Pup and puppies

As Tyson is a stupidly loyal thing with floppy brown hair and bright eyes, it’s not all that surprising that Tyson has a talent for talking down other dogs who lash out in fear.

He’s always had a talent for handling dogs, but his experiences since his army days have given Tyson a new understanding of why the lashing out happens and how to better avoid that reaction, to talk a dog down from that fear.

His two most notible failures in that regard, Razor biting his right wrist and Lily biting his left shoulder, came from dogs lashing outde to heatstroke rather than fear.

Mom Friend

Though Tyson tends to lash out in fear, he definitely has a ‘mom friend’ override with his fears.

Any amount of social anxiety about being in a restaurant and ordering food is thrown out of the window the moment someone else is nervous about doing something: making an order, fetching more ketchup, et cetera.

It doesn’t matter how afraid he is of The Colonel, Tyson will calmly distract him to make sure that no one else gets caught in the crossfire or patiently talk a stranger through their escape route to get them to safety. 

Once Tyson is given a task, he has laser focus. It’s the same reaction that allows Tyson to go unflinchingly through London’s streets when he’s on a mission for the web. He has a task that is bigger than himself to focus on. More important than his zero percent self-worth.