Scarab wrote:...What about possibly just soembody who WANTS to be Moriarty, character or otherwise? Someone who really knows their Holmes canon and was invested in the character and knew about the wall breaking down?
Whatever the case, I'm still willing to consider it may be a different continuity's Moriarty. He doesn't seem as technologically and socially unfamiliar as Holmes is...
For the sake of completeness, I suggested a theory when we realized this that the drug dealer noticed the same parallels to Holmes that we did in that post and was making a joke. That would mean the name is a red herring. On the other hand, Conservation of Narrative Detail and all...
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NeverSlender wrote:I don't think it's anything to do with the Kingston Defence, I think it's just simply J. Marty (Moriarty) is moving the knight (Holmes) to e4 (Leslie Okogwu's location.)
Yea. In other words, a metaphor that uses chess to sound cool. I was just examining any possibly references to real, famous plays to be sure that they weren't hiding more info in that username.
Normal people are the easiest to manipulate. Too smart and they have an annoying tendency to catch wind of your plans, too dumb and, in the words of a certain pirate, "You can never tell when they are about to do something incredibly...stupid."
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