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[sandra_lanimil]

What are the ten first words you think of when you think of (my) Blaise Zabini?

Any other associations? Anything, stories, music, colours, activities, time of year, whatever seems relevant. If you like, give me one of yours, and I'll do the same.ETA: actually, humour me and do this with one of your own characters on your own journal. I promise I'

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[misread_]

... XD oh jesus. this is going to take me forever.

[sandra_lanimil]

giggle. but you, at least, know why i am asking.

[misread_]

indeed. i will think on it a little when i return to this shiny realm. right now, family time. ♥

i... most likely wont make a post. maybe. idk. you can think on one of my characters in the meantime.

[sandra_lanimil]

make a poooost. the more responses, the more interesting. i'd offer to make one for you, but my flist is aout four people strong, and it's a rare day i get answers from more than two, so XD

[misread_]

(Also, someone get this woman some more icons. This is the third post in a row with the same icon, and while Blaise is always pleasing to the eye, more shiny is gooooood.)

[sandra_lanimil]

that's all i'm sayin'.

[misread_]

ZABINI ICON 'SPLOSION!

[sandra_lanimil]

we're missing Saeth, Kemintiri and japanese Blaise. the last I'm sure you can provide XD

I'll offer Chuck. He's a wannabe Zabini.

[acidpop25]

Ahaha, Blaise has earned his reputation well, because the first two that popped into my head were, in order: sex, angst. dark, 4, strength, power, break, shatter, temptation, violence.

...quite a few of those also are associations I have with Theo. I suppose that isn't surprising. Umm, other associations, hm hm. Panthers. Mangoes XD. The windowsill image. Winter, even though I know he abhors the cold. Gold Room by Siken. That ring he has on in the pic in your icon.

Songs, gosh, that list is long. Breath by Breaking Benjamin and It's Been Awhile by Staind are right up there, and not surprising, since you gave them to me as Blaise songs. My own associations are quirkier, and often related to a character's POV. Can't Stop by Maroon 5 (it happened to be playing when we were writing one of the Africa scenes in House on Fire verse, and it stuck in my head since), Lay Me Down by the Wreckers, Blue Caravan by Vienna Teng, Vertigo by Rachael Sage, Beautiful Disaster by Kelly Clarkson, What If You by Joshua Radin... ect ect, if I carry on

[sandra_lanimil]

thank you. XD awesome.

oh, how I love that sex was the first one. i find it interesting that his type is one of them.

by all means, if you think of anything else, add it. more is better.

i will answer yours when i am done answering michie's.

[acidpop25]

It's cool how different associations are on the same character, isn't it? Fun little thought experiment, this.

I think his type being one is because that's just sort of how my brain shorthands Blaise. Word associations feel totally inadequate to me, because that's not really how I think of him- it's more a sort of a set of emotional/sense/image impressions that I don't think I could possibly articulate. ♥

[sandra_lanimil]

Yep. It comes out of my exam research. Though, it would be a lot more fun if i had more people doing it.

You shorthand Blaise as 4? I think it's partly because I speak of him that way a lot. it's not inaccurate. I'm curious about the subtler associations, though.

[misread_]

compassion.
touched.
heart (soulful).
grace.
serpent (various associations, here).
november (in the very same thought, seven).
longing.
intensity (on that same note; passion. desire.)
night (or shadow - words in that dark side of the moon realm).
the heartbreaking contrast of being brutally and intensely strong, and at the same time being delicately fragile and able to shatter (... in some language, i'm sure this is one word. japanese, for example >>).

other assocations and such to follow, but this is what matters to me most. ♥ you've ruined me for any other character, darling.

[sandra_lanimil]

♥ gosh. but that doesn't surprise me.

thank you. 4/10. <3

[misread_]

every version of blaise, yeah.

pleasure, gorgeous. and not too bad a result, that. ♥

[sandra_lanimil]

mine are the same, for theo. universal, across every version. i could say lots of things that were verse-specific (right now a lot of those would be about keys to heaven verse), but these are always true.

i know, right.

[acidpop25]

Kitty kitty, Iiiiiiii learned something very exciting! There's a local airport near where I'll be studying in France where, if I book in advance and stuff, I get get super super cheap plane tickets! To places such as Denmark. For instance. If I can resist the siren song of Portugal. La~

[sandra_lanimil]

! pastries!

[acidpop25]

...you do realise that France has pastries, too.