you are what a vigilante is perceived as. you see laws as inherently bad and will break them without guilt to do what you think is right. you have no need to serve any rulers or have someone else tell you what good is. if you are working for an evil villain, or anyone, it is because you saw a need to unite with them due to a larger force who could not be defeated alone.
you can hear my ass yelling at an alignment quiz again bc while dylan’s respect for the letter of the law is feeble at best his respect for the eye is absolute and thus there are rules and figures of authority he follows with virtually no hesitation and the test doesn’t have a fucking answer option for that
for some reason, i thought this would be a good idea… so we’re just gonna go with it and see how it pans out. yeah? yeah. i should have started this yesterday, but oh well. better late than never. essentially, this will be the same as my usual giveaways, i’ll giving away 50 icons each day from now until the 24th of december. this will total to 1100 icons in total. i am super hyped for christmas this year, although i don’t really have a reason why… but sharing the cheer and all that jazz. obviously, don’t pressure me to get these done. i will try and keep on top of it, but you may wait up to a week if i am busy with university, anything festive i end up doing, and my actual commissions, but they will all get done by the end of the month.
my giveaways are pretty simple, just go by these rules and it’ll all go swell:
He barely suppresses the sigh that wanted to escape as he looks at the trapdoor, as though it’d suddenly work from how hard he stared at it. Jack can’t completely hide his frustration as his fingers impatiently tap against his thigh and he has to force his gaze away from the trapdoor and Dylan.
“I got the wiring right. I followed your instructions to the letter, Dylan, it’s just being– Look, I’ll check it. Okay?”
the brand of impatience, of frustration, that jack is showing is familiar — and it, in reality, has nothing to do with the goddamn door… which means it’s nothing dylan has the time or the abilities to ease right now. all he can hope is that the show these tricks are meant for isn’t too far away and that once the two-to-four horsemen are doing a show again, it’s going to release the tension bubbling just beneath each of their surfaces.
a jump down, fingers already working on opening the device. “ yeah, CHECK IT. did you test it on your own at any point after calibrating it? ”
there is a super secret organisation called THE EYE that has its roots in ancient egypt and a long history in macau
they use sleight of hand and magic tricks to steal from the rich and give to the poor
it’s been mostly underground bc they also want to help the magicians in it and making important evidence disappear is the kind of thing you don’t want to be caught doing
every once in a while famous magicians try to show how the eye is definitely real but it’s all treated as paranoid conspiracies
can u blame them
they take in ppl twice a century
a few years ago, dylan broke the mould and formed a group of vigilante magicians called the four horsemen
said magicians are popular and did their initial crimes as an initation ritual for the eye with v little idea if it was even legit
dylan was exposed as the fifth member of the horsemen in late 2016 and now he’s wanted as hell too
people love them, media is v interested in them, the law enforcement is not a fan
the horsemen have a website and a youtube channel and merch from before they went full vigilante
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.
