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Sherlock Holmes - BBC's Sherlock
Name: Lynn
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Current Characters at Luceti:
Horatio Hornblower -
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Jonathan Hollom -
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Name: Sherlock Holmes
Fandom: BBC's Sherlock
Gender: Male
Age: 32
Time Period: Post- Reichenbach Fall (ETA: Because of this canon point, the follow application is very heavy on the Sherlock spoilers.)
Wing Color: Dark grey
History:
A Study in Pink
The Blind Banker
The Great Game
A Scandal in Belgravia
The Hounds of Baskerville
The Reichenbach Fall
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Sherlock Holmes is a man of contradictions.
Sherlock considers himself above most things, emotional attachment especially. In "Study in Pink," he refers to himself as a "high-functioning sociopath." There was times when this seems true, too. He dismisses the idea that a murder victim might have scratched out the name of her still-born daughter as she was dying, feeling the fourteen years since the death should have been enough time to be over it. In "Great Game," a hostage is killed, John demands to know if Sherlock cares about lives being on the line. Sherlock replies, "Will caring about them help me save them?" John says no. "Then I'll continue not to make that mistake." In "Scandal in Belgravia," two little girls tell Sherlock they weren't allowed to see their grandfather after he died. One asks if it's because he went to Heaven. Without hesitation, Sherlock's answer is "People don't go to Heaven. They're taken to a small room and burned." When Sherlock concocts a theory of having been drugged during "Hounds of Baskerville," he uses John as a subject to test his idea without permission or warning. Reichenbach Fall sees him verbally rip apart a journalist. Sherlock has a habit, too, of enjoying his cases beyond what others would consider "decent." The more dangerous, the better, no matter who gets caught up in the wake. He refers to the hostage-taker of Great Game as "delightfully interesting" and tells John he's "starting to" have fun while investigating the kidnapping of two children in "Reichenbach Fall." He is dismissive of the people in his life, from his older brother to the police and morgue worker he assists and is assisted by on cases to John Watson. In "Hounds of Baskerville," he tells John, whom he has lived and worked with for probably a year, "I don't have friends."
Yet Sherlock cares deeply about what is close to him and attaches very quickly when something interests him. This can be a case or, in rare situations, a person. He seems to decide on John as a flatmate only seconds after meeting him. The next day, he shows John the intended flat. Sherlock has already moved his things in. Not an hour later, Sherlock invites John to accompany him to a crime scene he has been asked to investigate. Sherlock shows the same quickness to attach to Irene Adler, though it manifests differently and has other reasons. Irene baffles him whe he tries to read her (something that, we can assume from his reaction, has never happened before) and even bests him. He is visibly shaken by her death and when it is revealed that she is, in fact, still alive. He is also very fond of his landlady Mrs Hudson. When she is threatened by an intruder in "Scandal in Belgravia," Sherlock overpowers him with quick thinking. (Spray cleaning solution in the eyes.) He then calls Lestrade to report that the man fell out of a window. When Lestrade arrives and questions how many times he fell, Sherlock simply answers that he "lost count." Mycroft Holmes and James Moriarty seem particularly aware of this dual nature. When Sherlock refers to himself as heartless, Moriarty replies, "But we both know that isn't quite true, don't we?" Mycroft, in "Scandal in Belgravia," asks of John, "My brother has the mind of a scientist or a philosopher, yet he chooses to be a detective. What might we deduce about his heart?" In "Reichenbach Fall," Moriarty uses Sherlock's attachment to force Sherlock into jumping off a building under threat of John, Mrs Hudson, and Lestrade being killed if he did not. Sherlock also devotes himself to the human element in all of his cases. When he is hired in Blind Banker to solve a break-in and finds a man killed, he relentlessly pursues the killer, desite his client's disinterest in the murdered man. While he dismisses the hostages during Great Game as unimportant, he tries to keep one woman from describing the man behind the puzzles so she will not make a target of herself.
Sherlock generally speaks and acts without regard for others. Whether he is callously telling Mrs Hudon that the man she is seeing is already married or talking about a man's low intelligence and undiagnosed health problems with a third party while the man is in the room, Sherlock divulges what he knows without even considering tact. He tells Irene, when she questions him about a case, "...you cater to the whims of the pathetic and take your clothes off to make an impression. Stop boring me and think." He has little concept of privacy or personal property. If it is closer, he uses John's laptop, despite having to guess the password. He has several badges belonging to Lestrade, with the explanation, "I pick his pocket when he's annoying." Sherlock also proves to be in possession of a government ID card belonging to Mycroft, which allows him access to a top secret military base and laboratory in "Hounds of Baskerville."
However, while Sherlock does not always realise where the boundaries in conversation lie, he can recognise when he has crossed one. On some occasions, he even demonstrates remorse. When Sherlock carelessly calls Molly out on having a serious boyfriend based on a Christmas gift, only to find that the gift was meant for him, he not only apologises to her but kisses her on the cheek. After having snapped at John in "Hounds of Baskerville," Sherlock tells him, "I meant what I said: I don't have friends. I only have one." John's involvement in Sherlock's life and particularly his physical presence has a noticable effect on Sherlock's conduct. He still says and does what he wants and what he thinks, but he seems more aware and apologetic of the unintentional offense he causes. The intentional never receives an apology.
On a case, Sherlock can be extremely manipulative. He will smile sweetly, take notice of a new hairstyle and compliment it, feign a childhood friendship with a missing man, or send John on a "date" with someone who has information. Nothing is off-limits when it comes to getting the answers he needs.
In his personal life, Sherlock rarely shows signs of manipulating others. While strongly craving cigarettes, he demands John produce the hidden stash. He offers the coming lottery numbers, but it takes only a second for him to say "Well, it was worth a try." He makes no emotional pleas or otherwise attempts to convince John to give in. The most manipulative he gets (in a mixing of personal life and a case but not directly relevant to solving a case) is just before his "suicide" in "Reichenbach Fall." He convinces John he does not care about an EMT calling to say that Mrs Hudson has been shot. The call is fake, and Sherlock knows it. John leaves, and Sherlock confronts Moriarty. Then, a short time later, Sherlock calls a returning John, directing his attention to the roof, where Sherlock is standing. He tells John he is a fraud and makes John watch him jump. However, Moriarty had made it clear that John (and Mrs Hudson and Lestrade) would be killed if Sherlock did not jump, and Sherlock is likely confirming the "story" of his being a fake because of the threat that someone is watching and/or listening and will kill John if he does anything else. In both cases, Sherlock's manipulation is to guarantee John's safety.
Sherlock Holmes, as much as he would like to pretend not to be, is very human. He may be annoyed by, disappointed in, tired of, and/or infuriated at other people, but he is never apathetic.
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Physical
Sherlock is tall, agile, and has a vast reserve of stamina. In Study in Pink, Sherlock leads John in a race through London, chasing a cab. This takes them up fire escapes, jumping roofs, and even running in front of a moving cab to force it to stop. He manages, at the beginning of Blind Banker to evade a man with a sword who (for reasons never really explained) is attacking him. In the same episode, he manages to not be killed by an assassin who attacks him backstage at a Chinese circus. Scandal in Belgravia shows that Sherlock is strong enough to lift a man larger than him enough to push him out of a window. (And then, presumably, drag him back up to the second story to do it again.) Sherlock also has a certificate in his bedroom from having learned judo, and he shows evidence of that training and some knowledge of boxing while fighting the assassin known as Golem in Great Game.
Mental
Sherlock is a genius, and he is observant. He can read the minute details of a person in their appearance at a glance. Not only does he notice almost everything, he knows how to piece the parts together to get a comprehensive whole. A man who went to university with Sherlock tells John that Sherlock "could tell you your whole life's story." Sherlock also has impressive recall ability. He can remember almost anything he has heard and seen, though sometimes it takes prompting. (He does not recognise Jim Moriarty in Great Game as "Jim from IT" until Moriarty reminds him.) He often seems to know things about people that they'd rather he not, but, as he puts it, "I didn't know; I observed." Sherlock is good at planning for the future. When he realises Moriarty's plan in Reichenbach Fall, he begins setting up ways (such as letting John leave the hospital when he knows it's a set-up) to protect his friends and (through earlier conversation with Molly) make preparations to fake his suicide.
Emotional
Sherlock is loyal. Once he decides he can respect someone, it shows. He will still insult them and condescend, but there is less or no malice in what he says. A very subtle example of this is seen in Study in Pink. Sergeant Sally Donovan stops Sherlock at the perimiter of a crime scene, and Sherlock only remarks that she never made it home the night before. When one of the forensic scientists, Anderson, speaks to him, Sherlock is immediately more hostile, calling Anderson out on cheating on his wife with Donovan. Now, Sherlock does not seem to like Donovan, but he certainly has a higher opinion of her than he does of Anderson. Sherlock also cares about people in general, though he has a wider view than most people like. A hostage in Great Game means little to him because knowing who she is will not help stop the man threatening her life. Sherlock would rather tackle the larger threat than worry about the sentimental details, but he still cares about stopping the real danger.
Weaknesses:
Physical
Sherlock is flesh and blood. He has no magic, superpowers, or supernatural abilities. In addition, his boxing skills seem very amateur at best. He knows the proper stance and strikes, but he seems surprised when a hit against the Golem in Great Game has little effect, indicating that Sherlock likely has minimal experience translating lessons and some spars into an actual fight. The nature of the sport and the lack of evidence of injuries on Sherlock (such as indications of a previously broken nose or the like) seems to indicate a minimal involvement beyond learning the basics.
Mental
Sherlock's mind never stops. This makes him incredibly intelligent, yes, but it presents difficulties too. When there is nothing to interest him and distract him, he becomes more and more restless and likely to lash out. To focus on difficult cases, he has been known to use stimulants. In Study in Pink, he puts three nicotine patches on his arm to think through the problems of the case. (Based on the drugs bust Lestrade conducts later in that episode, it's almost certain Sherlock has at least experimented with heavier drugs than nicotine.) Sherlock also has the habit of, as he puts it in Great Game, "deleting" whatever he thinks he does not need to know. (For instance: he does not know/remember that the Earth revolves around the sun.) This gets him in trouble because sometimes it's those "unimportant" things or people (such as the scandal-figure that is Irene Adler) that make all the difference in a case.
Emotional
Sherlock tries to cut himself off from everyone, but a few people have gotten close, and he is more attached to them than he can properly admit. Moriarty's ultimatum in Reichenbach Fall forces him to admit that he would die for John, Mrs Hudson, and Lestrade. While this death is faked, the sincerity behind the action is there, highlighted by the "confession" to John that he faked his observational skill. Completely pointless, unless there was cause to believe that John would still be harmed if he didn't try and convince him it was true. Sherlock's general lack of empathy means that he sometimes struggles to understand why someone is hurt like they are, either by something he says or by a situation at large. He does not understand why others cannot remove themselves as easily as he can. His biggest weakness-- and the one Moriarty exploits in both Great Game and Reichenbach Fall-- is John Watson. He is the best friend Sherlock has, probably the best he's had in a long time, and Sherlock makes no secret (except maybe to himself, and by Reichenbach Fall even that is shattered) that he would do anything to see John safe. He might sometimes (by ruining dates or insulting John's girlfriends or John himself) ruin John's mood, but he does look after John's safety. Even when he attempts to drug John with what is essentially hallucinogenic chemicals to make him "see" the hound in Hounds of Baskerville, the experiment is actually done in a confined environment over which Sherlock had absolute control and observation over, meaning no harm was going to come John in the course of it... save a little emotional distress. (John was affected, but he had actually been introduced to the chemical in another way, not by Sherlock's interference.)
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First Person:
I detest these flats.
[That sounded rather like a gunshot.]
Every single one is exactly the same. [Bang.] Empty. Lifeless. Boring.
[Bang. Bang.]
There's no history to them, no personality. Like no one ever thought to even open the door before their occupant wandered on in. There's not even dust.
[Bang.]
White-washed walls, even floors, flawless ceilings, clean windows. There is nothing to make them at all individual. You can't tell one from the other. Not unless someone's taken up one and not left.
[Bang. Bang. Bang.]
Not having my things is bad enough-- my own clothes, my computer, my chemistry set, my mobile. But to be without my things and be forced to tolerate a plain, new flat--
[Bang. Bang.]
I'd rather live somewhere someone violently died in that hasn't been cleaned up than somewhere so new.
[Bang. Click.]
...I'm out of bullets, John. Where's the other magazine?
Third Person:
Sherlock Holmes drew his bow across the violin's A string. The note wavered in the air, and he breathed out only when he lifted the bow. He drew the air in on the rest before setting off on the next movement of the piece he was playing.
When had he become so fond of Johann Sebastian Bach?
The question failed to hold his interest. It was a boring question, easy to answer. It had much to do with why particularly vibrant shades of red always made him glance over his shoulder. Instead of spending more time on the thought, while his wings kept time and his fingers coaxed the violin into song, his mind turned over this strange place and all the questions it supplied.
How had they come to be here? What was the meaning of the books in the library? He'd read Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as a boy, made Mycroft read the man's works to him nearly every night when they'd been growing up. Yet here there were stories about a Sherlock Holmes in the Victorian age, narrated by Doctor John Watson. Some of the details were uncanny. 'Good night, Mister Sherlock Holmes.' Tea with James Moriarty. Then there were the questions of the place itself. What kept them here? Why did they have wings? He had meant it when he had told Moriarty not to mistake him for an angel. They felt so out of place, the feather-limbs on his back. Who were the Malnosso, really? How were they supposed to get home? ...And who was it John had gotten into his head to impress? Someone, surely. There was always some pretty girl or another, and Luceti had its share, he supposed.
Too many questions, too few avenues to answers. At least on the important ones.
He lifted his bow again, bringing the midnight music outside the community housing to a halt. Frustrating as the obstacles in his path were, they provided him with a struggle. He could grapple with his questions. The battle finding any hints at answers had proven to be kept him from being too bored.
Kept him from thinking about the too-easily accessed hospital and its unguarded medication.
Too much, at least.
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