Tarot Cards

The tarot card that matches Tyson - both in the sense of traditional tarot cards and their usages within the Persona universe - would be the Hanged Man.

Three cards of the major arcana could easily be drawn from the deck and justified to personify Tyson: Hierophant, Justice, and Hanged Man. So, what makes the Hanged Man the card to represent Tyson?

Portrayed as a man hanging upside-down from one leg with his other leg crossing it, forming a “4;” the Hanged Man Arcana is associated with self-sacrifice for the sake of enlightenment, the bindings that makes one free, paradoxes and hanging between heaven and earth. In Tarot readings, this card’s appearance can be seen as an advice to take the time necessary to reflect over one’s upcoming actions.

Personas of the Hanged Man Arcana are commonly Personas excelling in survivability. Hanged Man Personas are typically mythological figures that exist between two different forces, or find themselves in transition. They are also sometimes martyr figures.

Hanged Man characters are sometimes self-sacrificial, but are more often notable for being caught between two different extremes, parties or stages in life.

Our dear sweet Icarus will always be carried by themes of self-sacrifice and the idea of getting caught between two extremes, good and bad. 

Tyson has structured his life around bindings to make himself free, to avoid having control taken away from him by giving away control and keeping in constant control of himself.

Despite his best attempts to run away from the family legacy and his upper-class upbringing, Tyson will always be a scholar in his heart of hearts; and his endless curiosity will always lead Tyson straight into trouble. Any risk he takes and price he must pay is worth it in Tyson eyes to find the answers he seeks, to find the truth.

The Lawful Neutral Tyson will always be balancing the scales of two extremes. He has a confusingly big heart and will go out of his way to do good, because he genuinely wants to, but also to make up for the evil he does: to survive and out of love and loyalty to the Moriarty Mirrors.

One of his defining characteristics is that his determination to live - to survive - is (almost) as strong as Moran’s to kill, and Tyson takes all the time in the world to consider his options: a backup plan for every backup plan.

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Beyond commentary on Tyson’s personality, tarots also carries weight in Mythical!Verse and Tyson reading the cards for cons, weaving tales around those he knows to sell his story to his audience.

The following are how Tyson associate people with different arcana for storytelling and for magical purposes, depending on the verse.

0 Fool - Bùi Kimiko & Jim Moriarty (Mischief)
I Magician - Jeremy Thornton & Rosie Delaney
II Priestess -  Dōjima ‘Tae’ Taeko
III Empress - Charlie Hotchner
IV Emperor - Jethro Andrew Delaney 
V Hierophant - Professor John Delaney 
VI Lovers - Liam Edward Xavier
VII Chariot - Captain Andrew Samson
VIII Justice - Professor Reginald Arlington
IX Hermit - James Delaney & Professor Isaac Alinson
X Fortune - Anne Samantha Williams & Levi McCullum
XI Strength - Second Lieutenant Hal Malone & Sienna McCullum
XII Hanged Man - Lieutenant Tyson Delaney 
XIII Death - General William Clarkson & Jim Moriarty (Sunshine)
XIV Temperance - Greg Lestrade & Billy Ramsey
XV Devil - Irene Adler
XVI Tower - Colonel Sebastian Moran
XVII Star - Jasmine Dartmoor & George Cartwright
XVIII Moon - Dick Gannon
XIX Sun - Nathaniel Morrison & Molly Hooper
XX Judgement - Professor Richard Delaney
XXI World - Captain John Watson