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series: TRON: Legacy, as well as supplementary canon: the Betrayal comic and the Evolution video game.
name: Clu, though his official designation is Codified Likeness Utility 2.0.
age: 1215 cycles, or about 1110 years experienced. Outside the Grid, it's been 27 years since he was compiled.
sex: Male.
race: Basic program.
weight: 185 lbs.
height: 6'1"
cause of death Reintegration
canon point: The End of Legacy, when Flynn reintegrates them both.
previous cr: n/a
history:
Have a wiki link in lieu of the following tl;dr!
Clu was compiled in 1983 by programmer Kevin Flynn, in order to serve as the System Administrator for the computer system known as the Grid. Called forth from a mirror inside the Grid, Clu was made in his creators exact image, tasked with acting as the administrator in Flynn's absence and given the (ultimately flawed) directive to "create the perfect system".
Clu took this directive to heart, and together with his Creator and the security program named Tron, the three began to create a new, thriving world. For cycles, everything was perfect: Clu was fulfilling his directive, his Creator was happy, and the Grid was flourishing. But the Grid was growing more and more complex, and this newfound complexity spawned something that was definitely not in Flynn’s plans for the system: a new form of life.
The ISOs, isomorphic algorithms, stepped from the Sea of Simulation as something that came closer to a User than any kind of program before them. Unique among the inhabitants of the Grid, the ISOs possessed free will; they were functionless, directionless, unrestrained by programming. To Kevin Flynn, they were a miracle. But to Clu, they were an unknown factor in his system.
For a few cycles, Clu was willing to give these new programs a chance to find their place in the system’s order. But things began to take a turn for the worse not long after their arrival. Flynn was enamored with the ISOs, preferring to spend his limited time on the Grid teaching the two eldest of their kind, Radia and Jalen, about both their world and his. Without his attention, Clu took more and more of the system’s burdens upon himself to compensate -- and the reemergence of the Gridbugs coincided with the emergence of the ISOs.
The bugs ravaged sector after sector, and Clu’s frustration grew. His User was spending less time in the Grid, the ISOs refused to integrate into his ordered system, and the Grid’s resource distribution was beginning to be a problem. Clu attempted to gain Flynn’s attention several times, but the User was torn between two worlds, one of which held his wife and his son. It was beginning to grow clear to Clu that the Grid would never be Flynn’s top priority, despite the sixteen million programs who relied on him. His mistrust of the ISOs only grew, and when Flynn mentioned to him that they were ‘significantly rewriting’ the system, Clu immediately reclassified them from something troubling, to a very active threat.
Though Clu was careful to never openly express his hatred of the ISOs, he nevertheless kept a close eye on their settlements and people. His faith in his User nearly obliterated, Clu began to recruit guards specifically loyal to him and his cause. Working in secret, these guards began to bomb settlements, allowing Clu to place the blame on the instability of the ISO factions and their lack of a defined purpose.
Tensions between the two factions mounted, and still the ISOs numbers grew exponentially. The Grid resources were finite, and the complexity of the ISOs only served to strain the system. Plagued with Gridbug attacks and energy famine, Clu took matters into his own hands, and decided to remove the ISOs from the equation. He wrote a virus and allowed his guards to plant it in the Sea of Simulation, irrevocably poisoning it. No ISOs would ever emerge from the Sea again.
His Creator, however, was still determined to give the ISOs a place in the system, and refused to acknowledge any of Clu’s arguments. Unsatisfied, Clu continued to plan to retake control of the (in his mind) failing system. After almost three hundred cycles, Clu found his chance in the ISO Jalen.
Determined to show the ‘Basic’ programs the the ISOs were just as good as they were, Jalen entered the Games in disguise, hoping to win the tournament. Before he could face the final challenger, however, he was found out -- but rather than expel him from the Games, Clu allowed the ISO to compete, and, when he became the victor, awarded him with an upgrade to his disc.
The upgrade was a trap. When Jalen began investigating too deeply into Clu’s working on the Grid and discovered his warship, the Regulator, Clu struck. Convinced the ISOs were near-viral, Clu’s upgrade turned Jalen into a true virus, bound to the admin’s command and interested only in destroying everything around him. It was Clu’s first attempt at reprogramming another program directly.
To hide his deception, Clu faked Jalen’s death in the Games -- unfortunately, Jalen had also been slated to be awarded the position of System Administrator, and was to rule alongside Clu as the ISO’s representative. In his stead, Flynn nominated Radia the ISO ‘oracle’. Publicly, Clu pretended to support the sharing of power -- in reality he began to built a covert army.
On the day of Radia’s installation, Clu unleashed Abraxas. The former ISO crashed the installation ceremony, but the attack didn’t have the effect that Clu had hoped for. Flynn denied that the ISOs could be potentially viral, and turned his back on Clu’s arguments, claiming that he hadn’t programmed him to understand. This exchange cemented the idea that Flynn had been corrupted in Clu’s mind and, when Flynn made to leave for the Portal, Clu confronted him. When Flynn confirmed that Clu was still to create the perfect system, the admin’s guards appeared, fought Tron, and Flynn escaped into hiding. The Portal closed on its creator, and Flynn became trapped in his own system.
His coup successful, Clu turned his attention immediately on the ISOs, razing their settlements to the ground and destroying most of their civilization with one stroke. Some survived and formed a resistance with Basic programs still allied with Flynn, but over the cycles, they were hunted down and killed, until Clu believed every one of them had been deleted.
A thousand cycles passed before the Portal opened again. By this time, Clu had created what he considered the perfect system: ordered, controlled, and stifling. Discontent with remaining in the Grid, and constrained by his inability to create new programs, Clu set his sights on the User world.
Using the power unwittingly provided by the Flynn Lives movement, Clu managed to get a page out to Alan Bradley, Flynn’s partner. Alan, in turn, told Flynn’s now-grown son, who investigate his father’s arcade, discovered the Grid, and accidentally beamed himself inside.
The boy was more than Clu had hoped for. Clu used him to attempt to lure his creator out of hiding -- instead, Quorra, the last remaining ISO, rescued him and delivered him to Flynn. A thousand years had a marked change on Flynn: he had embraced zen buddhism, and was unwilling to interfere in events. Upset at his father’s unwillingness to take action, Sam returned to the city on his own, only to betrayed by the program Quorra had sent him to meet. Flynn’s disc, the master key to the Grid, was taken by said program (Zuse), and handed over to Clu. (And then Clu promptly killed him.)
This time, both Quorra and Flynn rescued Sam, and they decided to make a straight dash towards the open Portal. Hitching a ride on a solar sailor, they instead landed aboard Clu’s newest warship, and the basis for his newest ‘private initiative’, the Rectifier. The Rectifier was the centerpiece in Clu’s plan to enter the User world; part warship and part compiler, the Rectifier was used to create an army out of rebels, dissidents, and discless programs that were snagged off the street by forcibly reprogramming them.
With Flynn’s disc in hand, Clu was ready to fulfill his plan. Sam stole back the disc, however, and a frankly awesome aerial battle between lightjets ensued. Rinzler, Clu’s personal Enforcer, managed to overcome his reprogramming and, remembering his directive as Tron, crashed his lightjet into Clu’s and sent them both tumbling into the Sea.
Or at least, it would have, if Clu hadn’t wrestled Tron’s spare baton out of his hands and let him fall. With another lightjet in his hands, Clu managed to beat Flyyn, Sam, and Quorra to the Portal. Sam and Quorra made it to the Portal; to stop Clu from reaching them, however, Flynn reintegrated them both, causing an explosion that wiped out a considerable portion of the Grid, as well as derezzing them both.
personality:
Clu is a program absolutely driven by his directive. His creation was unique; though his actual programming is rigidly defined, he hovers uncertainly between the Grid and the User world. At his core is the overwhelming drive to create the perfect system, a function laid down by his Creator, Kevin Flynn.
As a digital copy of Flynn, Clu inherited many of his personality traits and even some of his memories. He is a charismatic leader (though he lays on the rhetoric a bit thickly) and many programs follow him by choice, rather than fear. Even with his enemies, Clu affects a polite, almost reasonable air, particularly when he is attempting to coax them around to his own point of view. And Flynn’s brilliance did make its way into his creation: Clu’s ideas far outstrip most other programs, in scope and ambition: the simple constraints of his directive are not enough for him, and he feels the need to go beyond, to continue to progress -- even if progression mean ‘perfecting’ the User world.
Clu did, however, inherit many of Flynn’s faults as well, and his own programming only served to highlight and magnify them. Flynn’s certainty -- in both himself and his ideals -- manifests as pure, single-minded focus in Clu. He doesn’t easily change his mind, and it’s almost always with reluctance. Flynn’s original desire for stability and order is taken to obsessive extremes in Clu: it is literally hard-coded into him to strive for perfection, and to do anything otherwise would be a direct code conflict.
While most programs have a sensible, specific function, Clu's own directive is startlingly vague. Tron, for example, was written to be one of the first firewalls, shutting down or quarantining any unscheduled processes in the system. Clu, on the other hand, was told to “create the perfect system”. At first, with Flynn's direction, this was enough. But when Flynn began to embrace the inherently chaotic ISOs, he fell into conflict with the very directive he had given his creation.
It was this conflict that destroyed his faith in his own User (and, by proxy, all Users). Before the ISOs, Clu was Flynn’s greatest champion and devoted to his creator. But between Flynn’s long absences and his favoring of the ISOs, Clu’s resentment grew -- resentment that was only fueled by his lack of ability to enact any real changes on the Grid without Flynn’s approval. Flynn’s dismissal of his concerns only served to anger him: in essence, Clu was very much acting like a child being ignored by his father.
Even after a thousand cycles had past, Clu was still trying to earn Flynn’s approval, albeit in a way completely opposite his creator’s wishes. As much as he may have rebelled, sworn death to the Users, and actively hunted his own User down, Clu was still created to help, and genuinely can’t fathom why Flynn can’t see things his way.
Whatever lingering traces of loyalty to his User remain, however, are not enough to mitigate the fact that he is not a good person. He is bound by his programming, and won’t hesitate to eliminate anything that stands in the way of executing that programming. He is not above genocide to wipe out what he perceives as ‘faults’ within the system, and he has a cruel, competitive streak that has lead to him dropping his light cycle on unsuspecting programs in the Games.
He sees himself as a leader to his people, a luminary capable of leading them to worlds beyond their own, and he has a casual confidence in his position that comes with a thousand cycles of being the ruler of his world. When pressed beyond his patience, though, Clu has a volatile temper that is at odds with his logical, rational mind, and which is kept tightly leashed: anger is, after all, not very efficient.
abilities/powers:
As the Grid's system administrator, Clu was gifted with several abilities beyond that of a normal Basic. Most are only useful within the system itself; there, Clu has an extraordinary amount of control over the Grid, including writing/rewriting coded structures, system upkeep and maintenance, proram and system-level scans, and a good fraction of the power a User can wield. He is, however, completely unable to create new programs, and instead has to resort to rewriting and repurposing ones that already exist.
Outside of the Grid, Clu retains his read/write access to virtually any program from his system, as long as he has access to their discs. He is a capable hacker (in fact, the first iteration of his code was as a hacking program of Flynn's), and is capable of altering his own code as he sees fit.
As the system administrator, Clu was also tasked with keeping the Grid safe, in tandem with system security. Because of this, Clu is extremely skilled in combat. He's coded to be stronger and more durable than an average Basic, capable of shrugging off blows that would cause the deresolution of another. He has expert-class privileges in light tank, cycle, and jet operation, and designed and coded his own personal warships. In disc combat, Clu tends to favor strength and durability to Tron's speed; while he was able to defeat Tron in combat, his victory was, in large part, due to the unexpectedness of his attack.
Biologically, Clu is a completely synthetic being. While he is made in his Creator's exact image, he doesn't posses flesh and blood; rather, he's made of voxels, tiny crystalline cubes of data and code. He's much stronger and faster than a normal human, and possesses a perfect memory. On his back is the circular node where his identity disc is docked; it itself is an area of vulnerability, as a solid strike there is capable of stunning or forcing an involuntary shutdown.
As a computer program, Clu's greatest vulnerabilities lie in his coding. He is capable of being reprogrammed, is susceptible to electromagnetic fields and extremes in temperature, and is completely bound by his directive to create the perfect system.
first person sample: Here! A Clu + Tron(zler) argument turns into a disc wars match, to no ones surprise.
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in character information.
series: TRON: Legacy, as well as supplementary canon: the Betrayal comic and the Evolution video game.
name: Clu, though his official designation is Codified Likeness Utility 2.0.
age: 1215 cycles, or about 1110 years experienced. Outside the Grid, it's been 27 years since he was compiled.
sex: Male.
race: Basic program.
weight: 185 lbs.
height: 6'1"
cause of death Reintegration
canon point: The End of Legacy, when Flynn reintegrates them both.
previous cr: n/a
history:
Have a wiki link in lieu of the following tl;dr!
Clu was compiled in 1983 by programmer Kevin Flynn, in order to serve as the System Administrator for the computer system known as the Grid. Called forth from a mirror inside the Grid, Clu was made in his creators exact image, tasked with acting as the administrator in Flynn's absence and given the (ultimately flawed) directive to "create the perfect system".
Clu took this directive to heart, and together with his Creator and the security program named Tron, the three began to create a new, thriving world. For cycles, everything was perfect: Clu was fulfilling his directive, his Creator was happy, and the Grid was flourishing. But the Grid was growing more and more complex, and this newfound complexity spawned something that was definitely not in Flynn’s plans for the system: a new form of life.
The ISOs, isomorphic algorithms, stepped from the Sea of Simulation as something that came closer to a User than any kind of program before them. Unique among the inhabitants of the Grid, the ISOs possessed free will; they were functionless, directionless, unrestrained by programming. To Kevin Flynn, they were a miracle. But to Clu, they were an unknown factor in his system.
For a few cycles, Clu was willing to give these new programs a chance to find their place in the system’s order. But things began to take a turn for the worse not long after their arrival. Flynn was enamored with the ISOs, preferring to spend his limited time on the Grid teaching the two eldest of their kind, Radia and Jalen, about both their world and his. Without his attention, Clu took more and more of the system’s burdens upon himself to compensate -- and the reemergence of the Gridbugs coincided with the emergence of the ISOs.
The bugs ravaged sector after sector, and Clu’s frustration grew. His User was spending less time in the Grid, the ISOs refused to integrate into his ordered system, and the Grid’s resource distribution was beginning to be a problem. Clu attempted to gain Flynn’s attention several times, but the User was torn between two worlds, one of which held his wife and his son. It was beginning to grow clear to Clu that the Grid would never be Flynn’s top priority, despite the sixteen million programs who relied on him. His mistrust of the ISOs only grew, and when Flynn mentioned to him that they were ‘significantly rewriting’ the system, Clu immediately reclassified them from something troubling, to a very active threat.
Though Clu was careful to never openly express his hatred of the ISOs, he nevertheless kept a close eye on their settlements and people. His faith in his User nearly obliterated, Clu began to recruit guards specifically loyal to him and his cause. Working in secret, these guards began to bomb settlements, allowing Clu to place the blame on the instability of the ISO factions and their lack of a defined purpose.
Tensions between the two factions mounted, and still the ISOs numbers grew exponentially. The Grid resources were finite, and the complexity of the ISOs only served to strain the system. Plagued with Gridbug attacks and energy famine, Clu took matters into his own hands, and decided to remove the ISOs from the equation. He wrote a virus and allowed his guards to plant it in the Sea of Simulation, irrevocably poisoning it. No ISOs would ever emerge from the Sea again.
His Creator, however, was still determined to give the ISOs a place in the system, and refused to acknowledge any of Clu’s arguments. Unsatisfied, Clu continued to plan to retake control of the (in his mind) failing system. After almost three hundred cycles, Clu found his chance in the ISO Jalen.
Determined to show the ‘Basic’ programs the the ISOs were just as good as they were, Jalen entered the Games in disguise, hoping to win the tournament. Before he could face the final challenger, however, he was found out -- but rather than expel him from the Games, Clu allowed the ISO to compete, and, when he became the victor, awarded him with an upgrade to his disc.
The upgrade was a trap. When Jalen began investigating too deeply into Clu’s working on the Grid and discovered his warship, the Regulator, Clu struck. Convinced the ISOs were near-viral, Clu’s upgrade turned Jalen into a true virus, bound to the admin’s command and interested only in destroying everything around him. It was Clu’s first attempt at reprogramming another program directly.
To hide his deception, Clu faked Jalen’s death in the Games -- unfortunately, Jalen had also been slated to be awarded the position of System Administrator, and was to rule alongside Clu as the ISO’s representative. In his stead, Flynn nominated Radia the ISO ‘oracle’. Publicly, Clu pretended to support the sharing of power -- in reality he began to built a covert army.
On the day of Radia’s installation, Clu unleashed Abraxas. The former ISO crashed the installation ceremony, but the attack didn’t have the effect that Clu had hoped for. Flynn denied that the ISOs could be potentially viral, and turned his back on Clu’s arguments, claiming that he hadn’t programmed him to understand. This exchange cemented the idea that Flynn had been corrupted in Clu’s mind and, when Flynn made to leave for the Portal, Clu confronted him. When Flynn confirmed that Clu was still to create the perfect system, the admin’s guards appeared, fought Tron, and Flynn escaped into hiding. The Portal closed on its creator, and Flynn became trapped in his own system.
His coup successful, Clu turned his attention immediately on the ISOs, razing their settlements to the ground and destroying most of their civilization with one stroke. Some survived and formed a resistance with Basic programs still allied with Flynn, but over the cycles, they were hunted down and killed, until Clu believed every one of them had been deleted.
A thousand cycles passed before the Portal opened again. By this time, Clu had created what he considered the perfect system: ordered, controlled, and stifling. Discontent with remaining in the Grid, and constrained by his inability to create new programs, Clu set his sights on the User world.
Using the power unwittingly provided by the Flynn Lives movement, Clu managed to get a page out to Alan Bradley, Flynn’s partner. Alan, in turn, told Flynn’s now-grown son, who investigate his father’s arcade, discovered the Grid, and accidentally beamed himself inside.
The boy was more than Clu had hoped for. Clu used him to attempt to lure his creator out of hiding -- instead, Quorra, the last remaining ISO, rescued him and delivered him to Flynn. A thousand years had a marked change on Flynn: he had embraced zen buddhism, and was unwilling to interfere in events. Upset at his father’s unwillingness to take action, Sam returned to the city on his own, only to betrayed by the program Quorra had sent him to meet. Flynn’s disc, the master key to the Grid, was taken by said program (Zuse), and handed over to Clu. (And then Clu promptly killed him.)
This time, both Quorra and Flynn rescued Sam, and they decided to make a straight dash towards the open Portal. Hitching a ride on a solar sailor, they instead landed aboard Clu’s newest warship, and the basis for his newest ‘private initiative’, the Rectifier. The Rectifier was the centerpiece in Clu’s plan to enter the User world; part warship and part compiler, the Rectifier was used to create an army out of rebels, dissidents, and discless programs that were snagged off the street by forcibly reprogramming them.
With Flynn’s disc in hand, Clu was ready to fulfill his plan. Sam stole back the disc, however, and a frankly awesome aerial battle between lightjets ensued. Rinzler, Clu’s personal Enforcer, managed to overcome his reprogramming and, remembering his directive as Tron, crashed his lightjet into Clu’s and sent them both tumbling into the Sea.
Or at least, it would have, if Clu hadn’t wrestled Tron’s spare baton out of his hands and let him fall. With another lightjet in his hands, Clu managed to beat Flyyn, Sam, and Quorra to the Portal. Sam and Quorra made it to the Portal; to stop Clu from reaching them, however, Flynn reintegrated them both, causing an explosion that wiped out a considerable portion of the Grid, as well as derezzing them both.
personality:
Clu is a program absolutely driven by his directive. His creation was unique; though his actual programming is rigidly defined, he hovers uncertainly between the Grid and the User world. At his core is the overwhelming drive to create the perfect system, a function laid down by his Creator, Kevin Flynn.
As a digital copy of Flynn, Clu inherited many of his personality traits and even some of his memories. He is a charismatic leader (though he lays on the rhetoric a bit thickly) and many programs follow him by choice, rather than fear. Even with his enemies, Clu affects a polite, almost reasonable air, particularly when he is attempting to coax them around to his own point of view. And Flynn’s brilliance did make its way into his creation: Clu’s ideas far outstrip most other programs, in scope and ambition: the simple constraints of his directive are not enough for him, and he feels the need to go beyond, to continue to progress -- even if progression mean ‘perfecting’ the User world.
Clu did, however, inherit many of Flynn’s faults as well, and his own programming only served to highlight and magnify them. Flynn’s certainty -- in both himself and his ideals -- manifests as pure, single-minded focus in Clu. He doesn’t easily change his mind, and it’s almost always with reluctance. Flynn’s original desire for stability and order is taken to obsessive extremes in Clu: it is literally hard-coded into him to strive for perfection, and to do anything otherwise would be a direct code conflict.
While most programs have a sensible, specific function, Clu's own directive is startlingly vague. Tron, for example, was written to be one of the first firewalls, shutting down or quarantining any unscheduled processes in the system. Clu, on the other hand, was told to “create the perfect system”. At first, with Flynn's direction, this was enough. But when Flynn began to embrace the inherently chaotic ISOs, he fell into conflict with the very directive he had given his creation.
It was this conflict that destroyed his faith in his own User (and, by proxy, all Users). Before the ISOs, Clu was Flynn’s greatest champion and devoted to his creator. But between Flynn’s long absences and his favoring of the ISOs, Clu’s resentment grew -- resentment that was only fueled by his lack of ability to enact any real changes on the Grid without Flynn’s approval. Flynn’s dismissal of his concerns only served to anger him: in essence, Clu was very much acting like a child being ignored by his father.
Even after a thousand cycles had past, Clu was still trying to earn Flynn’s approval, albeit in a way completely opposite his creator’s wishes. As much as he may have rebelled, sworn death to the Users, and actively hunted his own User down, Clu was still created to help, and genuinely can’t fathom why Flynn can’t see things his way.
Whatever lingering traces of loyalty to his User remain, however, are not enough to mitigate the fact that he is not a good person. He is bound by his programming, and won’t hesitate to eliminate anything that stands in the way of executing that programming. He is not above genocide to wipe out what he perceives as ‘faults’ within the system, and he has a cruel, competitive streak that has lead to him dropping his light cycle on unsuspecting programs in the Games.
He sees himself as a leader to his people, a luminary capable of leading them to worlds beyond their own, and he has a casual confidence in his position that comes with a thousand cycles of being the ruler of his world. When pressed beyond his patience, though, Clu has a volatile temper that is at odds with his logical, rational mind, and which is kept tightly leashed: anger is, after all, not very efficient.
abilities/powers:
As the Grid's system administrator, Clu was gifted with several abilities beyond that of a normal Basic. Most are only useful within the system itself; there, Clu has an extraordinary amount of control over the Grid, including writing/rewriting coded structures, system upkeep and maintenance, proram and system-level scans, and a good fraction of the power a User can wield. He is, however, completely unable to create new programs, and instead has to resort to rewriting and repurposing ones that already exist.
Outside of the Grid, Clu retains his read/write access to virtually any program from his system, as long as he has access to their discs. He is a capable hacker (in fact, the first iteration of his code was as a hacking program of Flynn's), and is capable of altering his own code as he sees fit.
As the system administrator, Clu was also tasked with keeping the Grid safe, in tandem with system security. Because of this, Clu is extremely skilled in combat. He's coded to be stronger and more durable than an average Basic, capable of shrugging off blows that would cause the deresolution of another. He has expert-class privileges in light tank, cycle, and jet operation, and designed and coded his own personal warships. In disc combat, Clu tends to favor strength and durability to Tron's speed; while he was able to defeat Tron in combat, his victory was, in large part, due to the unexpectedness of his attack.
Biologically, Clu is a completely synthetic being. While he is made in his Creator's exact image, he doesn't posses flesh and blood; rather, he's made of voxels, tiny crystalline cubes of data and code. He's much stronger and faster than a normal human, and possesses a perfect memory. On his back is the circular node where his identity disc is docked; it itself is an area of vulnerability, as a solid strike there is capable of stunning or forcing an involuntary shutdown.
As a computer program, Clu's greatest vulnerabilities lie in his coding. He is capable of being reprogrammed, is susceptible to electromagnetic fields and extremes in temperature, and is completely bound by his directive to create the perfect system.
first person sample: Here! A Clu + Tron(zler) argument turns into a disc wars match, to no ones surprise.