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⌈ Secret Post #2576 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Headcanons or interpretations that you've never seen anyone else have

[(Anonymous)]

Sherlock Holmes:

Watson had loads of hilariously awful vices, particularly in the early days of his time after (and/or during, and before) the war, and spent a lot of his time (of which he had plenty to spare in those days) carousing and sleeping around when not on cases with Holmes. Also, his club was not some staid gentlemen's club, but a terribly rowdy den full of bad influences and dudes who split their time between playing the stock market and being pool sharks.

My reasons for having this headcanon, in order of importance:
1. It really entertains me to think about it, because people assume otherwise for no concrete reason. Nothing in canon contradicts it, while it also makes sense that Watson would conveniently fail to elaborate on such embarrassing information. So why not?
2. Given his eager association with Holmes and his comments about it, Watson clearly really relished excitement, and back when Holmes's business was slow and Watson didn't have a practice or wife, I can hardly imagine him whiling away his days doing nice boring wholesome things. So why not go way off in the opposite direction? No reason not to.
3. Those various digs in canon about Watson's familiarity with women and gambling and his rapid loss of money/recurring broke-ness, and that evasive "I have another set of vices when I'm well" comment. Creativity is good!
4. This could be why he is so reluctant, even by the time of The Sign of Four, about criticizing Holmes's habits, and why he describes him as easy to live with in STUD, because he didn't see anything wrong with it and/or felt it would be hypocritical. Later however, when he started getting his act together and leaving behind his vices and Holmes didn't/got worse about them, he acquired a (slightly) more frustrated attitude towards Holmes's bad habits, which shows in his stories.
5. One more reason why he didn't think he was good enough for Mary Morstan and was so afraid she'd think of him as a scoundrel.