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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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[wheelofmissfortune]

Home!

[Well, former home as she used to be a shrine sword/miko.]

[intertwinedfates]

[Okay, well that's curious enough for him to break the game for a quick question.]

You consider a shrine home?

[wheelofmissfortune]

Mn! I used to live in one.

[intertwinedfates]

You were a priestess?

[He's taking a guess here, but it seems like a reasonable assumption.]

[wheelofmissfortune]

Yes, I was! It was a little shrine in the countryside. I'd lived there ever since I was very young, I think.

[It's complicated? She was a holy sword enshrined there, then she just suddenly gained a human form one day and became a shrine priestess. They don't really explain how in canon.]

[intertwinedfates]

[Having started out as and still continuing as a small-time god, he feels a sort of kinship with those situated at smaller shrines. Certainly he feels they deserve more support than they get.]

It sounds like a nice place to live. Do you still work there now?

[wheelofmissfortune]

Mn! Our shrine was surrounded by lovely fields, so I often helped out with the farm work. I loved helping out with the harvest! [She lived in the Sengoku Era in Mikawa (now known as Aichi) which was famous for its fertile fields which might be why her human form has a busty and full figure. Then she shakes her head.] I live in the city now with my master and the other Mitsurugi.

[And there was the time she was discovered and drafted to fight in a war. (She was crafted by one of the Three Great Swordsmiths of Japan, Gou no Yoshihiro, but had somehow become lost and ended up being found in a small shrine in the countryside by Honda Tadamasa, the heir of Honda Tadakatsu who was known as the strongest Sengoku warrior. She was then named 'Kuwana' after the domain Tadamasa inherited and ruled over. The city of Kuwana still exists today.) But Kuwana doesn't like talking about the time she fought during the Sengoku Era. She might be a sword, but she doesn't really like to fight.]

[intertwinedfates]

[Yato nods along, remembering the times he'd spent around those doing farm work. Some of the memories are pleasant, others... not so much.] There's something to be said for the simple life like that.

[It's not one he'd choose, favoring a more modern, fast-paced lifestyle. One that doesn't see so much war in a peaceful place such as Japan.]

Who's your master and the other Mitsurugi? If you don't mind telling me. [He knows full well that some people prefer to keep their alliances secret, both for safety's sake and privacy.]