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Fire was created by Kevin Flynn in the User year 1985. Originally designed as a file repair program, she was made to fix Gridbug damage and tasked to repair any buildings or facilities that needed fixing. Over time, her function was upgraded so that she could perform standard maintenance as well as repair and data reconstruction. She can handle almost any type of corrupted or damaged file, whether it be damaged buildings or missing data.

However, she was designed as a building maintenance utility, not a program repair function, and can't fix damage to the kind of programs that walk and talk. Faced with Rinzler's reprogramming or even a light scratch on a walking, talking being, she'd have no idea what to do. Fire also cannot build anything – she's not a construction program. She needs something to be in existence already in order to work on it, even if it's only a handful of strings of code.

In those days, Fire was an avid fan of the lightcycle games, and would watch every game she could find time to see. She knew the names of all the good players, including Tron and Lizor, and frequently hung out at the End of Line club with the gamers. While she never met Tron, to her disappointment, she did know Lizor and got to know him quite well. She knows she'll never be good enough at riding a lightcycle to get in the Games, but that hasn't stopped her from gaining Operator-class privileges in lightcycles.

She also was, and still is, a very friendly program who will flirt (and more) with anyone who's willing. Her principles are simple and she makes sure a potential partner understands them up front: it's fun, it's mutually friendly and there's no expectations afterwards. She's on good terms with everyone she's been with, and keeps it that way by not sleeping with any potential partner that might get clingy. She's heart-whole, and has never been in love or an exclusive relationship. Back before Lizor began his relationship with Aadi, she shared energy with him a few times. After he met the ISO, Fire and Lizor stayed friends and Fire was very pleased to see him looking so happy.

Fire was a frequent patron of the End of Line club, and loved to dance. She still does, and will dance on her own if nobody is willing to go with her. Since she has a lot more practice dancing than fighting, she's pretty good at it.

After Clu's coup, Fire's abilities were needed as much as ever, if not more. With the Creator gone and unable to issue commands, she hired her repair skills out to any program who needed things fixing. She stayed neutral for the first couple of cycles, but then discovered when trying to recover a deleted file that Clu's forces were systematically wiping certain data. Fire has the same objections to unrecoverable data as librarians do to burning books, so joined the rebellion as soon as she could arrange to do so.

As it turned out, the rebels were just as much in need of her skills as the rest of the Grid. She learned to fight, enough to hold her own and escape when faced with one or two opponents, but her refresh rates and motor subroutines don't operate fast enough for her to be one of the good fighters. Most of the time, it didn't matter, as she stayed at one safehouse or another and repaired files that were brought to her. On the rare occasions when she went out on missions, it was always as part of a group. Most of what Fire did for the rebels was recover and clean up data that Clu's forces had tried to delete, overwrite or reformat. She was also their chief repair program for when the architecture got hit by tanks or Recognizers.

This was when she met Sor and Kweri. She met Kweri first, as her skill set worked very well when paired with a search program's abiities. The two became good friends, and it wasn't unusual to see Fire and Kweri curled up together in front of a holo screen, Kweri tossing files to Fire for her to deal with as she found them. Fire also told Kweri stories about the Grid at peace, and as many tales of the Arena as she could remember.

Fire met Sor slightly later, and occassionally sparred with the fighter-half of the search program duo. Sor also helped to train Fire when the program assigned to teach Fire basic disc combat was out on missions.

Fire was eventually derezzed after several hundred cycles in an encounter with a Black Guard when out on one of her rare missions. She, along with a couple of the other weaker combatants in the group, went out fighting, although the stronger and faster ones managed to get away.

(This journal was created to play the original character Fire from the Tron universe. Tron belongs to Disney, Rachel Nichols belongs to herself. Both mun and muse are over 18.)