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Character: Sherlock Holmes
Canon: Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (2023), post game
Age: 23
cw: for child abuse, medical malpractice, and mental illness topics
Background Information:
A Mother's Love (Chapter One)
Sherlock lived with his parents, Siger and Violet Holmes, and his older brother, Mycroft Holmes. All was well until Siger died unexpectedly when Sherlock was 6. Violet began losing her grasp on reality. When confronted with the truth of her husband's death, she grew angry and violent. Sherlock's imaginary friend, Jonathan (Jon), came into his life the same year. Sherlock was terrified when Violet had one of her episodes, and Jon was there to protect him and take the bad memories away.
His mother's mind continued to deteriorate causing her, Sherlock, Mycroft, and Dr. Otto Richter to move to the island of Cordona. Sherlock went on all sorts of adventures with Jon. However, he never made many friends and realized only he could see and hear Jon. Dr. Richter experimented on Violet, a subject of study instead of a patient. Dr. Richter also showed interest in Sherlock for his high intelligence and Jon hallucinations, but he could not get close due to Mycroft.
At age 10, everything came crashing down. Violet had an especially bad episode. She later calmed, but when on a walk with Sherlock, she asked Sherlock to call for his father. Sherlock told her that his father was dead. Violet hit Sherlock, claimed he was lying and pretending to be her son, and tried to drown him. Violet died that day, and Dr. Richter was found guilty of murder with Mycroft as a witness.
Jon blocked all memories of that event, and Sherlock believed in the lie Mycroft told about Violet dying from consumption. Sherlock left Cordona with Mycroft and became buried in schoolwork. Jon continued to be by his side.
Against Mycroft's wishes, Sherlock and Jon returned to Cordona when he was 21 to visit his mother's grave. His memories still remained blocked or altered. It was Verner Vogel (later revealed to be Otto Richter's younger brother) who suggested Violet didn't die of consumption. Sherlock realized he never heard her coughing and investigated. He became a consulting investigator for the police and solved some of their cases. Sherlock started to recall his memories, and Jon started to flicker in and out of existence.
Eventually, Sherlock remembered and realized what role Jon had in his memories. Sherlock confronted Mycroft about the lies and Dr. Richter being found guilty for a crime he didn't commit. Mycroft didn't deny it but stood by his reasons: choosing the two of them over Dr. Richter. Sherlock believed Mycroft and felt that maybe he could finally move on knowing the truth. He and Jon said goodbye and parted as Sherlock no longer needed him.
Sherlock crossed paths once more with Vogel, who called Sherlock his masterpiece, Sisyphus to Ozymandias and "nothing beside remains." Sherlock proclaimed that "I remain. Despite you, and to spite you." He returned to London, studied at Cambridge University, worked at St. Bart's hospital lab, and solved the problems of other people. Sherlock met a man who echoed Jon and was looking for someone to room with. Soon after, Sherlock Holmes moved into 221B Baker Street with Dr. John H. Watson.
The Adventure of the Lord and the Lighthouse (The Awakened)
Watson brought Sherlock to see Captain Stenwick about his missing servant, Kimihia. The search led them to underneath the dock warehouses, and Sherlock first entered another, disturbing world. He returned to a cultist room where abducted people were transported elsewhere. For a moment, Sherlock saw a chanting dead body as a mix of Jon and John Watson. He called out to Jon, and Watson, thinking he was calling for him, came to find a visibly shaken Sherlock.
They followed the trail to Switzerland and Edelweiss Institute, a cruel place experimenting on patients as "treatment." In the depths of the place, Sherlock encountered a cultist speaking of the Great Lord as Sherlock tried to fight their influence in the other world, calling out for help from Watson and Jon again. Sherlock woke alone in the room, chanting about the Light of the Abyss.
Throughout their journey, both Sherlock and Watson opened up to each other. Sherlock depended on Watson, and the two spoke in more familiar terms. Sherlock started to doubt his own sanity and asked Jon to intervene if he should start breaking. Watson, thinking again that Sherlock had spoken to him, said that he would.
Fearing that no one else would be able to succeed if they stopped, Sherlock and Watson crossed the ocean to Louisiana. They discovered even more missing people. Their next path forward led them to Arneson's mansion, his disappearance, and to another cultist lair in the bayou. After separating from Watson, Sherlock saw the other world again. He struggled, crying out for Watson and Jon again, and when Watson reunited with Sherlock (and found Arneson), Sherlock was in a very bad mental state and was almost killed. Watson saved him.
They returned to London where Mycroft waited for them in 221B. Mycroft argued with Sherlock and Watson, even after Watson (and Sherlock) appealed to him for help. Mycroft left in anger saying, "Interesting, Sherlock, that as you again drift away from sanity, you find yourself another John."
Mycroft's words shattered Sherlock. Watson returned from the bookstore to find Sherlock questioning his worth and sanity. Sherlock might have given up had Watson not bolstered Sherlock's spirit by saying that if he could not trust in himself, to trust Watson's belief in him.
They followed Lord Archibald Rochester to the Ardnamurchan Lighthouse near Lochaber, Scotland to stop him from sacrificing all the abductees to awaken the sleeping god. The ritual was already in progress. The climb to the lighthouse's top separated Sherlock and Watson. The Abyss called for Sherlock, and he called out for Watson. Once more, Watson arrived to save Sherlock's life, and it was his intervention that brought Sherlock back.
Sherlock distracted Rochester while Watson destroyed the Khaleid lenses entrancing the abductees. Rochester expected Sherlock despite them never having met because "We've stood here before, Mr Holmes. Another you, another me, many years ago." Sherlock gave into the madness. All that he saw was real despite his attempts to understand it as something else. However, while he may not be able to stop a god, he could stop a man, and he did that by making a friend. Watson destroyed the last lens and stopped the ritual. Sherlock tried to glimpse the god in the water, but Watson pulled him to safety before a giant wave smashed against the lighthouse.
Back at 221B, Sherlock told Watson not to publish his novel as it would be professional suicide for both of them. Nightmares continued to wake Sherlock, so Watson injected the exhausted Sherlock with a sleeping drug despite his protests. As he started to fall asleep, Sherlock asked, "I say, Watson, would you be afraid to sleep in the same home as a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain, an idiot whose mind has lost its grip?" Watson replied he would not.
Later while walking in a park with Watson, a strange ship in a bottle rolled toward Sherlock's feet. Water swirled around him, and everything went dark.
Personality:
1) Tell us about who your character is and what someone’s first impression would be upon meeting them.
Sherlock Holmes is a young man trying to find his place in the world as a consulting detective and as a person in general. He's smart, observant, and curious. If he wants to learn something, he will go through lengths to satisfy that desire. He's been handed a difficult life and is still recovering from a case which has broken what he knew of the world and himself. Sherlock looks exhausted, weary, and broken. He hasn't slept well in months. His eating habits are poor, and even his normally clean appearance has turned a little unkempt and scruffy.
Underneath all that is still someone who yearns to go on adventures, solve mysteries, help people, and, honestly, be loved. He has stumbled, almost given up, and is unsteady, but there is still a fight within him. He remains, despite and to spite. However, maybe he needs to learn how to live instead of just surviving.
2) What is a driving force your character has? What goals do they have, what motivates them, etc?
Sherlock considers himself ruled by logic and reason, but he is just as ruled by his emotions. He wants to find some place he belongs, and to do that, he believes that his mind is the key. That is what will give him worth and make people want to stick around. If people view him as he's lost his mind (which he believes he has because he has trouble recognizing what's reality or not), they will want nothing to do with him. From Mycroft, he only got lectures of what he should have done and what he did wrong, so that helped establish his self-worth being tied to his mind and what he can do. When he fails at that, he has no worth at all. He likes to be noticed and recognized for his accomplishments as if he needs the reminder of why he fights. (The credit doesn't need to remain with him as long as someone recognizes him.)
One thing Sherlock has learned from his time in Cordona is that justice doesn't always follow the law, and it has stuck with him. There were many times when what seemed just went in opposition to the law. A crime was committed, and Sherlock discovered the truth. However, based on the circumstances, he might let the criminal go. A woman murdering her abusers? He dropped his investigation, and he didn't help the police connect the dots to an arrest. He'll dig up details on long dead or ignored cases in hopes of having justice served in some fashion. He also has no qualms about breaking into a place in search of evidence to right a wrong. His idea of right and wrong may not fit in with society's rules (or Mycroft's), but he will not let that stop him from upholding them.
Related, he is human, not an unfeeling machine. He shows kindness to those in need or who society thinks little of. He'll interact with them,meet with them, and respect the expertise they have. Children understand more than one thinks and can provide information. He'll listen to and help refugees and servants. He'll believe what a woman says instead of assuming she's hysterical. He'll berate his own client and call him a brute over the cruel treatment of his servant. Some crimes disgust or horrify Sherlock. He understands victims more than he realizes because he is a survivor of abuse himself and carries survivor's guilt over his mother's death. Sherlock doesn't have many friends, so he cherishes the ones he does have even if it's not immediately obvious.
3) What are their flaws as a character? What is something they've messed up, or have done that they regret?
Sherlock's obsessive, stubborn nature is both a boon and a burden. He's aware it helps him solve his cases, but it often comes at the expense of himself and others around him. He wanted to learn the truth about his mother to the extent that it drove a rift between him and Mycroft, shattered what he knew of himself, blinded him to how he was being toyed with, and caused him to lose a part of himself. His obsession with truth played a part in his mother's death and created his intense fear of water. It has caused a conflict between people and the government, which resulted in deaths. It also made him seem rude when he thought he was helping.
He doesn't believe he'll truly belong anywhere and will always end up alone. He's afraid of asking for help and letting people close because they'll find out he's not worth their time or hurt him. The fact that he opened up to Watson and depended on him is an outlier despite how much Sherlock wants those deeper connections. Sherlock's loneliness has been with him ever since he was a child. His parents died when he was young. He was a nuisance to adults, a freak to other kids. His best friend never existed outside of his head. Mycroft was emotionally distant or controlling.
Sherlock represses and bottles things up until it becomes too much. He's from the Victorian Era. People aren't supposed to show emotion as he does. He was raised by Mycroft, a man who controls his emotions well, and his mother's emotional swings were from her illness, something Sherlock fears is happening to him. He fears he can do terrible things. When not occupied, he may become paranoid or see things which aren't there. Sometimes, Sherlock will shut down, not talking for days on end or getting so caught up in how he's thinking or feeling that he needs another person to bring him out of it. He can also swing the other way and become ecstatic and theatrical, literally jumping for joy and gesturing wildly.
4) Optional: What is something unique and interesting about them, or what is a fun little tidbit that sets them apart from the crowd?
Sherlock is part of a long tradition of different Sherlock Holmes adaptations and has an older counterpart in Frogwares's Sherlock Holmes games. His canon touches the 4th Wall as part of its structure. While Chapter One could have just been references (both for multiple Sherlock Holmes canons and Jon's random modern ones like "Jon has wares if you have coin"), The Awakened changes that and directly refers the Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (2008) game. It puts Sherlock's madness in a different light as he becomes aware of patterns which exist in his world but don't make sense. What does it ultimately mean? There is no clear answer, but it does help enhance the perception of madness. There's already Sherlock Holmes, Jon, John Watson, Watkinson, Holman, and the older Frogwares Holmes in Sherlock's canon. It ties into him being touched by Cthulhu's madness and seeing more than a mortal human should.
Fun tidbit: Sherry is his childhood nickname used by his mother and Jon.
Abilities & Inventory:
Abilities:
Canon: Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (2023), post game
Age: 23
cw: for child abuse, medical malpractice, and mental illness topics
Background Information:
A Mother's Love (Chapter One)
Sherlock lived with his parents, Siger and Violet Holmes, and his older brother, Mycroft Holmes. All was well until Siger died unexpectedly when Sherlock was 6. Violet began losing her grasp on reality. When confronted with the truth of her husband's death, she grew angry and violent. Sherlock's imaginary friend, Jonathan (Jon), came into his life the same year. Sherlock was terrified when Violet had one of her episodes, and Jon was there to protect him and take the bad memories away.
His mother's mind continued to deteriorate causing her, Sherlock, Mycroft, and Dr. Otto Richter to move to the island of Cordona. Sherlock went on all sorts of adventures with Jon. However, he never made many friends and realized only he could see and hear Jon. Dr. Richter experimented on Violet, a subject of study instead of a patient. Dr. Richter also showed interest in Sherlock for his high intelligence and Jon hallucinations, but he could not get close due to Mycroft.
At age 10, everything came crashing down. Violet had an especially bad episode. She later calmed, but when on a walk with Sherlock, she asked Sherlock to call for his father. Sherlock told her that his father was dead. Violet hit Sherlock, claimed he was lying and pretending to be her son, and tried to drown him. Violet died that day, and Dr. Richter was found guilty of murder with Mycroft as a witness.
Jon blocked all memories of that event, and Sherlock believed in the lie Mycroft told about Violet dying from consumption. Sherlock left Cordona with Mycroft and became buried in schoolwork. Jon continued to be by his side.
Against Mycroft's wishes, Sherlock and Jon returned to Cordona when he was 21 to visit his mother's grave. His memories still remained blocked or altered. It was Verner Vogel (later revealed to be Otto Richter's younger brother) who suggested Violet didn't die of consumption. Sherlock realized he never heard her coughing and investigated. He became a consulting investigator for the police and solved some of their cases. Sherlock started to recall his memories, and Jon started to flicker in and out of existence.
Eventually, Sherlock remembered and realized what role Jon had in his memories. Sherlock confronted Mycroft about the lies and Dr. Richter being found guilty for a crime he didn't commit. Mycroft didn't deny it but stood by his reasons: choosing the two of them over Dr. Richter. Sherlock believed Mycroft and felt that maybe he could finally move on knowing the truth. He and Jon said goodbye and parted as Sherlock no longer needed him.
Sherlock crossed paths once more with Vogel, who called Sherlock his masterpiece, Sisyphus to Ozymandias and "nothing beside remains." Sherlock proclaimed that "I remain. Despite you, and to spite you." He returned to London, studied at Cambridge University, worked at St. Bart's hospital lab, and solved the problems of other people. Sherlock met a man who echoed Jon and was looking for someone to room with. Soon after, Sherlock Holmes moved into 221B Baker Street with Dr. John H. Watson.
The Adventure of the Lord and the Lighthouse (The Awakened)
Watson brought Sherlock to see Captain Stenwick about his missing servant, Kimihia. The search led them to underneath the dock warehouses, and Sherlock first entered another, disturbing world. He returned to a cultist room where abducted people were transported elsewhere. For a moment, Sherlock saw a chanting dead body as a mix of Jon and John Watson. He called out to Jon, and Watson, thinking he was calling for him, came to find a visibly shaken Sherlock.
They followed the trail to Switzerland and Edelweiss Institute, a cruel place experimenting on patients as "treatment." In the depths of the place, Sherlock encountered a cultist speaking of the Great Lord as Sherlock tried to fight their influence in the other world, calling out for help from Watson and Jon again. Sherlock woke alone in the room, chanting about the Light of the Abyss.
Throughout their journey, both Sherlock and Watson opened up to each other. Sherlock depended on Watson, and the two spoke in more familiar terms. Sherlock started to doubt his own sanity and asked Jon to intervene if he should start breaking. Watson, thinking again that Sherlock had spoken to him, said that he would.
Fearing that no one else would be able to succeed if they stopped, Sherlock and Watson crossed the ocean to Louisiana. They discovered even more missing people. Their next path forward led them to Arneson's mansion, his disappearance, and to another cultist lair in the bayou. After separating from Watson, Sherlock saw the other world again. He struggled, crying out for Watson and Jon again, and when Watson reunited with Sherlock (and found Arneson), Sherlock was in a very bad mental state and was almost killed. Watson saved him.
They returned to London where Mycroft waited for them in 221B. Mycroft argued with Sherlock and Watson, even after Watson (and Sherlock) appealed to him for help. Mycroft left in anger saying, "Interesting, Sherlock, that as you again drift away from sanity, you find yourself another John."
Mycroft's words shattered Sherlock. Watson returned from the bookstore to find Sherlock questioning his worth and sanity. Sherlock might have given up had Watson not bolstered Sherlock's spirit by saying that if he could not trust in himself, to trust Watson's belief in him.
They followed Lord Archibald Rochester to the Ardnamurchan Lighthouse near Lochaber, Scotland to stop him from sacrificing all the abductees to awaken the sleeping god. The ritual was already in progress. The climb to the lighthouse's top separated Sherlock and Watson. The Abyss called for Sherlock, and he called out for Watson. Once more, Watson arrived to save Sherlock's life, and it was his intervention that brought Sherlock back.
Sherlock distracted Rochester while Watson destroyed the Khaleid lenses entrancing the abductees. Rochester expected Sherlock despite them never having met because "We've stood here before, Mr Holmes. Another you, another me, many years ago." Sherlock gave into the madness. All that he saw was real despite his attempts to understand it as something else. However, while he may not be able to stop a god, he could stop a man, and he did that by making a friend. Watson destroyed the last lens and stopped the ritual. Sherlock tried to glimpse the god in the water, but Watson pulled him to safety before a giant wave smashed against the lighthouse.
Back at 221B, Sherlock told Watson not to publish his novel as it would be professional suicide for both of them. Nightmares continued to wake Sherlock, so Watson injected the exhausted Sherlock with a sleeping drug despite his protests. As he started to fall asleep, Sherlock asked, "I say, Watson, would you be afraid to sleep in the same home as a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain, an idiot whose mind has lost its grip?" Watson replied he would not.
Later while walking in a park with Watson, a strange ship in a bottle rolled toward Sherlock's feet. Water swirled around him, and everything went dark.
Personality:
1) Tell us about who your character is and what someone’s first impression would be upon meeting them.
Sherlock Holmes is a young man trying to find his place in the world as a consulting detective and as a person in general. He's smart, observant, and curious. If he wants to learn something, he will go through lengths to satisfy that desire. He's been handed a difficult life and is still recovering from a case which has broken what he knew of the world and himself. Sherlock looks exhausted, weary, and broken. He hasn't slept well in months. His eating habits are poor, and even his normally clean appearance has turned a little unkempt and scruffy.
Underneath all that is still someone who yearns to go on adventures, solve mysteries, help people, and, honestly, be loved. He has stumbled, almost given up, and is unsteady, but there is still a fight within him. He remains, despite and to spite. However, maybe he needs to learn how to live instead of just surviving.
2) What is a driving force your character has? What goals do they have, what motivates them, etc?
Sherlock considers himself ruled by logic and reason, but he is just as ruled by his emotions. He wants to find some place he belongs, and to do that, he believes that his mind is the key. That is what will give him worth and make people want to stick around. If people view him as he's lost his mind (which he believes he has because he has trouble recognizing what's reality or not), they will want nothing to do with him. From Mycroft, he only got lectures of what he should have done and what he did wrong, so that helped establish his self-worth being tied to his mind and what he can do. When he fails at that, he has no worth at all. He likes to be noticed and recognized for his accomplishments as if he needs the reminder of why he fights. (The credit doesn't need to remain with him as long as someone recognizes him.)
One thing Sherlock has learned from his time in Cordona is that justice doesn't always follow the law, and it has stuck with him. There were many times when what seemed just went in opposition to the law. A crime was committed, and Sherlock discovered the truth. However, based on the circumstances, he might let the criminal go. A woman murdering her abusers? He dropped his investigation, and he didn't help the police connect the dots to an arrest. He'll dig up details on long dead or ignored cases in hopes of having justice served in some fashion. He also has no qualms about breaking into a place in search of evidence to right a wrong. His idea of right and wrong may not fit in with society's rules (or Mycroft's), but he will not let that stop him from upholding them.
Related, he is human, not an unfeeling machine. He shows kindness to those in need or who society thinks little of. He'll interact with them,meet with them, and respect the expertise they have. Children understand more than one thinks and can provide information. He'll listen to and help refugees and servants. He'll believe what a woman says instead of assuming she's hysterical. He'll berate his own client and call him a brute over the cruel treatment of his servant. Some crimes disgust or horrify Sherlock. He understands victims more than he realizes because he is a survivor of abuse himself and carries survivor's guilt over his mother's death. Sherlock doesn't have many friends, so he cherishes the ones he does have even if it's not immediately obvious.
3) What are their flaws as a character? What is something they've messed up, or have done that they regret?
Sherlock's obsessive, stubborn nature is both a boon and a burden. He's aware it helps him solve his cases, but it often comes at the expense of himself and others around him. He wanted to learn the truth about his mother to the extent that it drove a rift between him and Mycroft, shattered what he knew of himself, blinded him to how he was being toyed with, and caused him to lose a part of himself. His obsession with truth played a part in his mother's death and created his intense fear of water. It has caused a conflict between people and the government, which resulted in deaths. It also made him seem rude when he thought he was helping.
He doesn't believe he'll truly belong anywhere and will always end up alone. He's afraid of asking for help and letting people close because they'll find out he's not worth their time or hurt him. The fact that he opened up to Watson and depended on him is an outlier despite how much Sherlock wants those deeper connections. Sherlock's loneliness has been with him ever since he was a child. His parents died when he was young. He was a nuisance to adults, a freak to other kids. His best friend never existed outside of his head. Mycroft was emotionally distant or controlling.
Sherlock represses and bottles things up until it becomes too much. He's from the Victorian Era. People aren't supposed to show emotion as he does. He was raised by Mycroft, a man who controls his emotions well, and his mother's emotional swings were from her illness, something Sherlock fears is happening to him. He fears he can do terrible things. When not occupied, he may become paranoid or see things which aren't there. Sometimes, Sherlock will shut down, not talking for days on end or getting so caught up in how he's thinking or feeling that he needs another person to bring him out of it. He can also swing the other way and become ecstatic and theatrical, literally jumping for joy and gesturing wildly.
4) Optional: What is something unique and interesting about them, or what is a fun little tidbit that sets them apart from the crowd?
Sherlock is part of a long tradition of different Sherlock Holmes adaptations and has an older counterpart in Frogwares's Sherlock Holmes games. His canon touches the 4th Wall as part of its structure. While Chapter One could have just been references (both for multiple Sherlock Holmes canons and Jon's random modern ones like "Jon has wares if you have coin"), The Awakened changes that and directly refers the Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (2008) game. It puts Sherlock's madness in a different light as he becomes aware of patterns which exist in his world but don't make sense. What does it ultimately mean? There is no clear answer, but it does help enhance the perception of madness. There's already Sherlock Holmes, Jon, John Watson, Watkinson, Holman, and the older Frogwares Holmes in Sherlock's canon. It ties into him being touched by Cthulhu's madness and seeing more than a mortal human should.
Fun tidbit: Sherry is his childhood nickname used by his mother and Jon.
Abilities & Inventory:
Abilities:
- Normal human: however, he lacks the boxing and martial arts skills other Holmes versions are known for. He may have a little swordsmanship under his belt.
- Marksmanship with a pistol: able to hit small moving targets accurately, includes reloading while moving and combat rolls
- Consulting Detective: analyzing surroundings, find clues and make deductions, mentally recreating crime scenes, vast knowledge of various scientific and practical topics circa 1882 and a great memory for things he wishes to recall
- Violin: while he hasn't been playing violin long, he studied it with almost an obsessive drive until he could play it comfortably
- Acting and disguise: able to disguise himself as other professions, genders, ages, and physical health
- Sketching: able to create accurate sketches with pencil and paper
- Weakened mental fortitude: Sherlock is more susceptible to mental/emotional based powers or suggestion due previous detachments from reality and now from Cthulhu influences which have revealed to him glimpses beyond what humans normally perceive. While that could be a liability, it's also a chance for outside entities to possess or speak through him for a short bit and cause his eyes to go eerily pale and clouded. Sherlock does not like when this happens and will try to fight against them. If pushed too far, Sherlock may split his mind into two, him and Jon. He may become aware of things beyond normal human perception but either lacks the understanding of it or becomes lost in what's revealed. (I'm putting all this here as a note for potential RP shenanigans more than it being an actual power/ability Sherlock can consciously use.)
- His deerstalker cap and dark grey jacket outfit
- his green waistcoat
- Magnifying glass once belonging to Violet Holmes
- Sherlock's casebook with notes and sketches from his previous cases (pencil included)
- Pocket watch
ARMADA SELECTION
Paladins
Sherlock believes strongly in justice and truth, though he also recognizes that his ideals don't always match established laws or societal norms. Logic and reason are part of his deduction tool kit. Sherlock loves to do research but mostly on what interests him. His parents were also archeologists and evaluated genuine and forged antiquities. It's in his blood. He'll solve mysteries using whatever means necessary and to an almost obsessive degree. Although, the final result may not be what authorities wish. He's had a number of "unfinished" cases back on Cordona, not because he just stopped and moved one but because he learned the presenting his findings would cause someone to be unjustly punished. Sherlock would rather the image of failure be put upon him than compromising his moral code and bringing more harm to someone who might have done a crime to escape longstanding abuse.
His older brother from another adaptation (Mycroft) is also a Paladin, and Sherlock having positive brotherly interactions is something I wish him to have. A Sherlock should not be left to his own devices without someone going "Wait, where is he now? What's he gotten himself into this time?" He'll put himself through hell to get the job done, and honestly, he needs a chance to recover from his last case with Cthulhu and spend some time solving smaller, less mind and heart breaking mysteries. He's 23 and went on a case his Frogwares counterpart went on with at least 12-17 years more experience. Sherlock needs to rediscover and trust himself again.
That all said, he could also be worked into the Corsairs as he's not going to be a shining example of either armada. Sherlock loves his freedom and will follow his own code of morals regardless of authority. Part of him still wishes for the adventures he had when he was young with Jon. Sherlock doesn't fit the mold, not even for being a Sherlock Holmes adaptation. He's different, and he fears he will never belong anywhere.
Sherlock believes strongly in justice and truth, though he also recognizes that his ideals don't always match established laws or societal norms. Logic and reason are part of his deduction tool kit. Sherlock loves to do research but mostly on what interests him. His parents were also archeologists and evaluated genuine and forged antiquities. It's in his blood. He'll solve mysteries using whatever means necessary and to an almost obsessive degree. Although, the final result may not be what authorities wish. He's had a number of "unfinished" cases back on Cordona, not because he just stopped and moved one but because he learned the presenting his findings would cause someone to be unjustly punished. Sherlock would rather the image of failure be put upon him than compromising his moral code and bringing more harm to someone who might have done a crime to escape longstanding abuse.
His older brother from another adaptation (Mycroft) is also a Paladin, and Sherlock having positive brotherly interactions is something I wish him to have. A Sherlock should not be left to his own devices without someone going "Wait, where is he now? What's he gotten himself into this time?" He'll put himself through hell to get the job done, and honestly, he needs a chance to recover from his last case with Cthulhu and spend some time solving smaller, less mind and heart breaking mysteries. He's 23 and went on a case his Frogwares counterpart went on with at least 12-17 years more experience. Sherlock needs to rediscover and trust himself again.
That all said, he could also be worked into the Corsairs as he's not going to be a shining example of either armada. Sherlock loves his freedom and will follow his own code of morals regardless of authority. Part of him still wishes for the adventures he had when he was young with Jon. Sherlock doesn't fit the mold, not even for being a Sherlock Holmes adaptation. He's different, and he fears he will never belong anywhere.
SAMPLE
Test Drive Sample: TDM: Sherlock's Toplevel
TDM: with Grace
TDM: with Matt Murdock
Questions: Can someone give this baby detective a hug and make him take a nap with good or no dreams? He's going to develop a caffeine addiction so strong that his blood is going to become a 7% solution of coffee at this rate.
TDM: with Grace
TDM: with Matt Murdock
Questions: Can someone give this baby detective a hug and make him take a nap with good or no dreams? He's going to develop a caffeine addiction so strong that his blood is going to become a 7% solution of coffee at this rate.