Ah ... well, let's see. Applicaiton for counted_stars
Player Information:
Name or Handle: Kiki
LJ: kikibug13
Email: kikibug13 at gmail dot com
AIM or MSN name: aim: k1k1bug
Any current characters here?: Nope
Would you like a protocol droid?: … sure.
Character Information:
Character Name: Kevin Flynn
Age: Physically, 62. Mentally... add about a thousand years, he was stuck for twenty years somewhere that time runs 1:50.
Canon: Tron/Tron: Legacy
Appearance: Flynn is six foot one, muscular although not impressively solid. For sixty years or so, he is pretty fit. Longish graying hair, blue eyes, wrinkled face. There is a gravitas around him, an aura of authority that he doesn’t seek but can’t seem to shake, out of too long habit. He prefers wearing loose, comfortable clothing, if he can find it. Wears his body as somebody who’s used to it for a long, long time.
Personality: The first thing about Kevin Flynn is that he is a creator. A man of wide vision and brilliant mind, who puts his abilities to creating anything that comes to his mind. Best-selling games in history? His. Foreseeing economical and technical developments decades before they happened? He’s done it. Creating a new world where a whole new life form manifested? He’s done that, too.
The next thing is that he cares deeply. For his family and friends first of all, and for his work. He’s not a man to easily let go. Of anything. But most of all of the people he cares about. Whether they are flesh and blood or... well, not.
These were the basics. Unfortunately, the sunny bright hopeful man Flynn used to be got trapped by his own creation. Away from his family, away from his friends, unable to help save the most miraculous part of what he’d done, the spontaneously-appearing life form from his system. All of them - Isomorphic Algorithms, or ISOs, save one get destroyed by Clu, Flynn’s creation that turned against him. And Flynn was stuck in the world he’d made, a world of programs, for over a thousand years (or cycles) Grid-time. He went through bitterness and pain of the betrayal. He rescued the last of the ISO and cared for her, teaching her what he could, about the world outside and the one inside. To deal with the guilt and the pain, he delved into a study of Zen, and has become rather good at it.
And he’s been in the world he created, a world that he can sometimes change at will, for a millennium. That aura of power just sticks to him.
Basically not aggressive, Flynn dislikes taking anyone’s life, but he will fight, and well, with all means available to him - including some very creative. He will not indulge in anger - or, usually, other extreme emotions, but he is far from closed up to experiencing everything that happens to or around him.
Background: Kevin O. Flynn was born in Paramus, NJ, in 1949. He gradated and continued to receive a doctorate from CalTech in Software Engineering, after which he starts working for ENCOM, a tech company developing both software and hardware innovations. In his off time, he develops five computer games that he keeps in a file on his storage at ENCOM - until another, older programmer at the company, Ed Dillinger, appropriates the file and blocks him out, in 1979. Soon after that, Ed Dillinger presents the games as his own, and thus starts rising, meteorically, in the company, and sacks Flynn as soon as he is able to.
Kevin Flynn opens his Arcade in 1981, where, yes, the games he created are featured - and where the highest scores on just about any machine are his. But more than that, Flynn is trying to find evidence, in ENCOM’s system, for what Dillinger did, and to prove what was committed against him.
Before he manages that, however, Flynn gets scanned inside the computer system, via a laser device that is developed at ENCOM by the company’s original creator and Lora, Flynn’s former lover who is currently dating Alan Bradley, another of ENCOM’s software engineers. With the help of Alan’s self-monitoring security program Tron, Flynn manages to unlock the system from under Dillinger’s program’s control, and finds his way back to the real world - with the evidence.
Flynn becomes CEO of ENCOM, owner of the voting package of company shares. He meets and marries Jordan Canas, with whom he has a son, Sam, before she dies in an accident in 1985. Running ENCOM is not Flynn’s favorite activity, but he perseveres, with the capable help of Alan Bradley.
His adventures in the world inside the computer aren’t over, though. In fact, they have just begun.
Flynn creates a setup in the computer where a whole new system, ‘the Grid,’ is to be created, a system meant for both programs and users that he means to find an application for in the real world. He borrows Tron for the safety the system, and creates a system administrator program, Clu again (also known as Clu2), to oversee the progress of the Grid while Flynn himself tries to keep with his obligations in the real world. Clu’s task is to help Flynn turn the Grid into the Perfect System.
The plan, however, gets majorly derailed by the appearance of the ISO, Isomorphic Algorithms. Programs that act and interact with the ‘basics’ - without being written by Flynn. And possessing a measure of free will. To Flynn, they are a miracle. The potential of their existence, of their digital DNA - for him, the potential is unlimited. Revolutionary. Amazing.
Clu, however, sees them as imprefections. Threats to the system.
With time, he sees them as a virus.
As Flynn’s absences are felt more and more strongly, with the time flow in the Grid 50 times faster than outside, Clu grows more and more discontent with Flynn giving so many of the resources - including his time and attention - to the ISOs. In the end, he turns against Flynn, almost killing him. He would have, if Tron hadn’t saved Flynn. For all Flynn knows, at the cost of Tron’s own life. Clu keeps Flynn away from the Portal to the outer world until it closes - and it can be opened from the outside. Kevin Flynn is trapped inside his own world, away from his six-years-old son and everything that is outside.
Worse, Clu, after seizing power, destroys all the ISOs. Save one, who is masked as a basic - but who witnesses Clu’s machinations and confronts him about them. A sympathetic program manages to smuggle her out of the city, and as she wanders, losing power, Flynn finds her and saves her, keeping her safe as the last of his … miracle.
For over a thousand cycles (years), the two of them have been fugitives, making a life and study for themselves in the Outlands. Flynn has found a way in which to take others - programs, ISO or basic - to the outer world, and Clu wants his information disc because of that. And since as soon as the creator steps on the Grid, the fact will be known, it is Quorra who occasionally ventures in the City to learn how things are going.
It is during one of those absences (when she would return bringing Sam, in canon) that Flynn is taken from.
Special Abilities or Weapons: In the real world, Flynn doesn’t have any extraordinary powers other than brilliance and creativity. And he’s very, very good at playing video/computer games. And is a good software engineer, even if his actual programming skills are much outdated - but he can grasp the concepts and acquire new languages and technology quickly enough. And then there is the peaceful, holistic view of the world and the zen attitude - while not a power per se, that is ability to acquire much, especially as information or skills.
Flynn is not shown to have proficiency with any weapons, but he learned to use his disc as weapon very quickly, and it is very probable that he and Quorra trained together while exiled.
Sect: If he wasn’t that old, I’d totally put him as a padawan. Civilian, I guess.
Job: He can work as software/hardware maintenance, after a period of getting acquainted with the technology. That is a possibility only.
Samples:
First Person: [a video, starting with an aging man’s face in the delighted expression of figuring out a new toy. Quickly. When the video pickup starts, Flynn’s eyebrows rise and he smiles]
Huh. Aren’t you a smart little thing, doing all of these things...
[apparently addressed to the device itself. And then his eyes find the camera spot, and he smiles in a more composed manner]
So, does this transmit automatically, or does it record and then replay as others access their own?
Third Person: Link, here.
Anything Else: Hutt porn! Not watched by any ebon hawks!
Surprise me with roommate preference? Flynn wold like to be close to his kids son and Quorra, but other than that, anything goes.
Another note is - mun time zone is GMT+2, which may affect tagging timing on some threads!
Another note, this time character-related. Flynn’s story and characterization is derived from both movies, as well as some of the tie-ins (the comic Tron: The Betrayal, the game Tron: Evolution, and random snippets such as an Alan Bradley interview where he is discussed). In case of any conflict (there is some with the dating of Flynn’s wife’s death, for example), the canon from the movies is chosen over the tie-ins. Those are used only for fleshing him out more.
Name or Handle: Kiki
LJ: kikibug13
Email: kikibug13 at gmail dot com
AIM or MSN name: aim: k1k1bug
Any current characters here?: Nope
Would you like a protocol droid?: … sure.
Character Information:
Character Name: Kevin Flynn
Age: Physically, 62. Mentally... add about a thousand years, he was stuck for twenty years somewhere that time runs 1:50.
Canon: Tron/Tron: Legacy
Appearance: Flynn is six foot one, muscular although not impressively solid. For sixty years or so, he is pretty fit. Longish graying hair, blue eyes, wrinkled face. There is a gravitas around him, an aura of authority that he doesn’t seek but can’t seem to shake, out of too long habit. He prefers wearing loose, comfortable clothing, if he can find it. Wears his body as somebody who’s used to it for a long, long time.
Personality: The first thing about Kevin Flynn is that he is a creator. A man of wide vision and brilliant mind, who puts his abilities to creating anything that comes to his mind. Best-selling games in history? His. Foreseeing economical and technical developments decades before they happened? He’s done it. Creating a new world where a whole new life form manifested? He’s done that, too.
The next thing is that he cares deeply. For his family and friends first of all, and for his work. He’s not a man to easily let go. Of anything. But most of all of the people he cares about. Whether they are flesh and blood or... well, not.
These were the basics. Unfortunately, the sunny bright hopeful man Flynn used to be got trapped by his own creation. Away from his family, away from his friends, unable to help save the most miraculous part of what he’d done, the spontaneously-appearing life form from his system. All of them - Isomorphic Algorithms, or ISOs, save one get destroyed by Clu, Flynn’s creation that turned against him. And Flynn was stuck in the world he’d made, a world of programs, for over a thousand years (or cycles) Grid-time. He went through bitterness and pain of the betrayal. He rescued the last of the ISO and cared for her, teaching her what he could, about the world outside and the one inside. To deal with the guilt and the pain, he delved into a study of Zen, and has become rather good at it.
And he’s been in the world he created, a world that he can sometimes change at will, for a millennium. That aura of power just sticks to him.
Basically not aggressive, Flynn dislikes taking anyone’s life, but he will fight, and well, with all means available to him - including some very creative. He will not indulge in anger - or, usually, other extreme emotions, but he is far from closed up to experiencing everything that happens to or around him.
Background: Kevin O. Flynn was born in Paramus, NJ, in 1949. He gradated and continued to receive a doctorate from CalTech in Software Engineering, after which he starts working for ENCOM, a tech company developing both software and hardware innovations. In his off time, he develops five computer games that he keeps in a file on his storage at ENCOM - until another, older programmer at the company, Ed Dillinger, appropriates the file and blocks him out, in 1979. Soon after that, Ed Dillinger presents the games as his own, and thus starts rising, meteorically, in the company, and sacks Flynn as soon as he is able to.
Kevin Flynn opens his Arcade in 1981, where, yes, the games he created are featured - and where the highest scores on just about any machine are his. But more than that, Flynn is trying to find evidence, in ENCOM’s system, for what Dillinger did, and to prove what was committed against him.
Before he manages that, however, Flynn gets scanned inside the computer system, via a laser device that is developed at ENCOM by the company’s original creator and Lora, Flynn’s former lover who is currently dating Alan Bradley, another of ENCOM’s software engineers. With the help of Alan’s self-monitoring security program Tron, Flynn manages to unlock the system from under Dillinger’s program’s control, and finds his way back to the real world - with the evidence.
Flynn becomes CEO of ENCOM, owner of the voting package of company shares. He meets and marries Jordan Canas, with whom he has a son, Sam, before she dies in an accident in 1985. Running ENCOM is not Flynn’s favorite activity, but he perseveres, with the capable help of Alan Bradley.
His adventures in the world inside the computer aren’t over, though. In fact, they have just begun.
Flynn creates a setup in the computer where a whole new system, ‘the Grid,’ is to be created, a system meant for both programs and users that he means to find an application for in the real world. He borrows Tron for the safety the system, and creates a system administrator program, Clu again (also known as Clu2), to oversee the progress of the Grid while Flynn himself tries to keep with his obligations in the real world. Clu’s task is to help Flynn turn the Grid into the Perfect System.
The plan, however, gets majorly derailed by the appearance of the ISO, Isomorphic Algorithms. Programs that act and interact with the ‘basics’ - without being written by Flynn. And possessing a measure of free will. To Flynn, they are a miracle. The potential of their existence, of their digital DNA - for him, the potential is unlimited. Revolutionary. Amazing.
Clu, however, sees them as imprefections. Threats to the system.
With time, he sees them as a virus.
As Flynn’s absences are felt more and more strongly, with the time flow in the Grid 50 times faster than outside, Clu grows more and more discontent with Flynn giving so many of the resources - including his time and attention - to the ISOs. In the end, he turns against Flynn, almost killing him. He would have, if Tron hadn’t saved Flynn. For all Flynn knows, at the cost of Tron’s own life. Clu keeps Flynn away from the Portal to the outer world until it closes - and it can be opened from the outside. Kevin Flynn is trapped inside his own world, away from his six-years-old son and everything that is outside.
Worse, Clu, after seizing power, destroys all the ISOs. Save one, who is masked as a basic - but who witnesses Clu’s machinations and confronts him about them. A sympathetic program manages to smuggle her out of the city, and as she wanders, losing power, Flynn finds her and saves her, keeping her safe as the last of his … miracle.
For over a thousand cycles (years), the two of them have been fugitives, making a life and study for themselves in the Outlands. Flynn has found a way in which to take others - programs, ISO or basic - to the outer world, and Clu wants his information disc because of that. And since as soon as the creator steps on the Grid, the fact will be known, it is Quorra who occasionally ventures in the City to learn how things are going.
It is during one of those absences (when she would return bringing Sam, in canon) that Flynn is taken from.
Special Abilities or Weapons: In the real world, Flynn doesn’t have any extraordinary powers other than brilliance and creativity. And he’s very, very good at playing video/computer games. And is a good software engineer, even if his actual programming skills are much outdated - but he can grasp the concepts and acquire new languages and technology quickly enough. And then there is the peaceful, holistic view of the world and the zen attitude - while not a power per se, that is ability to acquire much, especially as information or skills.
Flynn is not shown to have proficiency with any weapons, but he learned to use his disc as weapon very quickly, and it is very probable that he and Quorra trained together while exiled.
Sect: If he wasn’t that old, I’d totally put him as a padawan. Civilian, I guess.
Job: He can work as software/hardware maintenance, after a period of getting acquainted with the technology. That is a possibility only.
Samples:
First Person: [a video, starting with an aging man’s face in the delighted expression of figuring out a new toy. Quickly. When the video pickup starts, Flynn’s eyebrows rise and he smiles]
Huh. Aren’t you a smart little thing, doing all of these things...
[apparently addressed to the device itself. And then his eyes find the camera spot, and he smiles in a more composed manner]
So, does this transmit automatically, or does it record and then replay as others access their own?
Third Person: Link, here.
Anything Else: Hutt porn! Not watched by any ebon hawks!
Surprise me with roommate preference? Flynn wold like to be close to his kids son and Quorra, but other than that, anything goes.
Another note is - mun time zone is GMT+2, which may affect tagging timing on some threads!
Another note, this time character-related. Flynn’s story and characterization is derived from both movies, as well as some of the tie-ins (the comic Tron: The Betrayal, the game Tron: Evolution, and random snippets such as an Alan Bradley interview where he is discussed). In case of any conflict (there is some with the dating of Flynn’s wife’s death, for example), the canon from the movies is chosen over the tie-ins. Those are used only for fleshing him out more.