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[consultingsociopath]

Mundane,

While it may be amusing to you that articles relating to the original ACD stories occasionally crop up over the course of your academic research, they will serve neither your portrayal of me, nor your studies. Don't you have better things to do with your time than read irrelevant articles (which are more than likely full of errors anyway)? I happen to know for a fact that you do.

Do at least try to not be an idiot.

SH

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[consultsdetective]

And I think you just can't be bothered to act civilized with 'em. [ what what he does what he wants ]

[consultingsociopath]

Finally an accurate deduction. But that doesn't provide me with a reason why I should.

[consultsdetective]

How about because you can.

[consultingsociopath]

If I began doing everything I could just because I can...

[Does he really even need to finish that sentence?]

[consultsdetective]

You'd be a right bastard. And probably be surprised how little it changed anything.

But acting like a decent human being because you can, that just makes for a decent human being.

[consultingsociopath]

Perhaps. [Yes.]

And how many of those do you know, Detective Inspector?

[consultsdetective]

[ ...shush, Sherlock 8| ] Still working on the list for that one. Hard to say much for it when you spend most of your time getting after criminals.

[ Takes a bit of the optimism out of you, this line of work. You get used to it. ]

[consultingsociopath]

[His intent wasn't quite to depress so much as to provoke Greg into an impassioned defence of his morally-dubious team members for Sherlock's amusement. If he were the sort of man who felt bad about things, he'd be feeling a bit bad about putting him to that line of thought now. Instead, he'll resort to being childish and spoiled to be distracting to take your mind off it. Isn't it fun to be his friend?]

And yet everyone expects me to be some sort of hero.

[consultsdetective]

[ His team just counts automatically, even though they can act like a bunch of squabbling five year olds when a dead body of mysterious circumstance turns up.

Like it's the best part to be the one figuring it out, pft. (Not that he can talk much, used to be just like that) ]

The curse of being so clever and using it to solve crimes, isn't it? People don't jump right to "guess he's bored."