#like even the concept of GUIDES THEMSELVES are entirely fanon. like they just don't even exist in the show. NUTS!!!!!

[jankwritten]

It's so interesting about this Sentinels/Guides trope thing because people apparently often see it as an A/B/O thing?? Because of the whole "spirit animals" thing (which....yikes....but i guess it was the 90s) which is so interesting to me because the 3 fics that EYE read had next to no ABO elements at all. I mean, there was the "character has to take a medication that suppresses their senses" thing, but that was all.

This is part of why I'm so intrigued by the history and lore of this trope, because it genuinely varies SO MUCH from author to author. Down to even the basic terminology!! There's just so much variation - some people might write it as something akin to ABO, whereas others take it in entirely different directions.

And the fact it literally all originated from a mid-90s sci fi buddy cop tv show? i am in awe every day of what the hell crack fandom is on fr. wow.

[robotskissingrobots]

V2 X MIRAGE STATUS : FANON

PROPAGANDA : "Mirage is what I'd classify as a human-coded machine, her characteristics are nigh indistinguishable from a human's beyond her appearance. V2 is... just a machine. marketed as a sentient swiss army knife as a desperate effort to make money.

this shows through their stories, which are strongly themed around the concepts of mind and body respectively; M almost entirely dismissing the physical world around her in favor of obsessing over her mind, and V2 thinking of nothing but the theft of their body.

on the more poetic front; despite all odds toward the contrary, Mirage is alive, and V2 is dead.

despite this, or perhaps inevitably due to the single-rail nature of their storylines, M begins to intentionally care about her physical world and self, and V2 starts to think about the nature of itself and its role, thus subverting themselves and crossing over one another.

neither will make the same mistakes the other happened to make, because they have the other to guide them.

conversely both will appreciate watching the other's growth, and see themself in the other. they appreciate each other's company on a general basis of "you won't kill me, and I like to talk to you" but also on the deeper basis of "we're both willing to learn from each other"

on the actual relationship note it's kind of a grey area between friends/lovers situation, really no point in defining a relationship when you're the only two beings in existence.

general physicality is an inevitability (see latter part of previous statement, plus they're both engineered to connect with others), but I'd imagine anything they do romantically or sexually begins more as a calculated experiment than pure instinct. they also just like each other! they both want to make the other feel good!" -recursivetransformarray

V1 X GABRIEL STATUS : DUBIOUSLY CANON?

PROPAGANDA : N/A

WALL E X EVE STATUS : CANON

PROPAGANDA : "I love Wall-E and Eve so much. That movie was my childhood, and they are THE robot couple. Their romance is so good they don't even need to speak! Define dancing is one of the best scenes from anything ever, and Wall-E x Eve is one of the best romances from anything ever" - guy who submitted them

if theres another tie wall-e and eve will be added to the group because i think thatd be funny