John Watson, quirky habits or other oddities
anonymous
January 8 2011, 05:05:36 UTC
When John says to Mike "who would want me for a flatmate?" Mike doesn't ask "what do you mean by that?" He also doesn't say "oh, what'd be wrong with you as a flatmate?" He just accepts that John would be a difficult person to find a flat for and moves on to Sherlock. Given that Mike knows at least a little of how odd Sherlock is and yet suggests Watson as a good match, does this imply that John has some weird habits of his own, without regard to his experiences in Afghanistan?
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anonymous
January 8 2011, 07:10:33 UTC
lol, yes! mike is watson's watson :D
i love the idea of him being insane but no one really noticing, since sherlock's insanity burns far, far brighter. the carl barât of sherlock holmes, if you will...
You do know you're completely mad, don't you? (2/?)
anonymous
January 8 2011, 14:54:51 UTC
Of course, meeting Lucy, whom he’d gone out with for six months, was only one of the things.
John lived in different halls from him, across the quad. He shared a room with George Brown, another first year medical student, while Mike had a single room to himself on the ground floor.
George, unlike Mike, didn’t seem to think that John was the best person in the world.
“He’s a nice guy,” George would say earnestly, “but he’s driving me mad.”
“What is it?” Mike, or whoever George was moaning at, would ask.
“Everything… I mean, he’s neat, which is good. But he got drunk last week and organised my stuff in alphabetical order. And then there are the girls.”
“The girls?” Was always the next question for everyone who wasn’t Mike. Most people didn’t think that quiet John Watson, who paid attention in lectures and labs, and was not particularly handsome, especially intelligent, nor outstanding in any distinct way, could possibly be that good with women
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You do know you're completely mad, don't you? (5/?)
anonymous
January 8 2011, 14:59:50 UTC
They went out for Mike’s birthday and ended up in a brawl outside their new local. Some guy had taken exception to the way John was talking to his girlfriend and thrown a punch. They had ended up with bloody lips and covered in bruises. John had a concussion while Mike thought he had broken one of his knuckles for a time
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You do know you're completely mad, don't you? (6/7)
anonymous
January 8 2011, 15:00:43 UTC
And, on top of all these incidents, there had been Harry. John’s sister was older than him by three years and she lived in London. In first year, her drunken phone calls and her unexpected arrivals at his door with a pack of beer had been welcome. And Mike had been fascinated to find out that it wasn’t just John who had the curious magnetic ability with women, Harry had it as well. She could chat up anyone. And Mike had walked in on her a couple of times as well, which had been… entertaining
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You do know you're completely mad, don't you? (7/7)
anonymous
January 8 2011, 15:07:45 UTC
When he sees John in the park, he doesn’t recognise him at first. His face is older, which is to be expected, but he doesn’t have the look of barely contained amusement anymore, like he’s laughing at the world, and that’s jarringly wrong on John Watson’s face. The man had always seemed to be laughing at the world, and now he looks like he thinks the world is laughing at him
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Re: You do know you're completely mad, don't you? (7/7)
anonymous
January 8 2011, 15:23:34 UTC
HEADCANONEST HEADCANON THAT EVER FUCKING HEADCANONED!!!
This is beautiful and perfect and wonderful and yes and it's like, thinking that this was what John used to be like before Harry and Afghanistan makes his brokenness and subsequent becoming-unbrokenness after meeting Sherlock so much more poignant.
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i love the idea of him being insane but no one really noticing, since sherlock's insanity burns far, far brighter. the carl barât of sherlock holmes, if you will...
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John lived in different halls from him, across the quad. He shared a room with George Brown, another first year medical student, while Mike had a single room to himself on the ground floor.
George, unlike Mike, didn’t seem to think that John was the best person in the world.
“He’s a nice guy,” George would say earnestly, “but he’s driving me mad.”
“What is it?” Mike, or whoever George was moaning at, would ask.
“Everything… I mean, he’s neat, which is good. But he got drunk last week and organised my stuff in alphabetical order. And then there are the girls.”
“The girls?” Was always the next question for everyone who wasn’t Mike. Most people didn’t think that quiet John Watson, who paid attention in lectures and labs, and was not particularly handsome, especially intelligent, nor outstanding in any distinct way, could possibly be that good with women ( ... )
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This is beautiful and perfect and wonderful and yes and it's like, thinking that this was what John used to be like before Harry and Afghanistan makes his brokenness and subsequent becoming-unbrokenness after meeting Sherlock so much more poignant.
For the love of apple tarts and little green fishies, please repost this somewhere it can be properly mem'd? Pleeeeease?
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