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ChishioKunrin wrote: Ironwood could have dragged Watts back to be put in jail, but I wouldn't be surprised if he dropped Watts into the lava to perish.

Also, I think the Sherlock of Watts' story is Ironwood. Ironwood never really acknowledged Watts' genius to his satisfaction, but Salem did, so Watts sided with Salem instead of staying by Ironwood's side. I do not think it makes sense for Ironwood to be Sherlock. Of the two we know on Team WTCH, the other party in their allusion is dead and Salem played some role in changing the trajectory of their story. We don't see them adding multiple allusions to characters often, if at all, and certainly not allusions from completely separate tales. Most likely, Sherlock for Watts is also dead and Salem did something to alter his fate.

Something we all essentially agree on is that Cinder's fate was altered by Salem stepping in rather than the equivalent of Cinder's Fairy Godmother. Reasonable evidence suggests she also intervened to change Tyrian's story by having the "Frog" pulled from his transport detail by Lionhart and it is probable she is responsible for the death of Hazel's Gretel given the likelihood she died fighting Salem's forces either in the form of the Grimm or some subordinate.

Again, I think this matter of Salem changing their stories is the key commonality with each character and it specifically involves interfering with the other party who otherwise would move the story toward the proper and moral conclusion (in Tyrian's case that conclusion is him dying because he could not change his violent and murderous nature). Under those well-warranted assumptions, it follows that Salem must have interfered with Watts and his Sherlock in a way that altered his story.

In the story of Sherlock Holmes and Watson, the latter is traditionally disqualified from his prior service and then takes up with Holmes. Given that the character of Holmes often directly contended with Moriarty, a head of a criminal entreprise that was able to manipulate world affairs, Holmes is exactly the kind of world-class intellect who would be a threat to a character such as Salem. Quite plausible that Salem would have eliminated such a threat, preventing him from taking Watts under his wing after he was disgraced, and may have thus created the opportunity to bring Watts into her fold instead.