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lookin’ sharp

absolutely agree with the sentiment of @goldenlionprince, the protagonists indeed need to be put in a suit! a direct illustration of the new ficlets, both of them i love with all my heart!

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A little fun fact about The Bodyguard AU... It is named after the 1992 movie The Bodyguard starring Whitney Houston & Kevin Costner, because the basis of the storyline followed the story of the movie initially (then thanks to all of you, it evolved into its own thing!). The movie's title in Hungarian is "Több mint testőr", which translates roughly to "more than just a bodyguard"... And i think it just sums it up so nicely!

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Are they together? Not really. Maybe. It's classified.

A little treat for everyone who actually follows me for wolfstar content! i brainstormed a bit with @goldenlionprince yesterday and with @diamondmeadow & @lovelymasks a little ago, which helped me to finally place Remus in The Bodyguard AU! This scene can be a little after @neverenoughmarauders' ficlet, where Sirius asks Remus for intel about Rosier Jr. offscreen. The warehouse fire refers to the aftermatch of the kidnapping scenario, and a little easter egg is Lockhart as the news reporter! 😉

A little backstory under the cut!

He is an old soldier buddy of Sirius, they went to the same military school and joined the army together after they graduated. While Sirius is talented in almost every aspect of military duty, especially combat, Remus's true talent is military intelligence. He is still an intelligence officer working for Defence Intelligence as an analyst, and Sirius sometimes asks him to check or give him certain intel. Remus also knows about the details of the illegal covert operation Sirius was part of and how he got his reputation as The Grim. He helped making the fake new identity of Stubby Boardman when Sirius decided to leave the forces. They were together for a while, broke up eventually (Remus married Sirius' cousin), but they remained friends. They have a tradition to meet once every month to spend the day together doing things they added to a bucket list during their active military time or just hang out, brunch and go to a museum (their favourite is the Natural History Museum🦕). As they keep total radio silence during these, it is often assumed that they are having an affair. They never explicitly deny this, because they are both little shits who enjoy confusing people for fun. Remus referred the bodyguard job to Sirius, when he encountered the intel about James (and his work) being threatened.

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lap dog the size of a bear

i just love how big dogs are not always aware of their true size and still think they are a small puppy and try to cuddle anyway. i think Sirius would be the same, deep down (and with an extremely selected few people) he's a big softie (emphasis on big)

it is only loosely connected to The Bodyguard AU that has taken over my life, but @diamondmeadow deserves the domestic prongsfoot content

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Bodyguard AU idea: like in canon, something happens to James because Sirius was suspicious of the wrong person/trusted the wrong person.

Oh nooo, they need a happy ending! 😨

I sort of have ideas for including Remus in this AU (so everyone who followed me for wolfstar content, bear with me a little longer), but I don't have anything for Peter yet. Anyone, any ideas?

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Omg you truly deliver these days! Your prongsfoot works are amazing 😍😍😍 where do you get the time to draw so much? 😭 Anyway I love this AU and every piece is better than the other I love it 💖

Haha, thanks! I am generally a very fast drawer, it takes me on average 2-3 hours to draw something, and i have a very slow uneventful period at work now, so i almost have all day 🤷🏻‍♀️this will change in the near future tho 🥲

This level of art productivity is extreme for even me, this AU has possessed me completely!

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Im addicted to everything you draw of sirius!♡ you draw him so so pretty I love him♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡

Hi, thank you! I love him too! 😊

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“So, are you a big spoon or a little spoon?”

“I’m a knife.”

“… sure.”

He’s having them both on chokehold tho.🤗 I wanted to draw something nice and tender after yesterday’s emotionally loaded shower scene… more cuddling sketches are in the queue, so stay tuned

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guard down

I wanted to draw that emotionally loaded moment from @goldenlionprince’s addition to the James is kidnapped scenario idea, because it’s just A++! Also tagging @diamondmeadow, @lovelymasks & @neverenoughmarauders!

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Okay but I just had to draw this meme

Bodyguard AU idea: Someone who’s out to get James manages to get a message to him, giving some sort of indisputable evidence / reasoning that they can and will kill his bodyguard if James doesn’t drug Sirius and come willingly. James thus complies and Sirius when he regains consciousness must once more save the day.

🤔I was talking to Lau last night (be proud of me, y'all, I've finally managed to talk to the creator of this AU after playing in it for days with only feeling like 80% annoying (that's on me and how my brain works, not on Lau at all)) and James potentially being taken did come up as a possible idea. maybe this could work @sorenphelps ?

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YESSS, IT’S PERFECT THANK YOU

Soldier Boy

I was talking to Lau last night about the bodyguard AU and I absolutely fell in love with her idea about how the nickname "Soldier Boy" came to be so I had to put it into the framework of a story. Full credit for this goes to @sorenphelps, I'm just the one who's putting bad flirting around it. So let me take you back in the timeline a little to where Sirius is freshly working for James.

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“Soooooo,” James says into the silence of the room, waiting until Sirius looks up from his crossword puzzle. “Stubby Boardman. That's not your real name, is it?”

Sirius only shrugs. “It's on my driver's licence.”

James waves a dismissive hand through the air. “Yeah, yeah. It's in your personal file too, I've checked. But I've also done some deeper digging and unless you're a reclusive rock star in your seventies – and, by the way, you'd be in excellent shape for that age – that just doesn't fit.”

Sirius clicks his pen off and drops it onto the newspaper on the desk in front of him. “So what if I'm not a fan of social media?”

James huffs and rolls his eyes, crossing his arms over his chest as he leans his hip against Sirius' desk. “Please, as if I would only check for social media accounts. Give me a little more credit.”

“Okay, tech whiz genius.” Sirius leans back in his chair and crosses his arms over his chest as well. “What's your conclusion?”

“As I said, Stubby Boardman isn't your real name. Not so hard to guess, really. What kind of name is Stubby anyway? Is it supposed to be short for 'Stubborn Bastard'?”

There is a small grin tugging on Sirius' lips. “It might be.”

“Which just brings me to the next part,” James says, pointing a finger at Sirius. “While Stubby is all fake, I've seen you sign things off with S.B. without a second thought. So I'm thinking S.B. are indeed your initials, they just stand for something different.”

“And what would that be?” Sirius asks. The grin has reached his eyes now, giving them a mischievous glint, and yes, okay, that does things for James. He's not blind. He does see that his bodyguard is one hell of a beautiful man but it's moments like these, when a bit of teasing and mischief is peeking through his rough shell, that James knows his heart could be in serious danger.

James smiles down at him, all innocence. “My first guess was 'Son of a Bitch'.”

A bark-like laugh explodes out of Sirius and it stuns James for a moment. It's the first time he hears it and he already feels addicted.

“Close,” Sirius says and yes, amusement looks good on him.

“You're not going to tell me?”

“Oh, I'll tell you.” Sirius gets up from his chair and leans across the table so his face is close to James'. James swallows hard. “Soldier Boy,” he says, that mischief still twinkling in his eyes and yes, James is a goner.

“You're so going to regret that,” James says when he finds his voice again, a smirk spreading on his lips. “I'm going to use that so much you'll beg me to use your real name instead eventually, Soldier Boy.”

“Good luck with that,” Sirius says, his eyes flicking up and down James' body as he straightens back up, leaving James hot all over. “Because I don't beg.”

James very nearly drops down on his knees and does the begging instead.

He's going to be in serious trouble for sure.

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Oh yes, absolutely, I mean this scenario is even better than what we sort of brainstormed yesterday, because here both of them protects the other in their own way, which is just so delicious!

Maybe the bad guys have something against Sirius, because he did some bad shit when he was an active soldier, like being part of an (illegal?) covert operation / special murder squad, where he had to capture / torture / assassinate targets and one mission went south and it left a very gory scene behind?... and that’s how he earned his nickname “the Grim/omen of death”… Maybe the bad guys are a terrorist group, the Death Eaters, and Sirius had enough when he found out that his little brother was also involved??

ANYWAYS, James agrees to willingly meet with the bad guys because he wants to wipe out the evidence against Sirius from the bad guys’ server if he is at their location or something? Cause he figured that Sirius uses an alias because he has leverage attached to his real identity, and he really wants to help him out / free him of this burden....

So he has this plan, and he leaves some hints for Sirius to find his location, something not too obvious what is referring to one of their previous conversations or adventure, and because they really got to know each other already, he knows Sirius will pick up on it and figure it out. But the bad guys actually really do want James, becaus they need him to access a sensitive server or debug a code or something?? and by doing so, he also proceeds to delete the evidence on Sirius… maybe he also doesn’t know the full story of his past, only bits and pieces, and is a little intimidated by the actual truth he discovers about exactly how violent Sirius can get if triggered…

And when Sirius actually arrives, he can’t see James anywhere and jumps to the worst case scenario as a conclusion, and starts to wreak havoc like I drew here… And James could see “the Grim” with his own eyes! Because DRAMA!

And when Sirius actually realizes that James is alive, he is so relieved! but then feels super guilty too?... Like he didn’t want to show this dark side of himself to James, and he worked so hard to leave it behind, but now he relapsed big time and James knows and he’s spiraling… But James actually doesn’t mind, and even proposes to burn that place down together both figuratively and literally? Because they just get each other and they sort of enable each other in every way possible…

Shit, now i want to draw this too😅

And let me also add, that i am utterly grateful that this AU is this well received, and i am beyond excited about developing this with you all! Feel free to contribute to this in any way!

Bodyguard AU idea: Someone who’s out to get James manages to get a message to him, giving some sort of indisputable evidence / reasoning that they can and will kill his bodyguard if James doesn’t drug Sirius and come willingly. James thus complies and Sirius when he regains consciousness must once more save the day.

🤔I was talking to Lau last night (be proud of me, y'all, I've finally managed to talk to the creator of this AU after playing in it for days with only feeling like 80% annoying (that's on me and how my brain works, not on Lau at all)) and James potentially being taken did come up as a possible idea. maybe this could work @sorenphelps ?

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loaded moment

i think The Bodyguard AU Sirius would be reluctant to act on his real feelings and try so hard to remain professional, but he just cannot resist forever... and once he gives in, he's kissing like his life depends on it 😏

it's also sort of maybe very loosely but not really an illustration of the second ficlet @goldenlionprince wrote of this AU! Also tagging @lovelymasks & @diamondmeadow cause they were both kinda the reason why this AU was born to begin with

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they’re crushing on each other

a very sketchy comic illustrating @goldenlionprince’s car chase ficlet. The Bodyguard AU took over both of us, it’s official now, I have no idea when and where it will end (if?)…

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OMG OMG OMG 🥵❤️‍🔥😍

I love every ficlet you wrote, but this one, damn. I have no words so I made this little animation instead as an illustration of this fantastic ficlet, it’s very wobbly and has only 8 frames, but apparently even I have my limits

There’s more to come, I just need to recover from this first

A Little Distraction

and another one for @sorenphelps bodyguard AU because clearly I can't stop myself.

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It sucks that he can't even go out for a nice cool beer in a nice little bar anymore without suspicious people showing up, watching them from across the room up to the point where Sirius pulls him up from his seat and drags him out the backdoor into the alley behind the bar.

Sure, James isn't completely innocent. He probably shouldn't keep poking at their servers, crashing them ever so often or hacking them for whatever data he wants to look at. It's not like they know for sure it's him, he's not dumb enough to leave any evidence, but they still seem to be suspicious enough of him to be even more of a pest than usual.

James would stop but everyone needs a hobby.

So he finds himself dragged out of the bar, not that he's much complaining since it's Sirius doing the dragging. He pulls James along through a little corridor connected to another alleyway and then suddenly stops, cursing under his breath.

“What?” James asks, stopping beside him.

Sirius nods down the alley where James can barely make out a car down on the street, two people sitting inside. “I think they might have been planning for us to come that way.”

“So what do we do now?”

“Hoping a distraction will work,” Sirius says and turns to him, looking James up and down. “I'd rather not fire a gun close to bars on a Saturday night.”

“Okay,” James nods. “But why are you looking at me like that?”

“Give me your glasses.”

“I don't see shit without my glasses,” James says but removes them anyway, folding them and holding them out for Sirius to take. Sirius slides them into one of the endless pockets on his pants and reaches up to undo his bun. Dark hair cascades around his shoulders and he brushes it out of his face casually.

“Take off the jacket too.”

James frowns and shrugs out of his denim jacket just for Sirius to grab it and throw it somewhere into the darkness of the alleyway.

“Hey!” James manages before Sirius is suddenly very, very close, crowding him against the brick wall of the next bar behind them.

“Trust me,” he says, eyes bright in the dim light of the alley.

“Always,” James answers automatically without thinking, but as soon as the words are out of his mouth he knows they are true.

And then he doesn't say anything anymore because Sirius is kissing him, not just a tiny make-believe brush of lips but full on passion. James whimpers against his lips, his hands coming up without thinking to fist in the fabric of Sirius' shirt.

Sirius presses him even more back against the wall, their bodies touching from head to toes, Sirius thigh between James' legs. If they keep going like this James will embarrass himself like some kind of horny teenager very, very soon.

There are footsteps in the corridor that connects the alleyways but James barely hears them, his heartbeat too loud in his own ears. He only notices when Sirius pulls back from the kiss. James can't stop the little moan that escapes him at the loss.

“Fuck off,” Sirius hisses over his shoulder at the intruders, barely turning his head to do so.

“Yeah, yeah, sorry,” the bigger one of the two grumbles, barely looking at them. “We were just-”

“Doesn't matter,” the shorter guy interrupts. “Please continue.” He shoves the bigger guy along to hurry down the alley to the car at the end of it.

James can't believe that really worked.

“Are they gone?” Sirius asks, his lips brushing along James' neck. James shivers, his eyes almost falling shut.

“Can't tell. I've told you I see shit without my glasses.” His voice comes out a lot more breathless than he expected. There is the sound of a car starting and Sirius lifts his head from James' neck to watch it go.

As soon as the car is out of sight Sirius pulls back from him completely and James feels the loss of his body heat like an ice punch to the chest. “Here,” he says and James can feel his fingers on his face as he gently slides James' glasses back into place for him.

“Thanks,” James mumbles, still leaning against the wall. After that kiss his legs still feel like jelly. “What now?”

“Now,” Sirius says and bends over to pick James' jacket back up. “We have some beers to finish.”

“Well, I'm thirsty,” James says, his eyes on Sirius' ass.

Sirius laughs and tosses his jacket at James. “Come on then. Let's get you filled up.”

Oh, how James wishes that would happen.

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kiss kiss bang bang

I told you I’m gonna draw it if anyone writes me things, so here’s the actual illustration (a comic again…) for the first ficlet @goldenlionprince wrote for The Bodyguard AU! I also sort of fixed the ear protection problem (never mind they should wear special glasses too)

Until I manage to do more (because I will), read the other two ficlets because they are also golden! (I’m actually impressed that apparently I found my writer counterpart, in regards to speed and productivity, I wonder for how long we will keep on outbidding each other😅)

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he's always got his...back

can't stop, won't stop drawing The Bodyguard AU... Also James is a tech bro in this, cause I wanted to make him also competent in his own field of expertise, so they both can flex how big their... brains are😏 and gosh, they look so good together🥵