Hi!!

Um, so abt Louis/Moniepenny: tbh the idea came to me outta the blue! I was thinking of drawing Louis and Moniepenny together since they’re the only characters who wear glasses LOL but then my thoughts spiralled from there 😅

I know Moniepenny doesn’t show up all that much, but I love her sm, she’s one of my underrated favs 💗 also since Louis now heads MI6, I imagine he and Moniepenny would interact a lot more, and maybe fall in love slowly 👉👈💗 maybe Louis occasionally feels inadequate about his own skills compared to his brothers, and slowly opens up to Moniepenny about it. And maybe she knows what that feels like too (especially since she’s a woman and ppl would’ve underestimated her a lot, which may have made her question herself on more than one occasion). They then begin hyping each other up!! They work together more often, and we could maybe even have the classic “one of them gets injured in a mission and the other goes feral” 👀 and BOOM at that moment they realise they’re in love

With regard to Sherlouis, it could be considered enemies to lovers, right? I keep thinking of that one scene from Princess Mononoke where she holds a knife to Ashitaka’s throat and he falls for her lol. Louis holding a knife to Sherly’s throat, and Sherly is all puppy eyes. It could be a case of Sherly falls first, Louis falls harder? *puts on rose-tinted glasses fabulously* 🌹🕶️

Sorry I rambled, I was kinda excited to talk abt this 😅🌻🪻

Oh I love that like a slowburn coworkers to in love for them.

I'm imagining her venting her frustrations about how the mission to get Moran back went, and Louis gently reminding her that she's herself and not Bonde, and that there's nothing wrong with having different styles of working as an agent.

I'm also imagining Moran being super jealous of Louis when he gets back and he realizes 😂 Not because I see Moran as specifically caring about being with Moniepenny I sort of read those canon interactions as just general machismo on his part, but because I think he'd be sort of affronted that it was Louis lmao.

I think they could have a really sweet relationship; there could also be some point where Louis starts wanting to protect her and she has to remind him of the frustration he feels when was being coddled and not allowed to participate in anything so that she's allowed to have normal assignments 😂

Sherlouis:

YES I definitely consider it enemies to lovers. I'm ... pretty sure I haven't seen Princess Mononoke, because that does not at all sound familiar but also YES. Sherlock is great because while sherliam works well, I think he could fall just as hard for any of the brothers if the one to pay attention to him wasn't William. He just likes the Lord of Crime. He thinks Liam is the Lord of Crime... and he is, but he's not everything the Lord of Crime is, they all very much share in that role, and I think Sherlock would appreciate the aspects any brother brings to the role.

The only thing with Louis is that Sherlock is seen and then disregarded so often that I feel like he's sort of insecure about it. Something I've seen said on my sherlouis writing is that Louis ends up liking Sherlock despite himself in a way that just is not true for Sherliam, and I can't imagine Sherlock not seeing it. My Sherlock keeps causing problems in Poison Paradise because of that -- Louis is far to tsundere to openly admit to liking Sherlock, and Sherlock can tell there is conflict in Louis' interest.

But there is a lot of physical tension between them, partially because Louis has such extreme reactions to everything Sherlock does. There's this kind of unhealthiness about it that makes for a really interesting dynamic and a good story.

And I'm so glad you also see the beauty of masochist!Sherlock Holmes xD

Speaking of things the anime left out. WHY NO MONEYPENNY???? I know there are a lot of characters as is for the amount of episodes they had but I would have taken SCRAPS. 😭

Someone else might be able to clarify this better than me, and I might be entirely wrong, but I believe I heard it has something to do with copyrights on the James Bond stories: that in Japan it's public domain but in many places it's not, so they had to tweak things for it to be internationally released (also the reason for the weird spellings in the official release: Bonde, Moniepenny, etc...which is why I just go ahead and spell them the og way when doing fanfic and meta cuz I ain't making no money haha.)

Anyway I have no sweet clue if that's true or even where I heard it. I have no sauce. But if it is true my guess is the anime just wanted as little of the hassle as possible, which is why Moneypenny vanished and the MI6 storyline got reduced to a speck. Tragic. 😔

Can Enola holmes appear in the manga? Also appeared in the BBC series Sherlock under the name Eurus. It would be a good parallel: three Moriarty brothers (Albert, Will, Louis) and three Holmes siblings (Mycroft, Sherlock, Enola).

I don't think this is actually the answer you expected, but, no, neither of those characters can appear in Yuukoku no Moriarty.

(You'll also have to correct me if I'm wrong, but I am 100% certain those two are different characters created by different people for different adaptations)

Enola and Eurus are both such new characters added by authors who I think are both alive. Thus, they're both still under copyright. Both Sherlock Holmes and James Bond are public domain in Japan.

Now, this causes weird issues because neither are fully public domain in America (although Sherlock Holmes will be next year, I think) or the UK. But Japan for a long time only acknowledged copyright for fifty years after an author's death (the minimum required by the Berne Convention), and when they changed it, they didn't apply it retroactively. Both the original ACD Sherlock Holmes canon and James Bond (at least the ones by Fleming) had fallen into public domain in Japan by then, so they stayed public domain

Which means both of those series are completely fair game in Japan to do whatever they like completely free and clear with no permissions or fussy legal bits.

(For what it's worth, this is almost certainly why James Bond's name got changed to "Bonde" in the English manga by Viz and English subtitles by FUNimation--Viz also uses "Em" and "Que" and "Moniepenny" because they don't want to get sued. And the first time we saw Bond's name in English in the Japanese manga, it was actually "Bond." It changed to "Bonde" after he debuted in English, and I think, honestly, the authors were like, "Oh? That's how it's supposed to be spelled?" No, but.)

None of those legal permissions apply to Enola or Eurus.

Now, as I pointed out, those are two completely different characters, and as such Yuukoku no Moriarty could introduce its own third Holmes sibling.

But I honestly don't think it will. And I kind of don't want it to, either.

LOOK HERE.

I absolutely need to know what happened after Bond asked Moneypenny for a favor (!!!)

<SPOILER ALERT>

Bond: ... Hey, Moneypenny. Moneypenny: ? Bond: For the plan this time... I got a little favor to ask of you.

(Yuukoku no Moriarty, chapter 60)

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We all know what this favor was.

I have a Great Need to know how it happened. And no, not just best friends dressing each other up (though that in itself will also be interesting to read about). I need to know what they talked about! Like Bond’s, gender roles/concepts, acting. Fellow agents bonding over being agents, the highs and lows of it all. Especially since Bond is (I’m assuming) younger - and the less experienced between them in MI6, there must be some insights Moneypenny could share. Just, ugh, the possibilities—

Or, I just think the concept of  Decalcomania / Décalcomanie is absolutely rad and fits these two perfectly, heheh.