Sherlock-Ficlet - "Freak!"
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120_minutenTeam: Chopin
Challenge: Päckchen #3 - "Freak!"
Fandom: Sherlock (BBC)
Words: ~350
Note: English
Sherlock Holmes is not a psychopath. People tend to give him that look, when he tells them, the sceptic look, doubtful. But really, what do they know? You can't be a psychopath, if you consciously decide not to be one. He can't help being cunning and charming, and the self-worth thing is hard to come by, too, but he has rules.
No lying or manipulating if not necessary.
Thinking about >Consequences. >Long-term goals. >Responsibility. >People's feelings.
He's not perfect, but he tries. It's good enough for Mycroft (who worries about his brother and his career) and Sherlock frankly doesn't care about anyone else enough to try harder.
And anyway, he has no desire to kill anyone. Most of the time. But that's quite normal, isn't it? People say it all the time: I could kill him. Well, Sherlock knows he really could, it's a knowledge most people shy away from, but it's true.
Truth is always simple. It's kind of beautiful, if slightly boring.
The thing is, he won't. The main reason is that the only thing more boring than stupid people are dead people. Except when you have to find out who killed them, and well, not much fun in that, if you did it yourself, obviously.
It's a sound piece of logic, but John doesn't seem impressed at all. He just squints at Sherlock, a bit reproachful, a bit intrigued.
“So you don't kill people as long as others do”, he says and no, that's not what Sherlock said.
“That's not conclusive”, he complains. “It's not even fair coming from a man who actually has killed.”
John looks pained for the fracture of a second (Feelings, Sherlock thinks, damn.), then concedes the point with a somewhat resigned gesture of his hand. “Well, I didn't give you the look, did I?”
"No." Sherlock feels a smile coming on. It's a bit strange, he doesn't smile much. Smiles are for being polite (no manipulation - politeness) or to annoy people who don't like him. But he smiles quite a lot at John and it's neither of those. “No, you didn't.”
Challenge: Päckchen #3 - "Freak!"
Fandom: Sherlock (BBC)
Words: ~350
Note: English
Sherlock Holmes is not a psychopath. People tend to give him that look, when he tells them, the sceptic look, doubtful. But really, what do they know? You can't be a psychopath, if you consciously decide not to be one. He can't help being cunning and charming, and the self-worth thing is hard to come by, too, but he has rules.
No lying or manipulating if not necessary.
Thinking about >Consequences. >Long-term goals. >Responsibility. >People's feelings.
He's not perfect, but he tries. It's good enough for Mycroft (who worries about his brother and his career) and Sherlock frankly doesn't care about anyone else enough to try harder.
And anyway, he has no desire to kill anyone. Most of the time. But that's quite normal, isn't it? People say it all the time: I could kill him. Well, Sherlock knows he really could, it's a knowledge most people shy away from, but it's true.
Truth is always simple. It's kind of beautiful, if slightly boring.
The thing is, he won't. The main reason is that the only thing more boring than stupid people are dead people. Except when you have to find out who killed them, and well, not much fun in that, if you did it yourself, obviously.
It's a sound piece of logic, but John doesn't seem impressed at all. He just squints at Sherlock, a bit reproachful, a bit intrigued.
“So you don't kill people as long as others do”, he says and no, that's not what Sherlock said.
“That's not conclusive”, he complains. “It's not even fair coming from a man who actually has killed.”
John looks pained for the fracture of a second (Feelings, Sherlock thinks, damn.), then concedes the point with a somewhat resigned gesture of his hand. “Well, I didn't give you the look, did I?”
"No." Sherlock feels a smile coming on. It's a bit strange, he doesn't smile much. Smiles are for being polite (no manipulation - politeness) or to annoy people who don't like him. But he smiles quite a lot at John and it's neither of those. “No, you didn't.”
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Date: 2010-08-05 10:13 pm (UTC)-The main reason is that the only thing more boring than stupid people are dead people. Except when you have to find out who killed them, and well, not much fun in that, if you did it yourself, obviously.
-“So you don't kill people as long as others do”, he says and no, that's not what Sherlock said.
“That's not conclusive”, he complains. “It's not even fair coming from a man who actually has killed.”
Nett, daß er sich wenigstens periphär um Watsons Gefühle schert. Und übrigens, ich hatte schon immer eine Schwäche für Mycroft. ^^
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Date: 2010-08-06 07:26 am (UTC)Ich dachte immer, dass Mycroft wahnsinnig zwielichtig ist. Naja, Politiker...
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Date: 2010-08-06 08:50 am (UTC)Ich liebe deine Sichtweise auf Sherlock und finde sie vollkommen canon! (Auf jeden fall was den Cumberbatch-Sherlock angeht und den hatte ich auch grade vor Augen. *g*)
Seine Argumentation ist vollkommen schlüssig und stichhaltig. Für Psychologen gibt es eh zwei Arten von Psychopathen: 1.) Die Erfolglosen, die landen im Knast und 2.) die Erfolgreichen, die werden Firmenboss, Anwalt oder Politiker. Oder halt Privatdetektiv.
Passt also schon. ;)
Mycroft ist ziemlich awesome auf seine zwielichtige Art und Weise (Brüderkisten für Rei = immer ein Gewinn).
Und das ende ist absolut rührend. Erst sein "Watson hat ja Gefühle ... damn" und die Blicke und das Lächeln und hach. Alles wunderschön. ^___^
*approves the hell out of this*
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Date: 2010-08-06 09:56 am (UTC)Ja, ich hatte auch den Cumberbatch-Sherlock im Kopf, obwohl ich sagen muss, dass er mit dem Bild, das ich vorher von Holmes hatte, 100% übereinstimmt. Okay, er ist noch eine Ecke niedlicher, aber ansonsten.
Kann ich einen fandom-tag haben? Es bleibt dir überlassen, ob du einen übergreifenden sh-tag machst, oder differenzieren willst ;D
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Date: 2010-08-06 08:36 pm (UTC)Tolle Charakteranalyse, sie trifft den Nagel so ziemlich auf den Kopf. =)
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Date: 2010-08-06 09:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-07 04:11 pm (UTC)Und das Ende mit Watson ist wunderbar ~
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Date: 2010-08-21 01:10 pm (UTC)In den "The thing is..."-Absatz könnte ich mich reinlegen, ein wunderbares Stück Literatur. Und das Ende mit Watson... Yay.^^
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Date: 2010-08-24 08:14 am (UTC)Ja, es sieht komisch aus, aber ich weiß, was du meinst. Ich finde es bemerkenswert, dass der Holmes aus einer modernen, leicht poppigen Adaption tatsächlich holmesiger ist als eine ganze Reihe Holmeses vor ihm. Gott, ich hab so viel Liebe für diese Serie. *-*