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"Do you remember me? How we used to be?
Don't you think we should be closer?"
~ Pink Floyd (Listen here: [link])

Shylock and yes... Jane Moriarty.

From the beginning I knew Moriarty had to be a fox.

I've been writing her backstory and personality for a week now. She's thoroughly complex and intrigues me. I said that I wouldn't delve too deeply into the gender differences, but with Jane... I just had to. It was too beautiful an oppertunity to pass up. What drives a woman to become the queen of crime? There have been many first ladies of crime, those who ruled crime syndicates like stern mothers, or those who seduced men of power to do their bidding. Frankly, it's been so common, that one shouldn't even be surprised by it.

By why Jane... if we were to recal Lombroso's theories on crime, which Doyle most certainly was familiar with (he used Phrenology in describing Moriarty), then one must say that women do not have the ability to be criminals such as men have. Oh, there are criminal women - the prostitute, the thief - but not master criminals. And certainly not highly intelligent, mathematical ones (Not that Lombroso thought women could attain those heights at the best of times, anyway).

Sure, Lombroso's theories are junk now. Science has moved on and left him well and truly in the shadows of the past. A footnote on bigotry in the pages of criminology, recalled both as a father and excentric uncle to modern theories of criminal nature.

The puzzle that is the motivations of a well-born, intelligent, high society woman turning to crime remains.

But perhaps one thing is understandable. Being so extraordinary, one longs for the company of an equal.
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Mood: Joy ~KinjiraretaNingyou May 8, 2012
I am so fascinated with these characters.

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*quotidia May 8, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Yay that makes me so happy :D. I haven't been able to draw them lately due to work/uni... but so much more, and soon.

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"I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty."
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Mood: Love ~Ysael Feb 10, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
I love your work, it's fantastic :la: !!!
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*quotidia Feb 10, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Thank you, glad you like :D.

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"I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty."
~Jean Genet
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~Ysael Feb 10, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
It's my pleasure ^o^
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*Darth-Yencoron Feb 8, 2012
Sweet brilliance :D And I always enjoy seeing strong, intelligent, witty, and gorgeous red heads :)

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*quotidia Feb 8, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Oh hell yes :D.

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"I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty."
~Jean Genet
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~ashimbabbar Feb 7, 2012
she may have suffered from seeing her achievements overlooked and belittled because of her being a woman. But then, Holmes, Doyle ad his readers just assumed Moriarty was eee-vul, so it may be the answer here too.

Actually, what has held me so far from faving was the basic premise of a female Dr Watson in the Indian army, let alone the Afghan campaign… ( I know there were women in besieged Kabul and the doomed escape, but they were wives or relatives of Army or diplomacy men ) Victorians and Edwardians were pruriently obsessed at what might happen to women at the hands of unrestrained natives, so I'm having trouble swallowing it
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*quotidia Feb 7, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Oh yes, I completely agree. This is why I haven't tried to base the comic in a proper historical setting, because frankly, it wouldn't have happened (and it would make me puke to say 'it r historical' yet have women running around like nuts without repercussion). I wanted a genderbent version but I didn't want it to be 90% gender politics. Technically it's not even set in 1880s London, but a kind of parallel dimension of a future dystopic British Empire winding down (you'll notice in the background lots of rubble, glass skyscrapers etc). I haven't made it terribly clear yet, though.

There's a very weird gender equality in this universe - female doctors (and indeed soldiers) off on campaign, with their own version of military dress. Lestrade is wearing feminised menswear suitable for a high ranking detective, and isn't intended to be a special case, either. I would sum it up as equality by practice, divided by aesthetics.

She could be rotten by nature, like her namesake. It could be nurture. I'm hoping that the parallels between her and Holmes make answering the question more difficult.

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~ashimbabbar Feb 7, 2012
Thanks for your answer ! I understand better what you intend to do now. Let's see how it turns out…
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