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Sentinels and Guides are Known:

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

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[[Most likely the Guide in the situation.]]

[[ But what if Will is an unbonded sentinel and that's why he's constantly Like That (also I am rusty jsyk)]]

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[guide, absolutely.]

Even without seeing the Sentinel, Helena can feel that there's one currently overwhelmed by their senses nearby--it's like a spider feeling the thrashing of a caught insect on its web, desperate and panicked. Not far, not far at all. The train station. An easy place to get overwhelmed. No smart Sentinel would be there alone.

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[Unbonded Guide and having a great time with it.]

[Could go either way, though I do lean towards Sentinel with a habit of drifting into fugue when she's working on something.]

[Sentinel for sure, and while I'd wager that Ed's been acting as her Guide he might not actually be one, and they definitely aren't bonded at all.]

[He's a Guide in a family of Sentinels (though I posit Ben was probably also a Guide) and he can talk to ghosts. Basically it's just: /insert 'as u can see I am very small and have no money' meme here.]

[I feel like Asgardians are kind of both? They're adaptable and can be different roles for different people as needed.]

[Could go either way, Sentinel because he's got a protective streak that can be seen from space, or Guide because he really does feel so much all the time.]

[Guide, one of many reasons she had to get out of Battery City, so she didn't wind up getting wrung out trying to stabilize a bunch of Dracs, or worse, tied to an Exterminator.]

[Steven is very much a guide and Marc is very much a Sentinel, which can get complicated with them both being in the same body, maybe it's an Avatar thing, maybe it's just a them thing.
A-ok with alters also!]

[[I feel like he's a Guide out here collecting Sentinels (Santo and Fennec are definitely Sentinels, but the Mod kids are probably a mix). Basically: making himself known as someone safe for unbonded Guides or Sentinels to work for.]

[Could go either way. He's unbonded regardless and probably unregistered.]

[Sentinel, much to the upset of her Very Traditionalist family.]

[Guide, one who was recently rescued from a controlling and abusive Sentinel.]

[Child-soldier type Sentinel, the project was meant to do away with the need for Guides.
No sex-based bonding please, she's still underage.]

[Guide forced to pair with multiple Sentinels, until she was saved by a Sentinel who disappeared. Also underage (about 14/15). Maybe they meet in a recovery program or something similar?]