heavypetting ([personal profile] heavypetting) wrote in [community profile] bakerstreet2021-01-02 12:05 pm

Old-School Meme Day: Sentinels and Guides


 
Sentinels and Guides are Known: 
A Sentinel!AU Shipping 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 
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Re: Captain Jack Harkness l Doctor Who l ota

[personal profile] captainspain 2021-01-08 05:24 pm (UTC)(link)

Jack hated having lied to the Doctor when he left her. He hadn't seen Gwen Cooper in years...at least not in a way she was aware of. It just hurt too much. Jack had always been one of those rare Sentinel's who never had a bonded Guide, but somehow managed to surround himself with Guides anyway, Rose, Gwen, Ianto. But Jack had known bonding with a mortal Guide when he was not, could be dangerous. So he'd been careful to only lean on Guides when he needed to, taking a page from The Doctor's book. He'd come dangerously close to bonding with Ianto only to have his heart ripped out of his chest when the young man died. He wandered on his own now only rejoining the human race when the Doctor was in trouble. He'd left because he was afraid she'd ask him to stay...and they'd learned having two Sentinel's in one ship could lead to trouble....even more so with only one Guide between them. He liked Yaz and didn't want to see her burdened with helping both of them.

So he'd followed rumors of a friend in trouble. He'd helped Jim Gorden out of jam once before and it sounded like his friend needed help again. So here he was back in Gotham to make sure Jim is okay. The sensory overload is painful, but Jack is willing to do what needs to be done to check on a friend. He walks into the GPD and glances around taking in all the changes and adjustment that had occured.

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Re: Captain Jack Harkness l Doctor Who l ota

[personal profile] misskringle 2021-01-08 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Almost on cue a walking throwback (twin set, skirt, heels and glasses) comes out pf the file room.

Kristen had only discovered her Guide status after the Manaix had shot up the GCPD and it explained a lot about the too quiet young woman. Her discovery also got her out of a bad news romance, well him skipping town help too. But it was lonely. she had a loose thing with Nygma but he was interested in a woman on night shift. So for now she was alone and oddly ok with it, she needed the time to deal.

But thanks to the boxes she is about to crash head first into Jack. The fact post shooting repairs are going om is not helping, she zones out via work and she still is thanks to the post shooting backlog.
Edited 2021-01-08 20:16 (UTC)
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Re: Captain Jack Harkness l Doctor Who l ota

[personal profile] captainspain 2021-01-11 03:04 am (UTC)(link)

Jack reacts quickly grabbing a couple of the boxes off the top and backing up in a swirl of coat. "Woah there," he warns, "wouldn't want you to lose any of these files."