Dr. Watson Is Just As Important Of A Character As Sherlock Holmes. You Cannot Get Rid Of Or Replace Him.

Dr. Watson is just as important of a character as Sherlock Holmes. You cannot get rid of or replace him. He is the narrator. The stories are about Holmes, but it's through WATSON that we have them in the first place. He's not "just" the sidekick. He is the main character.

"But there can be no grave for Sherlock Holmes or Doctor Watson... Shall they not always live in Baker Street? Are they not there this moment, as one writes? Outside, the hansoms rattle through the rain, and Moriarty plans his latest devilry. Within, the sea-coal flames upon the hearth and Holmes and Watson take their well-won ease... So they still live for all that love them well; in a romantic chamber of the heart, in a nostalgic country of the mind, where it is always 1895."

-Vincent Starrett, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

In The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton, Watson is described as "a middle-sized, strongly built man with a square jaw, thick neck, and moustache". And in His Last Bow, he's called "a heavily built, elderly man with a grey moustache". So, I would say that Watson is a bear.

This excludes BBC Sherlock's Watson, who we all know is a hedgehog.

ACD said that Holmes looks like a hawk but i need to know what kind of animal Watson looks like.

SHERLOCK HOLMES HAS ZOOMIES WHEN HE'S FOUND A CLUE

"In an instant, he was tense and alert, his eyes shining, his face set, his limbs quivering with eager activity. He was out on the lawn, in through the window, round the room and up into the bedroom for all the world like a dashing foxhound drawing a cover."

LITERALLY HAS TO TELL EVERYONE ABOUT HOW EXCITED HE IS

"In the bedroom, he made a rapid cast around and ended by throwing open the window which appeared to give him some fresh course for excitement for he leaned out of it with loud ejaculations of interest and delight."

-> watson wrote all of these in his notes.

from Sherlock Holmes - The Adventure of The Devil's Foot.

In The Man with the Twisted Lip, Holmes brings Watson to the St. Claire's home to spend the night. This wasn't planned, they meet in he opium den by chance and Watson joins Holmes in his adventure impromptu.

When they go to sleep, Watson is wearing a night shirt under his over coat, while Holmes is wearing his casual robe over his normal day clothes (ok cause he didn't actually sleep that night).

The only one who knew he was spending the night someplace else was Holmes, he's the only one who could have prepared.

Holmes let Watson wear his night shirt to bed <3

They say that people usually take on a little niche interest, or subtle personality trait, or similar quirks to their comfort characters that they grew up reading/watching.... Well, thank you, John Hamish Watson for giving me a life-long obsession with knitted jumpers, and a stubborn tendency to "hunt and peck" when I write!