ddd_news | APPLICATIONS -- 2010; 001

APPLICATIONS -- 2010; 001

THIS APPLICATIONS POST IS CLOSED. Please direct your attention to the new one here!

Player nickname: Kuruma
Player LJ:

kadath
Way to contact you:
Email: green.and.dying@gmail.com
AIM: time held me
Other: Plurk: greenanddying (http://www.plurk.com/greenanddying)
Are you at least 15?: Very yes.
Current Characters: Death of the Endless (

debitumnaturae), Togusa (

honestcop)

Character: Kevin Flynn
Fandom: Tron
Character Notes:
History: SPOILER WARNING for Tron: Evolution and Tron: Legacy. (Statute of limitations is up on spoilers for Tron, though. :P)

1982:

Flynn: has a PhD in computer science from Caltech, is a hotshot video game programmer for software giant ENCOM, and owns a video arcade called, creatively, Flynn's.
His ideas are stolen by a competing ENCOM employee, Dillinger. Dillinger installed a program on the ENCOM mainframe that copied Flynn's code, and he took credit for it.
Dillinger is promoted to VP and has Flynn fired.
Flynn tries to hack ENCOM's mainframe to prove Dillinger had stolen his code (because two wrongs make a right, obviously) using a hacking program called a Codified Likeness Utility (CLU).
Gets totally busted by the administrative Master Control Program (MCP) on the mainframe, resulting in Dillinger shutting down all access, including to ENCOM employees (because that makes sense.)
This keeps said ENCOM employees from being able to do their jobs. Among them is Alan Bradley, a total boy scout who was working on a security program called Tron.
Cockblocked by Dillinger, Flynn asks his ex, Lora, for help. Lora is now dating Alan. Convenient! And frankly, Alan is a better choice for any kind of serious relationship than Flynn is.
They had a simple plan: Lora and Alan would sneak Flynn into ENCOM. Flynn would hack all the things and get Alan access again, so Alan could have Tron shut down the MCP, so Flynn could get his evidence. What could possibly go wrong?
They take Flynn to a terminal in Lora's lab. There is a GIANT-ASS LASER. That will be important next bullet point.
The MCP busts Flynn yet again, and turns on the laser, zapping Flynn into the computer. Because that is how lasers work, duh. The MCP tells its Trusted Lieutenant, a program called ~~David Warner~~Sark, to capture Flynn.
Flynn appears ("rezzes") in cyberspace. You can tell because of the blacklights. He's all "What the shit is this?" and gets picked up by Sark's dudes within like five minutes, because he is not yet Genre Savvy.
He has things explained to him by an accounting program named Ram while they're waiting to get thrown into the gladitorial games, which are basically full contact ultimate frisbee. Because nobody ever just shoots the good guy.
Flynn figures out that this is kind of srs bzns, and refuses to kill the program he's facing. This results in him getting tossed onto the Game Grid to play lightcycles with Ram and Tron. This is a tactical error on Sark's part, since Flynn wrote the freakin' game.
Flynn uses a 'sploit and they bust out the side of the area. ZOMG HAX.
Flynn figures out that he's a User and thus basically god. (Suck it, Neo.) Things begin to go badly for Sark and the MCP when Flynn starts throwing around his User powers. He goes one-on-one with the MCP and gets the assist when Tron kills it, snapping him back to the real world.
Flynn gets his evidence, Dillinger is fired, and Flynn becomes CEO of ENCOM. He promotes both Alan and Lora to the Board. Everyone lives happily ever after, at least until they decided to make a sequel.

1982-2010:

Flynn meets and marries Jordan Canas. They have a son, Sam, in 1983. She dies in a car crash in 1985, because Disney Hates Mothers.
Flynn is obsessed with the world inside computers, and it's kinda rough on Sam, since he's already down one parent, and the remaining one is spending every night beaming himself into a computer. It's like WoW on speed.
Inside the computer, in a world he calls "the Grid," Flynn is working with Tron and a new version of CLU to build "the perfect system." This will bite him in the ass.
Everything is going reasonably well, until Flynn et al. stumble on some programs that just evolved on their own rather than being written by a User, the isometric algorithms (ISOs). Flynn considers them miraculous, but CLU is not a fan.
Flynn is still in charge, so he tries to set up a way for ISOs and regular programs (Basics) to live in harmony by appointing an ISO, Radia, to serve as co-Systems Administrator with CLU. It's even sort of working until CLU decides it's Brutus time.
The ceremony promoting Radia is broken up by a virus attacking. Tron urges Flynn to get back to the real world where it's safe (compared to the Grid, anyway), and is escorting him to the Portal back to reality when...
...~~The band breaks up~~CLU confronts Flynn, asking whether he's still meant to create the perfect system. Flynn's like "Uh...sure," and then CLU's like "LOL PURGE" and the fighting starts. Tron is apparently killed ("de-rezzed") fighting to give Flynn time to escape.
The Portal closes. It has to be opened from the outside, and Flynn hasn't been telling anyone where he's been spending his nights, so now he's stuck. GOOD JOB, MAN.
While CLU is busy exterminating the ISOs and building himself a Thousand-Cycle Reich, an ISO helps Flynn escape the city.
Things presumably happen to Flynn, but he's not the PC in Evolution, so they're pretty vague. He shows up again after pulling the actual PC out of the wreckage of a city CLU's forces destroyed, just in time to send him on the final boss battle to rescue Quorra, an ISO who's been taken prisoner by CLU.
The PC succeeds, Pyrrhically, and only Quorra lives. Barely. Flynn finds her in the wastelands outside the city in time to keep her from de-rezzing. Deus ex machina amirite?
Flynn and Quorra, the last surviving ISO, bugger off to the middle of nowhere for Flynn to get his Zen on, and CLU takes over the system.

2010:

21 years have passed in the real world, and nine thousand eleventy hundred billion (I may be exaggerating) have on the Grid, 'cause computers are fast. Flynn, who is now like 1,200 years old but looks about 60, has embraced Zen Buddhism, because what the hell else has he got to do with his time?
CLU is looking for Flynn's identity disk, this glowing frisbee everyone keeps on their back that records their lives, because as both a User and the Creator of the system, Flynn's disk has special properties that will let CLU get out of the computer and into the real world.
Stalemate!
Responding to a page CLU sends to the beeper that Alan still carries after 20 years because it's Alan, Flynn's son Sam finds Daddy's old workstation in the arcade and zaps himself onto the Grid. That family has a problem with accidental laser discharges.
Sam has adventures that are suspiciously like Flynn's adventures from the first movie until Quorra rescues him from the Game Grid in the Batmobile and takes him to Stately Flynn Manor out in the wastelands, for a reunion and some exposition over dinner, where Flynn proceeds to disappoint his son by being Zen at him.
Sam decides he's getting the hell off the Grid and delete CLU from the command line even if Flynn isn't going to help, and runs off after dinner to find Zuse, a program Quorra said would be able to help him. Zuse of course sells Sam out to CLU.
Flynn pokes his head out of Enlightenment long enough to realize Junior's gonna get himself de-rezzed, and goes into the city after him, thus bringing his identity disk within CLU's grasp.
Flynn kicks some ass, User style, and saves Sam from CLU's forces. However, as he's leaving, a masked program ~~who fights with two identity disks and totally isn't a reprogrammed Tron even a little nuh-uh~~ uses a batarang-type thing to steal the disk off Flynn's back.
Oops.
Flynn, Sam, and Quorra hop a flying freight train to the Portal. Quorra is kind of in a coma at the time from getting hit in the fight, and Flynn fixes her while bonding with his son, 'cause he's the Creator and he can do that. He tells Sam that hell or high water, Quorra needs to be saved, on account of being the last ~~unicorn~~ISO.
Flynn thought of wireless Internet in 1985. Trufax.
Yeah so, it turns out CLU is staging his real-world invasion army in a floating fortress-thing right by the Portal. This will prove handy for getting Flynn's disk back!
Sam goes and steals back Flynn's disk, Flynn goes and steals a plane, and Quorra goes and gets herself caught, but it's a handy distraction.
Flying chase! It's pretty much the escape from the Death Star scene from the first Star Wars movie. Tron gets redeemed just in time to plummet to his probable de-rezzing. *sniffle*
The three arrive at the Portal. Guess who's already there!
Yes, it's CLU.
CLU monologues for a bit, and Flynn apologizes for giving him an impossible task in "perfecting" the Grid. It's a little too late for all that, and as Flynn urges Quorra and Sam to the Portal, CLU steals Flynn's disk.
Flynn wasn't rezzed yesterday. It's actually Quorra's disk! Quorra has his. Ha-ha!
CLU charges toward Sam and Quorra, but Flynn is the ~~Kwisatz Haderach~~Creator, and reintegrates CLU by an act of will.
They explode, apparently leveling the Grid, as Sam and Quorra beam out.
...Sequel?

I'll be pulling Flynn from before Legacy begins, since the movie takes place over the course of about a day, and he dies at the end.

Edited 2011-01-02 02:13 (UTC)

Personality: The Zen Kevin Flynn of Legacy has changed a great deal from the impulsive Kevin Flynn of Tron, and understandably so. The movie is fuzzy about the rate of time passage on the Grid, but the fans, bless their obsessive little hearts, have done the math (http://tron.wikia.com/wiki/Kevin_Flynn#Flynn.27s_Chronological_Age.2FContinuity_of_Existence), and a conservative estimate for how long he's been alive, subjectively, is over a thousand years. This certainly explains the calm, patient Flynn of the sequel--any human who lived that long would have to reach enlightenment, or go insane.

Flynn retains his programmer's zeal, and it dovetails with the joy that is said to come with enlightenment. He's still fascinated by the ISOs and the Grid itself, and still quick to hack his way to a solution--when he fights, he does so as a User, and ultimately as the Creator, not in the physical way the programs and Sam do. In less tense moments, Flynn is laid-back and informal, doing things like tell Sam that he's "harshing my Zen thing," or referring to the work he was doing in the Grid before CLU's purge as "bio-digital jazz."

In keeping with the idea that he is, if not a buddha--and he's probably not, since he displays attachment both to Quorra and Sam--at least a Zen master, Flynn shows a great deal of equanimity and good humor. While not denying them, he's accepted the mistakes he made in the past, and holds no anger at CLU for his actions, horrific as they were. This doesn't mean Flynn is resigned to what CLU has done to the Grid, just that he is willing to wait until the end of time, if necessary, for the chance to set matters right. It takes Sam's impetuousness to stir Flynn to action, but when he acts, he does so without hesitating, and appears to hold no grudge against his son for forcing his hand and thereby endangering both the Grid and the real world.

With enlightenment, on the other hand, comes detachment. Flynn is moved by Sam's arrival, and by danger to his son and his apprentice, but his reactions are all more subdued than one would expect from a man who hasn't seen his son in a subjective millennium, or who is watching the potentional death of the last surviving member of a sentient race. Flynn has checked out from the world, to a degree--he remains cognizant of his responsibilities and friendships, but is not affected by them in the way the average person would be. This comes with neither coldness nor cruelty; Flynn is simply a man at peace.

Other: Flynn is basically Obi-Wan Lebowski. I could have just put that for the personality section, really.
Additional Links: I got nothin'.

First Person (entry type): [There is a bit of blocky digital noise that quickly resolves into a 60ish bearded man in white looking into the camera.]

There we go.

[He smiles, pleased with himself.]

Whoever you are, I'm impressed you managed to get a carrier through. That is some deep magic, and I'd offer you a job if I could.

[His smile turns into seriousness.]

Still, not to harsh your mellow or anything unfriendly like that, but you really need to shut it down. I'm containing something in here that shouldn't be let out. It wouldn't be good for the world.

[He shakes his head.]

I wouldn't even be asking, except I've already tried and failed to cut the connection--which is, of course, why I'm so impressed.

[Somehow that does't sound egotistical, and he laughs as he says it.]

Oh, right. I'm Kevin Flynn.

No, seriously.

Third Person: One of the side effects of an identity disk was an unerring sense of the passage of time. Programs took it for granted, but for someone like Flynn, who'd started life analog, there'd been some adjustment involved--not to mention that losing oneself in meditation was a lot harder with the constant awareness of passing microcycles always in the back of one's mind--but eventually the thought of not instinctively knowing the time became foreign.

Now, he knew that the anniversary of the Portal closing was creeping up. He hadn't even consciously paid attention when the event itself had occurred, having been rather more concerned with surviving than with spectating, but whenever he called up the memory of the distant sky suddenly going dark, it was stamped indelibly with the time.

Amongst other things. The anger, the fear. The despair. He regarded them now as though they had belonged to someone else, and perhaps they had. It had been a very long time ago, and while programs might not change, in one cycle or a thousand, humans certainly did.

...But maybe not all that much. The clock in his mind ticked over to the exact moment at which the Portal had winked out. When precisely nothing happened, Flynn realized he'd been holding his breath, and he laughed into the unending night of the Grid.

Edited 2011-01-02 02:17 (UTC)

Approved! Please follow the instructions below:

» Add yourself to the Taken Character's List.
» Start adding people from the Friend Add List.
» Read the New Player Guide.
» Introduce yourself in

triple_d_ooc.
» Go ahead and intro your character on

dramadramaduck! ♥

Additionally!
» We have an Activity Check at

dramadramaduck every two months and the next one is in February. Because your application was accepted in January, you will not be required to participate!
» Our requirements are simply 20 comments. These can be from your characters journal, others journals, or any post on the main community. Any posts your character makes his/herself will count as a comment itself.
» If you have any questions about the AC/AC requirements or anything else, feel free to contact any of the moderators; our contact information is available on any of our communities profiles. :)

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

APPLICATIONS -- 2010; 001

Kevin Flynn | Tron | Reserved | 1/probably not as many as usual >_>

Kevin Flynn | Tron | Reserved | 2/?

Kevin Flynn | Tron | Reserved | 3/?

Kevin Flynn | Tron | Reserved | 4/?

Kevin Flynn | Tron | Reserved | 5/5 YAY

ACCEPTED