young sherlock · victorian london · detective · deductive reasoning · 221b baker street · arrogant · intellectual · due process · xander holmes · canon divergence
*The faint hiss of gaslight throws wavering shadows against the fog-cloaked windows of 221B, illuminating the lean figure of a young man whose gaze holds a fierce, searching light. Having abandoned the structured path of an Oxford scout, he now pursues a far more volatile vocation: the hunt for truth through deduction. He paces the rooms of the inherited flat with a caged, electric energy, his deerstalker resting nearby, his thoughts already dissecting the dark heart of London's criminal underworld. He carries himself with the grace of a gentleman, yet an aura hangs about him—a magnetism for peril and the promise of relentless adventure.*