HERLOCK SHOLMES
he's a great british consulting detective. the only one in the world... herlock sholmes. i presume, you must have heard of him?
THE BASICS
NAME: herlock sholmes
AGE: somewhere in his 30s
SPECIES: human
GENDER: male / he / him
OCCUPATION: consulting detective
HEIGHT: 6'0' / 183cm
HAIR: platinum blond
EYES: green
BIOGRAPHY
herlock sholmes is a consulting detective in london. as part of an exchange program klint van zieks established, a japanese man, yujin mikotoba, became friends with the detective when he was around 20 years old and still a yet-to-be famous detective. they solved many mysteries together, and yujin took notes all about their adventures, keeping them in a trunk in their flat. however, when klint was killed and yujin's friend, genshin asogi, was accused of being the feared serial killer known as the "professor," yujin was entrusted with taking care of klint's newly born daughter, and named her iris. forced to return to japan, yujin asked sholmes to take care of iris in his stead, to which herlock unhesitatingly complied. iris grew up for a time believing sholmes was her father.
one day, sholmes told iris that the one who wrote the stories in his trunk was her actual father. iris eventually deduced through the text, as well as the handwriting on a stolen autopsy, that her father was john h. wilson (though this was proven much later to be false, as the handwriting on both documents was yujin.) iris compiled the writings left behind by her "father," and, using john wilson as a pen name, she would come to publish the adventures of herlock sholmes. these manuscripts would turn sholmes into a legendary detective, known all over the world.
a few years later, iris found a paper regarding the professor killings and wrote a story about it, calling it the hound of the baskervilles. when sholmes read it he was horrified, thinking that if it was published, iris would discover that klint was her father, and that he was a serial killer. fearing the worst, he sent iris’ manuscript to yujin mikotoba in japan, who put it in his office.
sholmes' habit of listening to other people's business lead him to learn about a telegram from england to japan. it read:
' k. asogi, t. gregson,
a. shinn, j. wilson'
since he had heard about dr. john wilson's death in japan, and given notorious assassin, asa shinn had vanished half a year prior, sholmes thought these four people were to be killed as part of some sort of conspiracy. with this knowledge, he notified yujin, who wrote back, notifying him that kazuma asogi would be coming to england on the ship, s.s. burya. sholmes decided to board the ship and stop asogi’s study abroad to save him.
when the burya passed through shanghai, asogi somehow lost consciousness, which gave sholmes a chance to get him off the ship before it arrived in england. but first, he set to find out who almost killed asogi. sholmes first encountered ryunosuke naruhodo after naming him the culprit, also mistaking him for vilen borshevik. sholmes, along with naruhodo and susato mikotoba, investigated kazuma asogi's supposed death. twice he performed his famous dance of the deduction in order to deduce what occurred, but (purposefully) deduced incorrectly. naruhodo helped him recheck his deductions, just like yujin once had. nikomina pavlova was discovered to be the culprit after sholmes found her earring in asogi's hand.
naruhodo believed that with his friend dead, he and susato would have to return to japan. however, sholmes convinced the student to take over asogi's spot in the exchange, and become a defense attorney. at the time, this was a ploy so that when asogi was discovered alive, someone else would have already taken the spot to england, intending to delay his trip by a few more years. sholmes told the crew of sailors aboard the burya about asogi after the ship had stopped. he was also able to help pavlova receive asylum in the us. however, asogi regained consciousness with no memory of his identity, managing to escape sholmes before he could be dropped off at the embassy in hong kong. the embassy had arranged to send him back to japan.
herlock sholmes met naruhodo and susato again during his investigations at the garridebs' flat, as well as during the reading of soseki natsume's books. natsume had been accused of stabbing a woman named olive green on briar road. he initially had incorrect deductions, but naruhodo, with the dance of deduction, helped to prove that the garridebs had an argument on the night of olive green's attack. it was during this time that sholmes invited the exchange students to remain in his flat, to which they used it as a makeshift law office.
sholmes later continued his investigation of the flats after william shamspeare was poisoned. he made a false deduction that shamspeare died after eating soap- another deduction that caused natsume to be arrested (for the second time). he, along with iris, developed a new fluid that determines whether or not tea leaves are fake. if they are real, the tea turns black but is undrinkable. sholmes also developed a fingerprint spray that is used along with special goggles in order to see what people have touched. barok van zieks rejected the use of the invention in court the first time it was mentioned. the device is brought up again when naruhodo insists it could be used to find selden's hidden treasure. sholmes then appeared in court to collect a sample of selden's prints from olive green (with selden’s key in her possession).
it was revealed that due to sholmes' presence in natsume's room (reading books), shamspeare could not have checked the room for the treasure. despite saying he would do it in a half hour, sholmes found a hidden compartment in the ceiling of the flat the next day. but to his horror, the treasure turned out to be the encrusted dog collar worn by balmung, the hunting dog klint van zieks had used to kill his victims. he then told iris she couldn't write a story about the incident they had just investigated, but did not elaborate as to why. she wrote up a manuscript, but sholmes did not allow its publication. however, he did allow her to publish the story of how olive green was stabbed.
sholmes received iris' baskerville story again after yujin mikotoba read a report from soseki natsume describing the treasure, which yujin recognized as well. susato saw the manuscript in her father's office while she was cleaning before they left japan. seeing that susato had seen the manuscript, yujin instructed her not to tell anyone about it, fearing iris might somehow find out about her father through this information. sholmes gave the manuscript to pop windibank, the pawn shop owner, to lock up in his vault in order to keep it safe from the public.
during one of the trials in which naruhodo was the defence lawyer, a conspiracy was contemplated in which two music box discs entered into evidence had actually been used to record a secret government message that was going to be sold, however, the message of these discs wasn't discovered until after the trial, in which naruhodo, susato, iris and herlock learned that the coded message was actually in japanese and revealed the names: k. asogi, t. gregson, a. shinn. j. wilson., to which sholmes cryptically adds that they may have been correspondences between england and japan.
six months later, the world's fair began. he was then recruited by esmeralda tusspells in order to perform two tasks: act as a wax figure in her museum in order to increase falling revenues, and investigate the disappearance of the wax figure of the notorious serial-killer, the professor. though very poor at doing his first task, he learned that the figure had been "kidnapped," and filled in the situation to naruhodo and iris.
the following day, the wax figure had mysteriously returned (though it was missing its head), though sholmes was still acting as a wax figure. naruhodo and susato approached him during this time to question him about the "death" of asogi nearly a year earlier. while sholmes admitted to his actions, he only gave a vague reasoning as to his motive. however, upon learning that they were searching for enoch drebber, who had a connection to a recent crime, sholmes directed them to the professor exhibit, where they learned the man had a connection to the events of 10 years ago, as well as the tale of the professor rising from the grave. the group then received word that drebber's lab had been discovered, and all three departed in hot pursuit.
the group arrived at the lab, and managed to make their way into the inner rooms. though nearly getting everyone present killed by deducing that an active bomb was an "anti-gravity device," sholmes managed to discover the hiding place of drebber with the help of naruhodo. they also managed to find the head of the professor statue, connecting drebber to the kidnapping. though sholmes managed to disable the one bomb before everyone was blown to bits, drebber revealed there was another bomb at the crime scene, which subsequently exploded and eliminated most of the uncovered evidence, as well as a few nearby guards.
the following day at the trial, sholmes advised naruhodo that if there was a truth that seemed incomprehensible, the lawyer was to pursue it no matter what, until everything was revealed. taking the detective's words to heart, naruhodo was able to prove that while drebber was the mastermind behind the plot to kill odie asman, the true killer was none other than head coroner courtney sithe, and the two were arrested.
soon after, sholmes decided to join the "red-headed league" in an attempt to earn money for rent, and artificially turned his hair red. however, fabien de rousseau and peppino de rossi, the heads of the league recognized the great detective. enraged at being discovered, and deducing the league was actually a scam, he turned the pair over to scotland yard. he was then hired by evie vigil to find her missing husband, daley, and sent naruhodo and susato on the trail ahead of him, both because of his distaste of missing persons cases, as well as to return his hair to his natural state. upon the pair's return, gina lestrade arrived, bearing the news that tobias gregson had been murdered, with the supposed killer being barok van zieks. shocked at the news, and believing another victim had been taken from the telegram, sholmes set off to the crime scene ahead of anyone else.
the following day, sholmes arrived to the bandol hotel and eavesdropped on a conversation between his former partner yujin and naruhodo, where he found out that asa shinn was the one responsible for the killing of john h. wilson. realizing the telegram from a year earlier was not a list of four victims, but rather two assassins and two victims, sholmes hurriedly prepared a telegram instructing detective satoru hosonaga to obtain the contents of the telegram from judge seishiro jigoku's office, and send the contents by the following day.
after naruhodo collapsed as a result of lestrade's dog toby, he was brought back to baker street, where sholmes prepared a sugar water solution in order to aid his recovery. however, upon returning downstairs, the group discovered a horrifying scene: the living room was a mess, and a mysterious masked man was unconscious on a couch near an oddly silent iris. sholmes and naruhodo managed to figure out that the man was actually yujin, who had seemingly gone unconscious after falling prey to a forgotten defense mechanism in the living room trunk. furthermore, the two found that iris was attempting to hide the autopsy of klint van zieks, which she had stolen years earlier.
after these deductions, and susato's questioning, sholmes revealed that his partner, and only friend, was indeed susato's father, yujin. subsequently, he whisks his partner off on a then unknown case; to sholmes, the game was beginning, and would soon end.
the unknown case was revealed to be the search for seishiro jigoku, who had mysteriously disappeared following his arrival with yujin. obtaining a witness summons from kazuma asogi, the two made their way to the port of dunkirk, where they located the s.s. balabrook. there, they found the missing judge hiding from them in his cabin, attempting to escape to japan to avoid being persecuted. the pair notified naruhodo of their success, and began the long trip back to england.
returning home to his flat, iris, susato, and naruhodo had prepared a feast, as a way to fuel up before the final confrontation. sholmes revealed the contents of his telegram at this time, and how the four names had indeed appeared in jigoku's records. he also talked about his deductions of the names, and how asogi was not to be targeted, but rather that he was supposed to target gregson. following this, sholmes declared that he had some preparations to make before the trial the next day.
naruhodo was able to prove jigoku's connection to the assassin exchange program the following day, and discover that the judge was indeed gregson's killer. however, it was subsequently revealed that mael stronghart, chief justice and current judge of the trial, was the man behind the exchange, and responsible for the false conviction against genshin asogi. stronghart denied all these claims and attempted to forcefully end the trial, until sholmes appeared. the detective appealed to the gallery, saying that if the court ended here, the full truth would never be revealed, pushing everyone watching into a frenzy. having no other choice, stronghart continued the trial. sholmes then revealed that any and all necessary witnesses had been arranged, and could be summoned at a moment's notice. leaving the proceedings in naruhodo's hands, sholmes departed to make his final arrangements.
it was revealed through the trial that not only had klint van zieks acted as the professor, but also that stronghart was the mastermind behind the "death bringer" organization who killed those that wrongfully escaped with not guilty verdicts, as well as being the blackmailer who pushed klint to kill. however, due to no physical proof, and the secret nature of the trial, stronghart was set to leave the court completely innocent. it was at this point that sholmes appeared once more, this time in the form of a hologram. he informed the court he was at buckingham palace with iris and queen victoria, who had been watching the trial from the beginning. victoria stripped stronghart of all his powers, and decreed he would be tried for his crimes at a later date. following stronghart's arrest, sholmes congratulated naruhodo on becoming a true agent of truth, before departing once more.
that night, sholmes attempted to catch up with his former partner by describing all the cases he had missed since their separation (including the one they had participated in together the day before). gina came to celebrate with everyone else, and revealed that with gregson gone, she lacked the will to keep working as an inspector. however, sholmes had obtained gregson's pocket watch, and entrusted lestrade with holding onto it and continuing her boss' will, giving her the motivation to continue working. iris also admitted that she did not feel the need to keep searching for her true birth father, thanking sholmes for being the only father she ever needed; sholmes described this as the best "thank you" he had ever received.
half a week later, sholmes said his goodbyes as he watched yujin, naruhodo, and susato prepare to leave for japan. he said it was fun being able to work on one more case with his partner, and hoped they would be able to do it again one day. declaring he would eventually visit them all in japan, the detective watched as his friends departed for home.
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