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.
- Reply to others.
- 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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Guess who needs protecting? Bingo. Newt Scamander.
Ostensibly, he's come back to America to give Tina a copy of his book, but - well, what he's conveniently not mentioning is that Grindelwald's supporters are slightly unhappy with him. Slightly as in a few of them took particular offense and chased him across Europe; he really hopes they haven't traced him to America.
(Little does he know, they definitely have. But MACUSA does know.)
So here he is, trying to pretend that everything's all right, except everything about his demeanour says that it isn't. He looks like a fugitive, his clothes slightly mussed, dark circles under his eyes attesting to a lack of sleep, a nervous tremble in his hands. He knocks on the door of Tina's brownstone, glancing around as he waits for her to answer, the book tucked under an arm because his hands are too busy with his case and his wand.]
thx for the starter, and sorry i'm late.
Off the case! [Tina spits, kicking a metal bed leg, instantly regretting it. She growls, loudly, stomping her foot indignantly for the umpteenth time. If anything Tina should be heading the task force charged with finding Newt Scamander and the fanatical Grindewald supporters tracking him. Instead, claiming her attachment to the former would severely hinder her ability to judge objectively, as if the President had grounds for suspecting Newt of criminal activity as well, she all but forced Tina into a week of paid leave. So understandably it is with trepidation and a pinch of hopeful, foolish longing that she jumps, stopping herself from outright running to the answer the knocking at her door.
Her breath catches and her heart stops as she peers through the peephole and yanks the door open. What a world of difference the barrier of a door can make. Tina cannot remember ever seeing him in such a state, so worn down and fearful. Yes, fearful. ]
Mr. Scamander, er, Newt you look... [Tina wants to ask if he knows he is being followed, but stops herself, stepping aside to give him space to enter as her eyes fall to his wand. She steps past him to glance out of the apartment down either side of the corridor, shutting the door now behind her with a quiet click and tap of her wand before turning to her guest.] Sit down, sit down. I'll make us some tea. [For half a second she considers slipping him a Sleeping Draught, before remembering how damaging sneaking potions without the knowledge of the drinker can be on a friendship. Crossing the length of the apartment to the windows facing the street, Tina scans the sidewalks below before moving back to the table to conjure two cups of hot tea and honey, sinking into the chair across from him.]
I thought that you might send a letter, you know, letting me know you were on your way. [There's an edge of irritability in her tone, her anger with the President far from subdued. Rather than interrogating him outright, Tina wants to know how much he will divulge without being pressed.]
no problem!
[Newt hurries inside, wondering if he ought to ward the door - but, no, that would be obvious, and he doesn't want to make her worry. (Never mind that showing up on her doorstep with no word, looking like he does, is obviously already going to make her worry. Sometimes common sense eludes Newt like a Demiguise.) Instead, he follows Tina, his gaze going to the windows when she does. He hadn't remembered her building being so exposed. Funny, the things you start to pay attention to when you're being followed by wizards who are intent on killing you.
(Theseus might acerbically remark that at least something has made his brother drag his head out of the clouds and pay attention to the real world. This isn't entirely true; Newt pays quite a lot of attention to the natural world, to any sign of his beloved beasts, no matter what sort of environment they inhabit. It's simply the human world that escapes his notice, wizard or Muggle.)
Sitting down is a relief; he feels like he's Apparated in short hops back and forth across half the city, trying to keep his movements erratic. He tucks the case under the chair - the latches are quite secure this time - and takes up his cup of tea, sipping the beverage gratefully. If he holds it in both hands, it's easier to disguise the tremor in his hands.]
Yes. A letter. I meant to owl, but- [He'd worried the poor thing would be intercepted and killed for the information it held.] There wasn't time. Last-minute trip, had to run for the boat. [Which is mostly true.] Is Queenie here, or is she at work?
[He hopes she's at work. Maybe Tina's anger is simply at his sudden arrival, maybe he can keep her from finding out why he's really in America. Can't do that with a Legilimens around.]
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