Tanma

**Tanma** is a Matoran salesman living in The House. He is close friends with Mazeka, and the two are almost always seen together.

## History

### Early Life

Not much is known about Tanma’s early life. At some point in time he decided to become an entrepreneur and purchased a small building which he converted into a Sweet and Doughnut Shop.

### Battle at the Confectionery Shop

In 2015, Tanma left his shop in order to purchase more stock, however while he was gone a violent battle took place in his store, resulting in the displays being wrecked and the window smashed. By the time Tanma had returned, the building had been set ablaze, ruining his business.

A few days later, Tanma purchased a laser rifle which he used to shoot Cyphor as revenge for destroying his shop.

### Ultimate Battle

In the Ultimate Battle, Tanma participated in the final battle against Teridax.

### First Moc Purge

In the first Moc Purge, Tanma was disassembled, along with several other Mocs. His parts were dumped into the Parts Drawers afterwards.

### Rebuilding

Tanma was later rebuilt along with most of the rest of the cast in early 2018, reverting back to his official set form instead of a more complex design.

### Employing Mazeka

After Mazeka went bankrupt due to poor sales, Tanma offered to employ the broke Matoran, to which Mazeka agreed. Shortly after, the two became great friends and were barely ever seen away from each other. In the summer of that same year, Mazeka and Tanma were offered the opportunity to go on the third ever traditional holiday. The two Matoran, along with Mr Bonkle, Intor, Katuna, Memphis, Puuki and Sawdris, travelled to a house in Thorpeness. Whilst there, Tanma set up a small shop that the others could buy essential products such toothbrushes and food from.

### Trip to IKEA

After they had returned home, Tanma and Mazeka immediately went back to work in the bar. One day, a particularly disgusting customer entered the establishment. This Matoran demanded to be given ham, and once being provided with the meat proceeded to gnaw and chew on it like a wild animal, stuffing his face and sweating all over the table. Once Tanma had kicked the unwelcome patron out, Mazeka noticed that his sweat had rotted the table, making the item of furniture useless. Due to this, the two borrowed the Rockoh T3 from Pohatu, and used it to drive to IKEA to purchase a new table. However, once they arrived, they realised the car park was full, forcing them to drive to a nearby Burger King in order to catch a bus back to the store.

Once finally arriving at the furniture retailer, Tanma and Mazeka immediately began looking for a table. They soon found one, which they noted down for when they went to the storeroom later to collect it. Once at the storeroom, Mazeka started scanning the endless isles of flat-packed furniture for the table they had noted down earlier, but with no luck. As such, he asked an employee for advice, only to realise that the assistant was none other than the Matoran who had demanded mountains of ham at the bar. Luckily, he didn’t recognise Mazeka, and helped him to locate the table.

Tanma helped Mazeka to lug the heavy table back to the bus stop, before catching the bus back to Burger King. However, on their arrival, Tanma quickly realised that the table didn’t fit in the car. Now stranded at Burger King, Mazeka took the only option and helped Tanma to carry the table over to a nearby house. Upon ringing the doorbell, the two were greeted by a Jamaican hippie, who let them borrow his car, which not only had room for their table, but also a hitch to tow the T3.

After hours of driving, the two Matoran finally made it back home with the table. They returned the T3 to Pohatu and assembled their new piece of furniture to place in the bar.

### Defending against shoplifters

During a working day at the bar, Vorcan managed to smuggle a menu out of the establishment, which he then presented to Memphis. Angered, Tanma rushed out the door and began yelling at the shoplifter about how he had had to pay large sums of money to photocopy and print the menus, and how he had had to borrow printer ink from the local library.

Tanma then equipped his Laser Rifle and began rapidly shooting at Vorcan, who cowered from the bullets. Next, Tanma leapt on top of the Toa, repeatedly punching him and making several of his armour pieces fly off.

### At the Flea Market

Later that day, Tanma and Mazeka decided to set up a stall at the Flea Market. At their stall, they sold many different items, but mainly the remnants of Mazeka’s Bionicle collection. He managed to sell a complete Zaktan to Memphis for £1.50.

### Conspiring with Vex

After Zardok gave his speech after sending the Rahkshi to the Retcon Universe, Tanma and Vex secretly set up a resistance operation against him. Tanma told Takua to spread the word, and soon enough the resistance had been formed.

### Resistance Riot I

During the first resistance riot, Tanma drove in on the Cushionmobile, proclaiming that he was the leader of the resistance. He then proceeded to argue with Vex, who also claimed that he was the leader. After some terrible music began playing from Vortex‘s stereo system, the entire resistance, including Tanma, escaped.

### Resistance Riot II

During the second riot, Tanma once again drove the Cushionmobile, this time straight into the wall of Zardok’s Palace, killing Nuhrii. He would eventually make his way to the trenches and stood beside Mazeka. After a large number of the Resistance troops were killed by the Ultra Weapon, Tanma gathered a small squad including Mazeka and got out a boombox playing “funky tunes”. With the music backing them, they shot a path to the Ultra Weapon, allowing Tanma to stuff a piece of debris in the barrel of the device. When the gunners fired again, the weapon blew itself back through the palace, destroying itself and killing Kirop.

From there, Tanma and Mazeka used jetpacks to confront Zardok on his balcony, but the Makuta simply opened a trapdoor beneath them, letting the two Matoran fall down a particularly deep chute which eventually led to his basement.

### Exploring the basement

Once in the basement, Tanma and Mazeka found strange things such as High Density Polythene, fried onions, and, most notably, an army of hibernating Bohrok. They soon found Cutter also lurking in the basement, who showed them his possession of the Retcon Staff. Unimpressed, Mazeka simply shot him through a wall with a Squid Launcher. Realising Zardok was no longer in possession of the staff, Tanma called off the attack on the palace, and what was left of the resistance escaped.

### Final Battle

At the beginning of the Final Battle, Zardok went to kill Tanma, but was blocked by Magna Rex. Later on during the fight, Tanma joined Mazeka in the Technic Off-Road Pickup Truck as an assistant gunner, however the truck was eventually upturned, forcing them to evacuate the vehicle. Near the climax of the battle, Tanma used his limited powers over light to heal Solek. He was present when the battle had finished, reassuring Mazeka that his truck would get repaired.

### Adventures in the holiday home

In mid 2020, Tanma, Mazeka and their usual accomplices went on another holiday, this time in a holiday home by a beach. Unfortunately, due to carelessness, Memphis contracted BSD, or Bionicle Sand Disease. This event eventually led to the complete lockdown of the House, causing Tanma to stay inside for many months until a vaccine was produced.

## Trivia

- According to an early description, Tanma has a ‘Scottish accent’. He most certainly does not.

- In fact, what Tanma’s accent even is has become a point of some debate due to its sheer absurdity.