William Sherlock Scott Holmes
Feb 2, 2014 19:24:25 GMT -6
Post by Sherlock Holmes on Feb 2, 2014 19:24:25 GMT -6
Sherlock Holmes
In 900 years of time and space, I’ve never met anyone who wasn’t important.Character Name: Sherlock Holmes
Age: 35 years
Job: Consulting Detective
Gender: Male
Species: Human
Orientation: Mostly asexual, though he shows signs of heterosexuality
Play By: Benedict Cumberbatch
Every fairy tale needs a good old-fashioned villain.Likes: Watson, Intelligence, Showing Off, Being Right, Moriarty
Dislikes: Moriarty, Nothing to do, Stupid or Boring People or Activities
Strengths: Extremely Intelligent and Perceptive
Weaknesses: Anti-Social, Blunt, Does not understand people in general
Overall Personality:
Sherlock, as he prefers to go and is known by instead of William, is extremely intelligent. He can notice things quickly and pull reason from them within an instant of seeing them. His memory is impeccable, if he is trying to recall something that is important to him, whereas unimportant things that would not help him would get thrown out of his memory and forgotten. What one may think in a minute, he can think in a second, going so far as to completely reason his way through getting shot, why he was shot by a friend he did not suspect in the slightest, which way to fall, and how to survive the shock all within a second or so. Due to this great ability of his, he tends to show off, and really, somewhere deep inside, he likes showing off and does it without even realizing it sometimes.
Sherlock tends to hide any sort of feeling he feels, unless shocked or frustrated, as he quite obviously showed John that he was shocked when he was asked to be his best man and when he is wrong or has figured out a case too late. Sherlock does not hide the fact he is bored either, and sometimes will smile when he's having fun. Hiding feelings really wouldn't be the correct description, really. It's more like he shows his emotions in a different way than most people, and many may not realize it until they spend more time with him. His boredom is shown through apathy or shooting a gun at his wall or perhaps laying on his couch and complaining to Watson or Mrs. Hudson. Sometimes when he is excited, or just stressed, he will not watch what he says and things might slip out that he did not mean, such as the fact there were three between Watson and Mary, revealing the baby at the after party.
Sherlock takes the label of psychopath very offensively and will correct anyone who calls him one, as he claims to be a highly functioning sociopath. Sherlock has a bit of OCD, correcting the knocker on his door to be crooked when it is straightened out, and cannot stand it when he cannot figure out a case. The only reason he dropped the case of the invisible stabber of that guard was because of John's wedding. It seems sometimes only Watson can control Sherlock. Watson is, after all, his best friend that he ever had and Sherlock is more than happy for John to be happy with Mary and their on-the-way child. Sherlock is perfectly happy to be alone, or claims to be. Really, he is quite lonely. He became spoiled when John first moved in, and now that John is out, Sherlock feels it, and does care a bit more about someone being there with him, which leads to rash acts and inconsiderate acts by Sherlock, such as the manipulation of Jeanine or drugging up for a case, both of which John would have prevented if he were still living with Sherlock.This is who I am, right here, right now, all right? All that counts is here and now, and this is me!
Mother: Mrs. Holmes, 60 to 70 years, retired, human
Father: Mr. Holmes, 60 to 70 years, retired, human
Siblings: Mycroft Holmes, 40 or so, government worker, human
Others: John and Mary Watson, 30's, Doctor/Nurse, human
Overall History:
Sherlock did not have the happiest childhood of all. He blamed his parents for many things in his childhood, claiming they weren't great parents. When Sherlock was a kid, Mycroft set the precedent for him. However, Sherlock was also not a popular kid in school and was picked on all the time. Sherlock was much smarter than his fellow students, and managed to skip several years of schooling. However, Mycroft was always the first and everyone looked at Sherlock to be just as smart. And he usually managed to live up to their expectations, but Mycroft always got the glory at being the first. Sherlock began solving cases around the age of ten, where his first case he was unable to solve at the time, though later Moriarty would force him to solve it. When Sherlock succeeded just as well in school, onlookers saw that it was just little Holmes following in his brother's footsteps. When Mycroft entered the government, many thought Sherlock would do the same, but Sherlock was tired of following his brother and made his own path in life, becoming the first ever consulting detective, working with the police on many, many cases. That is where Sherlock met his first ever friend, Greg Lestrade. However, he never even considered Greg a friend for a very long time, even forgetting Greg's name occasionally replacing it with some other G name. Having grown up with Mycroft taking the credit for everything, it was nothing different when he let Greg take the credit for nearly all of his cases. Sherlock didn't really care, as all he wanted was the chase, the mystery and the exercise of his brain so he wouldn't get bored.
After several years, Sherlock began getting more and more bored, turning to drugs to stimulate his mind. Cocaine was one of the drugs that he used fairly often when he had no work to do. It worked very well, until he found he could not control himself and had become an addict. However, eventually he turned his life around, thanks to insistent prodding from his brother (and maybe a kidnapping into a rehab center, which Sherlock would escape quickly, only to be kidnapped back into it). Eventually, he got the message and began actively weening himself off the drug. Sherlock smoked instead, though he wouldn't smoke unless stressed by a case he could not solve. Nicotine created what he needed well enough and became clean. It wasn't long after that someone he knew had brought in a man to perhaps be his room mate. Little did Sherlock know at the time, but that man, Doctor John Watson, would change his life forever and become his best friend.
At first he thought John was going to be one of those stupid people he had to be around in school, though within his first case, Sherlock saw that John was different, and did not think him to be a psychopath. Though he knew that Watson would wholeheartedly agree he was a sociopath, a high functioning one at that. John was not like the cops he worked with. John trusted him, even if they had just met. Things occurred, Sherlock ended up in a cab with the murderer, and was driven to a deserted building where he and the murderer had a nice little chat, which ended up with the murderer shot by a "mysterious" gunman, which Sherlock found was John after a little deduction. That was when Sherlock found out about a man named Moriarty, who he didn't know, but this Moriarty knew about him. That upset Sherlock. Several cases later, he met Moriarty, and had a show down at a pool, which ended in all three, John, Moriarty and Sherlock, surviving, thanks to a call Moriarty had gotten.
After that, Sherlock met a woman he would never forget. A woman who he thinks about fairly often. Irene Adler. He could not deduce anything about her the first time he saw her, and ended up outsmarting him. She was using him, of course, to find out about a dummy plane ride Mycroft was setting up for a terrorist attack, so no one died, but the terrorists wouldn't know that when the plane was destroyed. Unfortunately, Irene bled that information to the terrorists thanks to Sherlock and blew the whole operation. The whole time, Irene had a phone which contained just about everything that she had against so many people. And in the end, Sherlock atoned for blowing the plan by cracking her four digit password. Irene would then be captured by the terrorists, and even though he didn't let it show, even after the betrayal, he cared for her and saved her by faking her death.
Sherlock began gaining fame, catching the eye of the media and becoming known for the deerstalker, much to his outward dismay. Eventually, Moriarty attempted to "steal" the crown jewels, really trying to be captured and at his trial he was released despite not defending himself. Moriarty would then put on a charade that Sherlock was the true murderer that Moriarty was, and he was just a hired actor. The media ate it up and believed it. It ended with Sherlock on the top of a building with Moriarty, where Moriarty revealed that he had gunmen trained on the only friends he had, John, Mrs. Hudson and Greg Lestrade, and they would not shoot only if Sherlock jumped. Moriarty had not counted on him having Molly on his side. Moriarty shot himself in the mouth, and left Sherlock to his decision. Sherlock made a call to John, after which he jumped and faked his death in some manner.
After many out of country missions, Sherlock eventually returned to England, by request of Mycroft, and revealed to John that he was alive at the dinner in which John was going to ask Mary to marry him. John reacted much differently than Sherlock thought, John attempting to kill him several times, until John finally calmed down, though he was still angry at Sherlock. Sherlock then recruited Molly to help him on a case, and thanked her for her help in faking his death and keeping it a secret. However, John would get kidnapped and trapped in a pile of wood being set on fire, which Sherlock and Mary were barely able to save John from. John eventually asked Sherlock to be his best man, which shocked Sherlock. At the wedding, Sherlock delivered a speech that was insulting at times, but really it was nice and negated most of the insults, until he found that someone was going to murder an old military friend of John's, which related to a previous unsolved case. After saving John's friend, and catching the one who did it, he played a song for Johna and Mary to dance to, after which he revealed that Mary was pregnant before they even knew it themselves. Alone, Sherlock left the wedding early.
Then Charles Augustus Magnussen came into Sherlock's radar. With John gone, Sherlock began acting rash, without John around to stop him from doing so, manipulating one of the bridesmaids from John and Mary's wedding to get into Magnussen's office, and began using drugs again, following a lead, which is where John found him. Sherlock would break into Magnussen's office, and be shot by Mary, luckily not killed, but just barely, thanks to a vision of Moriarty telling him that his best friend was in trouble because of Mary. Sherlock set up a situation, escaping from the hospital once conscious, where Mary admitted to lying about her past and not really being Mary, instead taking on the name. John was there to listen in. After which, John and Mary's relationship was very rocky. Sherlock was readmitted to the hospital and eventually released around Christmas.
Sherlock had set up his brother to be traded for Magnussen's information, however, he did not plan on Magnussen's information being only in his head. In the end, his brother came to arrest Sherlock since he had none of Magnussen's information, during which he took John's gun and killed Magnussen so Magnussen could no longer threaten John and Mary nor anyone else again. Mycroft then had to arrest Sherlock and planned for him to be placed on a mission that would kill him in about six months at the most. Sherlock said his good-byes to Mary and John, trying to convince John to name their child after him, even resorting to saying that Sherlock was a girl's name, after finding out their child was going to be a girl. Sherlock boarded the plane, but not long after, Moriarty began appearing all over England on televisions asking if they had missed him. Sherlock was called back, and now is back to investigating, mainly the case of Moriarty, as that is the reason he's not sent out of the country.You, being all mysterious with your cheekbones and turning your coat collar up so you look cool.Alias: Sher
Canon?: Yes
RP Sample:
The whole Moriarty coming back thing was getting to Sherlock. He had run through the day he jumped off that building over and over and over again. How could Moriarty have survived? And if he hadn't survived, who would have used Moriarty's image to scare the country? It was after all, just a recording, so it could have been someone else besides Moriarty. And it could be that Sherlock almost wanted it to be Moriarty. Why would he want it to be one of the only people who he may consider his equal or perhaps even better than he? That's self-explanatory.
Sherlock was currently in his apartment, pacing back and forth, sometimes stopping and laying on his couch or sitting in his armchair. On his arm were three nicotine patches that would help him focus and find at least some sort of lead. He couldn't find anything. He had all of England's government to get him anything he needed, thanks to his brother, and yet he could not figure it out. Moriarty had stumped him. However, he was determined and tried to put together theories, but he could always find something that would invalidate the hypotheses. When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, is the truth. It was turning out the truth was just about everything. Sherlock had thought perhaps the streaming was just a recording from someone else, using Moriarty's image, but Mycroft would not have called him back if that were the case. Though, Mycroft was a bit hasty in calling him back. So it could still possibly be a theory, though something about this theory did not settle well with Sherlock Holmes.
Sherlock paced around the apartment, going into the kitchen, where an experiment he was working on before the whole Magnesson case was still sitting unfinished, then back into the living space. He sat in his armchair and promptly got back up. Cursing, Sherlock took off his nicotine patches, replacing them with new ones before resting on his couch, laying down and going into his mind palace. This time around, he lasted all of two minutes before he was back up. Music. Maybe it was music that could help him focus. Yes. It was worth a try. Sherlock retrieved his violin and began composing a piece. It was fast paced towards the beginning, but soon slowed to a slower pace, though the notes seemed to jump around more often. More and more theories sprang to mind. It was working. Sherlock continued, his fingers dancing on the strings of the violin, stopping occasionally, where he would scratch the notes and rhythm he had played on blank sheet music.
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