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Inktober No. 22 - Quiet

Sherlock asks the clients to please keep it down when Rosie is asleep. Much to John's amazement, he can quiet her down when no one else can.

From @bluebellofbakerstreet's promptlist for Inktober 2025.

Inspired by my father, who has the ability to somehow calm down any baby by just holding them and talking to them.

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Someone asked about my process, so here is a bit of it

Early sketch:

And those are the reference pictures I used, took me ages to find one of Mr Cumberbatch sitting in the right position.

I love you.

- Rosie grows up to have surprisingly curly hair. John has no clue how to deal with it. During a particularly frustrating hair day Sherlock just stepped in and fixed it with ease, John being in awe at his skills only for Sherlock to point out that he, in fact, ALSO has curly hair. Also because of that fact sometimes people assume she’s his instead of John’s

- Rosie makes up crime cases in her play pretend and Sherlock gets genuinely invested in her storylines. On occasion he gets annoyed by the inconsistencies of the criminal since obviously Ken was nowhere near the deceased Barbie at the time of her disappearance but he’ll let her have her fun

- Sherlock does not stoop so low as to sing lullabies…but he might play a few on his violin to soothe Rosie to sleep

- Sherlock refuses to talk to Rosie like a child and uses his regular advanced vocabulary, resulting in Rosie using impressively big words and expressions before she’s even started school

- Rosie kept insisting on calling both of them dad, despite their combined efforts to get her to stop. Eventually it just became a habit for both of them to turn around when she called for her dad. The first time resulted in an awkward silence

- Rosie makes “deductions” about her classmates in primary school (ie pointing out their flaws to their faces) and John gets called in for a meeting with her teachers. John’s embarrassed but Sherlock’s not.

- generally John picks Rosie up from daycare & school, but on rare occasions Sherlock is given the mission to pick her up. This usually results in John receiving a concerned phone call from one of the unaware teachers if Sherlock is actually allowed to take the child with him

- as a teenager, Sherlock knows when Rosie’s breaking the rules. He waits in her bedroom with a cup of tea as she climbs back in through her window in the middle of the night. However, she’s usually got dirt on him too, storing body parts in the fridge next to the takeaway and whatnot, so they end up making a “I won’t tell John if you don’t” kinda deal

- At one point Sherlock is questioned on why he refers to Rosie as his daughter when he’s her godfather, he casually explains that God is a ludicrous invention of mankind in an attempt to explain the existence of life so if the word “God” in “goddaughter” doesn’t mean anything to him, why should he include it?