bakerstreet | Bodyguard

the bodyguard 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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( Up for playing either role. As the guard, he's the most irreverent bodyguard/knight/etc. possible and not much better as the one being guarded. I'd love to play out something a little plotty, fluff or angst are fine either way. )

（ such a tiny elegant l'il lady, clearly in need of bodyguarding.

(if you know, you know.)

happy to play her in the 'real world' undercover for some reason, crosscanon/medium all fine. any era for the last 1000+ years on earth doable, happy to work an au into other worlds/etc. ）

{{Either role, though one would assume that any character she's guarding is in very specific danger from magical attacks since she would be more of a liability in a physical fight (glass cannon).
If the guarded, she's wizard4bruiser, the bigger the better.}}

Edited 2022-12-06 22:47 (UTC)

{{OOC; can be the protector or the protected. crosscanon and assumed CR are love. }}

[Probably the guarded unless your issue is being attacked by plants.]

[probably the guarded, she's not much of a combatant. though she can be resourceful.]

( she's a goddess or pseudo-goddess, so could be protector or protected. crosscanon loved! )

[ ooc; the protected. ]

Professional body guard.

[ooc; either role.]

[ooc; probably guarded.]

[ Either a gig his job assigned (he's a mafioso) or an oath he's sworn; either way, he protecc. ]

[ Is the heiress of a powerful crime (albeit supernatural) family, so most likely to be the protected. ]

[ the protected. ota but m/m for anything shippy. ]

((The meme angles at shippy, BUT I actually think it'd be a fun angle to do a found family/adoptive older sibling or adoptive parent role?))

[ the guarded ]

[ the guarded. open to gen, or (likely slow burn) shipping. very open to "fish out of water by being in another's world" type scenarios to help facilitate cross canon/media, or perhaps a sort of diplomatic/cultural exchange where Mara's aiding the other world and the other character comes to her world for a time (maybe even that's part of the deal for her aid). also good with brainstorming a suitable AU or a generic space/fantasy setting. as far as character-wise, enhanced, magical, or powered humans/mortals or non-humans would probably work best or at least make the most sense. however in the right circumstance a plain ol' human trying to play guard could be fun to work with.

if playing in her verse and being current, having someone else on her side definitely wouldn't be the worst idea... (season 19 spoilers) as Mara and Xivu Arath (the Hive God of War) have now psychically fought, and are officially at war. regardless, zero Destiny knowledge needed for interaction, I'm always happy to gloss over/summarize stuff or IC explain as necessary. ]