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At Your Service ([personal profile] atyourservices) wrote in [community profile] bakerstreet2012-11-21 05:29 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 
yesadministrator: (Taking every note.)

Miss Pauling | Team Fortress 2 | Guide

[personal profile] yesadministrator 2012-11-22 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
[Particularly, she'd be the Administrator's Guide. But I'm fine with her being someone else's.]
Edited (Now with text) 2012-11-22 01:01 (UTC)
alwayswinning: (Oh.)

Violet Beauregarde | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory | Sentinel

[personal profile] alwayswinning 2012-11-22 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
unhappilymarried: (Emerald eyes)

[AU!RL] Other Father | Coraline | Guide

[personal profile] unhappilymarried 2012-11-22 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
[Mr. Widdow would be guide to his wife, most likely. However I'm fine with playing AU hi-jinks or whatever you'd like!

He's a fantastic guide, but he's also a bit of a coward and a push-over.]
Edited 2012-11-22 01:02 (UTC)
hunting_trip: (Default)

Dean Winchester | Supernatural | Cas sexual

[personal profile] hunting_trip 2012-11-22 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
I could see him being Cas's guide- albeit an unconventional one, he does tend to bring Cas some humanity. Willing to switch, though!
formersurgeon: (listening)

Joan Watson | Elementary | Guide

[personal profile] formersurgeon 2012-11-22 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
Joan is definitely a Guide, particularly to Sherlock's Sentinel! However, I am open to her Guiding someone else, perhaps as the sober companion to a pre-Sherlock client.
throtteen: (my secrets have secrets)

sharon carter / agent 13 ( marvel )

[personal profile] throtteen 2012-11-22 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
((ooc; since sharon's the liaison between captain america and shield, i'm going with guide. also available in mcu flavour.))
dormition: (Default)

Minato Arisato | Persona 3 | Either!

[personal profile] dormition 2012-11-22 12:33 am (UTC)(link)

Adrian Monk | Monk | Sentinel

[personal profile] thankmelater 2012-11-22 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
[Monk makes a scary amount of sense as a Sentinel, but is INCREDIBLY high maintenance.]
angermanaging: (turned aside)

Bruce Banner | the Incredible Hulk | Sentinel

[personal profile] angermanaging 2012-11-22 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
[Pre-Avengers Norton version, though I'm fine with timeline hijinks.]

peggy carter / mcu / guide

[personal profile] ssr 2012-11-22 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
theblogger: (Default)

John Watson | Sherlock BBC | Guide

[personal profile] theblogger 2012-11-22 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
unstirred: (Default)

James Bond | Craig!Continuity | Sentinel

[personal profile] unstirred 2012-11-22 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
abductivereasoning: (Silhouette)

Sherlock Holmes // BBC Sherlock // Sentinel

[personal profile] abductivereasoning 2012-11-22 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
ferries: (Default)

Botan | Yu Yu Hakusho | Guide

[personal profile] ferries 2012-11-22 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
improbably_true: (not an angel)

Sherlock Holmes || BBC Sherlock || Sentinel

[personal profile] improbably_true 2012-11-22 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
tiare: (Default)

Usagi Tsukino (18, post StarS) | Sailor Moon | Guide

[personal profile] tiare 2012-11-22 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
seacups: (Default)

Ariel | The Little Mermaid | Sentinel

[personal profile] seacups 2012-11-22 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
vanguarded: (come with me if you want to live)

John Shepard | Mass Effect | Guide

[personal profile] vanguarded 2012-11-22 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
[Does being mindblasted by a Prothean beacon have the ability to make someone an empath? Maybe this is why Shepard can charm and manipulate people into joining up with him. And maybe it's why he stops to help every single person with a problem along the way. Hmmmm....]
formersurgeon: (Default)

5

[personal profile] formersurgeon 2012-11-22 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
[Believe me, Joan knows high maintenance! I rolled a 5, which is LOST. I'm sort of playing fast and loose with the concept. Let me know if there's anything I should change. :) ]

Its a beautiful day in San Francisco, and Joan Watson is enjoying her very rare vacation, free from any hour by hour obligation to a recovering addict. She's done some sightseeing, some shopping, and is now just wandering the city and taking in the atmosphere.

Which is when she sees him.

She doesn't quite know what catches her attention, but she can tell that something's not right. The man is acting, in a word, weird. People are passing by him and not paying any attention, but Joan is somewhat sensitive to such things, and finds that she can't just walk away. So she approaches him, waves a little to catch his attention, and speaks softly.

"Hey. Are you all right?"
odinsscion: (Fighter)

Geir Dagnasson | Scion OC

[personal profile] odinsscion 2012-11-22 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
[Sentinel is the most likely option, but either is fine. Males only for romance.]
vents: (Default)

Peter Hale | Teen Wolf | either

[personal profile] vents 2012-11-22 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
[ not guaranteed to be good at either job. whoops. ]

[personal profile] thankmelater 2012-11-22 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
[No, this is great! :D Completely plausible!]

Adrian is not having a good day. Not that he has good days in the first place, but this was has been exceptionally bad. He's not angry about it, just glum and accepting; this was how his life went. Sharona had left, and he couldn't blame her, but he was completely bereft without her and the search for a new Guide wasn't going well. He'd forced himself to leave his apartment today, not wanting to regress that far to those awful months after Trudy's death, and here he was, standing in front of a cork board on the street.

He was painstakingly slowly, with deliberate motions, taking off each tack and piece of paper and rearranging them into neat corners.

"I'm never all right," he says, morose and self-pitying. It's only then that he glances over at her briefly, going back to his rearranging a second later. "Look at this board, it's a mess! All these people are just walking by it without doing anything! Don't they have any sense of civic duty?"

He reaches out toward a flyer for a lost cat that seems to be at perfect right angles, and takes the pins out, anyway. He can tell that it's not perfect: his sense of vision is always dialed up so high, incapable of going down without a Guide's help. He sees in incredible detail, which means that there's no telling how long he's been standing here, shifting flyers by minute increments.
formersurgeon: (listening)

[personal profile] formersurgeon 2012-11-22 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
She watches him for a moment, absorbing what he was doing, that painstaking attempt at perfection. She sees how his eyes move over the board, how his hands so precisely adjust each poster, sometimes more than once. Even though she herself is not a sufferer of OCD, nor was she a psychiatrist in her former medical life, she still understands that this is important to him. That he is truly tormented by every sliver of an angle that the signs are off-center. It wasn't something she could argue with.

So she reaches for one of the signs.

"Here, let me help."
bowmanship: (ᴏʜ ʀᴇᴀʟʟʏ)

ᴄʟɪɴᴛ ʙᴀʀᴛᴏɴ ♐ ᴍᴄᴜ ♐ ᴇɪᴛʜᴇʀ

[personal profile] bowmanship 2012-11-22 05:16 am (UTC)(link)

forcamelot: ((direct) what are you going to do)

Arthur Pendragon | Merlin | The most demanding Guide you will ever meet

[personal profile] forcamelot 2012-11-22 05:30 am (UTC)(link)

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