{"id":201642,"date":"2014-07-14T03:25:22","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T03:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/07\/14\/graceebooks-cleocalliope-graceebooks\/"},"modified":"2014-07-14T03:25:22","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T03:25:22","slug":"graceebooks-cleocalliope-graceebooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/07\/14\/graceebooks-cleocalliope-graceebooks\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

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buneesi<\/a> replied to your post: loudest-subtext-in-television replied\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n

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i have a long held suspicion Mycroft is genuinely asexual and Sherlock in his youthful brother-worship said \u201cOh yeah, ok im that too\u201d aaaaand wakes up one day 36 years old and cluelessly sexually attracted to his flatmate. woop<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Okay, not only does this make a lot of sense it\u2019s got me thinking.\u00a0 While I DO like Mystrade and whatever Mycroft\/Anthea is called, part of me always reverts to Mycroft as being forever single.\u00a0 The idea that it\u2019s him and not Sherlock who is actually asexual is a REALLY interesting take.\u00a0 That Sherlock did – and still does to some extent – idolize his brother is obvious.\u00a0 However, I\u2019d never thought of Mycroft\u2019s sexuality as something that would impact Sherlock\u2019s in this kind of way.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s clear to see how Mycroft\u2019s personal distance from others has effected Sherlock.\u00a0 I\u2019ve often seen Mycroft\u2019s genuine emotional distance from the rest of humanity as one of the factors which as lead Sherlock to try and force a distance between himself and the rest of humanity that he finds difficult to maintain.\u00a0 (Not the only factor, mind you, but one of them.)\u00a0 He needs much more human contact and socialization than Mycroft does even while he clearly thinks that he shouldn\u2019t.\u00a0 Again, that Mycroft has an impact on that is obvious from the discussion in the hospital in SiB.\u00a0 I\u2019ve often thought that the speed with which Sherlock began dragging John along with him as soon as he determined that he could speaks to his starvation for human interaction.\u00a0 John was still more or less a stranger in SiP but that doesn\u2019t stop Sherlock from dragging the guy onto a crime scene.<\/p>\n

Now, many asexual people still desire romance and the emotional closeness that the rest of humanity has.\u00a0 I\u2019ve even known asexual people who have and maintain romantic relationships.\u00a0 However, what if Mycroft weren\u2019t just asexual but also aromantic as well.\u00a0 Sherlock himself tells us that Mycroft played \u201cmother\u201d for him a child so that it would be natural for him to internalize Mycroft\u2019s genuine lack of need for those kinds of connections as being the way he himself should be.<\/p>\n

This idea also makes what Irene said all that much more interesting.\u00a0 Mycroft she calls The Ice Man, someone with no need or desire for interpersonal relationships.\u00a0 Sherlock, on the other hand, she calls The Virgin – not someone who doesn\u2019t need or want romantic\/sexual relationships, but just someone who has not had one.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0 And If you picture the look on Sherlock\u2019s face, that hurt.\u00a0 She sees that he wants things he himself doesn\u2019t want to want and then tosses it in his face in front of the ONE PERSON who really is what Sherlock aspires to be.\u00a0 He protests far too loudly that he doesn\u2019t care what Mycroft thinks and therefore to have the fact the he DOES want\/need this kind of thing broadcast in front of his bother would be painful in the extreme.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

totally brilliant. just a small additional note, this also fits in with the scene when sherlock approaches mycroft essentially in concern that mycroft must be unhappy and lonely. until now i just hadn\u2019t thought about it much, and i guess just considered it a small side narrative about mycroft\u2019s emotional life. now that i really think, though, perhaps that scene was really all about sherlock after all. maybe in coming to know and love john and thereby truly understand how lonely and miserable he was living the life he had modeled after mycroft, he (wrongly, ostensibly) assumes that mycroft must feel that same way and simply not have the perspective to understand. so the point of the conversation wasn\u2019t to give us some small, random glimpse into mycroft\u2019s inner life, but to give us a richly contextualized window into sherlock\u2019s. essentially, we are shown that sherlock has come to recognize how important human connections (and john) are to him and to understand how lonely he was before.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

graceebooks: cleocalliope: graceebooks: buneesi replied to your post: loudest-subtext-in-television replied\u2026 i have a long held suspicion Mycroft is genuinely asexual and Sherlock in his youthful brother-worship said \u201cOh yeah, ok im that too\u201d aaaaand wakes up one day 36 years old and cluelessly sexually attracted to his flatmate. woop DING DING DING Okay, not only … <\/p>\n

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