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memester ([personal profile] memester) wrote in [community profile] bakerstreet2025-04-30 03:04 pm

Sentinels and Guides Shipping Meme


Sentinels and Guides Shipping Meme
A Sentinel!AU Meme

There are special people in the world: Sentinels--whose five senses are incredibly enhanced, sometimes to the point of overwhelming and who can easily lose themselves in fugue states--and Guides, the empaths with the ability to ground a Sentinel and focus them. Meant to be the protectors of the Guides, for every Sentinel there exists a guide that is their perfect match. In some universes, when matches are made, a Sentinel and Guide form a soulbond to fill the feeling of emptiness.

How easy was it for you to find yours? How are Sentinels and Guides treated in your universe? Or maybe you're one of the normal, unremarkable people. Do you fear Sentinels and Guides? Despise them?

Rules
1) Post with your character/canon in the subject header.
2a) Choose whether your character is a Sentinel or a Guide
or
2b) If you don't know or don't care, just leave it blank!
3) Information about Sentinels and Guides can be found
here and here. Information on 'The Sentinel' which this meme comes from can be found here.
4) All the tagging! Have fun 8D

Prompts

oo1. The Meeting:
How did you meet? Was it at an event organized specifically for finding your other half? By accident? Did you follow a mystical calling to them? Some other way?

oo2. The Bonding:
Do Sentinels and Guides in your universe soulbond? How does it go down? Is there a ceremony or do you just retreat to the bedroom?

oo3. Rejection:
Sometimes Sentinels or Guides propose a match but it's just not perfect. You don't feel the pull or maybe you think there is someone better or maybe you're already claimed. Maybe you were claimed and someone better came along?

oo4. Protection:
Sentinels are meant to protect Guides, any Guides, but it's even worse when they feel their Guide is in danger. They go feral; blind to anything but stopping and killing whoever threatened their Guide or the bond. Maybe someone attacked your Guide or you haven't bonded yet and you feel threatened or maybe you're the one doing the threatening. Whatever the reason, Sentinels in a feral state are dangerous and only their Guides can stop them.

oo5. Lost:
Sentinels often lose themselves in their senses. Either you're a Sentinel who has lost themselves or a Guide that has stumbled on one or a friend trying to draw them out. Unbonded Sentinels will find it hard to escape without a Guide. Or maybe you're bonded already which means you just need yours to come home.

006. Persecution:
Sometimes normal people or the government fear the power of Guides and Sentinels. Guides are empaths, feeling the emotions and sometimes passing thoughts of others and it can make people feel violated. Sentinels often have enhanced strength, which can make them dangerous. So they scorn them, hurt them or in the case of governments, regulate them.

oo7. Death:
Unbonded Sentinels and Guides eventually lose themselves to the empty cavern inside them. Torn apart from the inside by the feeling of something missing. Breaking the soulbond of a Sentinel and Guide is agonizing and horrifying, leading quickly to death for the remaining partner.

oo8. Old-School:
Guides used to be treated on the same level as slaves. Unable to work unless their Sentinel said. Not allowed out on their own. They used to wear collars and couldn't own land or inherit money. Maybe the old ways haven't completely fallen out of style.

oo9. Unbonded:
Nothing is worse than being an unbonded Guide or Sentinel. Always looking for your other half to fill that empty feeling but you probably have friends that aren't your match or who are trying to set you up with someone. Maybe you're skeptical about the whole love at first sight thing and haven't been looking.

o10. Wildcard: Some mish-mash of the above or anything else you can come up with!
medicalling: (Side talk 1)

Rowan O'Cleary | OC | OTA

[personal profile] medicalling 2025-04-30 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[Permissions - Sidhe fae playing at being doctor, so interesting to see a fae AU'd into Sentinel/Guide canon. Will definitely be Guide and with a high healing ability. Capable of protecting their Sentinel if needed and good at grounding.]
astraythought: (sigh of relief)

making it up on the fly, roll with it?

[personal profile] astraythought 2025-04-30 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[Most Sentinels and Guides come into their capabilities in adolescence, slowly coming to their alignment over the course of months. It's assumed that once you pass eighteen or so, you either are or aren't a Sentinel or Guide.

That's not exactly true. Sometimes trauma can bring one to present abilities without previous indications. This is usually extremely painful, and though hospitals are usually great places to be in pain, they're complete overwhelm for a new Sentinel, especially one who's injured.

The staff is checking if the local agency might have any unbounded Guides around for miss Maureen DeCecco, because she needs someone right now, in the aftermath of some situation involving her being beaten by a now-former employer she had worked as a housemaid for.]
90minutesofsleep: (bandana)

Eliot Spencer | Leverage | OTA

[personal profile] 90minutesofsleep 2025-04-30 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[Every time I think he's definitely one for sure I come up with more reasons that he could be the other. So whichever works.]
apollodreaming: (dork: wink)

Apollo | Inception OC | OTA

[personal profile] apollodreaming 2025-04-30 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[Pretty sure he's a Guide, but I'm willing to go with either.]
cheerybomb: (looking like an addams)

Chrissy Cunningham + Stranger Things + OTA

[personal profile] cheerybomb 2025-04-30 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[Maybe she was always a Sentinel, maybe she was a Guide and became a Sentinel thanks to her near-death experience and/or Vecna's meddling.
Also available as a dude via [personal profile] ccunningham
Not particularly interested in Jason or Billy.]
doesntrunaway: (nobody makes me bleed my own blood)

Steve Rogers (AU) - MCU - OTA

[personal profile] doesntrunaway 2025-04-30 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sentinel, but nobody believes it bc I mean look at him.
Or in the case of a de-serumed AU, he definitely did look like one but doesn't now and either way he's not having a great time.]
frozenassets: by easycompany (TFA Bucky and Steve faire)

[personal profile] frozenassets 2025-05-01 10:55 am (UTC)(link)
Sometimes normal folks got it easy, Bucky thinks right before the guy's right hook sends him stumbling into the chain link fence.

Sometimes Bucky wished him and Steve weren't a Guide or a Sentinel: being a regular plain Jane sounds pretty great. Like today.

Because Steve Rogers and the fact he showed himself as a Sentinel? It's a recipe for disaster. Take the way Steve's senses either don't work half the time or when they do work, it's not all of them; like one goes haywire and suddenly Steve's like a bloodhound for trouble. Like only a couple minutes ago: they'd been walking back along the beach when Steve suddenly straightened up, head cocked like he suddenly heard a pin drop clear across the borough, and by the time Bucky had turned with their hot dogs, Steve's just gone. Nowhere to be seen.

You'd think a guy that short wouldn't make good time, but it turns out, sometimes sticking it to some bozo'll light a fire under Steve's ass just fine. When Bucky follows the uneasy tug at his gut, he finally stumbles upon two clowns roughing Steve up. He doesn't think twice that he's wearing his second nicest suit. Bucky wades in in swinging, throwing the fellas off Steve, which isn't easy when Steve's underfoot, still intent on socking the smirk off one of them at the same time like a terrier let off the leash.

He just didn't peg the fact the guys had a buddy in the other alley until the guy clocks him. His vision bursts into stars as he staggers.

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hurtyourealgood: (amused)

Zepar + OC + OTA

[personal profile] hurtyourealgood 2025-04-30 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[The Grigori were meant to guide humans, but he's also got better senses than a human, so it could go either way, and maybe a secret third way which is 'kinda both'.]
just_aces: (i am confusion)

Charles - Dead Boy Detectives - OTA

[personal profile] just_aces 2025-04-30 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[Could go either way honestly, he's good at mitigating everyone's feelings (except his own) and he's equally good at being a physical barrier to keep someone safe.
I'm thinking some kind of alive AU, maybe the Lost & Found Department is to help people who have lost their other half or something like that. I suspect that even if he and Edwin weren't Meant To Be™ type partners, they're still each other's balance.]
malecompanion: (happy smile)

Gabreel King + OC + OTA

[personal profile] malecompanion 2025-04-30 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[High-compatibility Guide, works for an agency that provides help for recently-severed Sentinels, or for those going through crisis, or even whose own Guides need a little extra help.]
ouiking_ouija: (everything happens so much)

Klaus + Umbrella Academy + OTA

[personal profile] ouiking_ouija 2025-04-30 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[I feel like the kids were meant to be Sentinel & Guide in one, but either way he's lost his other half twice over, first with Ben and then with Dave, and he's probably been at loose ends for longer than he realizes.]
redhoodedgirl: ('to the MOON Alice')

Ruby - Modern Fairy Tale - OTA

[personal profile] redhoodedgirl 2025-04-30 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[Girl's a Sentinel for sure]
staring_problem: (seriously tho?)

Bucky Barnes | MCU | OTA

[personal profile] staring_problem 2025-04-30 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[Could go either way, honestly. Only current through F&tWS]
dysmorphics: (Default)

[personal profile] dysmorphics 2025-05-01 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[ oooh let's? :3 ]

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technicallyhellbound: (headachey)

Edwin Payne - Dead Boy Detectives - OTA (M/M for romantic/smut but anything goes for platonic)

[personal profile] technicallyhellbound 2025-04-30 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[I lean towards Sentinel, but could be either.
I'm thinking some kind of Alive!AU, Hell could have been some kind of testing facility, one of those quasi-governmental things.]
xiaobao: (big protagonist energy)

fang duobing | mysterious lotus casebook

[personal profile] xiaobao 2025-04-30 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[ooc: definitely a sentinel! open to cross-canon cr, only preference is m/m for shipping.]
400meters: (pic#17707899)

shin | sakamoto days

[personal profile] 400meters 2025-05-01 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
[ tl;dr shin is an esper. leaning guide for him. he has mindreading and other abilities but i can adjust that for the scenario etc if you want. m/m 20+ more info/permissions, opt-in/out, etc on his journal. 2/4/5/6/8/wildcard. ]
tenjou_utena: (Utena .:. 7)

Tenjou Utena / Shoujo Kakumei Utena

[personal profile] tenjou_utena 2025-05-01 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
//Either or works for me.//
Edited 2025-05-01 02:22 (UTC)
in_this_fight: (Default)

Cassian Andor | Rogue One | OTA

[personal profile] in_this_fight 2025-05-01 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
[ooc: Could be either, but leaning toward Sentinel.]
thesefirststeps: (Default)

Rey | Star Wars | OTA

[personal profile] thesefirststeps 2025-05-01 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
[ooc: Probably Sentinel.]
go_loud: (Default)

Camilla Hect | The Locked Tomb | genuinely ota, tho would love castmates

[personal profile] go_loud 2025-05-01 09:29 am (UTC)(link)
[Pretty sure she’s the Sentinel here, though I’m open to pitches in the other direction]
fiercelight: (Default)

Imogen "Ginny" Fleming | Winter Soldier: Cold Front

[personal profile] fiercelight 2025-05-01 09:31 am (UTC)(link)
[Cold Front is Marvel rather than MCU, but I'm going to AU her into the MCU anyway. (And AU her alive.) With a little futzing and handwaving it'll work. You can AU anything if you try hard enough. XD To get her to the modern MCU era it's probably a case of ending up in cryo. Instead of dead. IDK. Here for all the shenanigans. Probably a Guide. Voicetesting.]
fearisfortheenemy: (Default)

Eric | The Crow (comic version) | ota but shipping will be the slowest of burns

[personal profile] fearisfortheenemy 2025-05-01 10:09 am (UTC)(link)
[ooc: anyone up for the slowest of angsty burn (or gen/platonic soulmate) pitches? In which Eric is a Sentinel (not dead, just badass!), Shelly was his guide, and he wasn’t able to save her; now in the wake of a broken soulbond you have a feral, wrecked Sentinel out to destroy anyone who touched her—-or gets in his way—-unless someone can stop him, perhaps? Or maybe your Guide sympathizes, and is helping him! Or he’s finished the job and without a purpose, he needs someone (or they just hope!) to lead him back to the land of the living…
OTA, handwave that CR, pitch me something completely different - etc! Oh and very much still voicetesting.]
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overachievers: (Bangkok - silhouette)

[personal profile] overachievers 2025-05-02 02:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[Did you say slowburn post-vengeance recovery? How about an older Guide whose original intent is to weaponize him (she works for an organization of assassins), but catches Emotions? They don't have to be romantic emotions, just 'give this guy a break' emotions.

If you're good with that, the only question is where to pick up with them.]
pythianwoman: (🗡️ worried)

Zoey Westen | Original Character

[personal profile] pythianwoman 2025-05-01 10:27 am (UTC)(link)
[Bare bones about her: sarcastic seer with a knack for finding trouble, or having trouble find her. More in-depth information about her is here. Can easily AU her into just about anywhere. Can be either, I think.]
theobverse: (who replaced the candles)

Grantaire | Les Mis | ota

[personal profile] theobverse 2025-05-01 02:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[ooc: An unaccepted Pylades Guide. Actually, I can see him as either just depending on partner: he does have a lot of ‘enjoys sensory things/also turns to substances to dull them’ and he knows how to fight canonically! But vs castmates there are clearer Sentinels.]
paljettane: (Default)

Delores (AU) | The Umbrella Academy

[personal profile] paljettane 2025-05-02 09:08 am (UTC)(link)
[When the world was re-written in season 3, did Delores get herself a human life? Is she just human somehow, in that handwavey TUA fuckery way? Or is this an alternate timeline where she was always human? They’re all possibilities and I’m here for mucking around with all of them as I figure her out and explore things. (I think the suddenly a real girl option/variations thereof is my favourite, though.) Probably the Guide. Voicetesting.]
overachievers: (Default)

Diana Burnwood | Hitman: World of Assassination Trilogy | ota

[personal profile] overachievers 2025-05-02 03:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[Do you want to play with the idea of Sentinels as ultimate weapons? Diana here works for the ICA, a group of assassins and contract killers. Her ideal partner would be the image of a cold, ruthless killer.

...of course, fate might have other plans. Diana isn't expecting anything soft from her bondmate. No romance, no affection. Just murder. Play it straight or prove her wrong?]
make_it_hurt: (Default)

Bucky Barnes | MCU | OTA

[personal profile] make_it_hurt 2025-05-03 01:56 am (UTC)(link)

[Either role. I HC he was born Guide, but was "persuaded" not so gently into Sentinel when he was Soldierized, and probably is somewhere very confusing currently. Have seen T*, but most of post-Endgame MCU is dead to me as far as Bucky is concerned, so I'm down to play anywhere. Canonmates, crosscanon, all welcome! Also down for some multiverse shenanigans????]

dysmorphics: (Default)

[personal profile] dysmorphics 2025-05-08 08:45 am (UTC)(link)
[ i have to stop starting threads with you when i'm already slow af AND YET 😂 i'm just here like, what canon point haven't we done lolol ]

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BUCKY ;A; these two, i can't

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