What I write in shadows

Do you see that lil thing on his finger? That's a (signet) ring on his left pinky finger now, which I think might be a nod to The Holmes family French ancestry, because as I mentioned French preferred to wear it on their left fingers.

I find some things interesting about Mycroft and his ring in Young Sherlock, though:

1. It's not a constant. Mycroft has a ring in these scenes and a couple others (such as in the hospital in France), but there are a lot of scenes where he doesn't have a ring on either of bis fingers. In some scenes, actually, he has it in one shot and then doesn't in the next, probably because filming happened at different times and he forgot— I actually only have these images because I screenshotted them while watching, because in most of the stills online don't have them; if you search for him and look at the pictures with his hands, except for the one in the hall in episode 2 where it's easy to miss if you're not looking for it, most of the images where his hands are seen, he's bare— like the one in Istanbul. I actually thought I'd hallucinated the ring because of those pictures lol. I had to go back and watch it all to try see if I was imagining them. I'm not sure if it was a conscious decision or not but almost all scenes where his left hand (the one with the ring when he's wearing it) is plainly seen (like open, clear), he's bare— most easily seen in the scene outside prison in the first episode. He has it on when he's walking out with Sherlock, but the moment he sits, he outs his left hand out and it's bare. Clearly they're trying to drive me to insanity 😂 It also USUALLY appears when he's with family, and slightly less-ish in general public (again when his fingers are clearly shown)

The next thing is the size. Now I either truly am losing it, or it's lighting, or the size keeps changing. Sometimes it seems chunkier than others, sometimes the stamp bit (idk what tis called) is outward and sometimes it seems to be inside and all that. I can't keep up. Maybe when the adventure becomes crazy he got himself a chameleon instead atp, because idk what else is possible with his sometimes there sometimes not ring. I'm ignoring the times I thing the ring was gold entirely as lighting, and but I. I'm really really confused. Someone tell me what's up Please because I'm tired of trying to figure that out

3. Location. Now this is my favourite part of rings— because it's just so much more fun then trying to figure the other things out. As I said, hmFrench prefer to wear it on their left fingers. What I've also mentioned is that heirs in France go with the ring finger— and where is Mycroft's ring? Lil cutie pinkie! This speaks volumes, and probably would have guven some confusing signals to the people of their time loll. See, younger sons and daughters in France (so not heirs) wear their signet rings on either the left or right pinkie finger. Where Mycroft's ring is. Which means upon meeting Mycroft most people are probably not expecting him to be the older brother. Also, the potential reason behind this is a theory loop I really enjoy.

Before I get into that, I need the memory of one thing clear in your mind luv. Silas was out of the country for most of the times in the twelve years between Beatrice's supposed death and the show taking place, which means from when Mycroft was 14 to 26. During that time, it was Mycroft taking care of everything.

Now, remember how Mycroft has almost certainly suffered abuse at the hands of Silas as a child? I think that either:

Mycroft decided for himself that he doesn't want to be seen as Silas' heir, or this could possibly be another way of being "basic normal nothing special";

Or Silas asked him to do that, as another way of throwing him down or something.

Both sound weird and implausible, but give me a mo. Traditionally, signet rings are given at 21 (probably why Sherlock doesn't have one, other than the "younger gremlin brother who's free and untied down" and all that), or at times at 18— but this was mostly a ceremonious thing. Getting a signet ring just meant your ready to go about representing your family and taking care of honour and all that— so I think it is entirely possible Mycroft got his earlier (at 14, when Silas went abroad and he got a job) because he was doing all that at 14, you know.

So if he got his earlier, it could mean that either of my theories on why it's on the pinkiemcould be right (back then, anyway). Mycroft could have chosen his pinkie because he was 14 at the time, or Silas could have asked for him to wear it on his pinkie because he was so young at the time. And then something just kept him wearing it there (perhaps habit? Perhaps he just really didn't eant to be seen as Silas' heir, perhaps Silas kept making him wear it there, after all we know he preferred Sherlock).