#i know a lot of people toy with the idea of sherlock being a manifestation of john’s loneliness when he comes back from afghanistan #but what if it was the other way around? #sherlock can’t tolerate people#they can’t tolerate him #he can’t find someone who’s intelligent enough and strong enough and resilient enough to put up with him #but the skull can only go so far and so his mind creates this person #john #who is everything every single thing he was looking for and he’s also damaged just enough #and he stands up for and to sherlock #humanizes him #so sherlock brings john everywhere and attributes things to john and john this and john that #but to everyone else john is thin air or sherlock talking to himself
