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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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. ]

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[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.

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[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. ]

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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.

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[Her line of work requires her to captivate. Keep smiles on their faces while you rob them blind. Steal their hearts with pain and catharsis.]

Exhibit.

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[ -- and try not to give yours to the one man in the world who is incapable of knowing what to do with it. ]

Drama.

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[Therein lies the thrill. The heart wants to skip a beat. It can't do that if it's certain of what's to come.]

Tragedy.

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Obstruction.

[ All the carryings-on about something or other, it's so cloying it's detestable. Clouds the big picture; gets in the way of the really important things. ]

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Illusion.

[It's all a matter of perception.]

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Entrapment.

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Subjective.

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Transparent.

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Glass.

[In hindsight, hiding a safe behind a mirror likely hadn't been the best idea.]

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[ No, it wasn't. Then again, neither was assuming that she wasn't capable of taking back what was hers. ]

Portrait.

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Disguise.

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Confession.

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Religion.

[Not anything she's particularly fond of.]