Ohhhh, oh, you know what, when I was writing that 1k+ post earlier about YuuMori deuteragonists, I said, I know I said, that I couldn’t see how anyone else might play in that role was a lack of imagination on my part, and I was right, because I just realized: YuuMori with William as protagonist and Mycroft as deuteragonist emblemizing The System William lives in defiance of, The System that failed him, that failed so many people, that he lives to see changed and burnt down and the rot rooted out.
The system even Mycroft knows is broken as he upholds it.
And then the story can be about how to effect change and complicity and direct action.
It would be so fucking good, actually.
I actually thought about Mycroft in that role for a while before I wrote that, but all of my best ideas come to me in the middle of the night. It would probably be hellaciously weird to have a Sherlock Holmes adaptation about Moriarty with Mycroft being more prominent and important than Sherlock, but there ya go.
Not sure if I want to paste this into the original post because people already reblogged the first one. But.