inborn ([personal profile] inborn) wrote in [community profile] bakerstreet2017-03-28 01:51 pm
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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 
midship: (hms renown)

[personal profile] midship 2017-04-16 02:26 pm (UTC)(link)
It shouldn't set him grinning, but it does. It shouldn't send another little thrill through him, but it does.

"That works out nicely, doesn't it."
betteralready: (a new man)

[personal profile] betteralready 2017-04-16 05:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Well. If Horatio is grinning, Archie's pretty sure he won't be able to stop the brief leap of his heart and the smile back.

"It-- really does."
midship: (hms indefatigable)

[personal profile] midship 2017-04-17 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
For half a second, Horatio can't help wondering. For just half a second, he's acutely aware that some piece of himself that isn't pulsing with Power--some simple, human corner of his heart--would die for Archie simply as a man dies for a man. There's no compulsion. There's no ingrained instinct requiring it.

That's nice, in a way. That's terrifying, in another.

"As you were, then, Mr. Kennedy."
betteralready: (so quick to give)

[personal profile] betteralready 2017-04-17 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
An easy nod as he properly releases the other man.

"Aye aye, sir."

But.

"Do feel free to find me if you-- need me again, later."
midship: (hms hotspur)

[personal profile] midship 2017-04-17 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'll be all right, Archie."

The sentiment is real enough, but it hardly stops a warm wave of affection from flitting off the captain.

"But-- thank you. Enjoy your time, hm?"
betteralready: (better already)

[personal profile] betteralready 2017-04-17 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
A nod and a wave of affection back.

"I will, thank you."
midship: (mr. midshipman kennedy)

[personal profile] midship 2017-04-18 01:37 pm (UTC)(link)
That's something to cling to. That's something to focus on. That's enough, since they have to be professional for the good of the admiralty.

It will be easier, hopefully, to remember that after a few days apart.