Jeremy Thornton

Jeremy Thornton
↳ Manipulative Scotsman, falsely protective butcher.

Jeremy runs in a butcher shop, two stores down from Tyson’s pet shop on [Old] Board Street. Tyson and Jeremy have a business deal, of sorts. Tyson purchases the bones he sells for dogs in his store from Jeremy and sends people looking to feed their animals a raw diet to Jeremy’s butcher shop, as well as picking up his own meat from Jeremy. Tyson agreed to this because Jeremy sells good quality meat and because the Scotsman offers him a place to hide when his anxiety gets the better of him.

During the come down from one of Tyson’s social anxiety induced panic attacks, Jeremy took advantage of Tyson’s openness to coax out every little piece of information about Tyson. Tyson still doesn’t know Jeremy’s reasoning for wanting that information, but it makes him very unease that the other man knows it. Mostly because the butcher keeps ‘joking’ that if he ever asked Tyson for a sexual favour, Tyson would be almost obliged to agree.

Despite the butcher knowing almost everything about Tyson, up until Tyson met Moriarty, Tyson know virtually nothing about Jeremy; all Tyson knows is that his wife is Welsh and called Sue, that he owns a female English Bulldog called Cait, that he used to work as a plumber, and that he has three children, all boys. In Tyson’s opinion the butcher is too crass and too loud.

Jeremy often comes across as protective of Tyson because, in a way, he is. A happy Tyson is a Tyson that brings customers into his store, so - with financial motivations in mind - he does as much as he can to make sure Tyson’s safe and happy. When Tyson brings anyone into his shop, he makes it clear that he’s there to look after Tyson.

His hair is mostly grey, with last vestiges of its black colour on the sides. He has dull, pale blue eyes. Jeremy’s hands are covered in little scars, nicks from knives.

Even knowing that he could easily overpower Jeremy without regrets, the butcher still sets Tyson’s teeth on edge. He fundamentally does not trust Jeremy, but Tyson has never needed to trust someone to enter business with them; especially when that means he has an excuse to keep a wary eye on them.

Jeremy is a scavenging, cowardly opportunist who cares only for himself. He would gladly sell out any of his children - Rhys (28), Adam (24), & Gavin (23) - to save himself, without remorse.

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Jeremy Thornton

UNIVERAL TRUTHS

• Blood Type: B Negative
• Date of Birth: March 24th 1959 - Aries - Pig (Earth)
• DnD Alignment: Neutral Evil
• Dominant Hand: Right
• Ethnicity: White, British
• Myers Briggs Type: ENTJ-A | The Commander
• Orientation: Bisexual
• Religion: Christian, Protestant
• Signature:

FAVOURITE

• Favourite Animal: Polar Bear
• Favourite Author: George RR Martin
• Favourite Colour: Purple
• Favourite Film: Breakfast Club
• Favourite Food: Caesar Salad
• Favourite Plant: Calla lily
• Favourite Poem: Nothing Gold Can Stay - Robert Frost

VERSE DEPENDANT

• Avatar Element: Earth
• His Dark Material’s Dæmon: Weasel
• Hogwarts House: Slytherin
• Hybrid!Verse Pairing: Meerkat
• Mass Effect Species: Human
• Pokémon Team: Farfetch’d, Murkrow, Houndour, Purugly, Bouffalant, & Patrat.

Colour Tyson’s Synesthesia Projects Onto Them:

Pup's Pet Store

Though he rarely bothers to open the shop, Tyson does own Pup’s Pet Store; named by his nephew. It’s largely a cover story to convince his brother that Tyson does have a normal life and it can help cover his activities within the web if he gains too much police attention.

His sister-in-law, Rosie, designed the business cards for the store, so that receipts or any other papers from the shop could be slotted inside. She was also the one to create the forms for Tyson’s shop and maps. Rosie has since made an updated and larger range for him, so that Tyson can make his business look legitimate under scrutiny.

As well as selling pet supplies, Tyson offers a service where he helps people track down their ideal pet from the various shelters and breeders around London, and he will occasionally offer training if he likes the person enough.

He has a …deal of sorts with Jeremy, the owner of the butcher’s shop two doors down from Tyson’s pet shop. Tyson buys his meat there and recommends it to other people, and in turn Jeremy offers him a safe place to hide whilst making unsubtle comments about favours that Tyson might owe him.

The top floor of Tyson’s pet store is largely used as a place for Tyson to make his maps, as Tyson’s apartment lacks floor space to work on them and he keeps most of his supplies at the store. That isn’t to say that Tyson has a lot of space at his store either.

As the majority of the upper floor is often covered in drying maps, Tyson has a pair of long wooden planks and four rubber bricks to walk around the room without disrupting anything; and, naturally, has trained his dogs to walk over them too. Lily and Bobby will sometimes hop onto the planks even when nothing else is on the floor.

Tyson can pivot around the maps and sometimes when he’s working on too many at once, he will move the planks out of the way to free up more floor space, but he honestly finds it fun to balance on the blanks and it helps prevent any accidents from happening.

Kitten!Verse

In Kitten!Verse, Sebastian and Tyson live in the same house as army!verse. This was done because Sebastian wants Tyson to have the illusion of choice. Sebastian does not care about the house he lives in, so long as he gets to choose the furniture. So he found a house where Tyson was comfortable, let Tyson pick it, and then redecorated and furnished it in his design.

The former Lieutenant is responsible for the army of cactus’ out on the wrap around patio and for all of his cat’s furniture, but everything else is from Sebastian. The bookcases are a combination of their tastes, however.

Tyson can leave the house whenever he wants, because Sebastian knows that he’ll always come back and usually with things for him. Tyson still struggles socially, but in this verse, he always has a mission when going outside. Even just getting groceries is easier when he’s buying for Sebastian, rather than for himself.

With Sebastian handling all the cooking, this may, in fact, be the verse where Tyson has the best diet and eats the most regularly.

Though Tyson has never run his pet store, nor ever received the nickname Pup, they get their meat from Jeremy’s butcher shop. Sebastian once overheard Jeremy ‘teasing’ Tyson about owing him sexual favours, then later - in a completely unrelated incident - lost his left index finger when his butcher’s knife slipped.

Tyson always gets discounters on the meat he picks up for Sebastian there.

The Biscuit Tin exists in this verse and Sebastian likes Tae’s baking, so when Tyson goes out in the morning to fetch a newspaper for Sebastian, he stops in to say hello to Tae and to pick up a treat for Moran’s lunch. She doesn’t know that Tyson is being abused. She bought the lie about him being a roughed up veteran with chronic pain. It helps that it’s technically true.

As Tyson has become more complacent, Sebastian’s abuse hasn’t gone away. He liked when Tyson fought back, that Tyson challenged him, so now he sometimes attacks to simply provoke a response. To force Tyson’s fight or flight instinct to show and chase him around the house.

Mandy, his grey Tabby cat, makes Tyson feel better after those attacks. So do the painkillers. He’s wavering on the edge of dependency on painkillers from chronic pain, but Tyson’s not addicted. He just needs them to get through the day due to the level of pain his body is in at almost all hours.

That said, Tyson has picked up a bad habit of mixing painkillers with alcohol when he shares a drink with Sebastian to make the other man happy.

Sebastian still published his adventures under the name ‘Zachary M. Cohen’ in this verse, but Tyson actually helped him write them in this version and provided the sketches that appear in his book. Tyson goes under his usual fake name of Anthony Hawthorn; after his Great Grandfather, coming off of his father’s then grandmother’s side of the family.