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Name: Tag Swagger

Nickname: Mr. Ron Burgundy (mockingly by his friends)

Age: 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37

Birthday: July 29, 1981

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.

FRIENDS.
Zac Bantock / General-King Zinkenite (Friend): The two first formally met when Zac visited Tag in his apartment to discuss some matters in discreet privacy. Zac revealed his new position as a General-King, offered help if Tag ever found himself in trouble, and the two discussed Tag's position in the Negaverse and his position in the media and how the two roles can better function together.
General Benitoite / Alexandre Evans (Friend): Lieutenants Osumilite and Benitoite first met when patrolling the nightlife scene of Destiny City. Osumilite encouraged the younger lieutenant to live life more fully and more recklessly as he believes a teenager should. When they met again, Benitoite confessed that he had taken his advice and since developed conflicted feelings for a Senshi. Osumilite advised Benitoite to kill the Senshi or otherwise never see him again, else he would have to report him to his superiors, which they both agreed was fair.
Ivanna Morgenstern / Captain Avalon (Friend): Captain Avalon first met Osumilite when she was a Page Knight and he was a Lieutenant of the Negaverse. Lieutenant Osumilite was intrigued by this Knight's power signature as he was formerly unfamiliar with the power signature of a Knight. The two butted heads quickly and drifted into battle in which she threw her apple at him several times. He ultimately let her escape, but only after she identified herself to him. They later met again after her corruption as Captain Osumilite was responsible to forming her new identity as Ivanna Morgenstern, and offered her a position as his assistant in research and fact-checking.
Hannah Williams / Lieutenant Halite (Friend): Hannah is the new make-up artist at Tag's studio who he became infatuated with during his relationship with Gently. Unsatisfied with his relationship, Tag slept with Hannah before calling things off in his relationship. Later, he discovered that Hannah had been corrupted into the Negaverse as Lieutenant Halite, a member of the Infiltration division.
General-Queen Tanzanite (Leader): Lieutenant Osumilite holds great respect for General-Queen Tanzanite, viewing her as a leader worthy of respect, admiration, and fear. He is in gratitude to her for taking role in his corruption, which he views as a new opportunity for power.
General Fluorite (Ally): Lieutenant Osumilite met Captain Fluorite on a rooftop during one evening of patrol, and she taught in a few ins-and-outs of the basics about fighting Senshi. They sparred in practice, and he managed to impress her with his strength and technique but he didn't have nearly the same experience or knowledge as she. The two got along quite well.

FOES.
Gently Ponsonby / General Painite (Ex-Girlfriend): General Painite was the Negaverse agent who suggested targeting Tag for corruption into their organization, feeling he would be an effective officer for their public relations. However, she was very numb to his attempts to charm her, and Gently was not personally fond of his particular style. After writing a harsh review about him and his show in her print column, Lieutenant Osumilite targeted Gently to take her starseed - not realizing that she was his General. Upon realizing the mistake, he tried to charm his way out of it, but she was still unmoved by him and challenged him to bring her something that would appease her. In return, she would stop writing negative stories about him. Despite their rivalry, Osumilite has a desire to sleep with her as some way to quite literally 'stick it to her.' After taking Gently out on a date, Tag brought her back to his apartment where they made out. The evening was heating up until she asked to see a starseed he claimed to have obtained for her. When she realized it was just a starseed of a civilian, she left, asking for him to contact her when he obtain a Senshi's starseed. After his mother's death at the hands of a Senshi, he took the starseed of this Senshi and turned it into Gently. After this, they carried out a friends-with-benefits sexual relationship that eventually blossomed into an exclusive relationship. For months, the relationship continued as Tag grew increasingly unhappy and dissatisfied, resulting in his affair with a make-up artist and eventually breaking up with Gently once and for all. The breakup seemed to have an impact on Painite, as months later she ambushed Tag and attacked him with her spear as he narrowly escaped with just a chest wound.
Dustin Harlow / Corrupt Sailor Typhon (Nuisance): Captain Osumilite had advised General-King Zinkenite to corrupt a citizen then known as Dylan Von Hootensberg, a rich heir with powerful connections, but during the corruption was revealed to be an enemy Senshi - Sailor Typhon. When Typhon was corrupted, his former civilian identity was gone, and Tag helped him build a new identity and temporarily offered him shelter before Dustin's attitude forced Tag to kick him out.
Sailor Mintaka (Enemy): As far as Captain Osumilite is concerned, this b***h of a Senshi scratched his beautiful face and therefore deserves to die.
Sailor Arachne (Enemy): Although Lieutenant Osumilite did not catch this Senshi's name, the Senshi annoyed him to great end with his ignorance regarding the Senshi's cause and the reasonings behind the entire war. Frustrated with his ignorance, Osumilite let the Senshi be.
Sailor Pomona (Enemy): This Senshi used her ability to pepper-spray Lieutenant Osumilite, temporarily blinding him. In this state, she also stole one of the energy orbs that he had absorbed that night.
Sailor Aster (Enemy): Sailor Aster tried to protect herself and Sailor Pomona from Osumilite, but she was quickly shoved aside and out of the battle.