Mirror, Mirror Memes ([personal profile] mirrormirrormeme) wrote in [community profile] bakerstreet2017-02-08 09:06 am

Bodyguard? Lover? The lines are blurred, now.

PROTECTOR/PROTECTED
shipping meme
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.



  1. Promise ✖ You told them you would take care of their lover, no matter what. You intend to follow through with that.
  2. Close ✖ What are friends for if not taking care of unfinished business?
  3. Debt Owed ✖ Kindness or favor has to be repaid, even if it's an investment in someone else.
  4. Atonement ✖ Whether or not you particularly cared for the person who's gone is irrelevant. You just need to make up for past sins.
  5. 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.
  6. Guilt ✖ It's your fault that you're here and their significant other isn't. It's a paltry repayment.
  7. Bearer of Bad News ✖ You can't blame them for wanting to shoot the messenger. You are telling them their lover is dead.
  8. 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."
  9. 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.
  10. Friends ✖ You were all friends before, so it's only natural for you to want to look out for them now.
  11. Derisive ✖ ...this is the person they loved so much? This is who you're supposed to protect? Pathetic.
  12. Resentful ✖ You can never forgive them. They're the reason your lover is dead, no matter how they treat you.
  13. 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.
  14. 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?
  15. Still in Danger ✖ Whatever killed one half of the pair is still out there, and the other half is in danger themselves.
  16. 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.
  17. Compromised ✖ You can't look after them with a level head. You love them.
  18. Can't Love Again ✖ You've lost before. You can't risk losing again, can you?
  19. 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.
  20. First Time ✖ Simply what it says. You two have taken your relationship to the next level.
  21. 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.
  22. Living Together ✖ You can take care of them more throughly if you're in the same place as they are, obviously.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. Dependent ✖ Replacing one unhealthy habit with another, you've become utterly dependent on your relationship with your caretaker, your guardian, your lover.
  26. 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.
  27. 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?
  28. The Same Mistakes ✖ You're falling into the same patterns that lead to their death. Will you meet the same fate?
  29. 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?
  30. Move On ✖ It's time to put ghosts to rest and let old demons go. You can't let your life become a graveyard.
  31. Tragedy ✖ The ending is unhappy or even deadly for both of you.
  32. 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.
  33. WILDCARD
accursing: (Default)

ryuji takayama ( ring: the final chapter ) ota

[personal profile] accursing 2017-02-08 03:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[ likely the protector! loving and gentle to who he protects, fierce and angry and merciless to anyone that might hurt them. ryuji's programmed to NEED someone to take care of lest the hatred and violence in his dna take over, so in a way he's also being "protected" himself. ]
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( OH! someone knows of this!!! if you are interested and with heavy au'ing (on her) maybe we can do something. )

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brynhildr: ♥ artist unknown. (♜X)

Leo | Fire Emblem Fates

[personal profile] brynhildr 2017-02-08 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Either! Protector or protected. Will respond to anyone, but where my retainers at.]
Edited 2017-02-08 18:04 (UTC)
agilis: (pic#10992005)

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[ How about a crosscanon retainer? Any prompts you're particularly interested in doing? ]

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madeofmore: (Default)

snow white | mirror mirror

[personal profile] madeofmore 2017-02-08 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[ either role ]
foamed: (pic#11034793)

[personal profile] foamed 2017-02-09 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
( are you interested in a crossover with the little mermaid (the fairytale)?
either as the protector, maybe saving her from the water, or as the protected! )

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gaby telller | the man from u.n.c.l.e

[personal profile] hacken 2017-02-08 06:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[ either role possible. ]

Rory Monroe ★ OC

[personal profile] from_dawn_till_busk 2017-02-08 06:40 pm (UTC)(link)
(Protected)
petrock: (08. Signing)

Kouji Kouda | My Hero Academia | OTA

[personal profile] petrock 2017-02-08 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[ In a physical confrontation he might be the protector. In a social once, though, he'd definitely want protected. ]

[personal profile] unfortunatechemistry 2017-02-09 08:20 am (UTC)(link)
((Yooo, if you want we could switch it up and have Kouji doing the physical rescuing this time somehow.))

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I'll start!

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thank you~

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yokozawa: (15)

Takafumi Yokozawa | Sekaiichi Hatsukoi

[personal profile] yokozawa 2017-02-08 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[Either role is fine, although he naturally leans more towards being the protector.]
accursing: (Default)

[personal profile] accursing 2017-02-09 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
[ if you don't mind cross-canon/medium? ryuji here's a prodigy and reached university professor status at the age of 21, and i was sort of thinking of him having yokozawa as his former mentee/assistant when he was still in uni, or something like that. given ryuji published a crapton of books, yokozawa could've helped in that department, like making sure his material's ready before sending it to the publishers or something--making sure he meets his deadlines, is eating right, etc.

and yokozawa's graduated and doesn't necessarily work for ryuji any more, but they still keep up here and there like friends? and maybe ryuji's aware of his terrible personal life? and it's a somewhat mutual protectiveness, but takafumi's a lot more concerned about ryuji's life than the opposite, even though ryuji tries to pry or what.

sorry this became long slfja ]

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nyaaaaaa

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myaaan :3

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thequitecontrary: (cautious)

Mary Crawley | Downton Abbey | M/F

[personal profile] thequitecontrary 2017-02-08 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[Protected.]
urite_mala: ([witch] working)

Sean Parrish | OC | OTA

[personal profile] urite_mala 2017-02-08 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[ The Protector ]
luxoraculi: (Default)

Lunafreya Nox Fleuret | ffxv | ota

[personal profile] luxoraculi 2017-02-09 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
[ Either role is fine with me. ]
fieryknowledge: (Tactical thinking)

Ignis Stupeo Scientia || Final Fantasy XV

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Sora Takenouchi ~ Digimon Tri ~ M/F

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lunafreya nox fleuret ❀ ffxv

[personal profile] lunaplaya 2017-02-09 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
(ota. most likely the protected.)

[personal profile] pains 2017-02-09 09:21 am (UTC)(link)
( Oh man, Luna! Any preference between 31, 32 or 27? )

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Elias Ainsworth // The Ancient Magus Bride

[personal profile] gentlemanmonster 2017-02-09 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
[ooc: Yay new muse! Voice testing this bonehead. Very nervous, please be gentle! Definitely the protector. PM me with any questions or to discuss a scenario!]
accursing: (distressed)

[personal profile] accursing 2017-02-09 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
( he did it because he can't live free any more.

one incident became two became three became many, and quite frankly ryuji can't stand the buckets of blood being poured into his hands after his blackouts any longer. he can't be trusted on his own, nor does he really have anything left to live for; so, too afraid to die, he came here instead.

the process was almost too easy.

a young man of relatively good looks and a subdued personality (which is more exhaustion on ryuji's part than anything else) is apparently worth a lot. while his bounds are heavy, he doesn't mind sitting around, or being touched and examined and checked by strangers' hands. at the very least his life in captivity hasn't brought violence, and that's all that matters.

he hasn't been purchased yet, but it's only been a day. then again, it's not like it really matters--all he needs is the assurance that he won't have any freedom, and maybe he won't be a murderer any more. )

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Lonette | Cool World | F/M

[personal profile] pretendpinup 2017-02-09 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
( aka the waitress who the mob wants to swim with the fishes. hearing too much is always the pits.

she's a loyal, patient, long-suffering "girl you've got back home" kinda dame, the one you can take home to mother and will be by your side through thick and thin. also, she's from the 1940s. pretty much. )
unstayed: (Default)

magnus | oc

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unwomanly: (Default)

velvet crowe | tales of berseria | ota

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( either role is fine, but she's more likely to fit in as a protector. )
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Alistair Theirin | Dragon Age | OTA

[personal profile] nobroth 2017-02-09 07:30 am (UTC)(link)
[Bodyguard to the king? Or he's the bodyguard...]
allfornothing: (Default)

Crowe Altius | Final Fantasy XV - Kingsglaive

[personal profile] allfornothing 2017-02-09 09:07 am (UTC)(link)
ooc: Can go with either.
orcsurfing: (tourist in lorien)

legolas, lord of the rings (novels)

[personal profile] orcsurfing 2017-02-09 12:40 pm (UTC)(link)
( either role works! though for protector, generally it wouldn't be an official role, rather something he choose to do himself. )
insurgentblade: (Default)

Ulaz ⚔ Voltron

[personal profile] insurgentblade 2017-02-09 01:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[Either role is fine. Open to castmates and crosscanon/medium and AU'd scenarios.]
oneirism: (Default)

Lapis Fathalla | Original | OTA

[personal profile] oneirism 2017-02-09 03:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[Can be either, since she can use her ghost friends to protect others.]
rageofdust: (Default)

mikazuki augus / gundam ibo

[personal profile] rageofdust 2017-02-09 04:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[ most likely the protector, can also be protected if he needs to be taken care of. spoilers are ok, updated w/ ibo s2. ]
goldsteins: (0010070)

Tina Goldstein | Fantastic Beasts

[personal profile] goldsteins 2017-02-09 07:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Either role is fine! ]
Edited 2017-02-09 19:06 (UTC)
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Spencer Reid | Criminal Minds

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