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[could_be_dangerous]

In light of recent events it seems apt that I make an advertisement offering my services to the general public. I am Sherlock Holmes, consulting detective, amply acquainted with the solution of murders, thefts, arsons, and the generally unsavoury, etc. Inquiries of a general nature may be directed to me at any time, though I take cases at my own discretion, and will generally request an interview to establish both the particulars and the legitimacy of the case. The suspicious may refer to Dr. John Watson for a no-doubt superfluously effusive list of my general accomplishments, and when he proves unconvincing I should be delighted to provide a demonstration of my capabilities. In what will no doubt be vastly more appealing than any of the previous to some of you, I shall add that all services will be rendered entirely gratis.

((ooc: Permissions post/opt-out here, for anything you'd rather Sherlock not pick up on. Additionally, there may be some threadjacking here and there by the aforementioned Dr. Watson since it is his lot in life to babysit this gigantic infant, and if anyone would like to address him instead of Sherlock they can note as much in their subject lines.))

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[eastdetective]

Of Sherlock Holmes, of course. And of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Because Holmes was his invention.

[could_be_dangerous]

[S q u i n t.]

I'm fairly certain I'm my own invention.

[His parents', at worst? The public's?]

Then again, I suppose given a multiverse of infinite variety we're apt to both be right.

[eastdetective]

[Give Conan a moment as his brain breaks a little.

There was a slight difference between accepting that multiple universes were a theoretical possibility (that had become slightly more possible since arriving in this place), and accepting that that meant that a version of the fictional character you had modeled your entire life after actually existed in one of those universes.

It was a lot to wrap your head around.]

You are saying that you are actually Sherlock Holmes. [It wasn't like Conan to repeat the obvious, but for a situation like this he needed to hear it in his own voice.]

Or a Sherlock Holmes, at least. [Which implied that there could possibly be multiple universes with a Holmes, and that was nearly as mindshattering as Conan's first realization that this was not just a really dedicated fan.]

[could_be_dangerous]

Obviously. Would show you my birth certificate but I seem to have left it in another universe.

[Convenient, that. Also inconvenient, if people are going to be bringing up questions of identity, which frankly aren't worth the time it takes to resolve them.]