Jasmine Dartmoor

The face claim for Jasmine is Sally Bretton.

Though Tyson only knew Jasmine for three years before going away to join the army, she became a surrogate mother to him in that time. Tyson’s father was hardly affectionate and Jethro ran away from home shortly after Jasmine started working at the family manor; content that there was someone else there to look after Tyson. Originally Tyson was cautious around Jasmine and hid from her as he had done with his tutors. Tyson began warning to Jasmine after finding out she could speak Hebrew too. Over time they learnt how to work around each other. Jasmine didn’t reveal Tyson’s hiding space in the manor’s attic to Tyson’s father if Tyson behaved and attended his sessions with his tutors.

Jasmine had only intended to work at the manor for a year, to help pay off her university debts from learning to be a therapist, but she decided to stay on full time to look after Tyson, having felt so protective of the skittish teen. Jasmine introduced Tyson to a way of calming down after his anxiety attacks; this technique carried into Tyson’s adulthood, becoming more effective when Tyson learnt to meditate too

When Tyson ran off to join the army, Jasmine stayed at the manor to make sure that when Tyson returned he’d still have a home. Tyson’s father didn’t see eye to eye with Jasmine, but he respected her opinions and Jasmine knew how to manipulate the late John Delaney into being less strict about his sons.

Currently Jasmine lives at the family manor and looks after Jack for Tyson. Once a month Jasmine sends a care package of cookies down to Tyson. Whenever Tyson goes up to Cambridge to guest lecture he makes sure to stop in and visit Jasmine.

UNIVERAL TRUTHS

• Blood Type: A Positive
• Date of Birth: August 2nd 1972 - Leo - Year of the Rat (Water)
• DnD Alignment: Neutral Good
• Dominant Hand: Right
• Ethnicity: White, British
• Myers Briggs Type: INFP-A | The Mediator
• Orientation: Heterosexual
• Religion: Atheist
• Signature:

FAVOURITE

• Favourite Animal: Guinea Pig
• Favourite Author: Agatha Christie
• Favourite Colour: Orange
• Favourite Film: Johnny English
• Favourite Food: Fruit Cake
• Favourite Plant: Hydrangea
• Favourite Poem: Double, Double Toil & Trouble - William Shakespeare

VERSE DEPENDANT

• Avatar Element: Earth
• His Dark Material’s Dæmon: Sugar Glider
• Hogwarts House: Hufflepuff
• Hybrid!Verse Pairing: Persian Cat
• Mass Effect Species: Quarian - Jas’Min nar Dartmoor
• Pokémon Team: Furret, Bellossom, Pachirisu, Tangrowth, Cinccino, & Swanna

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Anne Samantha Williams

Tyson knows very little about his mother. He knows what she looks like, but not much else. She left his life when she walked out on his father, when Tyson was four years old. Almost everything Tyson knows about his mother comes from things Jethro has told him.

He discovered his mother’s art room when exploring the Delaney family manor. As a child whenever Tyson wanted to be alone, and he wasn’t in the mood to climb up into the attic, he could go into his mother’s art room. His father never went in there and for Jethro it brought up too much emotions so Tyson could always be alone there. She was a talented painter and Tyson keeps one of her paintings in his apartment.

Tyson doesn’t know what has become of his mother and doesn’t want it. There is a lingering curiousity and a need to ask why she left without bringing him or Jethro, but not much more: Tyson knows she left his father to avoid his abuse, but he’s never understood why she left them too. Jethro, on the other hand, did look into it and discovered she passed away in early 2006; he didn’t bother telling Tyson.

UNIVERAL TRUTHS

• Blood Type: A Positive
• Date of Birth: July 9th 1953 - Cancer - Year of the Snake (Water)
• Date of Death: April 5th 2006
• DnD Alignment: True Neutral
• Dominant Hand: Right
• Ethnicity: Jew, Ashkenazi / White, British
• Myers Briggs Type: ENFP-T | The Campaigner
• Orientation: Bisexual
• Religion: Jewish
• Signature:

FAVOURITE

• Favourite Animal: Flamingo
• Favourite Author: James Patterson
• Favourite Colour: Maroon
• Favourite Film: The Mask of Zorro
• Favourite Food: Lamb Henry with roasted sweet potato & parsnip
• Favourite Plant: Carnations
• Favourite Poem: Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep - Mary Elizabeth Frye

VERSE DEPENDANT

• Avatar Element: Fire
• His Dark Material’s Dæmon: Blue Jay
• Hogwarts House: Ravenclaw
• Hybrid!Verse Pairing: Marsh Harrier
• Mass Effect Species: Human
• Pokémon Team: Ampharos, Smeargle, Ludicolo, Infernape, Kricketune, & Mantyke

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Mother Figures

Tyson has two mother figures in his life, his mother and Jasmine: a maid at the family manor.

Anne walked out of his life when Tyson was only four, to escape the abuse of his father. Any memories that he has of her are so faint that Tyson doesn’t know if they’re actual memories, or events that people have told him about. When Tyson thinks of ‘mother’, he thinks of Jasmine. He even calls her ‘אִמָא’.

This isn’t a one-way street, she calls him ‘מתוקי’. When she started working at the Delaney manor, she never expected it to become her home. She was there to pay off her student loans, from studying to become a therapist*, but now? Tyson is her son by everything but blood and law.

Whenever Tyson wanted to be alone, yet find-able, he would hide in his mother’s art room in the family manor. He tried to piece together an image of who she could be based on that room, and stories from Jethro. Tyson keeps two things that he found in that room in his apartment: the painting in his bedroom and the teddy bear in his walk-in cupboard/panic room.

When Tyson’s father sent him to bed without dinner unjustly, Jasmine would leave food out on the kitchen counter for him to sneak up to the East Wing’s attic. She taught him how to calm down after a panic attack by keeping his hands behind his back. Her baking is his favourite and he loves the raspberry white chocolate cookies she makes.

Tyson’s Synesthesia says a lot about his view of a person. Tyson views Anne in bright, primary childlike colours; shades one would associate with bottles of paint in a classroom. Jasmine is viewed in homely, earthen tones that feel grounding with a delicate pink and blue woven in. He views his mother with the idealistically simple eyes of a child, but views Jasmine with the nuance of actual memories and more tangible feelings.

* Though Jasmine will often say that she abandoned therapy as a career path because Tyson needed her, it’s more complicated than that. Working at the manor - cleaning, managing, arranging events with the university, et cetera - was largely simply work, but in doing that, Jasmine realise just how stressed and unhappy she was with therapy.

She liked being a maid with extended duties, and now practically serving as the head of the Delaney family. It’s simpler work, but Jasmine enjoys it and there are people who need her involved, people that she cares about and wants to help.