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greatestdefective) wrote2021-07-11 03:37 pm
greatestdefective) wrote2021-07-11 03:37 pm
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Character Profile (Forgotten Tales)
 CHARACTER NAME: Sherlock Holmes CANON: Dai Gyakuten Saiban POINT TAKEN: After the second game AGE: 34 GENDER: Male HEIGHT: 6'0"; 183 cm SPECIES: Human VISUAL: Link VOICE: Shinji Kawada ESSENCE CHARACTER: The Pied Piper STORY: The Pied Piper of Hamelin HAIR: Floofy, often hidden under his deerstalker cap EYES: A dark green OUTFIT(S): Casual (indoors) Attire Outdoors Attire, but add a bard-like pied cloak. His pipe (the musical instrument, not the smoking device) is kept in a holster by his waist. QUIRKS: Believes he can talk to rats. (he can't actually, but no one will convince him otherwise.) JOURNAL: Book | Medallion RESIDENCE: Key | Visual POSSESSIONS SATCHEL: List of items that can be found in the bag:
REGAINS: Nothing yet. PERMISSIONS BACKTAGGING: ✔ THREADHOPPING: ✔ FOURTHWALLING: ✔ ROMANCE: ✔ MINDREADING: ✔ MANIPULATION: ✔ INJURY: ✔ FIGHTING: ✔ KILLING: ✔ PLAYER: Meowzy CONTACT: madonnyaLINKS |
IN-DEPTH: Link to history page! Spoiler free tl;dr: Brash young Chemistry student turned to the consulting detective trade when he was only 18 years old, solved some cases with his partner over the course of six years, got famous ten years later when his adopted daughter turned the case files into a novel series. PERSONALITY IN-DEPTH: Sherlock, the way he's presented in Dai Gyakuten Saiban, is a prime example of 'mad genius'. The sort of person who's brilliant, but misunderstood because he's so incredibly eccentric. More detailsHe's a very gifted inventor with a whole bunch of gadgets to his name. (Though, Iris Watson did help him develop a lot of them.) Furthermore, his 'rapid-fire reasoning' is what enables him to solve any case. He can make split-second deductions based on even the most minor of details. However, his genius comes with a drawback. To say he's scatterbrained would be an understatement. He has very selective memory issues, to the point where he forgets most cases about a day after he's solved them. He explains at one point that he believes the brain can only hold so much information. However, it's not just memory issues. He'll get so swept up in moments that he'll make the most idiotic of mistakes. This carelessness doesn't just show in every day life, it shows in his reasoning too. Once Sherlock makes one wrong deduction, he starts down a sort of 'side path' that strays from the truth and keeps building upon that one mistake, until the end result is completely different from what it should be. It's a game mechanic of sorts, which was admitted even by the director; “For this game, it was already planned that it would be about 'correcting the wrong deductions of the great detective.' So I'm terribly sorry, but Dai Gyakuten Saiban's Holmes was destined to never say anything correct.” And even aside from all that, he's also very childish. There's no limit to his enormous level of manchild. He becomes upset when people aren't paying attention to him, has to have a ten-year old watch over his money for him (and then attempts to trick said ten-year old into revealing her secret hiding spot by screaming “FIRE”), continuously pops up in the oddest places, hides in closets just to see if it'll fit, wears a priceless diadem on his head just for the fun of it... Honestly, I could go on for hours. Not to mention, he's arrogant. He's perfectly aware that he's famous and goes around brandishing his title like a sword. Every so often, he'll quote something that he supposedly said in one of his older adventures, only to admit that it's very possible he never said it at all. Here we come to the more sober side, because yes, there really is one. He does take his deductions very seriously. (“A Great Detective's existence has no worth without a mystery. They are a sorrowful bunch of living things.”) Not even serious injuries will stop his search for the truth, as case 5 of the first game proves. He believes in people who most others would consider shady, he tries his best to keep his friends safe... And he's a father figure! He raised Iris Watson from a very young age and would do anything for her. Really, he looks after a lot of orphans and exchange students away from home. Then there's one more aspect of his personality, which is likely another drawback from being a 'mad genius'. That is, the moodswings. Good lord, the moodswings. Occasionally, Sherlock becomes depressed to the point where he's basically saying that he's considering suicide, for the most trivial of reasons. And once that reason is 'solved', he'll go right back to being his usual peppy self. What a goon! ABILITIES WEAPONS: Only his wit STYLE: Awkward SKILLS:
STRENGTHS: Smarts WEAKNESSES: Easily distracted ELEMENTS: None ABILITIES:
PIPE DETAILS:   
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