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SEND ME A QUESTION REGARDING MY MUSE.
13. What about your muse makes you sad?
I’ve already sort of covered what makes me emotional about Jamie here, so, for the sake of not repeating myself, I’m going to talk about Jamielock (A.K.A. Sheriarty). This is stepping into canon territory, with spoilers, so mind how you go! So, Elementary’s take on the over 100 year old ship of Moriarty and Holmes is fascinating. Disregarding spoilers for a second, and just talking about how Jamie and Sherlock relate to each other, it really is tragic. They are each other’s only intellectual equals, the only people, as Jamie says, that they can really talk to. But they are separated by a wide gulf of empathy. Jamie has spent her entire life thinking she’s alone, intellectually, only to find that there is someone else out there who sees everything she does, who might just be an intellectual sparring partner. Her loneliness never bothered her (the way it seems to have bothered Sherlock), but now she has the potential of someone who is her equal? She’s fascinated. And so, imagine her disappointment when she finds what a disappointment he is. Not only is he shackled by empathy to the point of it being a burden to him, but he is so deeply emotive that he turns to drug use to escape from those feelings. Jamie is disappointed in Sherlock, but she can’t quite bring herself to withdraw completely from him, and that’s her ultimate downfall. She’s not sure if what she feels is love, or some stunted version of it, because she’s had no experience with the emotion, but she’s afraid that it is, because that’s something she’s supposed to have cast aside as a useless emotion, which serves no grand purpose at all. She’s determined to make him see the world the way she does, because she believes her viewpoint is superior, but he ultimately ends up getting inside her head instead, affecting her decisions, she says, “in the strangest of ways”. And that is so sad, because she rails against his influence on principle. She’s incapable of the kind of transformation he wants her to undergo. It’s beyond her. And that is so darn tragic.
