Sep 6, 2018
Extract: The Eternal Sunshine of a Detective's Mind
A boy away from home and familiarity, without the easy confidence of youth and camaraderie towards his fellows; a boy unable to connect, to understand such complex social interactions, a boy with such powers of knowing and yet not knowing the melee that surrounded him daily. He became misunderstood, mocked and ultimately ignored and so assigned himself protection, a carapace of aloofness; an armour to reject before becoming rejected, an aspiration to care less.
And he almost succeeded; he fooled others and very nearly fooled himself, until she came along
~Sherlock at University makes me a bit sad~
(From Ch 8 on AO3 anf FF.Net)
