[As soon as Dirk heard about this he had to come see it for himself. It's just too funny. He's already spent an amount of time admiring his own portrait that someone else might find shameful, and now he's picking his way along the line looking for other familiar faces, anyone else worthy of pause.
John Watson is certainly among that number. Dirk cuts an ostentatious figure in his bright yellow jacket as he slides into a good vantage point, utterly disregarding Sherlock's presence. He's neat, clean-cut, with a lightness it would be easy to mistake for vapidity. There's fresh, pink skin on the knuckles of his right hand, the souvenir of a recent scrap (if it can really be called that), and a fading unevenness to his gait, the remnant of an older gunshot wound, but few other immediate indications of who and what he is and where he's been that aren't tied to his life on the planet.
Perhaps most interesting of all, it's obvious that he recognises the subject of the portrait: after a few seconds of considering silence, head a-tilt, he gives a cheery, genuinely tickled little titter and fishes in his pocket for his mobile, still smiling widely.]
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John Watson is certainly among that number. Dirk cuts an ostentatious figure in his bright yellow jacket as he slides into a good vantage point, utterly disregarding Sherlock's presence. He's neat, clean-cut, with a lightness it would be easy to mistake for vapidity. There's fresh, pink skin on the knuckles of his right hand, the souvenir of a recent scrap (if it can really be called that), and a fading unevenness to his gait, the remnant of an older gunshot wound, but few other immediate indications of who and what he is and where he's been that aren't tied to his life on the planet.
Perhaps most interesting of all, it's obvious that he recognises the subject of the portrait: after a few seconds of considering silence, head a-tilt, he gives a cheery, genuinely tickled little titter and fishes in his pocket for his mobile, still smiling widely.]
I have got to tell him about this.