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Name: Susan/Tanks
Age: 31
Personal Journal: N/A (Though you can use this one if necessary.)
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Character Information
Character Name: Clu-FA071081 , AKA Clu 1.0 or just Clu
Fandom: Tron
Character History: On the early evening of September 22, 1982, arcade owner Kevin Flynn gave Clu commands to hack the ENCOM computer system. Clu began searching - along with Bit - in his modified Tank for code that would prove that an ENCOM programmer named Ed Dillinger stole Flynn's video games and presented them to the ENCOM executives as his own. The games soon became fantastic sellers and Dillinger was promoted to Executive V.P.; Flynn had been fired by Dillinger shortly after.
While Clu was searching for the evidence, the system's security found him and began hot pursuit via Recognizers. Clu tried to destroy them with his tank projectiles, but there were too many of them. As Clu attempted to get away, he was ambushed by a Recognizer. Clu fired at it and successfully destroyed it, but its remains rained down on Clu's tank. The vehicle went out of control as the blast radius lifted the tank to its side and crashed into one of the many walls in the maze of the memory sector.
Clu quickly escaped the tank and tried to run away, but the recognizer caught him with its legs and "detached" him from the system. Flynn had failed again in trying to get the evidence he needed.
A little while later, Clu was sent to the heart of ENCOM system, where the Master Control Program was located. The MCP briefly interrogated him:
Guard: "Got a pirate program here... says his name's Clu."
MCP: "What did he pull?"
Guard: "He came into the system with a stolen password, and we caught him trying to raid a high-clearance memory."
Clu: "No! I must've gotten in there by mistake, I was-!"
MCP: "Who programmed you?"
Clu: "I was simply-!"
Clu was thrown through the air and landed on a device that was slowly derezzing him.
MCP: "You're in trouble, program. Make it easy on yourself. Who's your user?"
Clu: "Forget it, mister high-and-mighty Master Control! You aren't making me talk."
MCP: "Suit yourself."
Clu screamed as the device on the wall derezzed him, with the MCP absorbing all of his functions so he could enhance and expand his own. Right after Clu was derezzed, the MCP found out that Clu's user was Kevin Flynn.
Clu was loyal to Kevin Flynn. He refused to give the name of his user to the MCP, despite the fact that he was in a near-death situation. As a result, he was deleted by the MCP. It's from here, the point of his death in canon, that Clu will be arriving in Nautilus.
Character Personality:Clu was written some time before the events of the movie, long enough to have been doing work for Flynn for awhile, since Flynn mentions sending him to alter both his phone bill and bank statement, seemingly more than once. Thus, it can be assumed that he and Flynn have been working together for quite some time, especially from Clu's perspective, given the time differential between the User and digital worlds. The only other ally Clu is known to have worked closely with is his bit, named, well, Bit. He clearly cares for it like one would a friend or at least a loyal pet, telling it to flee and save itself when he was about to be captured by the MCP's forces.
One thing that's very obvious about Clu is that he's deeply loyal to his User, Kevin Flynn. He refers to Flynn as 'Sir' when speaking to him, and was shown to be willing to face torture and death rather than sell him out. His feelings on other Users are unknown, though unless the User in question's name happens to be Dillinger, Clu would likely treat them with a great deal of respect. Perhaps even worship, originally, until someone straightens him around, given that belief in and serving of the Users is regarded as religion in system.
Clu has also been shown to be extremely focused while on a mission, operating with efficiency and professionalism. We don't get to see him out of this 'mission mode' but given that we see of the other main programs, it can be assumed that under normal circumstances, he shares the same basic personality traits as his User, though influenced by his much more serious life. While he doesn't set much store by the rules, viewing any non-vital ones as more suggestions than anything else, he does have a strong sense of right and wrong. He can be quirky, exasperating, and sometimes insensitive, but overall he has a good heart.
He likes hugs, has a cheerful, irreverent sense of humor, and like any hacker is sometimes prone to pranks and mischief. Though unless someone gives him a very good reason to dislike them, none of it is malicious. He's also stubbornly independent(as well as just stubborn in general), as Flynn was very much in 'lone wolf' mode when Clu was written; Flynn himself called him "dogged and relentless". He'll likely have to learn how to work as a team and generally make friends, as he's never really had the chance to get close to people before, other than Flynn and Bit.
Powers and Abilities: Not for nothing did Flynn call Clu the best program he'd ever written. Clu is extremely skilled at his function and will continue to be so, even on this side of the screen. He is programmed to be able to learn and adapt to new systems and situations, so while many things about life in the physical world/Nautilus might throw him at first, he's generally quick to find his feet.
Due to being a computer program himself, Clu will have an almost uncanny rapport with computer systems, able to coax them into functioning correctly, or just functioning better, when few others can. Though his methods might well raise a few eyebrows; he can often be found talking to consoles or rubbing them with his hands. There is a method to this seeming madness, however, as the delicate circuits and specialized sensors in the palms of his hands- while no longer able to read a system's code and energy base as he could from the inside- will allow him to sense, interpret, and to a minor degree manipulate the flow of energy and data through local circuitry. He usually keeps his gloves rezzed up to block such, however, as the ability can't be shut off and tends to give him a headache if overused.
As for other abilities, Clu's physical strength is superior to most humans, though not to Superman levels or anything. But he would probably be able to easily lift and carry a person of his relative size and weight, or bench press a good bit more than most. He can also speak and read binary, though the speaking aspect is really only useful if there's someone else around who can also speak it, or at least understand it. Were he in system, he could also send pings- brief thoughts or feelings in data form- but that ability is nonfunctional outside the system, barring future enhancements. He can also process and recall data significantly faster than most humans, and with greater accuracy. Not that he doesn't make mistakes or forget things, happens less frequently. He can also pilot a modified game-tank and could probably learn to do the same with a tank on this side of the screen if needed.
As far as weaknesses go, Clu is a program, adapted to life within the system and adapting to life outside it will pose challenges. He needs to drink liquid energy to live, though he may also be able to process human food and drink as well, once his body has had time to adjust. Whether he'll find it palatable or not is anyone's guess, though. His vision is also adapted for low light, so bright lights, especially bright flashes of light can easily leave him temporarily blinded, or in extreme cases, may even burn out his visual sensors, necessitating repair.
Which is another disadvantage. Clu and all the clothing that he comes with are made of computer code, and while he can repair his own clothing, repairing himself is much more difficult. (Any clothing he acquires later will obviously be normal clothing and exempt from this; just the circuit-suit he comes with is made of code.) Mild to moderate damage tends to repair on its own given time, energy, and care as his systems are designed to be both rugged and efficient, but any major or particularly delicate damage will require a skilled programmer to repair. And since Clu will be arriving without an identity disc, this will be even more complicated, as it will require someone to be given permissions to access Clu's code directly. Currently the only one with such permissions is Flynn, his User, but Clu can alter his permission settings for others if need be.
Non-physical weaknesses include being bound by his programmed directive- to help Flynn in any way he needs-, his own stubbornness, and his lack of knowledge about how life works on this side of the screen, which could lead to many a faux pas.
And while not really a strength or a weakness, but still going here since I don't know where else to stick it, the physical characteristics that make Clu's appearance differ from that of a normal human are the intricate, glowing yellow circuits, not just on his suit, but in his skin. And if one looks closely, in can be seen that the pupils of his eyes are hexagons, rather than circles.
Samples
Network: [The signal starts out as audio only, switching to video after a moment.]
Man, this is the weirdest interface... there, think that's got it. [ahem]
Greetings, programs. My designation is Clu. I'm afraid I seem to have been transported to your system by mistake. I really don't know how this could have happened- [for a number of reasons] - but I do need to report in. Can anyone direct me to an I/O Tower so that I can contact my User and request retrieval?
Third Person: Clu's initial impression was of darkness and a code-deep ache that suffused every line and pixel of his being. No surprise, since his last memory had been of being slowly derezzed by the MCP's decompiler. Though that begged the question of how was he even still alive to be feeling anything.
Gradually his systems began a proper reboot, and he became aware of more than just a vague, uncomfortable existence. Though a good bit of the data he was getting back didn't make any sense at all. He suspected damage, but oddly, the diagnostics came up clear. He was lying on his back on something solid and semi-flat, that much he could tell. But it didn't feel like the smooth code or silicone that he was used to. Warmth also washed over him from an unknown external source. It was sort of a pleasant feeling, though not knowing its source made him wary. Even more worrying was the fact that he couldn't initiate any kind of system contact. His simple ping to the system's clock in hopes of finding out how long he'd been offline went unanswered. Even the barely audible thrum of power that signified a living, functioning system was absent.
That, if nothing else prompted him to open his eyes. It was a decision he was forced to redact immediately as a brilliantly bright glare assaulted his vision. Cursing in binary, he rolled carefully onto one side, keeping his eyes squeezed shut and waiting for the dazzle to fade from his overloaded sensors. Once he felt that it was safe to do so, he cautiously opened his eyes again. The area he was in was still uncomfortably bright, but now that he was no longer looking directly up at that blindingly-bright light source, he was able to actually looks around without having his visual sensors burned out.
What he saw, though, was almost a different kind of sensory overload. The system he was in was rendered in stunningly high resolution. Everywhere were brilliant colors and textures rendered in minute detail. The processing power that such a display would require boggled Clu's processor. The ground he was lying on was covered with some sort of data-growth, but he didn't see an energy spring or any other power source nearby. And he'd never seen anything that brilliantly green that didn't glow before. And just a few inches away from his face was... another kind of data growth. It also had no glow but it was such a brilliant shade of yellow, almost the same color as his circuits. And there were more of them nearby! Were the's ones about to bud off into wild bits?
Almost without thinking, he derezzed a glove and reached out a finger to touch one of the yellow maybe-bits... and was astonished. It was so soft. It gave slightly even under his gentle touch and had a texture he couldn't even begin to classify. He could scarcely process it all.
Thus would any inhabitants of Nautilus find him. A humanoid computer program, dressed in a white suit dotted with light-weight armor and glowing circuits, lying in the sun on the grass and staring in unabashed awe at a patch of dandelions.
Name: Susan/Tanks
Age: 31
Personal Journal: N/A (Though you can use this one if necessary.)
Email / AIM / MSN / Plurk: Plurk- Tanks4thememory
Current Character(s): N/A
Character Information
Character Name: Clu-FA071081 , AKA Clu 1.0 or just Clu
Fandom: Tron
Character History: On the early evening of September 22, 1982, arcade owner Kevin Flynn gave Clu commands to hack the ENCOM computer system. Clu began searching - along with Bit - in his modified Tank for code that would prove that an ENCOM programmer named Ed Dillinger stole Flynn's video games and presented them to the ENCOM executives as his own. The games soon became fantastic sellers and Dillinger was promoted to Executive V.P.; Flynn had been fired by Dillinger shortly after.
While Clu was searching for the evidence, the system's security found him and began hot pursuit via Recognizers. Clu tried to destroy them with his tank projectiles, but there were too many of them. As Clu attempted to get away, he was ambushed by a Recognizer. Clu fired at it and successfully destroyed it, but its remains rained down on Clu's tank. The vehicle went out of control as the blast radius lifted the tank to its side and crashed into one of the many walls in the maze of the memory sector.
Clu quickly escaped the tank and tried to run away, but the recognizer caught him with its legs and "detached" him from the system. Flynn had failed again in trying to get the evidence he needed.
A little while later, Clu was sent to the heart of ENCOM system, where the Master Control Program was located. The MCP briefly interrogated him:
Guard: "Got a pirate program here... says his name's Clu."
MCP: "What did he pull?"
Guard: "He came into the system with a stolen password, and we caught him trying to raid a high-clearance memory."
Clu: "No! I must've gotten in there by mistake, I was-!"
MCP: "Who programmed you?"
Clu: "I was simply-!"
Clu was thrown through the air and landed on a device that was slowly derezzing him.
MCP: "You're in trouble, program. Make it easy on yourself. Who's your user?"
Clu: "Forget it, mister high-and-mighty Master Control! You aren't making me talk."
MCP: "Suit yourself."
Clu screamed as the device on the wall derezzed him, with the MCP absorbing all of his functions so he could enhance and expand his own. Right after Clu was derezzed, the MCP found out that Clu's user was Kevin Flynn.
Clu was loyal to Kevin Flynn. He refused to give the name of his user to the MCP, despite the fact that he was in a near-death situation. As a result, he was deleted by the MCP. It's from here, the point of his death in canon, that Clu will be arriving in Nautilus.
Character Personality:Clu was written some time before the events of the movie, long enough to have been doing work for Flynn for awhile, since Flynn mentions sending him to alter both his phone bill and bank statement, seemingly more than once. Thus, it can be assumed that he and Flynn have been working together for quite some time, especially from Clu's perspective, given the time differential between the User and digital worlds. The only other ally Clu is known to have worked closely with is his bit, named, well, Bit. He clearly cares for it like one would a friend or at least a loyal pet, telling it to flee and save itself when he was about to be captured by the MCP's forces.
One thing that's very obvious about Clu is that he's deeply loyal to his User, Kevin Flynn. He refers to Flynn as 'Sir' when speaking to him, and was shown to be willing to face torture and death rather than sell him out. His feelings on other Users are unknown, though unless the User in question's name happens to be Dillinger, Clu would likely treat them with a great deal of respect. Perhaps even worship, originally, until someone straightens him around, given that belief in and serving of the Users is regarded as religion in system.
Clu has also been shown to be extremely focused while on a mission, operating with efficiency and professionalism. We don't get to see him out of this 'mission mode' but given that we see of the other main programs, it can be assumed that under normal circumstances, he shares the same basic personality traits as his User, though influenced by his much more serious life. While he doesn't set much store by the rules, viewing any non-vital ones as more suggestions than anything else, he does have a strong sense of right and wrong. He can be quirky, exasperating, and sometimes insensitive, but overall he has a good heart.
He likes hugs, has a cheerful, irreverent sense of humor, and like any hacker is sometimes prone to pranks and mischief. Though unless someone gives him a very good reason to dislike them, none of it is malicious. He's also stubbornly independent(as well as just stubborn in general), as Flynn was very much in 'lone wolf' mode when Clu was written; Flynn himself called him "dogged and relentless". He'll likely have to learn how to work as a team and generally make friends, as he's never really had the chance to get close to people before, other than Flynn and Bit.
Powers and Abilities: Not for nothing did Flynn call Clu the best program he'd ever written. Clu is extremely skilled at his function and will continue to be so, even on this side of the screen. He is programmed to be able to learn and adapt to new systems and situations, so while many things about life in the physical world/Nautilus might throw him at first, he's generally quick to find his feet.
Due to being a computer program himself, Clu will have an almost uncanny rapport with computer systems, able to coax them into functioning correctly, or just functioning better, when few others can. Though his methods might well raise a few eyebrows; he can often be found talking to consoles or rubbing them with his hands. There is a method to this seeming madness, however, as the delicate circuits and specialized sensors in the palms of his hands- while no longer able to read a system's code and energy base as he could from the inside- will allow him to sense, interpret, and to a minor degree manipulate the flow of energy and data through local circuitry. He usually keeps his gloves rezzed up to block such, however, as the ability can't be shut off and tends to give him a headache if overused.
As for other abilities, Clu's physical strength is superior to most humans, though not to Superman levels or anything. But he would probably be able to easily lift and carry a person of his relative size and weight, or bench press a good bit more than most. He can also speak and read binary, though the speaking aspect is really only useful if there's someone else around who can also speak it, or at least understand it. Were he in system, he could also send pings- brief thoughts or feelings in data form- but that ability is nonfunctional outside the system, barring future enhancements. He can also process and recall data significantly faster than most humans, and with greater accuracy. Not that he doesn't make mistakes or forget things, happens less frequently. He can also pilot a modified game-tank and could probably learn to do the same with a tank on this side of the screen if needed.
As far as weaknesses go, Clu is a program, adapted to life within the system and adapting to life outside it will pose challenges. He needs to drink liquid energy to live, though he may also be able to process human food and drink as well, once his body has had time to adjust. Whether he'll find it palatable or not is anyone's guess, though. His vision is also adapted for low light, so bright lights, especially bright flashes of light can easily leave him temporarily blinded, or in extreme cases, may even burn out his visual sensors, necessitating repair.
Which is another disadvantage. Clu and all the clothing that he comes with are made of computer code, and while he can repair his own clothing, repairing himself is much more difficult. (Any clothing he acquires later will obviously be normal clothing and exempt from this; just the circuit-suit he comes with is made of code.) Mild to moderate damage tends to repair on its own given time, energy, and care as his systems are designed to be both rugged and efficient, but any major or particularly delicate damage will require a skilled programmer to repair. And since Clu will be arriving without an identity disc, this will be even more complicated, as it will require someone to be given permissions to access Clu's code directly. Currently the only one with such permissions is Flynn, his User, but Clu can alter his permission settings for others if need be.
Non-physical weaknesses include being bound by his programmed directive- to help Flynn in any way he needs-, his own stubbornness, and his lack of knowledge about how life works on this side of the screen, which could lead to many a faux pas.
And while not really a strength or a weakness, but still going here since I don't know where else to stick it, the physical characteristics that make Clu's appearance differ from that of a normal human are the intricate, glowing yellow circuits, not just on his suit, but in his skin. And if one looks closely, in can be seen that the pupils of his eyes are hexagons, rather than circles.
Samples
Network: [The signal starts out as audio only, switching to video after a moment.]
Man, this is the weirdest interface... there, think that's got it. [ahem]
Greetings, programs. My designation is Clu. I'm afraid I seem to have been transported to your system by mistake. I really don't know how this could have happened- [for a number of reasons] - but I do need to report in. Can anyone direct me to an I/O Tower so that I can contact my User and request retrieval?
Third Person: Clu's initial impression was of darkness and a code-deep ache that suffused every line and pixel of his being. No surprise, since his last memory had been of being slowly derezzed by the MCP's decompiler. Though that begged the question of how was he even still alive to be feeling anything.
Gradually his systems began a proper reboot, and he became aware of more than just a vague, uncomfortable existence. Though a good bit of the data he was getting back didn't make any sense at all. He suspected damage, but oddly, the diagnostics came up clear. He was lying on his back on something solid and semi-flat, that much he could tell. But it didn't feel like the smooth code or silicone that he was used to. Warmth also washed over him from an unknown external source. It was sort of a pleasant feeling, though not knowing its source made him wary. Even more worrying was the fact that he couldn't initiate any kind of system contact. His simple ping to the system's clock in hopes of finding out how long he'd been offline went unanswered. Even the barely audible thrum of power that signified a living, functioning system was absent.
That, if nothing else prompted him to open his eyes. It was a decision he was forced to redact immediately as a brilliantly bright glare assaulted his vision. Cursing in binary, he rolled carefully onto one side, keeping his eyes squeezed shut and waiting for the dazzle to fade from his overloaded sensors. Once he felt that it was safe to do so, he cautiously opened his eyes again. The area he was in was still uncomfortably bright, but now that he was no longer looking directly up at that blindingly-bright light source, he was able to actually looks around without having his visual sensors burned out.
What he saw, though, was almost a different kind of sensory overload. The system he was in was rendered in stunningly high resolution. Everywhere were brilliant colors and textures rendered in minute detail. The processing power that such a display would require boggled Clu's processor. The ground he was lying on was covered with some sort of data-growth, but he didn't see an energy spring or any other power source nearby. And he'd never seen anything that brilliantly green that didn't glow before. And just a few inches away from his face was... another kind of data growth. It also had no glow but it was such a brilliant shade of yellow, almost the same color as his circuits. And there were more of them nearby! Were the's ones about to bud off into wild bits?
Almost without thinking, he derezzed a glove and reached out a finger to touch one of the yellow maybe-bits... and was astonished. It was so soft. It gave slightly even under his gentle touch and had a texture he couldn't even begin to classify. He could scarcely process it all.
Thus would any inhabitants of Nautilus find him. A humanoid computer program, dressed in a white suit dotted with light-weight armor and glowing circuits, lying in the sun on the grass and staring in unabashed awe at a patch of dandelions.
