In the interest of finishing before the end of the posting schedule, I stopped myself from following the trail of what the "true" story might actually be, that Mary disguised as Damien Adler's existence in her fictionalized memoir, within the Cavallero universe. I hadn't actually considered the possibility of Mary being the mother of Holmes's child - my head canon is that both personal preference and the car crash would prevent that. But of course she could be! It would then require more backstory to explain why she remained an outsider despite Henry's recognized position in the lineage... I shall leave this speculation as an exercise for the reader. (Along with the AU in which Araminta and Grace are the well-matched Holmes and Watson of their generation.)
Oh, I so want to believe we'll get Araminta in Book 3 and simultaneously doubt very much that we will. Agatha also clearly needs a book (and some fic) of her own as well.
Thank you for the Holmestice request that got me thinking about all of this!
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Date: 2017-12-23 04:13 pm (UTC)In the interest of finishing before the end of the posting schedule, I stopped myself from following the trail of what the "true" story might actually be, that Mary disguised as Damien Adler's existence in her fictionalized memoir, within the Cavallero universe. I hadn't actually considered the possibility of Mary being the mother of Holmes's child - my head canon is that both personal preference and the car crash would prevent that. But of course she could be! It would then require more backstory to explain why she remained an outsider despite Henry's recognized position in the lineage... I shall leave this speculation as an exercise for the reader. (Along with the AU in which Araminta and Grace are the well-matched Holmes and Watson of their generation.)
Oh, I so want to believe we'll get Araminta in Book 3 and simultaneously doubt very much that we will. Agatha also clearly needs a book (and some fic) of her own as well.
Thank you for the Holmestice request that got me thinking about all of this!