Irene, Mary, & Molly

Though Tyson’s relationship with the male parts of the Sherlock canon are more dynamic and disparate in the range they cover, Tyson has better relationships overall with the female characters.

Irene Adler

Irene Adler
↳ Known trouble, respected company.

"When [Moriarty] speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her photograph, it is always as ‘that bitch’."
- Colonel Sebastian 'Basher' Moran;
'The Hound of the D'Urbervilles' by Kim Newman.

Though Tyson isn’t as… blunt as his owners in expressing his dislike of Irene, Tyson doesn’t trust her. From personal experiences with The Women, Tyson can attest to how underhand her techniques can be when she’s after a quick escape.

Tyson respects her and her techniques immensely and - if needs be - he can enjoy her company. He enjoys Irene’s sharp sense of humour and, if she asked him to, would come assist her. However, he knows that she is an incredibly smart woman who could, and would, blindside him at any minute if she needed to; and therefore mustn’t be trusted.

Whether she is getting her kicks as a dominatrix, gentlewoman thief, or as an adventure, Tyson has a lot of respect for Irene. He’ll gripe about her latest trick or whichever employees she pulled a fast one against, but - outside of the Moriarty Mirrors - Tyson won’t hear a bad word against said against her.

What she does is damned impressive and he would much rather her attention stayed on Holmes than on the web. In many ways, Tyson views her in the same light as Lex: a wildcard to mix up the deck. The difference being that where Tyson has Lex firmly in hand to use as he sees fit, Irene is shuffled in at random and can strike at any moment.

He can never decide if Irene likes her version of the game with Holmes or if her actions are the equivalent of moving an insect out of the way with a piece of paper and a glass. Actually, he isn’t even sure which way she viewed the Moriarty Mirrors or himself, but he can’t imagine that it’s in a positive way.

Mary Morstan

Though he’s certain it must have happened, Tyson cannot remember a moment when he’s been able to have a full conversation with Mary. By no specific effort on either of their behalf, Tyson and Mary usually only cross paths to say goodbye. 

Either Tyson shows up to visit John just as Mary is setting off to go meet a friend for drinks or Mary is coming through the front door just as Tyson sets off to deal with an urgent call from the Moriarty Mirrors.

In those brief snippets of time where Tyson and Mary have gotten the opportunity to talk to one another, Tyson has enjoyed Mary’s company. She’s funny and kind, and even if their relationship is in a constant flux of on and off again, Tyson can see how much she cared about John.

He wouldn’t expect her to call him about anything, but equally Tyson wouldn’t be surprised if she happened to have his number when she wanted to call someone over to babysit Toby and the cooking turkey for an hour when she needed to run out for something on Christmas day.

That basically sums up how things work between Tyson and Mary. There are no exceptions, but when something happened neither are surprised in any way.

Molly Hooper

Molly Hooper
↳ Fellow pet, dear friend and acquired sister.

The best description for Molly and Tyson’s relationship comes from this post:

Molly and Tyson are not star-crossed lovers, not romantic companions, they are not waiting for their happy ending— with each other. They are the closest thing to brother and sister, and they like that. They like being able to talk to freely to each other and not feel the sudden tinge of infatuation. They like being able to touch and it doesn’t feel like there should be something more. They don’t want the ‘something more’. They want to stay like this forever, this way.

Of all of the Moriarty Mirrors’ pets, Molly is the one Tyson feels most comfortable with. Unlike with other pets of Jim, Tyson doesn’t need to hide their friendship. Usually work gets in the way of the two interacting, but they make sure to make some time for each other. They relax in each other’s apartments and eat take-out together, more often than not with Tyson’s head resting in Molly’s lap or Molly using Tyson’s lap as a seat. Sometimes they make an afternoon out of it, going shopping then sharing lunch.

When Molly’s upset, Tyson does everything in his power to make her laugh; usually this means holding up one of her cats and pretending the cats talking. Tyson’s there for Molly for when she needs a shoulder to cry on, when she needs someone to try out a new recipe with, & when she needs a workout buddy at the gym who does no actual working-out himself but instead sits there encouraging her.

Molly’s there for Tyson for when he’s having a wave of anxiety and needs a calm voice, when he wants to vent about ‘pain in the neck Irishmen’ summoning him a four in the morning to test a new theory, & when he admits he’s never seen the Lord of the Rings trilogy she’s there to correct this oversight. Molly is the playful, protective, ingenious little sister he never knew he wanted.

It’s very rare that they end up working the same job, but when they do the time flies.

Milkshakes

For not being all that fond of milkshakes, Tyson ends up drinking a lot of milkshakes. It’s one of the few guarantees in his fridge.

He is sick to death of artificial banana, chocolate, and strawberry, but Tyson has an ingrained compulsion to make sure he’s always getting some form of calcium; from a childhood calcium deficiency that led to weak ankles.

He’s managed to shake the tick now, but one of his OCD twitches was having to tap the top and bottom of a milk cartoon three times before pouring himself any milk for the better part of his teens and twenties.

Another factor is that Tyson knows that milkshakes tend to have a high amount of calories for how easy they are for him to consume. It means that, even on days where Tyson fails to eat more than a slice of toast, he’s not burning more calories than he intakes by drinking them instead.

That is the same reason you won’t find ‘low calorie’ versions of food in Tyson’s home at all.

Art

Though Tyson’s mother was the designated artist of the family, Tyson has a good hand for sketches.

He has a steady hand and a good eye for detail, helped along by a great memory. When Tyson doodles things, he tends to focus on a single subject with an occasional landscape that are usually done in monochrome with pencil or pen, but occasionally he’ll push into light watercolours if he likes the image enough.

When it comes to looking at art, Tyson enjoys almost all of it, but he cares about so little. It’s a passive appreciation for most pieces rather than actually enjoying them. He can appreciate the effort that has gone into them and occasionally summon the emotion its supposed to invoke, but they don’t typically leave an impression.

That said, Tyson has a real soft spot for pointillism pieces; especially the work of Théo van Rysselberghe, though he enjoys all of Rysselberghe’s work regardless of style. His favourite pieces of Rysselberghe’s is Sailboats on the River Scheldt.

He honestly loves concept art, for games he’s enjoyed playing or even seeing the original character concepts for films.

Hybrid Verse

[Hybrid!Verse] is centered around the idea of everyone being animal-human hybrids; i.e. a human with cat ear/tail. Everything else in this verse remains the same as the normal verse outside of everyone being a hybrid.

In this universe, Tyson is a Stag-Human Hybrid, specially a Roe Deer.Though Tyson is very dog-like, he’s also very deer-like. Tyson’s personality fits both, but he’d be a deer-hybrid because (unlike a dog) Tyson’s more likely to bolt than try to befriend a stranger.

In this UA his nickname is still ‘Pup’, but here it’s more teasing; because people who know him are surprised that he’s not a dog-hybrid, even though a deer is very suiting to him.

Tyson’s antlers shed yearly; he’s okay with them being touched, aside from when they’re newly regrowing and more sensitive. However, throwing hoops onto his antlers to score points will result in being maimed with those antlers.He’s not fussed about his ears being touched, but he doesn’t like his tail being touched; ever. Everything else about Tyson is human.

Animal Pairings within Hybrid!Verse:

I should preface this by saying that a person’s view of different animals doesn’t change the type of hybrid they are - i.e.: if someone dislikes cats, they can still be a cat!hybrid if they are catlike themselves -, that though coming from a family of dog!hybrids makes one more likely to be a dog!hybrid it doesn’t guarantee it, & that different people have different levels of physical traits from their animal-hybrid: Hybrid!Tyson, for example, has the tail, antlers, and ears of a Roe Deer, but not the eyes or colouration. [x]

• Anne Samantha Williams - Marsh Harrier
• Billy Ramsey - Mouflon
• Bùi Kimiko - Mugger Crocodile
• Charlie Hotchner - Macaw
• Dick Gannon - Water Buffalo
• Dōjima Taeko - Horse
• George Cartwright - Fox Squirrel 
• Hal Malone - Beagle
• Isaac Alinson - Castlemilk Moorit
• James Delaney - Bunny
• Jasmine Dartmoor - Persian Cat
• Jeremy Thornton - Meerkat
• Jethro Andrew Delaney - Eurasian Brown Bear
• John Delaney - Gemsbok
• Levi McCullum - Sparrow
• Lex - Leopard Gecko
• Nate Morrison - Fox
• Reginald Arlington - Jaguar
• Richard Delaney - European Red Deer
• Rosie Delaney - Timber Wolf
• Sebastian Moran/The Colonel - Siberian Tiger
• Sienna McCullum - Siamese Cat
• Tyson Delaney - Roe Deer 

Beyblades

Though Tyson doesn’t much care for holidays, he will occasionally join his family for Chanukah.

With both Jethro and Tyson being largely non-observant in their Judaism, it was hardly ever going to be an orthodox celebration. The most noticeable change is that Beyblades are sharing a space with the dreidel.

Though James is interested in his Jewishness and their traditions, it was obvious to every adult in the room that he had no interest in playing with the dreidel. Knowing that his nephew watched and enjoyed the anime, Tyson excused himself to go walk the dogs and returned with a group of Beyblades from the local newsagents.

A spinning top is a spinning top, at the end of the day. The game is different and the overtly Jewish symbolism is gone, but that didn’t matter to Tyson’s family. It was a game they could play that kept the spirit of the holiday.

Their menorah is always traditionally Jewish as is their food and the trip to Synagogue. The dreidel stays beside the menorah and the Beyblades are brought out of their box to play with, a little tradition just for them. Something to bring them together.

When Tyson went out during Chanukah 2012, he originally came back with four Beyblades from the (at the time) current series/toy line, Metal Fury: Cosmic Pegasus F:D for James, Fang Leone 130W2D for himself, Blitz Striker 100SF for Rosie, & Meteo L-Drago LW105LF for Yithrô.

Since then, one Beyblade is added to the box every year: Bandit Genbu F230TB is never used and is committed to the memory of John Delaney, Rock Orso D125B became Jasmine’s, Cyber Aquario 105RF became Charlie’s, Twisted Tempo 145WD, & Driger MS was the latest to be added in 2017.

Unit

Tyson works better as part of a team, rather than as part of a group.

He doesn’t have the same level of focus on a patrol with another soldier, both with the task of completing that patrol whilst watching for enemies, compared to going off as a team with Sebastian Moran, as sniper and spotter both with separate but complementary roles.

That doesn’t mean that Tyson can’t be very effective when taking part in combined, singular efforts, but he does much better when each person is a cog in a bigger mechanism.

It helps him focus on his own task without worrying about carrying the weight of someone else and gives him better perspective on the strengths of the employees he’s working with. It’s easier to spot the weak link and fix the issue before it becomes a problem when there is a link to point at, rather than one action spread across several people.

When people are given an individual goal as part of a team effort, Tyson finds it much easier to support another employee/pet to overcome their difficulties and understand where attention needs to be given. He knows that people are disposable within the web, but Tyson wants to give people the best possible chance of remaining useless; remaining alive.

The Soldier

Tyson has the beginnings of stress-induced split-personality disorder. *

The Soldier is a shield for Tyson, it protects his mental state.

As mentioned in his description:

Tyson can avoid stuttering completely and be completely in front of his actions, but only in short stints. After his time with The Colonel Tyson had been damaged physiologically, mentally, as well as physically. He was still the solider he once had been, but only in times of need. In the heat of battle or when medical care was needed The Solider comes out, as strong as he’d been in Afghanistan, but as soon as that need was taken care of he slips away, using the thousands of broken shards of submissiveness Tyson has become as a shield to hide behind.

Tyson has been too messed up to maintain that nature indefinitely. When there was need he could be in control, but afterwards he hid away again. It exhausted Tyson to take on this soldier like nature, but when in need his instincts took over and dropped his shield. That strength was always there and occasionally bleed across when Tyson felt strong enough about a topic, but otherwise it hid behind Tyson’s submissiveness for when it was needed.

Tyson isn’t that aware of this, nor does he know that it is the beginnings of stress-induced split-personality disorder. He knows that when threatened he would be stronger, more like he had been in the army, and that it felt like it wasn’t him doing the actions he had, but he doesn’t know that isn’t just his imagination.

The Soldier is purely instinctual survival, a defence Tyson’s brain has created to protect him from the trauma of his past.

A fragile shield that Tyson can’t choose to wield or lower; often only broken by direct pain that wasn’t accompanied by adrenaline, or after the adrenaline - or conflict - had long since faded. Tyson isn’t even aware of The Soldier, beyond a sudden surge of inner strength and acting on instinct. He has no choice, it’s an instinctual reaction. 

The Soldier is aware of a strong desire to protect Tyson, but doesn’t recognise himself as being separate from Tyson. Though Tyson could defend himself the majority of the time, situations that evoked an unnervingly deep emotional response are more likely to trigger his stress-induced split-personality-disorder than purely physical threats that Tyson has endless plans to survive.

As such, they are rare and The Soldier hadn’t devolved his own full personality separate from Tyson, he was only a piece from Tyson. He existed to protect. The Soldier is very mission orientated, needing a focal point even more than Tyson goes to even exist.

The Soldier doesn’t stutter and he doesn’t bother suppressing Tyson’s Synesthesia. He isn’t bound as tightly to Tyson’s OCD ticks, and none of his nervous twitches appear, but some of his older most ingrained OCD habits happen as simple muscle memory from endless repetition.

* Stress-induced split-personality disorder isn’t an exact medical term, but extracting The Soldier from Tyson’s Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, (Generalised & Social) Anxiety, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and other potentially un-diagnosed conditions (insomnia, depression, and eating disorders that may simply be symptoms from other conditions) to understand whether he has Dissociative Identity Disorder or Borderline Personality Disorder is tricky when Tyson refuses to even get treatment for the mental disabilities he’s confirmed to have.

The exceptions would be Chicago!Verse, Cat!Verse, and Veteran AU where Tyson is seeing a therapist with varying frequency and willingness. Chicago!Verse is a resigned allowance, Cat!Verse it’s slowly being broached by Jasmine who is qualified as a therapist to see if he could handle therapy yet, and Veteran AU where Tyson’s counting the days until his obligation to see the army’s veteran therapist ends.

For most circumstances, The Soldier comes from the beginnings of stress-induced split-personality disorder. However, to provide a distinction to those verses where Tyson is willing or unwilling seeing a therapist, The Soldier instead comes from Borderline Split Personality Disorder.

The verses where The Soldier plays a stronger role/has a slightly different stresser are Bioshock AU, MassEffect!Verse, and Earth!Verse; respectively, a side-effect of the Blind-Faith plasmid, potentially caused by the surgery on Tyson’s L2 implant, and the side of Tyson with complete control over his mutation.

The Soldier does not exist in the following verses: Army!Verse, Hogwarts AU, and all three Orphan AUs: Child!Verse, Child!Verse2, & Teen!Verse.

Bioshock AU

Within Bioshock AU, Tyson is given the nickname/trigger word Pup as part of project Blind-Faith; funded by a man claiming to be called Jim Moriarty.

Where Tyson is spliced with Telekinesis, Electro Bolt 2, Peeping Tom, & Blind-Faith, The Colonel is spliced with Old Man Winter, Gravity Well, & Incinerate! With the exception of Blind-Faith, Tyson and The Colonel were the ones to inject each other with those plasmids to help the First Bangalore Pioneers schemes.

Additionally, in his work for Moriarty, Tyson has been given the Gene Tonics Natural Camouflage and Brain Boost to make him more useful in the time remaining before he is thrown away as an abandoned test. He’s a useful guinea pig for the time being.

Tyson lives in a shoe box apartment in Pauper’s Drop. After completing his work for Moriarty, Tyson limps home to lick his wounds in squalor before being called out again to complete his dirty work. He’s an old hand at hacking the various machines around Rapture to pool together resources and enough money for food.

He hates living in Rapture. He never even wanted to come to Rapture. Tyson was brought in with a wave of works to take care of Rapture’s bountiful troubles, specifically to work with the Atlantic Express, and later found himself stuck at the bottom of the ocean, and not long after without a job as he was replaced by a wealthier engineer who bought out Tyson’s position.

Tyson would give anything to go back to the surface. He feels cheated and alone, and he’ll throw himself at anyone who offers the tiniest piece of kindness. The Soldier, on the other hand, is completely loyal to Moriarty’s cause; unlike the normal Soldier, he would absolutely sabotage Tyson’s attempts at freedom.

Gift Boxes

Tyson doesn’t generally care about celebrating any holidays, least of all Christmas. Even when it comes to Jewish holidays, unless joining Jethro and his family in their celebrations, Tyson only ever pays attention to Passover.

When giving gifts, regardless of occasion, Tyson makes personalised gift boxes. As mentioned in this submission:

Growing up, Tyson had never struggled for money. He had every luxury at his fingertips. Throwing money at gifts felt empty when he didn’t work to earn that money. It was empty. In making those personalised boxes, in carefully designing and toiling to craft them, Tyson earnt the right to give something from his heart. 

Here are the gift boxes Tyson has designed that have been mentioned already. There are several which have been designed for various characters/version of characters, but the surprise shall remain until Tyson supplies them in threads/submissions.

• Charlie Hotchner
  A completely silver box with a gyroscopic inside with green lining that spins upside down when opened to keep the content safe when she’s fidgeting with the box.
• Dick Gannon
  Delicate waves of silver just above the bottom edge of the top of the box a deep blue lining inside.
• James Delaney
  Polka dots of various metals and sizes around the box with a yellow lining inside.
• Jasmine Dartmoor
  Series of silver butterflies engraved into the container, a twist lock in the shape of a butterfly, with a white lining inside.
• Jethro Andrew Delaney 
  Checker-board pattern in dull brass and shiny bronze on the container with a red lining inside.
• Rosie Delaney
  Intricate silver vines wrapping around the box with an indigo lining inside.
• Sebastian Moran A simple bronze box with the Hindi for I love you (मैं तुम से प्यार करता हूँ) in silver below the latch, with an emerald lining.

• @blackvclvct || x x
  A few millimetres away from the middle, where both sides met at the opening, two thin lines ran parallel on both sides to reveal the stainless silver beneath the bronze coating. Libra’s scales (♎) were etched above the latch into the stainless silver. In place of Ganymede, Jupiter’s symbol (♃) to the left and Mercury’s symbol (☿) was used as an equal substitute for Hermes and completed the triangle: to the right of the latch.
• @captainspangly || x
  The box was almost entirely coated with brass, but sun streaks of bronze and copper burst out from the latch to encompass the small container. The latch itself was a stainless steel version of Steve’s shield the size of a five pence piece that opened the box when turned to the left. Inside the box was lined with bright yellow felt.

Given how much importance Tyson puts on earning the right to give gifts, he is surprisingly willing to pour money into random gifts: be it something he saw in a shop in passing or bringing along food treats. His thought processes is ‘Hey, I saw a thing and thought of you’ and ‘since I’m rich I bought it for you whilst I saw there’ is more of an afterthought.

It’s a habit that compounds his need to make the gift boxes, to make giving larger gifts or gifts for special occasions actually mean something, but Tyson likes giving people surprises and little treats whenever he sees something he thinks they might enjoy.

Map Making

Tyson makes a variety of different maps for the web and on commission.

Though Tyson makes his maps and treats any that aren’t for employees of the web as more like hobbies than anything else, he takes great pride in making his maps the best possible quality that he can. Maps are his life. He literally sees them with his form of Synesthesia and it informs much of his thinking/organising process.

He wants to be able to share them. To pour his time and love into those maps and for them to be appreciated in the same way that Tyson appreciates all maps.

Of course, he knows how to make incredibly accurate maps, but Tyson also makes sure to spare no expense in making sure that he uses the best quality paper, fabrics, and inks. Even though he doesn’t necessarily need to, Tyson does make a small profit on his maps to justify the time spent making them.

As much as he loves topographical maps, Tyson prefers to make city maps. Both can be incredibly detailed and take a long time to complete, but the contour lines of topographical maps are particularly involved; especially on delicate fabric maps where Tyson is having to poke a lot of the thinner lines into the fabric with an ink-dipped needle.

Tyson stores his map making materials under his bed at his pet store, often using the upper floor as an extended drying rack. Sometimes simple cheap options offer the best solutions. Within the box of expensive inks, some of which have to be specially ordered weeks in advance, Tyson has a cheap tub of lube picked up at a nearby garage whilst buying a sandwich for lunch.

He uses that lube on his needles to make sure that the part not covered in ink cannot snag the delicate fabric or disrupt the drying ink and remove hours of work in seconds. Tyson had tried a few other solutions before that, but they would all discolour the paler inks too much when drying or cause the ink to spread too far; leaving fuzzy edges where he had spent so long crafting clean lines.