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It's been a while since I've been this invested in yuumori but the lastest chapter brought me back

So I wanted to ask: since everyone now knows that william is alive how do you think that will that effect our characters william / sherlock etc?

Also do you have any predictions for the next few chapters?

Oh, God, that depends so much on what was actually in the newspaper article. All we got was the headline. And it was claiming to be from the Lord of Crime. Do people know William is alive? I mean, maybe, but someone is pretending to be him.

Obviously, we got William and Sherlock reading the paper, the two key figures in the newspaper who are being discussed. Accusations against Sherlock? Are they pressing charges? It sounds like potentially charges are being pressed against Sherlock (for what he didn't do anything wrong this time. For once). But no, Patterson would know that? Maybe not, he was busy.

Gah, cliffhangers!!!

Of course, the entire chapter leading up to the bass drop here was about what would happen if people knew William was alive. But it wasn't really focused on what would happen to Sherlock, or what would happen to the Morifam. It was how it would affect the public.

What I think is going to be the longest running thread is that. The Moridam is going to see how dangerous worshiping William is, I think. I've spoken about this. But that's been a thread for most of part two already, it's been rearing its head as an issue in small ways, and there's no way they're going to be able to paper under it anymore.

The problem broke open in a way that's going to have to be fixed, this time.

Of course, that's not really a plot for the immediate future. Obviously the plot for the immediate future is going to be...figuring out the exact contents of this letter and Sherlock dealing with the shitstorm that just got dropped on his doorstep.

But what about Mick and his dad? That's not done being addressed yet. They have things to be doing. But the Morifam already moved about it, what can they even do additionally?

I think we're also going to find out more about this shadowy figure. They weren't totally in the shadows the way Milverton was when he was introduced, but there's definitely Milverton vibes going on here. I have...exactly one theory about who this guy is, and I'm not 100% on it (am I ever). He kinda looks like that dead brother of the prince who got put in charge of MI6. The heir. And that was always a real parallel to the Holmeses and Moriartys, but it seems like perhaps it's about to ramp way the hell up.

So yeah, I think we gotta figure out exactly what the score is. It's hard to know exactly how the Moriarty-Holmes family is going to react when we don't know exactly what accusations are being levied.

But yeah, this was such a good chapter. We're so back.

I love that they stuck Stanley in "aloof."

Yeah, man, he doesn't want to talk to you.

He's not shy. He just doesn't want to talk.

Stanley's good with people! He can communicate well, he's clearly very charismatic, and he has earned the trust everyone's placed in him and uses it well.

He just doesn't wanna hang out and get drinks later.

They only picked five of each out of an absolutely enormous cast, so really this seems the most reclusive of the bunch and the most sociable of the bunch.

(The fact that Stan and Ryusui are on such polar opposite ends of the spectrum here and are also friends remains hilarious)

Stan's primary jobs:

Pilot (alone, although would theoretically sometimes have a copilot, just never in this series)

Sniper (this is actually a team job IRL where people take turns and we do see a "sniper team" in the form of people who have to feed Stanley water, but still. Mostly sneaky quiet time)

A Rock (finally some peace)

Astronaut (sorry this one requires days of unavoidable close-quarters contact with other people with no privacy whatsoever, and one of them is Ryusui)

I haven't read it, although I have heard, of course, good things about it. I remember when it beat out The Goblin Emperor for the Hugo that year (although the Hugos are...what they are) and have read a little bit about the translation of it.

I actually have no idea what the heck it's about, now that I think about it.

That said, most of my sci-fi reading is short stories. A lot of the sci-fi short story writers I like also don't...translate the best to novels, I find. Different skill sets, etc.

I have a few things on my shelf that are more along the lines of "have a sci-fi setting" which really doesn't feel like they would remotely hit the mark here. And a few sci-fi disguised as fantasy, which I quite enjoy, but also doesn't feel like they'd hit the mark. And a few more that I have not read yet.

So I think all I'd really have to offer are anthologies (I really liked the "Year's Best SF" ones when that series was being compiled; one of the editors died and I'm unsure what happened after that) or like. Suuuuper old and kind of obscure that I either grabbed off my dad's shelves growing up, grabbed off a used bookstore growing up, or read in Sci-fi Lit in college quite some time ago now.