It’s so fascinating to see old fandom fanfic tropes built into Manwhas and Mangas. I love love the Sentinel/Guide au so I am more than happy to gobble it up. Some of my favorite fics are based on it!
A/B/O too which started in the Supernatural fandom. It’s amazing to see how complete the world is now with new authors adding to it until it now has its own rules and conventions. I love love the see new twists on it and how some authors play with the gender roles and what it means. It’s a great reflection of how a concept is used to explore our real world heirachys and the patriarchy we live in. Sorry to hijack your comment but it’s rare to see old fanfic tropes talked about here. I feel an ancient person sometimes coming to this site.
Wow that's interesting to know! Nvr knew that's the OG. The very first time I came across sentinels and guides was from the novel Heroic Death System
This was my reaction too! Also when omegaverse started showing up in webtoons and manga when I knew it from western fanfiction . I was like "Bro, what are you doing here?! HOW did you get here?!?! I have questions!!"
(although I never read the original, my first introduction to guideverse fanfiction was a combo of guideverse and omegaverse and it was JohnLock, LMAO!!)
It's so wild to me that I used to read Sentinel/Guide fanfiction and to see the Sentinel!verse in BL... it's cool to see it in manhwa but makes me sad that no one knows that Jim and Blair are the original Sentinel (I guess they're calling it 'Esper' now) and Guide. Can't beat the OGs.
I love all BLs with Guides though, makes me feel nostalgic.