Roost and David are originals, not copies. The gun worked the same for all the people it effected, it marked them as foreign bodies in the universe and so the universe removed them from their time and place. However as those affected have memories proving they should exist the universe didn’t delete them entirely, it recognized they were meant to exist somewhere and tried to stick them back in. So instead of Roost and Davey being born, their parents just didn’t conceive at the time the brothers would have been conceived and then Roost and Davey were reinserted when they remembered existing. Because the Holmes conceived at different times than they had before Mycroft and Sherlock were born instead. A couple that wants to have two children will have two children.
It is entirely possible there’s another John or Tim running around, but they aren’t relevant to the story so I never went into it. There wouldn’t be any reason to have replacement selves show up and if I did just for the sake of it they’d only be there briefly before I moved onto the story so it wouldn’t have added anything and possibly confused people. One of the major themes of WD is a forward movement, of leaving the past behind and creating as much of a future as on can for oneself. Briefly introducing the people that would have taken the metaphysical place of John and Tim would have drawn the characters backwards into their old lives instead of forwards.
I can’t find any of my previous answers, because apparently I’m allergic
to tagging asks (I’m going to have to fix that someday…) but I’ve
expressed this much better before than I will this time.
The short answer is: before Grendel deleted them, Bad Davey and Roost were essentially Sherlock and Mycroft. Roost and a John solved crimes and had adventures. In The Narrow Line, since it was AU, I extended the idea back and made John a different version of himself. To explain the previous version names, Sherringford and Ormond were were the names Doyle used in his first draft of the Holmes stories. David and Roost would technically be Mycroft and Sherlock’s siblings as they aren’t exact genetic copies.
For the long answer I’m going to cheat and just say go look at nephyria’s post here.
I didn’t wanna put it on that football field length clusterfuck of a post, because this is looking like it’s getting there all by itself, but preheating your shit before cooking/baking/grilling is so important. It’s also not something that’s really…..taught. Heck, it’s easy to overlook when you ARE taught, because people don’t think to teach routine food safety when they’re teaching the Actual Making of The Thing. It’s assumed that most people know to do that, because “Of COURSE you preheat the oven, everyone knows that!”
Looking back, it turns I only know ANY food safety stuff because mom subtly drilled that shit into me before I was ten (via baking participation), and LONG before I was ever allowed to cook things with the potential to be dangerous when raw or with multiple elements (meat, vegetables, etc). It’s all oral tradition, and it’s all good until someone three generations in slips up on teaching the prep.
it kinda occurs to him all of the sudden one day that humans don’t understand elvish social culture and that they need to be treated more gently
he profusely apologizes to everyone and promises to try and figure out new ways to help
*Slams buzzer* Yes, YES!!!!!
Elves are all kind of dickish and coming into stranger’s houses like you own the place is normal, pass it on
“so what YOU’RE telling me is that it ISN’T okay to bust down your neighbor’s door?”
Speak with Tenderness 