bakerstreet | Bodyguarding your heart

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

(cain is bodyguard-> smutty and angsty things are ok with me!)

[I can give you a prince to look after.]

( most suited for role of bodyguard; m/f for shipping, but not interested in smut. )

[probably the bodyguard but there are certainly times he needs a guide, so flexibility is the name of the game. no spiciness required but if so: m/f]

( hq here could be the guard, the guarded, or a fine mixture of both tbh )

preferences:
- fluffy, angsty, fluffy-smut (is that a thing?)
- just meeting would be great for crossovers, but i'll work with anything thrown her way!

( the bodyguard! up for anything genre-wise )

[ As a sheltered noblewoman by day, she'd need the protection. But Regeane can shapeshift into a wolf by night, and if she encountered someone in need she could also do the guarding. Her time period is that of Charlemagne, but open to any historical/fantasy AUs! ]