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Bonus Round 4: Quotes
A shipping olympics favorite, this round uses quotes of all sorts to fuel your creative endeavors.
This round is CLOSED as of 7PM on July 21 EDT. Late fills may be posted, but they will not receive points.
RULES
- Submit prompts by commenting to this post with a quote attributed to a specific person or character, along with any ship/ot3/etc. from one of our nominated fandoms.
- Example: "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - M. Gandhi
- The quote can come from anywhere. Famous people, poetry, songs, books, movies, your neighbor, etc.
- 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., Makoto & Rin). Non-platonic relationships use "/" (e.g., Makoto/Rin). Please don't say "Any pairing," either!
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)
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 Kozume Kenma/Kuroo Tetsurou, T
1,027 words
a/n: added in Kenma bc i couldn't help myself, RIP. thank you for the excellent prompt, this quote is so lovely and i get so emotional thinking about it applied to them
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When Kuroo kisses Bokuto, he hears bells.
"You've gone to too many concerts recently," Kenma says, not looking up from their phone.
"No, that's not it," Kuroo whines, hugging Kenma around their bent knees, not caring that he's being ignored.
Kuroo has a problem: he and Bokuto have a thing, right, a thing where they hang out and play volleyball and have a good time, and sometimes that hanging out happens to involve kissing and putting hands in places you normally wouldn't with a Close Platonic Friend.
Kenma sighs a sigh that speaks to the kind of suffering only the best friends of inappropriate oversharers will ever understand.
"So you wouldn't stop texting me all about Bokuto's lips and Bokuto's abs and Bokuto's junk - " an anguished groan from Kenma's lap, don't remind me! - "because you hated every moment of it?"
"I wasn't finished," Kuroo protests:
The problem is that Kuroo has a comprehensive mental repository of perfectly mundane details about Bokuto that he absolutely cannot get over. Details like how his eyes crinkle when he laughs and how dumb his gelled up hair looks once it's become matted with sweat at the end of the day and how he always seems to know when Kuroo is sad or upset, no matter how much Kuroo tries to hide it.
The problem is that when Kuroo imagines his future he envisions Bokuto being present in every aspect of it - eating cereal straight out of the box at breakfast in their shared apartment, hair unkempt from sleep and wearing one of those graphic T-shirts he thinks is inspirational but really is mostly just funny. Facing him at the other side of the net with that look in his eyes that means he's going to give Kuroo the best, most challenging game he's ever going to play. Gazing at Kuroo with a soft, happy look in his eyes as Kuroo slides a wedding ring onto his finger--
Kuroo cuts himself off to shove his face into the couch and scream.
"How is any of that bad," Kenma says, fingers tapping away. "Drama queen."
"Fuck, Kenma, I want to move into a nice home with him and-- and adopt a pet, or something," Kuroo says. "When he said 'friends with benefits' I don't think those were the kinds of benefits he had in mind."
Kenma hums thoughtfully.
"You're right. Living with you wouldn't be a benefit. You're messy and you can't cook."
"I can too!" Kuroo doesn't let the insult slide, grabbing Kenma and messing up their hair.
"Just talk to him and say you want to be more than fuckbuddies," Kenma says, squirming out of Kuroo's grasp. They retrieve their phone. The screen shows that they just achieved a new personal best. "You're lucky I beat my level before you did that."
So Kuroo decides to talk to Bokuto.
It's easier said than done. Bokuto likes Kuroo, he doesn't have any doubt about that, but he doesn't know whether Bokuto likes him like that. In a holding-hands kind of way. In a long-stemmed red roses kind of way. In any case, if Kuroo is going to confess, he's going to have to give it due thought and do a proper job of it.
Another bullet point on Kuroo's list of things he loves about Bokuto is his unerring talent for spontaneity.
They're curled up on the couch at Bokuto's house, having just finished watching a movie. Bokuto's parents aren't home, so Kuroo is leaning his head on Bokuto's shoulder. He makes some vague complaint about being sleepy and, just like that, Bokuto has scooped him up in his arms and started carrying him, bridal-style, to his bedroom.
"Whoa," Kuroo says, impressed.
"My darling," Bokuto says in an exaggerated, ridiculous accent that's probably supposed to make him sound more like the Casanova that he's trying to be.
"Ooh, Bokuto, you're so good to me." Kuroo flutters his hand, pretending to swoon in Bokuto's arms.
"Only the best for my best dude." Bokuto kisses Kuroo's cheek, almost missing and getting Kuroo in the eyeball. He kicks open the door to his bedroom with one foot, just as theatrically as he'd swept Kuroo up off the couch.
Kuroo gasps, keeping the performance going. "Am I really?"
Bokuto's futon isn't rolled out, so he has to plonk Kuroo's ass down on the floor instead, but that doesn't seem to dampen his enthusiasm.
"Yeah, of course!" He flops down next to Kuroo. "I love you, man, you know that."
Kuroo, still chuckling from the impromptu princess carry, suddenly finds himself overwhelmed with emotion.
"Kuroo?" Bokuto knee-walks across the short distance between them. "You okay?"
Bokuto's being flippant, Kuroo knows that, but he can't help himself--
"I love you, too."
Bokuto grins at him, but then he’s getting up and asking Kuroo to help him unroll the futons and Kuroo can feel the opportunity slipping through his fingers. He grabs the bottom of Bokuto’s shirt.
“No, I mean, I love you, but I also... love you."
Bokuto looks at him, eyes all wide and amber, and Kuroo can already picture recounting this to Kenma later - "I thought you were just going to ask if you could date him, not tell him that you're in love with him" - and then amber is filling his field of vision because Bokuto is surging towards him and oh god Bokuto is bowling him over.
"Kuroo, holy fuck," Bokuto says. "Say it again."
Kuroo, feeling oddly put on the spot this second time, nervously says it again.
"Oh my god," Bokuto breathes, awed, and hugs Kuroo so hard with his stupid, sexy arms that Kuroo almost can't breathe.
"Uh, so does this mean that you--"
"I didn't think about it til now but hearing you say it makes me so happy, Kuroo, I like you so much."
Kuroo snorts, uncertain as to whether he's been paralysed by affection or if it's just Bokuto's body pinning him to the floor. He doesn't say anything about how Bokuto exactly hadn't said it back because it's good, this is good, Bokuto wants him, and when Bokuto kisses him it's like taking the first step down a new path that has opened up, endless and beautiful and verdant, before them.
Re: FILL: Team Kozume Kenma/Kuroo Tetsurou, T
iM SO WEAK
“No, I mean, I love you, but I also... love you."
hoW DARE U
I LOVE THIS SO MUCH
THANK U <3<3<3<3<3
Re: FILL: Team Kozume Kenma/Kuroo Tetsurou, T