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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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( likely the one being guarded. )

( either role. )

[ Obviously the one guarding. ]

[No lie, I do think these two have the potential for some cute shenanigans together (even without shipping,) even if the extent of him being able to guard her is to pick her up and run at first. (Show him how to use materia at least, and he can manage that!)

[No hard feelings if not! Just wanted to run it by you in case you were interested. :) I can also toss someone else at her who could defend her properly if that's more your preference. Though I primarily play OCs or characters with little canon material.]

[Can do the guarding, especially if you'd rather I play him with his main external conflict as resolved (being pursued and therefore needing guarding, himself.) Otherwise, he's the guarded, but you can bet that he'll insist on helping... be guarded. By involving himself in some way to help better his odds and his partner.]

[Probably the one being guarded. M/F but OTA for castmates and people I've threaded with before; AUs, assumed CR, canon, and crosscanon all welcome. (She also comes in a vast assortment of AU flavours.)]

( i'd rather pass, sorry! )

[ how do you feel about a Cloud? ]

[The guard.]

[ could be either ]

[ The guarded. Books and/or show! ]

[ can be either! ]

( either role! he pretends to be powerless (or a damsel if you will) but is a literal angel with centuries of battle experience, and given his caring nature is just as likely to take on the role of bodyguard. don't let the pretty dresses and high heels fool you. aus and assumed cr welcome! )

( the youngest son to a wealthy family that manages an enterprise centered around commerce and trade; however, Xingqiu is a martial arts trainee and has been gifted elemental powers by a native in-canon deity. Xingqiu can easily play either side of the dynamic.

castmates and cross canon welcome; assumed cr or something slower with a first meet are fine. ship is great but I can easily do gen as well. castmates I love are Traveler (either,) Zhongli, Lisa, Albedo, Sucrose, Fischl, Bennett, Barbara, Noelle, Chongyun, Diluc, Kaeya, Childe, Venti, but genuinely open to anyone from the game. if you would like a starter, just ask. )