Tanner Dunn

Tanner Dunn is a seventeen year old Mesopotamian Demigod son of Nergal and Angelica Dunn. He came to camp at thirteen years old

## Basic Stuff

### Alias

Tan, Anner, Dunn, Nergal, Exploder, TNT Kid, Exploding TNT, Tanny Boy

### Residence

* Camp Olympia (Currently)
* Baton Rouge, Louisiana (Formerly)
* Albany, New York (Formerly)

## Family

### Adoptive/Step Family

Taurus (Step-father)Marie Irwin (step-sister)

### Biological Family

* Nergal (Father)
* Angelica (Mother)
* Tadmuštum (Half-sister)
* Nanna, Ninazu and Enbilulu (Uncles)

## Items

### Weapons

Silver sword that can also turn into a chainsaw

## Appearance

### Outfit

* Normally light colors
* Light blue shirt that says “I’m full sun, fun and destruction”
* Jeans
* Black sneakers

## History

### Early Life

Tanner Dunn was born to Nergal, god of war, disease, the sun, underworld, destruction, and death and Angelica Dunn, a clear sighed mortal in Albany, New York on March 3, 2004. Angelica Dunn was a woman who had a knack for destruction. Even as a kid, Angelica would love to cause trouble, and you could probably find her cheering on any local fights. One day, Angelica was at bar, initiating a bar fight between two drunken men. While the other patrons where cheering on the fight, Angelica bumped into a man amidst all the chaos. The man led Angelica outside to apologize. The man introduced himself as Nathan, and offered to take Angelica to a different bar as an apology. Angelica agree, seeing as the man was very handsome and seemed nice.

That night, the two of them got drunk and ended up going to Angelica's house to continue the night. Since that night, the two began to date. One night, the two of them found themselves in bed with each other. A few weeks later, Angelica found out she was pregnant. Angelica told Nathan that she was pregnant, but Nathan then reveled that he was really the Mesopotamian god Nergal and that he had leave. Angelica got mad at her lover, thinking that he was lying to her, and kicked him out of the house. Since then, Angelica felt nothing but hatred to her ex-lover. Once her son was born, she named him Tanner.

### Childhood

A few months after Tanner was born, Angelica began to dabble into magic, specifically plague magic. One day, when Tanner five, his mother met Taurus Irwin, and they eventually got married since they both had a hatred for their former lovers and a talent for the dark arts. Taurus also had a daughter by the name of Marie, who he would become close too. Things would take a dark turn however, as Taurus felt that his past lover had come back to haunt him through their child, so Taurus began to neglect both his children as he feels that they're not his. Angelica, on the other hand, began to treat her son and step-daughter as guinea pigs for her own various plagues and were often punished by having their bodies hung on hooks. Marie and Tanner became close during this time, always comforting each other whenever they were hurt. The two of them were home schooled, but when they were both nine years old, their parents had found out they both had ADHD and Dyslexia

### A Shared Dream

Tanner was the older of the two, but was tired of just trying to survive another day and just wanted a normal family. Tanner and his step-sister's (Well, he saw Marie as his actual sister rather than as a step-sibling). Their lives life went that way, day after day, year after year. That was until they were both twelve. The two of them often spoke of similar dreams, but they've never *shared* a dream before. The two of them layed asleep in their shared room and in the dream, they were in a sort of darkly lit room. They two walked in the always of the room and came across two familiar people. Tanner saw a man with black hair and red eyes, which gave off a sort of crazy vibe. Both people introduced themselves as Marie's mother and Tanner's father, and told them to get to Camp Olympia, while also giving them their main weapons (Tanner gained a small key chain). Once they woke up, they realized what they had to do.

### Coming to Camp

In the middle of the night, a few years later, then the duo was 13, they packed two small bags of their personal belongings and some money and left in the middle of the night. While their parents were busy doing some dark magic stuff, they escaped through a window. Once the two were out, they made a break for it, running from the home and heading to the airport, just as their parents in their dreams had instructed them to. They were able to sneak onto a plane heading to California by blending in the crowd and taking seats all the way in the back as not to draw attention to themselves. While on the plane, Tanner felt free, but while his sister was contemplating everything, he fell asleep. Once the plane landed, they took a taxi to big bear, hoping it would be faster and safer than traveling by foot. The taxi dropped them off at a gas station in the small town near camp, and they were able to continue their journey. Once they made it to camp, they were both placed into the Hermes cabin, but soon claimed by their parents; Ereshkigal and Nergal

## Personality

Tanner is a walking, talking nerd. He is extremely awkward, rather bookish, and not the best at handling conversation. Anytime that the conversation veers into a range he’s not used to, he freezes, which he finds very annoying. He spends more time reading than actually talking to people, because books are “easier to understand” and “won’t abandon their children”. He doesn’t have the best street-smarts, so he often comes across as weird when trying to fit in with a cooler crowd. Because of this, Tanner has learned to become more of a listener than a talker. He’s an understanding guy, choosing to listen to other people vent instead of judging them and will gladly offer you a shoulder to cry on. He is a wonderful person to go to when you need to vent, especially because he doesn’t try to lord advice onto you. His listening has made him really perceptive and in tune to detail, so he knows quite a few things he shouldn't know about others. Tanner is often seen as only close to Asher as they are room mates. Tanner is quite a bright child, so much so that he tends to get bored in class. He’s a master at strategy games, and thinks of situations a bit like chess, which is part of the reason why he isn’t that good with socializing (after all, he sees his classmates as inanimate objects). He’s also a hug fan of mathematics and the likes. He knows everything there is to know about it and his face lights up as the mention of it. Tanner is a pretty eccentric guy, due to his lack of social skills. He often expresses ideas that are not normal on an everyday basis, so he tends to creep people out. He also often comes across as rude because he isn’t afraid to challenge people when they don’t make sense. He doesn’t understand the concept of softening the truth at all due to the fact that he was lied to for a lot of his life. He’s the type of guy that would laugh at anything. Though, with his friends, Tanner has come out of his shell a bit more and is known to be a sweet and kind person, who just loves his friends. All in all, Tanner is a pretty interesting person

### Fatal flaw

Tanner's fatal flaw is his Trust issues. Because of the dark childhood he went through, he is slow to trust people, but once he does gain your trust, he is a good and firm friend

## Appearance

While his step-sister has a sorta dark aesthetic (Along with being Ceroel), Tanner is often described as looking like a young but tall-ish seventeen year old boy. Tanner is often said to have curly, golden blonde hair, light skin, and brown eyes. He is often seen wearing a light blue shirt that says “I’m full sun, fun and destruction”, jeans, and black sneakers

## Powers and Abilities

### Nergal Kid Powers

* Since his dad is the god of War, He has the ability to telekinetically control any weapon, as well as curse them.
* He has an innate expertise in battle strategies.
* He can summon weapons out of thin air.
* He is able to manipulate feelings of war, anger and rage.
* He unconsciously causes others around him to feel anger, hatred, and blood-lust in people, to the point of causing fights wherever he goes.
* He has the ability to summon weapons or armor He has the ability to curse/enchant weapons/armor
* He innately knows his surroundings in warfare, causing him to be great in battle.
* As his father is the god of diseases, he is immune to diseases
* He can heal diseases,
* He can sense and identify diseases
* He can infect people with diseases
* He can perform minor amounts of healing of other injuries, up to repairing a single broken bone.
* He can rot flesh with his disease powers, causing skin, muscle, organ and bone to collapse, rot and decompose under his fingertips.
* As his dad is the god of the sun, He has the power of Photokinesis or the power to manipulate light.
* He can conjure weapons out of pure light which can be used for combat; however, only one weapon can be conjured at a time
* He can summon a miniature sun that heals allies and burns enemies
* He can create temporary light sources, similar to the concept of a flare, which will light an area or blind enemies for a short time.
* As his dad is the god of the underworld, he has the power of necromancy, or the power to communicate with and control dead things.
* He can sense when a friend is dead or dying.
* He can see peoples' life auras.
* He has the power of umbrakinesis, or the ability to control shadows and darkness.
* He can Shadow travel.
* He can vanquish any undead with just one attack.
* He can turn people into ghosts and send them to the underworld.
* As his dad is the god of destruction, he can control fire as a form of destruction, but to a lesser degree then children of fire deities
* He can control lightning as a form of destruction, but to a lesser degree then children of storm deities
* He can charge objects with explosive power and then release them, causing the object to explode when it hits something else (Gambit power)
* He can disintegrate objects or people via touch
* He can disintegrate objects or people via bolts of energy from his hands
* He can unleash a giant shockwave that destroys almost everything around them
* He can cause explosions by stomping his foot or by concentration
* He can cause explosions via attacks such as blade strikes, punches and kicks
* He is immune to explosions, fire and lightning
* He can sense death as it is a form of destruction
* He can cause natural disasters such as hurricanes and tsunamis
* He can create destructive waves of energy that can push away any organic being and destroy non living matter
* He can sense forms of destruction

### General Abilities

* ADHD: Like most demigods, he possesses inborn supernatural battle reflexes and senses that he uses to analyze the fighting style of his opponent
* Dyslexia: Tanner's brain is "hard-wired" for Ancient Mesopotamian instead of mortal languages
* Swordsmanship: Tanner is good at using a sword
* Superhuman strength: Being a demigod, Tanner is far stronger than the average mortal and most demigods
* Superhuman agility: Being a demigod, Tanner is a lot more agile than a regular mortal
* Superhuman durability: Tanner is shown to be far more durable than a mortal and most demigods
* Superhuman reflexes: Tanner has incredible reflexes, which was proven throughout his life
* Hand to hand combat: Tanner is good at hand-to-hand combat
* Accuracy: Tanner is good at aiming and throwing things
* Chainsaw usage: Tanner's sword can also turn into a chainsaw and he is good at using a chainsaw

## Relationships

### Friends

#### Asher Patel

Tanner and Asher get along pretty well. With Tanner's "explosive" personality, he always makes Ash laugh. The two also love geeking out over video games and they hang out a lot

#### Marie Irwin

Marie and Tanner are best friends and step-siblings. They comforted each other during their shared dark childhoods and are healing together. Tanner is protective of his step-sister, but also knows how talented she is

### Family

#### Nergal (Father)

Tanner's relationship with his father is rather distant. He does like his father, but they don't talk much. Nergal does sometimes check up on his son from time to time, but they still don't talk much

#### Angelica (Mother)

Tanner has a very negative relationship with his mother. Since he was born, she felt very hateful towards her son, and once she married Taurus, it didn't get much better. Taurus felt that his past lover had come back to haunt him through their child, so Taurus began to neglect both his children as he feels that they're not his. Angelica, on the other hand, began to treat her son and step-daughter as guinea pigs for her own various plagues and were often punished by having their bodies hung on hooks. He hates his mother for putting him through that dark childhood

## Etymology

Tanner is a mainly masculine given name meaning **"leather maker."**

Dunn is a Middle English word meaning **"dark",**

## Trivia

1. Tanner was based on Awesamdude from the Dream SMP
2. Tanner's favorite song is Revenge, the Minecraft song
3. Tanner owns a stack of fire works in his room
4. Tanner is Aromantic
5. Tanner can play the drumbs
6. Tanner loves to play with legos
7. He has a minor fear of his father, since he's the god of destruction
8. He is a pisces