The Titan ran away mid-battle, and I got a little lost trying to find it again. 😅
Nurse Joy said it was a Dragon Type, so I brought my Beartic, but it’s actually a Water Type. 😭
That’s fine. 🤷♀️ My Meowscarada will take care of it.
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Now that we’ve established Irene Adler is not the femme fatale overtly-sexualised stereotype that society created, please can we talk about a character that isn’t exactly that description, but is a lot closer to it.
Violet de Merville.
She’s involved in The Illustrious Client case (the one with the picture of Sherlock and Watson basically lying in bed together) and she’s interesting to say the least. The main plot of the story is that Baron Gruner has somehow made General de Merville’s daughter, Violet, fall in love with him, and Sherlock has been asked to break up the marriage. Gruner deserves a complete different post because there’s a lot to be said about him (to sum him up, he’s a complete asshole but he has some very cool lines) but Sherlock knows he has a criminal past and has mistreated all the women in his life.
Anyway, when we meet Violet, we find out that she takes no one’s shit (apart from the criminal she is currently obsessed with but anyway) and could not care less about what Sherlock says.
Sherlock describes her as ‘demure, pale, self-contained, as inflexible and remote as a snow image on a mountain’ and ‘She is beautiful, but with the ethereal other-world beauty of some fanatic whose thoughts are set on high’ which is a lot coming from Sherlock.
So basically we’ve already got the impression that Sherlock is not going to make any impression on her.
He then goes on to say ‘How a man beast could have laid his vile paws upon such a being of the beyond I can not imagine’ which also just shows that yes, there are women that Sherlock admired, and he wasn’t disrespectful and hateful to women like people think.
Violet de Mervillle was this women that Sherlock was in awe of, had respect for, and was slightly intimidated by, with good reason too. When he tries speaking to her, she immediately dismisses him: “I warn you in advance that anything you can say could not possibly have the slightest effect upon my mind.”
Also, this is not me trying to imply that Irene Adler is not who Sherlock was in love with, but Violet de Merville was, because it’s clear Sherlock doesn’t feel that way about her. Violet fulfills the Irene Adler character more, but not to that extent.
Sherlock says he feels sorry for her because he knows Gruner brainwashed her and ‘I thought of her for a moment as I would have thought of a daughter of my own’. (He loves adopting people in his spare time) He also says how much he tried to convince her because he didn’t want her to be ‘caressed by bloody hands and lecherous lips’ which really proves Sherlock’s feelings about women in troubled marriages. He does not try to make her the villain at all, going on to say ‘All my hot words could not bring one tinge of colour to those ivory cheeks or one gleam of emotion to those abstracted eyes’, then saying she was practically in a dream, placing all the blame on Gruner.
To which she basically replies by telling him to fuck off.
He tried his best.
But it has a good ending, because Violet doesn’t marry Gruner, but Gruner does end up with one of his exes throwing acid in his face instead.
So yeah, Violet de Merville was a force to be reckoned with who made very stupid choices but still deserves more attention.
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"I'm not used to having people this much taller then me." 5'8. 5'10 in her combat boots.
6'6. Deal.
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For those that are shiny hunters, you likely will want to get hold of the False Swipe TM.
It's actually really easy to get but you can easily miss it...
Just go back to the Academy and to the Biology lab and speak to Jacq....
If you have caught 30 pokemon, you will get access to the TM False swipe!
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