This is a Tyler who never ended up in Chicago. Instead he stayed in Mystic Falls, became a hybrid, and his life has been on a slow slide downhill ever since.

He hates these things but his mother threw this one and back home his mother is dead so he copes.

And by coping the narration mostly means he drinks a lot of alcohol.

He nods a little at the guy's question.

"Yeah. They did. It seems like it isn't poisoned, if that's the concern."