OOC INFORMATION

Name: Julya
Contact Information: aim/skype: outdreamt ; plurk: tealeaves
Personal Journal: mezzanotte
Age: 20
Characters Played:

peter hale ( sweltered )
steve rogers ( patriotical )
robb stark ( robb )
charles xavier ( accesses )

Who Referred you: B(


IN-CHARACTER INFORMATION

Name: Sherlock Holmes
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes ( Guy Ritchie Verse )
Age: Late Thirties.
Canon Point: Post Game of Shadows.
Original Universe or Alternate Universe? AU - with memories from asgardeventide

Personality:

Sherlock Holmes on the surface has a number of distinguishable characteristics. He is crude, erratic, and cold with curiosity that always gets the better of him. He is as equally eccentric as he is brilliant.

The first thing to note when breaching the topic of Sherlock Holmes’ personality is the way he views the world. The world is a giant map giant map of connect-the-dots played with formulae instead of proper numbers and he doesn’t understand why people can’t just see the bloody dots or bother to do the math.

His methods are simple: he does more than see; he observes. Upon inquiry he will tell you exactly how many steps the set of stairs leading up to his flat are and a he can figure out a man’s habits by his thumb. He thrives off the details and considers them the most important aspect to any situation. He has a number of set rules and axioms that play pivotal roles in his train of thought. They serve as the skeleton for deduction and in deduction does his brilliance shine. His thinking pattern is illustrated quite simply. First he observes, and then he lists down the facts he can gather from those observations and then he eliminates the impossible; whatever is left no matter how improbable must be truth.

Holmes thinks of himself as a disembodied brain. An automation that needs to be constantly at work; without it he stagnates. He needs to be continuously stimulated and if he gets bored he falls under one of his moods where he doesn’t speak for days and becomes reclusive, keeping himself to his experiments. Holmes and his need for mental stimulation is an almost destructive relationship. It’s within his capacities to turn to vices like cocaine and fall to a pattern of odd behaviors. A lack of cases caused him to fire a gun repeatedly at his wallpaper, invent things like indoor camouflage and discover that playing a scale backwards makes a group of flies go anticlockwise in motion. Without a case, Sherlock verges on manic. Sherlock also shifts between days of absolute energy and extreme lethargy.

In addendum to his thought process, one thing to note about Sherlock is that he considers his brain to be an attic. Now, Sherlock believes people clutter up their brain attic with all this ‘useless’ information that proves nothing useful to the situation. He doesn’t concern himself with trivia and the way his information is arranged falls into weird places. For one, he’s completely chucked out the window the Copernican Theorm and was pleasantly surprised when John Watson informed him that the earth revolved around the sun. There are spots in his knowledge he’s brushed off and disregarded entirely.

Holmes is known as the world’s only consulting detective. A position invented because he does not care for working with the police (naming only two officers – Gregson and Lestrade – to be even remotely worth his time). He’s an unofficial private detective of sorts who seldom takes credit for his work. Considering the chase of the mystery a reasonable enough payment. He considers most of them beneath him and has nothing against mocking them in public. He’s reasonably known though in his industry. Watson even cites once that upon reading one of Holmes’ letters addressed to him wrote like a student who was referring to a master. He’s published papers about ‘The Science of Deduction’; and his talents are revered enough to have even illustrious clients like the king of Bohemia show up at the doors of Baker Street.

On the subject of how he views other people; without sugarcoating it – Holmes is arrogant. He knows he’s good at what he does. He flaunts it and counts himself better for it enjoying in reactions to those close to him. But this is within reason that Holmes really is just as clever as he claims to be.

Holmes is also inconsiderate and he tends to belittle people when the opportunity arises. This adaptation of Sherlock is particularly harsher to Mrs. Hudson then the others (‘Is it poison, Nanny?’). He has nothing against adding a well-placed verbal jab when he sees it fit. He also has the habit of placing his interests above others we see this on his first encounter with John’s wife Mary Morstan. He publically pointed out that Mary had been formerly married in front of her new fiancé.

He’s not very sensitive to other people either. He will use other people’s emotions as to what is advantageous to him. An example of this is when Watson is on his way with Holmes to a case and then Holmes bribes fortunetellers to wean him of Mary. He also doesn’t quite get how people react to things or why they make such a big fuss out of trivialities. Holmes has nothing against pick pocketing a dead man and beating a corpse with a stick.

Although, Holmes separates emotions from the matters at hand and even when he tries to pretend to be void of them, he most certainly is not. He tries hard not to let feelings affect him, but they do. We see his cold, calculating exterior break in regards to his best and only friend. John Watson being easily one of the most important human beings in his life. When Watson gets shot in the case of the Three Garridebs; Holmes pretty much loses it and starts worrying. Although John wasn’t fatally wounded, he did tell the man who fired the bullet something like: if John had been critically injured the man wouldn’t have made it out alive. He cares and greatly so. John is his greatest asset and he plays the conductor of light to Sherlock’s brilliance. We also see him mourn for Irene Adler and there’s just general attraction between them for the duration of both films.

In a nutshell, Holmes is an inconsiderate really intelligent dick.

Background:
➙ 2009 - Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes in the ACD books
Other Notables: N/A.

Inventory:

( 1 ) Rather smelly bathrobe. ( Has not been laundered )
( 1 ) Violin with the set music of Don Giovanni.
( 1 ) Coca Plant for continuous cocaine supply.
( 7 ) Tiny bags of powdered cocaine.
( 1 ) Bowler Hat and a Suit and Scarf Combo ( Has been laundered )
( 1 ) Fake nose for nefarious purposes.
( 1 ) Gladstone
( 1 ) Tiger
( 1 ) Multi-purpose tool kit.
( 1 ) That thing he poked Dredger with. The electrical thing.
( 1 ) Magnifying Glass.
( 1 ) Handkerchief with the initials, 'I.A.'
( 1 ) Defunct Communication Bracelet from Asgard.

SAMPLES

NETWORK SAMPLE:

'Anonymous' can choose to reply should he find it kinder to do so.

A point of inquiry. Information is a foundation to my methods.
I cannot work with insufficient data so your concise and honest inputs would be most appreciated.

Do not tarry with embellishments.

A show of hands, how many of you consider yourself part of the criminal class?
What have you done in this fair city on or before your arrival?

I will take the answer of every petty thief and Napoleon of crime.
Take this as an open invitation to brag, if you will.

My only clause - Keep it interesting

LOG SAMPLE:

That was the seventy-second case he’s solved for the Yard and the fourth one he’s cared to take credit for.

A long train ride out in the countryside to deal with the most delicate of forgeries had taken a toll on Holmes’ bearing. There was the most delicate knot of muscles in his shoulders, the almost weariness to his to walk. The results of a two days fast and the sheer amount of physical exertion (running, running – where had they been training the criminals?) he had put out today was out of his usual norm. Even Watson who would usually commend a case closed with celebration had managed to find himself dozing off during the hansom cab back to Baker St.

Upon arrival it is Watson who opens the door. (‘The absence of the Nanny is cause for suspicion’, ‘She has to attend other things outside of your messes, Holmes’) but it is Holmes who darts in first. He has his patterns and his nuances upon arriving home. Shoes haphazardly discarded. Bowler to the rack, retrieval of red dressing gown with the embellished with the initals ‘JW’ (It is still new and much too big for him) and the acquiring of his tobacco in another pair of shoes (ships, also John Watson’s).

It is only when he reaches the foyer that he realizes that something is amiss.

There are signs of entrance, small ones. Recent marks on hard wooden floorings that show signs of recent foot steps (dainty foot steps, he may add). The faintest smell of tea that weft through the air. He wishes he had daintier footsteps, because undoubtedly he surmises that his visitor had already heard. He doesn’t need any form of deduction to let him guess who is in the room.

He opens the door, quick and thundering. Any former ideas of exhaustion would have to be stored away from his attic of a brain until she was dealt with.

"Irene," he says sharply. He'll move to examine the woman. Dictate her recent traveling by her perfume and the state of her marriage from the lighter band of skin in her fingers. Noting her choice of reading material in equal distaste. He is composed in everything but his tone, which is pointed and graced with something almost mocking. ]

"I see you have made yourself at home," he doesn't spare her the tartness in his tone.