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[notquiteheartless]

If you have ever read Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories or novels or seen BBC's Sherlock series, you know about Sherlock's extraordinary skills of observation, induction, and deduction. In Sherlock, it takes the likes of Jim Moriarty and Irene Adler to throw him off.

So, this post is for what Sherlock can know. If you want him to know something about your character but can't think of how he could figure it out, tell me. We can work together to decide on something that would indicate it. Otherwise, consult the list below and carefully consider what sort of marks your character would have and what that would reveal, particularly in combination with each other.

A good example of what Sherlock is capable of can be found in the links below.

Things to consider: style of clothes, condition of clothes, brands of clothes, hair style, grooming products used, grooming products not used, amount of grooming products used, personal hygenie, state of fingernails, jewellery, condition of jewellery, kind of make-up, amount of make-up, posture, wallet, purse, condition of fashion and function accessories, cell phone, make of cell phone, condition of cell phone, perfume/cologne, kind of perfume/cologne, amount of perfume/cologne, tan, kind of tan, severity of tan, corrective eye lenses, habits, hobbies, health issues, profession (and the subsequent "marks" it would leave on someone).

Examples of Sherlock in action: with John Watson, examining a body

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[theoniongirl]

Because memes totally need permissions too, right? ;) Let's see how detailed I can get.

Clothes: Oversized, usually cheap and often rather worn, but always clean (except for paint speckles, which are kind of an unavoidable reality with her). Prefers long sleeves. Will occasionally wear t-shirts while painting or if the weather is exceptionally hot, but it's rare. Her shoes are usually utilitarian, rather than fashionable. Worn from walking a lot, and showing the signs of having been out in all kinds of weather quite often. The fabric of any of her shoes will show signs from jumping in puddles, stepping in mud, treking over rough ground, and other such details, even though she'll clean up the worst of it later.

Also, because her fashion sense is kind of...fashionless...it can be harder to tell, but she is from the 70s. Certain styles that she picks might trend more to hippie-ish designs, though she doesn't go out of her way to keep up the look.

Hair style: Tangled, naturally curly, naturally dark. Usually with paint in her curls, particularly behind her ear if she put her paintbrush there while she's working. No product used at all (other than shampoo and conditioner, and probably not an expensive brand).

Hands: Right handed. Her index finger on her right hand is slightly indented from constant use with a pencil or paintbrush. Fingernails are short and unpainted.

Grooming/Hygiene: Not at all groomed, but clean. Generally smells of paints and turpentines and soap. No jewelry, unless it's Luceti-verse, in which case she has a ring that Jack gave her on chain around her neck. She usually forgets it's there.

Health Issues: Has had an STD (probably Chlamydia). Since been cured. Track marks on her left arm have mostly faded, but there is still light scarring there if she wears short sleeves. She hasn't used in 6-7 years, so there's no sign of recent use.

Habits/Hobbies: She starts most days with coffee. She sleeps at odd hours and not always a lot. She doesn't really favor morning or night, so it's kind of hit or miss whether she's had a decent night's sleep...it depends on what projects she has going. She is terrible at keeping things neat and it generally shows in her hair, her fashion choices, and her housekeeping. She spends a lot of her time reading, drawing, painting, taking walks, and talking to people.

What she has on her at any given time: Pencil, sketchbook, a small amount of cash (real-world)...maybe a little more than enough for a cup of coffee... key to where she lives. No car keys. No phone. No wallet. No credit cards. No watch. No makeup. Maybe chapstick.

Important Facts he might figure out...but I don't know how: She's masking a less-educated accent. She's changed her way of speaking to not sound like her family. She's been doing this since she was very young, so it's very consistent. Her accent is American - New York, but not from the city. She lives about an hour away from the Canadian border, but she's never visited and never really left the area surrounding Newford.

She's not going by her actual name. Jilly or Jillian is correct, but her "real" last name is Carter. She almost never introduces herself with first and last name, but if she does there isn't really a hesitation before introducing herself as Jilly Coppercorn. She's taken to thinking of that as her true self.

She's not really a city girl or a country girl. She's lived in both places and she has a great appreciation for elements of both, though she definitely prefers the city.

In real-life verses, she's used to working with the homeless and the elderly. Signs of those environments might be on her clothes or person.

Her sense of personal space varies widely. She's very comfortable with hugs and hand-holding and boundaries with women or with men she considers as good friends (like Archie or, in her actual world, Geordie), but if a motion could be considered at all intimate, her demeanor becomes more tense and anxious immediately, even if it's just a touch on the arm.

....Okay, calling it quits for now. I'll add more if I think of it. lol.