App for City of Ariel
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goodnotlucky→ OOC
□ Name: Ronen
□ Age: 26
□ Contact: [Plurk & AIM:] RoRodiculous [E-mail:] rorodiculous@gmail.com
□ Journal:goodnotlucky
→ IC
□ Name: Sherlock Holmes
□ Series: Elementary
□ Canon point: post-s1e11, Dirty Laundry
□ History: Canon facts about Sherlock's history are sparse and the show's wiki ( http://elementary.wikia.com/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes ) isn't very helpful, but there's enough given in the show to piece together a decent skeleton of a past with a bit of headcanon added in.
He was born in 1972 into a highly wealthy family. In the context of the show, only his father has ever been mentioned, and as a singular unit at that ('his father' owns several properties in New York, as opposed to 'his family'). This suggests that his mother is somehow 'gone,' either dead or divorced. The show has never mentioned anything like a Mycroft, meaning Holmes is either an only child or simply doesn't talk about his sibling much: both possibilities and easy to play around until I know for certain.
He has always had a gift for perception. By the age of ten he was already precocious enough to identify the subtleties in different types of English accents by county. It is known that he attended boarding school and that after his schooling he entered into consultant work with Scotland Yard. He was not paid for this work, but his family's fortune would have been enough to keep him afloat. In late 2001 he crossed paths with the American police officer Toby Gregson for the first time, while Gregson was working with the Yard's counterterrorism unit.
In the year 2006 he was already using drugs. When he began, it was only experimentation. His drug use escalated slowly, and until the tipping point he was able to keep himself steady despite it, for the most part.
One of the most significant factors in Holmes' past was his relationship with Irene Adler. The two would have been involved in BDSM and (probably) drugs together, and it's easy to say that whether or not it went both ways, he was very much in love with her. Sherlock has claimed that she's dead now, but this may or may not be true. I would choose to play around this question, treating it simply as a 'loss' until the show offers a more definitive answer.
His father was the one to put him through rehab at the Hemdale facility in New York, where he stayed for six months before escaping on the same day he was to be released. Since then he has restarted his work as a police consultant, this time with the NYPD under Captain Gregson, and has been living in one of his father's brownstones with his assigned sober companion, Joan Watson. At the time Holmes will have been pulled into Ariel, he and Watson were in a tenuous situation: her with only a week left in her allotted time with him and a new client waiting in the wings, him having trouble accepting the fact.
□ Personality: To say that Holmes was born to be an addict might be going a bit far. He was, however, born with a high degree of intelligence and creativity and more than a thin streak of obsession, so the fact that he did fall into drug use isn't all that surprising. What kept him from falling too quickly into an untenable situation once he started using, and what keeps him from relapsing now that he's gone through rehabilitation, is a combination of self-awareness, personal discipline, and self-centered pride. He loathes the idea that he 'allowed' himself to cross that line between controlling his usage and the point where the drugs started controlling him, even at the same time he must admit to himself that that's what happened. Not that he's likely to admit it to anyone else: his pride won't let him, and he's determined to make his recovery as insular as his downfall was.
In fact he expresses an obsessive focus on self-sufficiency in almost all aspects of his life, although the hypocrisy of this is obvious once you scratch the surface. He typically accepts no pay for his consulting work and holds it up as an example of his being beholden to no one, even as he lives in his father's spacious house and spends his father's copious money. He insists time and again that he had - and has - no need of a sober companion even as he and Watson have grown closer, instead focusing on the idea that she couldn't possibly be happy being apart from him. The thing is, at heart Holmes knows exactly what he's doing when he engages in this kind of behaviour, but he continues to keep on doing it. Not only is he not immune to the typical human problem with accepting and admitting uncomfortable truths, he likes imagining that he's more self-sufficient than he actually is. The more you say something out loud, the easier it is to believe, even when at the same time you know it's total bullshit.
In addition to being self-aware, he is also highly socially aware. He always knows how to comport himself in a situation and can be charming when he wants to be. The question is whether he deems a situation worthy, whether he sees some gain in conforming to the demands of the majority. The less he sees, the less likely he is to bother. On the other side of the coin, when he doesn't like what's going on or finds himself facing a personal issue, he has a tendency to deal with the situation in a childish way. He deflects, avoids, sometimes literally runs away. If he confronts the issue at all, his methods could easily be described as the sort of 'acting out' that troubled teenagers resort to. He is the type to set fire to a violin, put old letters in a blender, or scatter the neighbour's trash all over the room just to prove a point. If he ever expresses anger or frustration verbally it is after the fact, after he feels his argument should have already landed. Otherwise he sticks to his usual blithe affect, as if he were above even his own immaturity.
Holmes categorizes people largely by their uses and has a strange way of keeping friends, often staying out of contact for long stretches of time and only ringing them up when he requires something. This behaviour, though it could easily be interpreted as pure selfishness, does not mean that he's callous at his core. For all he keeps himself distant from them, Holmes loves people. He might be able to pick out a person's flaws and shortcomings at a momentary glance, but he does not necessarily judge them for any of it. Everything he sees becomes a part of the greater picture of who they are: puzzles are beautiful things, and people, with all their intricacies, are the greatest puzzles of all.
Since CoA is a sex game, it's only right to spend a moment talking about Holmes' views toward sex. Always on the show and presumably since his relationship with Irene ended, he demonstrates an ability to completely separate the emotional aspects of sex from the physical. He sees it a biological function occasionally required by his body to keep his mind operating at maximum. He does enjoy it insofar as it feels good, and occasionally lets his inclination toward experimentation bleed into the bedroom. He canonically indulges in threesomes and has an interest in BDSM, particularly bondage. It isn't impossible that he might fall in love again, but Holmes is doing everything in his power to avoid that potentiality, in part and parcel with the general emotional distance he keeps from others.
□ Age: 40
□ Gender: Male
□ Appearance: Not quite six feet tall, with short (though occasionally unkempt) brown hair and a seemingly permanent five-o-clock shadow. Broad-shouldered but lean. Holmes has several tattoos scattered around his arms and torso. He dresses casually in virtually all situations: jeans, boots and t-shirts or other pullovers, sometimes with a vest.
□ Abilities/Powers: No supernatural powers, but a collection of impressive mundane abilities. Most notable is his skill with deduction. He can also pick pockets, pick locks, and speak multiple languages with passing ease (at least Mandarin, Russian and French, probably more). He has a phenomenal memory, which he's trained up and kept strong though the Method of Loci.
□ Personal Items:
[1] scarf
[1] wristwatch
[1] phrenology bust (called Angus)
[1] violin
[1] basketball
[2] sets of handcuffs
[1] zipper hood
□ First Person Sample: http://dear-mun.dreamwidth.org/5384134.html - A post in dear_mun.
□ Third Person Sample: http://theloonybin.dreamwidth.org/879.html?thread=553071#cmt553071 - CoA test drive meme.
Bonus Kinky Sample: http://bakerstreet.dreamwidth.org/595293.html?thread=398500701#cmt398500701 - Tea and Shibari.
□ Name: Ronen
□ Age: 26
□ Contact: [Plurk & AIM:] RoRodiculous [E-mail:] rorodiculous@gmail.com
□ Journal:
goodnotlucky→ IC
□ Name: Sherlock Holmes
□ Series: Elementary
□ Canon point: post-s1e11, Dirty Laundry
□ History: Canon facts about Sherlock's history are sparse and the show's wiki ( http://elementary.wikia.com/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes ) isn't very helpful, but there's enough given in the show to piece together a decent skeleton of a past with a bit of headcanon added in.
He was born in 1972 into a highly wealthy family. In the context of the show, only his father has ever been mentioned, and as a singular unit at that ('his father' owns several properties in New York, as opposed to 'his family'). This suggests that his mother is somehow 'gone,' either dead or divorced. The show has never mentioned anything like a Mycroft, meaning Holmes is either an only child or simply doesn't talk about his sibling much: both possibilities and easy to play around until I know for certain.
He has always had a gift for perception. By the age of ten he was already precocious enough to identify the subtleties in different types of English accents by county. It is known that he attended boarding school and that after his schooling he entered into consultant work with Scotland Yard. He was not paid for this work, but his family's fortune would have been enough to keep him afloat. In late 2001 he crossed paths with the American police officer Toby Gregson for the first time, while Gregson was working with the Yard's counterterrorism unit.
In the year 2006 he was already using drugs. When he began, it was only experimentation. His drug use escalated slowly, and until the tipping point he was able to keep himself steady despite it, for the most part.
One of the most significant factors in Holmes' past was his relationship with Irene Adler. The two would have been involved in BDSM and (probably) drugs together, and it's easy to say that whether or not it went both ways, he was very much in love with her. Sherlock has claimed that she's dead now, but this may or may not be true. I would choose to play around this question, treating it simply as a 'loss' until the show offers a more definitive answer.
His father was the one to put him through rehab at the Hemdale facility in New York, where he stayed for six months before escaping on the same day he was to be released. Since then he has restarted his work as a police consultant, this time with the NYPD under Captain Gregson, and has been living in one of his father's brownstones with his assigned sober companion, Joan Watson. At the time Holmes will have been pulled into Ariel, he and Watson were in a tenuous situation: her with only a week left in her allotted time with him and a new client waiting in the wings, him having trouble accepting the fact.
□ Personality: To say that Holmes was born to be an addict might be going a bit far. He was, however, born with a high degree of intelligence and creativity and more than a thin streak of obsession, so the fact that he did fall into drug use isn't all that surprising. What kept him from falling too quickly into an untenable situation once he started using, and what keeps him from relapsing now that he's gone through rehabilitation, is a combination of self-awareness, personal discipline, and self-centered pride. He loathes the idea that he 'allowed' himself to cross that line between controlling his usage and the point where the drugs started controlling him, even at the same time he must admit to himself that that's what happened. Not that he's likely to admit it to anyone else: his pride won't let him, and he's determined to make his recovery as insular as his downfall was.
In fact he expresses an obsessive focus on self-sufficiency in almost all aspects of his life, although the hypocrisy of this is obvious once you scratch the surface. He typically accepts no pay for his consulting work and holds it up as an example of his being beholden to no one, even as he lives in his father's spacious house and spends his father's copious money. He insists time and again that he had - and has - no need of a sober companion even as he and Watson have grown closer, instead focusing on the idea that she couldn't possibly be happy being apart from him. The thing is, at heart Holmes knows exactly what he's doing when he engages in this kind of behaviour, but he continues to keep on doing it. Not only is he not immune to the typical human problem with accepting and admitting uncomfortable truths, he likes imagining that he's more self-sufficient than he actually is. The more you say something out loud, the easier it is to believe, even when at the same time you know it's total bullshit.
In addition to being self-aware, he is also highly socially aware. He always knows how to comport himself in a situation and can be charming when he wants to be. The question is whether he deems a situation worthy, whether he sees some gain in conforming to the demands of the majority. The less he sees, the less likely he is to bother. On the other side of the coin, when he doesn't like what's going on or finds himself facing a personal issue, he has a tendency to deal with the situation in a childish way. He deflects, avoids, sometimes literally runs away. If he confronts the issue at all, his methods could easily be described as the sort of 'acting out' that troubled teenagers resort to. He is the type to set fire to a violin, put old letters in a blender, or scatter the neighbour's trash all over the room just to prove a point. If he ever expresses anger or frustration verbally it is after the fact, after he feels his argument should have already landed. Otherwise he sticks to his usual blithe affect, as if he were above even his own immaturity.
Holmes categorizes people largely by their uses and has a strange way of keeping friends, often staying out of contact for long stretches of time and only ringing them up when he requires something. This behaviour, though it could easily be interpreted as pure selfishness, does not mean that he's callous at his core. For all he keeps himself distant from them, Holmes loves people. He might be able to pick out a person's flaws and shortcomings at a momentary glance, but he does not necessarily judge them for any of it. Everything he sees becomes a part of the greater picture of who they are: puzzles are beautiful things, and people, with all their intricacies, are the greatest puzzles of all.
Since CoA is a sex game, it's only right to spend a moment talking about Holmes' views toward sex. Always on the show and presumably since his relationship with Irene ended, he demonstrates an ability to completely separate the emotional aspects of sex from the physical. He sees it a biological function occasionally required by his body to keep his mind operating at maximum. He does enjoy it insofar as it feels good, and occasionally lets his inclination toward experimentation bleed into the bedroom. He canonically indulges in threesomes and has an interest in BDSM, particularly bondage. It isn't impossible that he might fall in love again, but Holmes is doing everything in his power to avoid that potentiality, in part and parcel with the general emotional distance he keeps from others.
□ Age: 40
□ Gender: Male
□ Appearance: Not quite six feet tall, with short (though occasionally unkempt) brown hair and a seemingly permanent five-o-clock shadow. Broad-shouldered but lean. Holmes has several tattoos scattered around his arms and torso. He dresses casually in virtually all situations: jeans, boots and t-shirts or other pullovers, sometimes with a vest.
□ Abilities/Powers: No supernatural powers, but a collection of impressive mundane abilities. Most notable is his skill with deduction. He can also pick pockets, pick locks, and speak multiple languages with passing ease (at least Mandarin, Russian and French, probably more). He has a phenomenal memory, which he's trained up and kept strong though the Method of Loci.
□ Personal Items:
[1] scarf
[1] wristwatch
[1] phrenology bust (called Angus)
[1] violin
[1] basketball
[2] sets of handcuffs
[1] zipper hood
□ First Person Sample: http://dear-mun.dreamwidth.org/5384134.html - A post in dear_mun.
□ Third Person Sample: http://theloonybin.dreamwidth.org/879.html?thread=553071#cmt553071 - CoA test drive meme.
Bonus Kinky Sample: http://bakerstreet.dreamwidth.org/595293.html?thread=398500701#cmt398500701 - Tea and Shibari.
