OOC: infopost of "brainy is the new sexy" and other verbal keysmash-inducing phrases
Yaaaaay, new character! Um, warning for (a) there's gifs, so slow connections beware, and (b) said gifs occasionally hedge on the side of not-so-safe-for-work.
With that said, have some infopost.
(Also, sorry for spamming the flist, if I'm on your flist already.)
the canon
Sherlock is the BBC's modern-day adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories. The series has three seasons, with a total of nine episodes. Each episode is roughly an hour and a half long, so it's less like a traditional television series or even a miniseries, and more like interlocking cinematic films.
We follow, of course, Sherlock Holmes, Britain's greatest mind and most temperamental detective, along with his sidekick boyfriend blogger, John Watson. In the original stories, of course, the two bachelors lived at 221B Baker Street and solved crimes that stumped the ever-suffering Scotland Yard in Victorian London. The premise is nearly identical here, except that it's updated to be contemporary. Nearly every episode of Sherlock updates one of the existing Conan Doyle stories -- A Study in Scarlet, for example, which is the original short story in which Holmes and Watson form their partnership, is updated to A Study in Pink.
Most of the changes made in the adaptation are in the updating of technology and language and social norms -- everyone is always texting, Mrs. Hudson (their landlady) is much less understanding about the way the guys treat her property because it's 2012, Sherlock and John's close (PLATONIC, TOTALLY PLATONIC) relationship raises a few more knowing eyebrows than it necessarily did in Victorian England, et cetera. The stories, however, largely stay the same in tone/content -- though they throw in enough curveballs that even avid readers of the original work can be surprised.
the woman
So! If you know the Sherlock Holmes series, you already know about Irene Adler -- notoriously referred to as 'The Woman' by Holmes himself, and perpetually known through nearly every incarnation as the only woman to ever get under his skin. In the original Conan Doyle story that featured her, Irene was an American-born opera singer who had a terribly scandalous affair with the King of Bohemia.
The show updated things a smidge.
Irene Adler is an extremely well-groomed, polished, implacable and impassive high-end dominatrix, known professionally as The Woman. Her professional life seems to influence what little she has of a personal life, and vice versa. She presents herself as extremely competent, very much in control of herself and her emotions to the point of unreadability, and does her best to seem like she's always a step or two ahead of whoever she's talking to (even if she really isn't.) For Irene, self-confidence is a tool, and she lives her life by using it.
In the episode that features her, Irene is still one of the only people ever to outwit Sherlock, on a couple different occasions. He and John originally are contracted by British Secret Service to recover some incriminating photos on Irene's phone, featuring a young, female, married member of the British royal family. (It's pretty heavily implied to be Kate Middleton, which cracks me up every time.) Irene is perpetually one step ahead of them, and disarms the guys by meeting them in her parlor stark naked -- both to throw them off their guard, and to keep Sherlock from actually discerning anything from her clothes.
She later fakes her death, comes back from it, and ends up on the run -- all because she has incriminating photos of seemingly dozens of important people on her phone. Once Sherlock finally cracks the code to her phone (which is my favorite thing ever, and I won't spoil for anyone who hasn't seen the episode), Irene is at the mercy of the people she's blackmailed with those very photos, and ends up on the run, again, for real. One of the last scenes of the episode features a flashback to when she was supposedly beheaded in Karachi, Pakistan -- except she wasn't, because Sherlock was posing as her executioner, and subsequently got her out of there. We have no idea where she went, except that she was in Russia for New Year's (which, I'm kind of AU'ing before that) so...I say Fandom!
Not a whole lot is known about her background. She's been a dominatrix for some time (she's around thirty), and takes clients of all ages and sexes provided that they can meet her fee. That being said, she does identify as a lesbian, but she clearly is attracted to Sherlock, so I'd put her at like a 5 on the Kinsey scale (strongly prefers women, with a notable exception here and there.) She's extremely flirtatious, especially if she thinks she can get something out of it, or throw someone off their guard. She also lives pretty contentedly in shades of gray, morally -- she thinks nothing of blackmail, obviously, though she does refer to it as her 'protection,' implying that she feels like it's something she has to do, not something she does for funsies.
She also is extremely manipulative -- that's part of why it's so hard to tell what she's thinking, and why she's so good at her job -- and that is something she's been known to do for funsies. She's also very, very bright -- she was able to fake her own death well enough to fool Sherlock Holmes, after all. She's not as clever as she thinks she is, but she's quite a bit smarter than the average bear. Irene is also a little paranoid, to match her manipulative side -- though she'd probably just call it 'thorough.' The infamous phone was loaded with explosives that would go off if someone tried to dismantle it, for instance -- paranoid, but in this case, quite justified. I would imagine that extends to everything she views as valuable, and she's totally a "keep a gun discreetly holstered to her thigh" type.
She is also, again, a dominatrix, which I don't think she'll be necessarily advertising in Fandom unless she likes you -- which is to say, shoot me an email if you have a character who'd be into that. :D
Appearance-wise, Irene is about 5'3" and very slim (her measurements are 32-24-34, thanks canon!), with blue eyes and dark hair that's usually pulled into a very well-kept updo. She tends to wear designer suits and stilettos and red lipstick, that sort of thing -- total femme fatale, and she knows it.
the shop
So! Irene is taking over Dite's, which has tons of shifts available -- everything except Fridays. She's keeping it pretty much exactly as it's been run in the past (no need to ruffle feathers and draw attention to herself, thank you), so if you would like a shift, shoot me an email at begmetwice@gmail.com and we can make it happen!
Questions? Comments? "Nghhhh" is acceptable, since that's my response to naked Lara Pulver.
With that said, have some infopost.
(Also, sorry for spamming the flist, if I'm on your flist already.)
the canon
Sherlock is the BBC's modern-day adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories. The series has three seasons, with a total of nine episodes. Each episode is roughly an hour and a half long, so it's less like a traditional television series or even a miniseries, and more like interlocking cinematic films.
We follow, of course, Sherlock Holmes, Britain's greatest mind and most temperamental detective, along with his sidekick boyfriend blogger, John Watson. In the original stories, of course, the two bachelors lived at 221B Baker Street and solved crimes that stumped the ever-suffering Scotland Yard in Victorian London. The premise is nearly identical here, except that it's updated to be contemporary. Nearly every episode of Sherlock updates one of the existing Conan Doyle stories -- A Study in Scarlet, for example, which is the original short story in which Holmes and Watson form their partnership, is updated to A Study in Pink.
Most of the changes made in the adaptation are in the updating of technology and language and social norms -- everyone is always texting, Mrs. Hudson (their landlady) is much less understanding about the way the guys treat her property because it's 2012, Sherlock and John's close (PLATONIC, TOTALLY PLATONIC) relationship raises a few more knowing eyebrows than it necessarily did in Victorian England, et cetera. The stories, however, largely stay the same in tone/content -- though they throw in enough curveballs that even avid readers of the original work can be surprised.
the woman
So! If you know the Sherlock Holmes series, you already know about Irene Adler -- notoriously referred to as 'The Woman' by Holmes himself, and perpetually known through nearly every incarnation as the only woman to ever get under his skin. In the original Conan Doyle story that featured her, Irene was an American-born opera singer who had a terribly scandalous affair with the King of Bohemia.
The show updated things a smidge.
Irene Adler is an extremely well-groomed, polished, implacable and impassive high-end dominatrix, known professionally as The Woman. Her professional life seems to influence what little she has of a personal life, and vice versa. She presents herself as extremely competent, very much in control of herself and her emotions to the point of unreadability, and does her best to seem like she's always a step or two ahead of whoever she's talking to (even if she really isn't.) For Irene, self-confidence is a tool, and she lives her life by using it.
In the episode that features her, Irene is still one of the only people ever to outwit Sherlock, on a couple different occasions. He and John originally are contracted by British Secret Service to recover some incriminating photos on Irene's phone, featuring a young, female, married member of the British royal family. (It's pretty heavily implied to be Kate Middleton, which cracks me up every time.) Irene is perpetually one step ahead of them, and disarms the guys by meeting them in her parlor stark naked -- both to throw them off their guard, and to keep Sherlock from actually discerning anything from her clothes.
She later fakes her death, comes back from it, and ends up on the run -- all because she has incriminating photos of seemingly dozens of important people on her phone. Once Sherlock finally cracks the code to her phone (which is my favorite thing ever, and I won't spoil for anyone who hasn't seen the episode), Irene is at the mercy of the people she's blackmailed with those very photos, and ends up on the run, again, for real. One of the last scenes of the episode features a flashback to when she was supposedly beheaded in Karachi, Pakistan -- except she wasn't, because Sherlock was posing as her executioner, and subsequently got her out of there. We have no idea where she went, except that she was in Russia for New Year's (which, I'm kind of AU'ing before that) so...I say Fandom!
Not a whole lot is known about her background. She's been a dominatrix for some time (she's around thirty), and takes clients of all ages and sexes provided that they can meet her fee. That being said, she does identify as a lesbian, but she clearly is attracted to Sherlock, so I'd put her at like a 5 on the Kinsey scale (strongly prefers women, with a notable exception here and there.) She's extremely flirtatious, especially if she thinks she can get something out of it, or throw someone off their guard. She also lives pretty contentedly in shades of gray, morally -- she thinks nothing of blackmail, obviously, though she does refer to it as her 'protection,' implying that she feels like it's something she has to do, not something she does for funsies.
She also is extremely manipulative -- that's part of why it's so hard to tell what she's thinking, and why she's so good at her job -- and that is something she's been known to do for funsies. She's also very, very bright -- she was able to fake her own death well enough to fool Sherlock Holmes, after all. She's not as clever as she thinks she is, but she's quite a bit smarter than the average bear. Irene is also a little paranoid, to match her manipulative side -- though she'd probably just call it 'thorough.' The infamous phone was loaded with explosives that would go off if someone tried to dismantle it, for instance -- paranoid, but in this case, quite justified. I would imagine that extends to everything she views as valuable, and she's totally a "keep a gun discreetly holstered to her thigh" type.
She is also, again, a dominatrix, which I don't think she'll be necessarily advertising in Fandom unless she likes you -- which is to say, shoot me an email if you have a character who'd be into that. :D
Appearance-wise, Irene is about 5'3" and very slim (her measurements are 32-24-34, thanks canon!), with blue eyes and dark hair that's usually pulled into a very well-kept updo. She tends to wear designer suits and stilettos and red lipstick, that sort of thing -- total femme fatale, and she knows it.
the shop
So! Irene is taking over Dite's, which has tons of shifts available -- everything except Fridays. She's keeping it pretty much exactly as it's been run in the past (no need to ruffle feathers and draw attention to herself, thank you), so if you would like a shift, shoot me an email at begmetwice@gmail.com and we can make it happen!
Questions? Comments? "Nghhhh" is acceptable, since that's my response to naked Lara Pulver.