Arlington & Alinson

Professor Arlington and Alinson are the people who call Tyson in to guest lecture at Cambridge University.

Professor Arlington is one of the professors in the mathematics department. He helped teach Tyson when he attended the university and, prior to that, knew Tyson through his father, when he visited the Delaney Family Manor for one of the late John Delaney’s garden parties. Towards the end of those gatherings when Tyson’s social anxieties were flaring up, Professor Arlington used to distract Tyson by playing a game of chess against him. Now every time Tyson comes to Cambridge to guest lecture, it has become a tradition that the pair play at least one game of chess against each other.

Professor Arlington is a skinny, tall man who’s hair is grey-white and balding on top. His back and shoulders are usually hunched, after years bent over a desk, but his kind smile fills up his entire face. Ink from fountain pens almost always covers his pale hands. Years of laughter crinkle around brown eyes, behind his half moon spectacles; which Tyson suspects may still be the same pair he wore back when Tyson attended Cambridge

Until they were introduced by Tyson’s former military-history professor after one of Tyson’s guest lectures, Professor Alinson and Tyson had never met. Professor Alinson is head of the economics department. They struck up a strong rapport over a shared love of numbers and dogs. When visiting Cambridge, either to guest lecture or to visit Jasmine, Tyson makes sure to share a coffee with the quick-witted Professor and his overly affectionate brown poodle.

Professor Alinson is a Hispanic man with a thick, heavy Arizona accent. He keeps his head shaved, but has a goatee throughout most of the year, letting it grow out into a short, curly brown beard during the winter months. He is a large man with a laugh that fills any lecture hall. His left hand was amputate following a childhood accident. It’s not uncommon to find the Professor writing at his desk, with his removed prosthetic working as a paperweight.

Alinson’s poodle is called Riker, after the Star Trek character, and Arlington keeps Koi fish in his garden. Riker is rather determined to catch one of Arlington’s Koi fish, but finds himself thwarted by the fact that he’s terrified of the water jet in the middle of the pond and thus cannot go anywhere near when it’s running.

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Professor Reginald Arlington

UNIVERAL TRUTHS

• Blood Type: O Positive
• Date of Birth: August 17th 1945 - Leo - Rooster (Wood)
• DnD Alignment: Neutral Good
• Dominant Hand: Right
• Ethnicity: White, British
• Myers Briggs Type: INFJ-A | The Advocate
• Orientation: Straight
• Religion: Atheist
• Signature:

FAVOURITE

• Favourite Animal: Cheetah
• Favourite Author: J.R.R.Tolken
• Favourite Colour: Red
• Favourite Film: Pride & Prejudice (2005)
• Favourite Food: Scones with clotted cream and cherry jam
• Favourite Plant: Dragon Blood Tree
• Favourite Poem: Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night – Dylan Thomas

VERSE DEPENDANT

• Avatar Element: Water
• His Dark Material’s Dæmon: Golden Eagle
• Hogwarts House: Hufflepuff
• Hybrid!Verse Pairing: Jaguar
• Mass Effect Species: Human Biotic L2
• Pokémon Team: Alakazam, Sunflora, Beautifly, Delcatty, Piplup, & Comfey

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Professor Isaac Alinson

UNIVERAL TRUTHS

• Blood Type: B Negative
• Date of Birth: May 27th 1978 - Gemini – Horse (Earth)
• DnD Alignment: Lawful Good
• Dominant Hand: Right
• Ethnicity: Hispanic, American
• Myers Briggs Type: INTJ-A | The Architect
• Orientation: Gay
• Religion: Christian, Protestant
• Signature:

FAVOURITE

• Favourite Animal: Sea Horse
• Favourite Author: Lee Child
• Favourite Colour: Blue
• Favourite Film: Chicago
• Favourite Food: Dark chocolate coated Brazil nuts
• Favourite Plant: Magic Dogwood
• Favourite Poem: Hope Is The Thing With Feathers - Emily Dickinson

VERSE DEPENDANT

• Avatar Element: Earth
• His Dark Material’s Dæmon: Cheetah
• Hogwarts House: Ravenclaw
• Hybrid!Verse Pairing: Castlemilk Moorit
• Mass Effect Species: Turian
• Pokémon Team: Magnemite, Bronzong, Porygon-Z, Whimscott, Furfrou, & Heliolisk

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Secret DC SU

Though it remains unlisted due to too much overlap with Tyson’s various SciFi!Verses and a lack of a secondary Earth!Verse (Marvel AU) to balance it out, there is an unofficial sub-verse of Tyson’s DC UA in which Tyson is a member of one of the Lantern Corps: The Indigo Tribe.

“Tor lorek san, bor nakka mur,
Natromo faan tornek wot ur.
Ter Lantern ker lo Abin Sur,
Taan lek lek nok–Formorrow Sur!”

Of all the things that Tyson has done to protect the Moriarty Mirrors, volunteering to wear a parasitic ring in their place is one of the more reckless decisions.

However, Tyson did choose to wear the ring without hesitation - a bargain stuck to avoid the ring being forced upon one of the Moriarty Mirrors - and as such, he can wield the Indigo Tribe’s ring of compassion without losing himself to pure compassion and can remove the ring at his own choosing.

Whenever Tyson does choose to remove the ring, he forgets everything that happened whilst wearing the Indigo ring and the memories return once he puts it back on.

Though Tyson remains of his own mind and could theoretically do anything whilst wearing the Lantern ring, he does take it off when doing jobs for the Moriarty Mirrors; just in case the indigo light changes its mind about consuming his. This also leads to him avoiding discussing work for the web whilst wearing the ring, to avoid having to learn the entire plan a second time.

He has been able to channel the emotions of other rings in the past whilst wearing the Indigo ring, but Tyson finds it very hard to avoid getting consumed by the channelled emotion and tries to avoid leaning on that ability too much.

Nate Morrison

The faceclaim for Nate is Harold Perrineau.

Nate is the head of one of the legal firms that the web uses to drag its employees out of trouble when necessary. Relatively speaking, he’s a new edition to the web, having been recruited by Tyson on the Moriarty Mirrors’ orders.

He’s smart as a whip and committed to his job, both for the law firm as a whole and for the web. When he’s focused on his job, Nate can seem cold, but he has a heart of gold and is impossibly generous with sharing his wealth. He might be a sugar daddy to multiple people, though that might also simply be a nickname; Tyson’s never gotten a definitive answer either way.

Whenever Tyson shows up for a meeting with Nate, he will inevitably be told that he’s out to brunch. He’s pretty sure that Nate just likes making Tyson run around for him. It’s either that or he’s determined to try every location in London that serves brunch. Tyson has learnt not to argue with Nate about the necessity of brunch.

Or about getting called syrupy names, like honeybun or sugarmuffin. It makes no difference, Nate will simply make up a new name. Some of which Tyson still hasn’t managed to decipher from his chicken-scratch handwriting. Despite this clear handicap towards understanding previous answers or notes, Nate loves puzzle books: especially logic puzzles.

Nate is Tritanopia colour blind, but - regardless - he will defeat Tyson in almost any competitive video game. He has a grey Maine Coon called Flynn, that he got with his ex-husband, Preston; Nate is still on good terms with the ballet dancer. He grew up in New York with his adopted family. His original surname was Ryder.

At this point, Tyson isn’t actually certain that Nate and Preston are actually divorced, he also isn’t sure if they were ever married in the first place, or that they were ever even dating and aren’t simply like that together. He knows that neither are going to give him a proper answer and that they have the paperwork to cover for all possible outcomes.

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Nathaniel ‘Nate’ Morrison

UNIVERAL TRUTHS

• Blood Type: O Negative
• Date of Birth: April 7th 1964 - Aries – Dragon (Wood)
• DnD Alignment: True Neutral
• Dominant Hand: Left
• Ethnicity: Black, American
• Myers Briggs Type: ENFP-T | The Campaigner
• Orientation: Demisexual
• Religion: Christian, Protestant
• Signature:

FAVOURITE

• Favourite Animal: Barn Owl
• Favourite Author: George R.R. Martin
• Favourite Colour: Green
• Favourite Film: Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
• Favourite Food: Dim sun
• Favourite Plant: Snowdrops
• Favourite Poem: Dreams – Langston Hughes

VERSE DEPENDANT

• Avatar Element: Fire
• His Dark Material’s Dæmon: Coconut Crab
• Hogwarts House: Ravenclaw || In universe, Ilvermorny: Horned Serpent
• Hybrid!Verse Pairing: Fox
• Mass Effect Species: Drell
• Pokémon Team: Flareon, Crawdaunt, Lopunny, Leavanny, Swirlix, & Crabrawler

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Touch

Though Tyson does not like to be touched by people that he doesn’t trust and often goes out of his way to avoid unnecessary contact, Tyson is an incredibly tactile person and his sensuality is incredibly easy to manipulate. Especially if one knows the correct places to touch him.

For the most part, the touches that are - practically - guaranteed to calm Tyson are predictable places of reassurance, but the places to avoid rely on a knowledge of Tyson and his best:

• The incident in Afghanistan
• The scars that matter to him
• His worries about broken ankles/wrists

Sexuality

Whilst Tyson is comfortable with his romantic orientation, his sexual orientation is much harder for him to accept.

Even when he isn’t outright rejecting it, Tyson is never completely comfortable with his sexuality, but he is quick to leap to the defence of anyone else’s sexuality and to encourage others to be proud of who they are.

He’s good at hypocrisy.

Weapons

Though he is an excellent marksman, Tyson has an obvious bias towards knives rather than guns when he needs a weapon. For a multitude of reasons: wanting to remain as quiet as possible, utilising the twenty-one feet rule, and needing to make sure the death sticks to him.

When he needs to use a gun, Tyson favours using handguns: his normal Glock or a Browning ideally. He genuinely hates when a situation calls for a shotgun, but Tyson knows how to use any gun with a reliable aim. He’s nowhere near the kind of shot Sebastian is, but if the Colonel had fallen, it would have been his job as his spotter to take the shot instead.

When it comes to knives, Tyson usually relies on his hunting/combat knives or the various switchblades that he has hidden around his apartment: and London as a whole. Given a choice, Tyson tends to favour a clip point, but he also keeps a few drop and tanto points around.

Stutter & Speech

Though there is always a reason for the way and extent to which Tyson alters his speech for different situations, it does make his stutter and speech patterns one of the more inconsistent parts of him to observe from moment to moment.

He relies heavily on alliteration to keep a rhythm and will go out of his way to avoid words that he’s likely to stutter on, whilst also trying to avoid ‘half syllable words’ and censoring those he might have chosen to use naturally; to avoid sounding too intelligent and keep people underestimating him.

This frequently leads to Tyson speaking in short, clunky sentences that are as cumbersome to say as they are to hear. As Tyson grows more comfortable, or falls back on familiar practised phrases, he becomes more eloquent; stringing together longer sentences with a much broader vocabulary.

Donkey

For reasons that no one can explain, least of all Tyson himself, he is utterly enamoured by donkeys.

Presenting Tyson with the opportunity to pet a donkey provokes the same response that most would give to the opportunity to pet a rabbit or box of kittens.

In XPirate!Verse, Tyson has two donkeys one grey, Lola, and one brown, Brian.

Army!Verse Home

Tyson’s Army!Verse home is […] large open spaces that flow from one to another, more distance from the city and full of natural light. It’s a home that suits Tyson when he’s recovering (Veteran AU/Chicago!Verse), where he needs more space (HDM AU), or where Sebastian needs Tyson under his thumb (Kitten!Verse). This is also the house that main!verse Tyson owned before he abandoned the army. 

1. Front Entrance
2. Kitchen + Patio
   The patio runs down the length of the house then along the bottom too. In every verse it appears in, this patio is covered in cacti and slopes downwards very gradually to meet the lower ground of the back garden: slowly enough to avoid actively noticing it, yet steep enough to be an issue in winter.
3. Closet
   This room is primarily used as a bedroom/playroom for Tyson’s pets.
4. Closed living-room
   In Kitten!Verse, this is largely Sebastian’s space for when he wants privacy.
5. Open living-room
6. Meditation room
   In Kitten!Verse, this is largely where Tyson can be found; nestled amongst the blankets.
7. Back entrance
8. Main Bedroom
9. Bathroom/Shower
10. Study
11. Spare Bedroom
12. Spare Bedroom
13. Normal Attic
14. Dining room in attic

Ideal Team

Tyson works better as part of a team with his comfort levels increasing as the group becomes larger, but he never stacks the deck completely against his opponents; even though doing so would clearly play to his strengths.

The ideal situation for Tyson would then to be paired with a small team of people he knows. Though they would never end up working together naturally, Tyson would ideally be part of a five-man team alongside Sebastian Moran, Lex, John Watson, & Levi McCullum.

When there isn’t an apocalyptic level event happening to force them all to unite towards a common goal, the best bet is to pair Tyson with somewhere between three to ten people who all bring a unique - and necessary - skill to the table and to put him in charge of that group.

That way, Tyson is forced to utilise the people at his disposal as each one is essential and cannot be dismissed by his skewed sense of fair play. He is forced to step up and trust his instincts as a leader and there is a reasonable number of people for most tasks.