101 Gestures - Facts & Quirks
Facts and Quirks Greg has learnt about Mycroft.
- He doesn’t appreciate the freckles on his back being used to play dot-to-dot.
- He has three scars. One from an appendectomy, one from catching his arm on a rusty nail and one from ‘an encounter with an undesirable group of people who were simply reluctant to negotiate’.
- Coffee, black, no sugar.
- He is fluent in three languages and ‘competent’ in seven.
- He’s a surprisingly good singer. Not that he knows Greg’s heard him sing.
- Except he does.
- He loathes the film Casablanca with an unwavering and inexplicable passion.
- In his private study there is a large collection of well-read classic horror stories. Dracula is his favourite.
- From ages 11-14 he faked a series of increasingly ludicrous medical conditions to get out of PE.
- When it comes to shopping for suits, things get serious.
- Novelty ties will elicit the most exasperated eye roll Greg has ever seen.
- When he was 27 he was engaged for six months as a ‘personal favour’ to a university friend.
- He has in-jokes with the Prime Minister.
- The in-jokes involve rabbits and ‘Mrs Halley of Cheshire’
- He fences. Well.
- He is not above ambushing Greg with a foil to prove a point.
- He gives the most incredible massages.
- When he was eight, he had a beagle named Laertes. Laertes’ demise still seems to be a sore spot.
- Tucked away in a draw somewhere is the book he read to Sherlock to sleep with.
- Whilst aware what it entails, he is unsure how to describe his position in government and has little idea of the title.
- He is unimpressed at any implication that this title may involve the words ‘omnipotent overlord’
- The title of this position is not up for debate.
- Not. Up. For. Debate.
- His sense of humour can range from jokes in Latin to almost filthy.
- He loves lychee. He them even more when they are fed to him.
- He has three umbrellas, and is insistent it is possible to mismatch an umbrella to a suit.
- He taught Sherlock how to play violin. He may or may not regret this decision.
- In 1995 he was a suspect in a murder investigation. Of course, any records of this has since been disposed of.
- His pocket watch was left to him by his father. It was used to teach him how to tell time.
- He sees little point in reminiscing, yet finds himself doing it more often than he’d like.
