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Bonus Round 1.5: AUs
SASO 2017 is over, but this round is perpetually open to new fills (no new prompts).
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 with an alternate universe idea, along with a ship from one of our nominated fandoms. There's a comment template below for your convenience.
- 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., Izumi & Sakaeguchi). Non-platonic relationships use "/" (e.g., Izumi/Sakaeguchi). Please don't say "Any pairing," either!
- An AU can be a canon divergence, e.g. "what if [character] was the Team Captain instead of the canon captain character?", or a completely different setting altogether, e.g., pop idol AU, coffee shop AU, superheroes AU, etc.
- Fill prompts by leaving a responding comment to the prompt with your newly-created work.
- 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)
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.
If you see anyone breaking the code of conduct (e.g., causing drama, being rude) anywhere (not just DW), please contact the mods immediately.
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 4 fills by any member of your team: 20 points each
Fills 5-10: 15 points each
Fills 11-20: 5 points each
Fills 21-50: 2 points each
Fills 51+: 1 point 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 (see the line of links below this post).Have a question? Check The FAQ first. If you still need help, feel free to contact the mods. Happy fanworking!
FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, T
Other Tags: none
Word Count: 860
im dead
***
Life wasn't fair to Tatsuya, and this half-life has only been worse. Perhaps he had been in the wrong, once, given in to the wrong spirit and asked for the wrong kind of power; perhaps he really will be forced to spend the rest of his miserable existence atoning for his sins, but that doesn't mean it's right. He was only human too, after all, with human wants and desires, capable of mistakes and all too susceptible to temptation. If his envy had turned him into a demon, what of it? If thousands had died at his hand, what of that?
Not that he expects this human to understand the irony of using a demon bound to a sword to slay another demon, much less the moral dilemma of said demon's circumstances. Hajime seems like a stable, no-nonsense type of person, hard to dissuade from his mission and impossible to goad into mercy.
"Where to, master?"
"Don't call me that," says Hajime, sheathing his newly acquired weapon and binding Tatsuya to him for as long as he lives, however long that might be. Tatsuya has the option, at least, to stay within the sword instead of using a mortal form to move about, but exhaustion seems a small price to pay for some entertainment. It had been a while since he'd been wielded, anyway.
"That's what you are, aren't you?" says Tatsuya, watching Hajime bristle as he walks up ahead.
-
Tatsuya goes along with Hajime's charade for a week, wondering if Hajime will realize his foolishness or if he really is as dense as a block of wood. When Hajime hunts, he divides the game into two portions. When they frequent a tavern, Hajime orders food for two, paying for Tatsuya out of his own pocket. It's not that Tatsuya doesn't appreciate having something in his stomach; it's merely the mystery that's driving him mad.
Finally, when Hajime decides to hand him half of a small rabbit he'd caught, barely enough to feed one, Tatsuya snaps.
"Not that it concerns me if you live or die, much less if you starve, but malevolent spirits hardly need to eat, master." There's no reason for his outburst—it isn't even remotely proportional to the situation—but being looked after seems to irk Tatsuya as a demon as much as it had when he was human.
"I know," answers Hajime, simply, as he tears a bite from the meat. He offers no other explanation, except for the way he drapes a cloak over Tatsuya's shoulders when he notices them shivering a few days later.
-
Tatsuya's stepping in front of the arrow before he could think twice about it, which is just as well, because if he'd hesitated for even a moment Hajime would be a corpse at his feet.
The arrow had pierced his heart, or it would've, had he one to begin with. Hajime stares, dumbstruck; when he recovers, he takes down the enemies first and attends to Tatsuya later, like a true warrior.
This compartmentalizing does little to disguise the concern on his face when he kneels beside Tatsuya, whose breaths are coming in light and fast as he tries to repair his human form. It takes several minutes before he's good as new again, though his tunic is stained red and it's no painless feat to yank the arrow from his back.
"I thought it didn't concern you if I lived or died," says Hajime, snapping the arrow into two over his thigh. Unless Tatsuya is imagining it, he sounds angry, and looks it, too.
"It doesn't," says Tatsuya. He glances away when he adds, "it didn't," and leaves it at that.
-
Hajime tells him the full story, one night as they near the castle, and quietly, so quiet Tatsuya wouldn't have heard it unless he was lying so close, he ends it with, "he was my best friend."
Tatsuya thinks of Taiga, of the childhood they'd spent together eons ago, and how he'd wept as he chanted the incantation to seal Tatsuya's soul to a sword he'd forged himself. Tatsuya leans closer, presses to Hajime's mouth a kiss and a truth.
"Then it can only be you."
-
Even if he had denied it for the most part of their journey, a part of Tatsuya had already figured it out before they reached their destination. Oikawa is too powerful to defeat with half-measures; if he were to be vanquished completely, the weapon—Tatsuya—should be destroyed with him.
Hajime was stable, and no-nonsense. He had it in him to deal the finishing blow, or he used to.
"I'll find another way," he says, as they run from the collapsing castle. Inside, Oikawa is wounded, but it wouldn't be fatal. Hajime mounts his horse and pulls on Tatsuya to ride behind him.
"I'll save you. Both of you."
He sounds so certain, so noble, Tatsuya thinks as he locks his arms around Hajime's waist, presses his cheek to Hajime's shoulder. Maybe it could work out that way, if only life were fair.
"Of course," says Himuro. Those were the words Hajime needed to hear; the words he wishes he could believe.