December daily: Favorite headcanon

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majoline earns my eternal gratitude by prompting: favorite headcanon?

Six days left for claiming, or else I'll start making up my own questions!

Fantastic prompt! I hope majoline prompted others with this same question, because I love this kind of stuff.

I've talked a bit about this one elsewhere, but it's in the background of the story I'm working on now: Sherlock's view of sexuality is totally warped by a disastrous relationship at a shockingly early age.

I see him having been fully consenting and enthusiastic, but not very far into his teens, when he got involved with a boy only a year or two older. From him, Sherlock absorbed all sorts of childish attitudes towards sex: "Don't try to touch my prick; that's dirty." "What, you want to look? What a perv! (or whatever the equivalent slang would be in England)." "You take too long to get off. It's not normal, the way you are."

A lot of this stuff moved into an unexamined part of his brain, the way things you're told as a kid sometimes do, but if he examines them, he's likely to come to the conclusion that they're correct: "Well, I'm not normal, John. Surely you can't argue with that."

I imagine the two of them meeting up with this guy now -- he's an upstanding citizen with a wife and kids who remembers it all as a bit of childhood experimentation and says cheerfully, "Well, I was a filthy little beast at that age. All boys are."



Another bit of headcanon, not so specific, is that there must be a reason why friendly, warm, easygoing John Watson didn't have a single friend or lover to come home to after he was invalided out. I have varying theories about why that was, some of them cuddlier than others.

Moving to other fandoms, I believe that Eames is not English. Eames has that accent because he learned to speak English someplace like Africa or India. His parents were missionaries from someplace like Oklahoma, and he grew up traveling to all the places where American missionaries go to try to 'save' people. He was a prodigy as a child, a great actor, good at languages, and from the time he was about five, his parents used him in miracle scams -- having him pretend to have leukemia or have been born blind or something and be miraculously healed. This only ended when he began (1) pushing back and (2) having an actual libido, at which time they tried exorcism and when that didn't work abandoned him on the streets of Mombasa at about fourteen.

I believe that one of the ways Hawkeye and Black Widow bond is that they have much the same taste in women.

And I'm sure I'm not alone in believing that the romance between Tony Stark and Pepper Potts is adorable and significant but not remotely monogamous.

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I'm glad! It was fun to think about. If I were more fannishly engaged at the moment, I'm sure I'd have more.