There's something so sad about the BBC version of Sherlock and Mycroft, and maybe that's why there's so many incest stories out there (and everyone's entitled to their own thing, but that's a major squick for me, so I haven't read any of them so maybe I'm talking out of my bottom). People want to know that back story, want to know why there's so much dislike there. We know from the episodes that Sherlock hates that Mycroft treats him like a child and tries to control, spy on, and manipulate him, but we don't really know how Mycroft feels. Does he actually care about Sherlock or just worry about the trouble his brother will cause?
This AU, the part that kills me, is when Mycroft is talk about how Sherlock was fading away. You can feel there the loneliness that Mycroft was facing, watching as Sherlock tried to turn himself into a brain in a jar. There's that same "brain in a jar" attitude in the BBC version, this idea that when we first meet Sherlock he's been actively trying to turn himself into a non-human, a thinking machine with legs. So in this AU, he is, in fact, not human, but he's just as bad at accepting himself as a vampire.
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Date: 2013-03-05 07:36 pm (UTC)This AU, the part that kills me, is when Mycroft is talk about how Sherlock was fading away. You can feel there the loneliness that Mycroft was facing, watching as Sherlock tried to turn himself into a brain in a jar. There's that same "brain in a jar" attitude in the BBC version, this idea that when we first meet Sherlock he's been actively trying to turn himself into a non-human, a thinking machine with legs. So in this AU, he is, in fact, not human, but he's just as bad at accepting himself as a vampire.