mr. upton !?

🇬🇷🇺🇸. private investigator. former assistant state attorney. cam's soulmate. lydia & cyrus's problem (affectionate). oldest sibling. in law. widower. pigeon enthusiast. chaotic bi. smarter than she looks. nobody's son. consultant. hater of guns. golden retriever energy. she/him

// as of February 2026, Sandy and Camden ( @sanctuaryisms ) are in a romantic relationship

background & context *

🇬🇷🇺🇸. private investigator. former assistant state attorney. cam's soulmate. lydia & cyrus's problem (affectionate). oldest sibling. in law. widower. pigeon enthusiast. chaotic bi. smarter than she looks. nobody's son. consultant. hater of guns. golden retriever energy. she/him

// Sandy is genderfluid, and uses she/her/he/him pronouns

// he's the oldest of three siblings

// as of July 2025, Cyrus ( @sillyclues ) works with him and Lyds

// Kath ( @sprinklelabs ) is his go-to person when he needs dna information for a case/client

// part of his motivation for going to law school and becoming a lawyer was hopes that it'd get his dad off of his (and Hailey's) back — of course, becoming a state attorney didn't impress Haris any or make him less of an awful human

// he's a huge Eurovision fan (and resontly converted @wcrmkittens into one)

// in January 2019, he was permitted to stop taking his SSRI (he hated how flat the antidepressant made his mood) on the condition that he attend grief counselling once a month until told otherwise. Years later, he's still attending those monthly sessions.

// after the murder of his wife and daughter, Sandy was admitted as an inpatient at Chicago Med's psych ward for extreme paranoia and being a danger to his own life. He spent four months there, continuing as an out patient with weekly therapy and taking SSRIs for a year

// Sabrina Carpenter's music is a guilty pleasure of his

// as a child he and Hails ( @wcrmkittens ) didn't see Alexi ( @failedpi ) often, given they lived in different continents but they reconnected in adulthood and have started getting closer since Alexi took a job in Chicago

// she has advanced knowledge (and practice) in behavioral analysis and cognitive psychology

// Sandy (and Lydia) live in a townhouse in the Boystown neighbourhood. He considered selling it after Shelly and Daphne were killed but he couldn't let it go, there's sentimental value given it's the house they bought when she was pregnant. The townhouse looks like this

// he volunteers at the Center on Halstead once a week

// he has hyperthyroidism (he treats it with beta blockers and methimazole). It's most of the reason he has a huge appetite/snacks often

// sometimes he'll have rescripted ptsd nightmares where instead of seeing the corpses of his wife and daughter, he'll come home to find Lydia ( @wonderguesses ) and Cyrus ( @sillyclues ) murdered instead

// despite being outgoing, he's very camera shy

// he consciously decides to live his life as positively as he can