bakerstreet | ( Bodyguard Shipping )

the bodyguard shipping meme

You're a pop star, or a royal, or maybe even the last of your kind who will bring about the Earth's redemption. Whatever the case may be, you're in a position that may be a bit dicey if you attract the wrong kind of attention.

And you're a bodyguard, a soldier, a knight - a protector. Somehow, you've been roped into protecting this person. You'll be rewarded, of course. The work may be cut out for you, but just do your job, keep your head down, and it'll go smooth.

Except for when the two of you break the bounds of professionalism and feelings begin to flourish. Being in such close quarters may get you to see the other in a different light, and saving someone's life just may be the ultimate form of intimacy.

Could this be the real danger? To feel so strongly for the one you've sworn to protect...are you compromised?

How to Play

1. Comment with your character and preferences, being sure to put if you want to play the guard, the guarded, or either. Also, you may want to put if you prefer fluffy, angsty, or smutty interaction - or have no preference.
2. Comment to others.
3. There are no prompts, because there are so many potential options there could be a hundred. Feel free to play anything: the beginnings of the relationship, just meeting, getting used to each other/not getting along at first, the obligatory first time, a threat on the protected's life and how their protector responds, how the feelings between the two has changed the protection, etc. Your only limit is you.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[ Lbr she could use some protection once she gets out in the wide, wide world. Er, wide, wide universe. ]

[ this is his job anyway, so he's more likely the guard. ]

[ the guard. mercenary though, so if he's been hired for this odds are his client needs to also be up to something shady. ]

( She has no Barristan or Jorah - protect her pls. )

[ Bodyguard most likely, but it would be entertaining to see someone guarding him. m/m for shipping, ota for gen. ]

_{[How would you feel about officer Grayson being assigned to protect Mr Queen, with neither of them aware that they're both masked vigilantes the rest of the time. Optional already knowing each other as Nightwing/Green Arrow]}

[ He's welcome to try ^^ I'm cool with them knowing or not knowing each other as their vigilante selves, whichever you'd prefer ]

The last thing Dick had expected with his transfer to Star City was an immediate assignment, a bodyguarding assignment no less. Admittedly, as soon as he'd heard the description of the people who'd threatened to attack Oliver Queen, he'd made sure he was first in line to be assigned to the protection detail. This was the kind of threat that would take all of his skill as a police officer, and probably a few of his extra-curricular skills as well. His colleagues weren't really used to dealing with that kind of thing the way he was.

He also figured it would be better to have someone who wasn't starstruck or overly impressed by Queen's reputation or mansion, given that Dick had more than enough experience in those areas as well.

He knocked on the door, glancing around him and idly judging the defensibility of the place while he waited for someone to answer. He could see plenty of cameras, that was a good start, and his practiced eye took in a few other more advanced security features that he was impressed by. It made him wonder what he couldn't see.

(ooc: the one who needs protection)

( most likely guarded, but can play the other role too! )

[Stoic, unfeeling bodyguard by default. Please note that Jaffar is particularly emotionally flawed, and often seems to have no real will of his own. He is likely to agree to "trivial" things just because it's what his partner wants.]

[ Most likely the bodyguard. ]

(We know she doesn't need it, but Katsu will so beg for protection! Any prefs/kinks you would wanna toss in for these two?)

[Canonly she's the daughter to the head of the largest yakuza in Japan, so she'd definitely be one with a bodyguard, but she'd make a good AU bodyguard herself too.]

[More likely the one being guarded.]

This is probably the stupidest thing ever done but the money is good so who is she to complain? After his whole debacle causing Gotham to go in the asking price to guard him is mighty high indeed.

Memoriam leans against the wall and watches him in his cell under an apathetic skull mask. Every now and then she shifts her weight to her other leg but otherwise she doesn't try to initiate a conversation. She knows she's lower on the pecking order than him.