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[- OOC Information -]
Name: Ronen
Do you play any other characters in Outer Divide? Not yet!
[- Character Information -]
Character Name: Sherlock Holmes
Fandom: Sherlock (BBC)
AU or OU: OU
Canon Point: Mid-2x01 (A Scandal in Belgravia), after being drugged into unconsciousness.
Journal:seesobserves
Icon: http://www.dreamwidth.org/userpic/2332995/1400397
Appearance: Early 30s, just over six feet tall with dark, curly hair and chiseled facial features (other people seem very keen to mention his cheekbones). He has a slightly starved look, as he sometimes goes for days without eating.
History: The Sherlock wiki has an episode guide, but the episodes only cover a few years at most, and while there is a lot of fan speculation, very little is known for certain about Sherlock’s life pre-canon. I’ve filled in the blanks with some headcanon, which I would be willing to talk over with/adjust for any potential castmates:
-Sherlock was born nine years after his brother Mycroft.
-The Holmes family was wealthy: not exactly peers, but from old money. Sherlock spent the first few years of his childhood in their large ancestral home (this is where Mycroft is seen when he receives Moriarty's text in A Scandal in Belgravia.)
-His father was, as moneyed fathers stereotypically are, distant and unaffectionate. His mother was less so, but could be emotionally volatile.
-He showed signs of being able to deduce from observation at a young age, although it would be a long time before he, or anyone else, saw a practical application for it.
-He was first caught with drugs at age sixteen. He was sent to a rehab program, which was a tad overkill for how much he was into them at the time, and so it had the opposite of its intended effect. Sherlock didn't stop using - he only got more careful about it.
-He did go to university (this is canon; the man who hires him in The Blind Banker says of Sherlock, "We were at Uni together."), largely because not going would have been unthinkable for his family. He 'studied' several subjects, but was already far ahead in the ones he was interested in and quickly bored with the ones he wasn't. Ultimately, his degrees were in chemistry and criminal justice.
-His early and middle twenties were something of a balancing act. He was shuffled around to a handful of internships and mid-level jobs, but never lasted long at any of them. His deductive abilities were starting to become more than just a party trick, but had no specific focus. His drug use escalated to the worst it had (and has) ever been.
-Things started to turn around when Sherlock became acquainted with D.I. Lestrade, five years before the start of the series (this is canon, or at least the timing of when they met is: Lestrade says so in A Study in Pink).
-Neither of his parents are still alive. His mother died more recently, within the last five years. Before he began to make money for solving crimes, Sherlock had been living off his inheritance.
-He was thirty-one years old at the time of A Study in Pink.
Previous Game History: n/a
Personality: With only a few, extremely rare exceptions, Sherlock has had a lifetime of being - by an enormous degree - the smartest one in the room. This has given him a prejudice of most people as being morons and idiots, as he’s had to watch people catch up to points that had become obvious to him ages ago, as well as listen to them calling him things like “freak” or telling him to piss off just because he displayed his natural talents. Somewhere along the line, he decided that if people were just going to think of him as a weirdo anyway, he needn’t make any efforts at being friendly or fitting in. Although he does not deliberately antagonize everyone he comes across, he makes no effort to reign in his cleverness or try to accommodate anyone for the sake of politeness - not unless he has a very specific reason to. And he’s a terrible smartarse. And a showoff. Put all that together, and he’s not one to leave a good first impression.
He describes himself as “a high-functioning sociopath,” but although much of his behavior could be called antisocial, the truth is more complex. He does, in fact, lack empathy for the vast majority of people and sentimental instincts in most cases. He also claims that being sympathetic would slow him down when it comes to his work as a consulting detective. These expressions are genuine, and there may have been the seed of an antisocial disorder planted by something in his childhood, but it’s also something Sherlock has nurtured and encouraged in himself, on purpose. On a perverse level Sherlock wants to be a sociopath - to divorce himself from emotions entirely, because all that matters, all that keeps him going is the work, and logical reasoning is hindered when sentiment gets in the way.
But he hasn’t been entirely successful. Although it may have taken him until recently, he’s found a small circle of people he genuinely cares for and who care about him in return. John Watson and Mrs. Hudson are the only people who can inspire any kind of passionate emotion in him, the only people for whom he allows himself to feel empathy. His relationship with Lestrade is not quite the same, but there’s a connection there, something that goes beyond a mere professional relationship into a sort of loyalty. It’s telling that Sherlock accepts these connections (once he manages to acknowledge that they exist), and even attempts to repair them when something goes wrong. Underneath the antisocial shell is an extremely lonely person who only got used to being solitary because he was so far ahead of the pack. If someone can prove themselves loyal beyond all doubt, if they can prove they won’t abandon him or turn on him, he will cling to them and defend them with everything he has - his considerably brilliant mind, or, if it comes to it, his life. At the same time, he doesn't tend to discuss his past or his feelings, even with those he trusts. He's just not used to friendship, and he still believes that distance lends him protection.
Sherlock is an addict. Not in the sense that he is currently using (although the show hints that it is either an on-again-off-again or semi-recent thing), but that he has an addictive personality - an addict never really stops being one. This is shown in the absolute obsessiveness with which he approaches his work. In the absence of their drug of choice and to avoid falling off the wagon, an addict has to find something else to occupy their life, and it will often consume them in the same way the drug once had. For Sherlock, the science of deduction is that something else. He both depends upon and has extreme confidence in his ability to draw facts from an ordered world, and when he finds himself with no problems to solve, he turns quickly to destructive and erratic behavior. Without the work, or his friends to watch over him, he might turn back to drugs, out of desperation and boredom.
Powers/Abilities: Sherlock is a genius with a near-eidetic memory and a unique skill for deduction. He can tell just about anything about almost any person at a glance, reading from their face, their clothes, their possessions, the way they stand. He can and has been fooled (or stumped) by master manipulators, people who are well-practiced in presenting ‘masks,’ but the vast majority of people are, to Sherlock, an open book.
He has made his name as the world’s only consulting detective, called in to assist where the ordinary police find themselves clueless. In accordance with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s original version of the character, he is an expert in several subjects, including (but not limited to) chemistry, human anatomy, and legal proceedings. He’s a living, breathing crime lab, a one-man investigative squad: ‘CSI Baker Street,’ as Lestrade calls him.
Often his abilities can seem impossible or supernatural to those around him, but they are limited: by what he sees as important (he doesn’t pay much mind to current politics or pop culture and likewise dismisses any subject he thinks is irrelevant to his work), by location (he may hold a detailed map of London in his head, but finding himself in a wholly new place would and will disorient him) and, occasionally, by plain old human error. He doesn’t always solve his cases, and every once in a while he reaches a conclusion (or goes on an assumption) that’s flat-out wrong. In the case of Outer Divide, where he’ll find himself face-to-face with the genuine supernatural, it will throw him off until he can adjust to a new set of facts, a new state of reality.
Possessions: Aside from his clothes (which incidentally does not include his coat), just miscellany: a watch, a blood-stained handkerchief and a (rather nice) cigarette lighter.
Reason for Playing: Sherlock is a Tall Skinny British Man With Damage, which could be the title of my RP trope (but seriously folks). I like the prospect of taking a character who thinks they know everything and pushing them outside their comfort zone, finding their pressure points - this particular setting is so far outside of what Sherlock knows that accomplishing that should be easy. Also I know a lot of the current appers, and I already know that I play well with them.
[- Original Character Supplement-]
World History: Tell us about the world your character comes from.
Character History: How does that character fit into that world? How do they interact in it?
[- Writing Samples -]
First person: Thread (with another Sherlock) at SWS.
Third person: A musebox thread.
Name: Ronen
Do you play any other characters in Outer Divide? Not yet!
[- Character Information -]
Character Name: Sherlock Holmes
Fandom: Sherlock (BBC)
AU or OU: OU
Canon Point: Mid-2x01 (A Scandal in Belgravia), after being drugged into unconsciousness.
Journal:
seesobservesIcon: http://www.dreamwidth.org/userpic/2332995/1400397
Appearance: Early 30s, just over six feet tall with dark, curly hair and chiseled facial features (other people seem very keen to mention his cheekbones). He has a slightly starved look, as he sometimes goes for days without eating.
History: The Sherlock wiki has an episode guide, but the episodes only cover a few years at most, and while there is a lot of fan speculation, very little is known for certain about Sherlock’s life pre-canon. I’ve filled in the blanks with some headcanon, which I would be willing to talk over with/adjust for any potential castmates:
-Sherlock was born nine years after his brother Mycroft.
-The Holmes family was wealthy: not exactly peers, but from old money. Sherlock spent the first few years of his childhood in their large ancestral home (this is where Mycroft is seen when he receives Moriarty's text in A Scandal in Belgravia.)
-His father was, as moneyed fathers stereotypically are, distant and unaffectionate. His mother was less so, but could be emotionally volatile.
-He showed signs of being able to deduce from observation at a young age, although it would be a long time before he, or anyone else, saw a practical application for it.
-He was first caught with drugs at age sixteen. He was sent to a rehab program, which was a tad overkill for how much he was into them at the time, and so it had the opposite of its intended effect. Sherlock didn't stop using - he only got more careful about it.
-He did go to university (this is canon; the man who hires him in The Blind Banker says of Sherlock, "We were at Uni together."), largely because not going would have been unthinkable for his family. He 'studied' several subjects, but was already far ahead in the ones he was interested in and quickly bored with the ones he wasn't. Ultimately, his degrees were in chemistry and criminal justice.
-His early and middle twenties were something of a balancing act. He was shuffled around to a handful of internships and mid-level jobs, but never lasted long at any of them. His deductive abilities were starting to become more than just a party trick, but had no specific focus. His drug use escalated to the worst it had (and has) ever been.
-Things started to turn around when Sherlock became acquainted with D.I. Lestrade, five years before the start of the series (this is canon, or at least the timing of when they met is: Lestrade says so in A Study in Pink).
-Neither of his parents are still alive. His mother died more recently, within the last five years. Before he began to make money for solving crimes, Sherlock had been living off his inheritance.
-He was thirty-one years old at the time of A Study in Pink.
Previous Game History: n/a
Personality: With only a few, extremely rare exceptions, Sherlock has had a lifetime of being - by an enormous degree - the smartest one in the room. This has given him a prejudice of most people as being morons and idiots, as he’s had to watch people catch up to points that had become obvious to him ages ago, as well as listen to them calling him things like “freak” or telling him to piss off just because he displayed his natural talents. Somewhere along the line, he decided that if people were just going to think of him as a weirdo anyway, he needn’t make any efforts at being friendly or fitting in. Although he does not deliberately antagonize everyone he comes across, he makes no effort to reign in his cleverness or try to accommodate anyone for the sake of politeness - not unless he has a very specific reason to. And he’s a terrible smartarse. And a showoff. Put all that together, and he’s not one to leave a good first impression.
He describes himself as “a high-functioning sociopath,” but although much of his behavior could be called antisocial, the truth is more complex. He does, in fact, lack empathy for the vast majority of people and sentimental instincts in most cases. He also claims that being sympathetic would slow him down when it comes to his work as a consulting detective. These expressions are genuine, and there may have been the seed of an antisocial disorder planted by something in his childhood, but it’s also something Sherlock has nurtured and encouraged in himself, on purpose. On a perverse level Sherlock wants to be a sociopath - to divorce himself from emotions entirely, because all that matters, all that keeps him going is the work, and logical reasoning is hindered when sentiment gets in the way.
But he hasn’t been entirely successful. Although it may have taken him until recently, he’s found a small circle of people he genuinely cares for and who care about him in return. John Watson and Mrs. Hudson are the only people who can inspire any kind of passionate emotion in him, the only people for whom he allows himself to feel empathy. His relationship with Lestrade is not quite the same, but there’s a connection there, something that goes beyond a mere professional relationship into a sort of loyalty. It’s telling that Sherlock accepts these connections (once he manages to acknowledge that they exist), and even attempts to repair them when something goes wrong. Underneath the antisocial shell is an extremely lonely person who only got used to being solitary because he was so far ahead of the pack. If someone can prove themselves loyal beyond all doubt, if they can prove they won’t abandon him or turn on him, he will cling to them and defend them with everything he has - his considerably brilliant mind, or, if it comes to it, his life. At the same time, he doesn't tend to discuss his past or his feelings, even with those he trusts. He's just not used to friendship, and he still believes that distance lends him protection.
Sherlock is an addict. Not in the sense that he is currently using (although the show hints that it is either an on-again-off-again or semi-recent thing), but that he has an addictive personality - an addict never really stops being one. This is shown in the absolute obsessiveness with which he approaches his work. In the absence of their drug of choice and to avoid falling off the wagon, an addict has to find something else to occupy their life, and it will often consume them in the same way the drug once had. For Sherlock, the science of deduction is that something else. He both depends upon and has extreme confidence in his ability to draw facts from an ordered world, and when he finds himself with no problems to solve, he turns quickly to destructive and erratic behavior. Without the work, or his friends to watch over him, he might turn back to drugs, out of desperation and boredom.
Powers/Abilities: Sherlock is a genius with a near-eidetic memory and a unique skill for deduction. He can tell just about anything about almost any person at a glance, reading from their face, their clothes, their possessions, the way they stand. He can and has been fooled (or stumped) by master manipulators, people who are well-practiced in presenting ‘masks,’ but the vast majority of people are, to Sherlock, an open book.
He has made his name as the world’s only consulting detective, called in to assist where the ordinary police find themselves clueless. In accordance with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s original version of the character, he is an expert in several subjects, including (but not limited to) chemistry, human anatomy, and legal proceedings. He’s a living, breathing crime lab, a one-man investigative squad: ‘CSI Baker Street,’ as Lestrade calls him.
Often his abilities can seem impossible or supernatural to those around him, but they are limited: by what he sees as important (he doesn’t pay much mind to current politics or pop culture and likewise dismisses any subject he thinks is irrelevant to his work), by location (he may hold a detailed map of London in his head, but finding himself in a wholly new place would and will disorient him) and, occasionally, by plain old human error. He doesn’t always solve his cases, and every once in a while he reaches a conclusion (or goes on an assumption) that’s flat-out wrong. In the case of Outer Divide, where he’ll find himself face-to-face with the genuine supernatural, it will throw him off until he can adjust to a new set of facts, a new state of reality.
Possessions: Aside from his clothes (which incidentally does not include his coat), just miscellany: a watch, a blood-stained handkerchief and a (rather nice) cigarette lighter.
Reason for Playing: Sherlock is a Tall Skinny British Man With Damage, which could be the title of my RP trope (but seriously folks). I like the prospect of taking a character who thinks they know everything and pushing them outside their comfort zone, finding their pressure points - this particular setting is so far outside of what Sherlock knows that accomplishing that should be easy. Also I know a lot of the current appers, and I already know that I play well with them.
World History: Tell us about the world your character comes from.
Character History: How does that character fit into that world? How do they interact in it?
[- Writing Samples -]
First person: Thread (with another Sherlock) at SWS.
Third person: A musebox thread.