sydney : small, delicate fellow with soft features; he is pale from illness and malnutrition. His dark, unruly hair falls to his waist and curls at the ends; and he's got long, spindly limbs on a compact, pudgy body, like a spider. His face is deeply lined by dark eye bags."[1] He is described as wearing "large clunky boots, heavy jewelry, fluffy dresses, kneesocks, scarves, and usually many layers at once; all in dark tones. He also likes to decorate his hair with natural items, such as mushrooms and moths."[1]

Sydney can see shrimp colors.[2] Sydney has been cursed by a witch, and, as a result, can only eat bread and butter (in any form). He cannot eat margarine,[2] but he can swallow pills and consume non-food items, such as dirt.[3] Sydney has undergone top surgery (subcutaneous mastectomy) but is not undergoing hormone replacement therapy.

Sydney was written with characteristics of Borderline Personality Disorder in mind; he is meant to have BPD.[18] Sydney is autistic.[2] Sydney sees mushrooms as equal or superior to humans.[2] Sydney struggles with psychosis. He does his best to curb it in his own ways, and while he thinks it has diminished for unrelated reasons, its relative absence is stated to be due to Jedidiah's actions. Mayfield and Belov did not specify further what that means exactly, but they did specify that Jedidiah is not drugging Sydney.[2]

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skinny, scruffy fellow of average height. He’s got sharp, firm features, and always appears unkempt, with patchy stubble and messy brown hair that wisps up atop his head."[1] He is described as wearing "sweater-vests, collared shirts, button ups, penny loafers, and khakis; all in muted, warm tones," and "a pair of perennially askance wireframe glasses and, when he’s not got his lab coat on, he prefers semiformal clothes with muted, warm tones."[1] Jedidiah is, "too repressed to write poetry."[9]

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