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| “ | William: From this point on, I will have the people of London witness many crimes and deaths planned out by yours truly. In other words, the crimes will turn the city into a stage and the citizens will be audience to the excitement Albert: Turning the city itself into a theater, are you? William: And then the plays that the audience must witness will be deaths that effectively expose this world's corruption. So it is up to us to stage, embellish and give meaning to these deaths with the aim of truly opening the eyes of the people and the country. |
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| ~ Williams' declaration to be the Lord of Crime |
| “ | Catch me if you can, Mr. Holmes. | „ |
| ~ William to Sherlock aboard the train. |
William James Moriarty is the titular main protagonist of the 2016 manga series, Moriarty the Patriot, and of its 2020 anime adaptation.
He is the adopted brother of Albert James Moriarty and of the original William James Moriarty, and the older brother of Louis James Moriarty. Having burned down the Moriarty Manor and taking the place of the William Moriarty, he grows up to become a professor of mathematics at Durham University at the age of 24. Behind the scenes of his job, he acts as a detective and a vigilante, the infamous Lord of Crime who seeks to take down corrupt aristocrats who have actively harmed people, to bring forth his vision of equality to the English society. Upon noticing the skills of the freelance detective, Sherlock Holmes, Moriarty organizes his success to use him as his pawn to expose the corruption of high society. He is based on the famous archenemy of Sherlock Holmes, James Moriarty, which in-universe is the collective identity William and his 2 brothers form to be the Lord of Crime.
As an adult, he was voiced by Soma Saito in Japanese and by Aaron Dismuke in the English dub. As a child, he was voiced by Shizuka Ishigami in Japanese and by Emily Neves in the English dub.
Appearance[]
Moriarty is a tall yet skinny man with medium-length blonde hair and crimson eyes that he shares with his brother, Louis James Moriarty. In his childhood, he wore either worn-down clothing or "fancy" clothing. In his adulthood, he dresses very fancily, commonly wearing tuxedos (especially when blending in with the aristocratic population of England to look for those whom he needs to punish with death). He tends to commonly have a very expressionless face as well while occassionally sporting a charming smile he would use to ease into other's trusts. After the Final Problem arc, he has become even skinnier, having lost an eye and now wears an eyepatch, and he is wearing mostly black due to his ordeal with Sherlock Holmes.
Personality[]
Moriarty is a kind and courteous, yet intelligent and knowledgeable man. He has highly altruistic tendencies as he helped his peers at mathematics and other subject-areas of knowledge, using his wits to help others. His intelligence impressed adults to the point of where they let him solve mysteries easily. Despite his genuine altruism, he also had rebellious and somewhat murderous tendencies towards aristocrats (especially those who have hurt or caused trouble for him and others).
As an adult, he grew into an elegant gentleman and a head-to-toe perfect noble who can easily earn the respect of those around him through his intelligence, his sophistication, and his charisma. He rarely ever shows emotions to the outward world, which makes him appear as somewhat cold and unfriendly in nature.
Although he is a serial-killer, he is still generous, affable, charismatic, stoic, altruistic, gentle, and sympathetic towards those who have been hurt by the abuses of the aristocracy. He is a well-intentioned extremist in nature, and he has been so since childhood because of his past. Because of his intelligence, it is easy for him to see through lies, which makes him a very good detective in nature. William deeply cares for his family and for his allies to the point that he sees his organization as family to him.
Abilities and Weapons[]
- Academic Profiency: As a child, William was a prodigy. Even as a poor child living in poverty, William was highly literate, able to read and right very well and use this knowledge to help others. As he grew up, he excelled in his academics, being a prodigy at Mathematics to Chemistry and History, becoming a King's Scholar alongside his brothers. This all eventually builds up to him being reputable enough to be the Mathematics Professor at Durham University at the young age of 24.
- Deduction: William is a master detective. This is best demonstrated when confronting Argleton. Upon being informed he sits by the window observing a young child doing his concerta, just by merely looking he is able to deduce that his suit is custom made by Eden's Tailors, his ring comes from Goldstein Jewellers, his pocket watch comes from R. Masters Clock Smith, his hat from Morgan Bros. Company and his horses are stabled at the Shannon Racing Club, and from that, tie him as the true identity behind the infamous Chavi-Slasher.
- Stealth: As a crime lord, William prioritizes his stealth so as to not be deduced and arrested before the time he deems fit. In all of the crime scenes William will do, he will make his footsteps be as silent as possible, leaving no traces to himself. Even when having to do his crimes in public, as seen when he has Lord Whitely killed, Moriarty ensures there is no glimpse of his actual face. And then he fakes his own death in the end of the Final Problem arc, having been undiscovered for years.
- Manipulation: Perhaps William's greatest intellectual skill. William reads the people around him as if they were books. He is easily able to see through their motivations, their personality, their background, their goals, etc. Viewing everyone as mere puppets on a theatre for him to control, William pulls the strings to make everyone move only in a way he wants to. This is demonstrated during the Noahtic arc, in which William upon noticing him murder a man, maneuvers his corpse and bait him into stabbing him in front of the stage and expose him. Even when pitted against Sherlock, as Sherlock ends up figuring out, everything he knew about the cases he had solved, it was all what Moriarty was feeding him and just that, using this to expose the aristrocracy's corruption without him even realizing he was Moriarty's key player. The biggest one is when he plants false evidence during the murder on the train to bait the suspect, Eddie Hawthorne, into confessing.
Trivia[]
- Moriarty was born on April 1st.
- Moriarty was shown to be compared to Maximillian Robespierre since they both united opposing sides against a common enemy, those common enemies being Robespierre and himself (the former was executed by the people).
- He is directly inspired by Moriarty from the original books, but his backstory is given and his honor is shown in greater depths.
- He is the only version of Moriarty to genuinely be friends with Sherlock Holmes.
- In both the first and second popularity polls of the series, William has been ranked #1 on both times.
External Links[]
- William James Moriarty on the Heroes Wiki
- William James Moriarty on the Magnificent Baddie Wiki
- William James Moriarty on the Moriarty the Patriot Wiki
- William James Moriarty on the Baker Street Wiki
