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The Other Wordly Meme

The Other-Wordly Meme

Words are magical things; they can have so many lovely connotations and varied histories.
Words have family trees just like people. They are linked to each other.
Some words are full of flavor and color and describe things you never suspected there were words for.
Words are why we're here.

The meme is simple: post a comment with your muse's name and canon in the subject line.
List any preferences you may have ("No Shipping," "No Smut," etc.), if you decide to leave the next step up to responders.
Responders (or original posters, if they so decide), go to the Other-Wordly blog and hit 'Random' until you get a word. Use the word as a prompt to write up an RP scenario. Do this several times, if you like. Mix and match. Have fun with it!
Don't stop with a word, though! Words can often have etymologies that are at odds with their current meanings. Words can shift connotations over time. Let your imagination carry you with the words as its wind.

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They want to keep me one more day.

[ He's not letting you go just yet, Jazmine, so you sit there and accept these hugs he's giving you.

Physically, he's alright. A little banged up, but it's only his arm that's problematic and even then, it's nerve shock as opposed to an actual break or dislocation. It's his mental state that concerns the doctors the most. One, because his brother died while they were still in the neural bridge. Two, every goddamned body is concerned whether or not he's going to set foot again in a jaeger.

Answer Key: Nope. ]

After that... well. 'm not really sure.

[Jazmine can just tell that something's not totally right with him and it's not just the shoulder. Maybe she hasn't seen him face to face in a few years but there's no way that a couple of years would change him this much.

No, Raleigh did by dying.]

... we can make room at my place in Juneau?

[ A part of him wants to say yes, let's go as far away from this place as possible so I don't have to think about Raleigh but at the same time, the prospect of leaving jars him.

He doesn't want to pilot a jaeger again, but he's a ranger. He's not going to desert the fight. It feels wrong.

And what the hell would he do back in Juneau?

He presses a kiss to the top of her head. ] I need to check in with my superior first, sweetheart. Then, we'll see.

[To be fair, she's not really sure what the hell she's doing in Juneau either except for surviving and she can do that anywhere. She just... doesn't think she wants to go back there alone. Raleigh's dead and they're the last Beckets standing and she hates herself for leaving things like they did at Mom's funeral.]

You're not going to pilot again are you?

[ He goes incredibly still at the question - stops breathing for a moment, really. And then lets out a slow, audible breath between his lips.

Even if he could. Even if by some turn of fate he got his head back on straight.

It's not like he has a copilot.

So, no. Fuck no. He is not piloting again.

Maybe Pentecost can get him a job at Kodiak. He'd like that. Teach kids not to get themselves killed.

He doesn't answer her question though, just sets his chin atop her head. ]

[Jazmine feels him stiffen under her cheek and holds her breath with him without meaning to, only relaxing after a minute of silence when she realizes that his silence isn't him ignoring her, it's his answer. No, he's not going to do that again, not without their brother, and she doesn't know if she's relieved or sad for him or both because she doesn't think she could lose him too but he loves piloting a Jaeger. It'd take an idiot not to notice that and she's not an idiot.

Most of the time.]

I'm glad you're okay. [Even though they lost Raleigh too, just like they lost Mom, but at least she's got one brother left and as guilty as it makes her to think about, she's always liked Yancy better.]

[ He presses a kiss on top of her head again. It's kind of the only thing he can do because he's glad she's here and still grieving the fact that Raleigh's gone and a huge part of his mind isn't taking that well at all and it's probably just that he's stubborn and a control freak over his own emotions that he blocks out the voice at the back of his head that's shaped like a silhouette of his brother. ]

I'm sorry, sis. [ Couldn't it have been him instead?

No. That's wrong. He'd never wish this on Raleigh.

( Fucking kaiju. You killed my brother. )

Tendo had snuck him the after battle reports. He'd overloaded Gipsy's plasmacaster and the fucker still wasn't blown to smithereens. What the hell kind of justice was that? ]

I should have kept a better eye on that runt.

[The only thing she can think is--why is he apologizing to her for that? It's not like he killed Raleigh himself or that he pushed Raleigh in front of the kaiju and ran the other way or did anything as far as she knows except for the unlucky fact of survive when their brother didn't.

She wants an apology for a lot of things from a lot of people. She wants their dad to come back and say he's sorry for being a deadbeat. She wants her high school boyfriend to apologize for sleeping around on her. She wants Yancy to say sorry for letting her be so stubborn and not making her come with them. She also wants him to apologize for basically ditching her for his robot. She wants one of the bitchy nurses she talked to to apologize for trying to keep her from her brother.

But not this. Never for something like this because they both know damn well that if Yancy could've done something to save him, or die in his place, he would've done it. End of story.]

Don't apologize. You didn't go anything wrong.

[ He would have. He really would have if it meant that Raleigh would be safe.

A breath drags through him. ] I could have checked that the damn kaiju was really dead.

[ That's the thing, isn't it. That they'd blasted Knifehead and it had gone down and they'd figured they were done for the night.

And there was that other thing he doesn't like thinking about. How the kaiju had known they were in the conn-pod. Where exactly to pluck Raleigh out, one gleaming eye trained on Yancy as if it was a creature with higher thinking functions than they'd all come to believe. ]

It's not your fault it wasn't.

[She doesn't know the kaiju knew they were in there, that it went specifically for Raleigh because that part hasn't been released to the public. All she knows is that they thought they killed it but it was stronger than the initial plasma cannon blast and they were caught unaware.]

Everyone knows they're getting stronger.

[ There's a small sound that escapes him and he pulls back, takes his arm away from around Jazmine so he can cover his face with both hands.

He'd spoken to Pentecost - standard debrief - had told the Marshal and Tendo what he'd seen. That the kaiju had gunned specifically for the connpod, had ripped away at the rest of them so that they could barely defend themselves and then ripped Raleigh right out with a purpose.

It knew we were in there. It knew.

The world is spinning again, there's so much static in his head and he knows he's just traumatized and reaching for things that aren't there anymore, but he can almost hear Raleigh's voice cutting through the noise to say-

( You have to tell her, bro. She deserves to know. ) ]

No, I can't.

[She moved to sit up when he pulled away from her, sensing without having to be told that she'd hit a nerve. Even though she has no idea what she could have said to make that happen. But you don't really know you've stepped on a mine until it arms under your foot.]

You can't... what?

[ His mind's broken, is all he can think, because there's no way Raleigh's still an entity in his head.

( Bro, shut the fuck up and just TELL Jazmine. )

Tell her what? The Marshal hadn't commented on it, Tendo had made him coffee and K-Science had been briefed. Tell her what, Rals? That the kaiju aren't dumb beasts? How is that protecting her? You don't tell her that the monsters under the bed are there. You tell her it's okay, she can go chill in your room for awhile and you tell her silly stories until she falls asleep and then you take a steel bat and kill those fuckers dead.

Yancy shakes his head when he realizes he spoke out loud. ] S'nothing, Jaz. Sorry. Just a headache.

[If she knew what he was thinking, she'd tell him that she's not a little girl anymore, doesn't need to be protected and coddled like one. Hasn't really been one since their mother died and she was on her own and fine, whatever, she chose to be alone but what was the alternative? Following Raleigh and Yancy around the world and being their little sister while they saved the world? Yeah, no, pass.

She did alright for herself, all things considered. She's got a roof over her head and a job and there are people with much less and it's only thanks to her brothers that Anchorage wasn't destroyed like so many other cities on the Pacific ocean.

But she doesn't know any of what's in his head, and even if she doesn't look like she totally believes him because that was just weird, Yance, she doesn't push it. Not right now.]

You want me to get the nurse?

[ He takes a minute to get it together, breathes in and out and shakes his head again. ]

No. [ Don't. ] No need.

[ He doesn't know why it only takes one look at the way her eyes are fixed on him for him to cave. For him to listen to the voice that's now quiet in his head. For him to share what they haven't yet confirmed. What they hope is a fluke and not the beginning of a trend. ] It knew we were in there, Jaz.

It--what?

[It takes her a moment to realize what he's talking about, because she hasn't been inside his head, she's not following his train of thought at all. But when she does get it, she stares at him, wide eyed and mouth open and holy shit.]

Why would you say that?

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