Hangups

[resonant]

Enough real life. Let's play a game.

You give me a fannish character I'm reasonably familiar with, and for that person I will give you a hangup. You know: a sexual dysfunction, an unexpected inhibition or aversion, some perfectly ordinary thing he/she simply cannot handle.

If I'm *not* familiar with your character, maybe some other reader will join in.

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We have requests that I'm unable to fill:
Joe Dawson
John Winchester
Reese or Finch
Christopher Chant

Anybody want to take these on?

Comments

[lexin]

I have to...Sherlock Holmes (any of them...)

[resonant]

I saved this for last, because thoughts! So very many thoughts!

I see BBC Sherlock as slow to get going and slow to get off. (Actually I think he's probably not as much off the norm as he thinks he is, but he has very little experience, and much of the experience he does have was with jerks, so he believes he's bizarre when in fact he's just a little unusual.)

The other problem with Sherlock, of course, is that when he's embarrassed he gets hostile, and when he's hostile he gets really vicious. This would be one of the reasons he doesn't have much experience. This version of Sherlock leads the league in the number of people with whom he has had only one (or possibly only part of one) sexual encounter.

[riverlight]

The other problem with Sherlock, of course, is that when he's embarrassed he gets hostile, and when he's hostile he gets really vicious.

This is one of the truest one-sentence characterization of Sherlock I've ever read. Preach.

[lexin]

Oh, yes, I can totally see this. This becomes head canon in an instant!

[resonant]

I have buckets of headcanon in this area. This Sherlock had a relationship (consensual but still a Bad Idea) at some terrifyingly young age with a boy who was a bit older but still young enough to be just an incredibly immature jerk, the kind of person who, instead of saying, "I don't like that," says, "that's sick and dirty and only a perverted freak would want to do that." (About things like actually looking at your partner's cock while you're having sex with him.)

So Sherlock, who already knew he was weird in many ways, came to believe that he was weird sexually, too. And you can imagine how hard it would be to persuade him that he's wrong.