Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes
A.K.A.	The Great Detective
Character Information
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Residence	221B Baker Street, London
Behind the Scenes
First seen in	COMIC: Journey Into Misery (mentioned)
Also seen in	PROSE: The Time of the Toymaker
Copyright	Public Domain

In many realities, Sherlock Holmes, known as the Great Detective, was a notorious sleuth who lived in Victorian England. He lived in 221B Baker Street with Doctor Watson and Mrs Hudson.

Description

Physical appearance

In the Prime Universe, Sherlock Holmes was “domineeringly tall, thin without being lanky”. He had a thin, pale face and receding, short, dark brown hair. He wore a brown jacket over a cream-coloured shirt, with a blue tie. (PROSE: The Time of the Toymaker)

Personality

Sherlock Holmes was best-known as a brilliant analytical mind. (PROSE: The Time of the Toymaker, COMIC: Journey Into Misery) He was extremely focused on his work, having to be laboriously persuaded by Doctor Watson every time Watson wanted him to take part in some “frivolous” leisure activities such as a Christmas dinner. (PROSE: The Time of the Toymaker) Pythagoras-858 thought of Holmes as having a fairly large ego, and a demeanour some might describe as “arch” or “superior”. However, and contrary to popular beief, he was rarely silent and stoic. (PROSE: The Time of the Toymaker)

Powers & abilities

Holmes was best-known for his propensity for “implacable logical deduction”. He was startlingly observant and used principles of logical deduction to draw conclusions about events and people based on a variety of clues. (PROSE: The Time of the Toymaker)

Biography

In the Prime Universe

In the “Prime Universe”, Sherlock Holmes was a real man who resided in the late 19th century at 221B Baker Street with Mrs Hudson and Doctor Watson. They kept a written correspondence with a Mr Doyle who often irritated them by trying to convince them of the truth of the supernatural. By 1895, he had met Professor Moriarty, whom he understood to be dead.

Christmas 1895

On Christmas that year, he was persuaded to participate in a Christmas dinner with Watson, Mrs Hudson, Sherlock's brother, Inspector Lestrade, Sexton Blake and more. Even on the morning of the 24th, however, he was still working on a monograph, “concerning the differences between the analysis of footprints left in snow, and that of those imprinted on dirt or clay”.

At three in the afternoon, however, he was interrupted by a strange visitor who initially used the name “Moriarty” to get his attention, then more properly introduced himself as Pythagoras. Pythagoras was a Clockwork Cherub and had travelled back in time to meet Sherlock; from Pythe's perspective, this was not his first meeting with the British detective, but their prior encounters had taken place later in Holmes's timeline. He convinced Holmes that he was not mad by telling him about a typographical error in a memo whose only draft was still in Holmes's office, not having been published yet.

Pythe transported Sherlock to the Workshop, where he had the British detective examine the crime scene. Holmes pointed out that Madame Tarsa's cane had been stolen, and helped Pythe arrive at an additional hypothesis: that one of Tarsa's own living toys, one she'd just created, was responsible. (PROSE: The Time of the Toymaker)

Later life

Eventually, Holmes retired. A younger Pythagoras-858 first met Sherlock at this stage in his life, with the two becoming friends, before Pythe ended up meeting the younger version of Holmes. (PROSE: The Time of the Toymaker)

In Reality Z-25 31-H

In Reality Z-25 31-H, Sherlock was a well-known fictional character noted for his above-average intelligence and observation skills, prompting Kelly to once sarcastically call Jenkins “Sherlock” when he made a remark she considered trivially obvious. (COMIC: Journey Into Misery)

In Frankenstein's World

In one world where Baron Frankenstein was real, Sherlock, on the other hand, was not. When Pythagoras-858 introduced them to one another, Frankenstein was as stunned to meet the Prime Universe's Holmes as he was to meet Frankenstein. (PROSE: The Time of the Toymaker)