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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[motherofnemesis]

Well. [ That she doesn't really have an argument for. ] I'll wish you good luck, then.

[glowsferatu]

Mm. [ she pauses to consider, something enigmatic in her expression. luck could be such a funny thing. hard to depend on, but often close at hand. she never knew how much to trust it. ]

It's your word, I think.

[motherofnemesis]

Oh, yes, it is.

Math.

[glowsferatu]

Division.

[motherofnemesis]

Conquer.

[glowsferatu]

Empire.

[motherofnemesis]

History.

[glowsferatu]

Extinction.

[motherofnemesis]

Evolution.

[glowsferatu]

Paradigm.

[motherofnemesis]

Pinnacle.

[glowsferatu]

Collapse.

[motherofnemesis]

Triage.

[glowsferatu]

That seems to be on your mind often. Do you work in medicine?

[motherofnemesis]

I'm trained in first aid and disaster response.

[glowsferatu]

You're forced to make that sort of decision often then, aren't you? Who to help, who to leave behind.

[motherofnemesis]

I've had to make it more often than I would like, yes. Why?

[glowsferatu]

As I said, you seem to have a preoccupation with it. Feelings of guilt, perhaps? Or justification?

[motherofnemesis]

It's just one of those things you don't really forget easily.

[glowsferatu]

I've killed before, but I bear no regret for doing so. The other party deserved what he was given, it is precisely what he had earned.

Had I done it earlier, I could have prevented other deaths. It is that blood which has a greater tendency to haunt than that of one you've spilled directly.

[motherofnemesis]

Did you know what would happen?

[glowsferatu]

I armed him myself. As a joke. [ to impress a girl, but she doesn't need to mention that. the question should be sufficiently answered already. ]

[motherofnemesis]

If you couldn't know what was coming, the blame's not yours.

[glowsferatu]

It's like a gun that wouldn't have fired had I not loaded it. I do not ignore his blame, but my own culpability cannot be either.

What's your story?

[motherofnemesis]

If you say so.

Me? Not much special. The classic girl meets boy, gets heart broken, winds up fighting an oppressive government. It's not really that interesting.