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Bonus Round 1: Memory
This round is CLOSED as of 7PM on June 9 EDT. Late fills may be posted, but they will not receive points.
Please read this whole post before commenting to ensure that your team gets the most points possible. (There are changes from last year!)
RULES
- Submit prompts by commenting to this post! You prompt should consist of one scenario beginning with the phrase "Remember when", along with any ship/ot3/etc. from our list of nominated fandoms.
- Your prompts can take the form of recalling canon facts/events ("Remember when Nozomi and Eli got parfaits after school?"), non-canon events ("Remember when Megumi and Jin met at the Tadokoro Family Reunion?"), or somewhere in-between ("Remember when Bokuto and Kenma first met?"). Headcanons and AUs are welcome!
- Your prompt MUST include some kind of relationship. (This is not the sports anime gen olympics.) Platonic relationships are indicated by an "&" between the names (e.g., Rei & Nagisa). Non-platonic relationships use "/" (e.g., Rei/Nagisa). Please don't say "Any pairing," either!
- Post fills by leaving a responding comment to a prompt with your newly-created work.
- Remember to follow the general bonus round rules, outlined here.
- 400 words (prose)
- 400px by 400px (art)
- 14 lines (poetry)
- Replace [YOUR SHIP] with the name of the team you belong to, including Grandstand or Sports Teams
- Write it exactly as it appears on the team roster or your team will not receive points
- Place the prompt's relationship in the first bolded line of the comment. Including the canon isn't required, but it's nice.
- Below that, place applicable major content tags (when applicable; otherwise write "no tags" or "none")
- Visual example
- Replace [YOUR SHIP] with the name of the team you belong to
- Write it exactly as it appears on the team roster or your team will not receive points
- Replace RATING with the rating of your fill (G - E)
- Place applicable major content tags and word count before your fill (when applicable; otherwise write "no tags" or "none")
- NSFW FILLS: Please cross-link these fills and use clear tags in your comment. Written/text fills should be hosted at AO3 ONLY. Art/visual fills can be hosted anywhere. You may include a small safe-for-work preview of the fill in your comment.
- To place an image in your comment, use this code: <img src="LINK TO YOUR IMAGE" alt="DESCRIPTION OF YOUR IMAGE"/>
- Visual example
- Replace RATING with the rating of your fill (G - E)
- Place applicable major content tags and word count before the fill, where applicable
- NSFW FILLS: Please cross-link these fills and use clear tags in your comment. Written/text fills should be hosted at AO3 ONLY. Art/visual fills can be hosted anywhere. You may include a small safe-for-work preview of your work in your comment.
- To place an image in your comment, use this code: <img src="LINK TO YOUR IMAGE" />
- Visual example
FORMAT
Bonus round shenanigans all happen in the comments below. Brand-new works only, please.Required Work Minimums:
Format your comment in one of the following ways:
| If PROMPTING: | If FILLING: | If FILLING as a TEAM GRANDSTAND participant: |
| PROMPT: TEAM [YOUR SHIP]
| FILL: TEAM [YOUR SHIP], [RATING]
| FILL: TEAM GRANDSTAND, [RATING]
|
Posts not using this format will be understood to be unofficial discussion posts, regardless of what they contain. They, like all comments in this community, are subject to the code of conduct.
SCORING
These numbers apply to your team as a whole, not each individual teammate. Make as many prompts/fills as you want!For prompts: 5 points each (maximum of 50 prompt points per team per round)
First 3 fills by any member of your team: 20 points each
Fills 4-10: 10 points each
Fills 11-20: 5 points each
Fills 21+: 2 points each
All scored content must be created new for this round.
Etc.
If you're hunting through the prompts looking for what to fill, a good trick is to view top-level comments only.Have a question? Check The FAQ first. If you still need help, feel free to contact the mods. Happy fanworking!
FILL: Team Iwaizumi Hajime/Oikawa Tooru, G
Being together is truly an option, but it doesn’t promise a forever.
(Not the one that Tooru wants, no, Tooru’s brand of forever is a weight next to him on the futon, a voice pleased to order agedashi tofu at Chindouchuu, and a smack upside his head when he really deserves it.)
*
On the day before they leave for their respective universities, Oikawa slips into Iwaizumi’s room and watches him pack. His best friend’s never been one for hoarding or anxious what if I don’t have this, what if I need that’s’ so he’s only got four bags out. One’s red, the other’s blue, the last two are grey.
They all have Godzilla keychains on them, and Tooru feels a bit better at that.
(Because he’s the one who gifted them to Iwaizumi in the first place.)
“Are you done with your stuff already?” Iwaizumi doesn’t look up as he says this, messily stuffing shirts and jeans into the bag nearest to him.
Oikawa clicks his tongue, and moves over to his side so he can actually help Iwaizumi pack decently. Crumpled shirts are a nightmare to face after long travels, really. “Iwa-chan, stop being a brute to your own clothes! Here, just do this.”
He grabs one of the shirts from the bag and shows Iwaizumi a trick to folding the clothes fast but neatly. Iwaizumi nods his head, clapping slowly and looking on in wonder as Tooru demonstrates it with another shirt again, and again, and again—
He stops to throw the hoodie he’s holding towards Iwaizumi’s face. “Why am I the only one folding all your stuff!? You should be doing it too!”
Iwaizumi splutters as he pulls the thing off, doesn’t miss a beat when he lunges to ruffle Tooru’s hair roughly. “What the hell was that for?! I would if you hadn’t just kept going on but you did and you seemed happy doing it so—“
Tooru reaches out and pinches Iwaizumi’s nose.
(His hands are warm on his head; Tooru doesn’t want to register anything else.)
He lets go when he sees Iwaizumi’s face darken: that’s usually the cue for some smack or punch, and one form of tough love usually leads to another. Tooru, very much so, would like to avoid that. “Fine, fine! Just, grab that and let’s finish up. Time and tide waits for no man, Iwa-chan, not even a good-looking one like me.”
The snort that comes to greet those last few words is almighty but Iwaizumi lets up to comply all the same. It’s quiet for a bit as they get back to work.
It’s a little too quiet in fact.
Tooru sighs.
“Iwa-chan?”
“What is it now, Kusokawa?”
“Did you know that diamonds are forever?”
“Isn’t it just the title of that one James Bond song?”
Tooru shifts, hooking his chin on Iwaizumi’s shoulder, takes in the view of his jaw and curious eyes, before answering, “There’s that. But diamonds, Iwa-chan, are made of these teeny tiny carbon atoms. They stick to each other so well that it’s a lot of work to actually break them down.”
Iwaizumi look a bit harder at him. Still, he inclines his head for Tooru to continue. “That so?’
He closes his eyes. Hums softly. Wonderingly. “They’re linked together, so much so they can never be apart. Unless some really large heat or pressure forces them to.”
“Stop beating around the bush, Oikawa. What do you really mean behind that?”
Iwaizumi’s always so quick to see through him. As usual, it’s both a blessing and a curse, and there’s nothing Tooru can do to change that. He bites his lower lip, says, “We’ll be okay right, Iwa-chan? Even when you’re at Kanto and I’ll be in Tokyo.”
Iwaizumi rolls his eyes, flicking Tooru’s forehead with his fingers. It’s done with a soft kind of fondness, though. He half wishes Iwaizumi hadn’t. It makes it so much harder not to hope.
“Of course, idiot. We’re partners, aren’t we? I don’t know what’s going on inside your head, but our friendship’s stronger than that.”
He whacks Tooru’s shoulders, insisting they get done before the evening’s gone because he wants them to go out to Chindouchuu with the other Seijou third years for one last time.
One last hurrah to Seijou, to Miyagi, and whatever else now in the past.
Again, Tooru just hums. They resume packing.
*
Dinner is fun. The boys are loud and assholes to each other, such are their normal antics. Hanamaki steals some of Iwaizumi’s gyoza so they end up in a spontaneous chopstick tussle when he attempts to snatch them back. Matsukawa records the whole spectacle with his cellphone, claiming it’s for posterity (”What you really mean is blackmail, Mattsun.”) and Tooru—
Tooru watches them all.
(hello, goodbye )
*
The next day, Iwaizumi and Tooru are at the railway station.
Iwaizumi, with his four bags and Godzilla keychains, is on the platform opposite to his because he’s heading to the east. Tsukuba Daigaku is a well known university in Kanto, and Tooru honestly is proud of him for making it there.
Tokyo is the heart of Japan and that’s where Tooru will study, playing for Tokyo Daigaku on a sports scholarship.
(Even in these last few moments, he doesn’t get to stand beside Iwaizumi. He’s so near, yet so far, soon further.)
An automated voice rings through the air as the wind around them picks up.
Their trains slide in beside each other; he doesn’t even get to wave goodbye before Iwaizumi disappears from view.
He gets in and that’s that.
They’ve gone.
(Diamonds are forever, Tooru wishes he and Iwaizumi could be too.)
*
When he reaches Tokyo, he calls Iwaizumi immediately.
When he’s done with his first day and volleyball practice at university, he texts him too.
Tooru texts him almost every day after that, and that’s good.
It’s good.
(Iwaizumi takes his time but he always gets back to Tooru in the end, and that’s what really matters.)
*
Slowly though, timidly, as cracks are wont to do, they slip and begin to show.
Volleyball matches and university coursework start flooding Tooru’s schedule, and Iwaizumi’s sports medicine degree eats a lot out of him too. The social life in Tokyo as well is exhausting with people buzzing everywhere, flitting around at goukons or bars, and they’re not bad company; they’re just not who Tooru would like to spend most of his time around.
Most days he gets back tired, flops down for a quick rest, then, he’s up again to make food, study or analyse match videos of other universities for information compiling.
Most days his phone doesn’t light up with a text from Godzilla maniac-chan!! like it previously did.
And Tooru doesn’t really notice.
(to you, who didn’t let go
of my hand even though I’m selfish,
i have to say—)
*
It hits hims five months later: how the two of them aren’t really in touch with each other that often anymore.
How he, in weeks, hasn’t heard Iwaizumi’s voice go "Kusokawa, have you had food yet?” or ”This subject really sucks, damn, I don’t wanna fail it” or “How are you, idiot?” or, or, or—
”Hello.”
When he grabs his phone, his hands are shaking, and it actually takes him a good 10 minutes before he finds Iwaizumi’s contact.
(He used to have it on speed dial but he doesn’t know what happened to make it just not there anymore.)
(Tooru doesn’t know anything.)
He dials it. Waits for the line to pick up.
Nobody answers.
Listens to it go to Iwaizumi’s voicemail.
(Tooru doesn’t know anything at all.)
“Iwa-chan, do you still remember that diamonds are forever?”
*
It’s the silence at the end of the voicemail that goes on forever.
*
hey, talk to me about meaningless things
to you, who listened
to my voice that had rotted to the core,
i have to say hello and goodbye.
you’re no longer here, but i can hear a sparrow’s voice
hello, goodbye
I start to break up this rotten voice myself
hello, goodbye
i said it.
Re: FILL: Team Iwaizumi Hajime/Oikawa Tooru, G
Also A+ choice of song. And it's Galileo Galilei yes!