He's not like other Decepticons. You'd found that out rather quickly after he and the D.J.D. landed on your planet.

In fact, Tarn is a sweetspark. He's funny and likes music and reading and always gets excited whenever he sees one of his crew getting along with the neutrals in your little settlement.

While the other members of the Decepticon Justice Division explore the rather small planet, Tarn himself stays back when asked, and happily answers questions with a mildly alarming sense of zealotry towards the Decepticon cause.

Tarn hasn't explained why he and the D.J.D. landed here, or why they're keeping a close optic on everyone who leaves and arrives in the little camp, or even why they've stuck around for so long despite apparently being very busy being Megatron's personal enforcers of vengeance against cowards and traitors.

Just because there's an unsettling aura of danger around him that makes your back strut shiver whenever those crimson optics of his peek out of his mask and lock on you, and the way his vocaliser lowers just a touch whenever he speaks about killing and the way your spark seems to tighten, and the way that Sparklings seem to shy away from him as if they can sense something you can't... Despite all of that, Tarn never fails to make you feel safe. Mostly.

It's almost scary how charming and smart and disarming the tank can be.

Like now, as he sits on the grass with his legs crossed and digits tapping on his knees to a song you're not quite familiar with and that he seems to know by spark, considering his full attention is on you, and your questions about the Decepticons.

"Ah, I almost forgot. You wouldn't have ever read Towards Peace, would you? It's Lord Megatron's autobiography. My favourite piece of literature, if I'm being honest." Tarn tilts his helm at you, "would you like to borrow a copy? I have a few too many, if I'm being honest with myself."

"Many would paint us as the bad ones in this war, but anyone who reads Towards Peace can understand the truth."