Bonus Round 3: Gift Tags

[referees]

Feeling generous? In this round, you get to give creative gifts as prompts.

This round is CLOSED as of 7PM on July 7 EDT. Late fills may be posted, but they will not receive points.

RULES

• Submit prompts as a gift tag in the format below. You can specify the size and a characteristic of the gift, who the sender is, who the recipient is, and a one or two sentence note from the sender to the recipient. Descriptions of the package and the included note don’t have to be explicit, see below.
• Package: medium sized cube, rattles
  From: Kageyama Tobio
  To: Hinata Shouyou
  Note: These will help you get better.
• Envelope: manila, 12''x17'', very thick and heavy
  From: Tezuka Kunimitsu
  To: Kinjou Shingo
  Note: Enclosed - Play without regrets!
• Your prompt MUST include a relationship. Platonic relationships are indicated by an "&" between the names (e.g., Riko & Momoi). Non-platonic relationships use "/" (e.g., Riko/Momoi). Please don't say "Any pairing," either.
• Fill prompts by leaving a responding comment to the prompt with your newly-created work. Fillers can get creative with how to interpret the prompt: your fill can be about the character receiving the gift, one or both characters using the gift, what prompted the sender to send the gift—the physical gift itself can even be excluded from your fill. What’s important is that the gift tag is clearly the inspiration for your fill.
• Remember to follow the general bonus round rules, outlined here.

FORMAT

Bonus round shenanigans all happen in the comments below. Brand-new works only, please.

Required Work Minimums:

• 400 words (prose)
• 400px by 400px (art)
• 14 lines (poetry)

There is no max work cap.

Format your comment in one of the following ways:

If PROMPTING:	If FILLING:	If FILLING as a TEAM GRANDSTAND participant:
PROMPT: TEAM [YOUR SHIP] 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	FILL: TEAM [YOUR SHIP], [RATING] 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) NSFW FILLS: Please cross-link these fills and use clear tags in your comment. Written/text fills should be hosted at AO3 ONLY as a new, unchaptered work. 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	FILL: TEAM GRANDSTAND, [RATING] Replace RATING with the rating of your fill, G - E, as explained in the rules 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 as a new, unchaptered work. 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

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)

For fills:

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!

Comments

FILL: Team Kyoutani Kentarou/Yahaba Shigeru, G

[kiyala]

no tags
word count: 595

The world always seems a little dreamlike, between the hours of three and four. Tooru is always awake to meet it, when the edges of reality blur a little and he knows that it's probably just his exhaustion speaking, that it's his foggy mind creating the atmosphere. He likes it anyway.

At times like these, anything in the world feels possible. His limbs are too heavy to start anything immediately, but his chest is full with the potential all the same. He can shut his eyes and picture himself achieving whatever it is that he wants at the time. Standing on the world's stage, playing for Japan at the Olympics; floating in space and uncovering new things; shut in a laboratory and studying organic material gathered from other planets; Tooru dreams big and yet they aren't really dreams at all. They feel like alternate futures, spread out before him in the early hours of the morning, and he looks at them all, feels like he can grasp whichever one he chooses, and all he can think of is how much he wishes he could share this feeling, this magical moment.

His phone is within easy reach and he picks it up, unlocking it without even having to look, letting his muscle memory take him to his messages, to the thread labelled, Iwa-chan.

He pauses, not knowing what to say. He wants the world for Hajime, but in a different way that he wants it for himself. Tooru wants everything, but he wants to fight for it, wants to have achieved it with his hard work, with his sheer determination.

For Hajime, he wants the best, without even having to try. He wants Hajime to feel proud, to feel accomplished, but he doesn't wish the same kind of struggle on him, doesn't want him to feel the constant need to prove himself.

In these small hours of the morning, when not even the birds are singing outside his window just yet, Tooru pours these sentiments into a text message so long that it spans the entire screen, and then some. He doesn't know if any of it is coherent, and he doesn't really care because he knows that Hajime will understand all the same. That's one of the reasons Tooru loves him so much; Hajime has always understood him without Tooru even having to say a thing, but he also understands that Tooru tends to be wordy sometimes, that he needs to fill the silence with words. He's good at cutting through them, to the heart of what Tooru means. There isn't even the smallest doubt that he will do the same this time.

Content, Tooru hits send. He waits for a moment, in case it earns him a reflexive reply telling him to go to sleep, as his messages sometimes do. It doesn't this time, and he puts his phone down, checking the time again.

It's just a few minutes before four o'clock. With a sigh, Tooru shuts his eyes, feeling his exhaustion finally creep up on him.

The next morning, Hajime walks with him to school as always, and makes no mention of the message.

Before they start practice, though, he touches his hand to Tooru's back, familiar and comforting. "I have sleeping pills, if you need them. Maybe just try one tonight?"

With a smile, Tooru leans back into Hajime's touch, and nods in reply. He can decide whether or not he wants to take it later, but he knows that it will make Hajime feel better. That's all the reason he needs.