... what would I want if I could have anything I want?
After giving it some thought, I think it would be some iteration of Sherlock Holmes (contemporary or historical, I don't care) in a story that had smut and did not have the following features:
- Holmes being literally a sociopath - Watson being broken beyond all repair by the war - Holmes being way more attractive than Watson -- to everyone -- and knowing it (it throws the balance of the relationship off, and IMO is canonically improbable as well) - Holmes and Watson being angry with each other when the story begins and still angry with each other when the story ends - Watson being stupid like Kate Beaton's jam-loving New Watson - Holmes being either so emotionally available that I don't believe it's really him, or so emotionally unavailable that the whole relationship is a hopeless case - Watson already being in love with Mary - The whole thing being the kind of established-relationship story that boils down to "They were happy and they had a lot of sex. Here's an example."
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After giving it some thought, I think it would be some iteration of Sherlock Holmes (contemporary or historical, I don't care) in a story that had smut and did not have the following features:
- Holmes being literally a sociopath
- Watson being broken beyond all repair by the war
- Holmes being way more attractive than Watson -- to everyone -- and knowing it (it throws the balance of the relationship off, and IMO is canonically improbable as well)
- Holmes and Watson being angry with each other when the story begins and still angry with each other when the story ends
- Watson being stupid like Kate Beaton's jam-loving New Watson
- Holmes being either so emotionally available that I don't believe it's really him, or so emotionally unavailable that the whole relationship is a hopeless case
- Watson already being in love with Mary
- The whole thing being the kind of established-relationship story that boils down to "They were happy and they had a lot of sex. Here's an example."