Looking for a Sherlock Holmes for one or several BBC verse AUs! Ideas
1. John Watson is a serial killer, an "angel of death" deemed unfit for trial and sentenced to a minimum of thirty years in Broadmoor Hospital. Sherlock Holmes is a consulting detective struggling with boredom and a cocaine addiction. When a string of high-profile murders leads to the seeming dead-end of John, he brokers a deal with the Holmes brothers: in return for his freedom from Broadmoor, he will provide the information Sherlock needs to solve the crimes.
2. Sherlock Holmes is a psychic ("I prefer the term 'parapsychologist.") who consults for the police, using a combination of deductive reasoning and psychometry. John Watson doesn't believe in that sort of thing, but he really needs a flatmate, and besides, he's one of the few who read as 'blank' to Sherlock, giving him no impressions and leaving him with no headaches afterwards.
3. John Watson returns from Afghanistan a strange and broken man, suffering not only from PTSD and nightmares, but also from the newfound ability to see things that others cannot; dark things, horrible things that have somehow managed to slip through the skin of the universe. Things with teeth. At the urging of his therapist, he looks for a flatmate to help with his trauma, and to pull him back (though no one knows) from the brink of insanity. Inspired (somewhat) by Saya no Uta.
I am super flexible and excited for any of these lines (or something similar) so hit me up if you're interested!