Watson’s birthday?

[mightymads]

I finally emerge from preparing my entries for Holmestice and WAdvent. Time to post something to this comm too :) I’ve read Moriarty by Anthony Horowitz and soon will write a review for it. In the meantime I have a question.

It is universally accepted that Holmes’s birthday is January 6, even though it’s fanon rather than Canon. What about Watson’s birthday? August 7? Are there any other versions? Could you share your headcanons? I don’t know whether to settle my headcanon for August 7 yet. I’d rather consider it May 22, like ACD’s birthday, but I’m not sure.

Comments

[mightymads]

Good luck with WAdvent! Interesting, then the fanon date of Watson's birth is not so firmly set as Holmes's. It's good that we can choose whichever date we like more, each of us making it suitable for their own headcanons :)

[smallhobbit]

The only time I wrote about Watson's birthday I placed it in September, but that suited my series.

[mightymads]

That's great! I'll probably do the same—set the date according to my headcanon rather than fanon.

[003_5]

Using ACD's birthday is a nice idea! Interesting that there's a consensus on Holmes's birthday but not Watson's, I've never even heard of it being august 7th.

[mightymads]

I knew vaguely that there was a fanon date of Watson's birthday and had to look it up. Much of my headcanon about Watson is based on ACD, and it's a relief to find out that if I use May 22 in my fics, it won't be jarring as changing Holmes's birthday would be.