GAME START!

[achievementhunter]

[For a kid who's pretty much constantly sauntering about shooting people creepy grins and running off their mouth, Chara seems fairly relaxed, this feed. Could be the fact that they're in the library. Or perhaps it's just a nice day outside.]

Would you like to play a game, fellow foot soldiers?

[Or maybe it's the fact that they're making a mildly off-kilter Saw joke, whatever.]

The past few weeks, I've noticed when talking to others that even the most unassuming words can have significantly different meaning; mark me curious. So here's the rules;

Each of us will have our turn in choosing a word. Perhaps this word has no real meaning to us, or perhaps it does.

The receiver of said word goes on to define it; either in a social...or personal context. Then they also pick a word to be defined. And thus the cycle continues until one of us gets bored.

[A bright smile, and the camera swings wildly askew as it's holder reaches over the side of the lounge for another book.]

I'll even start it off. Your word, is 'monster'.

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[daughterofursa]

I've noticed that too.

In my world, monster meant something scary or unfamiliar. Or a horrible person. [Like a significant portion of her family.] We didn't have monsters like I've met here.

Your word is Spirit.

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[achievementhunter]

The definition for most of my world was very similar.

[And they can relate to other things unsaid.]

Spirit. A being that is beyond life and death.

Your word is karma.

[Text]

[daughterofursa]

Karma has to do with the consequences to your actions, I think. I don't know a lot about it.

Honor.

[Text]

[achievementhunter]

To do what is promised or right.

Partner.

[Text]

[daughterofursa]

[...she likes that definition.]

Someone who's in it with you, and has your back.

Balance.

Re: [Text]

[achievementhunter]

[There's a reason people die for it.]

Equilibrium. A state in which things are at peace. Unattainable.

Mercy.

[Text]

[daughterofursa]

Sparing someone who was your enemy. Choosing not to do harm.

Power.

[Text]

[achievementhunter]

To make one's fate their own choice.

Kingdom.

[Text]

[daughterofursa]

A place unified by the shared culture and experience of its people.

Home.

[Text]

[achievementhunter]

A place one is meant to belong.

Save.

[Text]

[daughterofursa]

To protect someone from harm. Maybe even a harm they're doing to themselves.

Destiny.

[Text]

[achievementhunter]

[...]

To live with the consequences of one's actions.

Soul.

[Text]

[daughterofursa]

The part of you that carries on after death and is reincarnated.

Redemption.

[Text]

[achievementhunter]

[Carries on after death and is reincarnated. Well, that's one way to look at it.

She's no threat. But they expected that.]

To make right that which is wrong.

Eternity.

[Text]

[daughterofursa]

Too long a time for any mortal to comprehend.

Origins.

[Text]

[achievementhunter]

The history which has led a person, place or object to their current state of being.

Void.

[Text]

[daughterofursa]

That gnawing, empty feeling after you've lost someone.

Revenge.

[Text]

[achievementhunter]

Ensuring that others pay for their sins.

Mountain.

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[daughterofursa]

Land that rises to a peak. Some of them used to be volcanoes.

Does mountain mean something special where you come from?

[Compared to all the other words they've thrown at her, this one seems really... straightforward.]

[Text]

[achievementhunter]

Not really. But my world does have mountains with a lot of superstition and legend attached to them, so I suppose it depends on the mountain itself.

[Text]

[daughterofursa]

We did have legends about volcanoes.

There was one about two warring states. A commander was in love with the princess, but to end the war, the princess was supposed to marry the son of the enemy general.

Instead of letting it happen, the commander rode her dragon into battle and burned the enemy nation to the ground. But then, feeling the dishonor of what she had done, she ended her life by leaping into a volcano.

[Zuko you have that slightly wrong, both women were in love with the general's son-- but whatever. At least she remembers more of this story than Uncle's favorite tea joke.]

[Text]

[achievementhunter]

[To be fair, this is a much more interesting version. One fraught with the love of two women destined to be apart by duty, one who makes the ultimate sacrifice for another. While the style of love differs, they can relate.]

And the princess? What did she do, after the loss of her beloved?

[Text]

[daughterofursa]

No one talks about her much.

I think she refused to marry anyone else. After the death of her father, she ruled the nation alone.

[Text]

[achievementhunter]

She did her duty, then.

[Isn't that nice?]

[Text]

[daughterofursa]

She did.

People tell me that's not really enough.

[Supposedly there are things besides duty.]