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...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.

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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.

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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 would do that sort of thing.

I don't think Sherlock would have forgiven himself or his friend for being weak enough to drown and thus leave him, alone again.

I considered the idea that the friend (who keeps calling himself William, in my head) would have possibly died an ambiguous death in the river which many assumed was suicide, but Sherlock refused to believe in. It could have been what started him on the route to becoming a detective, really.

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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).

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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.

There are two ways their friendship/relationship could have gone. I don't know that they were ever 'together' in this little universe in either option, but I do think that either on the night it happened they were within a hair's breadth of the possibility, which is half of what galls Sherlock so much. Aside from the devastation of losing the person closest to him, he'll never have the answer he was looking for - he'll never solve that puzzle of what it could have been.

The alternative is that they did get physical that night and that after they leave each other on campus, somehow William ended up back at the river and drowned. They claimed it was suicide, but to Sherlock that simply couldn't have been the case, because the implications are too great. He would want to prove that it was an accident or some nefarious shenanigans at work, ostensibly to clear Will's name and privately to put himself at ease.

Maybe it was that loss which caused him to really push everyone else away from him - he may have been close to Mycroft when they were younger, but Mycroft tried to convince him that it was suicide and that he needed to let it go, which meant he didn't believe him and had advised him to keep what happened that night to himself for the sake of his own dignity.

Sherlock would want someone to lash out at for that. Someone to blame for the fact that he never managed to find the truth and make it known.

Maybe Mycroft is the only one who really knows the depth of what happened and that's why Sherlock can't stand to be around him.

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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.

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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.

Sherlock's birthday is 6 January in canon, but perhaps he was put up a year in school - that would explain why Sebastian looked older than he is. They don't even have to be in the same year, though...

I'm sure that Sherlock and Will wouldn't have been the only ones to go to Cambridge from their boarding school - their reputation would have followed them, even if most of the bullies hadn't. Besides, this was about 1994, everyone thought themselves to be sexually ambiguous in this country by then - certainly amongst young people. Suede were the biggest band around; the Manic Street Preachers were about to lose Richey. It was all very deliberately homoerotic within popular culture.

I would imagine in those days and with Will's influence, Sherlock would have been more aware of, if not deeply involved in, pop culture. I do see him being a bit of a Neil Codling type in those days. All black jeans and Doc Martens with black shirts or girls' sweaters. Maybe I'll draw the photo I have in my head, at some point.

A snotty rugger bugger like Sebastian - because that guy had rubgy all over his face - would have probably beeen something of a Frienemy. Someone who would have been friendly with Sherlock when he required his intellect, but in no way above taking the piss out of him with his mates. Sherlock would probably have taken his case to prove that he was still brilliant and successful, in his own way.

I bet they called him Sherly as well; he would have hated that.

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*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."

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

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