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After you manage to win the respect of the Baker Street Regular, he will be an invaluable tool and assistant to your group. Life on the street is going to make him able to hear rumors that you won't be able to while you are out on your investigations. He is always good at hiding, especially in situations where the [[Big Bad]] is nearby. Expect him to have a [[Brats with Slingshots|slingshot]] or other projectile weapon to help you out if you need a distraction: He never misses unless the plot demands he does.
If he is an orphan, by the end of the story, more often than not, the detective and his love interest end up his surrogate parents, if not flat out adopting him (and any siblings or close friends he has). Other tropes that you are likely to find a
The Baker Street Regular is a pun on the [[Trope Namer]], the Baker Street Irregulars, who were a network of orphaned street urchins that had been under the employment of Sherlock Holmes to gather rumors, gather clues, and do various odd jobs, in which he made sure to pay what was, [[Mundane Luxury|to them, an outrageous sum of money]] for their discretion and loyalty.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Lilly in ''[[Ceville]]''.
* Luke and, to a lesser extent, Flora in the ''[[Professor Layton]]'' games are variations on this trope. Flora mostly fits in the sense of being {{spoiler|an orphan who gets adopted by the protagonist}}. Luke plays the trope almost straight; however, his parents are still alive and perfectly comfortable financially, and he must {{spoiler|surrender the post at the end of the third game, when the family moves overseas}}. In fact, it's thanks to his parents that Luke is hanging
* Brynn from ''[[Dreamfall]]'' acts this way towards April.
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