So while reading the ACD canon, I found a few quotes which caught my attention.
John:
‘He always apologized to me for putting me to this inconvenience.’’..he usually terminated [his violin solos] by playing in quick succession a whole series of my favourite airs as a slight compensation..’
Sherlock:
“.. if I show you too much of my method of working, you will come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual after all.”
John: “I shall never do that.”Sherlock: “But I weary you with my hobby.”
John: “ Not at all.”This shows how much Sherlock feared that John would end up disliking him. He always took care not to offend him, and to apologize again and again if he did. John’s replies were always:
“I shall never do that.”
“Not at all.”
Is it any wonder that Sherlock let him into his life? He was surprised each time when John complimented him instead of being weirded out by his eccentric ways. He probably never expected to find anyone who would accept him for who he was. So when John tells him that he would never get tired of the way he made his deductions, Sherlock actually flushes with pleasure.
John:
“My companion flushed up with pleasure at my words, and the earnest way in which I uttered them.”This shows how much of a sensitive person Sherlock Holmes was underneath the mask of cold reason. He was never a person who did not care.. In fact, he was a
smol babyperson who cared deeply.
Someone should make a John Watson fanvid to the ‘getting bi’ song
I was trying to remember why this picture of this cat looked so familiar
then I realised
Can we just take a moment to appreciate how ashamed and embarrassed John is of his limp in asip? ESPECIALLY KNOWING IT WAS IN HIS MIND BUT THERE WAS NOTHING HE COULD DO TO STOP IT. Ladies and gentlemen, John Watson thought this would be the rest of his life. He never expected that limp to be gone. He would spend his life with a cane despite being in his 30s, hobbling around like an old man, unable to participate in life the way he wanted, doomed to a permanent sedentary mundane sad life. And he HATED IT. Now imagine a person came along. And within 24 hours of meeting you had fixed that. Sherlock cured John of something John considered a likely permanent disability. Imagine how that would feel.
John was a goner from the start. It wasn’t just attraction, it was help and hope that Sherlock gave him.
Agree with this so much. He literally must have felt like Sherlock had given him his life back, like magic.
I think in a way this is why John is wary of falling for Sherlock and goes ahead with the wedding to Mary. When the Fall happens, John experiences the reverse of ASiP: Sherlock can give life but he can also take it away. In MHR we see John struggling, and John himself says that #sherlocklives means that #johnwatsonlives.
I imagine that, amongst everything else, one of the worries John had when Sherlock ‘died’ is whether his limp would stay away without him. Knowing that someone has that kind of power over your emotions, psyche and whole life is beyond the standard amount of terrifying. I think it goes a long way towards showing why John tries to cling to ‘moving on’ even when Sherlock returns.
Well this got worse
Welp, I didn’t need my heart today.