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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[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. ]

[herrin]

But in those moments, I existed only as a plot device for you. Never for myself.

Perhaps it is more comforting to think that we were never fictional in the first place.

[worldsonly]

[worldsonly]

M-theory. The hypothetical proposal that suggests whatever can exist, does exist.

[herrin]

'I think, therefore I am'?

I never took you for a string theorist. Mistake on my part, really.

[worldsonly]

Merely providing the option to consider that we have always been both fictional and nonfictional in equal measure.

[herrin]

Why, Mr. Holmes. Careful. One might think you're going soft.

[worldsonly]

There's no need to be vulgar.

[herrin]

Aren't you not allowed to speak to me?

[ technically, it was the other way around. but he started it! ]