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[fleurmortelle]

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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[haunteur]

Daily.

[theotherobin]

Nightly.

[haunteur]

Prayer.

[theotherobin]

Preference.

[haunteur]

Ignored.

[theotherobin]

Annoyed.

[haunteur]

Insignificant.

[theotherobin]

Fears.

[haunteur]

Transmogrification.

[That's technically one fear, not plural, but still.]

[theotherobin]

[ uhhhh... ]

Teleportation?

[haunteur]

...you don't know what transmogrification means, do you?

[Sigh. Nevermind. Keep the game going.]

Transcendence.

[theotherobin]

Of course I fucking do. That's the word I associate with it! Anyway you lost the game.

But fine, we can keep going, as long as you acknowledge that I won first.

[haunteur]

I'll acknowledge you won the game if you can define transmogrification for me. Doesn't have to be dictionary-perfect, we're not in school or anything, but give me the gist of it.

[theotherobin]

I don't have to define the fucking word if I can associate something else with it. But fine. It's like, when you change into something else... right? Which is what happens sometimes when people teleport! Their atoms and shit get all jumbled around.

[haunteur]

What? No it doesn't. People teleport all the time and I've never seen one single person get messed up by it. But fine, I will acknowledge you do in fact know what the word means. You just also clearly watched too much Star Trek growing up and think transporter accidents are a thing.

New round, new word. Transcendence. Go.

[theotherobin]

I said sometimes, and I've never watched Star Trek in my life. Do I look like a nerd to you?

Bullshit.

[haunteur]

It's 2023. I don't judge people by their appearances. People can look like nerds and not be, or not look one and be, or whatever they want. I get told I look Goth and I don't have any Gothy interests. Appearances mean nothing.

Astrology.

[It's said with such contempt that it's clear Nothing's hatred of star signs is a very genuinely felt sentiment.]

[theotherobin]

Holy shit, dude. You're something else. You're literally standing here judging me too while telling me you don't judge people. That's bullshit too, by the way.

Psychics.

[haunteur]

That's different. You get all flustered and animated and I just... find it entertaining. [Cute. It finds it cute. Then Nothing quietly, almost hesitantly adds,] If... um. If you could not call me dude, that'd be great. I got too much of that and 'man' and 'my guy' and 'son' and 'bro', when I came out as nonbinary from my family and they didn't accept it, so it feels a little. Um. Not great. [Even though Nothing is 100% aware Jason doesn't mean it that way. He's not the type to do that on purpose.]

Tarot.

[theotherobin]

...My bad. Sorry. I didn't mean it like that. I'll stop.

Don't think I'm gonna forget you called me entertaining, though.

Cards.

[haunteur]

I know you didn't. You're not that kind of person.

[GAH. No. Well, yes, it was semi-intentional flirting but Jason says it like it's going to be ammunition and that's intriguing and something to be wary of at the same time. It coughs, awkwardly. Nope. Not addressing this. MOVING ON.]

Birthdays.

[theotherobin]

Thanks for telling me, though.

[ sometimes anything can be ammunition. but also Jason doesn't always realize when people are flirting with him. probably because it doesn't happen very often. he tends to push people away before it gets that far. ]

Shitty.

[haunteur]

No problem.

[Flirting is a new idea for Nothing. Not many chances to do it post-powers, and frankly, it didn't do it much prior, either. Or at least, it didn't do it well.]

Doctors.

[theotherobin]

[ they'll get there. ]

Hacks.

[haunteur]

Conversion therapists.