- ♏ ☀ - ? 🌕 - ? ⬆ ; if he had a set birthdate he would have a virgo rising like Vashti
- 100% always one bad day away from a full-blown nervous breakdown
- his parents are typically described as being very attractive and cypress still turned out ugly 😢😢😢😢. he has the face only a mother could love AND SHE DID
- he's aware of his appearance and what other people think about it, though the fact that he might scare someone has never crossed his mind- The thought of someone (especially a potential friend) being terrified of him would actually kill him
- his first design (2021/brown hair) was canonically handsome (minus the goofy ass haircut!!!)
- he doesn't know that he is eyeless, his reflections always shows himself with normal eyes
- his dreams are frequently meaningful and prophetic
- The longer someone looks at him, the more "unreal" he looks; his face is too smooth/waxy, his facial features are almost perfectly aligned and symmetrical, and his limbs seem to have extra joints
- he was chubby as a child and all the way up to his early teens, which is astonishing considering how he is nothing but bones now
- he can't walk up a flight of stairs without getting winded just like me😻
- he gets extremely tired after crying. Like this man will shed one tear and fall into a day long coma after
- he is very particular about his hygiene and cannot stand being dirty; major neat freak
- none of what's in his toyhouse biography matters in his story guiys😣 everything there is more like trivia
- he is nameless in-universe, and he is the only character without a name in HG; throughout Hollow Ground, each character (even his family) consistently refers to him without it. This is something he is privy to but has learned not to question it
- when Rhoda asks for Sobel's name, his speech becomes garbled; Rhoda asks Sobel to repeat himself, but before anyone can hear it there's a jumpcut
- he has many, many terrible memories, but if you asked for the worst of them all, he would tell you that it was experiencing sleep paralysis twice; he already has a hard time moving and seeing things, so being stuck to his bed and hallucinating at the same time.. he would've much rather been dead
- he and I used to have the same mole placements before I added more moles to him 😪
- out of all of my 45 characters, he takes after me the absolute MOST, yet he isn't a sona or self-insert
- his first playlist from Fleetwood mac down to the partland brothers is organized by sound, color, and genre
- his main playlist unintentionally gets more insane the further you scroll because it's so unorganized
- post 2021, I always imagined him being from/raised on a southern beach - at first he was originally from Daphne (AL) but I eventually decided on him being from beaufort (SC) because I LOVE SOUTH CAROLINA!!!!!
- i have no idea why but he reminds me of a blobfish . he looks like a blobfish to me
- his spirit animal is the blobfisj
- he's a egregiously bad liar
- he has the hardest time opening up and trusting others but is frequently trusted by the people he knows at the same time
- the therapist friend but is also in dire need of one lollolol
- charming, but in his own really, really weird way
- he has a really strong sense of empathy and compassion
- he has a habit of silently studying the people he met even if he's too shy to fully communicate with them
- he has a deep fear of abandonment, and his fear of losing the people he cares about and being completely alone drives him in the majority of his decisions and actions
- he is definitely the type of person to cry if a stranger was nice to him
- he has a hard time believing any positive things said to or about him. any positive attention he gets makes him feel a little uneasy
- although he's described as being intelligent, he is prone to believing things that aren't true if they're repeated to him consistently (there's also the fact that he's just as unwell as Mamie is); this is why he believes his grandmother's delusions
- there is a few things known about his family, but little to no information surrounding him (and as of right now there isnt a cool reason for that yet 😿😿 i will write soon)
- The fate of Timothy's parents are unknown ........... they sort of vanish pre-storyline. they are not implied to be dead nor alive
- both sides of his family are known for having a LOT of hair on their heads, which he inherited
- he's almost comically clueless about his conditions- he knows that there's something wrong up there in his mind but doesnt understand the full extent of how bad his unwellness really is
- he HATES his complexion and wishes he looked more like his mother's side
- that being said, he finds pale skin repulsive both on himself and on others
- his ethnic makeup is primarily Spanish with flecks of other ethnicities thrown in
- i don't think anyone would believe me if i told them the real reason behind him being hungarian 💀 💀 💀
- he isn't an enrolled member/cardholder but he's still indian idgaf!!!!!! actually HE WEARS TURQUOISE!!!!! IT DOESNT GET ANY MORE INDIFGEONOUS THAN THAT i should know (this entire sentence was a joke)
- Cleo is the oldest cypress is in another universe age-wise
- Samson is the oldest version of cypress time period-wise hes like 500 years old
- excluding Bailey, every iteration of Ashley has an accent of some sort (Vick/Minnesotan, Isaac/NY, Samson/Scottish etc.)
- if he didnt have an accent he would have Shannon's voiceclaim
- he sounds just like tthe "i'm calling the fuckin CEO and every one of ya'll's little accounts are getting shut down" guy A&Q^&^E$EA*E*@*YYE**YQDHIDI
- he rarely swears, and even when he does, he tends to use mild words like "hell" and "damn"
- he's great at debating
- one thing cypress doesn't lack is tact; he thinks before he speaks, and every word is chosen carefully
- he uses "lookit" instead of "look at that" LOOK HERE LOOK LISTEN
- he has a tendency to repeat certain words when he speaks (for example he'd go "it's hot out today. Hot, hot, hot.")
- his eyes are almost comically sensitive, and it isn't uncommon to see him bunching his face up or wincing if it's too bright- sometimes he wears shades indoors
- he's the last living descendant of his side of the family; after he passes away, the whole bloodline ends (he is in a situation identical to my own 😰😝😰😨😝💤😭🤳😍😨🛍😱)
- he and his pat. grandmother have uncannily similar temperaments (both have soft voices and a quiet/gentle demeanor), which is why george always said that cypress reminded him of his mother
- his (paternal) grandparents spoiled him with candy when he was small, which is why he has silver crowns
- he chuckles when he's nervous
- he sounds like he's trying really hard to not wake someone up
- he has a very high tolerance for drugs because of the CRAZY cocktail of medications he's put himself on over the years, so he requires higher doses than other people in order for them to have any effects
- he is also prone to addiction, and has overdosed a few times from both illegal and legal substances
- he has never experienced real heartbreak before regarding romantic relationships, but definitely with other relationships like familiar and friendly relationships
- he speaks at a normal volume if talking about something he's passionate about; this is also the loudest he can get since he can't yell
- Kyrie is the reason why Cypress is into punk music
- he looks to kyrie for approval on everything
- he'd definitely be a magick metal/dungeon synth fan if the genre existed in the 80s
- he has an eye for details and takes a lot of pride in his work/what he does, whether that's art or like literally anything else!!!!! give him a job and he'll make sure that he does it well
- if he had a pair, he'd have noise cancelling headphones on 24/7
- major melophile and owns multiple cassettes, types of vinyl, + CDs - he also has a walkman (frequently seen on him) and a big ass boombox
- he comes up with melodies for the lyrics his father wrote and sometimes plays the songs he made
- his for against shirts were drawn by him
- he drives a 1983 Ford Sierra
- his favorite quote is: "Remember, man, you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
- he calls children "miniature humans"
- if you bring up one of his interests he try to will physically restrain himself the hardest he can from going on a tangent about it for 8 hours
- His favorite shows are The Magic of Oil Painting + Night Flight; daytime soap operas are his guilty pleasure
- focuses better on things when he has music playing in the background
- he practices complex basslines with Rush (Geddy is a HUGGEE inspo to him!!!!), though he only has four songs out of their whole discography down pat
- he has practiced to yyz more than 12 times in one week
- he is alright at skateboarding and likes to skate around sometimes on the rare occasion he leaves his room
- he takes cold showers and chews on ice to ground himself during derealization episodes
- his parents are frequent subjects of his drawings
- he calls Margo auntie - no aunt Margo or auntie margo, just auntie
- he's very flexible/bendy (obviously)
- he wiggles his fingers instead of waving his whole hand when he waves
- he is homeschooled and also lives a solitary, sheltered life
- he comes from a lower middle class background and most of his AUs do as well
- he has a lot of his dad's mannerisms - one of them being that his eyes always get big if he's spooked
- eye contact with people is uncomfortable for him (out of a deep insecurity about his face); his eyes often dart around in his conversations
- he's touch-starved, which is why he's happy to have any kind of physical contact, be it a simple tap on the shoulder or an actual hug
- his dilated pupils are the result of his halodol use
- near the middle of MLV1, Tate asks Sobel "Is there a God? If God exists and he loves us all, why does he make us suffer?" - Sobel tells Tate that "There's no god." and smiles. In MLV2, Sobel gives Tate a more hopeful and thought-out answer
- Sobel "reveals" cypress' actual age (sort of since MLV1/2, again, did not happen and Sobel is a nightmare!@@!!!!) when he says "I’m hardly 17, and I still look like I’ve lived three times over."
- famous for his ridiculously short shorts in 84/85
- he's done it all through the course of his life. the big permed hair, the outrageously tacky sweaters, the fanny packs, the embarrassing photoshoots........... everything.
- his nickname in the 10th grade was 'Stretch' - he was around 14-15 years old and already 5'10, almost 5'11
- he hits 6'5 in his early 20s, realistically he should be well over 6'5 because really tall family but i do not want to have a character over 6'5 im noy do8ng it
- he was suspended for 1-2 weeks after punching another kid in the jaw and breaking it, because someone called Lee a slur; he tells Lee that if he had the chance, he'd do it again
jun 19 2023 ∞
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