[ SECRET POST #1832 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1832 ⌋


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I thought it was implied they are a couple - or at least were? But then Watson switched his bachelor life (aka being with Holmes) for Mary, as was the usual thing to do in those times. (Interesting fact: you weren't a worthy person in the Victorian times if you didn't have a wife and a household, and bachelors were often segregated from the married couples's lives as the man wasn't considered an "honest man" and a married couple shouldn't spend too much time with people like that, even in private. A wife was practically a status symbol, and people honestly thought you couldn't be happy if you weren't married and your house didn't have a mistress.)
I honestly don't think it was bromance or subtext, it was full-on text. Holmes was definitely in love with Watson and Watson was trying his hardest to keep himself from going back to his ex's manly arms.

I mean, the whole Holmes dressed up as a woman was probably a metaphor for Holmes trying to become "the woman" in the relationship so Watson could feel like a man and thus wouldn't need Mary anymore. And the dancing scene was a metaphor for Watson accepting Holmes as he was and accepting what they were together, to the point of appreciation.

Idk, maybe I'm reading too much into things, but I don't even ship them, so what do you make of that?

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Well, it's also implied -- no, it's outright stated -- that Holmes is the roommate/friend/lover from hell. He shoots walls, he shoots up, he gets manic, he gets completely depressed, you never know what's going to come out of his mouth when you introduce him to someone, and he's lousy at remembering to do things for you even while he's depending on you to do things for him. The Ritchie movies are set ten years into the friendship, so Watson's had plenty of time to become disillusioned. And Holmes, canonically, keeps saying that emotions and things like love interfere with his mental processes. Watson may have gone to Mary because he needs affection and stability as well as adrenalin.

Me, I think Watson loves them both. But I've thought that for years. And Holmes is lousy in any 'verse at expressing affection.