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Character Information
Name: Yori
Series: Tron (1982)
Appearance: Her Wiki link has a few pics.
Age: Permanent appearance of mid-to-late twenties. That reflects how old her User, Lora Baines, was at the time of Yori's creation. Time inside the computer seems to run at a significant difference from time outside, so Yori has probably experienced something like 50 subjective years (programs tend to call them cycles) in the year or two since her date of compile. Canon gives no exact detail.
Canon Point: Just after the movie ends, Yori wound up waking to strange sights.
Transferring From: Yori was in Inugami briefly, then Savrou for several years.
Canon History:
Wiki link, somewhat minimal.
Yori, a computer program, was written by Lora Baines sometime before the movie opens in 1982.
The movie never gives a word for quite what Yori's exact purpose is. She appears as part of the digitizing process in the test run with an orange, and later seems to be supervising a team in the simulation (which seems to be equivalent to construction, inside the computer) of a new vehicle called a Solar Sailer. From these two points, I speculate that she was written as part of Lora's life work, the digitizing project, to check the incoming code for errors.
Many cycles after she was first compiled, as the digitizing process was either working better or becoming ever more inexplicable depending who you ask, Yori met and fell in love with a determined young program named Tron. By this time the Master Control Program had become a major power in the Encom network, preventing many programs from even speaking to their Users. Setting up as supreme ruler of the network (and then the world~!!) required shifting all loyalties to the MCP rather than the Users.
Tron was certain his User wanted him to take on the MCP. Unfortunately, before Tron received the right tools to complete the task, the MCP captured both Yori's whole digitization team, and Tron himself. Troublesome conscripts like Tron were sent to fight and be derezzed (deleted, killed) in the Games. Yori apparently set herself to not being troublesome, but quietly collected information in the hope that Tron would be looking for a way to contact his User again. Analysis is useful in other projects as well, and the MCP found plenty of productive work for her.
In an effort to challenge the Users themselves, the MCP absorbed most of Yori's team into its own processes and used the digitization laser to bring an unsuspecting User, Kevin Flynn, into the Games. Where, as you'd expect, he made allies and broke out. Tron was separated from his friends during the escape, and went at once to find Yori.
Though it took her a few moments to pull out of her long minimum-energy daze and recognize Tron, Yori at once provided Tron with the location of a working sympathetic I/O Tower and Guardian, and a method of transportation to the Central Computer itself. She left her post without permission to give Tron all the help she could.
Flynn only rejoined Yori and Tron as they hijacked the Solar Sailer. Yori was skeptical of his claims to be a User, in spite of Tron's acceptance. However, Flynn shortly had need to pull off tricks with energy absorption and redirection that would have derezzed any program who tried them. Yori didn't waste time arguing his usefulness.
Before they actually reached the MCP, unfriendly forces intercepted them. Tron fell off the edge and barely managed to hang on to the outside of the command ship. Believing Tron was dead and their task had failed, Yori retreated into her grief as the ship began to come apart and them with it.
Flynn made use of his User status again by forcing enough energy back into the ship, and Yori, to keep both intact. Yori brought the ship closer to the MCP, and to her joy saw Tron still alive and fighting on the mesa. Then Flynn unexpectedly pushed his lips against Yori's and jumped into the MCP's energy column. Yori was very puzzled by this behavior.
The crazy tactic worked; distracted, the MCP lowered its guard enough that Tron managed to deliver his User's code to its base, destroying its ability to control the system's energy and programs.
Flynn himself survived, perhaps because his presence within the MCP inspired the programs it had already absorbed to reverse the digitizing process, and eject the copyright data Flynn had originally sought. Flynn used that to gain himself a job at the head of Encom.
However, from inside the computer Yori did not know that yet--or anything else that happened to the people she cares about in the long years that led up to the sequel, Legacy.
CRAU:inugamirpg
Turning up in a human high school full of strange and frightening events was quite a shock to a program who'd never expected to see the User world herself. Worse, she'd somehow become exactly like the Users, with no way to gain energy except to eat. Link to intro, for the curious.
At least she found a familiar face. But to her dismay, the program she greeted as Tron claimed to be called Rinzler, not Tron, and appeared unable to speak except by terse text messages. Yori might have accepted that he was a wholly different program...but he flinched at all the names he claimed not to know.
Even with no explanation, she was certain that in all the time between her last memory of home and his, someone had recoded him and hurt him badly in the process.
To make matters much worse, his Admin, Clu, showed up not long after Yori herself did. Yori promised to do her best to avoid him (as threaded here), but Rinzler was not capable of staying away from his reprogrammer.
Determined not to let this new version of the MCP use her against Rinzler, Yori spent a month ducking in crowds and her paranoia levels went pretty high. However, Clu vanished without any more explanation than his arrival.
Some students had organized clubs to teach combat and self-defense, and Yori attended all she could fit into her schedule, not that she made much progress in so few weeks. At least there were people who encouraged her efforts. Yori was pleased to make friends of several Users and also did her best to ally with strange, futuristic reploids named Axl, Pandora, and Prometheus.
In time Yori and Rinzler grew a little more comfortable with each other as allies and friends. Rinzler's code still forbade him from remembering anything about Tron. Yori remained unwilling to force the issue, given how much pain his code caused him at any slip.
CRAU:thisavrou
Yori arrived on the wandering space ship Moira (in August 2016, real time) half a year after Rinzler did (December 2015), a significant gap during which Rinzler got into all kinds of trouble. Leaving most of that aside, on arrival Yori was happy to find Rinzler, happy to meet the User Alan-One who had first written Tron, and much less happy to learn Clu was also aboard. After trading enough messages to convince each other that they remembered Inugami, she and Rinzler met in person.
It came as a great relief to be a coded program again and not in a human's body, even if Yori still couldn't understand how it had happened. Learning Navigation skills and computer maintenance skills suited Yori perfectly, and she also asked Rinzler to teach her to fly the ship's smaller landing craft...only in part as an excuse to spend time with him.
Over the course of the next few months the Moira crash landed twice, amid virus infections and outside threats, and the second time the ship would never fly again. The crew continued their search for the portal energy that might take them all home.
They found the Savrii: a people who lived on the two planets near a strong point of portal energy they called the Ingress, space-faring and numerous and willing to take in the wanderers until and unless the Savrii could pinpoint their home worlds.
Yori learned quite a bit about the Ingress, working as a technician aboard the Savrii space station. Never quite enough to let her help when trouble came, it seemed.
And trouble did come, over and over, until the Savrii grew to distrust their guests. Eventually Yori and her fellow travelers woke to find themselves imprisoned.
A strange force offered to help them escape...and of course turned out to have its own reasons. The being called Mother ripped the Savrii worlds apart, and would have killed the travelers also if not for the appearance of Ingress energy to whisk them all away.
They arrived on an empty space station, the Ingress Complex where Yori had worked expanded many times over to fit the survivors of the Savrii. But no one remained, only books and locked hallways.
The travelers settled in, worried and struggling with guilt and anger. It was during with time of upheaval that Yori decided she couldn't afford to wait any longer to speak to Rinzler, that the risk of losing him and regretting it was greater than the risk of provoking Clu.
She'll never trust Clu, but the absence of action did at least show that he knew any new attempt to wipe Rinzler clear of all memory would end with everyone else turning against him. Not worth it, when Rinzler was still finding ways to prove his obedience.
Rinzler's alliance with the group Shepard defended, an apartment full of very small Users, made her feel much safer about their chances. She told Rinzler that she loved him. Rinzler was shocked she could have any feelings at all for him when he knew how much she'd always loved Tron, but not unwilling to be convinced.
New familiar allies such as Ram and Flynn and new acquintances like Anon arrived, though there was hardly time to have the long talks that Yori would have liked.
Trouble continued on the station; first a flood, then an acidic smoke as the life support began to fail. The efforts to track down help and explore the station and the places the Ingress Portal showed them eventually showed that there were still survivors of the Savrii in a different part of the station, willing to help, and that the being called Mother was still lurking aboard the station, still upset with everything the Savrii had ever done and not very good at explaining why.
After a number of battles, the victorious travelers encouraged the Ingress energy to go free...and it did, the child captured long ago by ignorant Savrii, pushing them all on their way with one last burst of portal light.
Yori's first priority was to stay with Rinzler, of course.
Canon Personality:
Yori's main function is analysis, and it echoes in everything she does and every choice she makes. Gathering all relevant data, making allies, and taking new situations into account all come naturally to her. However, landing in a foreign User world is much more change than she ever expected to deal with.
Despite her involvement in the digitization project, she hadn't thought of the User world as any kind of physical reality of its own; it was only a source of very strange and inexplicable code. Yori does not have quite the same reverence for Users that Tron shows, though she certainly prefers the Users to the MCP. To Yori, while their Users might have written the programs, it doesn't mean they care in any meaningful sense. The Users may deserve obedience, but no more.
Meeting Flynn didn't change that. Although she's grateful to Flynn for saving her and for distracting the MCP, it's hard to be in awe of someone who sounded so lost himself.
The down side of Yori's analysis skills is that when she cannot see any chance at all of changing things or making a difference, she tends to fall into paralyzing despair. Working for long without explicit direction is difficult for a program, and if all Yori sees are dead ends, she doesn't waste energy walking down them. However, Tron has always been her holdout of irrational, unquestioning hope. She gave up on him too soon once, and is much less likely to do so again. That might eventually help her adjust to a world so terribly unpredictable as to defy all logic.
Analysis is also a source of joy to Yori. Gathering data is something she values in itself, regardless of whether she expects the data to be of use. She takes delight in learning new skills, as well. As shown in canon, she's a good pilot of different craft despite having little opportunity to practice under the MCP. Yori tends to attack any new task with interest.
In general Yori is a cheerful program, though this can hide many layers of calculation. Yori had to spend quite some time acting as a slave to the Master Control Program and keeping her own thoughts guarded. She can be very demonstrative with her friends and those she trusts, such as, in the film, her long-time friend Dumont, as well as Tron. However, it takes a lot for her to completely trust a strange User or admin, or other potential danger.
Yori prefers not to show herself as any kind of threat, and will be friendly and noncommittal to almost anyone. Making actual alliance is quite different, and she takes commitments seriously.
Personality Shifts:
Transit to Inugami came as a total shock. Yori understands the concept of waking up in a new system, but this wasn't a system at all. Meeting so many Users face to face was pretty terrifying. Adjusting to a space ship was a small task compared to the massive culture shock of being outside a computer in the first place. Years later, she's still processing all the changes.
Spending approximately two months in a haunted high school taught Yori that things can always get weirder, a lesson reinforced by years in space. She finds it hard to accept that so many events can't be analyzed, either because there isn't enough data or because there's no context for what she does have.
Other than giving her a whole new range of fear for Rinzler and a head start on coping with the non-digital world, two months didn't have that much impact on Yori's personality. Her life under the MCP was even more regulated and deadly than high school.
On the other hand, her time as navigation crew on the space ship Moira and further adventures with the crew after the ship's final crash left siginificant marks.
Her affection for and attachment to Rinzler is the most obvious. Respect for his choices and his efforts to win the right to exist without letting Clu wipe him eventually turned to love, in spite of the fact that Clu was still present and still Rinzler's first priority. Yori decided that the complications of a romance were a better risk than avoiding Rinzler and letting Clu have more influence.
Repeated betrayals by supposed allies have left Yori wary, though she also accepts that any ally is vulnerable to weird influences or infections and shouldn't be personally blamed in such cases. Paranoia is a survival skill, as is not being too obvious with one's suspicion.
Time learning about the Living Energy that fueled the Ingress has made her a little more optimistic about being dropped into strange places with no clear escape; either she'll move on or her friends will show up. Eventually. Better focus on surviving until then.
Abilities:
Most of the things Yori learned from working aboard a ship and on a space station are tech-related and unlikely to be all that useful on an island. In the computer where she lived, Yori can look at code and see what's wrong with it, though she doesn't specialize in fixing any errors. Code analysis isn't nearly as much use in the User world where the internal code is so incredibly well encrypted for whatever User-whim reasons. However, given time to study new code languages, she has been helpful with various computer maintenance tasks. The trouble is that she's likely to view any and all programs as living beings, and might argue their right to fair treatment.
Yori is a pilot, by choice, not code. She appreciates the freedom a vehicle can provide and would jump on any opportunity to learn a new mode of travel. She'd like to keep as many options open to herself as possible.
While Yori has learned some basics of combat and disk-combat first from Tron, then Rinzler and the Taekwondo Club, it isn't her function and she'd rather use them to make an escape if necessary. She's got pretty good aim if she has time to analyze the situation, though, and is acrobatic enough to climb around system corridors where she isn't supposed to be while avoiding detection most of the time.
Although she hasn't had very much chance to explore the use of non-digital materials, Yori has a long-standing interest in design, color, and art. This is shown only in a single deleted scene, but relevant considering how little time Yori has in canon to show anything not immediately useful to saving the system. She's been trying to decorate her own room and experimenting with chalk art, and would like to expand her skills.
As a program, Yori requires charge with energy rather than food. She doesn't need to breathe, which gives her a minor advantage in swimming...offset by the fact that she's only practiced at all that one time when the station flooded. Apparently she'll need a lot more practice around here.
She also would shatter into little glowy blocks if killed or badly hurt, having no blood or organic internals. Since programs don't heal without help, she's been trying hard to learn enough to repair at least herself in case of a major injury. (She's not sure she could ever convince Rinzler to let her check his code.)
Inventory:
Identity disk: This is an essential item, without which she might lose her memory. It's round like a frisbee, it glows, and it can be used as a weapon, though she'd have to be pretty desperate to put it at risk, since she's not coded to fight. It is typically not vulnerable to water damage.
Backpack: Contains a couple of emergency food blocks that taste like grass and one bottle of water, a set of chalks, two pencils, an old notebook, an actual kids frisbee with a glowing bite mark (used for practice when she doesn't want to risk her identity disk), plus one spare battery that she typically uses to recharge herself. I assume that one will be ruined by water in short order, but she'll need to figure out the charge options around here.
Clothes: A mismatched set that covers almost all of her circuitry, including dark skintight uniform pieces from the Moira and various blue jackets to protect her disk. Since Yori is a being of digital energy, she has an Encom-style unarmored bodysuit underneath all this, not really removable unless someone were to edit her disk. Her circuits glow blue.
Weapon: A fancy stun staff. It telescopes short or long, it shocks large things or stuns people.
She'll be upset at not having her little portable spaceship with her, but since she thinks of it as a world to protect, a system full of programs like herself, I think it's better off just not arriving to the island so it can be safe somewhere else.
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Thread Sample: A meeting with Ram and later Rinzler in a Savrou thread.
Name: Dawn
Age: Older than 18!
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Current characters: None in game
Character Information
Name: Yori
Series: Tron (1982)
Appearance: Her Wiki link has a few pics.
Age: Permanent appearance of mid-to-late twenties. That reflects how old her User, Lora Baines, was at the time of Yori's creation. Time inside the computer seems to run at a significant difference from time outside, so Yori has probably experienced something like 50 subjective years (programs tend to call them cycles) in the year or two since her date of compile. Canon gives no exact detail.
Canon Point: Just after the movie ends, Yori wound up waking to strange sights.
Transferring From: Yori was in Inugami briefly, then Savrou for several years.
Canon History:
Wiki link, somewhat minimal.
Yori, a computer program, was written by Lora Baines sometime before the movie opens in 1982.
The movie never gives a word for quite what Yori's exact purpose is. She appears as part of the digitizing process in the test run with an orange, and later seems to be supervising a team in the simulation (which seems to be equivalent to construction, inside the computer) of a new vehicle called a Solar Sailer. From these two points, I speculate that she was written as part of Lora's life work, the digitizing project, to check the incoming code for errors.
Many cycles after she was first compiled, as the digitizing process was either working better or becoming ever more inexplicable depending who you ask, Yori met and fell in love with a determined young program named Tron. By this time the Master Control Program had become a major power in the Encom network, preventing many programs from even speaking to their Users. Setting up as supreme ruler of the network (and then the world~!!) required shifting all loyalties to the MCP rather than the Users.
Tron was certain his User wanted him to take on the MCP. Unfortunately, before Tron received the right tools to complete the task, the MCP captured both Yori's whole digitization team, and Tron himself. Troublesome conscripts like Tron were sent to fight and be derezzed (deleted, killed) in the Games. Yori apparently set herself to not being troublesome, but quietly collected information in the hope that Tron would be looking for a way to contact his User again. Analysis is useful in other projects as well, and the MCP found plenty of productive work for her.
In an effort to challenge the Users themselves, the MCP absorbed most of Yori's team into its own processes and used the digitization laser to bring an unsuspecting User, Kevin Flynn, into the Games. Where, as you'd expect, he made allies and broke out. Tron was separated from his friends during the escape, and went at once to find Yori.
Though it took her a few moments to pull out of her long minimum-energy daze and recognize Tron, Yori at once provided Tron with the location of a working sympathetic I/O Tower and Guardian, and a method of transportation to the Central Computer itself. She left her post without permission to give Tron all the help she could.
Flynn only rejoined Yori and Tron as they hijacked the Solar Sailer. Yori was skeptical of his claims to be a User, in spite of Tron's acceptance. However, Flynn shortly had need to pull off tricks with energy absorption and redirection that would have derezzed any program who tried them. Yori didn't waste time arguing his usefulness.
Before they actually reached the MCP, unfriendly forces intercepted them. Tron fell off the edge and barely managed to hang on to the outside of the command ship. Believing Tron was dead and their task had failed, Yori retreated into her grief as the ship began to come apart and them with it.
Flynn made use of his User status again by forcing enough energy back into the ship, and Yori, to keep both intact. Yori brought the ship closer to the MCP, and to her joy saw Tron still alive and fighting on the mesa. Then Flynn unexpectedly pushed his lips against Yori's and jumped into the MCP's energy column. Yori was very puzzled by this behavior.
The crazy tactic worked; distracted, the MCP lowered its guard enough that Tron managed to deliver his User's code to its base, destroying its ability to control the system's energy and programs.
Flynn himself survived, perhaps because his presence within the MCP inspired the programs it had already absorbed to reverse the digitizing process, and eject the copyright data Flynn had originally sought. Flynn used that to gain himself a job at the head of Encom.
However, from inside the computer Yori did not know that yet--or anything else that happened to the people she cares about in the long years that led up to the sequel, Legacy.
CRAU:
inugamirpgTurning up in a human high school full of strange and frightening events was quite a shock to a program who'd never expected to see the User world herself. Worse, she'd somehow become exactly like the Users, with no way to gain energy except to eat. Link to intro, for the curious.
At least she found a familiar face. But to her dismay, the program she greeted as Tron claimed to be called Rinzler, not Tron, and appeared unable to speak except by terse text messages. Yori might have accepted that he was a wholly different program...but he flinched at all the names he claimed not to know.
Even with no explanation, she was certain that in all the time between her last memory of home and his, someone had recoded him and hurt him badly in the process.
To make matters much worse, his Admin, Clu, showed up not long after Yori herself did. Yori promised to do her best to avoid him (as threaded here), but Rinzler was not capable of staying away from his reprogrammer.
Determined not to let this new version of the MCP use her against Rinzler, Yori spent a month ducking in crowds and her paranoia levels went pretty high. However, Clu vanished without any more explanation than his arrival.
Some students had organized clubs to teach combat and self-defense, and Yori attended all she could fit into her schedule, not that she made much progress in so few weeks. At least there were people who encouraged her efforts. Yori was pleased to make friends of several Users and also did her best to ally with strange, futuristic reploids named Axl, Pandora, and Prometheus.
In time Yori and Rinzler grew a little more comfortable with each other as allies and friends. Rinzler's code still forbade him from remembering anything about Tron. Yori remained unwilling to force the issue, given how much pain his code caused him at any slip.
CRAU:
thisavrouYori arrived on the wandering space ship Moira (in August 2016, real time) half a year after Rinzler did (December 2015), a significant gap during which Rinzler got into all kinds of trouble. Leaving most of that aside, on arrival Yori was happy to find Rinzler, happy to meet the User Alan-One who had first written Tron, and much less happy to learn Clu was also aboard. After trading enough messages to convince each other that they remembered Inugami, she and Rinzler met in person.
It came as a great relief to be a coded program again and not in a human's body, even if Yori still couldn't understand how it had happened. Learning Navigation skills and computer maintenance skills suited Yori perfectly, and she also asked Rinzler to teach her to fly the ship's smaller landing craft...only in part as an excuse to spend time with him.
Over the course of the next few months the Moira crash landed twice, amid virus infections and outside threats, and the second time the ship would never fly again. The crew continued their search for the portal energy that might take them all home.
They found the Savrii: a people who lived on the two planets near a strong point of portal energy they called the Ingress, space-faring and numerous and willing to take in the wanderers until and unless the Savrii could pinpoint their home worlds.
Yori learned quite a bit about the Ingress, working as a technician aboard the Savrii space station. Never quite enough to let her help when trouble came, it seemed.
And trouble did come, over and over, until the Savrii grew to distrust their guests. Eventually Yori and her fellow travelers woke to find themselves imprisoned.
A strange force offered to help them escape...and of course turned out to have its own reasons. The being called Mother ripped the Savrii worlds apart, and would have killed the travelers also if not for the appearance of Ingress energy to whisk them all away.
They arrived on an empty space station, the Ingress Complex where Yori had worked expanded many times over to fit the survivors of the Savrii. But no one remained, only books and locked hallways.
The travelers settled in, worried and struggling with guilt and anger. It was during with time of upheaval that Yori decided she couldn't afford to wait any longer to speak to Rinzler, that the risk of losing him and regretting it was greater than the risk of provoking Clu.
She'll never trust Clu, but the absence of action did at least show that he knew any new attempt to wipe Rinzler clear of all memory would end with everyone else turning against him. Not worth it, when Rinzler was still finding ways to prove his obedience.
Rinzler's alliance with the group Shepard defended, an apartment full of very small Users, made her feel much safer about their chances. She told Rinzler that she loved him. Rinzler was shocked she could have any feelings at all for him when he knew how much she'd always loved Tron, but not unwilling to be convinced.
New familiar allies such as Ram and Flynn and new acquintances like Anon arrived, though there was hardly time to have the long talks that Yori would have liked.
Trouble continued on the station; first a flood, then an acidic smoke as the life support began to fail. The efforts to track down help and explore the station and the places the Ingress Portal showed them eventually showed that there were still survivors of the Savrii in a different part of the station, willing to help, and that the being called Mother was still lurking aboard the station, still upset with everything the Savrii had ever done and not very good at explaining why.
After a number of battles, the victorious travelers encouraged the Ingress energy to go free...and it did, the child captured long ago by ignorant Savrii, pushing them all on their way with one last burst of portal light.
Yori's first priority was to stay with Rinzler, of course.
Canon Personality:
Yori's main function is analysis, and it echoes in everything she does and every choice she makes. Gathering all relevant data, making allies, and taking new situations into account all come naturally to her. However, landing in a foreign User world is much more change than she ever expected to deal with.
Despite her involvement in the digitization project, she hadn't thought of the User world as any kind of physical reality of its own; it was only a source of very strange and inexplicable code. Yori does not have quite the same reverence for Users that Tron shows, though she certainly prefers the Users to the MCP. To Yori, while their Users might have written the programs, it doesn't mean they care in any meaningful sense. The Users may deserve obedience, but no more.
Meeting Flynn didn't change that. Although she's grateful to Flynn for saving her and for distracting the MCP, it's hard to be in awe of someone who sounded so lost himself.
The down side of Yori's analysis skills is that when she cannot see any chance at all of changing things or making a difference, she tends to fall into paralyzing despair. Working for long without explicit direction is difficult for a program, and if all Yori sees are dead ends, she doesn't waste energy walking down them. However, Tron has always been her holdout of irrational, unquestioning hope. She gave up on him too soon once, and is much less likely to do so again. That might eventually help her adjust to a world so terribly unpredictable as to defy all logic.
Analysis is also a source of joy to Yori. Gathering data is something she values in itself, regardless of whether she expects the data to be of use. She takes delight in learning new skills, as well. As shown in canon, she's a good pilot of different craft despite having little opportunity to practice under the MCP. Yori tends to attack any new task with interest.
In general Yori is a cheerful program, though this can hide many layers of calculation. Yori had to spend quite some time acting as a slave to the Master Control Program and keeping her own thoughts guarded. She can be very demonstrative with her friends and those she trusts, such as, in the film, her long-time friend Dumont, as well as Tron. However, it takes a lot for her to completely trust a strange User or admin, or other potential danger.
Yori prefers not to show herself as any kind of threat, and will be friendly and noncommittal to almost anyone. Making actual alliance is quite different, and she takes commitments seriously.
Personality Shifts:
Transit to Inugami came as a total shock. Yori understands the concept of waking up in a new system, but this wasn't a system at all. Meeting so many Users face to face was pretty terrifying. Adjusting to a space ship was a small task compared to the massive culture shock of being outside a computer in the first place. Years later, she's still processing all the changes.
Spending approximately two months in a haunted high school taught Yori that things can always get weirder, a lesson reinforced by years in space. She finds it hard to accept that so many events can't be analyzed, either because there isn't enough data or because there's no context for what she does have.
Other than giving her a whole new range of fear for Rinzler and a head start on coping with the non-digital world, two months didn't have that much impact on Yori's personality. Her life under the MCP was even more regulated and deadly than high school.
On the other hand, her time as navigation crew on the space ship Moira and further adventures with the crew after the ship's final crash left siginificant marks.
Her affection for and attachment to Rinzler is the most obvious. Respect for his choices and his efforts to win the right to exist without letting Clu wipe him eventually turned to love, in spite of the fact that Clu was still present and still Rinzler's first priority. Yori decided that the complications of a romance were a better risk than avoiding Rinzler and letting Clu have more influence.
Repeated betrayals by supposed allies have left Yori wary, though she also accepts that any ally is vulnerable to weird influences or infections and shouldn't be personally blamed in such cases. Paranoia is a survival skill, as is not being too obvious with one's suspicion.
Time learning about the Living Energy that fueled the Ingress has made her a little more optimistic about being dropped into strange places with no clear escape; either she'll move on or her friends will show up. Eventually. Better focus on surviving until then.
Abilities:
Most of the things Yori learned from working aboard a ship and on a space station are tech-related and unlikely to be all that useful on an island. In the computer where she lived, Yori can look at code and see what's wrong with it, though she doesn't specialize in fixing any errors. Code analysis isn't nearly as much use in the User world where the internal code is so incredibly well encrypted for whatever User-whim reasons. However, given time to study new code languages, she has been helpful with various computer maintenance tasks. The trouble is that she's likely to view any and all programs as living beings, and might argue their right to fair treatment.
Yori is a pilot, by choice, not code. She appreciates the freedom a vehicle can provide and would jump on any opportunity to learn a new mode of travel. She'd like to keep as many options open to herself as possible.
While Yori has learned some basics of combat and disk-combat first from Tron, then Rinzler and the Taekwondo Club, it isn't her function and she'd rather use them to make an escape if necessary. She's got pretty good aim if she has time to analyze the situation, though, and is acrobatic enough to climb around system corridors where she isn't supposed to be while avoiding detection most of the time.
Although she hasn't had very much chance to explore the use of non-digital materials, Yori has a long-standing interest in design, color, and art. This is shown only in a single deleted scene, but relevant considering how little time Yori has in canon to show anything not immediately useful to saving the system. She's been trying to decorate her own room and experimenting with chalk art, and would like to expand her skills.
As a program, Yori requires charge with energy rather than food. She doesn't need to breathe, which gives her a minor advantage in swimming...offset by the fact that she's only practiced at all that one time when the station flooded. Apparently she'll need a lot more practice around here.
She also would shatter into little glowy blocks if killed or badly hurt, having no blood or organic internals. Since programs don't heal without help, she's been trying hard to learn enough to repair at least herself in case of a major injury. (She's not sure she could ever convince Rinzler to let her check his code.)
Inventory:
Identity disk: This is an essential item, without which she might lose her memory. It's round like a frisbee, it glows, and it can be used as a weapon, though she'd have to be pretty desperate to put it at risk, since she's not coded to fight. It is typically not vulnerable to water damage.
Backpack: Contains a couple of emergency food blocks that taste like grass and one bottle of water, a set of chalks, two pencils, an old notebook, an actual kids frisbee with a glowing bite mark (used for practice when she doesn't want to risk her identity disk), plus one spare battery that she typically uses to recharge herself. I assume that one will be ruined by water in short order, but she'll need to figure out the charge options around here.
Clothes: A mismatched set that covers almost all of her circuitry, including dark skintight uniform pieces from the Moira and various blue jackets to protect her disk. Since Yori is a being of digital energy, she has an Encom-style unarmored bodysuit underneath all this, not really removable unless someone were to edit her disk. Her circuits glow blue.
Weapon: A fancy stun staff. It telescopes short or long, it shocks large things or stuns people.
She'll be upset at not having her little portable spaceship with her, but since she thinks of it as a world to protect, a system full of programs like herself, I think it's better off just not arriving to the island so it can be safe somewhere else.
Sample
Thread Sample: A meeting with Ram and later Rinzler in a Savrou thread.
