I always enjoy these kinds of "Genius" protagonists, and I do think if you can maybe do a follow up since now he has such a rich backstory already his battle against self and the lines he crosses for the greater good or is it an indulgence who cares it is a battle and as far as battles go those of the psyche will always the truly epic ones, add a sword then you have a blockbuster.
lol. Highlander Sherlock... Sherlander?
There can only be one, it is elementary.
I was more thinking of making a prequel than a sequel but maybe someday I should get around to doing both. I definitely very much like the idea here and it speaks to me dearly.
Hahaha :D Shanderlock would actually make a cool last name. I'll likely use that for some future stories, if I may. :P Thanks! :D
see the problem I might have with a prequel is you have the destination already... So the character progression and I am speaking out my ass here, but the progression would feel very direct route.
If somehow you can use the before to support a future character change then maybe you have more complexity allowing you to write them in tandem.
When we join back with him in the now then we also have gained something valuable because we already have an attachment with this event hence an attachment to anything before it and that will support how I would feel about any new predicaments and even have input as to what I wish he would do based on previous events. All nice and fresh in my memory.
Yip Shanderlock sounds great. :)
Hmm, now that you've mentioned it... And describing the tedious police work he was doing before he ended in there would've been boring anyway... Maybe. ;)
It's definitely a character I want to write more on - like the killer chemist from "A revolutionary product". I think they're two characters that are unpredictable both for me and for the reader, which is exactly why they can be (and are) so awesome.
Definitely worth a revisit. If not in the same setting, at least with the same or similar character. ^^
Maybe the chemist could be called Shanderlock. Nice and mysterious.