A Darling Thing

Well, this took longer than I thought.

Backstory: after Hearse aired on the BBC, @CameronYardeJnr sugggested a Molly spin-off called Molly Hooper Investigates. In my mind, this is what the opening would be like as an animated series. The music would be jaunty and sweet, the colours all pastels, and Louise Brealey’s voice would take you through a monologue about breakfast with Toby and suddenly…chopped ears. Basically death and cotton candy. In addition to the Sherlock cast, there’ll be some new characters too, like Helen-Louise’s talking brain-in-a-jar. She’s a good listener.

S: “Mycroft… you do realize that I am 12 years old? You don’t have to dress up as Santa anymore.”

Let’s Draw Sherlock - December Challenge: Gift giving!

I’m quite early this time :)

I was drawing this nerdy character and then I thought she kinda looked like Molly! I adapted a bit and there you go <3

it’s weird to think there probably won’t be another season of Sherlock. forgive me for excluding Mary and Lestrade, but honestly, I’m surprised I managed to finish as many as I did ;P posting the silhouettes too, because i like them <3

 ughh i’m gonna miss these peeps =(

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how can you call yourself a feminist and not acknowledge that molly’s scene in tfp on a surface level was the most viciously manipulative and upsetting and all in service of a male character’s emotional development??? if you discount mirroring and the ‘john is hallucinating’ theory you’re left with the most unnecessarily cruel storyline any of the characters got in s4, not counting how the other female characters are either dead or insane by the end of it wtf

a cutie 💜

*Molly feels*

So here she is, all finished up and polished off!

She’s got all her forensic pathologist instruments and of course, her Quavers, coffee and latex gloves.

She is available as prints and things over at my redbubble!

What has this taught me? Holy crap I need to go study more anatomy. Had a crisis half way through and nearly started all over again.

I have no idea who i’m going to do next.

sherlock is listening to molly so openly and so hopefully at the end of tst like and then his lip does the thing when she says “anyone but you” and i know there have been thousands of posts that essentially say the same thing, but i just can’t take it, save my son

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Molly’s dresses

“Is Sherlock Holmes your full name?”

Sherlock narrows his eyes. Hopkins’ fingers hover over the laptop keys. 

“Why?”

Hopkins smirks and damn, he’s given away that’s not his full name already. School boy error. 

“It’s for the files. You did uncover the murder weapon. Credit where credit’s due, and all that.”

Sherlock blinks. “Oh. That- that doesn’t usually… happen.”

Hopkins laughs. “Hey, don’t be daft, you think I’m just going to put my name to it? We did it together.”

“It’s not.”

“Not what?”

“Not my full name,” Sherlock clarifies. He leans over and rapidly types the whole thing out. It feels so strange, seeing it all there in black and white, and he feels emotion closing up his throat a little. How mortifying.

Thankfully, Hopkins hasn’t noticed. She is looking down at her phone and grinning unabashedly. Sherlock glances at the screen:

(1) new message: [Molly, H.] 9 sounds great to me! See you then :) :) xoxo

Oh, Sherlock thinks. Oh. 

He smiles, wide and genuine. “She’s partial to tequila,” he says with a wink, and makes for the door.

“Oi, Holmes! Don’t think you’re getting let off that easy- I still need to get you and your Mr out for drinks.”

Sherlock snorts, remembering some very ill-timed vodka shots. “Please. We’d drink you under the table.”

Hopkins shuts her folder with a decisive snap and cuts in front of Sherlock effortlessly. “Next week is Sally’s birthday, we’re all going!” she calls out as her parting shot.

And, yes. Scotland Yard is shaping up to be even more fun indeed.

WE’LL DRINK YOU UNDER THE TABLE’ #HOPKINS REVEALS LESTRADE TOLD HER ALL ABOUT STAG NIGHT #HE STILLS TRIES ANYWAY AND OF COURSE HORRIBLY LOSES TO HER AND MOLLY (tags from @thebisonwitheadphones)

omg yes!! <33

See how the vicar (priest?) is addressing Molly (or possibly Molly and Sherlock) directly here, and it sort of looks like she is replying.  That would mean, I assume, that Molly is the baby’s godmother (and Sherlock probably the godfather), because only the parents and the godparents have lines they actually have to speak in both the Anglican and Catholic christening services.

I can’t imagine why else he would be looking right at her as he speaks, why John would also be looking in her directly, and why it looks like Molly is getting ready to reply.

Agree, which might help explain why Molly was seen caring for the baby during Setlock. But also where are Mary’s other friends? Oh that’s right she doesn’t have any because everything about her is fake.

@sassy1121, well she did kind of burn bridges with Janine!  Though we know that the other two women who were her bride’s maids in TSoT did attend the christening.  We saw pictures of them in costume during setlock.  So why did she not pick one of them?  Why Molly?  

Did she and Molly become friends after TSoT?  I’m actually really curious about this.  Especially given some of the comments that Loo made about Molly and Mary being friends this season.  

I mean if Molly doesn’t know about Mary trying to kill Sherlock, I could see that.  Molly does say that psychopaths are maybe her type in TEH.  Mary would fit that bill.  Anyway, I’m rambling.  It’s just interesting.

Oh man I have thoughts about this. First of all, it’s understandable that maid-of-honor Janine isn’t the godmother given what happened in HLV, but Molly wasn’t a bridesmaid either, and there were two others. So how did Molly get this ‘promotion’ of sorts?

I know there’s a popular headcanon that Mary and Molly are besties – and I’d LOVE to see those two actresses in their own show together – but there’s nothing in this show to support a friendship between their characters. 

In HLV, after the shooting, we see Molly (IRL, not MP), only twice – the boltholes convo, and the very end when she sees Miss Me on the TV. She never interacts with Mary and John.

So yeah, maybe she doesn’t know Mary shot Sherlock. Except…Mrs. Hudson does. She was there for the domestic. And Hudders and Molly and Greg always call each other with concerns about Sherlock and John. For the love, if Molly and Hudders had a phone call worrying about Sherlock reading telegrams, surely they talked about the fact that his best friends wife fucking shot him. 

(Greg, on the other hand, Hudders may not have informed, because that would be turning Mary over to the police, which she’d prob feel was none of her business.)

But I mean…I can’t imagine Hudders didn’t tell Molly. Hudders has a dark past with an abusive ex. Think about what she saw in that domestic scene. What she heard.

She had to tell someone. She’s worried. And frankly, it makes sense that she’d turn to the woman who helped Sherlock the last time he was in this much danger.

And so we’re supposed to believe Molly learned Mary shot Sherlock, nearly killed him, then tried to shoot him again…and she’s OVER it?? Happily accepting the role as godmother of this child? Molly didn’t get a twisted surgery explanation and a fake forgiveness. There’s no fucking way Molly just…doesn’t care.

My prediction is the episode will start off appearing as though Molly never found out about the shooting. But she knows, and what she does with that knowledge, along with whatever weird shit Jim (dead or alive) has in store for her, is going to be a big part of her plot this series.

@deducingbbcsherlock, this is an exciting theory.  Also, that huffpost article today said that the big reveal at the end of the TST is about John.  So we know Molly is a John mirror, right.  And let’s say John and Molly both know about Mary shooting Sherlock.  So they are both going to want to do something about that, right?  

So what if the big reveal about John is that he has been working with Mycroft, or someone in MI-5/MI-6 ever since Mary shot Sherlock, and lets say also, that because Molly was in on The Fall, that she is someone who is trusted implicitly, she is brought in on this plan as well.  

I’m thinking that maybe Molly is being made godmother for a reason.  She’s a purposeful plant, maybe.  I don’t know how that comes about, if John pushes for it, or if she starts to get buddy-buddy with Mary before the baby is born, or whatever.  But it’s an interesting thought.