Wednesday 9 January 2019

Ringtones

Like everything in Tyson’s life, his phone was well organised. There was a code for everything in his phone: resources (ammo and gun suppliers, knife makers, fabric makers, tailors, butchers, bakers, anything Tyson used) were listed as different pieces of classical music, for example, his German tailor was listed under Schäferoper, one of Wagner’s operas.
By default, Tyson’s phone displayed all manner of incriminating data, but if he enters a different password when unlocking it, his phone will enter a mode where only data that he specifically flagged as safe will appear; it was easier than attempting to tag everything that wasn’t safe.
If the person matters to Tyson and is ever likely to call, Tyson will give them a personalised ringtone. His default ringtone, for people he doesn’t know/those he hasn’t gotten around to given a specific ringtone, is the chorus of ‘Pumped Up Kicks’. Whenever Tyson is out and about, his phone is on vibrate, but whilst at home he finds the music more useful to avoid unnecessarily springing into action.
For the people that matter to Tyson and are ever likely to call, he tends to rotate through different songs for them every other month to make sure the ‘new’ audio cue gets his attention quick enough, or else he tends to tune it out subconsciously if he’s too deep in his own mind.
There are, naturally, a few exceptions to this rule. Either due to rarity of calls or by having that song cemented in his mind for a particular person and it being someone he wouldn’t dare tune out. Those constants have a tendency to be family, or the people Tyson considers to be family.
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