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Hey, Avie here with Sherlock Holmes from Frogwares' Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One and Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (2023). If you have any questions, plot ideas, or just want to say hi, that is perfectly okay.

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Sherlock's backstory has content warnings for child abuse, medical malpractice, and mental health topics. These will be warned for if/when they come up in threads. Often taken from SHTA, he will also have bits of Cthulhu madness and minor 4th wall confusion towards himself creeping in. All that said, I am happy to avoid even vague references to any of this content. I can also completely avoid tagging with him if desired.

Content Warnings: Expand for details and spoilers

child abuse

Sherlock Holmes was physically and emotionally abused as a child by his ill and grief-stricken mother, Violet Holmes. The abuse culminated in an attempted drowning when Sherlock was 10 years old. This is why he's terrified of water and blacks out when even partially submerged.

medical malpractice

Dr. Otto Ricther experimented on Sherlock's mother's mental health with a variety of treatments. He also commented on wanting to study Sherlock and his mental state, having noticed his high intelligence and his belief in his imaginary friend, Jon. For SHTA, everything related to the mental institution that is Edelweiss Institute and Gygax. If you can imagine it going wrong there, it likely happened.

mental health

In SHCO, Sherlock has an imaginary friend named Jon. He sees and hears Jon, interacts with him as another person. He has locked away or altered memories of his youth to protect him from the abuse he suffered. Violet Holmes lost her grip on reality after her husband's death when Sherlock was 6. She grew increasingly violent when someone tried to tell her husband was dead. These fits would come and go, being loving one moment and lashing out the next. Once more for SHTA, everything related to Edelweiss Institute and Gygax with the addition of cultist brainwashing and Cthulhu madness. Jon is no longer present, but Sherlock thinks of him and sometimes calls out to him when distressed. Sherlock questions his sanity after experiencing the Cthulhu cultists, a bit of 4th Wall touching (in relation to himself and another Frogwares Holmes), and the continued possibility he inherited his mother's madness and breaks from reality. (Or just from his own trauma)

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