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[rosiedoes]

...consumed by Sherlock. Dammit.

Have discovered that Martin Freeman is a tiny little man who has recently started dressing like a complete queen.

This is... confusing.

What the hell happened to Arthur Dent? I'm sure he was normal height, once.

Also, Benedict Cumberbatch is incredibly pretty for someone remarkably ugly.

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I'm sure he's just dwarfed by Benedict Cumberbatch. Or, I don't know, is he that tiny?

I find that statement is true for an alarmingly large number of British men, actually.

[rosiedoes]

Benedict isn't actually massively tall - he's about 6ft. Martin is only half an inch taller than I am - he's 5'6".

I'm not attracted to skinny men; nor the gangly sort. And I am definitely not attracted to Benedict, but he has really oddly ethereal and beautiful looks.

I do keep envisioning Sherlock at about twelve when I look at him - hair slightly curlier, dress sense not much different, if you took away the coat and jacket. Probably sent to boarding school somewhere highly rural, which would explain his obsession with the city. Terribly quiet boy - adults would have said he had 'an old head on young shoulders' - probably bullied, very isolated. I might write a story about that when the series is over and we have all the information we're going to get, this year.

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It's weird, he looks so much taller than the people he's around, even in other films I've checked out. Must be an optical illusion, with how thin he is. Or maybe it's the coat o_o

He looks a bit reptilian, especially around the eyes, but everything is so heightened by the color contrast in the show: veryvery pale skin, gray shirt, black suit/hair, blue scarf. Cold colors work very well for him.

I like this very much :) I keep trying to think of what killed his interest in relationships too. Either he just wasn't interested from the start, or he was put off people altogether by the bullying, or he had a massively bad experience the times he tried.

[rosiedoes]

I assumed he was some kind of giant, too - at least 6'4" but according to the powers of Google, it is simply not the case. :|

I was just capping some bits for my layout and I was thinking how they've washed out the colour so it appears almost sepia. I like that a lot - matches the colours for my LJ perfectly.

At some point, I really don't know when, anymore, I was actually thinking about that. I came up with a friend he'd had in his teens and with whom he had been completely in love; they'd been at school together for a few years, maybe since Sherlock was about fifteen, and the new boy had been moved to his school. Of course, the bullies would have loved that, but they stuck together in their little ambiguous routine until they both went away to Cambridge to study (is there canon for where Sherlock would have studied? I've never read the books Ffffffuuuuuuu - I googled it; Cambridge was referenced in the books - I'm good, dammit) and the boy had drowned in the river when they'd 'borrowed' a punt one night. Because fey, posh boys

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Why does any man make an island of himself like that, of course. There's mutual affection there, though? That teenage, intense First Love is hard to hide, so clearly boys not fond of Sherlock could pick up on it easily. This friend seems a little older than Sher too, which is a little more devastating for Sher after his death, because he feels like he lost a guide of sorts.

Is Mycroft aware that he's carrying that baggage, I wonder? He seems to have a similar adeptness for deduction that Sherlock does, but more connected with information networks rather than using intuition like Sherlock. Or, they look like they were close early in life, but had a terrible row over something and have been at odds ever since, possibly to do with this William (or Mycroft's nosiness in Sherlock's business).

[rosiedoes]

I'm not sure it's that he's older by more than a matter of months - they have to be in the same school year, really - but it's more the fact that he's largely normal. Maybe a bit more mature than their classmates. And doesn't treat Sherlock like a leper.

Still a fairly graceful boy - the sort who is good with literature and possibly music (piano - nothing too unusual). Proper red hair - that deep auburn colour - and freckles. Wry sense of humour

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My initial reaction was non-physical, but I see I guessed wrong, heh. And even when I was in high school (and I know I'm not Sherlock), but I held a bit of awe for anyone older than me, same year or no. A few of my closest friends were borderline for a year above and just missed the cut off, so idkidk, your universe you're building :)

*likes everything here* And his sense of humor clearly made an impression on Sherlock; Watson's rather dry too.

I was just thinking, in the episode today, it seemed like there was a lot going on with Sebastien and Sherlock? Especially around that comment about him analyzing everyone at uni and them hating him, Sher got the biggest kicked puppy look, if I ever saw one. He seemed pretty hurt that John was playing along and agreeing with him that Sherlock's thing is all really freaky. And when introducing John to Sebastien he put some heavy emphasis on "friend", like he had something to prove. The first thing I thought of was how well it may fit in with your fic, haha.

[rosiedoes]

IWell, there are still two or more ways it could have gone. Even if they got physical it could really just have been a kiss

[rosiedoes]

*splutters* IN FACT!

"His earliest cases, which he pursued as an amateur, came from fellow university students.[5] According to Holmes, it was an encounter with the father of one of his classmates that led him to take up detection as a profession,[6] and he spent the six years following university working as a consulting detective, before financial difficulties led him to take Watson as a roommate, at which point the narrative of the stories begins."

[vinylsigns]

Wikipedia is amazing, innit? :D +5 to your intuition!

[rosiedoes]

Haha. Posh British People, there: fabulous. So easy to read.