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Sherlock Holmes | Sherlock (BBC) | Reserved
Name: Fossil
Age: 29
Contact Info:
Other Characters: Alphonse Elric, Bucky Barnes
Character Information
Name: Sherlock Holmes (full name: William Sherlock Scott Holmes)
Canon: Sherlock (BBC)
Age: Early to mid thirties
Gender: Male
Canon Point: Just after leaving Leinster Gardens with John and Mary, during Season 3, episode 3 (His Last Vow)
Background Link: Here
Inventory: Dark suit and white shirt
Long Belstaff coat
Scarf
Leather gloves
Violin, case, bow, and sheet music (hand penned)
Mobile phone (only able to turn on, no other function)
Fifty pence piece with a bullet hole in
Wallet (including cards/driver's license, etc)
Personality: Sherlock Holmes is many things - a terrible flatmate, rude, socially ignorant, addicted to solving interesting crimes, selfish, and a genuine genius. He is a master of deduction, using his insanely good observational skills to read the world and the people around him with, usually, a high level of accuracy. Just a clue such as the smell of a specific chemical can lead him to a chocolate factory, or glancing at a man he's just met and reading soldier in the straightness of his posture. He can be a hard man to define beyond the surface of the rude crime solving genius, and even his closest friends often remark that they have no idea what goes on in his head.
The most important thing in Sherlock's life is his work. He is a man absolutely obsessed with his work, he lives to solve crimes. He doesn't care about any monetary reward and, arguably, he cares less about seeing justice done than he probably should. It's the thrill of the chase, the puzzles that need to be solved, the great game. It can lead to him getting too involved and too attracted to the criminals he hunts down. Moriarty can get under his skin like nobody else because he's an equal genius, so much so that he chose to confront him personally rather than involve the police or John, and he nearly took a possible suicide pill just to prove he was right after being voluntarily kidnapped by the serial killer. All of those are the reasons he loves his work, is obsessed by it, and will go to extraordinary lengths while he's on a case. A good example of this is when he befriended, dated, and even eventually proposed to Janine for the sole purpose of gaining access to his quarry's office.
It's in this obsession with his work that his addictive personality first really shows itself. He is genuinely addicted to the thrill of crime solving and can become extremely moody, angry, and depressed when he doesn't have anything to occupy his mind. It's that boredom, between cases, that has driven him in the past to seek out drugs. He would not describe himself as a drug addict, but the people who know him (specifically his brother Mycroft) would probably say different.
He describes himself as a high functioning sociopath, mostly because of his difficulty in empathising with other people and his lack of social graces. He just doesn't care what most of the people around him have to say, they bore him with their idiocy, and he isn't shy about letting it show. It can also lead to him making inappropriate comments or deductions, such as not understanding why a woman may find the stillbirth of her child distressing years after the fact, or celebrating with enthusiasm how exciting a case is in front of the victims. Part of this is not caring, but part of it is a genuine misunderstanding and he will take corrections under advisement. Sometimes.
Despite this lack of understanding of empathy, he is incredibly good at manipulating people and playing a part when necessary. The aforementioned sham engagement required him to act lovingly and considerate, he once cried on cue just to pretend to be an old friend of a dead man in collecting clues, and he convincingly showed fear while disguised as a vicar. All of these acts are only ever done in pursuit of his greater goal. He would never consider just social niceties as a good enough reason to feign interest.
He learned from an early age that his manner and ability to observe what most other people couldn't was not conducive to making friends, and so he didn't try and pursue them. He has professed that sentiment is the death of logic, and that it's these errors in judgement that will be the death of the human race. But that isn't entirely true, for Sherlock has a sentimental side too. It can be seen briefly in small acts of kindness to the long-suffering Molly Hooper, or in how utterly outraged he became - to the point of nearly beating a man to death - when Mrs. Hudson was held at gunpoint, or in defending Mary even after she shot him. But where it really shines through is in his relationship to John Watson.
To say that Sherlock loves John would be entirely accurate. Not in a romantic fashion, nor even probably in a familial fashion, it's just an intense bond with a man who has become his best friend against all the odds. Watson is the humanising part of him, his grounding force, and an excellent partner to solve crimes with. It was the threat of John's death (along with Lestrade and Mrs. Hudson) by Moriarty, that drove Sherlock to fake his own suicide to protect them. It would be accurate to say that Sherlock does not make friends easily, not by any means, but the few he has are incredibly important to him.
That's not to say that the power of friendship somehow makes Sherlock less of an asshole. He is a selfish man and often doesn't think beyond his own needs, wants, and interests. He can be very cruel to Molly, even knowing of her feelings for him, and is always insulting John's intelligence. He has even gone so far as to attempt to drug John, or to actually drug Mary, his parents, and his brother (Mycroft) all in the aid of a case. His selfish attitude can be seen again when he reveals his death was all a ruse, he's surprised when John has moved on with his life and equally surprised at the anger. He expected to be greeted with open arms and for everything to go back to how it was, and it took quite a bit before he saw John's perspective on the matter.
Sherlock is incredibly childish sometimes, and often incapable of taking care of himself in the basic ways that an adult should be able to. He doesn't dust, clean, or really do his own shopping. He can forget to eat, he treats his landlady like a housekeeper, and he can sulk for days. He even showed up at Buckingham Palace in a bedsheet because he petulantly refused to be more accommodating for his big brother. He has shot the wall just out of boredom, and often conducts gruesome experiments with parts of corpses without thinking of the consequences to the people around him.
In short, he is a man capable of extremes in both directions. He can be so incredibly selfish as to fake his own suicide and let his best friend grieve for two years without a single word, take drugs just to assist in his thinking process, and lie to a woman about his feelings for a case; and he can be so incredibly selfless as to murder a man just to save the future of a woman who shot him, and dive into a burning bonfire to save a friend.
Flavor Abilities: None, he's a squishy human being. All his abilities are intelligence and deductive based.
Suitability: Sherlock is a man who thrives on a mystery, and the more dangerous or deadly it is, the more he thrives. It will be an endless source of annoyance to him that he can't figure out the problems of the admin right away, but it will definitely give him something to do. He should be pretty useful to the mystery solving team, even if he will likely make all of them want to kill him in about four seconds flat.
RP Samples: Multiple threads on the test drive meme
ACCEPTED
A small toy store that sells old-fashioned toys. Dusty, long-forgotten dolls, wooden blocks, and rubber balls line the shelves. There are a few board games, and even some stuffed animals, with polar bears and seals being favored alongside more traditional teddy bears. While the building seems normal enough, it has an eerie feel to it. Are the dolls moving around while you're not looking at them? There's a door near the back that leads to an employees only area, but it's completely empty except for one knocked over chair. At least there's also a public bathroom readily available.
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