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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bakerstreet2026-03-25 06:30 pm
Connor | Detroit: Become Human
shane hollander | heated rivalry
Dr. Mel King - The Pitt - OTA
Scott Hunter | Game Changers/Heated Rivalry
Molly Hooper || BBC Sherlock | OTA
Molly's absolutely not combat-trained. She might pledge to protect someone in a less physical manner, or maybe she's that loyal to a fault. TL;DR Probs Guarded but willing to explore creativity]
kattigan vale | critical role c4 | ota
Matt Murdock | MCU | OTA
haesoo | love or hate
Guy Cecil | Tales of the Abyss
Sasavachi Chunome (Warrior of Light) | FFXIV
Bort | Houseki no Kuni/Land of the Lustrous | OTA
nana osaki ― nana
Togame Jo | Wind Breaker
Mudano Naito | Tougen Anki
Kalim Al-Asim l Twisted Wonderland
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Also god I feel you on taking forever to get through the later books, I'm sitting here staring at Book 7 like 'I have heard some bullshit that I'm not prepared for gameplay-wise' LMAOOO]
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But haa. Yes. It's. Much longer than the earlier Books, that's for sure. Still working on it, but it's a work in progress or something.]
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Ganba on Book 6, totally worth finishing I think...Ortho Shroud when I get you WHEN I GET YOU!! ALSO if anything doesn't hit right you just say the word and I'll change this starter okay okay.]
Kalim? You're here, aren't you?
[In his room, not in the Designated Feast/Party/Hangout area. She'd looked there first, chased a few lingering Scarabia students into their own rooms with a single stomp, and then headed straight to her charge's bedroom door instead. While it's a miracle that she'd been allowed onto NRC grounds in the first place, given that she's, y'know. Not a guy and all, she'd proven her professionalism and sheer unwillingness to mix too much with other dorms past basic civility.
...A little donation from the Asim family had helped grease some palms and get her in too, of course. She's been at his side ever since they were children, and even if she's a year older than him, there's a certain comfort that her normally stoic presentation and protective nature brings his parents. Even so.
Even so, she still knocks. Waits for a response. Calls out again. There's-- She's at least going to give him plenty of time to pull himself together before bursting in. There are lines she won't cross, even now.]
Kalim? I just wanted a taste tester for tomorrow's curry roux, and to check up on your studies. I'll be entering in five seconds if you don't respond.
[...She might be the big sister no one asked for, but she's also still here to protect him, and Seven help her if she's willing to kick his door down to get at him.]
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Hm? Ah. I'm here! Come in!
[He's used enough to her being around, coming into his room and helping out with things. Kalim didn't really think twice about her being around here at school. It just made sense for her to come if he was going. Probably he should have questioned things and not been quite so oblivious or ignorant. But it was just how Kalim was, not really thinking about it too much as to why they both were invited, even if not in the usual way.
He turns when he hears her familiar voice, glancing from his homework to the door, head tilting as he leans back in his chair, his earrings shifting with the movement as he has yet to take them out before bed.]
Taste testing? I am getting a little hungry for a snack.
[He's a teenage boy. More like when isn't he hungry for a snack??]
Elijah Moreau | OC | OTA