Name: Tag Swagger
Negaverse Alias: Lieutenant Osumilite
Nickname: Mr. Ron Burgundy (mockingly by his friends)
Age: 30
Birthday: July 29
Sign: Leo
Gemstone: Ruby
Blood Type: AB
Fav. Food: Filet mignon with a glass of red wine.
Hated Food: Goat balls. He’s tried them. They taste like goat balls.
School: Adult
Hobbies:
Journalism: Tag is a reporter for Destiny City’s local news station, WKDC, Channel 6 News. Channel 6 News is a very popular news station, but many of its broadcasts and Tag’s segments are commonly criticized for its yellow journalism and tabloid-esque focus. Channel 6 News is to Fox News as DCNN is to…something someone can put a grain of trust into. He’s a pretty well known reporter in the city, noted for his good looks, charisma and dedication to the story. He is typically assigned to crime or investigative stories, and in his interviews doesn’t shy away from asking the tougher questions if it means getting a more cutting-edge story.
Journalism is not just a job for Tag, it’s a major influence on his life and aspirations. His fascination with journalism began in high school writing for the school newspaper. He quickly discovered how the news media influence the minds of the public, and this type of power was very intriguing to him, so he continued on in this path. He graduated with a degree in Broadcast Journalism from DCU while maintaining an internship at WKDC. His internship became a paid job and he quickly rose through the ranks after scoring well with several female demographics and covering groundbreaking stories. He’s content with the position he holds now, but is willing and ready to do anything it takes to rise further in the ranks.
Picking up Chicks: Tag is young, single, attractive, charismatic guy with local-celebrity status. So, yes, he gets around the block.
He enjoys the single life and having one-night stands. He doesn't rule out the possibility of girlfriends, but he doesn't get involved too seriously in a relationship. He's just looking for fun and sex, and if things start getting serious, something usually goes awry and he ends up single again. He's a little bit of a commitment-phobe, but he wouldn't admit that.
Hanging Out with his Son: Tag has a two year old son, Liam, from a past relationship. Liam lives with his mother, Chelsea, a few blocks away from his apartment. While Tag wasn’t ready to raise a son, he found that Liam has been a blessing in his life. His relationship with Chelsea has lost whatever romance once existed, and was never too serious in the first place. Tag is a good father to Liam, but does not hold custody, only visitation rights. As such, he does his best to show to Chelsea that he is there for the both of them, and he's developed a strong platonic relationship with her that extends outside of their time spent with Liam.
Basketball: Tag plays basketball with his friends in a court across the street from his apartment building. He’s a decent player but the worst of the guys he plays with, but it’s a good source of fitness and a good deal of fun. He played some intramural basketball in high school, and at DCU he just played with his friends in no official league. Basketball is much more a form of exercise and social bonding than it is a truly passionate hobby of his own, but it is something he does often.
Virtues:
Charismatic: Tag knows how to tell a story in a way to captivate his audience, or just to entertain a group of friends. He uses his words carefully, and likes to think that he can sweet talk his way out of trouble. And no, babe, those pants don’t make you look fat because there’s nothing out there that can make you look anything but the most beautiful woman on this planet. He panders to what he thinks people want to hear. Tag has recognized the importance of being charming, because it can help him get the things he wants, and takes pains to come across as such.
Hard-Working: Whatever the case may be, Tag will put in all his effort. Morals and integrity can be set aside when Tag is assigned to a task. If he’s told to cover a story about the city’s oldest dog’s birthday, he won’t be happy about it, but he’ll make one hell of a story out of it. Luckily, these types of stories are beneath his ranks, he is usually asked to investigative or crime stories, in which he gets right into the action and reports the story as best as it can be told. Tag gives his work his 110%.
Social Butterfly: Tag is still young, and he's single, so he enjoys to go out and have fun. He is very comfortable in social settings and is always open for having fun, provided that he doesn't have any deadlines at work that could interfere. He loves meeting new people, especially fans (and female ones even more so), and hanging out with old friends. He's very outgoing and open to a lot of experiences, living life to the fullest.
Charitable: Tag donates a fair amount of his earnings and time to local charities (often underprivileged children or medical research) and often pushes to sponsor these charities in his broadcasts. Ever since Liam was born, he’s donated much more, and more frequently to children-oriented programs. His motivations for his charitable donations aren't too selfish - he doesn't do it for the publicity or attention, but a bit of self-gratification. As a newscaster, he inspires to influence the world, and donating helps him feel that he is doing just that. By giving back to the community and helping others, he feel he is making some impact on the world and asserting a level of power and influence. He does care about the charities he donates too, he has compassion, but his donations are his way of inflating his own ego and demonstrating power in a healthier manner.
As a young journalist, he isn’t exactly swimming in cash (although he came from a well-off family that helps him out when he overspends), but as a Negaverse agent he frequently loots his victims to take their cash. One may call that reprehensible, but Tag would argue that he uses the money to give back to the community and its not like the victim was going to be using that money. That’s a fair rationalization, right?
Flaws:
Power-Hungry: Tag’s a pretty well-known reporter now, but he’d kill to become an anchorman. Don’t tempt him. He is obsessed with the idea of moving up, getting ahead, and being the top dog in every aspect of his life. He desires to be the alpha male in every room, and he has no problem flushing out his competition. He has betrayed the trust of many people he has formed a professional relationship with in order to get ahead. His thirst for power has left him with very little tact. Did you just lose a family member in a violent accident? You can count on Tag waiting with his cameraman to capture your initial reaction and ask you for an interview. Tag’s image is very important to him, but he sometimes forgets that his reputation is dependent on other people, and is capable of neglecting their feelings in the name of a good headline.
The Douchebag Factor: You know that trait some people have, its something annoying about them but you can’t quite put your finger on it? But whatever it is, it causes you to label them as a douchebag? Tag is one of those individuals. He’s over-confident, flaunts his success, fully aware of his good looks and fan-following, loud, obnoxious, chauvinistic, and pretentious. While Tag doesn’t mean to alienate (he wold rather people like him), his overconfidence and pretentious attitude might turn some people off. He has a compulsion to one-up people in conversation and boast about himself, and doesn’t realize that what he is doing could annoy anyone.
Full of s**t: The man has charm - but is what he saying truthful? Not always. He uses his charm to exaggerate stories, and often even flat-out lie. With his beautiful white smile, handsome face and carefully-chosen words, it can be hard to detect when Tag is being honest or not. Hell, sometimes he hardly knows. He isn't a pathological liar, but he allows himself to believe in the mistruths that he tells, it eases his conscience. Because if Tag were to tell the truth, then truthfully babe, you do look fat in those pants - but its not the pants that make you look that way. He has no issue or guilt using his charm to tell a lie if it means getting what he wants, and he's grown so accustomed to it that its practically an impulse. This sort of behavior has gotten him in trouble in his personal life, damaging several of his relationships.
As a journalist, if a story isn't that interesting, it is his job to make it interesting. Never content with a minor special interest piece, he'll beef up the story by slanting it in the most exciting light possible. He'll get the facts out there, but he knows how to spin them just enough to make a story of the city's oldest woman blowing out her birthday candles sound like the world's oldest woman defused a bomb using only her breath. For bigger stories that are more cutting edge, he'll do his best to tailor the interviews he does with the right sort of leading questions and false dichotomies to guide happiness witnesses into providing him with the quotes that are just misleading enough to sound horribly damning once the station gets through with editing them.
Self-Focused: Tag is mostly out in the world for himself, and he doesn't mind stepping on the back of others to serve himself. Many of his actions are motivated by his self-interest and he has a very manipulative mindset. Behaviors such as his charm and charitable donations are often fueled by self-serving factors. His selfishness can be found in his reluctance to selflessly help others and his vocalized self-concern whenever a situation arises that may impact a group he is included in. He tries to mask his selfishness and manipulative nature with charm, but it is not impossible to see past. Consequently, maintaining long-term relationships is a challenge as he is suspected of ulterior motives.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION Eyes: Cool, captivating blue-green eyes.
Hair: ‘Dirty-blonde’ hair. Clean cut, masculine.
Face: Strong facial features. General attractive, charming looks.
Civilian Clothes: Button down shirt, maybe a few buttons unbuttoned, and dark jeans.
--NEGAVERSE--
Challenge: Coming tonight to you live, this is your demise!
Uniform: Form-fitting, fashionable, designer-looking suits. [1][2]
Weapon: Non-functioning Microphone → Functioning Microphone → Super Amplified Microphone
Non-functioning Microphone: Just a non-functioning microphone. Could be plastic, or could be a real one that simply does not work.
Functioning Microphone: The microphone is real, if it wasn't before, and now functions through magic. However, it works just like a normal microphone. He can shout into it.
Super Amplified Microphone: The microphone's is magically amplified to be super-loud and can cause screeches or give headaches. The noises can be distracting.
Why Tag?: Tag would be a good fit in the Negaverse because, as a news reporter, he has some media power which influences the population. A news reporter is an artist in their own right - their words tell a story that the public believes. He could be of great value to the organization. He can diffuse anxiety about the happenings in Destiny City - with teenagers getting beaten up, Senshi super heroes, citizens falling into comas, etc. - and manipulate the facts. A public relations manager of the Negaverse, one might say. And remember folks, don't trust the Senshi.
Tag in the Negaverse: Tag power hungry & manipulative flaws would definitely start showing their ugly heads more and more when Tag is corrupted. He likely wouldn't try any power-plays on his Negaverse authorities, but may try to undermine his lieutenants. His loss of humanity would also impact his work life and his thirst for power may come to full force there, trying ever harder to get to the top, with less concern of consequences.
As for Liam and Chelsea, Tag will do the best he can to ensure their safety. He loves and cares for the both of them, and is likely to try arranging deals with authorities to ensure their safety for as long as he can. Furthermore, his authorities can easily manipulate him by threatening to harm his family.
Most of his Negaverse work would likely entailing gathering intel and making sure the Negaverse has a strong influence over the population. If he knows of someone who knows too much, he'll hunt them down and steal their starseed, but he isn't the type who would start out by running around causing mass terror.
Tag and his Son: Tag's son is his greatest weakness. He's a father who cares deeply about his son and isn't allowed to spend as much time with him as he'd like to due to only having visitation rights. He is extremely protective of both his son and of Chelsea, and would do anything to ensure their safety. As such, he can be very easily manipulated if Chelsea or Liam's lives, reputation, safety or livelihood are at stake.
