#Sentinel/Guide AU

[spacedoutdandelion]

Thinking about a Sentinel & Guide AU for KN8 and how that’d work for any given pairing 😩

For the sake of my sanity:

KafHoshi-

If set before Hoshi gets 10, then it’d be Sentinel Kafka with Guide Hoshi. Because even with Hoshina’s cool demeanor he’s a softy at heart and he’d 110% have a weakness for Kafka with his puppydog eyes and how he recklessly overuses his senses to help others at his own risk.

Imagine how Narumi pushing Kafka to use his potential would just piss Hoshina off because he’s not there all the time to help Kafka reset his senses and it makes him worry. 🥺

But I imagine Hoshi after getting 10 being more like a sentinel. So Sentinel/Sentinel with them struggling to control their senses and unable to find comfort in each other despite not wanting anyone else. Very bittersweet.

Iharu/Reno-

Iharu would definitely be the guide! I think of this scene and how supportive he was for Reno and it makes my heart soft. Iharu would have chosen Reno, before Reno even realized they were a good match up for each other. They’d start out platonic and grow into more over time because their both stubborn about acknowledging their feelings.

NaruHoshi-

Thinking about Sentinel/Sentinel NaruHoshi and how they’d bring out the worst in each other, pushing each other past their limits and being each others downfalls but not caring in the slightest. Because why would that matter when they feel so free in the moment as they strive for greater heights - who cares if their senses are getting absolutely destroyed, one of them needs to be better and they both have that “it’ll be me” mentality.

but uh this is just my brainrot ramblings…don’t take me serious or anything 🫠

[wanderingjedihistorian]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: CC-2224 | Cody/Obi-Wan Kenobi Characters: CC-2224 | Cody, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Clone Trooper Waxer (Star Wars), Jocasta Nu Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Sentinel/Guide, Force Dyad (Star Wars), First Meetings, Bonding, Instincts are hard, Enhanced senses are harder, Sentinel CC-2224 | Cody, Guide Obi-Wan Kenobi Series: Part 1 of Here Comes the Sun, Part 9 of 212th Bingo 2023 Summary: As soon as Obi-Wan stepped off the shuttle, anticipation started to buzz under his skin. The very Force around him seemed to hum soonsoonsoon. Obi-Wan had no idea what it could possibly mean. Then he heard a voice.

For the "Sentinel AU" square of @clonefandomevents​ 212th Bingo!

Featuring at commissioned from the lovely @amikoroyaiart​!

[getoed5725]

"Have you seen them?" "Yeah, above. 3rd floor." "Very good. Now, are you willing to turn into a beast for me, Satoru?"

五夏 Sentinel/Guide au: Sentinel Gojo x Guide Geto. Strongest Sentinel & Strongest Guide formed pair.

Context for the art:

- on an undercover mission in a hotel

- they're fully bonded at this point

- the ages can stay like in the fic (below) or not. but i think Gojo will be excited to see his lieutenant/boss/lover/bonded guide looking young again with the hairstyle :>

inspiration: this Chinese Sentinel/Guide Goge fic and the official art for hotel collab:

[satashiiwrites]

From Scorched Earth, A Phoenix Rises Chapter 10

Title: From Scorched Earth, a Phoenix Rises, Chapter 10

Fandom: 911, Hawaii 5-0

Pairing: Buddie, McDanno, BuckTommy (breakup), minor Deacon/Hondo (SWAT, platonic) and Reyes Vidal/Scott Ryder (Mass Effect Andromeda)

Tags/warnings: (eventual) explicit sex, canon divergence from end of season 7, character bashing (Tommy Kinard, Helena Diaz), child abuse, canon typical violence, sentinel/guide AU, spirit animals, anchors, BuckTommy breakup (this fic is very not friendly to Tommy Kinard), first time, Bad Diaz Parents, minor pairings are used in place of OCs. 

Summary: An anchor, however fragile, can keep even an offline sentinel from manifesting as long as it is maintained. When his anchor is removed, Eddie Diaz enters a deep zone.  Can Buck, a long unattached guide, save his best friend from slipping away?

El Paso, Texas, 2024

Danny and Steve hit the ground in El Paso and are immediately on the hunt. The smell of aviation fuel and scorched rubber burns Steve’s nostrils as he inhales instinctively, looking for the soft scent he picked up from the scent pack Athena Grant had provided him so he could track Christopher. 

They’re met on the tarmac by several Texas Rangers, all of which are bonded sentinels and include the man Steve had reached out to earlier—Major Alec Ryder.

“There was an empathic event in one of our suburbs,” a grizzled older sentinel informs them. “About three and a half hours ago. We’re working on locating the epicenter, but we’re having to go house to house.”

Danny’s eyes are ice blue as they flash to Steve’s. “Babe, what do you want to bet we got an upset baby guide that just came online?”

“No bet,” Steve growls and gives the address for the Diaz grandparents. 

Read Chapter 10 here on AO3

[snprblu72]

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🗺️🗺️🗺️🗺️🗺️

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"Obviously we’re getting married, but do you also want to mate whenever my next heat is?”

Eddie tensed a bit—another thing that he had not considered. There was going to be a whole list of those, he was sure.

A purr rumbled from Evan’s chest at the change in his fiance’s posture and scent. “It’s a while off still, Eddie. Nothing to panic over. We have months, at least, before it comes around again.”

“I thought you had heats twice a year?”

He shrugged as well as he could, not wanting to really move that much since he had gotten so comfortable. “It’s kind of like going through puberty. You know how your ruts were unpredictable for a couple of years?” At Eddie’s confirming nod against his hair, he continued, “Well, I only presented about a year ago. So far I’ve had two—my first one that showed I was an omega and one just a couple of months ago.”

“But, technically, you could have one next week.”

“Yeah, I could,” he admitted.

-🗺️-

“Well, now everyone thinks we have two dogs, if they can see into the backyard anyway. One of them might be nosy enough to try, but they don’t really share much of a boundary with us,” Eddie said, gesturing vaguely toward the corner opposite where they were standing. With how high the fence was and the fact that Eddie had a couple of fruit trees there, Buck could see why he would be confident in saying that they were unlikely to be able to tell. There was little in the way of area that they would be able to see through.

“Bear is very happy to play fetch, and Chris really seems to be having a good time with it.” He nodded back towards the house. “You want to go inside, and we can work a little bit more on getting you some filters instead of just shields?”

He sighed heavily. Almost whining, much like his spirit guide could, he asked, “Do we have to?”

“Well, no, of course not. But you really do need to learn how to do more than shield, Eddie. You don’t want to lose control.”

It took a long moment, but then he turned back to the house. “Fine. I don’t need to bring everybody around if I had an empathic event.”

Make Me Write

[marmarthehatterverse]

An excerpt from the first thousand words of my buddie fic, because maybe if I get enough positive reinforcement I'll actually finish it. This takes place during the covid era, btws

@steadfastsaturnsrings

“You sure are big for a guide.”

Buck slows for a moment, but returns to his brisk pace so quick it would be nigh unperceivable if you didn’t know him very well. His mask mostly obscures his reflexive smile as he continues to carry the little girl out of the crumbling building. She’s looking up at him with big green eyes filled with wonder.

“Well, what makes you so sure I’m a guide?” His voice is light, teasing.

The little girl’s eyebrows furrow, this was clearly not a possibility she had considered. In her defense, very few ever clock him for what he is. “But you’re making me feel so calm and safe. You must be a guide…?” 

Her head is cocked now, scrutinizing him the way only small children could. Buck glances down at her, still moving at a quick pace, trying to get away from the crumbling halls and to safety so she could be given a proper look over. “Maybe you feel so calm and safe because you’re no longer in a room collapsing around you?” He gestures to behind him with his head.

“No,” she wrinkles her nose at this, giving a decisive shake of her head, “I felt safe from the moment you grabbed me from my room. It should have been scary with all the walls shaking like that, but as soon as you grabbed me I knew I was going to be okay.”

The thing is, most people forget that sentinels, before anything else, are guardians. They exist to keep people safe, and those being saved by them can instinctively tell that the sentinel will do everything in their power to get them out as unharmed as they possibly can. People forget that sentinels changed first, and that guides, with their empathy and soothing existence, developed in response to the sentinels’ needs. 

Buck slows to a stop in front of the ambulance, and gives the little girl his undivided attention, “I am big for a guide,” her face starts to break into a grin of triumph, “But I’m only a little over average for a sentinel.” He winks at her gobsmacked face as he hands her over to Hen.

[firstservepercentage]

rybalenka Sentinel/Guide AU??!?

Sentinel! Aryna & Guide! Elena

[plotbunnybreeder]

The Path Less Traveled

Being a Sentinel is a blessing and a curse for Jaskier. He's only a Two-Sense Sentinel, touch and hearing, and he's used his heightened senses to please crowds and paramours alike along his travels. He has to be careful, however, as there's usually only three fates for a Sentinel: conscription, death, or if you're discovered as a child, gifted to the witchers (which most of the time ended in death anyway).

Guides are far more numerous than Sentinels, their gift ranging from a temporary help for a Sentinel to strong enough to anchor one constantly (those are usually taken to become mages). As long as Jaskier stays away from mages and never uses his senses long enough to Zone he can hide his status.

It's thus a surprise when Jaskier is singing in a tavern and a Guide Witcher walks into the establishment, the Guide's gift immediately reacting to Jaskier. The Witcher seems just as horrified as Jaskier about it.

Well, fuck.

[alyblogsrandomly]

Falling back into Sentinel and Guides and hurting myself by writing a sad MadaTobi Sentinel/Sentinel fic 🫠

Will I ever publish it? who knows. I don’t think i’ll be able to reread it to edit without crying.

[deke-abed-spencer]

So, okay, listen. I was admiring this post and the quote on the second picture, in the top left corner, about essentially "it's not fair i love you when you irritate the ever living fuck out of me and drive me crazy and look so cute and make me laugh while you piss me off."

And that reminded me of FitzSimmons. 😂 It made me think the fight from 6x06 in the containment pod.

"And I'm allowed to want to save you!" / "I'll save you everything time, or I'll die trying! I DON'T CARE!" / "ME TOO BECAUSE I LOVE YOU!" / "YEAH, WELL. I LOVE YOU TOO!" / "THEN WHY ARE WE YELLING!?" / "I DON'T KNOW!"

And. FitzSimmons is literally perfect for the Sentinel/Guide AU!!!

Fitz's brain is very online sentinel.

Oh my god, nooo, that's so angst. So since in most AUs, Guides come online more gradually and normally before their Sentinel counterpart. And maybe you have an AU where you can't know if you'll be either until you come online, or maybe you have an AU where Fitz is considered a latent Sentinel because he hasn't come online. Maybe there's no way for a Guide to know if a latent or unknown Sentinel is their bonded/soulmate/perfect match/etc until the Sentinel comes online, and they feel the bond.

So what if Jemma's already an online unbonded Guide and Fitz is "mudane"(until proven otherwise) or a latent Sentinel? What if Jemma wasn't all that interested in dating anyways before she came online, and she already knows Fitz when she does come online? What if she oddly (omniscient audience irony, ha ha) doesn't get that urge most newly-online Guides get to seek out their Sentinel? It doesn't bother her cause she'd obviously rather focus on the academy anyway.

If Fitz knows he's a latent Sentinel, when he starts catching feelings, he tells himself he's probably not hers while he's In Denial and after he accepts his feelings because he can't get his hopes up. If Fitz thinks he's mundane, it's a reason he obviously doesn't have feelings for Jemma; that'd be hopeless. Then it's a reason it definitely is hopeless, and he should definitely never tell her.

But then, hey, he's about to die when he hits that button, so YOLO; "And you're more than that, Jemma." And then when he hits the button, he comes online. And he can't even start spiraling and zoning because his Guide is right there. He felt it at some point of skin contact when she grabbed him. And he knows he's gonna drown, feels remorse for doing that to Jemma, his Guide, but at least he'll die with the knowledge they could've been. It's incredibly hard to remember to hold his breath when all of his senses are screaming to center on Jemma to no avail being dragged through the water. The water's all he can sense, and it's even more disorienting that way. And then, they must be sinking cause the water's getting dark again, and then nothing.

He wakes up a while later, and while he's stable and not in steady risk of zoning or going feral (pick a plot reason), Jemma just isn't there. He doesn't understand at first because she should've felt the bond initially too, why isn't she here? But Jemma, already a bit oblivious to her Guide senses and abilities, didn't notice Fitz coming online while she was pretty busy dragging him to surface. She was too distracted in keeping them afloat or helping boost Fitz into the helicopter or processing his admission or that they somehow survived, so she didn't notice her instincts telling her that's her Sentinel. And since there was opportunity for Fitz to center on her, for them to fully bond, none of the medics knew to keep them together. In fact, they probably kept Jemma out because she was unbonded, and he was in critical condition.

I got carried away there. Idk a reason for FitzSimmons to not figure it out and thus bond immediately or shortly thereafter upon Jemma's return. So, possibly canon divergence, and they do, and they get back to being cohesive again because at least now Jemma can feel his emotions when he can't find words. Orrrr. For some reason, it does take until the end of s2, but then they bond then before *(monolith noises)*. Because as long as Fitz gets to center all five senses and they let each other in, mentally, sex isn't technically required in most AUs, just most convenient (cause we writers are horndogs). They just have some handsy making out before the bond clicks (via bond mark or not) and deciding to be classy and have dinner. It gets postponed 6 months, oops.

Okay, this was supposed to be me outlining why they'd be perfect for this AU, but i got carried away. So I'll stop here 😂.

[kynmoonlight]

I’m thinking the endurance of the Sentinel/Guide AU trope in fanfic has less to do with the quality of the original and more to do with answering the age-old question;

“WHAT IF my hyperactive senses made me a super-hero with an adorkable lifemate to help me manage them, instead of a socially awkward neurodivergent with chronic overload pain issues?”

[27dragons]

New Year Countdown: Dec 27

I did not almost forget to post today but I was out of the house for most of the evening. Today's is a short and kind of ridiculous Geraskier Sentinel/Guide AU!

Dec 27 - Geraskier - Sentinel/Guide AU - Shovel

When Geralt came back up from the caves where he tracked the spriggan, he was still deep in the grip of the Sentinel. His eyes were black corner-to-corner, absorbing every scrap of light and color; his attention shifted at the softest breath or slightest step; his jaw clenched at the rasp of even the breeze against his skin. His sword was rock-steady in his grip, but his free hand trembled.

“Did ye get it?” demanded the alderman, who’d insisted on accompanying them to the site.

Geralt spun. His sword lifted.

Jaskier already had the alterman’s collar clenched in his fist. “Don’t say another word,” he growled. “Go and fetch the shovel from the camp.”

The man started to protest and Jaskier held up one finger in warning. He could feel Geralt’s need scraping against his mental walls, and he had no time for idiots. “The shovel,” he repeated, and shoved the man in the direction of the camp they’d made before coming down to the caves.

He reached for Geralt before the sound of the alterman’s clumsy footsteps had begun to fade. “Geralt,” he whispered, barely a breath that he knew Geralt would hear as if it had been shouted. “My Sentinel, let me Guide you home.”

Geralt’s dark gaze fell on Jaskier, considering. He didn’t relax at all.

If Jaskier had been anything other than what he was, that menacing gaze might have terrified him. As it was, he was only worried. “Geralt?”

Geralt’s lip curled in a silent snarl. “There is still danger,” he rumbled.

“You mean the alderman’s plan to kill us and keep the fee?” Jaskier murmured, smiling. “I know. You don’t need to stand Sentinel for that one. Even I could handle it all on my own.”

“Hm.” Even in the midst of his hypervigilance, Geralt managed to be unimpressed with Jaskier’s claims to competence.

Jaskier grinned. “Come back to me, Geralt. Let it go, release it. I promise, you don’t need it. He’s fetching the shovel to dig his own grave with, as we speak.”

Geralt closed his eyes and let his head fall, breathing slowly. Jaskier hummed quietly until he saw the last of the tension bleed out of Geralt’s body.

“Thank you, darling,” he said.

Geralt huffed. “I didn’t bring a spade with me. All I have is a snow shovel.”

“Why?” Jaskier demanded.

“Cave floor,” Geralt pointed out. “Easier to scoop up the body with a snow shovel.”

Jaskier sighed. “Well, we’ll figure something out, I suppose.”

[wanderingjedihistorian]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: CC-2224 | Cody/Obi-Wan Kenobi Characters: CC-2224 | Cody, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Clone Trooper Wooley (Star Wars), Clone Trooper Waxer (Star Wars), 212th Attack Battalion Members (Star Wars: The Clone Wars), Jedi Council Members (Star Wars) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Sentinel/Guide, Sentinel CC-2224 | Cody, Guide Obi-Wan Kenobi, media, Holonet gossip, The 212th enjoys their general and commander being in the news and gossip columns, Said Commander does not, Humor, Fluff Series: Part 5 of Here Comes the Sun, Part 6 of 212th Appreciation Week 2024 Summary: Cody and Obi-Wan's relationship is a major topic of discussion on the holonet.

For @212thappreciation Week Day 7 Prompt: Media, Politics, Gossip

[maybelacrimosa]

it’s kind of surreal watching clips of the sentinel, like the show spawned an entire genre of fanfic that’s still having stuff produced now. It’s just interesting getting a better idea of what spawned the guide & sentinel au.

[satashiiwrites]

Wip whenever/snippet saturday

working on phoenix today….

tagging whoever wants to play along with no pressure @tkwritesdumbassassins @tiny-reader @rosieposiepuddingnpie @outtoshatter @monsterrae1 @harleyjquinwrites

Title: From Scorched Earth, a Phoenix Rises

Fandom: 911, Hawaii 5-0

Pairing: Buddie, McDanno, BuckTommy (breakup), minor Deacon/Hondo (SWAT, platonic) and Reyes Vidal/Scott Ryder (Mass Effect Andromeda)

Tags/warnings: (eventual) explicit sex, canon divergence from end of season 7, character bashing (Tommy Kinard, Helena Diaz), child abuse, canon typical violence, sentinel/guide AU, spirit animals, anchors, BuckTommy breakup (this fic is very not friendly to Tommy Kinard), first time, Bad Diaz Parents, minor pairings are used in place of OCs. First draft as this is a snippet

Summary: An anchor, however fragile, can keep even an offline sentinel from manifesting as long as it is maintained. When his anchor is removed, Eddie Diaz enters a deep zone.  Can Buck, a long unattached guide, save his best friend from slipping away?

“It’ll be easier if you’re touching me…”

Yeah right. Touching Buck is the biggest distraction at the moment. 

Buck’s everything is a distraction and Eddie cannot focus so he lets Buck manhandle him into whatever position suits him—which is standing flat footed with his back to Buck’s chest, Buck’s arms wrapped around him and surrounding Eddie in a hug, large hand open and pressed against Eddie’s abdomen, sneaking underneath his shirt so the heat of Buck’s palms feel like a brand on Eddie’s skin. 

“Easy, Eds,” Buck’s words spoken directly into his ear has Eddie shivering as Buck’s arms tighten around him, the sides of their faces pressed together so he can feel the rough unshaven surface of Buck’s cheek brushing against his. 

His knees threaten to buckle as Buck croons softly, a whole body shudder travels from Eddie’s head to his unclad toes, sensitizing each nerve along the way. 

Buck.  

Dios. 

The tent in Eddie’s pants is embarrassing. All Buck is doing is holding him but Eddie is attuned to each and every twitch Buck makes. The fact that Buck’s thumb is flicking in and out of his belly Button with each inhale is maddening. 

“Focus on my voice.  Block out everything else,” Buck instructs and Eddie struggles to obey. 

Read the currently published chapters on AO3

[maythevoidnotscreamback]

Story Idea: Sailor Moon Sentinel/Guide AU

Has anyone thought of how this premise might go?

Like, I thought of this trope almost immediately after I found a reblog over on queenrisa14's page that was originally posted by silvermoon424 about how great SM does about showing positive masculinity. With Mamo being the Empath/Healer/Support with his Psychometry and healing abilities in manga and crystal canon he's the obvious Guide and Usa being the (reluctant but still) Fighter/Troubleshooter/Saviour with the powers she has no idea what to do with but learns as she goes as the Sentinel.

The way I see it, if one did this as an actual Senshi AU - rather than some form of aged-up AU where the semi-feral she-cop or detective Sentinel gets with the cute doctor Guide that treats her in the aftermath of or during a case (just as an example) - Usa could have a more hellish time with everything because she's meant to be powered up when in her fuku, right? But being a Sentinel means, since she already is that way naturally before Luna comes along, that the single dial she's already having trouble with keeping below an eight on a good day, because her instincts came online on her fourteenth birthday, has cranked itself and an additional four to nine dials she wasn't aware of to ten when she transforms.

Mamo could be completely unaware he's a Guide, and thus not on the list for Usa to test compatibility at the time, because he's one of the hella rare ones who went online super early due to his accident, not to mention the rampant sexism where 99 times out of 100 the Guide's a woman and the Sentinel's a man, and his Psychometry and status as the reincarnated Prince isn't helping (the Prince hadn't been a Guide, after all) by amplifying his power as a Guide while also messing with, and thus sabotaging, the results of the Guide Test. So he knows there's something 'wrong' with him, he just doesn't know what specifically.

Hell, for this AU, (if one is so inclined to make it that way, one doesn't have to if not) one could also have it be that not only are Sentinel's rare but because of that rarity it isn't out of the ordinary for one Sentinel to have multiple Guides; called a Domain. There's the Main Guide(s), that is the sexual/romantic/closest Guide(s) depending on the sexuality and openness of the Sentinel and Guides, and the Support Guides, the one or more other Guides a Sentinel has found compatibility with for when they don't have a compatible Main Guide or said Main Guide(s) can't be or isn't around but there's no sense to be any more intimate than when they first met so these Guides are allowed to have other relations with others who aren't their Sentinel and fellow Guides if they so choose. Especially if the Sentinel is 'powerful' in whatever sense. It's to keep the sense the Main Guide isn't in danger of becoming an unwitting prisoner/hostage/abuse victim to their Sentinel out of the public concerns. So Usa has her Mamo-chan as her Main Guide and her Senshi as her Support Guides, they work together like a web, when he can't be there but in the event one wants the girls to have a love life they can because Sentinels are only Tyrants over their Domain, instead of the Protectors of their Domain, when they have some form of mental illness or personality disorder not unlike those who form Cults.

Because Usa would never want to control who her friends love or want to share their time with or where they go. She'd want them to be happy and if her Domain expands because of it, because all under a Sentinel's umbrella, even if not one of their Guides, or part of another, subordinate, Sentinel's Domain (Uranus + Outers) is part of their Domain, then all the better!