Sherlock Holmes: Difference between revisions

In the “[[Prime Universe]]”, Sherlock Holmes was a real man who resided in the late 19th century at [[221B Baker Street|221B]] [[Baker Street]] with [[Mrs Hudson]] and [[Doctor Watson]]. They kept a written correspondence with a [[Arthur Conan Doyle|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. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time of the Toymaker (novel)|The Time of the Toymaker]]'')

 

On Christmas that year, he was persuaded to participate in a Christmas dinner with Watson, Mrs Hudson, [[Mycroft Holmes|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-858|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.

 

 

Arriving on [[Shenanig]] in the [[Jynx Dimension]], they made their way to the [[Imperial Castle]], bumping into [[Doctor Curious]]. Getting themselves arrested on purpose, they were taken before the Clown, who had overthrown [[Sebastian Steer]] and made himself Emperor. Learning the truth about where the Clown had come from, they convinced him to give up on being a villain and return to his “mother”, Tarsa. The Clown instantly teleported himself, Pythe, Holmes and [[Wendy VII]] back to the [[Workshop of Madame Tarsa|Workshop]]. From there, after further explanations and thanks, Sherlock was carried back to his home by [[Jenny Everywhere#Adventure with the Cupids|Jenny Everywhere]], who invited herself to the Christmas party. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time of the Toymaker (novel)|The Time of the Toymaker]]'')

 

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 (novel)|The Time of the Toymaker]]'')

In [[Frankenstein's World|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 [[#In the Prime Universe|Holmes]] as he was to meet Frankenstein. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time of the Toymaker (novel)|The Time of the Toymaker]]'')

A version of Sherlock Holmes existed in the [[Interdimensional Library]] as one of its [[Librarian]]s, autonomous, sentient projections of popular fictional characters. Like all Librarians, he had the qualities of his literary self, but was aware that he was fictional, and had an encyclopedic knowledge of his own publication history. [[Jenny Everywhere#Adventures with the Cupids|Jenny Everywhere]] once “borrowed” this version of Holmes and brought him to [[Aziraphale#The hot-coca incident|Aziraphale]]'s [[Universe (You've Been To Eden, I Perceive)|universe]], where he agreed to stay at the bookshop and help Aziraphale with bibliophilic investigations for as long as the angel wished. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[You've Been To Eden, I Perceive (short story)|You've Been To Eden, I Perceive]]'')