Tarn is a fanboy.
Everyone. Literally everyone in Peaceful Tyranny knows it. Even The Pet —who was literally lobotomized to think like an animal and trapped in his Turbofox altmode— must feel like he thinks Tarn is a fanboy.
Tarn is a fanatic Megatron's fanboy. Everyone OUTSIDE Peaceful Tyranny KNOWS it. It's an open secret.
Tarn worships the ground his lord walks on, and would break the knees of those who dared not kneel quickly enough when his lord entered the room.
That's why he's the Leader of the Decepticon Justice Division and lives his life hunting down traitors to the cause. Because he, more than anyone, knows every single thing about being a Decepticon, and he scrutinizes the behavior of every potential traitor (literally any Decepticon) with a magnifying glass.
He's proud of it, but there's one thing he's not proud of... the fact that he has the biggest, deepest crush on his leader.
It's not a crush, it's a damn chasm that runs from one end of a planet to the other.
The captain's 'quarters' on the Peaceful Tyranny are 'normal,' with just a few helms of great traitors to the cause on a shelf, displayed like trophies (and there's an empty space he's saving for Overlord's helm AS SOON HE LOCATE THIS BITCH—). But there's a difference between the captain's quarters and his private room, where he actually sleeps.
Let's just say... he may got a little carried away. No, actually, he didn't get carried away! This is the least every Decepticon should do in worshipping their Lord Megatron, the supreme lord of the Decepticons!
And also, it's not that much; he was still quite modest. He just have been several Megatron-style products; Plushies, posters, a Megatron-shaped body pillow, Decepticon posters, several copies of Megatron's poems and books, Megatron's biography, photos that Tarn managed to take, Decepticon-themed pillows, articulated dolls, pieces of armor that fell on the battlefield when the Warlord fought, recordings of his fights in the gladiator arenas, Decepticon-themed lamps, pieces of Megatron's old chassis, fanfics he wrote about himself with Megatron, and a hundred more Megatron products that Tarn kept secret.
Oh, and a life-size Megatron statue.
Tarn sometimes poses it sitting or in an intimidating pose. When he thinks he's done something bad or something that would go against the Decepticon code, he'll have the Megatron statue sit at a table, or in a furious pose, and play voice recordings of Megatron yelling at someone for failing him; just so Tarn can intend Megatron is angry and threatening to punish him for failing.
Occasionally, a member of the D.J.D., like Kaon looking for The Pet, or Nickel going to give him a checkup, would pass by the room and hear Tarn, in tears, begging his Megatron statue to forgive-him and how he promises not to disappoint him again.
They just turn around and pretend they didn't see anything. Always.
Nothing new here.
Every Decepticon knows, but no one says anything about this, knowing that if they open their mouths to say even a single "a" about him... automatically their names will be in the LIST, and Tarn will personally make the torture LONGER than normal.
Everyone knew this. And so did Tarn. It was an unspoken rule, but known to all. But apparently, only one didn't know any of this... Lord Megatron himself.
The day would have been normal and calm for Tarn. After killing yet another traitor to the cause, he calmly returned to the Peaceful Tyranny, until he received a call from Kaon, who complained about the unstable signal from that planet, and also that Lord Megatron was on the ship, having come in to meet them personally.
Tarn was no longer calm.
He transformed and panickedly ran toward his ship. Lord Megatron wasn't in the normal areas, which meant..
Yes, he was in Tarn's room. And it was there that Tarn found him.
Megatron had a "(ಠ_ಠ)WTF?" face in the middle of the room, and gave Tarn the most intense raised optic crest had he ever seen.
He might just die of embarrassment at this point. He can't even look at his lord.