Tyson is intrinsically tied to the Moriarty Mirrors and The Colonel. The different ways Tyson fears and loves them have been compared before, so let’s compare some of the ways in which all four of them are similar and different.
One of the Moriarty Mirrors goes by the nickname/code name Sunshine and the other CCT/Mischief, depending on if he’s pre or post-Reichenbach. Where Tyson is their willing Pup, he was forced into being Sebastian’s Kitten. Sebastian was given the monikers of Basher and The Colonel, but he chose Tiger.
An obvious place to begin is that they are all incredibly smart people and all cliché enough to love playing chess. For all brutishness and mayhem, they are all academics to a greater or lesser extent. Always searching for a challenge, something to push the boundaries of what they know or can do.
They’re all educated to a university level and all four of them know Latin. Speak of which; though they are all attracted to men and the degree to which they’ll accept women into their beds varies, the general consensus is ‘when necessary’.
In a more serious discussion of language, all of them have English and Latin in common. Whilst Tyson can only read Hindi, Sebastian mastered it during their travels. He’s picked up a word or two, but largely any Gaelic from the Moriarty Mirrors is lost on Tyson. Not on Moran, however.
Tyson’s Russian is better than Moran’s, but Sebastian’s understanding of French and Spanish is far superior. Though Hebrew and the limited Yiddish Tyson knows is meaningless to Moran, between them the Moriarty Mirrors are competent in both.
To Tyson, loyalty is the most important thing: his greatest strength and his biggest weakness. Moran demands loyalty, instantly and unwavering. With the Moriarty Mirrors, loyalty is expected yet earnt; betrayal is not accepted, but questioning loyal doesn’t matter, so long as the correct decision is made in the end.
Tyson knows what Sebastian and Mischief’s whiskey-soaked kisses taste like, but the reverse is only true for Sebastian. He has, however, ended up shotgunning cigarettes with all three. Tyson has had all three of their blood on him, at separate times, and they have all had his blood on them: having spilt it themselves and after someone else injured him.
They share old-fashioned tastes - in suits, in whiskey, et cetera - but how far they look into the future varies wildly. Tyson is a paranoid little jackrabbit with backup plans for every backup plan, desperately trying to plan around the Moriarty Mirrors ever-changing whims and the natural ebb & flow of the web.
Moran reminisces within his own history and loves history in general, but he lives for the moment rather than the future. Where Sunshine has his focus more on the past, favouring his antiques, Mischief is more commonly looking forward to new inventions, new prizes; but both have grand plans for the future and value past victories.