The Resident Patient: Monsters

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Title: Monsters
Canon Story: The Resident Patient
Rating: Gen
Summary: Scylla and Charybis aren't the only mythological beasts to threaten Watson. Here's a list. Feel free to add more in the comments.

1.       The Hydra [of the Rent]. Just when last month’s damage has been paid, the incident with the rug occurs.

2.       Medusa. Mrs. Hudson upon seeing what happened to the rug.

3.       The fire-breathing Chimera. Holmes when he’s has been smoking all day (and forgot his tooth powder).

4.       The Sphinx. Watson himself when anyone asks where he was injured.

Comments

[debriswoman]

An excellent and well thought out list:-)

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

It's been a while since I did a silly list. Glad you like it.

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Great selection!

The Valkyries - Mrs Hudson on discovering not only the room full of smoke, but further damage to the repaired rug.

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Yea! Good one and yes, the poor rug, it WAS one of her favourites.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

You've now got me humming Wagner. I am not happy.

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

"Kill the wabbit"?

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think the parallels here are pretty clear.

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

I think Holmes would approve. Maybe he plays it on his violin to be cheeky when Mrs. Hudson discovers the rug.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

I love that ^___^ You've got to write that one ^_^

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Cerberus - any dog on seeing Watson and Holmes approaching. Word has got round about what happens to canines in a Holmes story...

And I think my favourite in your list is Watson being the Sphinx ^_^

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Yes! The dogs! Perfect. Yeah, a google search gave me a top 5 list, so I tried to get them all in.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

The Sphinx's riddle: What is it that walks on three legs out the door as fast as possible when the topic of the rug is brought up by the Medusa?

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Holmes and Watson, but what happened to the other leg??

[laurose8.livejournal.com]

Thank you for this cryptological footnote to canon. Hydras are particularly ubiquitous, aren't they?

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Chop off, that is, pay for one and another appears, yup. Thank you.

[godsdaisiechain.livejournal.com]

LOL... So cute and mythological

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Thank you!