a study in pink, and the mirror moment;
This was intended as a form of introduction for the S2 meta, but after several rewrites of it it simply didn't seem to fit, so I'm putting it up now, perhaps as a prologue. See, ASiP remains my favourite episode pretty much on par with TRF, and I find the echoes between both of these episodes to be fascinating, but upon closer reflection ASiP
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Second, HOLY HELL YOU’RE WRITING THESE HUGE THINGS THAT I CAN READ FOREVER ABOUT THE EPISODES HELLO LET ME SCREAM FOREVER
And technically there’s just a lot of screaming going on around here.
ANYWAYS I would say hi but you probably don’t even remember who I am and I don’t want to freak you out by making you think, “Who the fuck even is this weirdo.” So I’ll refrain myself if refrain is even a suitable word for this situation.
Anyways gosh this was a fun read. And I do mean fun because way before I even got into Sherlock, before I even knew the show existed, already I had seen a million kajillion times scenes and people just saying so much how much in love Holmes and Watson are. So after I watched the series and everyone was like A STUDY IN PINK IS WHEN SHERLOCK FALLS IN LOVE WITH JOHN and I’m like no he doesn’t silly fangirls. I mean yes I do understand they completely, undeniably in love in just maybe probably the purest way ever that just makes us all want to drown in our emotions but I never thought, really thought, much of the when and concentrated more on the mystery and murdery part of the story because GOSH I LIKE MYSTERIES AND MURDERS. Maybe I was in denial, or maybe I am just really fucking dense because I always knew there was a moment, when Sherlock fucking Holmes just completely changes his radio station for and ex-soldier in ugly sweaters and does it willingly but I never went as far as thinking, “Wow, he’s kinda been in love with him since forever.”
And it’s not even the GOD I WANNA SMOOCH YOU kind of love. It’s just completely 100% being unable to live without the other and I’m just kinda having a MY EMOTIONS moment right now because SHERLOCK LOVES WATSON AND HE’S LOVED HIM SINCE A STUDY IN PINK and yeah hello crying corner how have you been I’m gonna sit on you now ok
WOW THIS IS RIDICULOUS OK SELF BACK TO QUIETLY READING SHOO GO
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Of course I remember you, dude. Massively long reviews + capslock? yeaaaah. I didn't know you were in Sherlock fandom! I, aha, I've been around for nearly two years, so. Yeah.
TBH, I think ASiP is the episode where they both fall inexorably for each other - regardless, again, of the name you give to their affection, be it romantic love or platonic life-sharing or bromance or charismatic attraction (I will defend to my death the concept that John is attracted to Sherlock, even if said attraction isn't sexual but mental, even if it's a physical pull), because I doubt anyone can deny they're the first and most important person in each other's lives - but I like your radio station analogy, because yes, that's it exactly. They change each other's lives in the space of a gunshot, in the span of time it takes Sherlock to look over and see John standing calmly amidst the police cars that're all there for him, all the policemen that would arrest him if they only knew he'd been the sniper, holy shit, just - how much guts it has to take to stand down the stares and the curiosity to simply be there for Sherlock in shock, despite the danger for himself, despite the shock he has to be under himself because he's just basically killed a man. (JohnJohnJohn ♥.)
They fit, together. That's pretty much what they discover in ASiP. In the canon books, they do take a little longer to take to each other, they're already living together before they actually become fast friends, but in Sherlock they become inseparable before they even share the same living space.
Enjoy your stay, I guess? I write some fic and write a fuckton of meta. :D
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and no, haha, i admit i watched sherlock AFTER the whole fandom drowned in their tears and mostly because a friend made me do it. And i am also VERY SLOWLY making my way trough the books because a) Homestuck is VERY distracting and b) I tend to over-analyze so it takes me a while to read
Anyways I admit my radio comparison was made on the fly as I wrote the comment, but i am glad you liked it! And man may I just say that aaahhh I've never even KNEW with John. I've been trying to pin-point the moment he falls for Sherlock and I thought for a while it was after Irene or just a little before meeting Moriarty or maybe, just maybe, when he sees himself abut to kill a man to protect Sherlock BUT NO. This is a very interesting fact that I found right when I started reading the books, and it's that John Watson, wonderful brave and adorable baby boy, fell for Sherlock Holme the moment he saw him, an ex-soldier, broken and old and tired, and told him HEY MAN I FOUND THIS CHEMICAL AND THIS IS LOADS MORE IMPORTANT THAN YOU RIGHT NOW SO MOVE OVER THERE FOR A SEC THANKS. Because HE SAW HIM, raw and with no secrets to this strange new man, and he gave him NO PITY, no apologizes for the war, no kind eyes, or any sympathy at all. Which is exactly what he actually never knew he needed and there, right there, he somehow falls in love with this puzzle of a man. (And really he's just so obvious and the first chapter of A Study in Scarlet is basically Watson completely studyin Holmes and it's too cute) and I am just blown away by it because in ASiP too, the moment Sherlock Holmes regards John Watson as another human being, Watson just instantly attaches himself to this man trough both soul and body and loyalty and the man is so thick even is his complete heart is just already completely and utterly Sherlock's it takes his mind until he sees himself ready to shoot a man to catch up and sees Sherlock and understands, "Oh, here I am. Thought i lost you for a sec there. But no, I'm here."
The friendship though, is a whole another thing which I shall emotionally invest myself in LATER because i am probably just really boring you right now OK
AND MAN OH MAN WILL I ENJOY MY STAY. GLAD TO BE BACK MADAME
what id this huge embarrasing thing MAN SHOOT ME NOW
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The books ♥ ngl I adore the canon!fandom - there's been some gorgeous fic written, and I may throw recs at you if you want some, because, like, there's so much stuff. It's an amazing fandom and it deserves alllll the greatest writers.
But yes! John is generally infatuated with Sherlock from the moment he sees him, whichever 'verse they're in, and I think that's the greatest thing about Sherlock, is how they show that this, this adoration they have for each other, this instant trust and regard for each other, is mutual and very much intensely shared by both partners in the equation, because I doubt they can ever do anything without each other, after this, they've pretty much dug their way inside each other's chests and will refuse to be dug out again (except they are, and they will, because TRF and wow hello that episode made me very emotional, what gives). But canon!Watson is this shattered man, really, made half-slow and half-angry by the way, jolted aside, his nerves all thrown to hell, and Holmes takes him up and puts him back together, which - it's heartbreaking, and Sherlock is I think one of the few adaptations - if not the only one, that I know - that have actually tackled John Watson's trauma and military background (which, it doesn't matter if he was a soldier, what matters is that he was at war, that war got under his skin and made him into something else), which is great! It emphasizes his need for companionship as much as Sherlock's, I think. I like how they worked that out, though I'm pretty certain John didn't understand quite how deeply he needs Sherlock until ASiB.
Ahh, they are just. OTP to end all OTPs, man.
's okayyyy hi i write a lot of meta
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