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holmes_minorLittle bit late with the activity, but let me beg for forgiveness for my transgression by offering you here a newly rediscovered Victorian parlour game… (*waggles eyebrows*)
Sinner, Saint, Neutral
The game goes like this—pick three characters from canon that fit together in a category, and then assign one the title of saint, one the title of sinner, and the last the title of neutral.
For example:
Three villains: Moriarty, Grimesby Roylott (SPEC), Charles Augustus Milverton (CHAS)
Saint: Moriarty - by choosing to make his attempt on Holmes’s life at the Reichenbach Falls, he manages to revitalise the Swiss tourism industry.
Sinner: Roylott - having discovered or bred the only milk-drinking, ear-bearing snake in existence, he uses it to bump off relatives rather than donate it to science
Netural: Milverton - he may be making things sticky for the upper classes, but he is also injecting much needed cash into the lower end of society.
And here are some further groups to consider, but do feel free to come up with your own.
Three people named Victor: Victor Hatherley (ENGR), Victor Trevor (GLOR), Victor Lynch, the forger (SUSS)
Three landladies: Mrs. Hudson, Mrs. Warren (REDC), the landlady [who] babbled of green peas at seven-thirty (3STU)
Three governesses: Violet Smith (SOLI), Violet Hunter (COPP), Grace Dunbar (THOR)
Three detectives: Lestrade, Hopkins, MacDonald (VALL)
For groups and for the assigning of the three titles, the more creative your thinking the better. Please leave your ideas in the comments!
As always, you needn’t take part in this activity if you don’t wish to. Once you’re a member, you can post what and when you want—as long as you keep to the 500 words or less wordcount and the ACD Holmes ‘verse. AUs, crossovers and fusions are all permitted, as long as the characters remain essentially recognisable as the original ACD versions.
Please see the profile for the full posting guidelines
The game goes like this—pick three characters from canon that fit together in a category, and then assign one the title of saint, one the title of sinner, and the last the title of neutral.
For example:
Three villains: Moriarty, Grimesby Roylott (SPEC), Charles Augustus Milverton (CHAS)
Saint: Moriarty - by choosing to make his attempt on Holmes’s life at the Reichenbach Falls, he manages to revitalise the Swiss tourism industry.
Sinner: Roylott - having discovered or bred the only milk-drinking, ear-bearing snake in existence, he uses it to bump off relatives rather than donate it to science
Netural: Milverton - he may be making things sticky for the upper classes, but he is also injecting much needed cash into the lower end of society.
And here are some further groups to consider, but do feel free to come up with your own.
Three people named Victor: Victor Hatherley (ENGR), Victor Trevor (GLOR), Victor Lynch, the forger (SUSS)
Three landladies: Mrs. Hudson, Mrs. Warren (REDC), the landlady [who] babbled of green peas at seven-thirty (3STU)
Three governesses: Violet Smith (SOLI), Violet Hunter (COPP), Grace Dunbar (THOR)
Three detectives: Lestrade, Hopkins, MacDonald (VALL)
For groups and for the assigning of the three titles, the more creative your thinking the better. Please leave your ideas in the comments!
As always, you needn’t take part in this activity if you don’t wish to. Once you’re a member, you can post what and when you want—as long as you keep to the 500 words or less wordcount and the ACD Holmes ‘verse. AUs, crossovers and fusions are all permitted, as long as the characters remain essentially recognisable as the original ACD versions.
Please see the profile for the full posting guidelines
Three Sinning Violets
Date: 2019-11-14 01:58 am (UTC)Violet Hunter fell prey to the sin of Greed because she took a position she probably knew in her heart was Wrong for the money.
Violet de Merville fell prey to the sin of Pride for not listening to anyone when they told her about her fiancé.
Violet Smith fell pray to the sin of Lust for her two-wheeled chariot and wouldn't stop riding it even when there were creepy dudes in beards chasing her on a regular basis.
Re: Three Sinning Violets
Date: 2019-11-14 10:15 am (UTC)Re: Three Sinning Violets
Date: 2019-11-14 12:14 pm (UTC)Re: Three Sinning Violets
Date: 2019-11-15 06:41 pm (UTC)I was particularly taken by your thoughts on Miss Smith ^___^
Re: Three Sinning Violets
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Date: 2019-11-18 10:08 pm (UTC)Three kinds of Jimmy
Date: 2019-11-14 02:06 am (UTC)James Moriarty: neutral because he spread lies about Reichenbach to defend the memory of his brother and not having his own name probably fried his onion a bit.
James the fellow who's time sharing Mary Morstan Watson with Doctor Watson in "The Man with the Twisted Lip": saint for putting up with all the times Mary calls him 'John.' :)
Re: Three kinds of Jimmy
Date: 2019-11-14 10:19 am (UTC)Re: Three kinds of Jimmy
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Date: 2019-11-18 10:09 pm (UTC)Three professors
Date: 2019-11-14 02:14 am (UTC)Professor Presbury: sinner because he wanted to get it up so bad he drank monkey juice despite being, you know, a professor of physiology.
Mister Hilton Soames (tutor/lecturer): neutral because everything's Greek to him until he can't pass the test because he lost it!
Re: Three professors
Date: 2019-11-14 10:23 am (UTC)Re: Three professors
Date: 2019-11-14 12:13 pm (UTC)Re: Three professors
Date: 2019-11-15 06:43 pm (UTC)I'm rather taken by your inspired choice of group as well.
Re: Three professors
Date: 2019-11-16 04:07 am (UTC)Re: Three professors
Date: 2019-11-18 08:18 pm (UTC)Re: Three professors
Date: 2019-11-18 10:06 pm (UTC)Horse Flesh
Date: 2019-11-24 03:06 pm (UTC)Sinner: Silver Blaze, Straker wasn't his first murder, he also shot a man Reno just to watch him die [this is a line from a Johnny Cash song, fyi]
Neutral: the dead horse Mrs. Hudson beats when she asks Doctor Watson not to prop his muddy boots on the upholstery and could he a bit more artful in his aim of tobacco ash.
Re: Horse Flesh
Date: 2019-11-24 04:41 pm (UTC)Re: Horse Flesh
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Date: 2019-11-24 09:19 pm (UTC)Re: Horse Flesh
Date: 2019-11-25 03:28 am (UTC)Hot house Flowers (meaning, not English roses)
Date: 2019-11-24 03:18 pm (UTC)Saint: Mrs. Ferguson, for putting up with Jacky, the worst stepson ever, with rumors she's a vampire, and with the fact ol' Artie doesn't see fit to give her a first name!
Neutral: Anna of the Golden Pince-Nez, killed a man, got foiled by coconut matting, but handed over the goods in the end, kind of a draw
Re: Hot house Flowers (meaning, not English roses)
Date: 2019-11-24 04:42 pm (UTC)Re: Hot house Flowers (meaning, not English roses)
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Date: 2019-11-25 03:28 am (UTC)