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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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[dogboy]

Appearance: While it was once winter and Chien was wrapped up tighter than a caterpillar in its cocoon, as it gets warmer he won't be as bundled up. His usual wear is just some shorts and his scarf because he comes from an island nation back home and even though spring would be a little chilly for him he's willing to work through it.

While he has his jackets and whatnot off he has a very large dog skull tattoo/birthmark on his torso that I always forget to make mention of in his appearance with people though I don't suppose anyone finds it too odd anyways with everything else around and fanartists almost always forget to draw it themselves too so... Anyway, here's a picture of it. It's symmetrical. He has it because of his past life but that's another story.

Chien isn't very good at taking care of himself re: hygiene, so he has very poor in that category. Unkempt hair, dirty skin, dirt underneath fingernails, etc etc etc. As you can tell, he's also very tan. From being on an island nation and probably born that way as well.

-- He also has a red dog collar around his neck! And bandages around his forearm up to his elbows. The bandages are less of a fashion statement and more of a necessity for how he fights via hands and feet, though I suppose they'd actually come from his brother's (Cer and Ber, but they're not here so that's another story that goes with the first) tussles with him. It's a reminder of them for him in the end.

Riiiigght now he has bandages all over him from his mallynapping, but the only visible ones are wrapped around his head in a very messy manner. Beneath his clothes there's a ton more from different pain-related experiments and the fact he fought back like a cornered dog when they came to get him. His wings are also pretty beat up and he's not feeling so good because of it.

Speaking of wings, his are in their molting stage! They're half-sleek, half-downy, though he keeps them well-hidden for most of the time. Can't help any stray down that might be on his clothes though.

... Oh, and he looks around 13, 14 years old. Sounds kind of like it too. In that awkward stage of voice-almost-cracking/has-cracked.

Important Facts/Other??: He's not too kind or trustful of anything that's not an animal. It takes a kind heart or a warm hand to dispell his initial rudeness, but it'd linger there because he wasn't exactly the most liked person back home by humans (due to canon) and come out when he's embarrassed. He's a really shy kid. Prefers the forest to the village (which is where most of the dirt comes from now) and dislikes his wings to the point of almost always hiding them if he can (in the warmer seasons, he'll wrap his scarf around them since it's long enough). They're too fluffy for his tastes at the moment.

I can get to that story now. Like Luca up there, he's a god reborn in a human form. For him, it's the guardian dog Cerberus and his brothers are dogs who are genetically related to him (though, again, they're not here - he feels much safer with them around but he thinks he can take care of himself while they're not around) which is why that birthmark dog skull is made mention of up there. See? Even the dog collar makes sense now. What you can gather form all of this is that he is, in fact, very dog-like in personality: he doesn't trust strangers, he's more open to those who are kind to him - but not too open, he can't get himself to depend on others due to his experience with people through his life, and finally he locks up like a stray dog if you make him angry or you even approach him actually and he doesn't know you/isn't on good terms with you.

As with Luca, he's got 50% power as a reborn god here in Luceti, but unlike the bookworm in places like the tunnels and whatnot he's still got speed and some strength going for him - though it's mostly just the first. Chien's still growing though, so he's not as strong as he tries to make himself to be and relies on his dexterity and agility to make up for it. That being said he fights like a wild animal, with hands and feet as claws and I wouldn't be surprised if he bit, too! It'd certainly show in how he holds himself in the defense, hunched over with his hands claw-shaped in front of him like a grappling motion and snarling.

He considers himself a protector of the forest because that's what he was back home on top of being what the humans hated him for (Avatar/"Fallen"/reborn god) so he takes anything regarding animals, nature, etc very seriously.

The way Chien talks is simple (but not stupid-simple, just using as many words as necessary to get his point across!) with whatever big words he's learned tossed in if he can. Mostly for informational purposes. By the way, he gets frustrated if he doesn't understand something or there's a big word he doesn't know and especially if it's spoken in an unkind way. For people he's closer to (one person here) he's not as mean with that and more of confused, but for strangers? Yeah he's annoyed as hell.

-- If there's anything else please tell me I love talking about my puppy boy!