Over the years, Tyson had heard the Moriarty Mirrors compared to many different animals.
Crow/Raven
Every now and again, and constantly in Redemption!Verse, Tyson keeps a crow plush in his bag as a good luck charm because it reminds him of the Moriarty Mirrors.
He understands the comparison and at times enjoys it. They’re smart birds and he certainly does enjoy seeing them in black, but Tyson cannot take hearing another ‘sly’ reference to the Raven poem directed at them.
Fox
An apt comparison in Tyson’s mind. One that he hears most often from the Moriarty Mirrors themselves or those within the web, rather than those he meets on business for the web.
If he hears the comparison to a fox outside of the web, it’s usually in more vague terms that Tyson has to intuit from: sly, Wiley, et cetera.
Magpie
The Magpie is the comparison that Tyson agrees with the most. It’s the symbol they always use on their wax seals, to which Tyson answers with a compass.
Though the Moriarty Mirrors may deny this, Tyson can say with certainty that he’s seen them acting like magpies before. Mischief with new tech and trinkets, and Sunshine with antiquities and trinkets too. Not that Tyson is any better, always snagging shiny objects from passing pockets that he thinks might interest them.
Snake
His shoulders are rounded from much study, and his face protrudes forward, and is for ever slowly oscillating from side to side in a curiously reptilian fashion.
Tyson is fortunate enough to have avoided having their fangs directed at him, but he has seen the consequences of their venom plenty of times.
It’s a comparison that Tyson agrees with, but one that he prefers not to think about.
Spider
Their criminal empire is called the web.