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Son Goku ([personal profile] mypowerpole) wrote in [community profile] bakerstreet2012-10-12 09:56 am

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 
arrowsfall: by: <user name=rikasaurus> ([RA] Srs Bzness)

Roy Harper || Young Justice

[personal profile] arrowsfall 2012-10-12 04:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[ooc: Probably more likely to be Sentinel than guide.]
unyieldingebony: (guess i'm wishing my life away)

Scorpius Malfoy | Harry Potter | m/m for shipping, open for gen

[personal profile] unyieldingebony 2012-10-12 05:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[Guide from long family line of Sentinels. Because Scorp never catches a break from me.]
masquedclown: (Yes I do see you writer in the sky)

Trowa Barton | Gundam Wing | m/m | Sentinel

[personal profile] masquedclown 2012-10-12 06:21 pm (UTC)(link)
unmakeme: (Default)

Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow | MCU | OTA

[personal profile] unmakeme 2012-10-12 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[She could fill either role, but if she's the guide and you want to do old school be prepared for it to not end well.]
halfassed: (pic#4966321)

Clint Barton/Hawkeye | MCU

[personal profile] halfassed 2012-10-12 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Sentinel, except for any Natasha Romanoffs. In that case, definitely the Guide in that relationship. ]
littlspecificty: (⇨ Curious)

[personal profile] littlspecificty 2012-10-12 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[ ooc : Natasha as the Sentinel and Arthur the Guide sound good? ]
unmakeme: (smile)

[personal profile] unmakeme 2012-10-12 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[[OOC: Sure! Be forewarned, I don't entirely understand everything I read on the provided links. Thank you, head cold. But I think the general premise is cool enough to want to do it anyway. If you know more about the world, though, feel free to nudge me in the right direction.]
1st_companion: (smug)

Tardis (Dr. Who) - Guide

[personal profile] 1st_companion 2012-10-12 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)

peggy carter {mcu} {guide}

[personal profile] ex_queenvictoria804 2012-10-12 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
1st_cutter: (glamor: headtilt left)

Shay | Uglies series | OTA | Either

[personal profile] 1st_cutter 2012-10-12 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
throtteen: (leaders grasp nettles)

sharon carter / agent 13 ( marvel )

[personal profile] throtteen 2012-10-12 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
((she's most likely a guide. also available in mcu flavour.))
apollodreaming: (serious)

Apollo (Inception OC) - OTA - Either

[personal profile] apollodreaming 2012-10-12 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
aptoautmorior: (ponder)

Hanna (Movie of the same name) | Sentinel

[personal profile] aptoautmorior 2012-10-12 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[No sex, as she is underage, but alternate bonding ceremonies are fine.]
calmestmind: (thinky)

Charles Xavier | XMFC | OTA - Guide

[personal profile] calmestmind 2012-10-12 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
doesntrunaway: (uniform: shield)

Steve Rogers | MCU | OTA | Either

[personal profile] doesntrunaway 2012-10-12 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
domsconsigliere: (found the place)

Arthur (Inception) - OTA - either

[personal profile] domsconsigliere 2012-10-12 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
gail_force_fury: (happy smile)

Abigail Fury | bizarro-verse Marvel OC | OTA | Either

[personal profile] gail_force_fury 2012-10-12 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
goatcanfly: (intent: forward)

Aja Shepherd | Pilot/Mercinary OC | OTA | Guide

[personal profile] goatcanfly 2012-10-12 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
gotmy_i_onyou: (we got a badass over here)

Nick Fury | MCU | OTA | Either

[personal profile] gotmy_i_onyou 2012-10-12 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
hurtyourealgood: (profile: tired)

Zepar (Fallen angel) | OTA | Guide

[personal profile] hurtyourealgood 2012-10-12 10:04 pm (UTC)(link)
littlspecificty: (⇨ Nerdy-chic)

[personal profile] littlspecificty 2012-10-12 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[ ooc : Oh, that's okay. I'm much in the same boat, never seen the actual series and only know what I've read by what's been linked here or what me and others have made up in previous Sentinel AU threads. But yes, this premise is pretty cool.

Is there any preference as far as scenarios go or should I just pick any of them? ]
halfassed: (pic#4966309)

Apparently this is a wildcard option.

[personal profile] halfassed 2012-10-12 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Clint Barton bonded with a Guide before he was thirteen years old. Back then, he didn't know what bonding meant. He didn't know about bright lights, and costumes, and tigers pacing in their cages. He didn't know about arrows, or swords, or how to draw a bowstring. He learned.

Age seventeen, he tries to do the right thing. It lands him in a ditch.

He's been without a Guide since then. A Sentinel of exquisite skill, incredible eyesight, a facility with a bow that's superhuman. He's aimless. He does trick shots for petty cash on the streets. He's let his life fall completely apart, and he has no way to put it back together.

This is why he's here. Wrapped in a scavenged jacket, next to the waste from a building's ventilation system. It's not all that great to breathe, but it's warm, leaves the dirty snow melted in a circle around him. He doesn't have any arrows left. Pretty close to hocking his bow at the nearest convenience store. So cold, now, that he isn't even shivering. ]
gotmy_i_onyou: (from behind)

*thumbsup* works for me

[personal profile] gotmy_i_onyou 2012-10-13 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
It wasn't really that Fury had lost his Sentinel, it was just that he'd never had one on a permanent basis. He'd helped a few, generally agents or even soldiers under his command. Just a stopgap measure, something to hold them over, to keep them sane while a suitable Guide could be found.

It was how he'd learned to recognize that niggling, restless, even uprooted feeling at the back of his mind. Oddly enough, SHIELD was there for a completely different reason, they hadn't been tracking Clint, he wasn't even a person of interest. He had been a blip on their radar once upon a time, but he'd fallen off again a while ago.

So, with the mission wrapped, or at least as wrapped as it was going to get, Fury followed through on those instincts. He knew better than to try to sneak up, or appear to be sneaking up, on a Sentinel, especially one out in the wild, so to speak, which was why he came to a stop a few feet from the edge of that melted snow, "You want to come out of there, son? Seems you and I might have something to discuss."
unmakeme: (Default)

[personal profile] unmakeme 2012-10-13 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
[[OOC: surprise me!]]
halfassed: (pic#4966322)

[personal profile] halfassed 2012-10-13 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
He knows what a bond feels like now. Drifted past other Guides, other Sentinels, knows a thing or two about how they work, and now he understands the full extent of the Swordsman's influence on him. How it happened, why it happened. He's sure that he'll never bond again. What does it matter? He's under control.

He hears the footsteps approach, a slow and linear volume, an even rhythm. He should dodge away, but he doesn't want to move. His head pounds, and he feels as though he's pulling against invisible tethers.

Fixes his eyes on the newcomer. Leather jacket, eyepatch, basically a pirate straight out of The Matrix.

"I don't know you." He's not shying away, not afraid, not beaten or cowed. But he's also not standing up. He's right here, under the grate, against the building's brick, and he's not sure he wants to go anywhere.

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