Tales of a younger brother

your-loss-would-break-my-heart:

in which kid!Sherlock deals with ptsd and adult!Sherlock talks about his brother

“What living with Mycroft must’ve been like…”, John mumbled after watching him walk out the door.

“Horrible.”, Sherlock said, “It felt like I had three parents. There were times I was more scared of what Mycroft would do than what my mother would do.” John laughed.

“I can’t imagine he was that intimidating.”

Monsters. Monsters.

Sherlock sat on his bed, trying to listen. Any moment now, the monsters would come. They loved to sneak up on him, grab him and make him scream for hours and hours. He knew they were directly underneath him, just lying in wait.

“I’m warning you.”, he said in the scariest voice he could imagine, “I’m a pirate and I have a sword.”

That wasn’t true. His sword lied on the drawer next to the door. But if he jumped, maybe he could reach it, fend the monsters back and run outside. He slowly crawled towards the foot end of his bed. He wouldn’t be able to take a running start thanks to the soft matress, but the edge of the bed would provide enough room for one foot to have a solid stand. If he was able to catapult himself in the air, he would land right in front of his drawer. Almost like ballet, but more life-threatening.

He heard the monsters whisper and jumped, exactly as he was taught. He landed in front of the drawer, grabbed his sword and swung around. The room was empty, but he knew it wouldn’t be empty for long. He slowly backed away, until he could reach the door with one hand. As soon as it opened, he turned his back and ran.

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– Jim and Molly don’t actually break up and Moriarty also chooses the route of MH&MH Fake-Suicide Services. After their first meeting Molly comes home and just sort of slowly meets Jim’s eyes and says, “I think I may have a crush on him,” but Jim’s rather unexpected response is a, “Oh, thank God. Me too,”

beingallmysterious:

Eurus = emotion

Eurus is Sherlock’s emotional side. She is sentiment itself.

Mycroft is the one responsible for imprisoning her. At a textual level this makes no sense. But if Eurus is emotion then it makes perfect sense. Sherlock started to imitate Mycroft’s own attitude to emotion, locking his emotional side in a fortress and then forgetting all about it.

Eurus has superpowers. She can make people do things just by talking with them. Again this makes no sense at the textual level. What makes us do things we don’t want to do on a rational level? Emotion. Emotions are motivators. People do things because of sentiment all the time.

Although locked in a fortress she escapes with ease. Yet she returns too. This makes no sense textually. But as subtext, she is Sherlock’s emotions locked inside him and yet his emotions escape regularly leaking all over the place.

John has an affair with Eurus. There is a romance between John and Sherlock’s emotional side.

Eurus is John’s therapist. Sherlock’s emotional side heals John.

Eurus plays the violin too. In fact, she taught him. At a textual level it makes no sense but subtextually, emotion is necessary to music.

Eurus plays the role of the daughter to the killer.Does Sherlock himself fear that he will kill one day because his emotions are that powerful? Or is she only playing that role as it is a conversation Sherlock is having with himself about the case?

Moriarty visits Eurus. Moriarty has always understood Sherlock’s emotional side. He sees beneath the mask that Sherlock wears.

Eurus is suicidal but Sherlock talks her out of it. Sherlock’s emotional side is suicidal but his rational side stops himself.

Eurus puts Sherlock through tortuous mind games. Doesn’t emotion do the exact same thing?

Sherringford is the original name for Sherlock. He started whole, rationality and emotions both.

Eurus killed Redbeard/Victor and then Eurus was taken away by Mycroft. That’s the textual level. But what does it mean? Was Sherlock accidentally responsible for someone’s death while caught up with his emotions? Or perhaps he simply blames himself? Or is the death symbolic? Did he fall in love with Victor as a child and revealing his true feelings destroyed the friendship?

The final problem then is reason vs sentiment. How do we live with emotions? Should we lock them up as Mycroft recommends? Sherlock has tried this and it didn’t work. So what’s Sherlock’s solution in the end? He lives with her. He accepts her. He becomes whole again. Reason and sentiment.

Tagging @sherlock-overflow-error and @sarahthecoat for cataloguing purposes.