victorian221b | Victorian Prompt Box

It's been quite a while since the Box was updated, and, frankly, I didn't have energy to keep it up, but there are still awesome prompts which stayed unfilled. Maybe they will inspire someone, so I'll copy them here:

1) Holmes realising that he is in love with Victor Trevor.

2) Watson and Mary keep trying to get Holmes and Hopkins to get together, unaware that they are already a couple.

3) Holmes has to attend a very boring party or social event and Watson spends the party distracting him so he doesn't get overwhelmed/bored/stuck in a terrible mood.

4) Holmes and Watson finally get together (your call if it's after months or decades) during/right before a big case. Holmes is so completely lovestruck he can't focus on anything else and Watson needs to cover for him.

5) A tailor makes matching suits for Holmes and Watson as a gratitude for a solved case. Would it be awkward for them to wear the suits at the same time? Or would they enjoy it?

6) Watson had a brother, once, and loose him to alcool. Maybe it explain his reaction to Holmes' addiction to cocaine...

7) In The Bruce Partington Plans, Watson writes:

"It was a relief to me when at last, after a light dinner, we set out upon our expedition. Lestrade and Mycroft met us by appointment at the outside of Gloucester Road Station. The area door of Oberstein's house had been left open the night before, and it was necessary for me, as Mycroft Holmes absolutely and indignantly declined to climb the railings, to pass in and open the hall door. By nine o'clock we were all seated in the study, waiting patently for our man."

I just find this really funny, what can I say? I would love fic or art about Mycroft continuing to occasionally team up with Holmes and Watson, with the three of them developing a friendly dynamic in which Mycroft can be relied on to absolutely and indignantly decline to do things (while of course coming through and helping when and how it counts the most). I welcome any tone from crack to more realistic humor to more emotional family feels :)

8) When Watson's brother died, he left behind a young daughter who eventually came into Watson's care.

How does Holmes and Watson's relationship, still in their early days both as roommates and colleagues (as well as friends), evolve and mutate with a child in the equation?

Could be friends to lovers, but I think established newfound relationship offers its own number of comedic possibilities.

9) Canon/granada

"Did I do remarkably badly?" " Yes!"

Watson make a big mistake and ruin a case. Holmes is furious. Watson try to fix it alone and put himself in danger...

+bonus if watson had a good reason to make his mistake in the first place

10) Holmes and Watson meet a "new" woman - by which I mean a liberated woman, working woman, actress, or suffragist.