bakerstreet | Bodyguard or more

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.

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(ooc |Maybe Karuta made her famous, I don't know. If pressed, we can say she's chosen as the face of karuta, agrees to model for them to get more people to play, and then needs a guard. She's not really suited to be a guard herself.)

(ooc |S he's a pretty famous vocalist, but she's also a decently capable fighter. Warning for those not familiar: she seems emotionless throughout much of canon. However, when she becomes devoted, she's devoted.)

[Pop star OC and would need a bodyguard. OTA for shipping.]

[ i'd be interested in playing a dynamic like the one she has in canon with rick flag, which, if you're canon unfamiliar, goes a little something like this -

dr. june moone is a mild-mannered archeologist right up until she unearths an ancient artifact and breaks it. as you do. anyway, said artifact contains the trapped essence of an evil cosmic witch-diety; since the diety no longer has a vessel, into june it goes. poor june is now possessed by evil. super. except, theoretically, she can control said evil, which she envokes by saying the name "enchantress."

except except, as you've already probably guessed, it's not that easy. the witch has much more power than one human woman can hold back.

in the dceu, flag is a federal agent who gets sent in to be june's handler. despite it being taboo, they fall in love...which is what the shadowy higher-ups wanted anyway, since now they have blackmail (and convenient weaknesses) for all parties involved.

tl;dr give me a forbidden bodyguard romance with creepy, occult angles, danger, and corrupt governments/secret societies. fellow dceus and crossovers all welcome. ]