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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[oldschoolghostbuster]

[Such a neutral answer... That's no fun, even if carefully sticking to dictionary definition number one is an answer in and of itself.

His smile widens.]

A realization of potential. ...Or Kasen-chan. Veeery flowery, that man.

'Sword'.

[achievementhunter]

Well that's certainly a definition I've never heard.

[But it's one they can get behind, certainly. A 'realization of potential'- or a method to self-destruction.]

Slightly longer than a knife, but it still gets the point across.

'Reset'.

[oldschoolghostbuster]

[He can't suppress a snort at the pun.]

True, except for the "slightly" part in a lot of cases. I know one who's...seven feet long, I think? Taro's on the extreme end though. Too big for most humans, you know?

Reset though... Hm... To put everything back in the initial position, I guess?



Mm... Now what's a good word to follow up...? Ah, I know. 'Spirit'.

[achievementhunter]

I think I'll stick to knives, honestly. They're rather handy.

[They also won't make Chara fall flat on their face from the weight, so there's that, too.]

Mm.. spirit? A fragment of something that refuses to leave the mortal coil... or perhaps the sensation of a particularly strong element in someone's disposition.

'Bed'.

[oldschoolghostbuster]

True. They're much more versatile than swords, who just have the one intended purpose, really.

[Or at least under normal circumstances anyway. Having limbs is one hell of a game changer.]

A bed though... Bed, bed... A place, physical or metaphorical, to lay someone or something to rest in.

'Dream'. Predictable maybe, but I'm curious.

[achievementhunter]

I suppose if you were really keen, you could chop a tomato with a sword.

[There might not be much tomato left to play with afterwards, but that's the price one would pay.]

Hm...dream. Something unobtainable; whimsy notion of that which we desire most. A fool's driving force.

How about... 'Core'?

[oldschoolghostbuster]

You'd probably need a really sharp sword for that though, or you'll ruin the tomato. Slicing would be better.

And a core is the center of something, and usually determines how difficult or easy it is to break. If the inside of something is too hard, it can't bend to absorb blows, after all.

Hmmmm... 'Human', I guess.

[achievementhunter]

Probably better to eat it whole, then.

Human...

[They trail off, contemplating.]

Not even worth a description.

'Heart'.

[oldschoolghostbuster]

Not the stem though. Those don't taste very good.

[He tried it once. It was a bad idea.

And now he has to stop and think very hard, because while the autotranslate thing this place has going tends to work pretty well, the word presented without context leads to two pretty distinct concepts.]

Heeeh... Well, there's the blood pushing organ that a lot of creatures have, but there's also the kokoro. I think that would loosely translate to something like 'spiritual heart' or 'soul'? It's a concept along those lines.

Uh... 'Youkai'.

[achievementhunter]

[He's not the only one brought to pause. They likely would have been better off with the original world; they've seen enough anime to get the context.]

Something considered unnatural; not per the norm of it's world of origin.

[... :) ]

'Tomato'.

[oldschoolghostbuster]

[Wow, harsh. Not untrue from a human perspective, but harsh.]

It's a berry, but it's treated like a vegetable. Funny how that works, ne?

'Natto'.

[achievementhunter]

[...Whatto.]

Unfortunately? I have no idea.

What is 'Natto', precisely?