User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-24894325-20170121220436/@comment-28349479-20170123070920

As for Mycroft, Moriarty, Sherlock, and the like, I direct you to 7 and 8 in Timewyrm: Revelation and The Gallifrey Chronicles: "I remember Sherlock Holmes expressing similar sentiments."

"Yeah?" Ace was interested. "Did you meet him? Oh, right, he wasn't real, was he?"

"Just because somebody isn't real, it doesn't mean you can't meet them," murmured the Doctor with a sly smile. "Sherlock Holmes solved the case before I could, as I recall."

"Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character," Trix pointed out.

The Doctor grinned. "My dear, one of the things you'll learn is that it's all real. Every word of every novel is real, every frame of every movie, every panel of every comic strip."

"But that's just not possible. I mean some books contradict other ones and -"

The Doctor was ignoring her.