Sentinels and Guides

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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 imadeamistake 

Comments

Essek Thelyss || Critical Role ||OTA

[essek]

(Either role is fine by me!)

Steve Rogers | MCU | OTA

[noshavenomad]

[ Most likely a Sentinel. ]

Chrissy Cunningham (AU) | Stranger Things | OTA

[cheerybomb]

[Surprise Sentinel, obviously not what her traditionalist folks were expecting.]

Techie | Dredd | OTA

[clan_techie]

[Guide who just recently lost a very controlling traditionalist Sentinel.]

Arthur | Inception | OTA

[domsconsigliere]

[Could be either, but I do lean slightly towards Sentinel.]

El | Weird Stuff Happens: The Series | OTA

[e11e]

[Little child-soldier Sentinel, the Lab was probably trying to train the need for a Guide out of them.
Nothing sexual, obviously, she's underage, and I'm definitely here more for the worldbuilding and gen-shaped situations.]

Omg an El <3 <3

[beyourzoomer]

[note: I have never played this meme before but I'm fascinated by the concept. Interested in a Max?]

Finn | Star Wars | OTA

[haveanamenow]

[Being a Guide under the First Order was basically an extended death sentence, so he learned to hide it, and is still getting used to the fact that that's not the case in the Resistance and the Republic.
I'm an unrepentant Stormpilot shipper, but open to gen-shaped things with others.]

Eddie Munson | Stranger Things | OTA

[jukebox_hero]

[I could go either way with this kid, as soon as I think one is definitely right, I come up with reasons why the other could work.]

Natasha Romanoff | MCU | OTA

[ofmarble]

[Open to either role - Guide with an unusual degree of combat training, or Sentinel who specializes in picking up physical cues.

Not interested in 8, but anything else goes.]

Gabreel King | OC | OTA

[malecompanion]

[Guide for hire, basically he's got a broad compatibility rate and he's there for unbonded Sentinels who need the help, or even bonded ones who need more help than their own Guide can provide due to trauma or etc.]

Henry | X-verse OC | OTA

[malesiren]

[He's a Guide, having a grand old time out in the world, being a rockstar, hasn't ever felt the need to have a Sentinel of his own.]

Eames | Inception | OTA

[neededforger]

[Could go either way, but I do lean towards Guide.]

Jyn Erso / Rogue One / OTA

[shiningstardust]

Klaus | Umbrella Academy | OTA

[ouiking_ouija]

[The lone Guide in a family full of Sentinels, combined with being able to see -and feel- ghosts, you can imagine how that worked out for him.]

Mina | Urban Fantasy OC | OTA

[raisedgrimm]

[Unbonded Sentinel, doing the monster-hunting thing she's never wanted a permanent Guide as she hasn't wanted to put anyone in harm's way like that.]

Steve Harrington + Stranger Things + OTA

[the_hair]

[Sentinel makes sense because he's got a protective streak that can be seen from space, but Guide also makes sense because he really does feel so much.]

Shiny | Fabulous Killjoys OC | OTA

[twice_as_shiny]

[She's a Guide, one of many reasons she had to get out of the city before she could get wrung dry by dracs needing to be kept stable.]

Steven &/or Marc | Moon Knight | OTA

[waxing_gibbous]

[Steven is very much a Guide while Marc is very much a Sentinel, and both of them being in the same body makes that confusing for everyone.
I'm a-ok playing with alters.]

clint barton | mcu

[brandingproblem]

[a guide masquerading as a sentinel/who can keep up with his sentinel, or a sentinel in need of a guide. frankly could be either.]

Ryoko Shinonome | 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim | ota

[nmc0204]

[ come on. Come On. I Had To.

A grouchy teenage mech pilot preparing to fight against the kaiju invading her world through the use of a giant robot known as a Sentinel. A mission gone horribly wrong left her with brain trauma that contributes to frequent pain and memory loss. Quiet, introverted grumpy girl who doesn't trust easily and reacts to people being nice to her like she's being offered a dead rat on a stick. Has a warm, compassionate fluffy center under the hundreds of layers of protective spikes and depression grime.

Info & permissions in journal! For obvious reasons, I'll be playing Ryoko as a Sentinel whose incredibly strong potential takes a physical toll on her in the form of chronic pain, fatigue and occasionally memory loss – having her Guide at her side serves both to ease the pain caused by her powers and to help whenever her memories start fraying.

Teens only for the shippy angle here, though I'm also totally down to play with a platonic/found family sort of angle on this. I'd particularly like to play around with the Sentinel/Guide dynamic, but I'm also down to interact with other characters within the framework of this AU. I'd also really love to translate the events/story beats of 13 Sentinels itself into this AU for threads with canonmates if there's any out there! ]

01

[unlivinglegend]

[ A Sentinel and a Guide only have one bond ever in their lives. That was the rule, that was the belief. A Guide, especially, should die the moment their charge was lost.

It wasn't always the case, especially when the bond happened young. Of course, such a spoiled option was not one people tended to seek out, even if their empathic powers were high above the average, like Neku's. If it was up to him he would continue his life alone- already the years of it had made his mind echo-y and silent. But the choice wasn't his. There were 'problematic' Sentinels that couldn't be picky and he felt slightly obligated to try.

Even if nothing, no one, would fill that hole. It wasn't like anyone would ever be able to accept being a Guide's number two, so there was no real risk. These gatherings were sad little affairs: like group therapy sessions. Sad people meandering around trying to form some kind of connection. Neku stays on the edges of it, eyes closed, his mind reaching out lazily to browse through the tiny crowd- not searching in any way, just... feeling a little less alone in the noise of it]

Diana Burnwood | Hitman: World of Assassination trilogy | OTA

[overachievers]

[Guide, trained to work with volatile and dangerous Sentinels (assassins, bounty hunters, etc.)]

Phil Coulson | MCU | ota

[tasernanny]

[ A Guide. Particularly good at balancing out Sentinels that have not met their match yet. Also very good at finding Sentinels to bring to SHIELD. ]

enjolras / les mis

[narrowstreets]

[ Probably the Sentinel. He thinks he’s completely capable of controlling himself without needing to rely on some interfering Guide. M/M for shipping, open to modern AUs and all sorts of timeline handwaving. ]