feed me, mememore ([personal profile] sneaks) wrote in [community profile] bakerstreet2012-09-16 03:57 pm

The Sentinel and Guides AU Meme

Love at First sight from We

 
Sentinels and Guides are Known: 
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 

Jeanne d'Arc | Hetalia

[personal profile] maid_of_france 2012-09-16 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
drowns: (Default)

mitsuki ishikawa | original character; mhhk | ota (guide)

[personal profile] drowns 2012-09-16 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
invocation: (38. | i'll make sure)

kyouko sakura | madoka magica | ota (sentinel or guide)

[personal profile] invocation 2012-09-16 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
perished: (pic#4320523)

kyo sakura (male!kyouko sakura) | madoka magica | ota

[personal profile] perished 2012-09-16 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sentinel or guide.]
cravats: (Default)

Randolph Lyall | The Parasol Protectorate | Guide

[personal profile] cravats 2012-09-16 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
cassielschoice: (Default)

Joscelin Verreuil | Kushiel's Legacy | Sentinel

[personal profile] cassielschoice 2012-09-16 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
worstvikingever: (Default)

Hiccup | How to Train Your Dragon | Guide

[personal profile] worstvikingever 2012-09-16 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
icedreams: (Default)

5

[personal profile] icedreams 2012-09-16 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[Being at school means being exposed to a lot of sensory data, a lot of distractions. Which is why it's probably not surprising that Van has spaced out, staring at one of the paintings on the wall, his eyes fixed on a tiny corner of it.]
in_triplicate: ([phil] up close)

[personal profile] in_triplicate 2012-09-16 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
( ooc: just wanted to say that I love Joscelin/the Kushiel's Legacy series! so great to see someone else has read it! :D )
cassielschoice: (Default)

[personal profile] cassielschoice 2012-09-16 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
(It's pretty great! :D Always glad to see other fans. :3)
memory_of_a_shadow: (Default)

Loki Laufeyson | MCU | ota--Guide

[personal profile] memory_of_a_shadow 2012-09-16 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
...
revolutionized: (pic#1085584)

utena tenjou | revolutionary girl utena | ota (sentinel or guide)

[personal profile] revolutionized 2012-09-16 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
thunderboltsandlightning: (confused - arms crossed)

[personal profile] thunderboltsandlightning 2012-09-16 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
((OOC: Would you be all right with a Thor? If so, any scenario you might like?))
worstvikingever: (that's pretty cool!)

[personal profile] worstvikingever 2012-09-16 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[Hiccup comes up next to him and blinks, then looks at the painting. He looks back at Van. Then back at the painting. He bites back a grin and leans forward. Very quietly, because he knows how jarring it can be for Van when he gets brought out of these moments, Hiccup says,]

Van.
icedreams: (Default)

[personal profile] icedreams 2012-09-16 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[The whisper of his Guide's voice is enough to pull him back and he blinks a few times, shaking his head. He eyes the painting with irritated distaste.]

It's not even a good painting.
tarblackheart: (pic#4764992)

Natasha Romanoff | MCU | ota (sentinel)

[personal profile] tarblackheart 2012-09-16 10:17 pm (UTC)(link)
...
memory_of_a_shadow: (A memory of a shadow.)

[personal profile] memory_of_a_shadow 2012-09-16 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
((OOC: Oh gosh yes! :) And all of these options seem like they would be super interesting between Loki and Thor. I'm up for 2,4,5 or 9 all as possible situations.))
worstvikingever: (Hey look I'm not so useless! Really!)

[personal profile] worstvikingever 2012-09-16 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[At this, Hiccup doesn't even bother to hide his grin.]

Better than that one time you spaced at the baseball game.
asthehawkflies: (Breathe)

Clint Barton/Hawkeye | MCU | OTA (Sentinel)

[personal profile] asthehawkflies 2012-09-16 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
complicatedliar: (sideways glance)

Loki | MCU | OTA (sentinal or guide)

[personal profile] complicatedliar 2012-09-16 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[Don't mind me, just another damn Loki~]
icedreams: (coaxing)

[personal profile] icedreams 2012-09-16 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
We're never doing baseball again. It's a stupid sport, anyway.

[Seriously, why had they even gone? Neither of them like sports very much.

Hiccup now has a Sentinel pressed up against him- not exactly cuddling, but close. And he's sniffing him, because Guidescent is delicious.]
thunderboltsandlightning: (loki - sit)

[personal profile] thunderboltsandlightning 2012-09-16 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
((OOC: Let's start with 9 and move to 2 and the rest? What sort of world are you looking for? Loki would probably fit best with being the Guide that gets stuck in the shadows, or someone that doesn't want to be a Guide at all. I don't know how you feel about force.))
memory_of_a_shadow: (Do I look the fool to you?)

[personal profile] memory_of_a_shadow 2012-09-16 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
((OOC: 9 to 2 works for me. My inner Loki is scowling and saying 'No Asgard, mortal' so perhaps they're on Midgard--definitely still 'gods' with all their powers and stuff, because that just makes it even more delightful~. And as Loki wants nothing to do with being tied to another person like that, much less Thor, then there might be quite a bit of force required and resistance to match. But even if he doesn't want it at all, he will give in for some complicated reason.))
in_triplicate: ([agent] listening in)

Phillipa Coulson (rule!63) • MCU • guide

[personal profile] in_triplicate 2012-09-16 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
worstvikingever: (welp)

[personal profile] worstvikingever 2012-09-16 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[Crap. Hiccup hates when he does this. Not because he doesn't like it, but because it's super awkward at school and people are looking and judging and... all that. But he also hates telling Van to stop because he's always afraid he'll be hurt or something... but it's only school, right? Not like these people can make his life hell every single day if they want except they can but then again he also has Van so it's okay...?

Hiccup forces himself to take a deep breath and not move. Because it's okay, right? It's okay.]


Well obviously. I wouldn't have even bothered in the first place if my dad hadn't been breathing down my neck about doing some kind of sport. And it seemed the least, you know, violent.

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