Misc medical facts

From age four till five Tyson had weak ankles. It was almost guaranteed that if he ran he would twist or sprain at least one of his ankles. This was caused by a lack of calcium. Some medication and an ankle brace solved the problem almost completely, just as he was approaching his sixth birthday, but Tyson still twists his ankles easier than most do. Usually it’s his right ankle that gives out, but not always.

Up until his time in the army Tyson had perfect teeth, not a single cavity. He’s never lost an adult tooth, but during his time travelling across the desert - where water needed to be conserved and, at any rate, he was without a tooth brush for several months - he gained two cavities: one on the top left wisdom tooth and the other on a mid-bottom right molar. Since then both cavities have been filled in with white fillings that can’t be seen and Tyson has taken good care of his teeth. Tyson has all four of his wisdom teeth. The only one to cause him issues when growing in was the bottom right tooth, which needed to be ground down by the dentist to fit his mouth more comfortably.

Submission

Tyson has no issues with submitting, but he loathes being submissive.

To Tyson there is a world of difference between being submissive and submitting: submissive is a nature, submitting is a choice.

Tyson would rather follow orders by choice rather than it being his nature to submit, which he knows it is.

Languages

Tyson knows English, Latin, and Hebrew fluently. He can speak but not read German and read but not speak Hindi. He knows enough of French, Russian and Spanish to get by on missions but not enough to sound convincing or comfortable enough with the language to say that he knows it.

Lamentably, in Tyson's eyes, he can't say that he's fluent in Yiddish. He knows most of the words and several phrases that are common in Jewish communities, but he's never learnt the sentence structure for Yiddish.

Though Tyson learnt English and Hebrew at the same time, Hebrew came to Tyson far easier so he has always considered it his first language rather than English.

Fencing

Tyson was a good fencer in his teens.

A damn good fencer. Tyson’s brother and P.E. teacher can be quoted as repeatedly saying that Tyson “improved with the weather” when it came to sport, which was true. Tyson likes to relax and ‘conserve energy’, but he has shown himself to be talented in dancing [ballroom, classical, tap, and contemporary], cricket, and fencing.

Whilst Tyson was willing to go out and play cricket where people could see him, he kept fencing - like dancing - between himself, his tutor, his brother, and his father. When playing cricket a lot of the focus was on other players, were as in dance and in fencing more of the attention was on Tyson. This made him nervous and, therefore, unwilling to ‘perform’ outside of the classroom.

Tyson’s fencing tutor - who was also his Latin and Geography tutor - said that Tyson could have made a living out of fencing had he gotten over his nerves, Tyson never believed that.

Tyson would leap at the chance to fence again. His social anxieties mean that he’d never join a club to take up fencing, but if he got the chance to fence with some one he knew and trusted Tyson wouldn’t turn down the opportunity.

His talent with swords - mostly fencing swords, but he has dabbled with a fair amount of success with other swords - played a large role in him favouring knives over guns; after hand to hand combat (focusing on nerve, pressure, and vital points), obviously.

Stomach kisses

When in a playful mood Tyson loves to kiss his partner's stomach.

Tyson often finds it easier to be playful with women than with men, but this applies to both.

When in a playful mood Tyson will shift from cuddling/hugging (or just pounce on his partner) to remove their shirt so he can place kisses on their stomach.

Usually he’ll kiss just bellow the lowest ribs, where a lot of people are ticklish, as the point is to tickle. He won’t blow raspberries or anything similar, it’s just kissing.

Lots and lots and lots of tiny, light kisses.

The reason these kisses usually end are either that his partner starts laughing too much and bats him away, Tyson dissolves into giggles and rolls off of him/her, or the dogs [Lily, Bobby, or Jack (or Meg)] decided to join in the play.

Make up in the morning

One of Tyson's favourite things about dating a woman is doing her make-up.

Tyson knows how to do makeup, because he used to help Jasmine put hers on in the morning.

He finds it therapeutic to apply makeup to another person; not that he ever puts make up on himself for any other reasons than disguises on missions and/or to cover up wounds, usually from those missions but sometimes from clumsiness.

Tyson isn’t, and has never been, a morning person. He doesn’t like having to think until he has caffeine in his system, applying makeup isn’t something that requires too much concentration. Some parts do, but Tyson always leaves thought parts until last when he’s a little more awake.

He likes to feel helpful and applying makeup for another person makes him feel useful. 

A surefire way to offend / upset Tyson

Tyson doesn't get angry easily, but one of the easiest ways to offend Tyson is to say that you'll 'fix him / make him better'.

Tyson doesn't want anyone to fix him nor does he need it. He needs support and someone to encourage him - to give him a nudge every now and again to encourage him to interact with other people and to talk in general, someone to go to for comfort, and to steer him in the right direction if he gets scared/confused - but he doesn't need anyone else to fix him.

This doesn't mean that Tyson thinks he is okay. Tyson knows that he isn't the best that he could be, he knows that he has a long way to go before he could be considered healthy (both mentally and physically), but he is still better than he might otherwise have been.

After the events with The Colonel Tyson was completely shattered. Completely broken. Tyson has worked himself up from, practically, nothing. He dragged himself out of the Middle East and back to Blighty. He put his life back together. He survived. No one else did that for him, Tyson did it on his own. He is far stronger than he, or anyone else, gives him credit for.

Since he started working for Jim, both of them, he has had a lot of help from his owners (some that he knows about and some that he doesn't) but even then most of the work has been done by Tyson. He dragged himself up to a state where he was good enough to take Jim's interest, good enough to be worth helping.

Tyson resents the idea that he needs anyone else to fix him. He will admit he needs help to continue getting better, if a little reluctant to accept the help, but he will never accept that he needs anyone to fix him; because he doesn't.

The scar on Tyson's foot

Scar: Scar on the base of his right foot.
Date:: Thursday 9th February 2012.

Whilst in Edinburgh Tyson had a brush with the police on George Street.

At this time the police were after Tyson because General Clarkson was yet to clear Tyson of criminal charges, though the police do still keep an eye on Tyson and bring him in for frequent questionings.

When he came out of a shop, at the time a small coffee shop which made surprisingly nice flapjack, Tyson walked almost directly into two police officers. They recognised him immediately. Obviously, Tyson ran.

As he rounded the corner onto Hanover Street his shoe came off. His shoelace had come loose and caught on drainage grate. Wisely Tyson didn’t pause to pick up his shoe as the police were right on his tail.

He kept running - ducking and diving between pedestrians - until he lost the police, just as he passed by Chambers Street. He kept running though, to be on the safe side.

In doing so his foot went over a rock, a rock which was presumably there because of the repairs being made to the road.

He sliced open his foot which left a long scar along the base of his foot.

This is one of the few scars Tyson doesn’t mind being touched, rather than hurting its very ticklish. Though he isn’t particularly fond of his feet being touched in general, because they are very ticklish.

Letters

Tyson keeps all of the letters he gets, other than bills and junk/advertising mail. Tyson has mail from him army days, from his owners, from his brother, and from his friends.

Tyson thinks that letters are special, that it matters that someone took the time to write or type it out. He keeps the letters in a box under his bed, where he keeps most of the things in his apartment. 

Tyson takes his time writing letters, making sure that it is neater than his usual slanted, scruffy writing and often using specific stationary for specific people. He takes his time with letters.

Stage

When Tyson was at University [Cambridge] he performed on stage.

He took part in many different plays but the ones he was in most [his favourite two to perform] were A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Much Ado About Nothing. Though in general Tyson favours Lord Bryon's plays.

It wasn’t the acting Tyson enjoyed nor being on stage, that meant people could see him, but instead he enjoyed being someone [anyone] who wasn’t himself. He liked ‘being’ another person/character so that he could escape from himself and his anxieties, if only for a little.

Tyson only other stage credits are playing piano/singing when in the Middle East to earn money whilst he was escaping from the army. He had to pay for food somehow, he also made maps for people and trained dogs for money, food, water, and clean clothes.

Tyson likes snakes.

Tyson wasn’t always fond of the scaled creatures but after his time in the Middle East he became fond of them. Watching them move across the sand and up trees had been his only source of entertainment for a long time. He’d learnt to appreciate them since. Before he found Lily they were his only company for long periods of time.

He prefers the smaller ones, but he still finds the medium and large ones interesting.

Glasses

Tyson’s father used to wear glasses almost all of the time, and his uncle Richard wears reading glasses.

Tyson knows that Jethro’s eye sight is fine and that his own is okay, but he’s ‘afraid’ that he’ll end up needing glasses too.

Tyson isn’t against glasses per-say - when they’re on other men he actually find them quite cute - but he’s self-conscious about how he looks and he doesn’t want to be reliant on glasses to do his job.

Or look more like his father because of them.

Tyson doesn't enjoy taking photographs.

He dislikes photos in general, especially those that have himself in frame, but when he has to take photographs they will be indirect and portrait.

He doesn’t like to have the focus of the image focused on the camera, not to make the image more natural or ‘real’ but instead, because he feels that when an image included the subject looking at the camera it makes part of the photo about the camera rather than just being about the subject.

Tyson prefers to take photos in a portrait orientation rather than landscape, because it means that there is less background to take away from the subject.

Tyson prefers this way because most of the photographs he takes are for work and he needs to make sure the focus is on the target - be it someone that needs taking out or someone that needs protecting - but he also uses this ‘style’ when taking photographs of friends and family, usually his brother and nephew. 

Tyson likes fish.

He finds it soothing to watch fish swim around and when he was still in the monastery watching fish in the pond helped him meditate through the pain of his dent, back then it was newer and caused him more pain.

If Tyson had enough space in his apartment, or at least somewhere practical to put a tank in the available space, he’d have fish.

Most likely 7-12 fish similar in a large-ish tank.

Tyson would find similar fish with slight colour differences the most soothing because there is a nice colour balance / pattern that way.

Colours

1. Red
2. Purple
3. Silver
4. Green
5. Navy Blue

He prefers the darker tones and shades, but thinks some of the brighter colours are nice. 

Red vs Blue

Tyson's favourite colour is red, but most of the larger items he buys - such as a bed (okay technically the bed sheets are blue, the bed is metal) and the carpet - tend to be blue.

He does this on purpose. By making the larger objects blue it means he can buy more red, smaller, objects - like clothes, mugs, pillow, et cetrera -  and still have a good/clean colour contrast in the room; which is important, due to the sometimes overwhelming colours brought into his vision by his Synesthesia.

Steaks

Tyson likes his steaks rare to medium rare.

Skate/dirt boarding

One of Tyson's less known leisure actives, because he never talks about it to anyone other than Jethro and Rosie, is skateboarding. Tyson started skateboarding in his teens, as a quicker - lazier - way of getting around the family manor.

When a skate park was made near-ish to the manor, on the outside of the city, Tyson used to sneak out late at night - to avoid other people - to practise tricks. He never tried anything too brave, he was always afraid of getting hurt, but he still knows a fair few. When learning the tricks Tyson would write out the equations for the forces involved in the trick to understand what he needed to do not to get hurt when trying to do it.

Though Tyson primarily gets around on his bicycle and motorbike Tyson will occasionally go out on his skateboard when he doesn't want to walk, or run. Bobby will chase Tyson whilst Lily jogs behind obediently.

Rosie got Tyson into dirtboarding, sometimes they'll go out together to dirtboard.

Rhombic Icosahedron

Though Tyson doesn't, usually, give gifts during Christmas or other such holidays (full headcanon here) he does give gifts at other times of year, usually as thanks.

When giving gifts Tyson gives metal boxes in the shape of Rhombic Icosahedrons. As a general rule the boxes are one inch in height and are made of stainless steel with a brass coating. The Rhombic Icosahedron isn't Tyson's favourite shape, time (and mathematics) has proven that to be the regular Hexagon, but from a mathematical point of view it is still an interesting shape.

Each 'set' of gift boxes are personalised to the person he is giving it to, usually by removing part of the layer of brass to allow the stainless steel to show through to make a pattern but occasionally pieces of other metals (usually bronze or aluminium) are added. The inside of the metal boxs are always lined with felt, to keep the contense safe, the colour of which is personalised for the person he intends to give it to. For example, when giving a gift to his brother, Jethro Andrew Delaney, Tyson makes a checkerboard pattern on the container with a red lining inside & when giving a gift to Jasmine, the maid at the family manor who served as his surrogate mother, he makes a series of butterflies with a white lining inside.

There are two different ways that Tyson gives gifts through theses containers: small items and microchips.

1. The small items that normally go into the boxes are usually money, jewellery, or (carefully folded, sometimes origami) letters. Tyson is very loose with his money. He grew up in a rich household with no reason to carefully monitor his expenses which leads to him often over-tipping and not checking receipts. It is rare that Tyson will buy jewellery, he doesn't really care for it, so if he does by some for a person it means that he really cares for them. Letters are important to Tyson, he thinks they are special. (Original head canon here). Every now and again there will be a small key inside the container that opens a pervious present, usually one delivered in the style bellow. 
2. For items too large to put into the small container Tyson uses microchips to give directions to the item or to send a digital item such as photos/programming/videos. How to use the information depends on the type of chip in the container: sometimes it will go into a GPS to give directions, sometimes it will be photo directions (usually showing the street name that a turn needs to be made at, sometimes with Tyson in the photo), sometimes it will be a digital copy of a customised map Tyson has made, and sometimes it will be step-by-step instructions on a .PDF file. Sometimes Tyson won't put directions on the microchip, sometimes it will be blank and he will put a small piece of paper (fortune-cookie fortune sized) with a riddle instead to give hints to the present or to the next clue/riddle/code.

Pornography

Tyson has a very low sex drive, because of this he can simply ignore any urges he has without feeling any frustration from it (outside of a few patches every now and again, usually three or five weeks apart).

This in turn means that he was no use of pornography in any form, though he isn't against pornography.
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This was a very short, very boring head canon so here is the story of the first, and only, pornographic magazine Tyson got. It is now stored in one of the many boxes under Tyson's bed, the same one that has all the comic books in it.

When he was a teenager and his hormones were still settling down Tyson's sex drive had been a little higher than it is nowadays. He'd, obviously, been curious about sex and his sexuality so whilst at a newsagents he'd 'stollen' a gay pornographic magazine. He'd hidden it between the pages of a newspaper - Sunday addition of The Independant so there were already a lot of magazines that came with the newspaper to avoid suspicion - but handed over a five pound note and said to "k-keep the, um, change."

Tyson had then taken the magazine up to the attic, where no one else went and he could be alone, to look through it. Tyson had managed to find pleasure from looking at the pictures but he'd not found it that useful. He'd always had a good imagination and the images weren't really any better than those he could create with his mind, but it did help him realise the extent of his tie kink.