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✖ bodyguard? lover? the lines are blurred, now.

PROTECTOR/PROTECTED
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There’s no real push to your actions; you do them as if they were second nature. Perhaps, initially, you were assigned this role, as protector and guardian of this person. Maybe you took it on because there was no one else. A natural guardian or not, good or evil, you caught a shining to them and felt…something. Something hard to explain, but you want to keep them safe and happy - or at the very least, content. No one is as dedicated to them as you. You want them to reach their goals; to help them achieve them, you'll do what you must, even if it means being their gofer or their right hand.

But most of all, you don't want them to end up like you. They're worth more than that.

Yet somehow, along the line, you became more to them, more than just their protector. You protect them anew and you've found a different way to make them happy. It's selfish, too, because you love them in your way and you want them more than anything. You may feel guilty, of course. They don't, though, and that's what matters.

Comment with your character, preferences, and what you'd prefer to play: protector or protected.
Remember, you don't have to be so rigid. A traditionally weak character can "protect" a traditionally strong one in emotional ways.
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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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[obviously the protector, unless you are super interested in going a different way!]

[ interested in bucky? ]

[i am never not interested in bucky c:]

[ any preference on which ones to do? ]

[ummm i'm absolutely flexible and a lot of them sound good? 10 is obv appropriate, or 20 for shipping. 13 or 21 if bucky is the protector maybe.]

Along the shadows he existed, weaving in and out of the life of the one who would not leave his mind. A mind left in tatters and destructive ruins, making him a danger to not only himself but everyone else he touched. They tainted him and he didn't want to infect anyone else with the poisons he remembered all too well. Why, then, did he linger just out of reach towards someone he should leave be? Because, nearly all his memories revolved around him. Steve Rogers. More so, Stevie Rogers in his memories. The punk kid who never learned when to say enough or when to ever walk away. If Bucky didn't help, well, he didn't want to think on any other possibilities.

Letting out a puff of air, Bucky managed to take out a few agents storming the building but in his near desperate need to check on Steve, he lost his footing and fell, landing hard on his back. The air rushed out of his lungs, black spots tugging at the edges of his vision but he didn't stay down for long. He continued on, running through the rumble in what he believed to be the opposite direction of the one hunting HIM. But again, he miscalculated, something he wanted to blame on the programming breaking down and how out of sorts he felt in his own skin, in his own mind.

Instead of going the opposite way, he ran right into Steve himself. What could he say? There were so many things but the only thing to push past his lips - "Hey Stevie."

[ i am so sorry this got so long, do not feel the need to match it! i went with bucky as the protector but it could kind of go both ways. ]

[ she'd be the protector unless someone wants to do things another way! ]

[ooc: Either / or.]

[I mean. She's Kenzi. She would make a terrible protector but she'll die trying. So... either?]

[ Either. Default setting is protector but role reversal is always nice. ]

_{[Definitely the protector. Possibly hired.]}

_{[Either or, more likely the protector.]}

[Would you mind Anna?]

_{[Should be fun. Would you rather he be someone already under her employ or someone hired to protect her/possibly Elsa?]}

[Maybe he already works for the family and is protecting Anna while on a journey somewhere else?]

It wasn't so uncommon for him and his men to be hired by foreign powers, either for entertainment or protection, convenience, hearsay of quality, any number of things. They'd gotten a missive from Arendelle months ago, asking for a small force to act as guards and escorts. 'A small force' generally meant Krem and a small assortment of his men, and they'd been assigned as a royal caravan's escort, of all things.

So here he was, in full armor with a sword at his hip and shield slung across his back, riding a sturdy warhorse alongside a gilded carriage, stoic in expression but clearly rather bored. He wasn't exactly talkative, but not for lack of Anna trying. She was certainly very cute, but more talkative than he generally liked. He supposed he could sort of understand it, isolated as she had been before, according to the reports they'd gotten before he'd been assigned to her. He wasn't entirely sure why she'd been sent to travel to a neighboring kingdom alone. Something about diplomacy, a treaty, noble crap, as the Chief would have said.

He wondered vaguely how much she knew about him, whether she'd been given details about the people working for her family. It was possible that all she'd been told was that she now had a small personal guard. Did she know they'd formerly been mercenaries? How far they'd come from their homelands? The accents were sure to give it away, if not the presence of elves, the tan of his skin, the difference in terminology for some things.

Well, if she didn't know beforehand, she'd probably put it together by now. She was smart like that.

A knock on the carriage door came hours into the trip, near time when the sun would start to set. He spoke up quietly to keep from startling her. "Highness, we're going to be stopping for the night. There's a village further up, but we can set up camp if you'd rather avoid inns and bedbugs."

Anna had never traveled so far from home by herself before. At first she was excited, almost as ecstatic as she had been when Elsa first opened the castle gates during her coronation.

But then... then came the hours and hours of nothing but riding in a carriage while her escorts sat stoically on their lovely mounts, doing their jobs but generally not being quite so excited about the whole affair. Anna didn't know much about Krem and his men, only that they were considered exceedingly competent and were composed of people from all different walks of life. That would have been exciting too if they would only talk with her more.

Anna was just about asleep in the carriage when the sound of Krem's voice quickly brought her back to wakefulness. All of her excitement seemed to return in a moment at the mention of camping. Camping out in the wilds with a foreign guard! How adventurous!

"Let's set up camp!"

Without waiting to hear what else Krem might have to say, Anna threw open the carriage doors and hopped out onto the road. She might have been wearing a dress and slippers, but that didn't stop her from running into the grass, grinning as she finally got a chance to stretch her legs.

Carriages were so dull. Next time she was going to insist on bringing her mount for the trip as well.

Honestly, he felt he really should have expected the sudden burst of energy. Sometimes, nobles were excited to be out and about and not in their gilded cages, just "roughing it" even though they had no real idea what that sort of thing even meant. He sighed, then gave a sharp whistle to call the carriage, plus the ~~mage~~ archer on the other side atop her hart to stop. This would be where they attempted to set up camp, apparently. He barked his orders, all business and slight ire, before swinging himself down off his horse and heading after Anna. He could smell a river nearby, and they would have to set up relatively close to it if they wanted to fill their waterskins, splash their faces, fetch water for tea or supper.

"Try not to wander far!" he called after her, shaking his head and jogging to catch up. Dalish was unloading her belongings from the rear of the caravan, starting to mark out a place for a fire pit. This was all old hat, and she would have half the camp set up before Krem returned with Anna in tow.

When he caught up to her, he offered his hand. "My lady. Might want to be careful, bandits out here'd spot your silks a league off and then we'd have to actually draw our blades for once." A gentle tease, but a tease nonetheless.

((Most likely the protector but I can also play him as the protected.))

[Can honestly be protector or protected.]

[Would need to be protected. He can be aged up if necessary as well.]

[protector, but open to being the protected if it makes sense]

((I have not watched S2 of Daredevil but am interested to see how Frank and Coulson CR could work out. Okay with gen or shipping. And I'm good with spoilers if this arrangement works))

[I haven't watched AOS so I am only familiar with Coulson in the MCU, so we are equally blind, if that helps! I'm always open to new CR. Frank is kind of a walking spoiler so I can't avoid them much. I'd prefer gen for now until we gain CR if that's okay]

Edited 2016-11-07 15:42 (UTC)

((cool. I can set something up for us tomorrow as I'm headed to bed.))

[no problem, sleep well]

It is a simple relationship. Coulson handles all the politics, people, and reconnaissance, and Frank makes sure the man doesn't get offed along the way. They do get a lot of spy gadgets and toys to play with. Heck, Coulson's prosthetic left forearm is a marvel in itself with an energy shield, x-ray scanner, and built in fingerprint scanner, which he just used earlier in the day to get somebody's fingerprints.

He taps a few unseen buttons on his forearm and presses his index finger to the scanner at the door of the closed lab, listening for a positive beep, before drawing away.

"See? Easy," he says to Frank as he pushes the door open. The mission to infiltrate and dig up the dirt on a supposedly legit pharmaceutical company should be a breeze

There are many reasons why Frank should not be here or doing this but it could be worse. He could be defending some asshole with an attitude problem or blackmailed into the job, but neither of those are the case. Honestly, it's a rewarding position on both ends. He helps Coulson not die and gets useful information in return for his personal agenda. It works out most of the time.

Frank still doesn't fully understand the technology of this side of the vigilante underground or whatever you want to call it, wary about the technology that makes Coulson do what he does. The only extraordinary thing about Frank is his thirst for vengeance on criminals. Nothing special otherwise.

"It's never that easy," he comments while following him in, alert and wary as he looks around the room. "Don't let your guard down yet."

"We've studied the security detail. They don't make their rounds for another 10 minutes." It's not that Coulson is careless or underestimating the job, really. He's just done this enough times to maintain a breezy confidence. Besides, he likes to try to maintain a slightly more casual or upbeat environment for his missions with new operatives, loosen them up a little, get to know them better.

"The only thing we have to watch out for are the motion sensors and lasers." The room is clear and seem to contain two other doors on the far end, which makes Coulson pause. "Wait, there should only be one door here."

Playing the part of her bodyguard while she infiltrates the old family business?

[We could have Karen be protected, or maybe she's protecting him at the paper?]

[Either / Or]

[Protector most likely, but I'll work with either.]

[The one being protected]

((I'm especially looking for an Aeleus or Dilan, but if anyone else would like to cross-canon/AU with a tactical schemer who's just getting used to having his heart again, I'd be completely down for any other bigger, physical guardian-type to fill the protector role.))

Edited 2016-11-07 18:02 (UTC)

(( Re-l Mayer would of course be ideal canon pref, but I'm open to playing a similarly protective, overly-committed, closely involved doctor/confidant/emotional support with a cross-canon character in a cyberpunk-genre setting, provided that they've got some kind of enigmatic qualities or genetic predispositions that would intrigue him.))

[Protected.]

[Would really REALLY really love some AU goodness. Either he goes good or both go bad? Let's chat!]

[Can go either way: he's a prince so he can play a "protected" role, but has enough magical/fighting skills to be a "protector".]

[Most likely Protected.]

Edited 2016-11-09 02:44 (UTC)

[Protector.]

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