“Enigma”
For loveanddeathandartandtaxes, my Exchangelock giftee. Of the many prompts they suggested, I chose the historical AU and put the boys in the 1940s, with Sherlock as a codebreaker at Bletchley Park and John a naval officer assigned to assist the cryptographers. Looks like he’s assisting Sherlock with some other things as well ;). I hope you like it.
I had a lot of fun painting this (naval uniforms are always nice), and am moreover working on a fanfic with he same setting. I hope to post the first chapter on Sunday on AO3. Here’s the introduction of Enigma:
It’s the autumn of 1941, war is raging in Europe, German U-boats are raiding Allied convoys in the Atlantic, the Luftwaffe is bombing English cities, and the cryptographers at Bletchley Park are working feverishly to decode their enemies’ encrypted communications. One should consider this challenge and distraction enough for capricious codebreaker Sherlock Holmes. But the true enigmas are yet waiting to be deciphered: an unbreakable code, a strange murder, and the appearance of Surgeon Captain John H. Watson of the Royal Navy.