madimpossibledreamer: Jotaro thinking 'yare yare daze' (yare yare daze)

It strikes me that, in many respects, BBC mycroft and Marcone are the same.  Sherlock even has the ominous line about how Mycroft IS the British government, yet they're portrayed entirely differently.  With Marcone, it's a threat.  Clearly Evil.  With Mycroft, it's usually played for laughs, occasionally the 'he's annoying but I guess he is GOOD'.  Why? Because he's affiliated with the government?  That doesn't make 'whoops accidental stalking/orwellian state' GOOD.  (I am also fairly certain most of their business activities are at least similar including non-justice system executions, and I could also totally see Assistant lady as a Valkyrie.)

madimpossibledreamer: Zhuge Liang concentrating and looking thoughtful. (concentrating)
Main Points:
BBC's Sherlock, Standverse (John has a Stand)
Summary: John the one man army.
Word Count: 120
Rating: Gen

           Occasionally John will call for an update, and guiltily, Mycroft will tell him of any more members of the network they have uncovered.  He’d tell Sherlock about the conversations, but Sherlock needs to make sure he finds the whole network through the data trails, and Sherlock can’t miss the devastation John leaves in his wake as the surgically strikes at each of the viper’s nests.
           He’s also not about to tell his brother about the Speedwagon Foundation calling for updates on John’s location.  He’s, for once in his life, honest with his sort-of-partners, telling them that he has no idea where John will be next because John’s the one choosing the next mission of all the information he’s being handed.

madimpossibledreamer: Jiraiya|Yosuke jumping and using a throwing star (bored)
See y'all on the other side.  Hopefully I won't die from workload.
~Dreamer~

Main Points:
BBC's Sherlock, Standverse (John has a Stand)
Summary: Mycroft has to explain John and Stands to Sherlock (and would have preferred if John had done so).
Word Count: 975
Rating: Gen

Let's go. )

madimpossibledreamer: Jiraiya|Yosuke jumping and using a throwing star (creative)
Main Points:
BBC's Sherlock, Standverse (John has a Stand)
Summary: John decides to dismantle Moriarty's network.  Single-handedly.
Word Count: 530
Rating: Gen, Dark!John (kinda, he's on the side of the angels but right now he's a weapon whose function is to make some people's lives really unpleasant)

        

madimpossibledreamer: Jiraiya|Yosuke jumping and using a throwing star (bored)
Main Points:
BBC's Sherlock, Standverse (John has a Stand)
Summary: Mycroft and John come to an understanding.
Word Count: 1398
Rating: Gen
Notes: IT'S JOHN'S STAND.  He doesn't pull it on Mycroft, though.  UMBRELLA STANDS FTW
I may have been staring at journal articles for long enough I'm getting silly...

 

Honesty )


madimpossibledreamer: Jiraiya|Yosuke jumping and using a throwing star (creative)
Main Points:
BBC's Sherlock, Standverse (John has a Stand)
Summary: John has nightmares.  This is one of them.  Except it's happening.
Word Count: 370
Rating: Gen
Notes: Parts of the dialogue are taken directly from The Great Game.

            John sees the destruction and his heart enters his throat.  For a minute, maybe, he even blacks out.  When he comes to, he’s still sitting and his Stand is trying frantically to get a response from him, assuring him that he’d done nothing, this wasn’t his fault.  Sarah’s worried—of course she is, people just don’t black out without reason—but he has to get there, he has to make sure Sherlock’s safe.  He has to make sure that he hasn’t…  He’s barely aware of walking to his flat, and it’s almost not a surprise to see Mycroft sitting there. 
            His frantic queries are met by raised eyebrows, but it seems Sherlock has yet to get out of his bored funk.  Which is good.  That’s good.  If he was hurt, Sherlock would, well.  Be irritable, but not quite bored anymore.
            “A gas explosion.  Apparently.”
            “Though the police have been known to get things wrong,” Mycroft states deliberately, staring directly at him, and John feels faint.  He needs to sit.
            The way he sinks down, his limp’s back and he’s in a terrible condition.  Even Sherlock must notice by now.
            “They haven’t,” he states once to reassure himself, and then again, for Mycroft, “They haven’t.”
            “Mycroft, this is ridiculous.  As if John would bomb anywhere.”  Sherlock is desperate and angry, and John should probably be touched by the defense if he was anywhere near his right mind right now.
            John’s beginning to process things again, though, and he knows this is important.  He looks back up again to see Mycroft’s stare, and nods once.  Fears weren’t reality, after all, and he would’ve noticed his Stand getting out of control.
            There’s a long look as the elder Holmes stares him down, and whatever he sees there, it’s enough.  “Do think about the offer, Sherlock.  Or I’ll perhaps borrow your…blogger.”  He stands and walks over to John, holding out his hand for a handshake.  It’s anything but friendly.  “Goodbye, John.  See you very soon.”
            Sherlock breaks into an furious and discordant violin…noise, and Mycroft leaves.  John tries to calm his racing heart, because he knows there will be questions.  He’s anything but his usual self, and Sherlock couldn’t have failed to miss it.

madimpossibledreamer: Jiraiya|Yosuke jumping and using a throwing star (creative)
Main Points:
BBC's Sherlock, Standverse (John has a Stand)
Summary: Mycroft never got a chance to say anything.
Word Count: 270
Rating: Gen

            John might not be a Holmes, but by this point even he knows Mycroft has to be doing this on purpose.  The meddler’s hand isn’t visible as he moves around the pawns, but it would take interference for this many of Sherlock’s cases to involve Stand Users.  He’s still not sure how the cabbie’s Stand worked, but shooting him seemed to do the trick.  The others had been a little harder to fix without Sherlock ending up dead or finding out.  Perhaps it’s luck that Sherlock had managed, largely, to avoid the supernatural in his cases before, considering that he liked the macabre, the baffling, the ‘weird ones’.

            The sudden change when John came was too suspicious a coincidence, though.  If the Elder Holmes couldn’t scare John away with words, he’d keep throwing them in situations where John was likely to have to expose his secrets at some point.

            The next time a telephone booth rings when John walks by, he answers because he’s been holding in a scream for some time.  “You’re very lucky that I am who I am and that I’ve used my powers before.  Not just someone who’d just got them.  Your brother would already be dead if I wasn’t.  I get your wariness, but throwing him recklessly into situations where I might be at work or at the shop or just not fast enough is a plan so convoluted as to be stupid only a Holmes would have considered it!”

            He’s breathing hard when he hangs up, but despite the anger he feels strangely satisfied, and Citizen/Soldier stirs contentedly in the back of his mind.


madimpossibledreamer: Jiraiya|Yosuke jumping and using a throwing star (Default)
Mycroft actually has a Stand.  it's his umbrella.  I don't have a fancy name to it yet  Actually I have no idea whether or not Mycroft has a Stand, but he's leaving it ambiguous to keep John guessing.  He's a little more menacing in this one because he thinks John might be a threat to his little brother.
For the one yesterday, There's Always Something, the emphasis on emotion and will makes more sense while reading this (even though, strictly speaking, it's universe optional).  A Stand is your will to fight, so having a stronger will to fight makes you more powerful and more likely to be able to protect/defend.
I actually know what Citizen/Soldier does now (that's John's Stand), but I'll write about that in another post.
Enjoy, dear readers!
~Dreamer~

Main Points:
BBC's Sherlock, Standverse (John has a Stand)
Summary: Mycroft and John meet differently.
Word Count: 150
Rating: Gen

            “It has come to my attention,” the ginger states pleasantly, “…that you are acquainted with a certain Jotaro Kujo.”
            John opens his mouth, only to be cut off abruptly.
            “I would not advise you to lie to me, John.  I’ll know.”
            Watson clenches his fist.  The menace in the air is thick, cloying, almost to the point he can’t breathe.  He’s entered a battle stance, he knows, and Citizen/Soldier is itching to get free.  The only thing that stops him is that this adversary has yet to show his own Stand.  He doesn’t want to get into a fight against an unknown ability if he doesn’t have to do so, even as Jojo’s words echo around his head.  ‘Stand Users attract one another, John.  Be careful.’
            “By…observation, yes?”  His voice is a little less steady than he’d like, and he’s met with a terrifying toothed smile.
            “You were saying, Doctor?”

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