#watson is canonically a gossiping king

[tremendously-crazy]

YEAH!! Watson is out here publishing everybody's deepest secrets!!

There was also Neville St Clair (aka the man with the twisted lip) who said he'd rather DIE than have his real job as a fake beggar get revealed to his children. So of course WATSON has to PUBLISH THE DAMN STORY IN THE PAPER!! I wonder what his family thought of that.

no, I'm sorry, if I were victor trevor I would hop on a steamer back to england to kick holmes's ass. like what do you MEAN you gave his father's dying confession of his most deeply held secret to your roommate and he published it in a fucking magazine???? his father was so horrified at the thought of his misdeeds and original identity going public that he literally died and watson just puts it in the fucking paper. I'd be so upset, I genuinely think that would turn me into a supervillain.