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thevictoriandetective) wrote2017-03-02 11:37 pm
thevictoriandetective) wrote2017-03-02 11:37 pm
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Player Info
Name: Indy
18 or Older?: Yes
Contact: Indymica @ Plurk
Player Type: New
Invited By: N/A
Character Info
Name: Sherlock Holmes
Canon: BBC Sherlock
Canon Point: End of Season 4
Age: Around 36
History: Unlock a tragic backstory
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. 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, especially after the trauma he experienced as a child. 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 and protect him from his repressed traumatic memories.
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 really does love Mycroft.
Sherlock has a desperate need to prove himself clever. It's tied up in his self-worth. It also stems from when he wasn't clever enough to figure out Eurus' riddle and failed to find Victor. 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 and Mary 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 multiple times, and using sentiment to get Eurus to reveal where she'd hidden John. If it wasn't for sentiment tempered with reason, he would have lost.
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 aware can get too proud and arrogant, especially after Mary's death, and actively tries not too repeat the same mistakes of the past. The guilt from her death still eats at him. He's also very naive when it comes to social 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 (at least to his knowledge, at the time he didn't remember Victor Trevor), 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.
Sample: Superhero Sherlock
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Name: Indy
18 or Older?: Yes
Contact: Indymica @ Plurk
Player Type: New
Invited By: N/A
Character Info
Name: Sherlock Holmes
Canon: BBC Sherlock
Canon Point: End of Season 4
Age: Around 36
History: Unlock a tragic backstory
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. 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, especially after the trauma he experienced as a child. 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 and protect him from his repressed traumatic memories.
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 really does love Mycroft.
Sherlock has a desperate need to prove himself clever. It's tied up in his self-worth. It also stems from when he wasn't clever enough to figure out Eurus' riddle and failed to find Victor. 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 and Mary 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 multiple times, and using sentiment to get Eurus to reveal where she'd hidden John. If it wasn't for sentiment tempered with reason, he would have lost.
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 aware can get too proud and arrogant, especially after Mary's death, and actively tries not too repeat the same mistakes of the past. The guilt from her death still eats at him. He's also very naive when it comes to social 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 (at least to his knowledge, at the time he didn't remember Victor Trevor), 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.
Sample: Superhero Sherlock
More Superhero Fun Times
Monster Choices: Arachne, Carbuncle, Chimera, Merperson, Nymph