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mypowerpole) wrote in bakerstreet2012-10-12 09:56 am
The Sentinel and Guides AU Meme
Sentinels and Guides are Known:
A Sentinel!AU 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.
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 byimadeamistake
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
imadeamistake
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The feeling of relief and pleasure (was that supposed to be "happiness?") upon reestablishing physical contact, particularly in such a warmly accepting way, was very difficult for Jim to deal with. The pleasant effect would only get stronger over time and the Sentinel knew it, just as he knew that his desire for it would overcome even his fanatically bitter hatred and fear of the feeling that something external had any control over him.
Worst of all, Jim realised that given enough time and patience, even THAT resentment would fade away. Until then, however, the process of healing would be accompanied by brutal pain.
"I encourage my people to develop wild fantasies about me. It's a splendid way to ensure that I'm always the centre of attention."
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An easy smile emerged at the rest, "None of the ones I happened to catch were all that wild, sordid, yes, and lurid definitely, but not wild as such." He shrugged, "Of course, it wasn't as if I was digging for anything, just skimming the surface thoughts." And to his credit, he hadn't collected any shards or slivers to replace the multitude he'd let go the day before.
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"You talk too much."
The Sentinel tugged over a chair so he could plunk himself down right next to Charles and hold the Guide's captive hand to the centre of his chest with both of his own. Yes, that was even more soothing. He might be able to function again after several minutes of it.
Eat your bloody breakfast, I'm not going to let everything grind to a halt later because you suddenly decide you're hungry.
And Charles was expected to do so with one hand, obviously.
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"Is there anything you'd like to know about the house before you see it for yourself?" He asked between bites, head tilted slightly. He knew that calling the Xavier mansion a 'house' was a vast understatement, but he hated calling it 'facility' almost as much as he hated calling it a school, because while they did hold classes there, there was much more to it than that.
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dealing with the situation in the most brutally utilitarian way possible. Naturally, this self-concept didn't align well with fighting against the sense of mental peace that this Guide was offering him, particularly because the Sentinel had essentially demanded that the world change to ensure that he have constant access to it.
So he tried to force himself to relax. As always, he was able to put on a very convincing show of whatever he was pretending to be, but mentally he wasn't fooling anyone.
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For the moment, Charles wasn't going to call him on it, mostly because he knew that Jim knew Charles wouldn't buy into the surface calm the way most everyone else would. It was something he'd keep tabs on, though, just in case it was something that would cause problems in the future.
Charles still knew that the two of them could change the world. They'd been capable of it individually, but together they were much more dangerous. It was something else he was going to be keeping an eye on, constantly weighing and re-calculating so that if the time came he would either be able to stand down or to apply whatever pressure necessary to ensure that they came out on top.
Of course, being able to monitor his own behavioral changes would take a level of compartmentalization that he might not be capable of, but he wasn't too worried about it, it was a bridge he'd cross when, and if, he got to it.