god it’s been a year, hasn’t it? we all know that time isn’t REAL but it does still pass, and through ups and downs - personal and otherwise - and bitch we’re still HERE.
@satellitewrites LIKE A SATELLITE IM IN ORBIT ALL THE WAY AROUND YOU where the fuck do i start? my dear, my angel, my sweet. you’ve helped me more than i could ever have dreamed to deserve. we didn’t meet this year, but you keep being SO IMPORTANT to me, and this year was the year of The Most Awkward Feelings Talk, so thank you for putting up with my nonsense, then and now, in every meaning of the phrase, and i look forward to facing so much more with you? your muses are fantastic, your creativity inspires me, and you help me get out of bed every day. @catrinawrites u…. have dealt with so much of my crappy communication ??? why are you still here i don’t understand? but i’m not gonna press it, just stay here lol thanks. keep gifting me and the world with your wonderful everything please, everything you create is AMAZING, which makes sense bc so are you @riddlman can u believe that ur the entire reason i have ANY star trek knowledge? and gotham. u have created a monster and u will have to live with that. in 2018 we call that a thank u for sticking through my shitty moods and leave it at that. ps make a writes blog @interprcted when….. did we first meet………. it was SO LONG AGO i remember i was pretty sure we would never talk again at one point boy am i glad to be wrong !! lilli would be pissed if i was right about that one, and i’m thrilled to have u and ur muses back in my life. dem might be gross but at least lilli loves him. you’ve been a huge support to me? you listen and you’re a great friend !! @naivelost CAN U BELIEVE WE ARE STILL HERE ??? can you believe we’re still here with our first tumblr ocs? take that voice we’ve come so far……… our original kids might be locked away under their dragonmaster2000 status, but you’re such a good friend. we’ve helped each other through our bullshit, what else WOULD we do?, and i’m honestly just thrilled to be here. @eyeprotege tiny shoutout to me for not changing my url till you found me again? because boy am i BLESSED to have you back. you’re so strong?? and you’ve come so far this year and i’m so proud of you and it’s great to have you around in any capacity tbh @nocturnaloracle What HAVEN’T we been through together? thank you for sticking through me at my worst, it’s been an honour to be here for you. you’re so wonderful and understanding and i know i haven’t always been the best person to be friends with, but thank you for your patience with me. @opheliajumped THE NICEST ?? i don’t think i’ve ever told you this, but i remember you from when you interacted with aya before your url change and looking up to you so much and knowing i’d never interact with you or be friends with you because you’re so good and i am. not. and yet here we are. this year might have been all colours of hell but god look at you go !!
it’s funny, he finds, how well hidden he needs to keep the side of his life that’s safer in the daily life: the part that’s just pushing around papers, reading up on court cases, and calling people to make paperwork appear and disappear when convenient. the other sees the horseman: the daredevil, the vigilante, the guy who’s always one miscalculation away from being slammed against a wall in handcuffs or falling to his death from the edge of a rooftop — for as long as the eye is kept a secret, dylan can’t blame him for worrying.
“ yeah, i will. —thanks. ” it’s only second in his nature to understand it as a sentiment: the first, unspoken instinct is to brush it off with a claim of ‘always am’ — a lie he’ll save for a day more dangerous. “ see you soon, alright? ”
“now, i am desperate, which means i’m dangerous. my only concern is the health and well-being of the horsemen. and you’re gonna lead me to them. and if you don’t, i promise you, you’re gonna end up far worse than in some cushy jail cell somewhere.”
Hello, my name is Aurora, I’m 21 years old and Finnish. EET time zone, naturally not a native speaker — if my replies make no sense, please let me know, it’s either because of me being tired or fucking up grammar. Please tag choking, somnophilia, eating disorders, suicide and bluespace, including screenshots of the dash: essentially, if the sides of the picture are the same colour as the dash, tag it.
selectivity
I am open to ocs and crossovers. This blog is mutuals only: threads, plotting and im are only for people who I have followed back. However, non-mutuals can send me asks and memes and reply to opens. I do tend to form mains and practice exclusivity, especially shipping exclusivity: the list can be found here. Note that I fully admit to being a lazy ass about checking my followers: I am currently using an extension that hides my follower count, so it is up to my own memory to remember to check the list: thus, it can take up to anything from a week to a month to check out a blog — more, if it’s a muse from something I haven’t seen yet.
pre-established relationships
If you have a non-romantic relationship idea (friends, colleagues, even family) between our muses, chances are I’ll be up for that, but do please run it through me first. This is twice as important for Horsemen ocs. The Horsemen and the dynamic between them form a large part of Dylan’s life, so I am more hesitant than most about writing with them because I need to understand why Dylan would have chosen them. I hope you can understand this.
shipping
Shipping-wise, Dylan is free game, but only if it happens with chemistry. This is even more highlighted by the fact that I play Dylan as demisexual, meaning that he doesn’t feel sexual attraction to anyone until he has a strong relationship with them, platonic or romantic.
Statistics
FULL NAME: Dylan Caspian Shrike
ALIAS: Dylan Rhodes (active from 1990 to 2015)
AGE: 44
BIRTH DATE: December 21, 1971
GENDER: Cis male
ROMANTIC ORIENTATION: Panromantic
SEXUAL ORIENTATION: Demisexual
RELIGION: Atheist
SPOKEN LANGUAGES: English (native), Mandarin, Cantonese, French, Italian, some Greek
CURRENT HOUSING: Apartment connecting to The Eye’s headquarters in London
OCCUPATION: The “fifth” Horseman, leader of The Eye’s western base. Worked as a mole in the FBI until being exposed publicly at the end of 2015
relationships
PARENTS: Lionel Shrike (deceased in March 6, 1984), Henriette Shrike (deceased in October 20, 1988)
SIBLINGS: None
SIGNIFICANT OTHER: Currently, none
CHILDREN: Unable to have
physical traits
EYE COLOUR: Brown
HAIR COLOUR: Dark brown, greying
HEIGHT: 5'7½
BODY TYPE: Short, square, somewhere between builtfat and chubbyfat.
personality
INTELLIGENCE: Book-smarts: studied engineering in college, degree in Criminology, mathematical brain. Strategist by nature.
DISPOSITION: Intelligent and calculating. Extroverted, but prefers a small social circle. Needs to feel in control, tends to take a leadership position very easily, as well as responsibility over others. Strong moral compass and need to see justice served.
Biography
Dylan Caspian Shrike was the first and only child born to Henriette Wilson, a former actress, and Lionel Shrike, a famous magician and a member of The Eye. The family lived in an apartment New York they owned, greatly relying on Lionel’s profession to supply for them. Partly to this, Lionel was largely absent at home, always performing, practicing, or travelling to China to buy equipment for his tricks. Dylan always knew his father first as a magician, and only then as a father.
This not-ideal but functioning life came to a stop when Thaddeus Bradley revealed how all of Lionel’s magic tricks were done in the pilot of his show, leaving the family unsure how Lionel’s career would handle such a blow. In an attempt to regain spotlight, Lionel insisted on doing a trick Thaddeus had called impossible: to break out from being handcuffed in a safe in the middle of a river. Dylan watched his father go down in the safe but the metal the safe was made of warped, making the escape impossible and causing Lionel to drown. Because his body nor the safe was ever found, his life insurance claim was denied, and the family was left without a penny.
Dylan always blamed the death of his father above all on Thaddeus Bradley, and after his mother had to give him up for adoption at the age of 12, Dylan started to plan for revenge. He spent most of his teenage years in a group home and two foster families, copying his father’s tricks and practicing some of his own, never specialising in anything in particular, finding himself more interested in the behind-the-scenes work that went into the larger tricks.
He started to study engineering in college, but The Eye gave him another task: take a new identity — that of Dylan Rhodes — and move to study Criminology in order to become a mole in the FBI. This alias gave him a possibility to start working on his plan to bring those responsible for his father’s death and the hardships that followed: a group of magicians that would bring the art back to a global spotlight whilst using their abilities to deceive for a greater cause. Gathering resources, perfecting his plan, and making it possible to do without known help from The Eye — as is required from applicants — was a long process, but he finally got it to motion in February 2013.
