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Tarn is a bad guy who has little qualms doing bad guy things to other people. Tarn also has magical robot bag guy powers.

Comment if you're un/comfortable with any of the following:

Tarn has the ability to manipulate sparks with the vocal range of his voice. (With player permission) he can for ex: cause HUGE AMOUNTS OF PAIN STRAIGHT INTO THEIR ROBOT SOUL or even kill people this way (if they are spark-powered) CAN HE MESS WITH YOUR CHARACTER'S SPARK? (Provided they have one) Y|N?.
Tarn is also a tough cookie + a genius at sadism, CAN HE HURT YOUR CHARACTERS? Y|N?
Furthermore, Tarn knows A LOT of trivia about the IDW Decepticons, is there anything you'd like him (Me) to know in particular about your character? I haven't read all of IDW's published stuff, so LET ME KNOW IF I SHOULD KNOW SOMETHING? Y|N?
Tarn also has this day job (and hobby) where he hunts down (IDW) Decepticon traitors and brutally murders them. I'm not keen on stepping on any toes or barging into existing plots accidentally so WOULD YOU LIKE TO KEEP TARN AWAY FROM YOUR CHARACTER and/or PLOTS? Y|N?

EDIT: Tarn violence now includes violence caused by unfortunate turbofox mauling.

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Actually, it's noted in canon that there was some semi-frequent DJD attacks, at least before LSOTW. First Aid was the medic chosen by Springer to be Agent 113's contact. Agent 113 made contact by shooting Autobots. Molesting Autobots to check over their badges is how FA got his reputation.

Uhhh I think this was part of Bullets. But yeah, DJD had attacked the Autobots stationed there.

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Also part of the LSOTW hardcover, it had a profile written by a Decepticon in Styx trying to plea bargain after aiding Overlord.

Pretty much Overlord has been rogue since the early days of the war. That same battle he was participating in when Megatron chose him as a phase sixer is also the same one he left with. In other words, Overlord has been rogue for a few millenia. I headcanon roughly about 3 million years.

He's probably pretty aware the DJD exist and can't honestly give a fuck.

As for power level... I honestly don't know and that is one thing I'm not sure how to approach. Overlord's apparently up there with Six Shot rather than Black Shadow. He can pretty much frighten entire Decepticon platoons into doing what he wants just by showing up.

...Also he sometimes attacks and wrangles with whole entire planets just for shits and giggles.

Thanks! I wasn't aware of that canon, so that helps A LOT! Merci. I wonder if Tarn was with the DJD at that point. Hmmm. Time for headcanonning! And at some point/possibly even currently, Agent 113 was on the DJD team, right?

Man, it is going to throw me the hell off my game if it turns out Tarn's 113. #Awkward.

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I vaguely remember Overlord's profile page. The Decepticon was pleading to Megatron, right?
And yeah, if he's been gone so long, there's gotta be a reason the DJD chose not to take him out. I'm going to guess a lot of that had to do with him having an entire ruddy Garrus under his control for a time. ... Though they did somehow know he was alive too, when he was apparently put away. ... I wonder how...?

I didn't expect Overlord to really care about the DJD, but I am kinda glad that he'd at least acknowledge their existence.

See, the power level is the toughest bit for me. certainly Overlord wouldn't be immune to Tarn's voice gimmick, but I expect it would be pretty tough to get him to a point where Tarn could USE that as a finishing move. I mean, the DJD DID take down Sixshot... but we don't know how, and the DJD do seem to be pretty teamwork oriented.

Tarn's alone without his team, I kiiiinda figure unless he gets the drop on Overlord, or unless the situation somehow sets it up to his advantage... he PROBABLY couldn't go toe to toe with Overlord.

But the fact that they took out Sixshot and got him to such a state is kinda impressive.

TL;DR : Hell if I know. What do you think of my stab at things (until we get more canon)?

Yep! Agent 113 is a mole in the DJD, who is in contact with the Wreckers. It was actually Agent 113 who told First Aid about Overlord's takeover at Garrus-9, and First Aid who delivered the news to Springer.

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Hmm. Well, Overlord has been rogue for a couple million years, but he was only in control of Garrus-9 for 2 years, so it wouldn't have been that that kept them from going after him.

No, the DJD didn't take down Sixshot. That was Black Shadow, who is the weakest and smallest of the Phase Sixers. Sixshot was crushed by Metroplex (and lived) and that was the last we saw him. Sixshot is still loyal to Megatron.

I THINK there is a lot of canon we're missing out on, so that's why my biggest guhhh is Overlord vs DJD. Because. Overlord is the most notorious and dangerous Decepticon rogue, afaik.

I MEANT BLACKSHADOW! Derp.

And yeah, I WANT to believe that Overlord could mop the floor with Tarn, because otherwise Tarn would just be ridiculously overpowered since he's got a team on his side. He obviously thinks he + team are enough to take on Overlord NOW, but he might be aware of Overlord's shiny new weakened state. Somehow.

As a heads up, I'm currently playing Tarn as "biding his time" re: Overlord because he KNOWS he's liable to get his face knocked in if he goes after the guy immediately. Probably. There'll be a confrontation I'm SURE, but it certainly won't be until Tarn thinks the odds are more to his side.

Sound good?

I'll put on a song, Love

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