#where’s the mycroft girlies at??! come back I need you

[divinity-in-chaos]

Mycroft headcanons

I just need to get these out of my system. If anyone has anything to add, pls do!! I love to hear your thoughts 🥰 slight hints to mystrade!

Warning: this will include themes of depression, eating disorders and self-harm. I will put them at the end, so if you aren’t here for that, just skip past ❤️

He absolutely hates the summer. This guy is a winter baby. The cold weather is a bother but at least he doesn’t sweat through his suits in the snow.

Will never admit it, but his mother’s homemade pie is his favourite comfort food. He’s tried a thousand times to bake it, following the recipe exactly, but he can never get it just right.

The first time he held Sherlock, he cried.

(This is the one of the only times he’s cried in front of his parents.)

Mycroft can’t stand jazz music. He does not understand it at all.

If he had to have a pet, it would be a cat. Preferably one without any fur.

Is actually allergic to certain laundry detergents- I like to think Sherlock is too. They just have sensitive skin.

Watches Barbie movies to unwind when he gets overwhelmed and burnt out. Will not admit this even if it were to save his life.

Every autumn, he re-watches Over The Garden Wall with a glass of wine. The whole show in one sitting, I might add.

Is a daddy’s boy. Sherlock is mummy’s boy.

Would love to have a daughter, but the trauma of taking care of Eurus and Sherlock has convinced him he’s not suitable to be a father. His family genes also has a massive play in that- what if it was a case of Eurus again? Nope, Mycroft would rather be lonely.

Speaking of lonely- I like to think after TFP, Sherlock starts setting him up with people and at first Mycroft complains, but then eventually he just gives in and lets Sherlock do what he wants. Coincidentally, this is just around the time Sherlock starts setting him up with Lestrade. Isn’t that strange? 👀

Came out to his parents during lunch one day, it was very casual.

(Sherlock has never come out, he doesn’t feel like he has to follow that tradition)

His favourite colour is green.

Has a framed photo of himself, Eurus and Sherlock as kids which he keeps in his bedroom. Not on display, but in his bedside drawer (in the middle drawer)

Depressive themes now:

Has been struggling with depression and ED’s since he was quite young.

He has a particular routine of binge eating and then purging.

This is in partly Mrs Holmes fault when she started insisting he diet, a little too much. Not harshly, just unaware of the consequences.

Although it’s mainly depression causing it, along with a childhood of being bullied and mocked by peers.

Attempted suicide at 16. This was the second and last time Mr and Mrs Holmes saw him cry. It wasn’t out of sadness or embarrassment, it was frustration that he had failed.

Sherlock’s reaction to his attempt is the sole reason he hasn’t tried again.

Has SH scars on his stomach.

[ananiel]

Hi girlie!!! 😘😘 How are you doing? I was reading your post with Yandere! Louis x Witch! Reader and an idea popped in my mind.

How about Yandere! Mycroft and Yandere! Albert with Yae Miko! Reader from Genshin impact? Albert x Reader x Mycroft or if you want you can do them separate.

I am good, thank You, hope You are good too😍

Yandere Albert x yae! reader x yandere Mycroft!

Tw : yandere themes, posible Gore, manipulation, forcing of relathionship, read at your own risk!

Also i am very sorry it took so long, i enter a major writing slump where i felt like everything i did was bad, but glad to be back now, also go check out @kanroji-san s crossovers, they are amazing

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When the people found about Teyvat and Their strange way of living, the first thing that the guvernement did was send people to learn more about them.

IT started of slow. Difrent soldiers, difrent people that maybe were in need of a new house, and because of the Free housing that the program offered, they were quick to accept this change.

The fartherst and the most misterious one by now, had been Inazuma, not many things were known about it, and some people even avoided talking about it period.

The queen demanded of Mycroft to know about everything, everything that those difrent people were, and telling her that they had no idea about one of the nations wasn't exactly ideal.

Now. Thinking of a timeline, i see this at the start of the moriarty plan. But maybe, in the Point where Mycroft knew about it, so, as some Time of resort in his mind to maybe protect the queen, he sends Albert, which of course, Albert figures out why, but doesn't say anything.

IT was but a long time later when they got the permision to go there, and it wasn't write by the shogun, but by you.

So that's how Albert arrived in Inazuma, the first people he tried to went to, were the guards, trying to ask how to get to You, and when he does get to the shrine, he is stunned.

"well hello, hello" You say with a teasing smile

Your soft voice was mesmerizing.

"ears..." that's all he said stunned.

"well of course, everyone has ears don't we? How would we hear if we didn't?"

He is caught embarased by her words, giving her a bow.

Why was he acting like this? Not even one lady in the whole England could make him bat an eye, and here he was, fangirling over a shrine maiden, one that posibly didn't even have the permision to return his feelings!

Oh... But the way she gigled... The teaser, the confident flirt, finally became the teased, it seemed.

And he was enjoying every bit of it.

Time passed quick with her, that he knew, that he realized, and he realized just how dangerous she was only when talking to others, talking when he could easily just be the best talking buddy, or whatever she wanted.

The moment the shine in his eyes returned after so much time was when, after telling him that she talked with the Raiden Shogun, she told him she would be coming to England with him.

Now he was extatic, he was making plans to be her guide, take her everywhere, show her the clothes of his time ( just for... Information purpose of course, not to make her look like she is his lover, wearing something matching the family and him)

But his ideas were crushed... Crushed by Mycroft Holmes.

When Mycroft Holmes saw You, he exhaled, what did Albert bring with him? A temptress? Is he out of his mind?

But no... You weren't a temptress, but a very, very important individual from your home land...one that made his head fuzzy if he thought too much about You.

Of course, he wasn't dumb, he saw how protective the hand Albert had on You was, how he stared down at him, with anger in his stare when he made You giggle...

You were a breath of fresh air, a little Fox brought here seemingly to play with them, to be played by you.

You weren't the most social buterfly, but weren't shy, quite the oposite, and they couldn't help but frown when You winked at someone, when You chuckeld or made them blush.

They weren't dumb, they knew eachother well enough to know they fansied You, both did, and they were ready to work togheter, all if it meant having You.

And You, You figured their obsession out, and were planing an escape, too bad that a certain crime consultant was on their side, being a third mind You didn't think of, and because of that

The crux left without you... Leaving You here... With them... Eternity is truly a cruel fate, isn't it? Especially without your Ei

[scifrey]

Author asks? 5) character you were most surprised to end up writing and 11) what aspect of your writing do you think has most improved since you started writing?

Thank you for your questions! I love Author Asks!

5) For me, Kalp (from Triptych) was the character I expected and understood the least. The first third of Triptych was originally a novella titled (Back), and I hadn’t intended on expanding it. But a friend and member of our writing group in Fukuoka, Japan - Liz Aitken - had written a few paragraphs as a follow up to the tale for the fun of it. (I think we’d done an exercise where we wrote for a bit in one another’s worlds.) Well, what she created was stunning, and I said, “Can I use this? This concept? This characterization? Can I write this?” She said yes, and eventually I refined the voice and changed the POV, and solidified who Kalp was, but in the beginning it was thrilling and strange and new because the alien she wrote wasn’t at all what I had in my head when I wrote (Back). 

In The Accidental Turn Series, Bevel ended up being my biggest surprise. The trope with the Kin/Bevel (#Binky) romance in the book came about really naturally and really organically, really, because I found myself falling into it before I had even really decided to hang a hat on it.

Traditional western/Euro-centric fantasy stories with a Hero and a Sidekick (Batman and Robin, Xena and Gabrielle, Frodo and Sam, Holmes and Watson, etc,) have mostly been influenced by classic stories of Heroes and Sidekicks like Achilles and Patrocles, or The Odyssey, etc. And in those Classic stories, the relationship between the Hero and Sidekick is often sexual or romantic, and sometimes explicitly so. There’s the Greek mentor/mentee mentality where the older man was not only the teacher and protector of a younger man, but often the person who initiates him into sex and teaches him about pleasure and bedsport, too. There’s the martial shield-mate relationship, where fighting pairs were encouraged to be lovers in order to strengthen their bond and make them more likely to fight harder for one another.

And whether explicitly or not, whether consciously on the part of the author or not, some of that UST has leaked into the stories based on those classical myths and legends.

And it totally happened to me. Kin and Bevel  were inspired by what I thought Sherlock and John from Sherlock might look like from Mycroft’s perspective (too loud, too jolly, too self-congratulatory, too visible), and also on Hercules and Iolus from the 90s TV show Hercules: the Legendary Journeys, and Duncan MacLeod and Richie from HIghlander: The Series, and a bit of Tony Stark and Captain America in The Avengers. All of which, of course, have mad slashy UST going on.

So when Bevel started crushing hard on Kin I was like, “Wait, what? This is… okay… so this is happening? Why? Oh, that’s why? Hmmm. I wonder, can I use this? Can I hang a hat on it, make it one of the subverted tropes? Can I actually explicitly say that the slash-goggle wearing fans of The Tales of Kintyre Turn were right?”

(And then of course, 90% of the bonus material for the series is all about #Binky, so I guess it worked out, eh?)

Oh, and Pip too, because I didn’t expect her to be quite as narrow-minded as she is. She was written to be the Perfect Feminist ™, but I found her saying and reacting to things in ways that I personally, as a Feminist, wouldn’t have. She’s got a real thing against “girly stuff” and Performative Femininity - she hates makeup and fashion - and she’s not as Intersectional as she thinks she is. I know that stems from her background - being a woman in academia is hard no matter your gender/sex/orientation, but as we know women have to fight harder to be heard. To be taken seriously in the academy a lot of female academics I know take on very masculine-coded modes of dress, modes of communicating, and body language. Pip deliberately eschews traditional feminine-coded things because of this, and what surprises me is that it’s turned her into a bit of a bigot about it.

(But don’t worry, she’s getting a bit of a slap about that in book #3.)

11) I’ve definitely become a faster writer. I don’t mean just in terms of how many WPM I can pump out (65 wpm last time I tested myself, or about 1200 words per hour if I’m really into it.) but that has improved too. But I can do a lot more of it in my head now. Some of that is switching from MicrosoftWord to Scrivener for my writing software, which eliminates the wasted time scrolling through a document, or amalgamating or splitting up documents to get chapters sorted. 

But mostly it’s the ability to be more self-aware. To skip steps that I would otherwise have laboriously worked through before, because I know what I’m doing, I know how I prefer to tell and plot stories, and I have experience and practice.

For example, I don’t need to spend a day hashing out the narrative split between the three acts (I like to write novels paced like screenplays) and writing copious notes about it. In the past, I wasn’t even self aware enough to know that I prefer to write a three-act book. Now, before ever putting fingers to keys, I know the plot structure, where the climax will be, and how it needs to progress, saving myself countless weeks of outlining, or restructuring.

These are things I do in my head automatically, learned habits, just like some people can do math in their head without needing to count on their fingers or write it down.

But with improvements also come finding more weaknesses. My agent has made a huge point of highlighting (marquees, spotlights, the whole shebang) that my work is starting to veer into the dangerously self-indulgent and flabby lately. Way too many words, way too much sitting around and thinking on the part of the characters, too much description. I’ve started turning in books that are 130 000 words when they should probably be 100k or less. And that extra 30k worth of stuff is just… usually not necessary.Some of this is because my method is usually to write big - write it all, get it all on the page - and then edit it down, polish it, slim it and tighten it up over the course of a year or so. But with the tight deadlines that doing a trilogy produces, I haven’t had the opportunity to do that year’s worth of polish/edit/trim/tighten. I only had a month or two or three to sit with the book once it was done, and some of that was spent waiting for crit partners/beta readers/agent to read it and get back to me with notes.

Some of this is also because I’m generally a pantser - I don’t outline or plot very closely. I prefer playing and seeing where it goes, which often means I have whole plot points or substories that should be left out.

But some of it is, yeah, because I am just too damn wordy. :s 

And Forsyth is too damn wordy, too! He’s such a thinker. Bad trait for a narrator POV sometimes!

My next book should be about 90k and already I’m dreading it because there’s more plot planned than my last few books, but I have to do it in fewer words.