(Headcanon) Sorry, I was thinking about it a lot recently: in my (Headcanon) I thought a lot and this is mine. Sherlock was raped by their father which caused his partial asexuality and made the distance between him and Mycroft, who was at University already, even bigger, as he wanted to hide it. Also (in my sick imagination) Mycroft, who already knew he was in love with his younger brother, found out and confronted father. (continued)
(continue headcanon - still by telepath95) As father was a cruel person (I make him a monster though) he cried about how he is disappointed with lack of obedience in sons and tried to beat him, and Mycroft took the first staff he could to protect himself which was an umbrella (that’s why he always bring one). Mycroft was upset Sherlock never tried to ask his help and Sherlock acknowledged his affection to Myc but couldn’t get to him without revealing truth about father so he drowned himself in drugs. So when after many years they started to get closer again and Sherlock found out that Mycroft knew he asked - why you didn’t protect me? And Mycroft would just take off his shirt and will reveal scars which stays after few hits reached him. And Sherlock will understand and they’ll work it out. And Mycroft would be afraid to go any further because he doesn’t want to be as father, but he never will be. (the end)
enny: Very nice! I haven’t had headcaonons here in a while :) I thought about this possibility, too, a lot, actually. As you might know the canon of this blog includes a quite cruel and distant Mr. Holmes senior. I did decide against rape in their story here, though. Firstly, because I feel highly uncomfortable with it. And secondly, of course, because same as you I don’t see any chance for them getting the kind of relationship I describe here if it had happened this way. I think it’s very interesting that we have this assumptions considering the canon in the series. Of course, when I created this blog I had to make something up, because we had no background information on them. I was very positively surprised by Mr. and Mrs. Holmes in the series afterwards. Because that gave a completely different view on their relationship - but that’s probably for another time to discuss. Thanks a lot for this! <3