The Other Wordly meme

[memeticisms]

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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Dick Grayson / Nightwing • DCnU

[railsurfer]

Mako • Legend of Korra

[batmako]

Mina Harker | Dracula | OTA

[wilhelminaharker]

(Looks like fun!)

[countenance]

Stiles Stilinski | Teen Wolf | M/M

[littleredridingstiles]

Hatter | Syfy's Alice | OTA

[whentheypassthehat]

[newwonder]

numinous (adj) describing an experience that makes you fearful yet fascinated, awed yet attracted-- the powerful, personal feeling of being overwhelmed and inspired.

[everyone here keeps calling her the "Alice of Legend". She doesn't want to be that, to shoulder that much responsibility. But at the same time, all that faith gives her courage. To have someone believe in her that much is a lot, but it's also wonderful. She's sitting, just soaking it all in]

Morticia Addams | The Addams Family | OTA

[madamemorticia]

[Let's do this!]

[avoirfaim]

Five | OC | OTA

[deserterbynature]

[sixthanimorph]

Joan Watson | Elementary

[formersurgeon]

hello again!

[routinemercy]

James T. Kirk • Star Trek

[caelus]

[no smut. thanks.

numinous

[drunqualified]

[He would not describe himself as a religious man by any means. Not by practice, but maybe a sight spiritual by association. However there were times out here in the long empty black of space that they came across something so inexplicably beautiful that Bones couldn't help but stop and stare and wonder at how such a creation exists.]

Look here, Jim. [It was just some old quasar that caught his attention. Of interest to the science teams and the pilots that were itches to take their shuttles out for closer inspection. Bones was neither of these, he was a mere observer in this chapter of their explorations. Yet, for a brief moment, his hatred and fear of space was subsided by awe.]

..and they tell me that if we get too close, the entire ship will crumple like a tin can.

Usa Tsukino (Black Lady AU) || Sailor Moon || OTA

[pink_is_back]

Victor Borkowski (Anole) || Marvel 616

[alpha_squad_leader]

Ｄａｉｓｙ Ｂｕｃｈａｎａｎ ｜ Ｔｈｅ Ｇｒｅａｔ Ｇａｔｓｂｙ

[daisily]

Dick Grayson (Robin) → Young Justice

[hackrobatic]

Wheatley | Portal 2 | OTA

[doorhacker]

[vectorchange]

[OOC: I know you might not know this guy but I once had a plot with these two characters long ago on another site and it was hilarious because Accelerator is a jerk and Wheatley is optimistic. Hope you don't mine me tagging in. The word I got is this one, which I think is even more interesting because I don't think either character would be good at this. How does a setting where these two have to be partners for something sound?]

rosalina nurumi | original character | ota

[kissfromarose]

[divine_miss]

(since her canon is obscure, here's some info--there's a teeensy bit from the game I first played her in, but mostly canon/headcanon to fill in gaps. we'll just assume actual timeline is all wibbly wobbly timey wimey for her. Oh, and here's the word)

[when Mandy noticed the female roadie--not groupie, she knew the difference better than anyone, having been a bi of both in a few short years--she actually stopped dragging on her cigarette and watched for a bit while she helped. Didn't pay a bit of attention to the act, she never paid attention to the other people who went on after her, but she watched the woman. Mostly because, wasn't often one saw a female roadie. And she had to wonder about that. Couldn't be trying to hit it big, could it, not like this. Oh, she'd started out that way, doing all Brian's wardrobe and lights and everything all on her own for almost two years, but everyone knew Brian was going to be a star, it was just the legwork. And that was...different, in too many ways.

And look where it had gotten her. Risen straight to the stars, only to plummet back down to Earth with only a last name no one remembered and a screwed up heart to show for it.

Maybe this girl had it right, then. Maybe it was a better idea not to stick yourself to one ponced up rockstar-to-be, doing all his work riding his coattails until he decided to shake you off without caring how scraped up you got in the process. At any rate, she was...interesting.

Swallowing the rest of her drink, Mandy walked over, with a smirk that was just a little bit bitter and sad] Hey. I ah, don't mean to be a bother, but--just, haven't seen a female roadie in long time, kinda refreshing to see a woman who's not just hanging on the band waiting to get into their pants.

Princess Luna | My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

[princess_luna]

Bruce Banner | MCU

[angermanaging]

[deuxiemetoile]

Betty Ross | MCU

[cellsunite]

(it worries me how appropriate this is)

[broke_harlem]

oubliette (n.) a dungeon with a door only in the ceiling; a place where you put people to forget about them.

[When General Ross said that he would throw Bruce in a hole and never let him out, he was absolutely sure he meant that literally. Of course, they had tried that before - it didn't work so well then. But apparently the military had upped their standards since then. He was literally in a prison miles underground, with layers of steel between him and the sunlight. It was what he'd been running from for a long time.]

[It was his mistake, really. He'd let his guard down since the avengers, the past months with them making him start to feel something akin to comfortable in his skin again. Hell, the Hulk was even considered a hero in the public eye now. He should've know that it was too good to be true. One night, the managed to infiltrate the tower and dope him with adrenaline inhibitors before taking him away. And now, here he was.]

Raimei Shimizu | Nabari no Ou

[anomia]

remus lupin . hp

[notromulus]

[deatheaten]

Rose Tyler | Doctor Who | OTA

[wont_leave]

Paige Matthews | Charmed | OTA

[halflighting]

cecil • welcome to night vale

[broadcasts]

Re: cecil • welcome to night vale

[wilhelminaharker]

((Komorebi: sunlight that filters through the leaves of trees.))

There wasn't much shade in Night Vale, and that was just the way the Harkers liked it. More sun meant less vampires, and what trees did grow tended to be shriveled and perpetually on the edge of death. Until now- for some reason, tall ebony trees with blood-red leaves were sprouting up all over the place, and the sun that shone through them cast shadows od strange creatures Mina didn't know the names for.

Even stranger was the fact that, when she talked to her neighbors, most of them hadn't noticed the trees. Those that did remembered them being there for years. A civi-minded woman, Mina decided to write in to the local radio station about it.

Tara Maclay | BtVS | OTA

[be_witchy]

[spiritus_scooby]

[Even Giles couldn't keep all the necessary spell components on hand for any possible eventuality. When a protective charm had called for a rock with a hole worn in it by a rushing river, he'd come up empty.

He'd also said something about it being too draining for her to maintain, but Willow had tuned him out a bit after that. So here she was, at one of Sunnydale's parks late in the afternoon, after classes. She'd rolled her jeans up to her knees, and was trying to ignore the stares of people passing by, as she paced the rocky riverbed seeking just the right stone.]

marquis de carabas | neverwhere

[mattersverymuch]