meme #007 | classic word association ( murder: employment )

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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. based on this meme and stripped down yep sorry

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sherlock holmes : BBC!Sherlock

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Imbalance.

pardon the rustiness o7

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Fall.

no worries; I do love Irenes.

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Opportunity.

ty!

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Constant.

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Tedious.

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Orthodox.

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Incongruous. [ With your style, he means. ]

[selfportrait]

[Discerning his meaning is simple enough.]

Contempt.

[It's the price one has to pay for being different.]

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[ Come now, the greater agony is to be anything but, awash in a sea of dullards and never knowing the better. ]

Games.

[selfportrait]

[Ah, games.

And this is just losing.

How could she ever forget? A small smile plays on her lips, insincerity twinkling in her eyes.]

Check.

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Pretenses.

[ There she is, back again; the sparkling insincerity and the slyness of that response. They both remember. Four very specific letters, and needless sentiment, but she has a few victories of her own -- so that's that. ]

[selfportrait]

Subtext.

[Text after text roused her voice from his mobile. Did he puzzle over them? Seek deeper meaning?]

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[ Sherlock practically intends to outlive God just so he can have the last word, and the detective's habits generally prove that particular piece of commentary astute.

Seeking a deeper meaning? Not quite, but he plays because she doesn't bore him. ]

Evidence.

[provisions]

Measure.

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Strauss.

[provisions]

[ a flurry of thought flickers across his face. ]

Evening.

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[ Interesting, that. ]

Murder.

ninja edit

[provisions]

[ a grimace. ]

Unfortunate.

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[ He's not in the business of killing. Killing's boring. And ill-advised. But mostly boring. And, one can read a good deal into another when all the unnecessary words are stripped away. ]

Secrets.

[provisions]

Protected.

[ securing secrets is his livelihood; he's become quite good at hiding. ]

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[ One can't argue with that. All in all, Q is prodigiously talented -- but he sees that relentless drive, that desire to show off his brilliance. Understandable when he, too, shares that trait, but a -- ]

Liability.

[provisions]

[ liability: the most vulnerable point in any information chain is always... ]

Human.

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[ and humans, like humanity, are ultimately ]

Disappointing.

[provisions]

[ a slight smile of agreement. though for every rule there is always ]

Exception.

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[ Oh, yes. The rare, shining anomalies, sufficiently brilliant so that they don't bore him, the ones he -- ]

Hunts.