[ SECRET POST #2298 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2298 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 021 secrets from Secret Submission Post #328.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Thread for fandom things you don't understand

[(Anonymous)]

Sentinels and Guides do come from The Sentinel, but it's very much a case of fanon running away with itself. The conceit of the original show was the idea of a person with senses well beyond the normal range - someone with all five senses heightened was called a Sentinel (that's canon). Protagonist 1, Jim, is a Sentinel, and Protagonist 2, Blair, is the anthropologist who teaches him why his senses are spiralling out of control, and helps him work with them. I can't remember off the top of my head if the term "Guide" is also canon, but if it is, it's certainly not one that was used much. It got a lot more use in fanon, and somehow became de rigueur.

Then there were a couple of episodes which strongly implied that there's a biological drive associated with being a Sentinel (Jim gets pretty taken with a female Sentinel who shows up, for no apparent reason) and fandom took that and ran with it. So we started getting more things ascribed to being a biological instinct, and then got similar instincts ascribed to the Guides, and then we finally wound up with a whole culture that was never actually mentioned in the canon.

And then the idea of the fanon culture got exported to other fandoms, which brings us to where you are now. =D

... As far as I know. I was never in the fandom; I just lurked in the periphery, so someone else might have more info than me, but I think that's the gist of it.

Re: Thread for fandom things you don't understand

[kaijinscendre]

THANK YOU! That is why I couldn't find anything. Apparently 90% of it is fanon.

Re: Thread for fandom things you don't understand

[kluify]

Just to add to this, the whole spiritual aspect of Sentinels and Guides did come from the show as well. Like, there's the episode where Jim's Guide from Peru when he was Sentinel of the Incacha died, and right before that he told Blair that Blair was Jim's new 'Guide'. Or Shaman? Maybe he was made Shaman of Cascade? Something like that. There is at least the idea that Jim is the Sentinel of Cascade in that it's his both spiritual and biological role.

Plus, Jim does have a panther as a spirit animal that frequently appears in dream sequences, and Blair has a wolf for his spirit animal, and there was that time when their spirit animals had sex jumped into each other on the astral plane and somehow brought Blair back to life.

And with the bio stuff, the canon does support the idea of Jim going slowly crazy without some kind of guide for his senses (the first few episodes). And maybe the idea that Alex, the other Sentinel, was a bit crazy because she didn't have a guide?

But that, and the vague bio stuff, is really about the sum total of the Sentinel/Guide mythos. Everything else is completely fanon, basically taking these elements and running with it to create, as the anon below says, the precursor to omegaverse. (The parallel is particularly apt when you consider a lot of 'sentinels/guides are known' fic tends to make one or the other the equivalent of omegas in a/b/o universes ie lower caste in some way.)

And yet for some reason super senses, spirit animals, shamans and soulbonding are a lot more palatable to me then knotting dicks and forced mpreg...