Ask-JohnWatson

Name: John
Age: 29
Weight: Unknown
Height: 6'4"
Sexual orientation: Bi curious
Relationship: Single
Likes: Gambling, Drinking, and spending time alone.
Dislikes: Holmes' experiments, Holmes killing his dog, and mostly Homes...

Watson is described as a crack shot and an excellent doctor and surgeon. Intelligent, if lacking in Holmes's insight, he serves as a perfect foil for Holmes: the ordinary man against the brilliant, emotionally-detached analytical machine. Conan Doyle paired two characters, different in their function and yet each useful for his purposes.

Watson is well aware of both the limits of his abilities and Holmes's reliance on him. Conan Doyle portrays Watson as a capable and brave individual, whom Holmes does not hesitate to call upon for both moral and physical assistance.

Watson sometimes attempts to solve crimes on his own, using Holmes's methods. However, because he is not endowed with Holmes's almost-superhuman ability to focus on the essential details of the case and Holmes's extraordinary range of recondite, specialized knowledge, Watson meets with limited success in other cases. Holmes summed up the problem that Watson confronted in one memorable rebuke.

Watson is too guileless to be a proper detective. And yet, as Holmes acknowledges, Watson has unexpected depths about him.

Though initially their relationship was little more than one between casual acquaintances sharing a set of rooms, Holmes and Watson ultimately become the best of friends, almost like brothers.Holmes was so attached to his friend that he nearly lost his composure at the thought that Watson had been fatally shot. Holmes recovers his balance only when he is sure that Watson's wound is slight, but a trace of his alarm and worry for Watson is clear in his menacing reproof to the criminal who shot the doctor.

Though Watson never masters Holmes's deductive methods, he can be astute enough to follow his friend's reasoning after the fact. Holmes notes that John Hector McFarlane is "a bachelor, a solicitor, a Freemason, and an asthmatic".

Watson shows that he has picked up some of Holmes's skills at dealing with people from whom information is desired—though, as a skilled doctor with a first-rate bedside manner, Watson naturally would have such skills. When Watson sees that his questions to Dr. Mortimer are arousing too much curiosity, he manipulates the conversation so that Mortimer soon forgets what they were discussing.

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