History Fanfic / TheGDPSeries

[[http://www.susans-stories.co.uk/gdp_stories.html The GDP stories]] by Susan Foster is an [[AlternateUniverseFic alternate universe]] [[Series/TheSentinel Sentinel]] FanFic series in which sentinels and [[TheEmpath guides]] are common and well-known to the public. Sentinels are widely respected due to their positions as protectors of society, and are given a status which is (largely) above the law. Their empathic guides, however, are treated as property, by the general public, sentinels -- and by the sinister Guide Development Program, a GovernmentAgencyOfFiction in charge of training, organizing, and policing guides. The series follows Jim, a sentinel who never wanted a guide due to the inherent UnfortunateImplications of the thing, and Blair, who never wanted to be a guide for obvious reasons and who has about two years of serious trauma to work through (including rape and torture, so be warned, although very little actually occurs on-screen), as they try to make the most of their recent empathic bonding, and of their CrapsackWorld.

It's one of the most influential fics in ''Series/TheSentinel'' fandom, having introduced numerous concepts and terms to fanon. Also, it has LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters. Loads and loads of them.

* RapeIsOkayWhenItsFemaleOnMale: Averted, hard. Blair spent two years at the mercy of Alex Barnes, a psychopath who forced him to guide her, stripped him of his name and his dignity, tortured him routinely, and both raped him and had him raped. This not treated as being any less horrific than it would've been if Alex had been a man and Blair a woman.

* ItsNotRapeIfYouEnjoyedIt: Averted. Blair is drugged into becoming highly suggestible, so that he responds to Wilson's advances as though he wanted them. This is still treated as rape.

[[http://www.susans-stories.co.uk/gdp_stories.html The GDP stories]] by Susan Foster is an [[AlternateUniverseFic alternate universe]] [[TheSentinel Sentinel]] FanFic series in which sentinels and [[TheEmpath guides]] are common and well-known to the public. Sentinels are widely respected due to their positions as protectors of society, and are given a status which is (largely) above the law. Their empathic guides, however, are treated as property, by the general public, sentinels -- and by the sinister Guide Development Program, a GovernmentAgencyOfFiction in charge of training, organizing, and policing guides. The series follows Jim, a sentinel who never wanted a guide due to the inherent UnfortunateImplications of the thing, and Blair, who never wanted to be a guide for obvious reasons and who has about two years of serious trauma to work through (including rape and torture, so be warned, although very little actually occurs on-screen), as they try to make the most of their recent empathic bonding, and of their CrapsackWorld.

It's one of the most influential fics in TheSentinel fandom, having introduced numerous concepts and terms to fanon. Also, it has LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters. Loads and loads of them.

* FantasticRacism: Against guides. They're continually referred to (by bad guys) as "nothing more than tools," as being like dogs, or, at the very best, as being too flightly and emotional to handle the real world if their sentinels weren't in charge. They eat after their sentinels, and are expected to kneel to "show [their] respect." And they can be leashed, sometimes brutally, something which is ''not'' treated as FetishFuel. [[YourMileageMayVary Mostly.]]