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

[the]

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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[hulk]

Distance.

[ He'd been both alone and lonely most of his life - there had been times otherwise, but... Circumstance and intelligence did a hell of a team effort for that front. Either way, she's not the only thinking of it, however. Distance, as usual, is safer. ]

[eisenhardt]

[ one of her favourite words. plenty of pleasant responses rise to mind: the notion of safety, separation, independence. but all lend a physicality to it that isn't vital. she can be distant standing right next to someone, or with their hands on her. the sort of proximity she bears as long as she has ]

Perspective.

[hulk]

Angle.

[ Couching it in other terms, more academic ones, makes it even more appealing a word - angles can be measured, deduced, just one more variable that can be figured if you just look at it the right way. It's a lonely vertice on his end, but. Eh. He's used to it, right, so it doesn't matter so much. ]

[eisenhardt]

Curve.

[ again, more of a physical than theoretical trait to her: the bent lines of an impressionist painting, the rolls of feminine flesh on a classical artist's subject. conceptually, the nature of misdirection, diversion -- if the shortest route to anything is a straight line. ]

[hulk]

Graded.

[ It's nice to hide in technicalities, even if the technicality of the situation is that you shouldn't still be breathing. He still thinks like that, sometimes meaning to and sometimes not, but these days at least there isn't (as much of) a whisper afterwards that suggests maybe he should remedy that. Live and learn. Something to stick to. ]