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[angelmaple]

Title: Descent into Softer Emotions
Rating: G
Word Count: 787
Characters: Sherlock, mention of John, Lestrade and Moriarty
Warnings: spoilers for The Great Game
Summary: An exploration on just how much did Sherlock care, or, not care.
Disclaimer: I don’t own, no profit made etc. etc. The usual.
Author’s Note: First drabble. Non-beta’d, non-Britpicked.

Comments

[timelady_watson]

Very beautiful :D!

[angelmaple]

Aw, thank you!

[angelmaple]

Also, your icon is full of win. :D

[resounding_echo]

Ah, this is wonderful beautiful fic, pre-slash, and meta!

Contrary to popular belief, Sherlock Holmes was not a man oblivious to the accepted norms of social behaviour. How others can believe him to be oblivious to anything was just a testimony to Sherlock’s opinion that most human beings believed what they wanted to believe, regardless of whether their conclusions fitted all the data available. Ugh, thank you! Bookmarked this fic right here. This spells out brilliant why I get so irritated with fandom's current instinct to label any "misunderstood genius" type tv produces as having Asperger's Syndrome. My apologies if I offend anyone speaking in haste, and I would quite like to see in the media and discuss in fandom characters dealing with Aspergers, but I hate how quick fandom is to label anyone who doesn't adhere, and seemingly doesn't know, social protocols. Sherlock could not the world's greatest mystery solver if he didn't know how to read peoples emotions (motivations). He may not try to navigate social customs by picking up

[angelmaple]

Wow, I got home from uni and this was sitting in my inbox waiting to overwhelm me with its awesomeness. Thank you! Your comment made my day. :)

Yeah, I did also ponder the possibility of Sherlock having Asperger's Syndrome (or even being a real sociopath), taking at face value, but somehow his character didn't seem to fit. I don't know about Asperger's or psychopathy much at all, but both seem denote a fundamental lack in one's perceptive faculties.And since: Sherlock could not the world's greatest mystery solver if he didn't know how to read peoples emotions (motivations). He may not try to navigate social customs by picking up and responding to cues, but he is not incapable of observing and (quickly) deciphering them when he deemed worthy.

Shelock is unlikely to have Asperger's or psychopathy; he needs to utilise emotional perception.

I haven't read much of book cannon, but at the start of A Scandal in Bohemia, Watson observes that though Holmes 'never spoke of the softer passions, save with gibe and a sneer, [t]hey were

[errantcomment]

Just the right level of bitter-sweet.
I like the sense of isolation.
Thanks. ^^

[angelmaple]

Glad you thought so! Thank you for reading and commenting! :)

[pingggg]

So right and so true. *Adds to memories*

[angelmaple]

Thank you! Very kind of you. :)

[wedreamalone]

a lovely and very true character study, this is one of the few pieces that I have foung truely capture him and his strange relationship with the good doctor.

[angelmaple]

Thank you so much for commenting! I'm glad you thought so. :)