[ x ] smoked [ x ] consumed alcohol [ x ] slept in the same bed with someone of another sex [ x ] slept in the same bed with someone of the same sex [ x ] kissed someone of the same sex [ x ] had sex [ x ] had someone in your room other than family [ x ] seen porn [ x ] bought porn [ x ] tried drugs
TOTAL: 10 / 10
[ x ] taken painkillers [ ] taken someone else’s prescription medicine [ x ] lied to your parents [ x ] lied to a friend [ x ] snuck out of the house [ x ] done something illegal [ x ] felt hurt [ x ] hurt someone [ x ] wished someone to die [ x ] seen someone die
TOTAL: 9 / 10
[ x ] missed curfew [ x ] stayed out all night [ x ] eaten a carton of ice cream by yourself [ x ] been to a therapist [ x ] received a ticket [ ] been to rehab [ ] dyed your hair [ ] been in an accident [ x ] been to a club [ x ] been to a bar
TOTAL: 7 / 10
[ x ] been to a wild party [ x ] been to a Mardi Gras parade [ x ] drank more than three alcoholic beverages in a night [ ] had a spring break in Florida [ ] sniffed anything [ ] wore black nail polish [ ] wore arm bands [ x ] wore t-shirts with band names [ x ] listened to rap
TOTAL: 5 / 9
[ ] dressed gothic [ ] dressed girly [ ] dressed punk [ x ] dressed grunge [ x ] stole something [ ] been too drunk to remember anything [ x ] blacked out [ x ] fainted [ ] had a crush on a neighbour
TOTAL: 4 / 9
[ x ] had a crush on a friend [ x ] been to a concert [ x ] dry-humped someone; been dry humped [ ] been called a slut [ x ] called someone a slut. [ ] installed speakers in a car [ x ] broken a mirror [ x ] showered at someone of another sex’s house [ x ] brushed your teeth with someone else’s toothbrush
TOTAL: 7 / 9
[ ] considered Ludacris your favorite rapper [ x ] seen an R-rated movie [ x ] cruised the mall [ x ] skipped school [ ] had surgery [ x ] had an injury [ x ] gone to court [ ] walked out of a restaurant without paying/tipping [ x ] caught something on fire. [ x ] lied about your age
TOTAL: 7 / 10
[ x ] owned/rented an apartment/house [ x ] broke the law in the police’s presence [ ] made out with someone who had a GF/BF [ x ] got in trouble with the police [ x ] talked to a stranger [ x ] hugged a stranger [ x ] kissed a stranger [ x ] rode in the car with a stranger [ x ] been harassed [ x ] been verbally harassed
TOTAL: 9 / 10
[ x ] met face-to-face with someone you met online [ x ] stayed online for 5+ hours straight [ x ] talked on the phone for more than 4 hours straight [ x ] watched TV for 5 hours straight [ x ] been to a fair [ x ] been called a bad influence [ ] drank and drove [ ] prank-called someone [ x ] laid on a couch with someone of another sex [ x ] cheated on a test
TOTAL: 8 / 10
total total: 66
If you have 00-10 … write [I’m a goody-goody] If you have 11-20 … write [I’m still a goody-goody] If you have 21-30 … write [I’m average] If you have 31-40 … write [I’m a bad kid] If you have 41-50 … write [I’m a very bad influence] If you have 51-60 … write [I’m a horrible person] If you have 61-70 … write [I should be in jail] If you have 71-80 … write [I should be dead] If you have 81-90 … write [I got a ticket to Hell]
BODY LANGUAGE : 01. shifting weight from side to side. 02. hands in pockets. 03. complete control of the weight of his steps.
AESTHETICS : 01. laptops and tablets in the middle of dusty books, new eyes among old legends, a trick from a thousand years ago displayed on led screens. 02. a guide of red string that splits to eight others every time you reach the end, piles of pictures ruined with words on black marker ink, books with the ending ripped off. 03. narrow escapes from handcuffs, trap doors that lead to nowhere, ice cold river water too dark to see through.
SONGS : 01. karma – alma. 02. equivoque – brian tyler. 03. fly to stay alive – manga. 04. look what you made me do – taylor swift. 05. kids in the dark – all time low.
For you, love and friendship are almost the same thing And your love tends to be the enduring, long lasting kind (You’ve been known to still have connections with ex’s) But sometimes your love is not the most passionate Leap before you look, and you’ll find that fire you crave
LITERATURE PERSONALITY QUIZZES. repost with your muse’s results !!
HOMERIC EPITHET. / You are Dylan Shrike, rouser of armies. Be sure to get monogrammed towels. Homer often used this epithet to describe Apollo, who is the god of many things, including but not limited to music, truth, the sun, poetry, and the plague, which is, you know, unfortunate.
FATAL FLAW. / Your uncompromising sense of justice. When it comes to right and wrong, there’s no grey area. Not for you. You’re like a cop who says stuff like, “Listen, buddy, I don’t make the rules—but I WILL enforce them.” Look, you’ve got principles, and I get that. I can respect that. But you’re going to wind up dead in a river (JAVERT) if you don’t ease up a little on the rulebook and reconcile these two opposing viewpoints before a convict saves your life and shatters everything you thought you knew.
TRAGIC GREEK DEATH. / Killed by your own reflection. You spurned the romantic advances of a mountain nymph, so the revenge god has decided to punish you. One day you enter a cave and see your reflection in a pool, and you’re so transfixed by your own beauty that you decide to just stare at yourself forever. This continues until you either a) starve or b) drown or c) fall upon your own sword out of grief, depending on which poet is telling this story.
LITERARY SETTING. /Pemberley, Mr. Darcy’s stunning country estate. This elegant mansion is replete with classy chaise lounges, tasteful decoration, natural beauty, and large marble statues of wealthy, gorgeous Brits. Totally ideal for a charming, Lizzy Bennet-type like yourself! The secluded woody hills are perfect for taking dates on long, romantic (un-chaperoned) strolls, and the house itself is so Instagram-worthy that even Taylor Swift (house-party hostess extraordinaire) will be jealous of you and your squad’s bash-throwing capabilities!
TAGGED BY: i saw nata & chris do it and i wanted in
tagged by :@stormnamed 1ST RULE : tag 9 muses you would like to know better / do i even follow nine people 2ND RULE :bold the statements that are true for your muse / italicise what sort of applies.
APPEARANCE :
i am 5'7" or taller i wear glasses i have at least one tattoo i have at least one piercing i have blonde hair i have brown eyes i have short hair my abs are at least somewhat defined i have or have had braces
PERSONALITY :
i love meeting new people people tell me that i’m funny helping others with their problems is a big priority for me i enjoy physical challenges i enjoy mental challenges i’m playfully rude with people i know well i started saying something ironically and now i can’t stop saying it there is something i would change about my personality
ABILITY :
i can sing well i can play an instrument i can do over 30 push-ups without stopping i’m a fast runner i can draw well i have a good memory i’m good at doing math in my head i can hold my breath underwater for over a minute i have beaten at least two people in arm wrestling i know how to cook at least three meals from scratch i know how to throw a proper punch
HOBBIES :
i enjoy playing sports i am on a sports team at my school or somewhere else i’m in an orchestra or choir at my school or somewhere else i have learned a new song in the past week i work out at least once a week i’ve gone for runs at least once a week in the warmer months i have drawn something in the past month i enjoy writing i do or have done martial arts
EXPERIENCES :
i have had my first kiss i have had alcohol i have scored the winning goal in a sports game i have watched an entire season of a TV show in one sitting i have been at an overnight event i have been in a taxi i have been in the hospital or er in the past year i have beaten a video game in one day i have visited another country i have been to one of my favourite band’s concerts
RELATIONSHIPS :
i’m in a relationship i have a crush on a celebrity i have a crush on someone i know i have been in at least three relationships i have never been in a relationship i have asked someone out or admitted my feelings to them i get crushes easily i have had a crush on someone for over a year i have been in a relationship for at least a year i have had feelings for a friend
MY LIFE :
i have at least one person i consider a “best friend” i live close to my school or on campus my parents are still together i have at least one sibling i live in the united states there is snow right now where i live i have hung out with a friend in the past month i have a smartphone i have at least fifteen cd’s i share my room with someone
RANDOM SHIT :
i have break-danced i know a person named jamie i have had a teacher with a last name that’s hard to pronounce i have dyed my hair i’m listening to one song on repeat right now i have punched someone in the past week i know someone who has gone to jail i have broken a bone i have eaten a waffle today i know what I want to do with my life i speak at least two languages
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.
