Meg

Meg is the welsh boarder collie that Tyson has in army!verse and Veteran AU.

He adopted Meg from a rescue center, when he is away on service Jethro looks after Meg.

Companions

Though Tyson often finds himself feeling lonely when only with his dogs, he finds it easier to be with them than with other humans.

Dogs are easier for him because he doesn't have to talk. Rather than stuttering or stumbling over his words he can just click his fingers. He has trained his dogs to respond to visual cues rather than vocal cues because it is easier for him that way.

He only uses vocal cues when teaching a new trick to the dogs.

Jack

This is Jack:

He's one of Tyson's dogs. He is a guard dog entrusted with guarding the family manor.

Tyson would have preferred to talk Jack to London with him, but Jack is his best guard dog so he left him in Jasmine's care. Jack is six years old, two years older than Lily (four) who, in turn, is three and a half years older than Bobby (at this point in time.)

Where to touch Tyson to panic/calm him

Tyson's food preferences

Tyson's preference in food is plain. He tends to eat the same food over and over again, with the occasional switch the something with more flavour. His overall favourite food is rice.

The first item is what he usually eats, and the second item is what he may have instead:

• Cherrios, Chocolate Shreddies
• Plain Rice, Golden Rice 
• Vanilla Ice-Cream, White Chocolate Magnum 
• Tuna, Cod
• Lemonade, Pepsi
• Water, Orange squash
• Cheddar cheese, Wensleydale cheese
• BLT, Tuna Sandwich 
• Apple juice, Orange juice
• Monge tu, Sweet Corn
• Carrots, peas
• Raspberries, blueberries
• Strawberries, blackberries
• Apples, Pears
• Oranges, Bananas 
• Lasagna, BBQ ribs
• Double cheese pizza, Hawaiian pizza
• Japaneses take out, India take out
• Mushroom soup, Tomato Soup.
• Edinburgh rock, Sherbet lemons 
• Sour coke bottles [sweets], gummi bears
• Cheese and Onion, Salt and Vinegar crisps
• Jasmine and Pomegranate tea, Coffee
• Peppermint and Nettle Tea, Earl Grey Tea
• Hazelnuts, Walnuts

Foods/Drinks that he generally dislikes:

• Marmalade
• Cherries
• Peppers
• Melons
• Peaches
• Waffles
• Liquorice
• Anything spicy
• Anything with alcohol in it
• Smoked meats, other than fish

Loyalty

One of the things that makes Sebastian such a threat to Tyson is that Tyson will still do anything for him, despite all the abuse he suffered by the Colonel’s hand.

Tyson doesn’t trust easily, for obvious reasons, but once you have his trust he’ll do anything for you without a seconds thought. Jim, both Sunshine and CCT, are his priority, but as he puts it:

“My loyalty lies with the Jims. They are everything to me and have me heart, mind, and soul, but that doesn’t mean I can’t be loyal to others. I am loyal to my dogs, my brother, and those I care about. So long as they don’t wish harm upon my owners I will serve them willingly.”

This makes Sebastian so much more dangerous, because whilst Tyson’s loyalty to him had faded it still remains and, most likely, always will. If Sebastian is hurt Tyson will look after him despite knowing that the second he is better he will hurt him. This is exactly the same for anyone Tyson is loyal to [Raven, Jo AU, Castor, Eir, Gabriel] which is why it takes a while for Tyson to become loyal to people; he is afraid to because he knows that if he comes loyal to someone then he’ll always be loyal to them which puts him in a weaker position. 

If Sebastian whistles then Tyson will come running.

PH.Ds

Tyson left university with two Ph.Ds in Mathematics - one in applied mathematics, the other in theoretical - and another Ph.D in Military History

Bobby can see ghosts

Bobby can see ghosts and is able to seek them out. He will go out of his way to find ghosts, even taking Tyson miles off course.

Why do cats dislike Tyson?

Tyson is, almost, always around his dogs which means that any cat he interacts with smell dog on him. This makes a lot of cats weary of him.

However, Tyson adores cats (almost) as much as dogs and he's good at reading their body language. He can usually win them over if he's given enough time.

The age difference between Tyson and his face claim Damien Molony.

Tyson is, at the point in time this was written, thirty one. Damien Molony is only twenty eight.

This, admittedly slight, age gap is to make Tyson seem younger. To show how he has suppressed information. His brain has created a state of denial to protect him from the trauma he has endured which makes him seem younger, more innocent and naïve.

The age gap is three years, for a good reason: Tyson was with Sebastian for three years which means he had suppressed, almost, all of those three years making him seem three years younger than he actually is. 

Tyson's apartment incredibly difficult to navigate - an explanation of why.

Here is a picture of Tyson's apartment:



The living room especially is cramped with lots of potential to trip over, even though Tyson keeps the rooms tidy and floor as clear as possible, part of his low level OCD. The small corridor that leads from the front door into the living room is made more difficult to move through because that is where Tyson stores his bike, meaning that should one wish to enter the living room they'd have to sidestep a mountain bike. This isn't just because I failed to scale my sketch correctly. It is done because of how Tyson moves.

Tyson, when at home, moves around on his tiptoes. In the words of Sebastian Moran (or Jethro, depending on the verse / if he's interacting with a different Sebastian), "the kid prances around like a pixie." He is trained in classical dance and ballroom dancing. When he moves around the room he really does move like a pixie. It's as though his feet never touch the floor. He goes up on the pads of his feet and, essentially dances around the room, through a series of pivots, though always accommodating for where his dogs are in the room. He only ever does this in company if he is comfortable with the other person, otherwise he'll walk with his feet flat - as he does when in public. It is one of the many ways Tyson tried to control his life, to make it more organised. When his is comfortable he is up which means he has to concentrate to walk as most people would, it helps him stay focused and give him a sense of control in the scenerio.

He knows the layout of his apartment like the back of his hand so can navigate it easily despite having to side step around most of the apartment; and normally having awful balance. For anyone else though it is a death trap made four times as hard by having two Dalmatians wondering around it. Lily and Bobby also find getting relatively easy, because they are dogs.

The neck line

After an incident in Afghanistan, a mission gone wrong, Tyson doesn't wear anything with too tight of a collar.
The clothes that he wears are either very loose and bellow his collar bones [t-shirts and polos] or stop on the collar bone and are tight enough that they can't slip any higher [basically anything else other than dress shirts and formal dress shirts*].
When he wears a dress shirt he doesn't do up the top button and lets the tie or bow tie [or any other type of fabric worn around the neck] keep the collar closed. When he wears a formal dress shirt he'll close the top button but keep the neck wear loose to avoid triggering any flash backs. 

*Having come from an upper class family Tyson considers anything worn on the torso that isn't a vest or item of clothing worn over a shirt [blazer, jacket, coat, et cetera] to be a dress shirt. What most people would normally call a dress shirt Tyson calls a formal dress shirt.

Tyson's eyes

Tyson’s eyes are brown (Hazel). In this particular picture of Damien Molony his eyes are green but if you look at others his eyes are clearly brown. This is very common for people with hazel eyes, so I will always say that Tyson’s eyes are brown but on occasion they may have a green hue to them.


Tyson’s brother’s, Jethro Andrew Delaney, eyes are usually green but occasionally become green, like their mother’s, Anne. Whereas Tyson takes after their father, John, and his eyes are usually brown and only occasionally green. Due to the resemblance to his father’s Tyson has never liked his eyes, except for when they become green; which happens more in the summer when the brighter light brings out the green pigment better than it does during the other seasons.

When Tyson served in Turkmenistan and Afghanistan, 2001-2006 and 2006-2008, the brighter light in the Middle East meant that Tyson’s eyes were green more often than they are now that he is in Britain. This also applies to the time Tyson spent running away from the army both with and without Sebastian, 2008-2011.

This topic on the Damien Molony forum: link.

Christmas or therefore lack of.

Head Canon:

Tyson doesn’t celebrate christmas. Having grown up in a Jewish household he didn’t as a child and without a family he sees no need to now.

Unless he knows that someone definitely does celebrate the holiday Tyson doesn’t both getting them a gift or a card as he knows that most people would then feel obligated to get him something, and he doesn’t want anything*.

The only difference is that he is more charitable, though only because it is nearly impossible to turn a corner without finding a donation box set up specifically for christmas and Tyson will always give if he has money on him at the time. 

*That statement isn’t entirely true. There are items that he does want but he’s has never been in a position where he has been lacking money. With access to the family fortune Tyson doesn’t need to wait till Christmas to get something he wants.

Even then he doesn’t buy all that much. He limits himself to buying one book a month and, unless it was a digital book, at the end of the month the book will either be placed in the library at the family manor or given to a charity shop. 

Tyson's Education

The secondary school Tyson attended was Cambridge International School, a private school. He attended until he was fifteen when his father had him moved to Cambridge University, four years early.

His father was able to do this because he’d held a position at Cambridge University as a Professor of Mathematics for over twenty years.

At Cambridge Tyson studied mathematics and military history. His anti-war father disagreed with his choice of minor but agreed to let him continue it rather than taking political studies. Tyson was also able to study law at Cambridge for half a semester when he finished mathematics early. 

Word related head canons

Burn

Since a young age Tyson had been scared of fire.

Whilst his brother would watch the flames in the fire place and be transfixed by how they moved, Tyson would stare at the flame to make sure they weren’t touching anything flammable. As if looking away from the flames would mean that the house would suddenly turn to ash as the fire burned it down.

Quiet

From toddler to early teen Tyson was quiet, father was working.

For the rest of his teens Tyson was quiet, father was working.

Twenty to twenty seven Tyson was quiet, there was work to be done.

Traveling to India Tyson was silent, Sebastian was talking.

Fleeing back home Tyson was silent, the police were coming.

Hiding from the Colonel Tyson was silent, everyone was coming.

Now safe and sound with darling dearest Tyson was resounding, the consulting criminal was calling.

Tyson's gadgets.

Tyson buys gadgets he thinks will do a good enough job for his purposes then hacks into them and edits the softwear / hard wear to fit his needs. Using the technology in his owner's compound Tyson learnt how to edit his devices to fit his needs.

Due to the family's wealth money isn't an issue but he prefers not to buy anything overly expensive as most of the time he can find a relativity cheap gadget to get what he wants done; and its less likely to get stolen. Tyson's three main gadgets are his phone, tablet, and laptop.

Laptop

Tyson mainly used his laptop to write. It doesn't show very well when he speaks but Tyson is very literate and enjoys writing stories.  The top or back laptop is "decorated" with stickers ranging from the stickers that come on apples to promotional 'Pedigree' stickers that came with the dogs treats. His nephew has also contributed several stickers to it.

He uses the laptop's keyboard - though he's replaced alternate keys to make a black (keys with white text) and white (keys with black text) checkerboard board, similar to this but with normal laptop keys not Mac keys  -  but has a separate wireless mouse.

Phone

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 incrimitaing 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.

Tablet

For Tyson, his tablet is purely person. His laptop will be used for work, but his tablet is just for entertainment purposes: for reading digital books, listening to music, and watching films. He uses the tablet for these things rather than his laptop because it is more portable than the laptop and needs charging less often.

Nervous ticks.

There are three main types of twitches that Tyson has; twitching the first two fingers of his left hand, flexing his right hand, and toying with his dog tags.

He does different one depending on how nervous he is at the time. Twitching the first two fingers of his left hand happens when he is nervous about anything as a general that is what he'll do, the other two happen when his nervousness is more specific.

If he feels threatened when he'll flex his right hand. It is fairly common in soldiers and is often a reflex left over from adjusting ones grip on a gun.

If he doesn't know what to say then he'll toy with his dog tags, either by rolling them through his fingers or straightening them out, depending on how nervous he is.

The Delaney Family Heritage

Source(s):

• http://www.houseofnames.com/delaney-family-crest
• http://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?view=2&surname=delaney

Tyson's bike

Model:   Trek 3900
Colour: Dark Olive

Since having a car in London is often expensive when living inside the congestion zone Tyson gets around in cabs, bus, the underground, on foot, and on his bike. Whilst having a light weight street bike would be more practical Tyson's bike is a mountain bike because the better suspension doesn't jolt his ribs as much meaning they are less likely to be damaged whist riding around.

When at the pet store Tyson keeps his bike in the backroom, lent against the wall so he can get under the stairs and up the stairs with ease. When at home he keeps his bike in the hallway where he has to side step it to get in and out which makes his already difficult to navigate home a death trap that is impossible to get in and out of, this had lead to Bobby jumping out of the window rather than using the door. Tyson has considered joining him in this.

Equipment:

• Lights

Tyson is often up in the early hours of the morning and late at night, when there are fewer people around, so he needed to fix lights on his bike. Not only a light so that he could see where he was going but also ones so that cars could see him.

• Mudguard

There is a mudguard for the back wheel but not the front wheel as Tyson rides in the city, only.

• Stand

Tyson fitted a stand to the bike after finding that just leaning the bike against the wall meant if fell over, constantly and that this would also happen at stores.

• Lock

He lives in London, self explanatory.