No idea what the ettiquette is for things like this but I adore your brain esp with Sherlock and Mycroft. pLEASE share any of your thoughts/hopes/expectations for s&c Mycroft (and his + Sherlock’s dynamic) 🙏

I swearrrr all of yous in the Sh&Co fandom are so sweet!! 🥹

As for my thoughts/hopes/expectations, It usually comes up randomly in my head but I would say...

Thoughts:

Mycroft hasn't been mentioned (except by the writer's that there isn't a voice actor for him yet) and this fits in with the surprise John and the audience will get when he is introduced. I'm excited for that but tbh I don't have any other thoughts, when he does appear DW I'll tag you in my post of thoughts :))

My hopes/expectations is that:

Mycroft is not slim. LISTENNNN LISTENNNN OKAYY, often hes portrayed as slim due to medical/mental issues which I still love btw (the approach to his character with these are some of the most powerful fics I have ever read) I just want a Mycroft that is a big boy and I hope he is.

Mycroft doesn't worry about Sherlock that often due to seeing him online with John now, he also follows the podcast, twitter account and is definitely on their patreon. That's why we haven't heard of him so far because there's no need for him to contact Sherlock. He's going to make a comment about the podcast and the detective career when he's introduced though.

Lestrade and Mycroft actually keep in touch quite often- not just due to Sherlock but cause of Lestrade being the DI and Mycroft being the government would mean they would cross paths more often than not. Especially true in hostage negotiations and/or terrorists attacks!! Lestrade would have to be present as it's all hands on deck and Mycroft may just be needed for 'cleanup' afterwards. They both could be introduced at the same time or within episode of each other. If not, they will know each other soon!!

Mycroft and Sherlock will do their iconic back and forth deduction but with both Mariana and John present. 👀

Mycroft doesn't drink alcohol nor consumes anything that wasn't made then tested - can't risk being intoxicated or poisoned when he could be called up at any moment, there's no time for resting. He does throw caution to the wind when he eats at Sherlock's though, hoping for a scene where they are having dinner together.

John will have direct contact with Mycroft just like Lestrade after they meet, this allows Mycroft to be a reoccurring character (FINGERS CROSSED MY GUYS!).

Mycroft is going to have a one on one conversation with John off the record about the case of The Greek Interpreter and John will definitely record it and then later plans to delete/censor it but Sherlock says not to and just publish it raw because why not. It be funny lol.

Further head-canons (some are also hoped or expected) because now I'm lost in the sauce and can't stop:

Mycroft has never worried about himself too much outside of work reasons, he was too busy taking care of Sherlock + the estate and handling incompetent politicians and global political leaders to ever care.

Sherlock was and is a danger to everything alive or objects - including himself!! This especially when he was a child doing any sort of experiment because often touch and tasting is the first thing done, so Mycroft aged like 20 years when Sherlock was a child in his 'i must grab and put this foreign thing in my mouth' phase. One time he wanted to touch and taste the insides of his bee plushie - it was just cotton tho (and a heart attack for Mycroft).

He is the reason Sherlock has expensive tastes and was unable to lean him off it due to having the exact palette as well. He's the reason Sherlock is spoiled about his groceries but don't say that to Mycroft because he did his best...not really but he likes his branded sweets okay.

Mycroft (as he is a big boy) needed suits that were custom made for him and up to his impeccable standards so he got them commissioned and had the designer he found to also create sensory friendly clothing for Sherlock. 🥹

Mycroft likes John Watson and Mariana a lot, they both love his brother and that's the only thing he could ask for.

Mycroft is a tank!! He is more than capable of neutralising someone if needed - whether hand to hand or by weapon/s - but just like how he isn't a detective, he isn't his own bodyguard nor hitman because he's lazy and that's why you have employees.

Mycroft thought that Sherlock and John are more than friends but gets even more confused when Mariana is there? Then decides it's none of his business really, he needs to focus on easing tensions between the King and the Prime Minister.

Mycroft and Sherlock not only had deduce-offs but also regularly fought one on one hand to hand combat for fun. Mycroft was scared asf tho when Sherlock started to have intense interests in swords, no thank you.

Mycroft unlike his behaviour at work being that of an ice man whose looks could kill, is awkward and shy when it comes to Sherlock. There's not much to talk about when you're siblings whose work requires the utmost confidentiality, can easily deduce what the other did and with one's work famously being published and the other's influence clear in every political news!!

Now that's all I have, I'm sure my brain will come up with some more stuff later on and i'll be sure to tag you in them from now on!!

Fantastic Four Vol 1 #308

Thu Feb 10 2022 [12:16 AM] Wack'd: 😬

[12:17 AM] Umbramatic: oh [12:17 AM] maxwellelvis: Whaaaaaaa [12:17 AM] Bocaj: Englehart is on a roll. Of sorts. [12:18 AM] maxwellelvis: Do you think there's going to be a plot reason for why Fasaud looks like he should be in a completely different magazine? [12:18 AM] Wack'd: So we start with Johnny flying around and then spotting a dude and a suit and a lady in a french maid outfit on the street. The former is trying to snap the latter out of a panic [12:19 AM] Umbramatic: what kinky roleplay is this [12:19 AM] Wack'd: The maid recounts a story of having been accosted by the dude on the cover while in the course of her duties [12:20 AM] Wack'd: He's, uh, vaguely TV-themed, talking about how the maid "cannot adjust [her] brightness but [she] can go to black!" [12:20 AM] maxwellelvis: Ahhh [12:20 AM] Wack'd: Demanding the whereabouts of a guy named Gregory Dunbar and then electrocuting her [12:20 AM] maxwellelvis: Okay, so why's he gotta be Middle Eastern, then? [12:21 AM] Wack'd: Dunbar is the name of maid and bald dude's boss and is also a reporter for CBS [12:21 AM] maxwellelvis: I was about to ask if anyone else got weird corporate aesthetic vibes off of Fasaud, but you answered the why for that question. [12:21 AM] maxwellelvis: But does anyone else get that vibe? [12:22 AM] Umbramatic: i can see it [12:22 AM] Wack'd: This would've been a real convenient power for Johnny to have when he watched that kid die of self-inflicted burn wounds in the hospital

[12:22 AM] Bocaj: Its been mentioned in some before times I think [12:22 AM] Bocaj: It gets mentioned in Secret Wars II although granted after the kid died [12:23 AM] Wack'd: Wild [12:23 AM] Bocaj: ... Maybe he learned how to do it because of that. [12:23 AM] Umbramatic: ...aw [12:23 AM] Wack'd: Welp now I'm sad [12:23 AM] Umbramatic: same [12:24 AM] Wack'd: Back at Four Freedoms--god I hate that the new building's name is twice as long as Baxter-- [12:25 AM] Bocaj: And you can't even abbreviate it because it has the same initials as the team [12:25 AM] Wack'd: Yeah! [12:24 AM] Wack'd: --Ben is locking up all of Reed's inventions since no one on the team knows how to use them anymore [12:26 AM] Wack'd: Johnny returns and takes Sharon by surprise. He thinks it's the flames but Ben knows it's because Johnny's a man [12:26 AM] Wack'd: And then a narrative caption tells us that within 15 minutes Johnny will be betrayed by a teammate [12:27 AM] Bocaj: I can't believe Sharon bent him in half like cellphone and dropped him behind the couch [12:28 AM] Wack'd: Over at CBS, Gregory Dunbar is angry because his funding for reporting on Cairo is being cut [12:30 AM] Wack'd: Some kind of point is happening here I guess

[12:31 AM] Wack'd: oh my god. okay [12:31 AM] maxwellelvis: Doesn't even seem to be touching him there. [12:32 AM] Wack'd: so johnny tries to attack fasaud but fasaud causes him to heat out of control and he needs to fly away before he goes nova [12:32 AM] Wack'd: which he does, and then passes out and begins to plummet [12:32 AM] maxwellelvis: With you so far. [12:32 AM] Wack'd: aaaaaand

[12:33 AM] Bocaj: Johnny died as he lived [12:34 AM] Wack'd: Crystal saves him by. Uh. Exploding a hot dog cart. And the heat catches Johnny in an updraft and wakes him up [12:34 AM] Bocaj: ... sure! [12:34 AM] Wack'd: And it's too much and Crystal passes out [12:34 AM] Bocaj: Lady characters always be doing one thing and passing out [12:34 AM] Bocaj: They call it fainting goat syndrome and Jean Grey discovered it [12:35 AM] Wack'd: Even fucking Bryne didn't use this trope, at least that I can recall [12:35 AM] Wack'd: Not to. Say he was somehow more feminist [12:35 AM] Wack'd: But at least his misogyny was more interesting [12:35 AM] Wack'd: This is a fucking Lee/Kirby trope [12:35 AM] maxwellelvis: This is up there with "Original Valkyrie was geased into being unable to fight women" in terms of "men shouldn't be writing feminist characters" [12:36 AM] Bocaj: I think that was in a Defenders thing [12:37 AM] Wack'd: Anyway seeing Johnny almost die has snapped Ben out of his animus. And Crystal saving Johnny has repaired their relationship, at least according to Ben's thought bubbles. So now Sharon is the weak link [12:38 AM] Bocaj: You'd think that maybe Johnny should be the one to decide that [12:38 AM] Wack'd: Ben is basing it on their post-fight interactions but I added that cribbing just in case Englehart walks it back [12:38 AM] Bocaj: Ahh [12:39 AM] Wack'd: I am skeptical that this one fight resolved all their stuff because after like twenty issues it seems a little pat? [12:39 AM] Wack'd: And I would not be surprised if those wounds reopen [12:39 AM] Wack'd: But similarly if they don't here is the thing I point to and say "everything's resolved, I guess" [12:39 AM] Bocaj: It does seem like the thing a comic book would do [12:40 AM] Bocaj: Big Dramatic Gestures are how relationships do [12:40 AM] Wack'd: True [12:41 AM] Wack'd: And now: Fasaud backstory [12:41 AM] maxwellelvis: Okay, so [12:41 AM] Wack'd: Prepare for some big late-80s anti-Arab paranoia [12:42 AM] Wack'd: So Sheik Farouk al-Fasaud was extremely rich and extremely anonymous [12:43 AM] Wack'd: Hailing from Aquiria, he used his wealth to manipulate western countries into accepting the decisions of better-known members of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries [12:44 AM] Wack'd: This one reporter looked into him which caused him to become a major news story in the west, and he sought revenge [12:45 AM] Wack'd: But in attempting to murder him personally, he stabbed the reporter's TV camera, and the knife "completed a circuit through the camera and the uplink," turning him into some sort of TV-image-based phantasm [12:46 AM] Bocaj: That sounds like something electricity would do [12:46 AM] maxwellelvis: Steve Englehart is apparently really offended by the idea that countries who produce most of the world's oil ought to have a say in how it is distributed [12:47 AM] Bocaj: Its a shame about all the racism, a tv image based phantasm is an interesting idea [12:47 AM] Wack'd: Turns out the Cairo office closing is just handwaving why this reporter guy is back in America [12:47 AM] Wack'd: I would think "someone tried to murder him" would be reason enough but y'know [12:48 AM] Wack'd: I guess they didn't want to paint this brave reporter as a coward, seeing as his reporting got him a personal vendetta from a wealthy oil baron [12:49 AM] Wack'd: NOT ALL MEN

[12:51 AM] Bocaj: This is far above the FF the comic book's paygrade [12:52 AM] Wack'd: So Ben decides he and Sharon are going to Aquiria to hunt down Fasaud while Johnny and Crystal guard reporter dude [12:53 AM] Wack'd: And as the issue ends Ben muses to himself being the leader is hard, and that he needs to prove to the rest of the team that Sharon was a good pick and that he's a good leader or he'll have presided over "the destruction of the Fantastic Four" [12:53 AM] Bocaj: I think when you chose a member out of spite, you're maybe not a good leader [12:53 AM] Bocaj: It's maybe sorta working itself out through Grand Dramatic Rescues [12:53 AM] Bocaj: But. You chose someone specifically for friction [12:54 AM] Wack'd: I've been kinda glossed over it because there's already a lot going on but a lot of folks have been remarking on how Ben is taking decisive action and stepping up to the plate [12:54 AM] Wack'd: So he is maybe fussing over nothing wrt to his rep as leader, especially as he's the only one who seems to think Sharon is, in his words, "nuts"