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memester ([personal profile] memester) wrote in [community profile] bakerstreet2025-08-09 10:51 am

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!
denyingit: (Okay like I know I ramble)

Rumi | Kpop Demon Hunters | OTA

[personal profile] denyingit 2025-08-09 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[could be either!]
medicalling: (Smile 3)

Rowan O'Cleary | OC | OTA

[personal profile] medicalling 2025-08-09 06:01 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.]
heartarmor: (Default)

Cpl. Dwayne Hicks | Aliens

[personal profile] heartarmor 2025-08-09 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sentinel most likely.]
technicallyhellbound: (saddest boy)

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

[personal profile] technicallyhellbound 2025-08-09 06:47 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.]
convincingsmile: (sad 1)

lessgoooo

[personal profile] convincingsmile 2025-08-12 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
When the training facility took him in because he was special, Charles thought that his life was going to change for the better. He could train to protect people, go on missions, and if he was lucky, he could get a lifetime partner, too. What was there not to love? He tried to be friends with everyone, even after he got his Sentinel right off the bat. And he was successful, he had friends, though these friends were not entirely too friendly with his partner from time to time. Charles noticed it but let it go at first. Only for one night, for it to turn into a tragedy.

Charles woke in the middle of the night more to an uneasy feeling than the noises he heard from the hallways of the dorms. He went out ot investigate, only to find a group of boys ganging up on his partner, dragging him somewhere. Saying it's just a game and that Charles should join. Charles remembered that he jumped right at them to intervene, and he remembered the fight. He was fighting with those boys, trying to protect his partner, his friend, his Sentinel, his other half. He remembered the primal fear of the thought of losing him; he wasn't entirely sure why, but it felt bad. And it was bad. Charles remembered the sharp pain he felt, as if someone had cut into him, but he wasn't sure where. He remembered he ran, he remembered the cold, the stones... Then, he remembered the pain of waking up again. It felt like he was in a void that wanted to tear him apart, starting with his head. Everything hurt, everything felt like his body was pulled apart, clawed at and his chest being emptied with a rake.

Once again, Charles woke with a start. He didn't remember when he fell asleep again, but he remembered the pain. He grabbed onto the sheets, waiting for the pain to come. But all he could feel... or more like, hear, was a gentle voice speaking. No... reading something? Charles stuttered a breath, realizing he hadn't even breathed since he woke up, and turned his head to find the source of the voice.

Wheeee!

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staring_problem: (hiya)

Bucky Barnes | MCU | OTA

[personal profile] staring_problem 2025-08-09 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[Could go either way, honestly. Technically current through t-bolts.]
piecedit_together: (looking down: indoors)

Patrick | Companion (post-canon AU) | OTA

[personal profile] piecedit_together 2025-08-09 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[Designed to fit either role, depending on what a partner needs, possibly a prototype, definitely an older model either way.]
ouiking_ouija: (...angelic)

Klaus + Umbrella Academy + OTA

[personal profile] ouiking_ouija 2025-08-09 06:51 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.]
malecompanion: (pensive)

Gabreel King + OC + OTA

[personal profile] malecompanion 2025-08-09 06:51 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.]
just_aces: (doubt)

Charles - Dead Boy Detectives - OTA

[personal profile] just_aces 2025-08-09 06:53 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.]
hurtyourealgood: (ya ok sure)

Zepar + OC + OTA

[personal profile] hurtyourealgood 2025-08-09 06:54 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'.]
doesntrunaway: (doing the talking)

Steve Rogers (AU) - MCU - OTA

[personal profile] doesntrunaway 2025-08-09 06:55 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.]
cheerybomb: (b&w: confuse)

Chrissy Cunningham + Stranger Things + OTA

[personal profile] cheerybomb 2025-08-09 06:55 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.]
90minutesofsleep: (bandana)

Eliot Spencer | Leverage | OTA

[personal profile] 90minutesofsleep 2025-08-09 06:56 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.]
onceuponperu: (Default)

Detective Jim Ellison | The Sentinel

[personal profile] onceuponperu 2025-08-09 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[The OG Sentinel]
brokensmile: (Default)

Alexander Wakefield | Original Character

[personal profile] brokensmile 2025-08-09 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sentinel.]
ironicjumpcut: (Default)

Bobby | Kpop Demon Hunters | m/m shipping, ota platonic

[personal profile] ironicjumpcut 2025-08-09 09:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[Def a Guide. Open to cross-canon!]
maybethelion: (dress uniform)

Squall Leonhart || Final Fantasy VIII || OTA

[personal profile] maybethelion 2025-08-09 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Skillset and role as a sorceress' Knight suggests Sentinel but could also be read as a Guide. I could see it going either way! ]
grit_and_glitter: (pic#17996716)

John “Soap” MacTavish |COD mwf2

[personal profile] grit_and_glitter 2025-08-10 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
[Guide]
bravecoward: (Default)

akihiko nirei | windbreaker | ota

[personal profile] bravecoward 2025-08-10 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
[ definitely a guide. ]
feelstheflow: (ZXL_019_18779)

Yuma Tsukumo ( Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal ) m/m

[personal profile] feelstheflow 2025-08-10 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
[ could probably be either. ]
pythianwoman: (Default)

Zoey Westen | Original Character

[personal profile] pythianwoman 2025-08-10 05:31 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. Could easily be either a Sentinel or a Guide.]
bloodforged: (Default)

Agron | Spartacus | M/M

[personal profile] bloodforged 2025-08-10 12:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[Obviously the Sentinel]
csistokes: (Default)

Nick Stokes | CSI: Las Vegas

[personal profile] csistokes 2025-08-10 12:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Edited 2025-08-10 12:38 (UTC)
airdrop: (Default)

Brendan O'Connell | OC

[personal profile] airdrop 2025-08-10 12:39 pm (UTC)(link)
((I could work with this. Secret experiments during the Iraqi war? Covert operation gone rouge? I'd love to play him as an enhanced Sentinel kinda guy.))
fyoubernard: (Default)

Ashley Stubbs | Westworld

[personal profile] fyoubernard 2025-08-10 12:44 pm (UTC)(link)

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