BBC Sherlock Multiship Fic Prompts

A blog for a daily BBC Sherlock fic prompt for a variety of ships, including het, slash, femslash and poly, as well as gen prompts.

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Welcome To BBC Sherlock Multiship Fic Prompts!

This blog will host the BBC Sherlock prompts I have come up with/been given by others over the years that I want to see find a good home. There are all sorts of shippy and gen prompts that I am in the process of collecting and will queue to be posted.

While some prompts are too specific to swap out characters/ships, you may edit these prompts as you like...they're mostly just a starting point for more BBC Sherlock fic, after all! Please give credit to bbcsherlockmultishipficpromts if you use any of them (and tag us so we can reblog your fic!), and also feel free to submit your own BBC Sherlock prompts via ask/submit!

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Sherlock Holmes & or / John Watson Prompts

smell of smoke in icy air; Kidlock. Sherlock has one friend in the world, John Watson. And even though he's young, Sherlock tries to protect John from bad things. (original idea submitted by @the-cat-writer)

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Greg Lestrade/Philip Anderson Prompt

“I drunkenly tried to fight you and knocked myself out but you were kind enough to take care of me till I woke up.”; At his lowest, Philip had alienated everyone who had ever been kind to him, except Greg. And even Greg was on the ropes when Philip, at the drunkest he had been since Sherlock's suicide, picks a physical fight with him. When Greg stays with him all night as well as throughout the terrible hangover the next night, certain truths come to light between them.

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Molly Hooper & Sally Donovan + Ships Of Your Choice Prompts

Cyberpunk werewolves; Sally Donovan is a successful sci-fi author, known for books that place folk-tale creatures in non-traditional settings. Molly is her best friend-slash-editor who helps fine tune the stories for self publication alongside their jobs working for Scotland Yard and St Bart's, respectively. When a publishing house looks to not only sign Sally and Molly for future books but also re-release all of Sally's older works, the two start talking about what they might like to do in a field not related to medicine or law enforcement.

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Mycroft Holmes/Anthea Prompts

“Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.” — Alain de Botton, Essays in Love; Mycroft allows himself a moment to be vulnerable with his assistant, and gets more in return than he bargained for.

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Characters & Ships Of Your Choice Prompts

“Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.” - William Arthur Ward; Steampunk AU.

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Sherlock Holmes/Jim Moriarty Prompts

“A genius is the one most like himself.” - Thelonious Monk; Post Series 1 AU. Sherlock and Moriarty have to begrudgingly work together. They can keep up with each other and really are a force to be reckoned with when they put their minds to it. It is surprising just how much they...click.

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Greg Lestrade-centric Prompts

Sketchy past; Before Lestrade became a copper, he was involved in the punk scene. Caught up in a drugs bust where he didn't have drugs on him but was around others who did, the detective in charge suggested perhaps he change his path. When he goes into Scotland Yard a few months later, tired of his friends getting him into trouble, the detective becomes a mentor of sorts.

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Mycroft Holmes/Irene Adler Prompt

Secret relationship; What could be more romantic than a vacation in the Caribbean? Well, when someone steals your passports and leaves you and your partner stranded on a desert island -- the answer is everything, especially when no one knows you're together.

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John Watson & Sarah Sawyer Prompts

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” - Jane Goodall; Sarah is an amazing doctor, a kind person, and a good friend. Their romantic relationship may not have worked out, but when he's asked to give a speech to honor her, he knows just what to say.

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Mary Morstan/Janine Hawkins Prompts

Shenanigans and hijinks; While Mary and Janine were "sowing their wild oats" when younger, they didn't only gravitate towards men. Sometimes, when they were bored with their choices in men, they had some fun together.

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Molly Hooper-centric Prompts

“What do you do when there's nowhere to turn? You drive straight ahead.” - Leslie Gordon; She'd never found it practical to own her own car while she lived in London. There were other ways to get where she needed. But when she called off her engagement to Tom, when she realized he had made her not live her life to the fullest, she went shopping for a cherry-red car of her own, and then she hit the road.

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Sherlock Holmes/Greg Lestrade Prompts

First meeting; Most people assume Sherlock and Lestrade first met at the Yard in the course of a case. They would be wrong. They met when Sherlock was a teenager, and their first meeting was...interesting.

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Elizabeth Smallwood & Mummy Holmes (+ Mycroft Holmes/Elizabeth Smallwood) Prompts

“I found my place when I stopped looking for it.” - Mahershala Ali; When she and her husband drop in at Mikey's home for an unplanned visit, they are shocked to see a woman in his abode...and it's not Anthea. Mummy Holmes is intrigued when Elizabeth wants to talk woman to woman.

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John Watson + Characters/Ships Of your Choice Prompts

Criminal mastermind; John Watson is not all he seems. While Sherlock is dealing with the hassle of Moriarty and his network of criminals, John is dealing with keeping his two lives separate: one as a doctor at a medical centre and faithful blogger to Sherlock, and the other as the head of a criminal empire that rivals Moriarty's.

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Irene Adler/Sally Donovan Prompts

“One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.” - Abraham Verghese; There are times the arseholes at the Yard push all her buttons and she needs stress relief. When Sally gets slipped the number to The Woman's private line, she doesn't know what to expect. It's not what she expected from a dominatrix, but it turns out it's exactly what she needs.

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Harry Watson-centric Prompts

"This is not where I saw myself ten years ago."; Harry had been a drunken wreck for most of her adult life. She clawed her way up from rock bottom with the help of her brother, his best friend, and his wife, and honestly? Life has never been better.