#...I may have spent quite a bit of time thinking about how this trainwreck scenario would play out

[agnesandhilda]

my take on the funniest possible isagi/kaiser/ness dynamic

[bnha-scenarios-and-imagines]

scenario in which Todoroki's (incredibly dense & socially inept) crush asks him why her heart beats so fast around him, why has she been getting flustered around him (basically all the symptoms of a crush lmao) with a totally straight face (and her getting super red after finding out it's love, hehe) This is so long omg sorryy and i just wanna say i love your writing ;0; and gl with the blog!~

Aw, thank you so much! This idea is absolutely adorable, and I hope what I wrote did it justice. 

TODOROKI:

You were confused. Utterly and hopelessly confused. It wasn’t a particularly uncommon feeling for you as many had told you that you were incredibly dense most of the time, but that didn’t mean you liked it. Though you were clueless most of the time, most of your classmates found it endearing, so you had many friends in 1-A.

However, this new situation had been making you uncomfortable lately. You were close friends with Todoroki, and you loved talking with him, especially after he mellowed out a bit more due to his fight with Midoriya at the sports festival. He was nice and you found his dry humour to be quite funny, so the time you spent with him was always pleasant. But as of late, you’ve been feeling different around him. It didn’t necessarily feel bad per se, but you weren’t exactly sure if it was good either.

You were aware that this was another one of your clueless moments and that you would be unable to figure it out yourself, so you decided the best course of action would be to go straight to the origin of your problems. While Todoroki also had a few dense moments at times, he was not as bad as you and was still very intelligent, so he would probably be able to assist you.

The class was currently on the training grounds, having just finished their latest exercise. There were a few minutes remaining until the end of the lesson, so most had formed their own little groups and began chatting while they waited for the class to end. You found Todoroki conversing with Midoriya, Uraraka, and Yaoyorozu. With a determined glint in your eyes, you began making your way over to them.

“Hey, guys!” you greeted cheerfully with a wave.

Uraraka smiled brightly at you. “Hi, (Y/N)-chan! You did great today in class!”

“You too!” you replied. You turned to Todoroki next as he was the reason you joined them in the first place. When grey and cerulean orbs met your own, you began feeling odd again, so you decided to get straight to it. “Todoroki-kun, I needed to ask you something. It’s urgent.”

His expression turned curious, unsure of why you seemed so troubled. “Sure, what is it?”

You took a deep breath before answering. “I’ve been feeling really weird around you lately,” you told him with furrowed eyebrows. He blinked once, not quite understanding, and you elaborated. “Whenever I’m around you, my heart starts beating really fast. It’s not painful or anything, but it makes me feel nervous. And my face gets hot too! I keep tripping over words and stuttering during our conversations and I can’t think straight. I don’t know what’s wrong with me! So I was wondering if you could figure it out…” You said everything seriously with a straight face, not noticing that the training ground that had previously been filled with chatter was now quiet. “If you guys could help me too, that’d be great!” you said, referring to the other three that were there. You tilted your head to the side in confusion when you saw their expressions. Midoriya’s face was bright red for some reason while Uraraka had an excited glimmer in her eye and Yaoyorozu, with a tint of pink on her cheeks, held a hand up to her mouth as if in shock. Why did they look so weird all of a sudden?

“Well…” Your attention eagerly returned to Todoroki, the main person you were hoping to get an answer from. “That does sound strange. You might be ill.” He held his hand up to stare at it for a few moments as if he was remembering something. “I do seem to have some hand-crusher-like presence in me that causes the hands of the people around me to get hurt.” Midoriya had to choke back a laugh at the memory. “Perhaps something about me causes sickness as well.” Uraraka slapped a palm on her forehead in exasperation at his answer.

“Oh…” Your expression became crestfallen. “That would be terrible. I really do enjoy talking to you.”

“We may be able to find something to cure you. I go to the hospital on free days, so I can ask someone the next time I go.”

“That would be great, Todoroki-kun! Thank you so much!”

Dear God they could not watch this trainwreck continue for any longer.

“Someone, stop this madness!” Kirishima exclaimed, feeling embarrassment for the two.

Finally, Kaminari released a yell of frustration then screamed, “It’s called love, you dense idiots!”

The two of you finally realized that the entire class was watching. They were not planning on intervening as it seemed to be a personal matter between the pair of you, but they couldn’t restrain themselves. They had underestimated just how devastatingly stupid you both were. They had to help.

You blinked once. Then twice. Slowly, but surely, the information began to process in your mind. It seemed it had already registered for Todoroki as he had tensed up all of a sudden at Kaminari’s words. Instantly, your cheeks flared red. “What?” you yelped, mortified. “L-l-l-love?! No, I-I, surely I would have noticed if it was something like that!”

Everyone deadpanned. “No. No, you wouldn’t have,” Sero stated bluntly.

You cupped your cheeks in your hands in horror. So you had just confessed to Todoroki?! In front of the class?! Without even realizing you were doing so?! How does that even happen?!

“Uh…” Todoroki’s voice broke you out of your reverie. You looked at him, wanting nothing more than to disappear into the ground. “Do you… want to grab a bite somewhere after school?”

Wait, what? “Huh?” Was he asking you out? “Are you asking me out?”

He seemed a bit uncomfortable, unused to what he was doing. “Yeah,” he replied simply.

Your posture slowly relaxed. “Oh, um… okay, yeah, that’d be great!” The two of you then began chatting and started to casually make your way back inside the school for your next class as if nothing out-of-the-ordinary had happened.

The others watched as they left, shocked at this sudden development. “Man, they bounce back fast…”

“You know,” Kirishima began. “It’s because of their denseness that they were able to start going out, but honestly, if they weren’t so dense, the two probably would have started dating ages ago.”

Kaminari snorted. “True. They were so obviously crushing on each other, it was almost painful to watch.”

“I thought it was cute!” Uraraka defended.

“It was cute the first couple times. After like three months of them super conspicuously making eyes at each other across the room, not so much.”

“Well, it all turned out alright, didn’t it?” Izuku stated, a smile on his lips as he watched his two friends’ retreating backs.

Up ahead, you were sporting your own smile as you walked alongside your crush. Perhaps your denseness comes in handy sometimes.

[monikakrasnorada]

Eurus and Mary

 ***DISCLAIMER*** I began writing this mess in the week between TLD and TFP. After watching the trainwreck that was TFP, I retreated in despair at what I saw. Finally, with a little time, space and hindsight, I half-heartedly feel the urge again to look more closely at the eps and try to glean a little light from the darkness.

***ETA*** I’m not on board the tin hat train. Do I hope there is something else (please PLEASE let there be because this cannot stand as the end)??Absolutely!! I just refuse to set myself up for further disappointment if it doesn’t happen. Call me cautiously guarded and somewhat optimistic.

EMP is real and no one will ever convince me we were wrong.

I wholeheartedly believe in villain Mary and S4 only reaffirms that belief.

No one wants to believe the worst about people. About friends. About family. People they trust and love. But sometimes, it happens. People fail us in all sorts of ways. Betrayals come in all shapes and sizes.

I think Sherlock has this problem. His life’s work is dealing with the worst of humanity- rapists, murderers, psychopaths. In all their disgusting shapes and sizes. But those are other; they aren’t part of his carefully cultivated little orbit of existence. Family and friends.

The thing is though- you never know. Even the great Sherlock Holmes can’t know what truly dwells in the deepest darkest parts of us all. Family secrets. Friends that aren’t exactly who you thought they were. 

No one is immune. It can happen to anyone.

So, I believe it all comes back to running scenarios. 

The stage is set. The curtain rises.

This is the line we get in TAB. TAB which follows on immediately (*cough*~6 months later*cough*) from the events of HLV. Mary shot Sherlock and showed ZERO remorse in doing so. But then we have them hugging and kissing each other goodbye as if nothing happened. (Sure, Jan.)

It feels wrong. It is wrong. That everything is merely swept under the rug between the three of them. It’s all good. No it isn’t! I refuse to accept that. I know everyone claims Mofftiss dropped the ball here, changed characterisation mid-stream just for shits and giggles, but I don’t buy it. They are smarter than that. They are savvy in ways we could never begin to understand. So to think, and accept, that they wrote Mary shooting their HERO, only to say, “No big deal. Everyone makes mistakes. Forgive and forget.” Is just not a thing I can accept from two of the greatest writers in the biz. 

This is their sleight of hand.

TAB wasn’t just about figuring out how Moriarty did it. That was the surface level reason, certainly, but the subtext- the meat of the matter- was Mary Watson.

The stage was set after Mary was revealed to be the shooter. All the players of The Game were finally in place and Sherlock, in TAB, began his long and painful journey to figuring out how they all fit, and who exactly is playing for which team. 

As clever and as amazing as every single aspect of this show is, do we really believe Mofftiss lost sight of the story they were telling? I doubt that. Not after everything they’ve done to make this the most fascinating piece of media that’s been made to date.

Sherlock makes the Mary / Moriarty connection in TAB:

Sir Eustace’s wound is a mirror image of Sherlock’s own, and finding the “Miss me?” message attached sent him reeling with the realisation and implication of Mary’s involvement.

The curtain rises. The last act. It’s not over.  

That’s the text Mary receives from Sherlock in The Six Thatchers just before we get “Mary’s sacrifice” in order to save Sherlock’s life. Again, I believe this is all fake- this episode and this entire series to this point. This is Sherlock’s continued flaw of seriously underestimating the people in his life. He can’t see the forest for the trees, and for all his self-proclaimed sociopathic-ness, he can’t help but think the best of those people he has chosen to love. Even though he now knows believes Mary to be in some kind of cahoots with Moriarty, he still can’t help but think she might truly care for him and be willing to sacrifice herself to save him.

Once the idea exists, it cannot be killed.

This thought plays along nicely with EMP theory. Sherlock continues to run-through scenarios, hoping to get to the correct conclusion that makes sense. Because, let’s face it, nothing up to this point makes a lick of fucking sense, especially when it comes to Mary.

Along comes Faith Eurus

First question: Just as it was senseless for Lady Carmichael to engage Sherlock in keeping Sir Eustace alive, it follows that it makes no sense for Culverton to give Eurus Faith’s note- literal ammunition to bring him down.

It’s TAB 2.0. Another scenario Sherlock is working through to try and suss out Mary’s motivations and connections.

“Culverton gave me Faith’s original note. A mutual friend put us in touch. Did Sherlock ever tell you about the note? I added some deductions for Sherlock, but he didn’t get the big one.”

MISS ME?

Added deductions?? Coincidence??

Eurus is “Mary”?

The moment Eurus said she was Sherlock’s sister, I laughed. Like, seriously guffawed, because- what even are they doing? I’m of the mind that maybe she ‘was’ his sister- quite possibly his twin- but whatever it is that has ‘made’ him this way was the tragedy of her. Whether she died young, or was a troubled youth that had to be institutionalized (at Sherrinford, maybe?). If Sherrinford doesn’t turn out to be a 4th sibling (because people give up after 3)

ETA: Hahahaha, definitely wrote this before TFP aired.

Whatever the case may be, I do not believe she is a ‘real’ character in this ep. Again, I’m a full-on EMPer for a year now and since it’s all in Sherlock’s head anyway, it means no one is ‘real’.

ETA: Nemo!

For me, it seems Eurus is a manifestation of Sherlock’s pain and trouble from his past that is now bleeding and morphing and combining with his present pain and trouble- Mary.

COMPARE:

“I met him before, we spent a night together. We had chips.”  

Disguise:

Sherlock missed the biggest one of all and it haunts him still:

“Amazing the times a man doesn’t really look at your face.”

“You can hide behind a sexy smile-”

“-Or a walking cane.”

“Or, just be a therapist, talking about you all the time.”

“I’m sure the therapist who actually lives here wouldn’t want blood on the carpet. Oh, hang on. It’s fine. She’s in a sack in the airing cupboard.”

Going through all these images and writing up this post has now brought into play several other ideas that I want to explore. Especially in light of TFP and the general newfound fandom consensus that ep3 is in John’s mind bungalow- a theory I am sorry I just cannot agree with- and hope to post these additional supporting bits and bobs asap.

Further posts will be linked and cross-posted with this one eventually. 

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