This is a fanart for a Sherlock fanfiction called ‘Wee Doctor’ (by American Jedi/Thursday Plaid) of a character called Rooster. It was spur of the moment, and when it comes to long stories like that, it can be hard to remember where characters are described, so it’s probably not super accurate. I just wanted to draw him looking cute texting animal facts.
I just. Really like this fanfic series, okay.
@nirelaz, thank you!
everyone who reblogs this before new years gets, uh, bees
reblog now for bees
Whew … okay. This is many, many months in the making. It feels like I have waited forever to post this, only because I kept working on it, and feeling it wasn’t perfect, and working on it some more. I still have the feeling that it’s not there, but I’m gonna post it anyway.
Okay, @thursdayplaid . I read Wee Doctor ages ago when I was on a break from college. I didn’t sleep much as I read the entire trilogy in a few days, completely hooked. When I finished it, I went out and talked my mom’s ears off about it, how it made me feel, how the characters were so complex and shaded and motivated, how it was so different from any fanfiction I’d ever read. I thought about it almost constantly for weeks after. The tragedy of W, John’s devastating determination personified at the core of him; the original John, trapped, doing everything he can for a Sherlock that no longer existed…
I began composing this piece soon after, needing to process the emotions of Wee Doctor my way—through music. It has gone through many iterations, revamps, and redos. I knew the song was going to be about loss. At first, it was just John’s loss of his Sherlock. But then, slowly, it also became about Davey’s loss of self, and Rooster’s loss of stability, and Tim’s loss of family—and then I finally got it, what my music was trying to show me.
So the piece got its final title: Lament of the Lost Brothers. All these characters have lost their worlds, and they can never get them back, and they have to deal with that the whole story. They try, and fail, and hold each other up while trying to prevent it happening from anyone else. And in the process, they become family, brothers.
@thursdayplaid I hope you can hear through my music how much I loved Wee Doctor, and I hope you like it. I know it’s not what you envisioned in your head those years ago, when I first asked you what kind of music you thought would be best for your story … I always end up adding more instruments the more I work on something. ooooops. but I hope you enjoy it just the same. Merry Christmas!
My music is best listened to with headphones. Also my music is ©opywrited. Please do not use it without my express permission. The album cover image comes from a post of Rooster by @jokerteeth . I’m not sure who the image depicts, and neither did Google. Maybe jokerteeth can tell us!
Rooster sketch
“Sometimes he looked incredibly adult, like a middle aged man was staring out, just happy to have a companion to make sense of the brilliant scramble of his brain, far too old and settled to prune himself into ghastly shapes for the idiotic populace’s pleasure. And sometimes Roost looked so incredibly young and confused, like he was lost someplace he had never been, and never learned the language, and couldn’t find his parents, and just wanted to fly away into a million pieces.” ( @thursdayplaid , Bantam Wars)Rereading the Wee Doctor series again (what is my life 😂😂😂) I can’t quite nail down Roost’s age and expression and the bird bone gentleness he possesses, the gentle version of Sherlock that he is. Will need to try again.
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.
kiriel123 said:
Thank you so much for the entirety of
the Narrow Line. I loved reading it, and this last chapter really was
the perfect end. We found out more about Grendel got to see W again, and
the plot went full circle.
Thank
you for reading the entirety of it! I’m glad you enjoyed it, I
appreciate it. The chapter was reworked probably about ten times more
than it needed to be. I’m glad it came together.
tenthcorner said:
“His name was D–” OHH. 😀 also, damnnn,
chills when Sherlock makes his choice and Hamish asks “It’s not really
me, I’m not really dying, right?”. CHILLS ;_; oh my heart.
Yeah.
Since I got a little meta with different versions of Sherlock and such it made the most sense. It really means a lot that you found the evening affecting, I’ve really appreciated your likes and replies. Thank you for your lovely comment.
brightnessrandom said:
I can’t believe it’s over! Every second
of it was an adventure and I’ve been delighted time and time again. It’s
been so wonderful to revisit the world of wee doctor. Thank you for the
work and care you’ve put into this!
Me neither, Wee Doctor has been part of my life for an age. I appreciate all your support! Thank you very much!
Speak with Tenderness 