008 | Kudou Shinichi | [ text ]

[miniholmes]

The ABC Murders was a really good read. I definitely recommend it! And if you've already read it then I'd be more than up for discussing how great it was.

I mean, Obviously, Poirot's not even close to better than Sherlock Holmes but he's pretty good.

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[herrin]

Oh, dear. Now you've done it.

[braveatheart]

Done what?
Oh.
This is a muggle thing, isn't it.

[herrin]

Mmm. I'll explain Sherlock Holmes if you explain 'muggle'.

[ i'll show you mine if you show me yours herr herr ]

[braveatheart]

A non-magical person.
As opposed to a wizard.
Your turn.

[herrin]

I ought to be more surprised.

Sherlock Holmes is a man, in a loose sense of the word. More like a child, really. He's a consulting detective and brilliant, though not as intelligent as he'd like to think he is. And Shinichi's idol. And apparently he and I are fictional and in books together.

[worldsonly]

[ CHILDISH, HUH. ]

BBC miniseries, to be specific.

[herrin]

[ oh, hello. right on cue, proving a point. ]

Really? Dreadful. But Shinichi only mentioned books.

[worldsonly]

[ he's not a baby you're a baby ]

There's an absurd number of adaptations from them.

[herrin]

[ she's not the one stalking you on the network openly. ]

Apparently the books are named after you. If that isn't belittling, I don't know what is.

[worldsonly]

[ HE HAS A GOOGLE ALERT ON HIS NAME, OKAY. DON'T MAKE IT WEIRD!! ]

Of course they're named after me.

[herrin]

And I am..?

[ YOU DID THAT ON YOUR OWN, MR. HOLMES. ]

[worldsonly]

[ A BARELY IMPORTANT SIDE CHARACTER!!! who, er. manages to run quite a ring around holmes and sail away unscathed into a perfectly happy ending.

instead: ]

An opera singer.

[herrin]

I've changed my mind, I don't want to know.

You have to sympathize, at least a bit: operating under the assumption that we are fictional, my entire life has been for naught; of no importance except for our moments of interaction. Even you have to understand what to does to a person's self worth.

[worldsonly]

But if not for those moments, you might never have existed at all.

[ aw, it's almost like he's trying to be nice. Pinocchio's very nearly a real boy. ]

[braveatheart]

What the bloody hell is a consulting detective?

[herrin]

A detective who consults. For money, though that isn't his motivation.

[braveatheart]

He sounds... interesting?

[herrin]

He certainly thinks so.

[braveatheart]

Oh.
One of those people, huh?
I know the type.

[herrin]

I'm afraid he won't fit into any type.

He's rather .. singular.

[braveatheart]

Yeah? I know that type too.
Unless he's really as special as he thinks he is.

[herrin]

He is indeed singular.

But not nearly as special as he thinks he is, no.

[worldsonly]

Or, from an unbiased perspective: World's only consulting detective, precisely as intelligent as he thinks he is. Protagonist of a book series evidently so popular it transcends countless unrelated universes, if the fact that so many random people know the name is anything to go by.

Also, myself.

( not here )

[herrin]

[ and an arrogant prat, have you noticed yet? ]

[braveatheart]

I don't think it counts as unbiased when it's coming from the man himself.
Never heard of you.