Hereditary secret bodyguard

Created By: Phythm on June 22, 2011 Last Edited By: shimaspawn on June 28, 2011

Hereditary secret bodyguard

For hundreds of years our family has protected their family. Now you are classmates!

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A character, who is secretly the bodyguard of another character due to long-standing tradition. Normally involves a bodyguard crush. Always tall dark and quiet. Normally get a lot of internal dialogue, and often an episode to themselves. Expect a lot of flashbacks to them playing as kids. Double points if it is a girl.

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June 22, 2011
NoirGrimoir
It's not usually a secret, actually.
June 22, 2011
randomsurfer
In Harry Potter Crabbe & Goyle are Draco's Mooks due in no small part to Crabbe & Goyle's fathers having been Draco's father's mooks.
June 22, 2011
pokedude10
You might try to format the examples like this. It helps in the long run.
Anime and Manga
Literature
- In Harry Potter Crabbe & Goyle are Draco's Mooks due in no small part to Crabbe & Goyle's fathers having been Draco's father's mooks.
You'll need to elaborate on most of those though.
June 22, 2011
shimaspawn
It's best to avoid your initial description being media specific, especially as this trope isn't.
Live Action TV
- The Nine Lives Of Chloe King has Alek and his cousin protecting Chloe.
June 22, 2011
pokedude10
Oh.
June 22, 2011
ParadiscaCorbasi
Related to the trope where immortals hire their own relatives to keep the family prosperous (and often to feel close to them due to Immortality Infertility).
June 22, 2011
AFP
Hereditary Retainer?
June 23, 2011
Chabal2
Artemis Fowl: The Butler family has served as butler, cook and bodyguard to the Fowls since the Middle Ages, though it's uncertain if two were ever the same age.
June 23, 2011
Windsong12
See also Legacy Of Service, if this isn't just that trope but more specific.
June 23, 2011
Koveras
The Maeno bloodline in Mnemosyne are (immortal) Rin's hereditary protectors (though not servants), because they are descended directly from her (immortal) Starcrossed Lover Tajimamori.
June 23, 2011
Bisected8
@pokedude10: It's also pretty important not to just give the title of the series and nothing else.
June 23, 2011
shimaspawn
I made an attempt to clean up the spelling on the OP and format it a bit better. That should help.
June 23, 2011
alethiophile
Top Dog has this in the Naruto leg.
June 23, 2011
Damr1990
- on GetBackers Yumei's family has been protectin Kazuki's family for generations (sorry if i got their names wrong)
June 24, 2011
Windsong12
So far, the description seems too specific and just a little insubstantial. So one can only be a Hereditary Secret Bodyguard if one is Tall Dark And Handsome and The Stoic? Do they have to be classmates or can it be, say, a Feudal Japan setting? Why would being a girl be better? This just seems like Legacy Of Service (which is about characters' families serving another character's families) but more specific (see earlier post).
June 28, 2011
pokedude10
@Bisected8: I didn't know the specifics of the examples, Just rephrased what was already there. Tried to give some formatting advise.
^ I agree, this seems way too specific.

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