feudalfairytales ([personal profile] feudalfairytales) wrote in [community profile] bakerstreet2023-02-05 10:28 am

I'll protect her on my own orders!

PROTECTOR/PROTECTED

There’s no real push to your actions; you do them as if they were second nature. Perhaps, initially, you were assigned this role, as protector and guardian of this person. Maybe you took it on because there was no one else. A natural guardian or not, good or evil, you caught a shining to them and felt…something. Something hard to explain, but you want to keep them safe and happy - or at the very least, content. No one is as dedicated to them as you. You want them to reach their goals; to help them achieve them, you'll do what you must, even if it means being their gofer or their right hand.

But most of all, you don't want them to end up like you. They're worth more than that.

Yet somehow, along the line, you became more to them, more than just their protector. You protect them anew and you've found a different way to make them happy. It's selfish, too, because you love them in your way and you want them more than anything. You may feel guilty, of course. They don't, though, and that's what matters.

  • Comment with your character, preferences, and what you'd prefer to play: protector or protected.
  • Remember, you don't have to be so rigid. A traditionally weak character can "protect" a traditionally strong one in emotional ways.
  • Reply to others.



  1. Promise ✖ You told them you would take care of their lover, no matter what. You intend to follow through with that.
  2. Close ✖ What are friends for if not taking care of unfinished business?
  3. Debt Owed ✖ Kindness or favor has to be repaid, even if it's an investment in someone else.
  4. Atonement ✖ Whether or not you particularly cared for the person who's gone is irrelevant. You just need to make up for past sins.
  5. No Good ✖ You're taking care of the one left behind, but not out of good intentions. There may be ulterior motives here - no, there are definitely ulterior motives here. Or maybe this is the one good thing you've done in your life.
  6. Guilt ✖ It's your fault that you're here and their significant other isn't. It's a paltry repayment.
  7. Bearer of Bad News ✖ You can't blame them for wanting to shoot the messenger. You are telling them their lover is dead.
  8. Related ✖ In days past, the living partner would be cared for by their dead partner's family. As a sibling or cousin of the deceased, you want to continue that tradition and take care of "family."
  9. Wo/man Up ✖ Actually, their lover isn't dead, they're just dead to you, unable or unwilling to take care of business. You're stepping up.
  10. Friends ✖ You were all friends before, so it's only natural for you to want to look out for them now.
  11. Derisive ✖ ...this is the person they loved so much? This is who you're supposed to protect? Pathetic.
  12. Resentful ✖ You can never forgive them. They're the reason your lover is dead, no matter how they treat you.
  13. What They Saw in You ✖ You're beginning to see why someone would love them, how they'd want to give up their old ways and change. It's almost...nice.
  14. Warming Up ✖ If you didn't get along at first, the claws are being put away now. It's better to at least be civil, isn't it?
  15. Still in Danger ✖ Whatever killed one half of the pair is still out there, and the other half is in danger themselves.
  16. Other Complications ✖ Not only did your mutual acquaintance leave behind a lover, but also children. You find yourself getting closer and closer to them, too, even if they aren't yours.
  17. Compromised ✖ You can't look after them with a level head. You love them.
  18. Can't Love Again ✖ You've lost before. You can't risk losing again, can you?
  19. Out of the Dark ✖ One or both of you find yourselves in a hole. You can barely eat, hardly sleep, and depression has taken hold of you. Together, though, you may find the light and a way out of despair.
  20. First Time ✖ Simply what it says. You two have taken your relationship to the next level.
  21. Changed ✖ Before, you were bitter. Hard. Jaded. Now, helping someone - specifically, helping this person - has brought a new kind of joy into your life. You could get used to it. Easily and dangerously used to it, to be brutally honest. You shouldn't allow it.
  22. Living Together ✖ You can take care of them more throughly if you're in the same place as they are, obviously.
  23. Hidden Jealousy ✖ When their lover was alive, you were jealous of everything they had - including the fact that they had the person you're looking after now. Admitting this may make you feel like the most awful person in the world.
  24. Secrets Revealed ✖ Eventually, your involvement with the death of their beloved will come out, and they will never be able to look at you the same way.
  25. Dependent ✖ Replacing one unhealthy habit with another, you've become utterly dependent on your relationship with your caretaker, your guardian, your lover.
  26. Won't Be a Replacement ✖ You can't help but feel as if you're merely serving as a stand in for what they've lost. It's understandable, yet you still can't allow yourself to be that and only that.
  27. Not Really Gone ✖ What is dead should stay dead, but what if who you thought was gone isn't really out of the picture? Will they be happy with finding someone else so cozy and in love with their special someone?
  28. The Same Mistakes ✖ You're falling into the same patterns that lead to their death. Will you meet the same fate?
  29. Who's Helping Who ✖ You think you're taking care of them and helping them through their loss. Is that the case? But who's never been this happy before in their life?
  30. Move On ✖ It's time to put ghosts to rest and let old demons go. You can't let your life become a graveyard.
  31. Tragedy ✖ The ending is unhappy or even deadly for both of you.
  32. Happy Ending ✖ In contrast to the above, you're both able to live as together as happily as you possibly can, whatever can be allowed.
  33. WILDCARD
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terra | teen titans

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[ OTA for gen, f/m for shipping. Either role. ]
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moana | ota

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woetothemonster: (grin | you're an idiot ted)

Jack Russell | 𝖂𝖊𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖔𝖑𝖋 𝕭𝖞 𝕹𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙 | ota

[personal profile] woetothemonster 2023-02-05 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
(protect this little cinnamon roll. jack's intentions are pure, granted, but he tends to find himself in situations that are waaaaay over his head.)
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rhaenys martell targaryen | asoiaf/got | ota

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[ Pretty much unable to look after himself. Sniff. ]
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carol danvers | mcu | ota

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Sae | original | ota

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( F/M for anything shippy or smut related. OTA for gen stuff. protected one. assumed cr welcomed. )
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( F/f for shippy stuff, but ota overall. Most likely the protector. )
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Xie Lian|Heaven's Official Blessing|m/m

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Dorian Storm | Critical Role | OTA

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(( A slight preference for the protected, but can be either role ))
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[ the selectee has been charged with capturing the signless for sweeps upon sweeps. everyone knows the signless isn't a fighter but he is slippery, which is the only reason the selectee has gotten through this time not actually capturing him with only losing one eye to the empress' rage at his failures. there are other scars, of course, because naturally there are, but they're hard to discern from the ones gained in the actual battles he's been in over the course of his life.

the signless has a few scars from the start of their... encounters, for lack of a better word. the times in the beginning where the selectee is indescribably violent and hateful, intent on dragging the signless in at any cost to fulfill his orders.

the signless has watched him curiously afterward many times, head tilting slightly even with his infuriating bright red blood dripping from whatever wounds have been made in him. he's never gotten angry, that's for sure, and he continues to be mild but clever in the way he escapes every time. there are a few times he had to get away with violence, but he avoids it at all costs. he's not the one that left any scars.

and it continues this way for so very long until the selectee reveals his real feelings with some vicious pitch overtures that the signless manages to effectively melt into something resembling flushed, then pale, then all three together. an unfortunate side effect of being a mutant, apparently.

since then, they've worked together. they haven't been together much, because the rebellion could use some goddamn eyes inside and that meant that the selectee—dayhve—had to unfortunately stay and pretend to be a good soldier to work behind the scenes and get information to the signless—karkat. and it works, for a while. the rebellion stops taking so many losses, karkat finds better places to hide on dayhve's instruction, things are looking up as much as a doomed rebellion can.

until the rest of the empress' soldiers manage to find and snag karkat in between safehives (safecaves?) and drag him off. they don't even call him the signless. they call him a myriad of different slurs because he's a mutant, he's a dissident, he's trying to overthrow the government. a genetic mistake. a fucking failure with disgusting red blood.

the only reason he's still alive when they reach the empress' abode is because she wants to make an example of him. a public execution is the excited chatter when more people find out he's been captured, and he's 'escorted' to a fucking hole in the ground cell to await his just punishment.

they pass dayhve in a corridor though and karkat knows him well enough to recognize his fucking shoes. he lifts and turns his head to look at him for the last time, probably. his eyes search his expression before he sighs and shakes his head like he's just fucking exhausted, but the meaning is obvious to dayhve and dayhve alone.

karkat has made it absolutely crystal goddamn clear that he is DNR in any circumstance: do not rescue.

if he has to become a martyr, so be it. he won't put anyone that follows him into unnecessary danger when they're already beset on all sides. ]
Edited 2023-02-06 03:46 (UTC)

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[ definitely the protective type, let me know if you want to work something out first ]
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(25+ for shipping)
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3ish - We gonna AU so much here

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The only time Loki's hold over Barton started to waiver all those years ago was when he'd asked about the man's family. Prying any information out of him had been too much of a task at the time, so all he'd really gotten was that he had a wife, Laura, and two children. Much later, when he'd been pretending to be Odin, he'd looked into it a bit more out of sheer boredom. Skurg wasn't as good at his job as Heimdall had been, but he'd been good enough to nab Loki a picture that appeared to be of the Barton's wedding day.

The years have been kind to Laura Barton, Loki thinks as he stares at her from across the tiny room. He's not sure how she ended up on the otherwise uninhabited planet he was hiding on, but he does know that he owes it to Barton to get her back to Earth in one piece.

Assuming she doesn't kill him along the way.

"You should eat," he says, indicating the bowl of stew in front of her.

i'm here for all the AUing!

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( the protector, most likely. could be protected in some scenarios (purposefully vague). endwalker spoilers almost definitely. )
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elia martell | asoiaf | ota

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