his sparse Wiki. And here's the whole game, in its entirety, on YouTube.
Canon Point: In 1999, before being derezzed again
Setting: It all began for Anon in 1989, but the whole system really began in the 1970s when a brilliant software engineer named Kevin Flynn was fired from the company ENCOM and the Master Control Program essentially takes over running the company. At the same time, one of his coworkers coded a security program called Tron, and another began testing lasers to 'digitize' objects into computer code and then return them to being undigital. Flynn's attempts to hack into the MCP's system from inside the company led to him being digitized onto the Game Grid to compete until he was killed. However, the MCP made a mistake in doing so, allowing Flynn and Tron to ally with one another and eventually destroy the MCP, thus allowing freedom on the network for programs to do as they please. Through this, Flynn also became the CEO of ENCOM.
Digitizing technology perfected, he began to redesign the Grid with assistance from Tron, as well as creating Clu 2 to perfect the System in his absence. Things seemed to be toodling along fine and dandy, with several cities and a multitude of programs being created for all sorts of purposes. Then, Flynn discovered something - self-created programs called ISOs, essentially the closest that a machine could come to humanity, complete with free will and the flaws that come with that. Flynn was absolutely delighted by this discovery, realizing that it meant the playing field was changing drastically, and for the better. Other programs had mixed feelings about them and their apparent unpredictability, and no one was more wary of them than perfectionist Clu. To that end, he corrupted an ISO into a virus to harm the System and cause general chaos that would allow him to take over and eliminate the ISOs once and for all.
Anon was created as a system monitor and security program before any of this came to light, as Flynn was concerned about the tension between the programs and ISOs. He played a major part during the Purge of the ISOs, working to eliminate the virus Abraxas with extreme prejudice - though losing the cities of Arjia and Bostrom Colony to him, as well as his ally the ISO Gibson - and saving one of his few surviving friends, Quorra, from certain destruction at the cost of his own existence... even if it was temporary. Since then, he has made himself a pest to Clu's regime, breaking whatever he can in an effort to break down the program's grip on the System and ensure freedom for programs once more.
Personality: Much of his personality comes from his function. Ultimately, Anon was intended as a security and firewall program, and is primarily concerned with the security of the System and the freedom of its programs. He isn't particularly fond of threats to this freedom, such as Clu 2.0, or threats to the security such as viruses. This will probably transfer to the station, with him attempting to keep threats to security to a minimum by whatever means are required. And any dictatorship that attempts to rise up will have just as many problems as any individuals making a mess; he is more than willing to track a group down and ruin their stuff to keep them from performing a hostile takeover. Due to his programming, he will often ignore other people or circumstances when a known threat is in the area; he spends much of the game completely ignoring everyone that isn't attacking him or that he isn't tracking, even when those other programs think he's been infected by a virus and turned evil. Being security also means that he tends to doggedly pursue things he is sent after. Much of the game is dedicated to him trying to find Flynn and stop Abraxas, and even Clu 2.0 mentioned that Anon wouldn't quit and was, in so many words, "a plucky glitch".
For all of his bravery, however, there are still programs more well-rounded than him. Given his limited contact with Users/humans/organics/what have you, his knowledge of their universe is extremely limited at best. He's likely to be confused or disturbed by most concepts that others are familiar with, such as grass and sunlight and rainbows. That song by Insane Clown Posse, Miracles? That's pretty much him, but he has more knowledge of magnets. He also has extremely limited social skills, since he's lived for longer as a lone hermit rebel than he hasn't. While he is incredibly capable of emoting his moods to those around him, from panic to frustration to aggression to discomfort, his understanding of social situations is mostly lacking. As well, he's uncomfortable with speaking often, due to his vocal quirk (outlined in AU Justification) and has to be coaxed with direct questions that can't be answered with nods, shakes of the head, or shrugs.
Anon tends to look up to Users - in particular his own creator, Kevin Flynn - and has a fondness for them and those like them such as the ISOs. In particular his short time watching, listening to, and analyzing Kevin Flynn had an impact on him. He'd noticed Flynn's sadness over Clu's dislike of the ISOs and over him destroying the ISOs and taking over the System, as well as Flynn's comradry with Tron and his apparent fondness for Anon himself, and he's come to understand the User is a good man. Unfortunately, he has expectations that other Users he encounters will exhibit at least some of the same traits, and is likely to either be completely disappointed when they don't, or try to ignore their faults for as long as possible.
Also of note is that he's turned into a horrible colorist - anyone wearing or bearing the colors yellow, red, or orange will likely end up with an unfriendly program hounding them, until he's corrected.
Abilities and Weaknesses:
Abilities: According to his Tron File, he has expandable memory and an unlimited capacity for adaptation, easily seen in his ability to upgrade his battery capacity, shielding/health, and his identity disc abilities. He has a great deal of skill in disc-based combat, having fought his way through three cities and a doomsday weapon space station. He also has a fair amount of ability in driving Light Cycles and Light Tanks, and can pilot Recognizers. He is also one of the most mobile programs on the Grid, making use of the martial art of Parkour to get everywhere. Anon is fully capable of and willing to vault over objects, leap over chasms, and run across walls or verticle surfaces to get where he wants to go. As a computer program, he also has at least some ability with hacking, as well as scanning other programs for relevant data - this is being reduced to only scanning other programs from Tron, most of whom he's likely to have met before anyway.
Weaknesses: Anon can drive Cycles, Tanks, and Recognizers. Unfortunately, this has led to some in-game instances of the Indiana Jones Piloting Effect - he can drive the thing just fine, but almost every time he tries to park it, it either tips over or explodes. Yes, even the Tanks. His track record with Recognizers is probably just as poor, given that most of his interaction with them in the game is leaping onto and riding the outside of them - and eventually being squashed by one. And any other vehicles he might as well forget trying.
Inventory: - His armor. Mostly it's so he doesn't get turned into a pancake if his gets mowed over, though it offers some protection from wounds caused by Tron-based weapons - light discs, baton swords, baton pikes, etc. However, against anything User-made (normal swords, guns, etc.) it's basically useless. But it does look kicking and never stains. Notable is that his armor has the white lighting from the end of the game, rather than the blue lighting it has for the bulk of the game. This reflects changes in programming that Flynn made.
- His identity disc. Basically it contains everything of him on it, from his first moments to his last. The data can be altered by Users of sufficient skill, as seen when Flynn updates his programming to allow him to fight Clu's minions, or corrupted by hacking, which is probably why he never lets it out of his sight. It is also his primary weapon, and it has been shown to derezz other programs and - in the film - a human was injured with one as well. However, the most it can cut through is skin.
- His baton. The batons can be used to create a multitude of items, from weapons to vehicles. Having these items depends on having them coded into the baton, and the only one Anon has is his Lightcycle. However, he will likely have to find a way to program holograms on the station to get it back in working order, and it would lack the telltale - and deadly - Light Ribbon that typically trails behind the cycles, as well as the speed being significantly reduced to something more akin with real-world motorcycles.
Appearance: Like most other security programs, Anon wears a black bodysuit with lightweight black armor, complete with a helmet that he never takes off. Also like others from the Grid, he has circuitry/wicked awesome light piping on his bodysuit and armor, which in his case is white - though it used to be blue, and is for most of the game, hence his blueness in his icons. He's shorter than Jalen, presumably in the 5'10" range once pulled off the Grid. Also, his legs and ass are amazing, probably from too much Parkour.
Age: Ten years, or five hundred Tron Cycles, though he looks like he's in his twenties or thirties. If you can tell by the armor, anyway.
OC/AU Justification ;
If AU, How is Your Version Different From Canon, and How Will That Come Across? Anon was derezzed after being crushed under a Recognizer while saving his friend Quorra, as is canon. However, Flynn was able to reboot him from a backup and fill him in on what happened. Anon was also given a new objective - free the System from the rising dictatorship. Anon has spent the last ten User-years causing minor anarchy for Clu's forces, which ends in 1999 with his capture and permanent derezzing. He is being pulled from shortly before this event. Much of his time has been spent in the Outlands or what was left of Arjia and Bostrom City, using the remains of the freeway between them to get around; even with his time spent in the wilds, he has seen little of Flynn and Quorra. Mostly this was a tactical choice for him - if he was captured, he wouldn't be able to point Clu in their direction, no matter what happened.
Basically, he'll be overprotective of anyone that isn't allied with Clu. And anyone that is allied with Clu can expect for him to try to break their shit. A lot. He's also likely to seek out somewhere isolated - and probably cheap - to stay, and only meet his own allies when neither of them are anywhere near their respective bases. Also, Flynn programmed a voice into his coding so he could actually converse. Unfortunately, it means that he has an undercurrent of dial-up modem static when he talks.
And What Did You Score?
Samples ;
Log Sample: Anon could hear the unmistakable throb of Recognizer engines. They were close now, at least three of them. He tried to guess who they would be carrying, based on the other patrols and the usual compliment of soldiers that he'd recorded now for the last one hundred cycles. A couple scouts, probably, a few of the heavy-hitters. Blackguards, maybe. Clu's people only ever came to the Outlands for two things - to hunt Flynn, and to hunt him. With this many of them out here, maybe they were hunting them both now. Or he'd finally gotten on Clu's last nerve. Since they were all here, at the broken remains of Bostrom Colony, they had to be here for him and him alone.
The odds were bad. Worse than bad - they were horrible. But he'd been programmed to go up against horrible odds, and there was no one left in existance that knew Bostrom the way he did. Every place that still pulsed yellow with Abraxas's infection, every unstable surface and wall and obstacle. The Monitor could take care of them, easy. He hoped he could, anyway, considering his options. He vaulted over an obstruction, using the momentum to nab the jagged outcropping above him and haul himself up. There wasn't much left in the way of battery power, and it took a significant amount to weigh his disc for heavier hits. He'd be better off taking advantage of height and his own mobility. He didn't consider that it might have been a mistake to stay here for so long; too late now. Anon would have to just deal with it.
He ran at one wall, leaping and nimbly planting his feet to run across it for a few microcycles. He bounded away to land on the surface he knew was on the other side, but... suddenly, he was falling. He hadn't misjudged, he knew. It just wasn't there. And some of the wall had come with him into freefall. "Unusual," he muttered, mostly to himself. He wasn't derezzing as he fell... the end of the drop might do it, though. A quick plan had him latching onto the wall, hugging close and hissing a short prayer to the User that it would take most of the impact.
Network Sample: [Several of the settings are run through extremely rapidly on someone's wearable - the video and hologram both show a man in full, lightweight black body armor tugging on the wearable on his wrist in what is probably a combination of frustration and a little panic. Eventually it settles on video, and the man backs into the shadow of a building in Kurzweil, making the white areas of his armor glow a little more prominently. When he finally speaks, it's with an undercurrent of static, and he sounds confused.]
It's bright here.
[There's a pause, and then he adds, more calmly and with more purpose-]
... I need to go home.