#meanwhile our heroes who have also murdered people and done war crimes are peachy clean

[lord-squiggletits]

I'm very particular with my "making fun of Tarn" humor bc he undoubtedly is dumb and pathetic and this is both part of his charm as a character and a haunting theme of how a person doesn't need to be particularly strong-willed or powerful to inflict great harm onto others. But in specific I hate "making fun of Tarn" humor in which people basically make fun of the fact that he's a groomed cult victim with zero acknowledgement at all that Tarn wasn't always Tarn (bonus points if it's done by people who like/stan Megatron who literally is the one who made him that way).

Like oh yeah make fun of Tarn for being a psycho stalker obsessed with Megatron it's not like, y'know, that's a parasocial relationship rhat Tarn was deliberately manipulated into cultivating, and ignore the fact that the (original) DJD members including Tarn were hand picked and trained by Megatron who also wrote their manual of operations. Tarn's so pathetic for being the victim of cult brainwashing is he just stupid or what lol