[ SECRET POST #2437 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2437 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Good point. I just don't see what people have against stunned/relieved/a little angry Watson.

On the other end of the spectrum though, it reminds of a thread that was going on, oh, probably a year ago...I don't remember if it was directly Sherlock fic related or it was just general, but someone asked about what the response would be if someone you thought were dead showed up all of a sudden.

There were so. many. quips and puns and unrealistic answers that I just pretty much facepalmed the whole thread. Yes, your One True Friend/Love/Whatever, who you thought was dead, shows up and you're going to cock your eyebrow and say "hey...aren't you supposed to be dead?" Please.

What would I do...

[(Anonymous)]

I think I would probably cry - or awkward laugh - or laugh and cry at the same time, that uncomfortable in between. Maybe some yelling of "what the fuck" and probably some pacing and I assume I would hug them for a long time.


*granted I can only guess about this as people don't conventionally come back from the dead...

[elaminator]

Haha, I think most people wish they would react in that way (if that highly unlikely situation were to occur), but most people wouldn't, no. Then again some people DO deal with stress/anger/whatever by injecting humor into everything, so they might joke about it then have a meltdown when no one's watching.

I have no idea how I would react in that situation. There would be no physical violence, and yea there would be an overwhelming relief, but of course I'd be upset too.

[(Anonymous)]

Initially, I'd probably lock down and go unresponsive, because that's my proven response to major shocks. I'm not sure what way it would go afterwards, but I suspect my main emotion would be confusion/shock rather than anger. Once Holmes explained, I'd have accepted the necessity, so not much anger, but the whole dead-not-dead would just knock me for a loop for a while. I'd have trouble accepting the reality of it.

I've always thought that Watson's relatively quick jump to relief and joy (after the fainting fit where his brain just shut down for a bit while trying to grasp what happened) was because he'd always nursed a hope that there was something he wasn't seeing, some hope that Holmes wasn't dead. Holmes was always fairly tricky, and there was no body. Which, in hindsight, makes those three years in between significantly more painful, if you've ever seen people with missing friends/relatives that they don't know for sure are dead, but it would explain why he could jump so quickly so happiness. He'd been expecting/hoping for the return for some time.