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PLAYER↴ Name: Indy Contact: Plurk: Indymica Other Characters: N/A CHARACTER↴ Character Name: Sherlock Holmes Age: 34 Species: Human Canon: Yes Canon Point: End of The Abominable Bride Character Info: Link Personality: Sherlock, on the outside, is the most cold-hearted, horrible, arrogant, miserable misanthrope anyone's had the displeasure of meeting. He's awful and rude, not to mention brutally honest, but mostly because he simply wants people to hurry up and get on with things, as he's driven to boredom by people being too slow to talk to him. On the inside Sherlock is a passionate, loyal, eager, loving and highly-emotional person. He's so overly emotional that he actively suppresses it. This also comes from Mycroft, as Mycroft knows that Sherlock is the kind of person that can get so attached to someone or something that it could destroy him one day. This is why he tries to impress upon him, 'caring is not an advantage.' Sherlock himself knows that when he gets emotional it messes with his ability to think logically. He will indeed get so attached to a person--John--that he would throw everything of value to himself, including his own life, away for that person. He would kill for that person. Mycroft, of course, is just as passionately protective of his little brother and has done his best to cultivate Sherlock's logical side to suppress his true nature in order to save his life. Sherlock loves his friends deeply, he cares very much for Mrs. Hudson, Molly, and Mary, and loves John more than any other person in the world. Despite their prickly relationship, he also cares for Mycroft. Sherlock has a desperate need to prove himself clever. It's tied up in his self-worth. He actually does want to be liked, despite his behavior seeming otherwise. He went through much trouble to include John in his life when they first met, for example, curing him of his psychosomatic limp, cleaning up a bit in the flat, bringing him along on cases. His callous treatment of John, Molly and others like Mrs. Hudson, was only because he had poor social skills or was impatient. He was usually in a hurry or didn't care if people thought he was rude. He became much less rude as his friendship with John progressed. He professed to not care what people think. He actually does, as John said, 'you'd care if they thought you were a fraud.' Sherlock cares for what the people close to him think, which was why he was so angry for a moment when he thought that John was buying into Moriarty's duplicity. As of the end of The Abominable Bride, Sherlock is realizing that despite his belief that sentiment is still a disadvantage, despite his self-loathing of emotions, he's willing to go against these beliefs to fight for John Watson. He knows well that killing Magnussen was basically ending his own life--whether that literally or figuratively--and he did it because John Watson's happiness was more important to him than his own. Sherlock's walls had finally come down to the point where he had let himself care for John, no matter the hurt he would have to go through. Before, Sherlock kept people at arm's length because of the bad things that had happened to him all through his childhood and his young adult life. Mycroft had hammered that belief into him. That caring was not an advantage, that all hearts are broken. When he encountered Irene, it had proved to him once again that sentiment could be his downfall. And yet, fully accepting this, he went on to give himself up heroically for John. He says he isn't a hero, but Sherlock is actually very self-sacrificing to the one he cares about most. Sherlock is still arrogant on the outside, but that also comes with utter confidence in his abilities and reasoning. He's also very naive when it comes to other things, especially in the realm of friendships, relationships, and social interaction. For example, he was flabbergasted that John considered him a best friend. It was the first time it had ever happened to him, and he simply couldn't compute for several minutes as he stared blankly at John. His naiveté was also how Irene played him by tricking him into solving the code on her phone and giving her what she needed to blackmail the country. Abilities: Sherlock has the ability to deduce information from small clues to form accurate conclusions. This can be about people or places or things. Also, this goes hand-in-hand with an encyclopedic knowledge of certain subjects like chemistry and forensics to be able to pull the information instantly from the mind to form conclusions. This also goes hand-in-hand with his use of the mind-palace, a memory technique that allows him to store massive amounts of facts and be able to pull them at a moment's notice. His deductions fail easily when he's emotionally compromised. He is also skilled in hand-to-hand combat, is handy with a sword and a gun, and is near-expert at boxing. He is significantly better than ordinary people, though he can be bested by those with more training and experience than him. CARNIVAL↴ Soul Colour: Blue Ideal Jobs: Patrol, showman, talker, wrestler, thief, conman Relevant Experience: Sherlock's a consulting detective, and probably would have done very well in an actual police force were it not for his inability to follow orders and pay attention to the rules. He's got a flair for the dramatic and likes to show off, and he's also got sticky fingers and is quite good at slight of hand. He's very persuasive and manipulative, and was a competitive boxer and fencer in university. Reason for Joining: A game. It had to be a game, for Mr. 'The Game is On!' Sherlock, being the kind of person who he is, can't back down from an interesting game, whether that's Operation or an invite from a consulting criminal. He accidentally wandered into the circus in London, and intrigued by everything, allowed himself to be suckered into playing a game with someone, on the pretense he was clever enough to figure it out. The game was simple enough--a game of riddles. Sherlock was never one for riddles, but he was mildly insulted by the yelled insinuation that he wasn't clever enough to figure it out, so he stormed back and shot down the first two. However, the third one he was stumped, but managed to come back with an answer before the time ran out. He turned around to leave again, when he was told that he had played without paying first, and had incurred a debt. SAMPLES↴ Mask or Menace Test Drive