Monthly Word Association

[justformemes]

Word Association is a common word game involving an exchange of words that are associated together. The game is based on the noun phrase word association, meaning "stimulation of an associative pattern by a word" or "the connection and production of other words in response to a given word, done spontaneously as a game, creative technique, or in a psychiatric evaluation." ~ our lord and saviour wikipedia GUIDELINES ① post with your character's name & series. ② include a word of your choice and optionally the definition in the body of your comment. -- visit the random word generator if you need help! ③ other characters will reply with the first word their character associates with the one you chose. ④ continue back and forth until one of you just has to know the story behind an answer.

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[underachievement]

Frame job.

[coercive]

Reavers.

[underachievement]

[ jessica jones you've just lost a unlosable game to a little girl, how do you feel! ]

That some Bible thing?

[coercive]

[Laura quickly decides that she likes this lady.]

No.

Reavers are -

[She has no way to properly describe them.]

Bad men. They try to get me.

[underachievement]

[ gist works. gist is the way to go. ]

Do you know where they are?

[coercive]

Dead mostly. I killed them.

[SHRUG.]

But there are more, maybe.

[She really doesn't know.]

[underachievement]

That's screwed up. [ she knows how it sounds, and that it means pretty much nothing to hear, so she's not one to listlessly cajole but the dearth of "i'm sorry" is noticeable regardless. ]

Are you on your own?

[coercive]

[That's an invasive question, but she nods anyway.]

Are you?

[It's only fair to ask it return.]

[underachievement]

[ oh shit that is invasive. not having a leg to stand on wouldn't stop her from refusing to answer... a fully grown, reasonably well-adjusted person. and if she turns out to be an omen child, fighting the antichrist might score her some points? not really, but there's worse ways to go. every a-hole in new york already knows where to find her. ]

Yeah. [ she reaches into her jacket lining to grab a business card. ] My apartment's my office. If you need help, I'm not gonna charge a kid.

[coercive]

[She doesn't take it at first. She does a lot of staring before eventually reaching up to snipe it out of her hands.]

What kind of help?

[It's important for her to really flesh out what kind of help she's offering. Otherwise she'll end up turning up on her doorstep at random times like a stray cat.]

[underachievement]

The kind that'll keep these guys off your back.

[ killing is in her rep now, and that has its uses, but it's not something she ever wants to do again. guess that means she didn't learn her lesson -- jess forces a blink, resigned to think and drink about hope later. even without all that shit, it feels like an insufficient offer. ]

I could find you somewhere to stay, too. No creeps. ... Might be a shithole.

[coercive]

There is a man. He helps me sometimes.

[But she's not saying no to Jessica's help. Especially if she doesn't seem to be bothered too much by the fact that she's admitted to killing a bunch of men.]

But I do not mind...shithole. [She says it like she has no idea what the word actually means. Really, she doesn't. It's a new word to add to her collection.]

And I will kill creeps.

[underachievement]

[ jess can play off her wince off as self-directed thanks to her stunning lack of surface-level parental instinct, instead of at the tiny terminator's too-cool-for-school-because-she-was-denied-those-opportunities apathy. ]

It's actually easier for me to get rid of them if you keep them alive.

[coercive]

[The look Laura has on her face is one of extreme confusion and uncertainty.]

....how?

[underachievement]

[ the kid seems dubious, almost like she knows who she's dealing with ]

Drag their-- them into the light. Force the good guys to do their jobs.

[coercive]

That does not sound like it works.

[She's definitely dubious now.]

Bad guys are bad. They deserve to die.

[She still is young enough to see things in black and white. But she does like the idea of forcing good guys to do their job.]

Are you good at forcing good guys to do things?

[underachievement]

[ fuuuuckarooo. jess wets her lips, at a loss for how best to phrase the truth. ]

I, uh. It can get messy. [ when she notices she's broken eye contact, jess focuses back on the kid ] But this way, the blame goes where it should. That gets harder as you get older. [ and it could take forever and the system is some stacked-against-you-bullshit but no really let her help ]

[coercive]

[Once again, all of that goes over her head. So she stares for a moment and decides to go a different route.]

But what if someone blames you? Then I would have to kill them.

[That's a joke. Look at her smile.]

[underachievement]

[ it... mostly comes across. jess gives a brief, wan smile and nod. ]

Don't worry about me. [ way belatedly, ] My name's Jess. Looks like you're stuck with me for now.