shonenjump ([personal profile] shonenjump) wrote in [community profile] bakerstreet2020-02-27 08:06 pm
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You are talking to your Queen, Aramis.


The Swear Myself to You Meme


It's been like this your entire life. Or perhaps it just seems that way, since it's been this way so long. Or it could hasn't been that long, and you remember what things were like before - worthless, fruitless, purposeless. Now, though, all is different. You've sworn your life to someone...or had your life sworn to them by someone else, back when you were young or powerless enough to not control your life. It doesn't matter if this swearing is an expected part of your society or an oddity in a modern age, here you are, and you know what you're here for. This isn't servitude, not in a fashion, as there's theoretically an honor here in your absolute loyalty. You are essentially on your "sworn duty's" level, you've just, well, chosen to dedicate your life to them. So if you're their best or brainwashed into being their right hand, all of it comes from a place of admiration!

Hopefully!

Theoretically.

Your position, of course, means you're a tool to be used, and every job needs a different tool. What's your job? Were you raised from an infant be be a constant companion for the one you're sworn to, who you grew up with? Instead, you could be a bodyguard or a first line of defense. In some cultures, there's an expectation that people be good in bed for future spouses; you could be there to train the one you're sworn to in the art of lovemaking. Of course, how well you're able to do your job depends on how your relationship is with your most important person. Are they kind? Cruel? What if they don't want you? It will be incredibly awkward if neither of you want to be in this position.

One certainty is this, however: romance and sexuality, unless heavily controlled, is forbidden. After all, how can you effectively dedicate yourself to them if some part of you wants them to dedicate themself to you?

How to Play
  • Comment with your character, your preferences, and what side of the equation you'd prefer to play - the being sworn to or the one doing said swearing. There are also three settings available: old fashion, modern, and future. You may want to specify which one of those you'd like, if you have a strong opinion.
  • Reply to others.
  • Use the RNG to determine your scenario.


Setting
  1. Old Fashion: In the days of yore, be it ancient, medieval, or pseudo-Victorian - or altogether fantastical.
  2. Modern: The here and now, where swearing to someone is pretty rare.
  3. Future: Years from now, who knows what strange alien cultures and technologies we'll have to abide by?


Prompts
  1. From Birth: You two were raised together, as one of you was given as a baby. There's no one who knows the other better than you.
  2. BFFs: You are intended to be their lifetime companion...platonically, of course.
  3. Repayment: You owe your life to them in one way or another. Devotion is the least you can do.
  4. Out of Love: The reason you swore yourself to them is because you love them and this is the best way to be close to them, even if you have to sacrifice other things.
  5. Unwilling Charge: Can you swear yourself to someone who doesn't want you?
  6. Spoils of War: Being here and swearing allegiance isn't your idea, but when you or your people are defeated in battle, there's not much else you can do.
  7. Ward: Perhaps you weren't there as an infant, but you did grow up in the family from a young age. They may be like a sibling to you. Would you be able to view them in any other way?
  8. Marriage: ...a marriage is sort of a swearing, isn't it?
  9. Mind Control: You need to be more pliable and loyal to be any good, servant.
  10. Familiar: You were created through magic just for them.
  11. Guard: Focus. You have to protect them, and you can't if you're distracted.
  12. Eunuch: You're supposed to be completely chaste and celibate, or at least that's what they and those around them think.
  13. To Teach: Your charge is going to be married, and you have to teach them how to please a future spouse.
  14. Jealousy: You know you're not supposed to be
  15. More than One: Someone else has sworn themselves to your charge...you were here first!
  16. More than This: You want to be more to them than just a glorified servant.
  17. Unwilling Charge: They don't want you, but you have to serve them.
  18. Redemption: This is your way to make up for the sins of your past.
  19. ...what?: How to you get someone sworn to you again?
  20. Utter Devotion: There isn't anything you wouldn't do for them. Anything.
  21. Forbidden: Being with them sexually is a punishable offense for you, but neither of you care.
  22. Equals: In society, you two are on different levels. In private, you see more eye to eye.
  23. Not Too Serious: The more crack-y option. They saved you...but it was from something like stubbing your toe. Obviously, you owe yourself to them. Or something.
  24. FREESTYLE
mauricia: • easystreet (pic#13681311)

queen anne / the musketeers / m/f

[personal profile] mauricia 2020-02-28 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
( open to all settings )
hegemonwings: (Tʜᴇ sᴋʏ ᴍᴜʟᴛɪᴘʟɪᴇs ᴀɴᴅ sᴜʙᴅɪᴠɪᴅᴇs)

byleth eisner (♀) | fire emblem: three houses

[personal profile] hegemonwings 2020-02-28 09:56 am (UTC)(link)
[ f/f pref, some male castmates welcome ]
rexbritanniae: (Default)

King John | Robin Hood (2010) | m/f

[personal profile] rexbritanniae 2020-02-28 11:40 am (UTC)(link)
Edited 2020-02-28 11:40 (UTC)
scaledwolf: (020 ♔)

Jon Snow/Aegon Targaryen | GoT

[personal profile] scaledwolf 2020-02-28 02:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[ King in the North? King Aegon Targaryen, ruler of the Seven Kingdoms? King Aegon Targaryen, ruler of the Six Kingdoms because the North was given to Sansa to rule? Jon Snow, bending the knee to a ruler instead? GoT setting? Future setting? Some modern royalty setting? Come at me? (m/f for shippy) ]

Re: Jon Snow/Aegon Targaryen | GoT

[personal profile] electricnachos 2020-02-28 03:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Modern royalty a la Kings, perhaps? Elektra could do a lot worse than swearing herself to follow a man who came back from the dead and isn't too terribly screwed up. Or evil. ]
scaledwolf: (036)

[personal profile] scaledwolf 2020-02-28 03:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[ I’m down for that. He can be the King of some foreign country no one’s ever heard of really. Heh. Wanna set us up? ]
forceshadowed: (⚔️ 13)

definitely #20 bc why else would she start a war?? lmao

[personal profile] forceshadowed 2020-02-28 03:58 pm (UTC)(link)
In the middle of the night, when King's Landing lay peacefully still — the city devastated by the Dragon Queen's conquest, covered in darkness and ash and fear — the bells rang.

It's a little hard to make sense of the chaos from the confines of their cell, but Tyrion tries, straining as much as he can to hear what's going on outside. "Well, we're definitely under attack," he says as he looks across the room to Jon, who's being unhelpfully dejected in a corner. "Not sure who else would bother, since my sister's been so thoroughly defeated—" He frowns, eyebrows furrowing in concentration as he fumbles for anything he could get his hands on so he could bring himself close enough to the little window high up one of the walls.

Then he blinks. "Not my sister." He glances at his cellmate again, and he's rather stunned. "The North, it seems, has come to liberate their King."



The North had not been in any shape to wage war against Daenerys Targaryen. Most of their forces had marched South to help her seize the Iron Throne from Cersei Lannister, in return for her crucial support during the Great War, then they had been thrown in a disarray after Jon Snow's failed coup and the short-lived uprising that followed. So Sansa Stark, Lady of Winterfell, had made a desperate gambit: she'd called on her family's old allies from beyond the Sunset Sea.

Jane still holds the missive in her hand as she stands on the deck of her fleet's flagship, staring across Blackwater Bay and at the walls of the sleeping city, her lips pursed together into a thin, hard line. She can already hear echoes of the fighting in the distance, the remaining Northmen under Sansa's command breaching the gates.

"Ready the ballistae," she orders. The plan was for Arya to slip into the city in the chaos and break Jon out, but she's not about to just stand there and watch.
Edited 2020-02-28 16:48 (UTC)
moonbunnyusako: (Default)

Princess Serenity / Sailor Moon / M/F or Futa/F

[personal profile] moonbunnyusako 2020-02-28 05:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[Open to all prompts. Would love #6 with her being the one to swear allegiance.]
scaledwolf: (034)

Jon says he owes her massively, and intends to pay in full. 😏😏

[personal profile] scaledwolf 2020-02-28 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
He’d bit been able to fully follow through with the plan, being caught before he could finish the job. Not that he was sure he’d have been able to make it out alive even if he’d been able to kill her and end some of this. Not with all the Unsullied and Dothraki milling about after the conquest. And then he was stuck in the cell with Tyrion.

He’s mostly ignoring him, inward and broody like normal. But he can’t ignore that Tyrion says it’s his sister, his Northerners that are headed here to liberate him. It pushes him to stand slowly and move to the tiny window that have to look out, not believe him. “How...” because those aren’t Sansa’s boats, the North didn’t really have much because they didn’t need them and a lot of what they had, had sailed south with him.

But then he’s catching the sails and the livery that are on them. And that’s not the North’s either, but he knows who it might be. Who would have fleets to spare to help the Starks with a war. Especially a war that liberates him. “Sansa called her.” Because he knows who would be leading the charge if he’s right. And his heart yearns for the woman he thinks is leading.

“Psst,” comes from the corner of the bars by the door, which is being fiddled with while Arya picks the lock. “We won’t have a lot of time.”
cassiefuckingcage: (Default)

Cassie Cage | Mortal Kombat | OTA

[personal profile] cassiefuckingcage 2020-02-28 06:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[Open to all prompts.]
haunting_aria: (Diva! stylish)

Diva | Blood + | ota

[personal profile] haunting_aria 2020-02-28 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[open to all prompts and settings, though would prefer she be the one getting sworn too. ]
bloodprince: (22)

Vlad Dracula | Bram Stoker's Dracula | M/F

[personal profile] bloodprince 2020-02-28 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[open to all prompts/settings.]
byhisblood: (05)

Mina Murray (Vampire AU) | Bram Stoker's Dracula | Ota

[personal profile] byhisblood 2020-02-28 06:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[open to all prompts & settings. ]
likemaryshelley: (01)

Edith Cushing | Crimson Peak (Canon or AU) | OTA

[personal profile] likemaryshelley 2020-02-28 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[ open to all prompts & settings ]
snowldier: (Default)

Winter Schnee|RWBY|ota

[personal profile] snowldier 2020-02-28 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
prophetessoftroy: (Default)

Cassandra of Troy | Greek Myth | OTA

[personal profile] prophetessoftroy 2020-02-28 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
(Open to all prompts and to both sides of the equation)
eternalmagic: (Default)

Mordred | Arthurian legend / Modern | OTA, M/F for shipping

[personal profile] eternalmagic 2020-02-28 08:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[Could be either/any. Let's brainstorm if you're into that kinda thing.]
moonbunnyusako: (Default)

[personal profile] moonbunnyusako 2020-02-28 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[[Perhaps a Princess offered up in exchange for protection? I haven’t made her a kink list yet but looking at yours we have the same no’s and a lot of the same favs.]]
miraclewhip: to demand dracula explain where babies come from (Wallachia man climbs on top of castle)

Trevor Belmont | Castlevania | ota

[personal profile] miraclewhip 2020-02-28 08:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[ The one doing the swearing. Prefer to avoid crack options, but otherwise open to all. ]
fanoperator: (huaisang)

Nie HuaiSang | Mo Dao Zu Shi

[personal profile] fanoperator 2020-02-28 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[The one being sworn to. Open to AUs.]
infinite1ups: (: awkwaaard)

Claire Bennet ∞ NBC's Heroes ∞ OTA

[personal profile] infinite1ups 2020-02-28 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[ modern or medieval/fantasy, any old way! people wanting to protecc her even though she says she doesn't need it, never gets old, lol. ]
firstroar: (ʀᴇsᴏɴᴀᴛɪɴɢ)

[personal profile] firstroar 2020-02-29 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
[how do you feel abt playing bodyguard to a psychic]
forceshadowed: (⚔️ 19)

[personal profile] forceshadowed 2020-02-29 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
The fleet that Jane brought to White Harbor had been much larger than Sansa had expected or asked for, and while the symbol painted on the sails were unfamiliar — it's not the sigil of House Organa, that much she's sure — it was telling of their origins all the same. A thousand ships, with hulking warships at the forefront, sails black as night and blending into the darkness that Daenerys' forces had not seen them coming.

Now they're a long line of shadows on Blackwater Bay, their weapons primed, and at Jane's command, their bolts shot out, one after the other, straight to the walls and the Mud Gate, destroying the length of it well under ten minutes.

"She'll be coming on her dragon," Tormund warns, looking warily up the sky. Sansa had called the Wildlings, too.

"Let her come," Jane simply says, unfazed, before slipping on her helm.



When the Northmen breached the gates, Daenerys had thought it would be another futile rebellion, easily crushed by Grey Worm and the Unsullied and the Dothraki. But when the foreign fleet appeared on Blackwater Bay, bringing down the walls...

"Bring Jon and Tyrion here," she commands as she moves to sit back on her throne. Drogon looms menacingly behind her, snorting fire every now and then in agitation. "If this is Varys' handiwork, then they must have been privy to the plan." Because certainly Sansa couldn't have done this. At least, not without help.
scaledwolf: (046)

[personal profile] scaledwolf 2020-02-29 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
Jon and Tyron turn to see Arya make quick work of the lock. Once the cell opens she tosses them dark cloaks and nods for them to follow her. There’s even a finger held up to her lips to keep them quiet or from asking too many question, because she wants to get them out as fast as possible. Jon detours only a little, to grab his weapons that are sitting not far off, because if able he doesn’t want to lose his sword.

The sound of guards headed this way has both men moving after her quickly and as silently as possibly, following her to a break in the wall where she’d gotten in. Daenerys hasn’t had time to fully secure all the cracks and breaks in the Keep, which had made it all the easier for Arya to find a path in to get them out.

They make it through just before the guards get down, and there’s a large shout when the guards realize they’re not in their cell. “Find them! The Queen demands their pretense in the throne room!”

Arya doesn’t let them wait to hear it all though, wanting to keep the element of surprise and confusion as much as possible as she follows a trail unguarded down to the beach. With getting a head start on the guards, and keeping to the shadow while everyone is worried about the attack, they don’t run into a lot of resistance as they break out onto the sands of the Bay. Jon shields his eyes from the sun, glancing toward the sky to try and see if Daenerys has Drogon out yet.
vivant: (folded hands)

queen anne - musketeers bbc

[personal profile] vivant 2020-02-29 02:02 am (UTC)(link)

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