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Dr. John Watson ([personal profile] nervesofsteel) wrote in [community profile] cityarcade 2014-07-12 02:42 am (UTC)

Really not well at all, poor bb. Part of that is because of where I took him from. He knows Sherlock is alive, but absolutely nothing is resolved, and he is stuck in this limbo where he is neither able to forgive Sherlock nor move on from him. As a result, Sherlock is pretty constantly on his mind. And that would drive anyone crazy.

The other part of it is that Sherlock forces John to confront (even embrace) the darker side of himself that he would rather keep buried under a million layers of English self-deprecation. Not only does he give John an outlet for all his wonderful adrenaline junkie tendencies, but he makes them okay. John is pretty convinced that anyone else in his life would think he was certifiable if they knew how much he loved danger and doing completely crazy things for the sake of the greater good. Sherlock thinks it's the most important thing about him.

(He's wrong in thinking that Sherlock is the only one who gets it. Mary understands him a lot better than John thinks she does.)

So yeah. Sherlock reminds John who he really is, and without Sherlock, John has to get there on his own. And man, he does not like it.

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