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Date: 2019-02-11 07:38 pm (UTC)
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Oh, thank you for all these lovely, detailed questions! :-D

Dr Hooper is indeed Molly in disguise. It was fun to see the same approach taken in The Abominable Bride a couple years later, but then the times pushed women towards that solution.

And Harry is the brother, deceased by the time the story opens, but still John's confidant.

Victor does still have the hair with a hint of grey, but his yearning after the shiny curls is due to his childlike adoration of his 'parent' and wanting to be like him.

Sherlock has been disturbing the peace of the local churchyard, but once the hospital is functioning at his castle/manor, he has much fresher spare parts for the final bits he needed, fresher even than the ones from Bart's, although Michael was certainly bringing him high quality bits and pieces.

I never had a proper conversation about why Victor had to start over, but clearly his rebirth wasn't the simple re-awakening of consciousness that Sherlock had expected. John refers to soldiers who had to relearn basic skills because of the damage caused by their wounds and trauma. Victor's parts were all coming back from the dead and had to integrate themselves into something new, so I posited that they would need a similar period of rehabilitation and the leg and the hand as well as the brain would all contribute to this new entity. There I was playing a bit with the Sherlock assertion that the brain was all that mattered and everything else was just transport. Victor isn't the professor of philosophy who was killed by the horse anymore. He's a new personality, albeit he has the intellectual capacity of the professor, but not the memories. Of course, I was also using the condition of the Creature from Frankenstein who needed to learn everything afresh.

About the coffee...I decided to replace the wild pursuit across the Arctic ice with a happier, but not completely satisfied, Victor leaving home to see the world and travelling in less inhospitable climes. The Romantic Orientalism of Mary Shelley's era influenced my decision to have his wanderings include the Middle East as well as the world-wide wandering that Sherlock (and the original Holmes) were supposed to have done when they were supposedly dead. So, the spiced coffee that Victor brought back for Sherlock is just a hint as to where he's been. Also, the tiled room in which they were smoking and drinking coffee was modelled on what's left of one in The Wallace Collection. (This article has a picture of another one; I couldn't find one of the room at The Wallace Collection, which I really like.) I was trying to conjure a much less hostile disagreement between Victor and Sherlock over whether Sherlock would create a 'mate' for Victor, than the Creature and Frankenstein had. (Yes, I was engaged in all sorts of wish-fulfillment when I wrote this, but I reasoned that Victor was capable of disagreeing less wildly because he was so much less alone and less traumatised than the Creature had been.)

You're right, Holmes doesn't necessarily have to create an Irene Adler for Victor, although one modelled on the original Irene Adler would be a noble person. There will always be the issue of such an arranged 'marriage', not unheard of for the time, but still. The most Sherlock could do would be to bring alive a mate that shared that unique heritage with Victor, but whether she would conform to his hopes for a sweetheart is a whole other story! Either way, it would work to refer to her as 'The Woman' and I just couldn't resist it. ;-)

Well, I have rambling on!! Thank you again for your thoughtful comments.
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