#deducing john

[inevitably-johnlocked]

Hello!! How are you? I hope you've had a great day :)

I was wondering if you know any fics in which John is shown as the intelligent man that he ACTUALLY is, and the others characters recognize it.

I'm really in need of a clever!john portrayal :')

Thank you in advance 💚

Hey Lovely!!

AAAAHHH I've been asked this before and I only came up with a couple suggestions:

Equilibrium by augustbird (M, 12,351 w., 1 Ch. || Flowers for Algernon Fusion || Jealous then Worried Sherlock, Sick John) – At Baskerville, John is infected by a virus that turns him into a genius. But when the infection progresses into neurodegeneration, it's a race against time to save himself.

No Charge by notjustmom (G, 1,742 w., 4 Ch. || Alternate First Meeting AU || Street Artist John, Sherlock Being Sherlock, Art/Drawing) – What if John is a street artist who offers to draw Sherlock...

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Not exactly what you're looking for though :(

Anyone able to help us out??

[bundibird]

I would just like to point out that in S3 when Sherlock’s been shot and then escapes from the hospital, John goes looking for him at Baker Street and sees that his chair has been put back, and straight up says “Why does Sherlock think I’ll be moving back to Baker Street?”

Not “Why has Sherlock put my chair back” or “What’s my chair doing back out here” or anything else, but “Why does Sherlock think I’ll be moving back to Bakers Street”

Someone else might ask those other questions, if they noticed the reappearance of the chair at all, or they might wonder why the chair’s back in its place all of a sudden but not be able to guess at why. But John works out what it means instantly.

John knows it was removed in the first place because sherlock missed him and didn’t want to stare at his empty chair, so that its back now means either that sherlock no longer misses him, OR that he no longer has a NEED to miss him, because John won’t be not there to miss. The only way that would be the case is if John moved back to 221B - hence, “Why does Sherlock think I’ll be moving back to Bakers Street?”

Anyone else would see that chair and either not register it at all, or not know what it meant that it was back there, but John works it out straight away.

John’s deducing, and he’s not even aware that he’s doing it

[theburialofstrawberries]

“Sofa, Sherlock, it was the sofa.” 

“Oh, yes, of course.” 

[anindoorkitty]

I didn't know, I saw

[sashaforthewin]

Sorry, there was a typo in that last one.