bakerstreet | Overprotective

OVERPROTECTIVE

There's a certain amount of loyalty expected in relationships; after all, why would you want to be with someone who doesn't respect or care for you, outlying issues notwithstanding? Ideally, there'll be mutual devotion and interest...yet sometimes, people can take loyalty to new extremes.

It's understandable if you've never been shown any kind of affection. Naturally, you'll cling to their attention, not wanting to lose that. If you only know how to follow orders, you could merely view pleasing them as an extension of that. Maybe you thought you would never be deserving of them or anyone like them. On the other hand, you could have had it all before, but you never paid much heed at all, like the true love-em-and-leave-em cad you were. No matter, all of that's in the past. You completely belong to them.

...remember, though, too much of a good thing can be not so good. Most people don't want to be worshipped, the majority don't want a glorified servant for a mate, and pretty much no one wants to be over-protected or controlled.

The following aren't prompts, not exactly. Instead, they're just ideas of how threads could go!

Positive: Not too much of anything here; rather, the perfect mix of loyalty and protectiveness. Okay, maybe you can get a bit too eager on either, occasionally. However, it's not frequent enough to be off-putting. Mostly.
Neutral: Your adoration for them is so deep that you're afraid to deepen you relationship because you're not worthy. That's a sweet sentiment, yet not exactly what either of you want.
Negative: There's nothing wrong with wanting to protect the person you love from physical or emotional harm, but you need to learn when the threats are serious and when they aren't. Or, on another facet, following their orders - or what you think are their orders - like a good little soldier will rarely turn out well for either of you in the long run. You'll look desperate, at best. At worst...let's not get into that.

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[ Definitely on the 'somebody stop her' end of the scale. ]

"Pearl....what are you doing?" Aqua asked, pausing in the middle of wrapping her hand with a bandage. Her wrist had gotten strained from training with her keyblade for so long. She should be wearing a wrist brace to keep her wrist straight and protected, but thought the wrap would be just fine. However, that didn't seem to be the case with her ~~crush~~ friend.

"I'm fine. It's nothing serious."

[ooc: I've seen only a few episodes of Steven Universe, but the show does look pretty cool! Let me know if this works.]

Edited 2015-07-21 05:54 (UTC)

[Either or!]

[Can do either. When it comes to protecting those he cares about, Mamoru falls somewhere in the middle. He is very protective of others, especially people he likes, but he tries to never take it too far, as when someone's protective of HIM, he hates being treated like a little kid, that he's more capable and complex than that. So it's only natural he tries to tone down the protectiveness if he makes other people feel that way.]

ooc: Definitely the one being overprotective, likely over his 'big brother.'

[definitely the over protective one.]

[overprotective is her middle name]

[F/M if it leans that way. No minors for anything shippy. Crosscanon and castmates welcome.]

[M/F if it leans that way. No minors for anything shippy. Crosscanon and castmates welcome.]

((The one being (over)protected...much to her disapproval.]

((ooc: The protected one))

[Maybe Fear is holding up your every move out of a zeal to keep you safe from danger? Joy making you struggle hard to stay positive in spite of reality? Anger blindly getting you into trouble in the name of fairness? Maybe Disgust is closing you off to trying something new, or Sadness is keeping you from taking action in the name of being comfortably miserable.]

[Either way, your emotions have an over-protective streak. Might as well face them head-on!]