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Bonus Round 5: Myth & Lore
This round is CLOSED as of 7PM on August 4 EDT. Late fills may be posted, but they will not receive points.
RULES
- This round does not have prompts. Instead, we ask you to draw inspiration from the wide pool of mythology, fantasy, folklore, and fable. An urban fantasy or supernatural AU? A re-imagining of your favorite folk tale? Characters swapping ghost stories or playing D&D? As long as your fill in some way incorporates the fantastical and/or supernatural, it's welcome here.
- Your fill still has to be about a ship from one of our nominated fandoms. What ships you create work for is up to you, though.
- To submit your fill, simply leave it as a comment as a reply to this post.
- 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)
Remember, this is a NO-PROMPT round. Format your fill comment in one of the following ways:
| If FILLING: | If FILLING as a TEAM GRANDSTAND participant: |
FILL: TEAM [YOUR SHIP], [RATING]
| FILL: TEAM GRANDSTAND, [RATING]
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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 fills as you want!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!
FILL: Team Kyoutani Kentarou/Yahaba Shigeru, T
interspecies relationship, transformation; based on the frog prince, kind of
word count: 1089
It all starts with a dream.
He's at his family home for the weekend, sleeping in his own bed, enjoying the comfort of it, when the dream startles him awake with how strange and vivid it is.
It leaves him disoriented for a moment, blinking up at his ceiling as he remembers where he is, and then remembers the dream. He shuts his eyes, and he can still see it clearly; the can recall the handsome stranger standing incredibly close to him, gorgeous and dark-skinned, with messy black hair and a golden crown perched on top of it, embellished with elegant decorations including, most prominently, golden prongs that stick up like—
Like antlers, he thinks to himself, sitting up in bed. Like a stag.
Turning to his windowsill, he looks at the small bottle he took from Momotarou, with the stag beetle inside. He reaches over, picking it up and looking at the mandible, marvelling at just how much it looks like the decorative parts of the crown from his dream.
"Weird," he mutters to himself, holding the bottle a little closer. The beetle inside stands against the glass, as if it's looking right back at him. "Pyunsuke, huh?"
Instead of taking the bottle out and releasing the beetle into the wild, he ends up keeping it. At first, he just thinks about keeping it at home, but when he's packing to return to Samezuka, he picks the bottle up without thought, carefully tucking it into his bag.
Momotarou is more than happy to help Sousuke set up a proper terrarium for Pyunsuke. He bombards Sousuke with information, giving him far too much at once. Sousuke ends up having to sit down and read about it online for any of it to actually sink in. He learns about how to feed stag beetles, how to keep them clean and healthy, and how to make sure their habitat is comfortable for them.
He's surprised at just how easy it is to take care of Pyunsuke, and Sousuke finds himself slowly getting attached. Rin thinks it's hilarious, but he doesn't seem to mind at all when Sousuke develops a habit of taking Pyunsuke out of his tank to let him wander around.
The dream from before returns, after a while, and this time it doesn't leave. Sousuke dreams of the same man several nights in a row, but it's not entirely unpleasant. There's a sense of familiarity to them that lingers even once Sousuke wakes, but he doesn't really know where to start figuring out what it could possibly mean, so he doesn't try.
On one particular afternoon, while Rin is out, Sousuke is sitting at his desk, letting Pyunsuke crawl across his fingers as he does his homework.
"What are you doing?" he asks with a small smile, as he feels Pyunsuke's legs tickling across his arm, climbing it. He stops writing, so he can just sit there are watch as the beetle climbs all the way up onto his shoulder, bumping its mandible against Sousuke's chin.
"Well, hey to you too," he replies, picking Pyunsuke up and bringing him closer, to eye level.
He moves without thought, leaning forward and brushing a gentle kiss over Pyunsuke's mandibles, and the very next moment, there's a loud crash.
Sousuke is sent sprawling onto the floor, and he's too busy trying to make sure not to land on his bad shoulder that he doesn't notice the man suddenly in his room. Not until said man falls on top of him.
"What the hell, get off me," Sousuke mutters, struggling against the weight on top of him before he looks up.
The moment that he does, he immediately stops struggling.
He knows the face looking back at him. He knows that dark skin, the black curls, the golden crown.
"Pyun…suke…?"
"That's my name, isn't it?" the man smiles. "You saved me. I knew that you would."
"You were a beetle," Sousuke says, and then a horrible thought occurs to him. "This isn't a true love thing, is it?"
Pyunsuke gives him a quizzical look, and Sousuke breathes a sigh of relief. He doesn't know how he'd even get his head around the fact that he's in true love with a beetle. Or a guy who used to be a beetle.
It's difficult enough getting his head around the fact that he's attracted to said man, and that every passing moment that he's still pinned underneath Pyunsuke, he's beginning to realise that he doesn't mind it at all.
"Your reward for saving me," Pyunsuke murmurs, and leans towards Sousuke.
He knows exactly what's coming, and Sousuke decides not to bother fighting it. He lifts his head up off the floor, meeting Pyunsuke's mouth with his own. They kiss deeply, and Sousuke winds his arms around Pyunsuke's shoulders, holding him close, until they're both breathless.
"I think," Pyunsuke murmurs, kissing along Sousuke's jaw, "I need to keep you."
"Huh," Sousuke says dazedly, chasing Pyunsuke's lips with his own because the moment they stop making out, he's going to have to deal with the rest of this situation, and he isn't quite ready for that yet.
"I could take you with me," Pyunsuke says. "Reclaim my place as the beetle king. I could have you by my side. Be my king-consort, Sousuke."
"Huh?"
Before Pyunsuke can speak, they hear the doorknob turning. Sousuke's stomach drops out.
"Quick. Before Rin comes in. Hide."
Rin opens the door to find Sousuke on his back, with Pyunsuke in beetle form, crawling across his chest.
"Were you just talking to your beetle while I was gone?" Rin asks, carefully stepping around Sousuke. "You must really like him a lot, huh?"
Sousuke laughs nervously. "Um. Yeah. I guess you could say that."
Pyunsuke nips Sousuke's finger gently—affectionately, Sousuke thinks, and he doesn't even know how he knows, but he does, and it makes his face go red.
"Are you feeling okay?" Rin asks with concern.
Sousuke doesn't even know where to begin. "Yeah. Everything's just fine. Absolutely fine."
"Convincing," Rin hums. "I'm going to go find Ai and Momo and see if they want ice cream. You should join us when you're done playing with your beetle."
With that, Rin leaves the room again. Sousuke is half afraid that Pyunsuke will change forms again, but he doesn't. Instead, he just crawls further up Sousuke's chest, bumping mandibles to chin in yet another affectionate gesture.
Sousuke strokes his finger over Pyunsuke's body, and wonders when, exactly, he lost control of his life.
Re: FILL: Team Kyoutani Kentarou/Yahaba Shigeru, T
Re: FILL: Team Kyoutani Kentarou/Yahaba Shigeru, T
Re: FILL: Team Kyoutani Kentarou/Yahaba Shigeru, T
Re: FILL: Team Kyoutani Kentarou/Yahaba Shigeru, T
TAKE MY PLACE AS BEETLE KING DO YOU WANT TO BE MY CONSORT I CANT
Re: FILL: Team Kyoutani Kentarou/Yahaba Shigeru, T
"Huh," Sousuke says dazedly, chasing Pyunsuke's lips with his own because the moment they stop making out, he's going to have to deal with the rest of this situation, and he isn't quite ready for that yet.
"I could take you with me," Pyunsuke says. "Reclaim my place as the beetle king. I could have you by my side. Be my king-consort, Sousuke."
blearily rubs my face,, ngl at this point I was expecting trees to sprout and for Soupyun to break into Bollywood song+dance routine and twirl around said trees ((this is what growing up watching Tamil channels with my grandpa has has culminated in i cannot--))