bakerstreet | Bodyguard

the bodyguard meme

You're a pop star, or a royal, or maybe even the last of your kind who will bring about the Earth's redemption. Whatever the case may be, you're in a position that may be a bit dicey if you attract the wrong kind of attention.

And you're a bodyguard, a soldier, a knight - a protector. Somehow, you've been roped into protecting this person. You'll be rewarded, of course. The work may be cut out for you, but just do your job, keep your head down, and it'll go smooth.

Except for when the two of you break the bounds of professionalism and feelings begin to flourish. Being in such close quarters may get you to see the other in a different light, and saving someone's life just may be the ultimate form of intimacy.

Could this be the real danger? To feel so strongly for the one you've sworn to protect...are you compromised?

How to Play

1. Comment with your character and preferences, being sure to put if you want to play the guard, the guarded, or either. Also, you may want to put if you prefer fluffy, angsty, or smutty interaction - or have no preference.
2. Comment to others.
3. There are no prompts, because there are so many potential options there could be a hundred. Feel free to play anything: the beginnings of the relationship, just meeting, getting used to each other/not getting along at first, the obligatory first time, a threat on the protected's life and how their protector responds, how the feelings between the two has changed the protection, etc. Your only limit is you.

Promise ✖ You told them you would take care of their lover, no matter what. You intend to follow through with that.
Close ✖ What are friends for if not taking care of unfinished business?
Debt Owed ✖ Kindness or favor has to be repaid, even if it's an investment in someone else.
Atonement ✖ Whether or not you particularly cared for the person who's gone is irrelevant. You just need to make up for past sins.
No Good ✖ You're taking care of the one left behind, but not out of good intentions. There may be ulterior motives here - no, there are definitely ulterior motives here. Or maybe this is the one good thing you've done in your life.
Guilt ✖ It's your fault that you're here and their significant other isn't. It's a paltry repayment.
Bearer of Bad News ✖ You can't blame them for wanting to shoot the messenger. You are telling them their lover is dead.
Related ✖ In days past, the living partner would be cared for by their dead partner's family. As a sibling or cousin of the deceased, you want to continue that tradition and take care of "family."
Wo/man Up ✖ Actually, their lover isn't dead, they're just dead to you, unable or unwilling to take care of business. You're stepping up.
Friends ✖ You were all friends before, so it's only natural for you to want to look out for them now.
Derisive ✖ ...this is the person they loved so much? This is who you're supposed to protect? Pathetic.
Resentful ✖ You can never forgive them. They're the reason your lover is dead, no matter how they treat you.
What They Saw in You ✖ You're beginning to see why someone would love them, how they'd want to give up their old ways and change. It's almost...nice.
Warming Up ✖ If you didn't get along at first, the claws are being put away now. It's better to at least be civil, isn't it?
Still in Danger ✖ Whatever killed one half of the pair is still out there, and the other half is in danger themselves.
Other Complications ✖ Not only did your mutual acquaintance leave behind a lover, but also children. You find yourself getting closer and closer to them, too, even if they aren't yours.
Compromised ✖ You can't look after them with a level head. You love them.
Can't Love Again ✖ You've lost before. You can't risk losing again, can you?
Out of the Dark ✖ One or both of you find yourselves in a hole. You can barely eat, hardly sleep, and depression has taken hold of you. Together, though, you may find the light and a way out of despair.
First Time ✖ Simply what it says. You two have taken your relationship to the next level.
Changed ✖ Before, you were bitter. Hard. Jaded. Now, helping someone - specifically, helping this person - has brought a new kind of joy into your life. You could get used to it. Easily and dangerously used to it, to be brutally honest. You shouldn't allow it.
Living Together ✖ You can take care of them more throughly if you're in the same place as they are, obviously.
Hidden Jealousy ✖ When their lover was alive, you were jealous of everything they had - including the fact that they had the person you're looking after now. Admitting this may make you feel like the most awful person in the world.
Secrets Revealed ✖ Eventually, your involvement with the death of their beloved will come out, and they will never be able to look at you the same way.
Dependent ✖ Replacing one unhealthy habit with another, you've become utterly dependent on your relationship with your caretaker, your guardian, your lover.
Won't Be a Replacement ✖ You can't help but feel as if you're merely serving as a stand in for what they've lost. It's understandable, yet you still can't allow yourself to be that and only that.
Not Really Gone ✖ What is dead should stay dead, but what if who you thought was gone isn't really out of the picture? Will they be happy with finding someone else so cozy and in love with their special someone?
The Same Mistakes ✖ You're falling into the same patterns that lead to their death. Will you meet the same fate?
Who's Helping Who ✖ You think you're taking care of them and helping them through their loss. Is that the case? But who's never been this happy before in their life?
Move On ✖ It's time to put ghosts to rest and let old demons go. You can't let your life become a graveyard.
Tragedy ✖ The ending is unhappy or even deadly for both of you.
Happy Ending ✖ In contrast to the above, you're both able to live as together as happily as you possibly can, whatever can be allowed.
WILDCARD

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[Either role, since she's canonly both a world famous pop superstar and a demon hunter, so she can both sing and fight, lol, though yours being at least a fake or even a real bodyguard to her during her idol thing may make the most sense. 20+ OTA! Castmates (especially JINUS and her girls), crosscanon, crossmedium, assumed CR, AUs, OCs etc all always welcome!]

[so Delia's mercenary background makes her most suited for the Bodyguard role, but it could be fun to switch it up. I'm game to work something out!]

[ But OTA for gen. The joys of vigilante by night, wealthy socialite by day. Red Robin can be a bodyguard or Tim Drake can be the guarded or we can come up with some other AU! ]

[ m/m. protected. some info and and some more stuff on his old emp ]

[ It's lucky that the modelling agency was looking for a bodyguard for their latest talent. Mafuyu is going to start doing more on-site shoots, and he's getting some buzz online, so it makes sense to set up security. A lot of small coincidences like that seemed to settle into place, brick by brick, until their paths converged. Renji could almost believe that the ghost that had clung to Mafuyu, so tight and so desperately he'd forced a promise out of a Shinigami before allowing himself to cross over, set this all up just to have him here, walking half a step behind him.

Today, Renji's only shadowing him to get used to his regular schedule and make sure he's suited for the role. Renji has been performing like his life depends on it, the very model of professionalism. It's easy enough, he's a trained soldier after all, used to standing around looking alert. Being tall and having a mean look in his eye helps too. More importantly, he's sure he's succeeded in coming off as a Totally Normal Human. Sure, there was the occasional hiccup, like being a little confused about how the trains are supposed to work, but he thought he played that off pretty well. (He didn't. He stuttered for a few seconds and then said he was too tired. To remember how to use a Suica card.)

Suffice it to say, it's been an exhausting day. And a long one, the shoot ending around 10 and now it being close to midnight when he escorts him home. Renji checks his watch and his work phone, then his other phone, with a little radar screen that shows a bright blip at the very edge of its range. ]

Sato.

[ Renji waits for acknowledgement, repeating his name if he doesn't catch his attention the first time. He wonders if what's distracting him is the flickering presence of a ghost among the passersby or the creeping sense of something that has been following them since they left the station. Either way, Renji tries to seem vigilant to the present dangers that only the naked eye can see. ]

I'll carry that for you.

[ Motioning to the bag over Mafuyu's shoulder, Renji's already reaching to help him get it off. As they get closer to his apartment, the number of people are beginning to thin out. It's a perfect time for a Hollow to strike, and this one seems pretty determined to have stalked them for this long. He doesn't want Mafuyu encumbered, just in case he may have to run. ]

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[ more realistically the guarded. ]

[ the guard, naturally. can be fate-centric with master/servant dynamic, can be au. ]

(ooc; either role okay.)

[He could definitely use a bodyguard, but he could also definitely be a bodyguard.]

[ info! more likely to be the one needing protection... ]

[Less likely to be the protector UNLESS 1) You're faking your death or 2) trying to prove your innocence. She can protect with the power of science.]

[Definitely the protector. If you want this shippy, we're AUing to where he isn't married with children.]

(ooc; most likely guarded. open to all sorts of au's.)

[ OOC; the bodyguard. Open to cross-canon, assumed CR, whatever floats your boat. ]

[ ooc: he can guard this wealthy heiress with a passion for cold pizza? ]

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(( Can be either role ))

(( He's built more like the bodyguard, but I'd also be down for an excuse to make him the protected one! M/M for anything shippy, OTA for gen/platonic ))