Chapters: 3/3
Fandom: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (TV 2016)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Dirk Gently, Amanda Brotzman, Todd Brotzman, The Rowdy 3 (Dirk Gently), Farah Black, Tina Tevetino, Sherlock Hobbs
Additional Tags: Fantasy AU, Plant Theft, also fish theft, Pararibulitis (Dirk Gently), cannon typical holistic stuff, Chekov's fire safety code, Fires
Summary:
When a garden party is robbed by bandits, the only adventuring party fit for the job is a holistic one.
Or:
A solo act bard, a babysitting mercenary, and a guy in a yellow jacket walk into a tavern.
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July 1987. Between 1986 and 1988, Deni Loubert's Renegade Press released 15 issues of CASES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, which was not exactly a comic book, but rather a series of Holmes prose stories in comic book format, illustrated by Dan Day with covers by Day and his brother Dave. The illustrations are imaginatively designed and often quite attractive, although their intricacy and extensive use of crosshatching might have benefited from sharper reproduction. Although the stories are mostly from the Doyle canon, Day's illustrations of Watson and Holmes themselves resemble Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, who costarred in 14 Sherlock Holmes films and more than 150 half-hour radio programs between 1939 and 1946.
A 16th and final issue of CASES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, presenting "The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist," was released by Northstar Publishing in 1989.
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today my good buddy @generalized-incompetence introduced me to the semi-canon fact that tina was supposed to have an older brother who died & that hobbs took her in because he was that that guy's best friend, AND to her headcanons that "[his death] kicked off her dark period" and "he was always the perfect older brother and she could never live up to him and now she has massive survivor's guilt"
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and god, all of that makes so much sense, it all lines up Perfectly!! my entire vision of tina came suddenly and sharply into focus after i'd considered that info!
so, my tina tevetino hcs/reading/meta (largely sponsored and influenced by the aforementioned good buddy):
(tw for discussion of addiction)
tina has undiagnosed adhd (at the time of s2 hobbs has been gently nudging her towards examining that possibility for some time already) — a silent, perplexing, largely unnamed curse that's been plaguing her since forever, that carried her from an unruly child to a troubled teen to a hopeless adult. she had started self-medicating while still underage, trying to relieve that nagging pressure of boredom/pain/restlessness/uselessness with whatever she could bargain from partying young adults; though she wouldn't admit that it was self-medication — she was "just having fun!". and that's why her dark period is "10 to 15 years" long: there's ambiguity, because her addiction started slowly developing even before the inciting incident, but her brother's death 10 years ago is when things totally went to shit.
he was older, more mature, and always had been smarter, known better, given solid, reasonable advice that she just failed to follow; he wanted what's best for her, but she kept sliding into what's worse & easier (& livable, doable, surviviable). he tried to get her to stop doing drugs, and often grew frustrated, and she always was stubborn, and they often fought.
she was 19 that year, having a "gap year" (doing fuck all) after graduating high school, promising her family that she would start studying real soon, send out applications, get herself together, just so they would leave her and her headaches alone for a few days longer; and then it hapenned. she knew that what he would've wanted was for her to go sober, and get into a nice college, and live a good life, but the only thing she could do was to only get drunker and drunker and drunker, chasing the rare glimpses of not feeling searing pain all of the time.
hobbs couldn't bear seeing his best friend's family like that, so he offered her a position — just so that she could have something to do, as opposed to rotting in her childhood home day and night. out of loneliness, and guilt, and feeling completely, utterly lost, she accepted. she wasn't (and wouldn't later become) stellar, or decent, or even passable at her job — but hobbs never seemed to mind. clumsily and with a great deal of trouble, eventually she settled.
she never got into college, after all. she's one of those people who are a little bit lost to time, suspended in it, who under the weight of some unspeakable burden or another seem to slow down, freeze even, their 29th year on earth not too dissimilar to the 25th and that to the 20th; it's been 10 years, but she's done her best to sleep through them. you wouldn't think from looking at her (or talking to her, or hanging around her for a while, or knowing her as a person — unless she just plainly told you) that she's almost thirty; she doesn't want to think about that either.
and then comes farah black, age 21. (note 1: this age hc is based on the d.o.b. in her fbi most wanted file; note 2: i have a wagon and a lil cart of farah thoughts related to her age, but that’s a topic for another time if we want this post to ever end.)
and tina meets a person who is both a perfectly clear reflection of herself and someone who couldn't be more different from her if she tried. here she is, 20-ish, young, something inexplicably wrong with her (it's the ocd, babe), crumbling under her older brother's caring pressure, — a still snaphot in sharp focus, face to face, features aligning. but also here she is, fresher & younger and more talented, competent, better at literally everything, going through the same shit in real time, all the while tina's shit is a decade old and stale and undealt with; she's 29 and an absolute nobody and hasn't even fully moved on; grief awashes her at the realization.
but in the end, of course, it all works out: they're similar in the ways that matter and different in all the right places. farah needed to slow down, and tina needed to pick herself up; farah needed to chill out a bit, and tina needed to take herself seriously; farah needed a new perspective and tina did, tina needed to let her brother go and farah did, and they both needed to move forward. and in the end, that is what they did.
P. S. bonus hc: mustard likes rap because tina likes rap and would often come by sherlock's house and lounge about and make him switch stations on the radio because his taste in music sucks
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