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Character Name: Sherlock Holmes
Character Series: Sherlock. Keep in mind, this is the BBC version.
Background: Wiki article on Sherlock. And here's the episode listing.
Point in Canon: Post-Reichenbach Fall, so basically he's just faked his death. Don't ask me how.
Personality:
Sherlock Holmes is an arrogant sod and a selfish git. End.
...actually, no, that's not the end, but he is certainly an arrogant sod and a selfish git. He's intelligent, yes, alarmingly so, but at the same time he's condescending towards others and downright tactless at times (cough, see The Hounds of Baskerville, near the end). As a result he hasn't got many friends, and other people don't really like him very much, seeing as he's very upfront on his opinions about them and has this little habit of deducing everything about them, right down to even the most minute of details. (In fact, he even says John Watson, his flatmate and constant companion, is his only friend--too bad he won't remember, muhaha.) And the thing is, he does not seem to care what they say about him, as Sally Donovan of the Scotland Yard calls him "Freak" many times and yet he doesn't seem to react all that much. Though maybe he does react by deducing her affair with her colleague Anderson, who he does not hold much respect for. ("Anderson, don't talk out loud, you lower the IQ of the entire street.")
He holds contempt for the Scotland Yard, yeah. In fact there aren't very many people who he cares for, the exceptions being his flatmate John Watson, his landlady Mrs. Hudson, and Detective Inspector Greg Lestrade. He even threw himself off a building to get snipers off of them. But even then, he still drives them up the wall, with his habits of, say, making the kitchen into a makeshift body farm, playing violin at odd hours, not talking for days on end, deducing every twist in a movie five minutes in, not eating for days when on a case...yeah. And the thing is, he won't stop doing it. You'll just have to live with it.
Also, he is scarily intelligent, like I said before. He's, basically, a freakishly tall encyclopedia with a tendency to snark at people he doesn't like. He can easily deduce a huge chunk of someone's life at a glance, and is not ashamed to show it off. He's got a very good memory, even refers to his brain as a hard drive where he keeps useful information. Problem is, sometimes, when he deems something as not worth keeping, he forgets it on purpose (see: solar system, general pop culture knowledge).
He also dislikes boredom, which usually happens during the downtime between cases. His brain is always on fire, and he has this need to add fuel to it, if you get what I mean. He craves the high he gets from particularly baffling cases (emphasis on "particularly baffling", he does not want the boring cases, thank you, off you go) and nicotine (and probably other drugs, but he's been clean for a while), so if he doesn't have a case to solve and is denied access to cigarettes, he'll start throwing things and being extra mean towards others (as seen in the beginning of The Hounds of Baskerville). When he does have a case, though, you won't be able to relax, seeing as he prefers the interesting cases. Occasionally this involves getting into danger.
Politeness is foreign territory to him. Sure, occasionally he does try, but let's not forget, this is the same guy who showed up at Buckingham Palace clad in only a bedsheet. Like I said, he's upfront about his opinions and rather blunt when it comes to conversing with others, regardless of age or importance (as he says to a very cute little girl who asks him why she and another young relative couldn't see their grandfather's remains: "People don't go to heaven when they die, they're taken to a special room and burned"). If you can't take it, well, he does not care at all, now shoo.
He also refers to himself, on one occasion, as a high-functioning sociopath. Don't ask me what that means, I'm not a psychologist, but from what I can tell, it basically means that he's not as averse to manipulating people, even friends, into going along with his plans. More than once he's used Molly Hooper's, a morgue attendant, crush on him to get his way, and once locked Watson in a laboratory so he could test out a theory. He's a good liar and actor, knows how to fake accents and change people's perceptions of him. He does not really follow the rules all that much, either--hell, he's probably landed in jail more than once prior to the series' start. He does not seem to care a lick about what other people feel--at least, he says he doesn't.
But the thing is, occasionally, he does care. Know what I said about the people he cares about, and how he threw himself off a building for three of them? That's the best example I can give, though there's a lot more. Mrs. Hudson gets attacked by an American, said American gets thrown out the window enough times that Sherlock loses count. He seems to care what John thinks about him, since apparently he's the first one who doesn't tell him to piss off when he deduces a large part of John's life at a glance and a brief handling of his phone. He definitely respects and cares for Lestrade, as he's included in the very short list of people that he threw himself off a building for. He even apologizes to Molly once, after he insults her very badly. Chances are, if you're the sort of person who likes danger and puts up with him on a regular basis, he'll definitely start to actually care about you.
What else? Oh, yeah, the conclusion. Summing it up, Sherlock is, yes, an arrogant sod and a selfish git, who can occasionally bring himself to care about others and prefers interesting cases to a bunch of other things, including, apparently, eating.
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ineffabilitiesContact Info: AIM - doesnotlikesoaps, (never used) Plurk - sugarhoneyderpishly
Character Name: Sherlock Holmes
Character Series: Sherlock. Keep in mind, this is the BBC version.
Background: Wiki article on Sherlock. And here's the episode listing.
Point in Canon: Post-Reichenbach Fall, so basically he's just faked his death. Don't ask me how.
Personality:
Sherlock Holmes is an arrogant sod and a selfish git. End.
...actually, no, that's not the end, but he is certainly an arrogant sod and a selfish git. He's intelligent, yes, alarmingly so, but at the same time he's condescending towards others and downright tactless at times (cough, see The Hounds of Baskerville, near the end). As a result he hasn't got many friends, and other people don't really like him very much, seeing as he's very upfront on his opinions about them and has this little habit of deducing everything about them, right down to even the most minute of details. (In fact, he even says John Watson, his flatmate and constant companion, is his only friend--too bad he won't remember, muhaha.) And the thing is, he does not seem to care what they say about him, as Sally Donovan of the Scotland Yard calls him "Freak" many times and yet he doesn't seem to react all that much. Though maybe he does react by deducing her affair with her colleague Anderson, who he does not hold much respect for. ("Anderson, don't talk out loud, you lower the IQ of the entire street.")
He holds contempt for the Scotland Yard, yeah. In fact there aren't very many people who he cares for, the exceptions being his flatmate John Watson, his landlady Mrs. Hudson, and Detective Inspector Greg Lestrade. He even threw himself off a building to get snipers off of them. But even then, he still drives them up the wall, with his habits of, say, making the kitchen into a makeshift body farm, playing violin at odd hours, not talking for days on end, deducing every twist in a movie five minutes in, not eating for days when on a case...yeah. And the thing is, he won't stop doing it. You'll just have to live with it.
Also, he is scarily intelligent, like I said before. He's, basically, a freakishly tall encyclopedia with a tendency to snark at people he doesn't like. He can easily deduce a huge chunk of someone's life at a glance, and is not ashamed to show it off. He's got a very good memory, even refers to his brain as a hard drive where he keeps useful information. Problem is, sometimes, when he deems something as not worth keeping, he forgets it on purpose (see: solar system, general pop culture knowledge).
He also dislikes boredom, which usually happens during the downtime between cases. His brain is always on fire, and he has this need to add fuel to it, if you get what I mean. He craves the high he gets from particularly baffling cases (emphasis on "particularly baffling", he does not want the boring cases, thank you, off you go) and nicotine (and probably other drugs, but he's been clean for a while), so if he doesn't have a case to solve and is denied access to cigarettes, he'll start throwing things and being extra mean towards others (as seen in the beginning of The Hounds of Baskerville). When he does have a case, though, you won't be able to relax, seeing as he prefers the interesting cases. Occasionally this involves getting into danger.
Politeness is foreign territory to him. Sure, occasionally he does try, but let's not forget, this is the same guy who showed up at Buckingham Palace clad in only a bedsheet. Like I said, he's upfront about his opinions and rather blunt when it comes to conversing with others, regardless of age or importance (as he says to a very cute little girl who asks him why she and another young relative couldn't see their grandfather's remains: "People don't go to heaven when they die, they're taken to a special room and burned"). If you can't take it, well, he does not care at all, now shoo.
He also refers to himself, on one occasion, as a high-functioning sociopath. Don't ask me what that means, I'm not a psychologist, but from what I can tell, it basically means that he's not as averse to manipulating people, even friends, into going along with his plans. More than once he's used Molly Hooper's, a morgue attendant, crush on him to get his way, and once locked Watson in a laboratory so he could test out a theory. He's a good liar and actor, knows how to fake accents and change people's perceptions of him. He does not really follow the rules all that much, either--hell, he's probably landed in jail more than once prior to the series' start. He does not seem to care a lick about what other people feel--at least, he says he doesn't.
But the thing is, occasionally, he does care. Know what I said about the people he cares about, and how he threw himself off a building for three of them? That's the best example I can give, though there's a lot more. Mrs. Hudson gets attacked by an American, said American gets thrown out the window enough times that Sherlock loses count. He seems to care what John thinks about him, since apparently he's the first one who doesn't tell him to piss off when he deduces a large part of John's life at a glance and a brief handling of his phone. He definitely respects and cares for Lestrade, as he's included in the very short list of people that he threw himself off a building for. He even apologizes to Molly once, after he insults her very badly. Chances are, if you're the sort of person who likes danger and puts up with him on a regular basis, he'll definitely start to actually care about you.
What else? Oh, yeah, the conclusion. Summing it up, Sherlock is, yes, an arrogant sod and a selfish git, who can occasionally bring himself to care about others and prefers interesting cases to a bunch of other things, including, apparently, eating.
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