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Age: 28
⌈ CHARACTER SECTION ⌉
Character: Sherlock Holmes
Age: 34
Canon: Dai Gyakuten Saiban / 'The Great Ace Attorney'
Canon Point:After the end of the first game. Sherlock has been CANON UPDATED to the second game! Find more info here
Background:
Written up here
Personality:
(A lot of examples listed in this section stem from the bonus DLC episodes, which are short stories on their own and can pretty much be considered canon.)
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.
There's no denying that he's smart. Good lordie is this man clever. He's invented an assortment of contraptions and inventions, such as an 'evidence analyzer' and the substance that changes to a certain color depending on which blood type it's exposed to. Even more astoundingly, somehow his bag functions as a printer. ...No, seriously. At one point, he takes a picture with his goggles and the resulting polaroid slides right out of his bag. Then there's the special lens he can attach to his goggles, which somehow allows him to see through a solid wooden door. Granted, it seems that most of his inventions were created together with Iris Watson, who refers to him as 'her technician'. However, she's only ten years old and he did teach her to begin with. 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. 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes', which is just a book series, is based on actual cases that Sherlock's solved in the past. There were actual baffling mysteries that were solved by this man. He has some great foresight, too. He theorized that the latch to Asougi's door might've been closed by causing the ship to lurch and pressed the emergency stop button to test it out. Then there's the time he realized Gregson was going to take the music disc from them and hastily used a caramel bar to score an imprint of it, allowing them to recreate the disc later. Furthermore, it seems that he understands quite a bit of Russian and Japanese. It isn't detailed quite how good he is at it. However, he outright states he can read basic Japanese, but has incredible difficulty with kanji. Then, in one of the DLC episodes, he brainstorms along with the others on how to write his own name in kanji characters. While under the impression that Ryuunosuke is Russian, he deliberately uses a Russian expression, expecting him to understand.
However, his genius comes with a drawback. To say he's scatterbrained would be an understatement. He seems to have very selective memory issues, to the point where he forgets most cases about a day after he's solved them. In fact, at one point, Iris claims that Sherlock literally forgot about having solved a case and then solved it a second time the next day. This forgetfulness is probably why his investigative partner took to writing down the details of every single case they'd solved and filing them away for safekeeping. Sherlock also has trouble remembering people's names if he doesn't know them well. 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. He's not above insisting that an obviously Asian person is Russian, or claim that a snake climbed up a wall. At one point, he mistakes a viola for his prized Stradivarius violin because he's just that eager to pick it up from the pawn shop. In one of the DLC episodes, it's pointed out that he'll occasionally wear his hat backwards (or even sideways) as he rushes out the door.
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. (A husband and wife got into a dispute? Nawww, clearly this man was keeping a lion in his apartment.) It's because of this that one might argue the 'Great Sherlock Holmes' is not one man, it's two. Sherlock needs an assistant to keep his reasoning on track, because the moment he slips up once, he can't recover from it, nor does he realize he needs recovery in the first place. Originally, this task fell upon his partner, who no doubt had to correct Sherlock on several occasions. However, in present time, Ryuunosuke ends up taking that role instead. 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... He also cheats Ryuunosuke out of his money during a poker game. At one point, he prepares to kick a door down (or as he says it, he's 'fully pumped on the urge to break it down'), only to be told that it isn't locked. Once he hears that, he becomes frustrated, because 'now where is he supposed to direct that kicking urge???' While traveling from Japan to London on the steamship, he takes advantage of the fact that Ryuunosuke stole a T-bone steak from the kitchen to steal another two more for himself, then blame that on the same thief. Near the end of the game, he comes into the courtroom disguised as a bailiff despite being severely injured to deliver a vital piece of evidence. Why is he disguised as a bailiff? No reason. He isn't attempting to avoid detection, so the disguise is pointless. Later on, he uses the same disguise again, just to see how long it'll take for someone to notice him. Honestly, I could go on.
Not to mention, he's arrogant. He's perfectly aware that he's famous and goes around brandishing his title like a sword. He introduces himself as 'That Sherlock Holmes' and 'the world's greatest detective'. He'll even sing about it. 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. Iris does tend to make his character look more wise and collected than the real life counterpart, after all. It gets to the point where he doesn't take responsibility for his wrong lines of reasoning, instead stubbornly ignoring them and focusing on the aspects that he got right. (“But! But! Didn't I hit a bingo? […] See? See?! How's that?!”) He's also pretty bad at giving other people legitimate compliments. As Susato says, he's not the sort of person to sing someone else's praises. His acknowledgement of Tobias Gregson's skills is: "He's the better inspector amidst the blunderers of the Yard."
Here we come to the more serious side, because yes, there really is one. Zany shenanigans aside, he does have moments of surprising clarity. Any rapid-fire reasoning is the most notable example. Despite playfully calling it “Logic & Deduction Experiment Theater” and treating it a bit like a show, 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.”) When in possession of a mysterious music box disc, he goes to extremes to figure out just what might be on it. However, as these discs are always developed for specific types of music boxes, he goes as far as to have every single kind of music box in Europe delivered to his office. This is something he's arranged for in half a day's time. Not even serious injuries will stop his search for the truth, as case 5 proves. He travels to the courtroom to deliver a piece of evidence despite having had surgery that very night. Sure enough, while he insists that he's fine, he collapses soon after.
At one point in case 4, Ryuunosuke asks Sherlock why he believed in his innocence during the incident on board the S.S. Alaclaire. Sherlock explains that he never once believed in Ryuunosuke, rather, he believed in himself. He expected that if Ryuunosuke were guilty after all, he would have deduced it in time. If in the end he were betrayed and the young man were the culprit after all, it would've been his own fault for not foreseeing it. (“I'm the one who decides what's right or wrong for myself. If there's something I want to put my faith in, I'll go ahead and do so. It has nothing to do with someone's feelings.”)
Another very interesting example is the Hound of the Baskervilles mystery. Despite supposedly not remembering past cases very well, the manuscript based on the Hound of the Baskervilles mystery is one that had an instant effect on him. Supposedly, he blanched and turned very grim upon reading it. Then he promptly hid it away in a pawn shop 'until the time was right to publish it'. Whenever it's brought up, he continues to look very serious and dodge the topic. It could very well be related to something he says at the end of case 4. There, he takes Ryuunosuke aside and explains that shortly after opening his office he 'came to know the true darkness within London'. As the capital of London is a very bright place, it casts a much larger shadow. Ryuunosuke later claims he caught a glimpse of that shadow- that darkness hidden within London- during the resolution of case 5, but we still don't know what exactly Sherlock was referring to.
On another note, he's a father figure. He raised Iris from a very young age and his brilliance has rubbed off on her to some degree. For a long time, Iris seriously thought he was her real father, until she found the old case files. It was then that Sherlock had to inform her that her true father had written them, knowing he could never hide anything from her. Not just that, but he also takes in Ryuunosuke and Susato, who he hasn't really known for all that long. He takes note of the fact that they need a place to stay and sure enough, his door is open to them. Or, well, the landlord's door is, but were it not for Sherlock, they would never have known about the spare room. He's very welcoming towards Gina Lestrade as well, and even invites Natsume Souseki to the welcome dinner after he's declared not guilty. Sherlock does his best to be a good host along with Iris, occasionally going out of his way to help the two exchange students. ...Perhaps a bit too far, because stopping all the trains just so Ryuunosuke can see Susato one more time just before she goes back to Japan? Errr. Well, it would've been a nice gesture if he hadn't attempted to shift the blame of it onto Ryuunosuke's shoulders.
Then there's one more aspect of his personality, which is likely another drawback from being a 'mad genius'. That is, the moodswings. It doesn't occur often, but at one point Sherlock becomes severely depressed to the point where he's basically saying that he's considering suicide. It's as if he instantly drains all the joy out of the room, spouting nothing but gloomy, cynical words. What caused him to act this way, you ask? Because 'he can't play the violin anymore'. All that comes out is awful an screeching noise, which unbeknownst to him is because he's playing a viola instead. Once he finally realizes what the problem is, he perks right up again and pretends that whole depressing thing didn't happen. Only half a day later, after the incident at the pawn shop, he's once again in a sullen mood and 'blind to the world around him', not even looking up when his guests enter. The guests he personally invited, I might add. Judging by Iris's reaction to it, this wasn't the first time Sherlock's behaved in that manner, nor would it be the last.
As a final note, which is actually a rather important one: We don't know if he's aware that John Watson is dead. He apparently told Iris that her father went to a faraway country to work on a shared case, and hasn't corrected that opinion. When Watson's name is brought up at the end of the final case, in the coded message, he doesn't chime in at all. However, Sherlock was on a steamship headed from Japan to England less than two months after Watson was murdered (in Japan). Is that really a coincidence? It's hard to say, because if the Hound of the Baskervilles manuscript teaches us anything, it's that Sherlock will occasionally withhold information and even outright hide things. ((**DGS2 explains the matter))
Abilities:
Aside from his scatterbrained brilliance, excellent violin playing and inventing skills, Sherlock has a few more skills. For one, he claims to be a good boxer. Supposedly, he has a 'prized boxing jab' and will reflexively move into an offensive fighting position when he's caught off guard.
And then there's one more thing. Sherlock appears to be some sort of Victorian ninja. He excels at literally popping up in places out of seemingly nowhere, leaving people to wonder when he entered the room. He even appears in someone's private home at one point, claiming he wanted to watch the sunset from a window. Furthermore, he can remove and re-apply Ryuunosuke's handcuffs without the guy even noticing. How does he do it? It is a mystery.
Alignment:
Daimonia. Sherlock is very prone to mood swings, which makes it tricky to choose an alignment, but I would say the most notable contrast is between joy and grief. For most of the game, he's like a very excitable child, but when he hits an emotional rock bottom, he becomes very depressed. ("THE WORLD IS GRAY...!")
Other:
Provided is a list of all the stuff that was crammed into his pockets and bag, and thus would've arrived with him: His pipe, his pistol and several vials of the various substances it can fire (it doesn't seem to be capable of shooting bullets), several small investigative tools, two bars of salty caramel, an issue of Strand Magazine.
⌈ SAMPLE SECTION ⌉
Sample:
Test Drive link
Questions:
Oh! Yes! At the end of case 4, the Baker Street group adopts Natsume Souseki's cat (named Wagahai), who then becomes their pet. Can Wagahai arrive with Sherlock?
Player: Meowzy
Contact:
madonnya | Age: 28
Character: Sherlock Holmes
Age: 34
Canon: Dai Gyakuten Saiban / 'The Great Ace Attorney'
Canon Point:
Background:
Written up here
Personality:
(A lot of examples listed in this section stem from the bonus DLC episodes, which are short stories on their own and can pretty much be considered canon.)
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.
There's no denying that he's smart. Good lordie is this man clever. He's invented an assortment of contraptions and inventions, such as an 'evidence analyzer' and the substance that changes to a certain color depending on which blood type it's exposed to. Even more astoundingly, somehow his bag functions as a printer. ...No, seriously. At one point, he takes a picture with his goggles and the resulting polaroid slides right out of his bag. Then there's the special lens he can attach to his goggles, which somehow allows him to see through a solid wooden door. Granted, it seems that most of his inventions were created together with Iris Watson, who refers to him as 'her technician'. However, she's only ten years old and he did teach her to begin with. 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. 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes', which is just a book series, is based on actual cases that Sherlock's solved in the past. There were actual baffling mysteries that were solved by this man. He has some great foresight, too. He theorized that the latch to Asougi's door might've been closed by causing the ship to lurch and pressed the emergency stop button to test it out. Then there's the time he realized Gregson was going to take the music disc from them and hastily used a caramel bar to score an imprint of it, allowing them to recreate the disc later. Furthermore, it seems that he understands quite a bit of Russian and Japanese. It isn't detailed quite how good he is at it. However, he outright states he can read basic Japanese, but has incredible difficulty with kanji. Then, in one of the DLC episodes, he brainstorms along with the others on how to write his own name in kanji characters. While under the impression that Ryuunosuke is Russian, he deliberately uses a Russian expression, expecting him to understand.
However, his genius comes with a drawback. To say he's scatterbrained would be an understatement. He seems to have very selective memory issues, to the point where he forgets most cases about a day after he's solved them. In fact, at one point, Iris claims that Sherlock literally forgot about having solved a case and then solved it a second time the next day. This forgetfulness is probably why his investigative partner took to writing down the details of every single case they'd solved and filing them away for safekeeping. Sherlock also has trouble remembering people's names if he doesn't know them well. 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. He's not above insisting that an obviously Asian person is Russian, or claim that a snake climbed up a wall. At one point, he mistakes a viola for his prized Stradivarius violin because he's just that eager to pick it up from the pawn shop. In one of the DLC episodes, it's pointed out that he'll occasionally wear his hat backwards (or even sideways) as he rushes out the door.
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. (A husband and wife got into a dispute? Nawww, clearly this man was keeping a lion in his apartment.) It's because of this that one might argue the 'Great Sherlock Holmes' is not one man, it's two. Sherlock needs an assistant to keep his reasoning on track, because the moment he slips up once, he can't recover from it, nor does he realize he needs recovery in the first place. Originally, this task fell upon his partner, who no doubt had to correct Sherlock on several occasions. However, in present time, Ryuunosuke ends up taking that role instead. 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... He also cheats Ryuunosuke out of his money during a poker game. At one point, he prepares to kick a door down (or as he says it, he's 'fully pumped on the urge to break it down'), only to be told that it isn't locked. Once he hears that, he becomes frustrated, because 'now where is he supposed to direct that kicking urge???' While traveling from Japan to London on the steamship, he takes advantage of the fact that Ryuunosuke stole a T-bone steak from the kitchen to steal another two more for himself, then blame that on the same thief. Near the end of the game, he comes into the courtroom disguised as a bailiff despite being severely injured to deliver a vital piece of evidence. Why is he disguised as a bailiff? No reason. He isn't attempting to avoid detection, so the disguise is pointless. Later on, he uses the same disguise again, just to see how long it'll take for someone to notice him. Honestly, I could go on.
Not to mention, he's arrogant. He's perfectly aware that he's famous and goes around brandishing his title like a sword. He introduces himself as 'That Sherlock Holmes' and 'the world's greatest detective'. He'll even sing about it. 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. Iris does tend to make his character look more wise and collected than the real life counterpart, after all. It gets to the point where he doesn't take responsibility for his wrong lines of reasoning, instead stubbornly ignoring them and focusing on the aspects that he got right. (“But! But! Didn't I hit a bingo? […] See? See?! How's that?!”) He's also pretty bad at giving other people legitimate compliments. As Susato says, he's not the sort of person to sing someone else's praises. His acknowledgement of Tobias Gregson's skills is: "He's the better inspector amidst the blunderers of the Yard."
Here we come to the more serious side, because yes, there really is one. Zany shenanigans aside, he does have moments of surprising clarity. Any rapid-fire reasoning is the most notable example. Despite playfully calling it “Logic & Deduction Experiment Theater” and treating it a bit like a show, 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.”) When in possession of a mysterious music box disc, he goes to extremes to figure out just what might be on it. However, as these discs are always developed for specific types of music boxes, he goes as far as to have every single kind of music box in Europe delivered to his office. This is something he's arranged for in half a day's time. Not even serious injuries will stop his search for the truth, as case 5 proves. He travels to the courtroom to deliver a piece of evidence despite having had surgery that very night. Sure enough, while he insists that he's fine, he collapses soon after.
At one point in case 4, Ryuunosuke asks Sherlock why he believed in his innocence during the incident on board the S.S. Alaclaire. Sherlock explains that he never once believed in Ryuunosuke, rather, he believed in himself. He expected that if Ryuunosuke were guilty after all, he would have deduced it in time. If in the end he were betrayed and the young man were the culprit after all, it would've been his own fault for not foreseeing it. (“I'm the one who decides what's right or wrong for myself. If there's something I want to put my faith in, I'll go ahead and do so. It has nothing to do with someone's feelings.”)
Another very interesting example is the Hound of the Baskervilles mystery. Despite supposedly not remembering past cases very well, the manuscript based on the Hound of the Baskervilles mystery is one that had an instant effect on him. Supposedly, he blanched and turned very grim upon reading it. Then he promptly hid it away in a pawn shop 'until the time was right to publish it'. Whenever it's brought up, he continues to look very serious and dodge the topic. It could very well be related to something he says at the end of case 4. There, he takes Ryuunosuke aside and explains that shortly after opening his office he 'came to know the true darkness within London'. As the capital of London is a very bright place, it casts a much larger shadow. Ryuunosuke later claims he caught a glimpse of that shadow- that darkness hidden within London- during the resolution of case 5, but we still don't know what exactly Sherlock was referring to.
On another note, he's a father figure. He raised Iris from a very young age and his brilliance has rubbed off on her to some degree. For a long time, Iris seriously thought he was her real father, until she found the old case files. It was then that Sherlock had to inform her that her true father had written them, knowing he could never hide anything from her. Not just that, but he also takes in Ryuunosuke and Susato, who he hasn't really known for all that long. He takes note of the fact that they need a place to stay and sure enough, his door is open to them. Or, well, the landlord's door is, but were it not for Sherlock, they would never have known about the spare room. He's very welcoming towards Gina Lestrade as well, and even invites Natsume Souseki to the welcome dinner after he's declared not guilty. Sherlock does his best to be a good host along with Iris, occasionally going out of his way to help the two exchange students. ...Perhaps a bit too far, because stopping all the trains just so Ryuunosuke can see Susato one more time just before she goes back to Japan? Errr. Well, it would've been a nice gesture if he hadn't attempted to shift the blame of it onto Ryuunosuke's shoulders.
Then there's one more aspect of his personality, which is likely another drawback from being a 'mad genius'. That is, the moodswings. It doesn't occur often, but at one point Sherlock becomes severely depressed to the point where he's basically saying that he's considering suicide. It's as if he instantly drains all the joy out of the room, spouting nothing but gloomy, cynical words. What caused him to act this way, you ask? Because 'he can't play the violin anymore'. All that comes out is awful an screeching noise, which unbeknownst to him is because he's playing a viola instead. Once he finally realizes what the problem is, he perks right up again and pretends that whole depressing thing didn't happen. Only half a day later, after the incident at the pawn shop, he's once again in a sullen mood and 'blind to the world around him', not even looking up when his guests enter. The guests he personally invited, I might add. Judging by Iris's reaction to it, this wasn't the first time Sherlock's behaved in that manner, nor would it be the last.
As a final note, which is actually a rather important one: We don't know if he's aware that John Watson is dead. He apparently told Iris that her father went to a faraway country to work on a shared case, and hasn't corrected that opinion. When Watson's name is brought up at the end of the final case, in the coded message, he doesn't chime in at all. However, Sherlock was on a steamship headed from Japan to England less than two months after Watson was murdered (in Japan). Is that really a coincidence? It's hard to say, because if the Hound of the Baskervilles manuscript teaches us anything, it's that Sherlock will occasionally withhold information and even outright hide things. ((**DGS2 explains the matter))
Abilities:
Aside from his scatterbrained brilliance, excellent violin playing and inventing skills, Sherlock has a few more skills. For one, he claims to be a good boxer. Supposedly, he has a 'prized boxing jab' and will reflexively move into an offensive fighting position when he's caught off guard.
And then there's one more thing. Sherlock appears to be some sort of Victorian ninja. He excels at literally popping up in places out of seemingly nowhere, leaving people to wonder when he entered the room. He even appears in someone's private home at one point, claiming he wanted to watch the sunset from a window. Furthermore, he can remove and re-apply Ryuunosuke's handcuffs without the guy even noticing. How does he do it? It is a mystery.
Alignment:
Daimonia. Sherlock is very prone to mood swings, which makes it tricky to choose an alignment, but I would say the most notable contrast is between joy and grief. For most of the game, he's like a very excitable child, but when he hits an emotional rock bottom, he becomes very depressed. ("THE WORLD IS GRAY...!")
Other:
Provided is a list of all the stuff that was crammed into his pockets and bag, and thus would've arrived with him: His pipe, his pistol and several vials of the various substances it can fire (it doesn't seem to be capable of shooting bullets), several small investigative tools, two bars of salty caramel, an issue of Strand Magazine.
Sample:
Test Drive link
Questions:
Oh! Yes! At the end of case 4, the Baker Street group adopts Natsume Souseki's cat (named Wagahai), who then becomes their pet. Can Wagahai arrive with Sherlock?