postingmemes ([personal profile] postingmemes) wrote in [community profile] bakerstreet2017-03-20 09:45 pm
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Sentinels and Guides - My other HALF


 
Sentinels and Guides Shipping Meme
A Sentinel!AU Meme

 

There are special people in the world: Sentinels--whose five senses are incredibly enhanced, sometimes to the point of overwhelming and who can easily lose themselves in fugue states--and Guides, the empaths with the ability to ground a Sentinel and focus them. Meant to be the protectors of the Guides, for every Sentinel there exists a guide that is their perfect match. In some universes, when matches are made, a Sentinel and Guide form a soulbond to fill the feeling of emptiness.

How easy was it for you to find yours? How are Sentinels and Guides treated in your universe? Or maybe you're one of the normal, unremarkable people. Do you fear Sentinels and Guides? Despise them?

 

Rules
1) Post with your character/canon in the subject header.
2a) Choose whether your character is a Sentinel or a Guide
or
2b) If you don't know or don't care, just leave it blank!
3) Information about Sentinels and Guides can be found here and here. Information on 'The Sentinel' which this meme comes from can be found here.
 
4) All the tagging! Have fun 8D

Prompts
oo1. The Meeting
How did you meet? Was it at an event organized specifically for finding your other half? By accident? Did you follow a mystical calling to them? Some other way?

oo2. The Bonding
Do Sentinels and Guides in your universe soulbond? How does it go down? Is there a ceremony or do you just retreat to the bedroom?

oo3. Rejection
Sometimes Sentinels or Guides propose a match but it's just not perfect. You don't feel the pull or maybe you think there is someone better or maybe you're already claimed. Maybe you were claimed and someone better came along?

oo4. Protection
Sentinels are meant to protect Guides, any Guides, but it's even worse when they feel their Guide is in danger. They go feral; blind to anything but stopping and killing whoever threatened their Guide or the bond. Maybe someone attacked your Guide or you haven't bonded yet and you feel threatened or maybe you're the one doing the threatening. Whatever the reason, Sentinels in a feral state are dangerous and only their Guides can stop them.

oo5. Lost
Sentinels often lose themselves in their senses. Either you're a Sentinel who has lost themselves or a Guide that has stumbled on one or a friend trying to draw them out. Unbonded Sentinels will find it hard to escape without a Guide. Or maybe you're bonded already which means you just need yours to come home.

006. Persecution
Sometimes normal people or the government fear the power of Guides and Sentinels. Guides are empaths, feeling the emotions and sometimes passing thoughts of others and it can make people feel violated. Sentinels often have enhanced strength, which can make them dangerous. So they scorn them, hurt them or in the case of governments, regulate them.

oo7. Death
Unbonded Sentinels and Guides eventually lose themselves to the empty cavern inside them. Torn apart from the inside by the feeling of something missing. Breaking the soulbond of a Sentinel and Guide is agonizing and horrifying, leading quickly to death for the remaining partner. 

oo8. Old-School
Guides used to be treated on the same level as slaves. Unable to work unless their Sentinel said. Not allowed out on their own. They used to wear collars and couldn't own land or inherit money. Maybe the old ways haven't completely fallen out of style. 

oo9. Unbonded
Nothing is worse than being an unbonded Guide or Sentinel. Always looking for your other half to fill that empty feeling but you probably have friends that aren't your match or who are trying to set you up with someone. Maybe you're skeptical about the whole love at first sight thing and haven't been looking.

o10. Wildcard: Some mish-mash of the above or anything else you can come up with!

Image from weheartit / original meme by [personal profile] imadeamistake 
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[personal profile] counteracting 2017-03-22 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
"We can, but let's go to my room to do it though, It's more private." At least she didn't think there were cameras there.

But there could be. Still, it's the place she usually receives her meals so it's comfortable there.

"It's this way." Elena's hand slides down his arm to find his hand.

"If that's okay with you, I mean."
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[personal profile] toten_sie 2017-03-22 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
His hand curls around hers, engulfing it, giving her a faint squeeze.

"I follow you."

Always.
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[personal profile] counteracting 2017-03-22 05:51 am (UTC)(link)
The squeeze is reassuring even if the words have her stilling for a moment before she looks up at him. "I'll do my best to keep you on an even keel." Because really, what else could she say to that.

Elena's quiet during the walk and closes the door to the room behind them before moving to let him find a place to settle. It was a nice room, furnished to look like a real bedroom and tailored to her tastes, but that didn't really keep it from being claustrophobic at times.

And now it just seems smaller with him in it, Elena turning to look at him once he's settled.
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[personal profile] toten_sie 2017-03-23 11:09 am (UTC)(link)
He can tell, just looking around the room, but he smiles as he takes in the little details and the parts of her that he can see in it and turns to look down at her.

"It's very nice."
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[personal profile] counteracting 2017-03-23 12:17 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, it's ...pretty much my space around here." Elena eyed him for a moment. "Make yourself comfortable? I mean there's chairs and the bed so....you have options."
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[personal profile] toten_sie 2017-03-23 12:23 pm (UTC)(link)
He looks around for a moment before carefully finding the smallest space on the floor... and sitting there. It puts him just below her eye height.
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[personal profile] counteracting 2017-03-23 12:28 pm (UTC)(link)
That has the barest hint of a smile tugging at Elena's lips before she moves to him, hands settling on his shoulders. "This works, I think, more or less."

And then Elena's hand slide to his neck, fingers stroking against the skin lightly. "...Is this okay?"
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[personal profile] toten_sie 2017-03-23 01:02 pm (UTC)(link)
He doesn't answer verbally, but there's no pause in tilting his head away from her, baring his throat. Instead, he lets his eyes slide sideways to look at her as he gives a faint nod of consent.
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[personal profile] counteracting 2017-03-24 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
She's done this before, plenty of times, but it's different this time. It feels different and she's hesitant even with his consent, her hand sliding to his shoulder as Elena lowered her head and inhaled a slow breath.

Her lips brushed against his neck, her eyes closing before she sank her fangs in to drink. She'd been told it would be different, likely taste different but that was an understatement, her eyes wide for a moment when the first of the blood hit her tongue.

Elena's fingers were gripping his shoulder, her mouth sealed to his throat and a shudder rolled through her body.
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[personal profile] toten_sie 2017-03-25 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
His hands shift to settle against her side, her back, supporting and holding her even as he feels her drinking from him. And that is... well, it's not anything he could have prepared for.
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[personal profile] counteracting 2017-04-04 11:47 am (UTC)(link)
Elena finally just pulls away, a little breathless and just leans into him, eyes closing as she lets herself relax. It's not as easy as it sounds, his blood filling her veins and Elena turning her head, lips just brushing against his chest.

"Better." It's very soft, her hand sliding up his arm.

"...Are you okay?"
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[personal profile] toten_sie 2017-04-04 01:54 pm (UTC)(link)
If anything, he looks a little out of it, slightly dazed, though his eyes gently shut as she draws away from his throat. He opens them just enough to meet her gaze.

"I helped you."

And that's the best thing.