History DarthWiki / AStudyInCharlotte

* WeddingDay: There is a throwaway line in "The Adventure of the Empty House" where Holmes mentions that a garotter (strangler) knocked out one of his teeth in a confrontation at Charing Cross. As a nod to the readers who might have noticed that kind of thing, Holmes is late to his own wedding because he was having that very confrontation.

* LiteraryAgentHypothesis: Played with, since the canon on which the pastiche was based is the TropeNamer. Charlotte writes the original Holmes story as a Christmas gift to her husband and wants to have it professionally printed. She engages the services of a young medical student and typist, who makes several useful suggestions and even offers to submit it for publication on her behalf. Out of respect for his anonymity, she only ever refers to him as "my Agent," but the obvious implication is that it's Arthur Conan Doyle.

* GreenEyes: Charlotte's only physical feature worthy of note.

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Because the Holmes stories are (almost all) told from the point of view of Dr. Watson, the narrative contains the word "I" a lot. But because Lady Norbert is [[CaptainObvious female]], in her mind that turned the narrative character into a woman. Thus was born ''A Study in Charlotte'', the working title of a pastiche in which it turned out that Dr. Watson was really a woman.

* [[BusmansHoliday Busman's Holiday]]: A bit of a RunningGag; Charlotte (as Watson did in the canon) gets very exasperated by the fact that she and Holmes can't even visit her godfather without running across some local case that requires his expertise to solve.

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Those few-and-far-between moments where Holmes is shown to be genuinely fond of his wife and daughter. Two in particular include [[spoiler:the rewrite of "The Adventure of the Dying Detective," where he has to reassure a very distressed Charlotte that no, he's not ''really'' dying, and the rewrite of "The Adventure of the Priory School," where he offhandedly comments to the Duke (who has admitted a partiality for his son because of the resemblance he bears to his mother) that "I too am a father, and I never can look upon my daughter without seeing her mother's face. I understand Your Grace's feelings in the matter."]]

The characters did get to see the light of day -- they appear in the final installment of Lady Norbert's {{LXG}} fanfic ''FanFic/ThePrivateDiaryOfElizabethQuatermain'', thus establishing that the two stories existed in the same FanVerse -- but the Holmes story has yet to be resolved and possibly never will.

* MeaningfulName: Their baby girl is named Lucy because it means "light-bringer," and Charlotte reasons that the daughter of Sherlock Holmes could never be anything but a luminary. This is referenced during their appearance in the LXG fanfic, when he comments that he thinks nothing would do him as much good as "the light in Baker Street," meaning to see his child.

* FridgeBrilliance: Changing Watson's gender causes certain DarthWiki/WallBanger-y moments in the canon to take on this appearance. For instance, Watson's tendency to exalt Holmes's skills to almost ridiculous lengths (noted on the Literature/SherlockHolmes page under SugarWiki/MostTriumphantExample) becomes forgiveable, even kind of sweet, if taken with the idea that the writer is Holmes's admiring spouse.

@/LadyNorbert is a troper, a FanFic author, and an unrepentant fangirl. One of her fandoms is SherlockHolmes. She first experienced many of the stories not by reading them with her eyes, but by listening to audiobooks read by David Timson.

The story only got as far as the resolution of the Jarvis plot, and the very awkward decision that Charlotte would marry Holmes in order to not be a target for other men of his ilk, when a CreatorBreakdown disrupted the writing process. Lady Norbert was unable to continue the story in the wake of her grandfather's death, for reasons even she is at a loss to fully explain but have much to do with the fact that he was also a SherlockHolmes fan. A side volume was completed, however, inserting Charlotte into the events of ''The Hound of the Baskervilles''; additional chapters were also completed which were rewrites of canonical Holmes stories, intended to be used in the later portion of the novel that was never reached. There were also plans for a sequel, since the original [=ASiC=] was intended to end [[spoiler:with Holmes's death; the sequel would, like the canon, have jumped three years to where he came back from being less dead than advertised]].

* FridgeBrilliance: Changing Watson's gender causes certain DarthWiki/WallBanger-y moments in the canon to take on this appearance. For instance, Watson's tendency to exalt Holmes's skills to almost ridiculous lengths (noted on the SherlockHolmes page under SugarWiki/MostTriumphantExample) becomes forgiveable, even kind of sweet, if taken with the idea that the writer is Holmes's admiring spouse.

* WriteWhoYouKnow: An interesting variation. Lady Norbert is a member of a SherlockHolmes fan club in real life, some of the members of which do periodic professional re-enactments. The Sherlock, Mycroft, and Mrs. Hudson of [=ASiC=] were heavily based on the ones she knows (or in the case of Mycroft, knew -- the gentleman has passed away and the novel was intended to be dedicated to his memory).

YourMileageMayVary as to whether or not this whole idea was a good one.

* {{Kuudere}}: Holmes, to his wife's occasional exasperation. But the moments where he lets down his guard and actually behaves like a husband are, in her opinion, worth it.

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Those few-and-far-between moments where Holmes is shown to be genuinely fond of his wife and daughter. Two in particular include the rewrite of "The Adventure of the Dying Detective," where he has to reassure a very distressed Charlotte that no, he's not ''really'' dying, and the rewrite of "The Adventure of the Priory School," where he offhandedly comments to the Duke (who has admitted a partiality for his son because of the resemblance he bears to his mother) that "I too am a father, and I never can look upon my daughter without seeing her mother's face. I understand Your Grace's feelings in the matter."

* FridgeBrilliance: Changing Watson's gender causes certain WallBanger-y moments in the canon to take on this appearance. For instance, Watson's tendency to exalt Holmes's skills to almost ridiculous lengths (noted on the SherlockHolmes page under MostTriumphantExample) becomes forgiveable, even kind of sweet, if taken with the idea that the writer is Holmes's admiring spouse.

The story only got as far as the resolution of the Jarvis plot, and the very awkward decision that Charlotte would marry Holmes in order to not be a target for other men of his ilk, when a CreatorBreakdown disrupted the writing process. Lady Norbert was unable to continue the story in the wake of her grandfather's death, for reasons even she is at a loss to explain. A side volume was completed, however, inserting Charlotte into the events of ''The Hound of the Baskervilles''; additional chapters were also completed which were rewrites of canonical Holmes stories, intended to be used in the later portion of the novel that was never reached. There were also plans for a sequel, since the original [=ASiC=] was intended to end [[spoiler:with Holmes's death; the sequel would, like the canon, have jumped three years to where he came back from being less dead than advertised]].

The characters did get to see the light of day -- they appear in the final installment of her {{LXG}} fanfic ''FanFic/ThePrivateDiaryOfElizabethQuatermain'', thus establishing that the two stories existed in the same FanVerse -- but the Holmes story has yet to be resolved and possibly never will.

* DotingParent: Holmes, of all things, becomes this to his daughter Lucy. Of course, being Holmes, he isn't the stereotypical DotingParent...

The story only got as far as the resolution of the Jarvis plot, and the very awkward decision that Charlotte would marry Holmes in order to not be a target for other men of his ilk, when a CreatorBreakdown disrupted the writing process. Lady Norbert was unable to continue the story in the wake of her grandfather's death, for reasons even she is at a loss to explain. The characters did get to see the light of day -- they appeared in the final installment of her {{LXG}} fanfic ''FanFic/ThePrivateDiaryOfElizabethQuatermain'', thus establishing that the two stories existed in the same FanVerse -- but the Holmes story has yet to be resolved and possibly never will. (Page is under construction.)

* WeddingDay: There is a throwaway line in one of the later Holmes stories where he mentions that a garotter (strangler) knocked out one of his teeth in a confrontation at Charing Cross. As a nod to the readers who might have noticed that kind of thing, Holmes was late to his own wedding because he was having that very confrontation.