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Bonus Round 5: Clue
Sometimes, all you need are a few little details to imagine something bigger. This round is inspired by a classic board game with a cast of colorful characters, but for SASO your only limits on "who", "where", and "with what" are what you can imagine (and the SASO fandom list, of course)!
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 the format of a Clue mystery - "[character] in the [location] with [item]", along with any ship/ot3/etc. from one of our nominated fandoms.
- Example: Sawamura Daichi in the teachers' lounge with the Hello Kitty! lunchbox
- The person in your prompt MAY be a member of your ship, but is not REQUIRED to be part of your ship. They must still be a named character from a SASO-nominated fandom.
- Your place must be a physical location, not a state of being or a state of being. However, this location is not required to be real, nor must it be from the same setting as the characters.
- The "item" used must be a physical object that the character can hold or manipulate.
- Unlike the board game, your prompt is NOT required to imply murder. The scenario implied can be anything at all! (As always, please tag properly!)
- Your prompt MUST include some kind of relationship. Platonic relationships are indicated by an "&" between the names (e.g., Natsuo & Yuzuko). Non-platonic relationships use "/" (e.g., Natsuo/Yuzuko). Please don't say "Any pairing," either!
- Fill prompts by replying to the prompt with your Clue-inspired fanwork.
- Remember to follow the general bonus round rules, outlined here.
- Here is a prompt/fill index for your convenience.
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]
|
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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.
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FILL: Team Grandstand, G
Fandom: Yuri!!! on Ice
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: Disney Fangasming Everywhere, Social Media, Cameos by most of the skaters, Headcanons galore
Word Count: 2,375
I have never been to Disney World, but I have worked at the Times Square Disney Store and have a degree in Animation, so I know all about the magic of Disney ;) That said, writing this was a massively self-indulgent affair and I did a lot of research and deliberating! This prompt was secretly perfect because Disney has started selling a new "Instagram-worthy" cotton candy product, which I recommend you Google after reading the fic so you don't spoil the ending! Also, I strongly recommend looking up Kazakh dubs for Disney songs on youtube, because they're beautiful (especially "Belle" from BatB).
***
“So, Otabek,” Phichit starts, walking down the street with his phone in Otabek’s face. “Your fans have chimed in and they all want to know: What is your favorite Disney film?”
It’s a little bizarre for Otabek, who hasn’t attained the level of fame that some skaters have, where paparazzi are thrusting cameras and recorders at him outside the context of a competition. It’s especially bizarre because it’s happening on the incredibly crowded Main Street, U.S.A., at Disney World’s Magic Kingdom. Otabek never thought he’d be in a situation quite like this one.
“Uh,” he responds a bit dumbly. “My fans asked?”
“I took a twitter poll,” Phichit clarifies, bumping into Otabek’s arm as he moves closer to him to make room for a double-wide stroller. “I asked what question your fans were most interested in hearing the answer for, and this is the one they picked. They all started guessing in the replies, too, it was really cute.”
Otabek smiles a little at the thought of his fans, and he’s grateful that Phichit thought of them; Otabek himself is terrible at taking the initiative to post on social media, never really knowing what people would even want to see.
“My favorite film is Cinderella,” he admits, smiling a little sheepishly at the camera on Phichit’s phone. “That was the cassette my sisters and I grew up watching the most.”
His smile relaxes into something a little more fond as he recalls the afternoons sprawled on the couch with his siblings, nibbling on buarsak as Cinderella and the Prince had their first dance. Often, when the movie ended, his sister fought over who got to play Cinderella and dance with him; the loser had to be the ugly step sister who couldn’t fit into the glass slipper.
“God, you’re charming,” Phichit says with a bright laugh, bringing Otabek back to the present. “If you keep smiling like that, you might dethrone me as one of Asia’s Top 3.”
“Top 3?”
“Most Adorable Men’s Figure Skaters,” he explains. Then he presses his fingers to Otabek’s brow and smooths it out, and smiles further. “I’m onto you, Altin; I see your super cute potential!”
Otabek scowls and instinctively swats Phichit’s arm away. For a brief moment he worries he may have offended Phichit and ruined this very new and therefore tenuous friendship, but Phichit hardly seems bothered.
“Alright, I edited the video down to just your answer, and… it’s posted! I tagged you in it too, so your phone is probably gonna start blowing up. Sorry not sorry.”
“So you’re… not sorry?” Otabek guesses, confused by the slang. He lived and trained in Canada and the United States both, and considers himself fluent in English, but keeping up with Phichit is somehow still difficult.
“Exactly. I’m apologizing for being unapologetic about using your popularity to boost mine.”
“Wouldn’t it be the other way around? You’re the one who is more popular, and using your account to promote me.”
“That’s what friends are for,” Phichit says breezily, as if their friendship is a well known and established fact. Otabek is surprised by how much Phichit’s casual affirmation puts him at ease. He finally slips his phone into his pocket and grins. “You know, I never would have guessed that Cinderella is your favorite movie. I was thinking something more like Hercules or Mulan. Or Sleeping Beauty, if we’re sticking with the classics. Something with more heroics, since you’re the Hero of Kazakhstan!”
Otabek flushes a little at the use of the nickname, one he’s only ever heard it spoken out loud back home, in his sisters’ and friends’ playful teasing and in various interviews he’s given as Kazakhstan’s first World Champion skater. He hadn’t realized word of it had left his home country, though he should have expected that Phichit would know.
“Those are fine,” he shrugs. He’s not particularly in love with Hercules or Sleeping Beauty, but he knows better than the say that in a literal mob of Disney fans. “Mulan is one of my favorites. But Cinderella is the best. When we were kids we could only watch it in Russian, but then it was dubbed into Kazakh last year. My sister bought a copy and watching it together was one of the first things we did when I moved home.”
“Oh gosh, that’s so cute! In that case, I’m gonna take a million pictures with you by her castle!” Phichit decides, pointing at the grand structure they’ve been inching towards all along with a massive grin. “Oh, but maybe we should get ear hats, first…!” He suddenly snorts. “Speaking of, you know how Yuuri and Viktor weren’t at breakfast today?”
“Yeah?”
“It turns out Viktor snuck out early and got them the Mickey groom and Minnie bride hats, you know the ones,” Phichit starts, gesturing to a couple off in the distance who are wearing them. “But then they got into a fight over who got to have the Minnie Mouse one. They both want to have the veil.”
He giggles, and Otabek hums. “Is that why you aren’t with Katsuki today? Yuri’s told me that you two are close friends.”
“Yuuri is my best friend,” Phichit corrects with a proud grin. “And I’m totally going to steal him away from Viktor for a besties-only day at some point on this trip. But I wanna use this chance to get to know all my other skating friends, too! Especially the ones I can’t get to know the rest of the year because they’re never online and super secretive.”
He nudges Otabek’s arm meaningfully. Otabek frowns.
“I’m not secretive,” he protests. “I just don’t have anything to say.”
“You ride a motorcycle and wear leather and DJ at nightclubs on top of being a world-class figure skater,” Phichit counters, ticking each item off on a finger. “You’re definitely Asia’s coolest figure skater, unless Seung-Gil is secretly a master of Jiu-Jitsu.”
“Don’t you mean Taekwondo?”
Phichit giggles. “That would be too expected, Otabek.” He looks around, and sighs. “Where should we go first?”
“I thought you were guiding us?”
“I was, but I’m overwhelmed by the choices,” Phichit whines dramatically. “Everything here is so Instagram-worthy! Especially the food.”
Otabek glances around, and he can easily see what Phichit means, even though he doesn’t have much of an eye for social media; everything square centimeter of the park around them is picturesque, from the rides to the costumed characters to the trashcans. And the food is nothing to knock either, from the whimsical Mickey Mouse shaped ice cream bars and pretzels, to the ‘real’ food that’s making Otabek’s stomach growl despite breakfast having only been two hours ago.
His gaze lands on a vendor with a very simple product, and he bites his lip. Without his saying a word, Phichit follows his gaze and smiles.
“Cotton candy? I’m actually saving that one for later, when we go to the fireworks show tonight.”
The confusion must be obvious on Otabek’s face, because once again before he can say anything, Phichit loops their arms together and adds, “Don’t worry, it’ll make sense when you see it. I wanna keep it a surprise for now!”
--
The hours pass in something of a blur. Phichit decides they are in desperate need of ear hats, perhaps not so coincidentally as they happen upon a hat shop. He does his best to convince Otabek to get the Cinderella themed ears, which are white and blue with a sequined glass slipper on the front and images of a clock and the pumpkin carriage on the ears themselves, but Otabek stands firm on the ground of a very blunt, “No.” He is drawn instead to the Pooh Bear hat, despite its garishly bright colors, and Phichit absolutely approves and suggests getting the matching Tigger hat for Yuri, which Otabek does. Phichit himself spends the better part of an hour deliberating between multiple hats before biting the bullet on an Elsa themed headband with a sequined bow and snowflakes embroidered on the ears.
Their next order of business is to make it to Cinderella’s castle, so Phichit can snap the promised selfies of them in their new hats with the blue towers as a backdrop. Afterwards they run into Guang-Hong, Leo, and Seung-Gil in Fantasyland, and decide to ride the “Mad Tea Party” after Phichit vetoes “It’s a Small World.”
“It doesn’t make sense to ride that one unless we’re all together,” he’d argued, and Leo was quick to agree that it would make the experience more complete.
They stop for an informal lunch of popcorn and ice cream, during which Guang-Hong shows off the signatures he’s collected in his autograph book. Phichit asks if Otabek wouldn’t mind joining him to meet a few other characters, and Otabek doesn’t—not even when they’re the only guys without a child on line for the Princess Fairytale Hall. Though he does mind a little when Phichit pushes him towards Cinderella, causing him to stumble and be caught by the Princess herself. He looks especially dour and embarrassed in the picture Phichit takes, made all the more ridiculous by the Poor Bear ears, but of course Phichit posts it online anyways. Five minutes later, Otabek turns his phone off because it’s still vibrating with notifications.
They get together as an entire group for dinner, sixteen world-class figure skaters, and Otabek is genuinely surprised at how much he enjoys the meal despite it being loud and chaotic. Viktor and Yuuri are both wearing Minnie Mouse bridal veil ears when they arrive, which delights Phichit and Christophe to no end. Yuri arrives still feeling under the weather, wearing a simple leopard-print ears headband that Mila evidently bought him, and after a lot of kicking under the table, Phichit convinces Otabek to give Yuri the Tigger hat during a lull in the conversation. Thankfully, Yuri seems equal parts flustered and delighted, and he makes plans with Otabek to go have their skating nicknames embroidered on their hats the next day.
Across the table, Mila has somehow ended up with the Mickey Mouse groom ears that neither Viktor nor Yuuri wanted, and she’s whispering a joke to Sara, who has the most classic iteration of Minnie Mouse’s headband with the iconic red and white polka-dotted bow. Beside her, Michele and Emil have Donald and Goofy hats respectively, and it’s not hard to guess whose idea that was, not with the way Emil is grinning and Michele just looks chagrined.
“You know how Sara and Emil call him ‘Mickey’?” Phichit whispers, noticing where Otabek’s gaze has landed. “Well apparently he’s been looking up every time anyone has said the word ‘Mickey’ within earshot all day.”
“That’s hilarious,” Yuri snorts, and it’s a little wet sounding because of his cold. Otabek offers him a tissue, and Yuri glares but accepts it.
“Sara’s been posting about it all day on Snapchat,” Phichit adds. “I almost feel bad for him. Kinda sorta.”
“So you don’t,” Otabek clarifies, and Phichit hides his giggles behind a forkful of potatoes. Yuri sneezes into a tissue.
“It sucks that you’re so sick,” Phichit laments, and it’s surprisingly genuine for someone who was quite literally just laughing. There’s a little frown of concern on his face as he leans closer. “You’re gonna come with us to the show after this though, right?”
“The show?” Yuri echoes, and Otabek’s glad he’s not the only one who has no idea what Phichit’s talking about.
“Happily Ever After!” Phichit chirps, loud enough to get nearly everyone’s attention. “The super cool music-laser-storytelling-fireworks show that we’re absolutely all going to as a group because I said so.”
Emil laughs boisterously across the table as he nods, “We’re in!”
“It sounds fun,” Viktor agrees, and just as soon as it’s been brought up the matter is settled and everyone returns to their conversations.
--
After dinner, the group sticks closer together than they had that morning; not entirely together, because a sixteen person group walking together anywhere is an obnoxious mob, much less in an already crowded place like Disney World, but in close enough range that they can call out to one another over the din of the park. They migrate slowly back to the Castle for the show, as Phichit regales Yuri with the story of Otabek meeting Cinderella, and how it’s apparently his favorite film. Yuri sweeps a critical eye over Otabek, and hums.
“You kinda look like Prince Charming,” he comments, and Otabek hopes the burning in his ears can pass for an effect of the park’s vibrant lighting.
“There’s just one more thing I wanna do before the show starts,” Phichit says, checking the time on his phone. He looks up again, his eyes scanning their surroundings, and then he lights up when he finds what he’s looking for. He gestures to a snack stand, and Otabek frowns.
“I did promise you cotton candy, right?” Phichit reminds him with a crooked grin. “Come on.”
And it isn’t until they get a little closer that Otabek sees why Phichit wanted to wait until it was dark— in keeping with the spirit of Disney magic, the cotton candy looks less like a mountain of spun sugar, and more like an ethereal, glowing cloud.
“Whoa,” Yuri murmurs, and Phichit grins.
“Glow sticks,” he reveals conspiratorially. “It’s the simplest idea on the planet, but they look so cool, and you get to keep the glow stick after you eat it! Emil’s going to flip!”
Otabek can’t help but smile at Phichit infectious youthful cheer, the delight and wonder in his eyes even over something that he himself acknowledges isn’t all that special. But, Otabek thinks as they wait on line, he’s in Disney World wearing an outlandish hat, the cotton candy has a glowing, color-changing core, and he’s made a new friend in a person who has no business being drawn to his stoicism—
Phichit buys a cotton candy first, but pulls some of it away to press the sugar to Otabek’s lips before he even has a taste. A little surprised, Otabek opens his mouth and allows Phichit to feed him with a grin, and thinks that maybe there is something to Disney magic after all.
Re: FILL: Team Grandstand, G
Re: FILL: Team Grandstand, G
Are they from the little girls' section? Yes. Does he care? Absolutely not!
(Georgi has the sorcerer Mickey hat lol)
Re: FILL: Team Grandstand, G
(Aw, Georgi! I'm going to imagine him and Chris doing the park together and Chris being charmed by Georgi's enthusiasm.)
Re: FILL: Team Grandstand, G
Maybe Christophe collects all the crowns after meeting with each princess? I bet he would be the ~most charming~ when he meets one, bowing and air kissing her hand and being a total gentleman lol
Re: FILL: Team Grandstand, G
These two are totally good hangout buddies, and I really liked the bit about Phichit trying to get Otabek to open up a little to internet fans and Otabek being sheepish that he just didn't have anything to say, and also how Otabek understands English well and Phichit is still confusing. CUTE!
Re: FILL: Team Grandstand, G
I do think they would make good friends, because they both seem to be very go with the flow personalities and I think Phichit's high energy and empathy will play well off of Otabek's reserved stoicism. I believe I remember reading once that Otabek really likes his fans, I think it was canon material though it can be hard to keep track, but I love the idea that, like you said, he just doesn't know what to say to them but he also loves talking to them and making them happy? And Phichit is very good at fanservice, according to Yuuri in Yuri on Museum, so he knows how to give the people what they want.
Also, I'm 90% sure that the majority of Phichit's English is very very colloquial Americanisms and especially internet speak. I tend to have Yuuri also not understand him because it's funny and because I always like to reference the fact that these guys all speak to each other in a mutual second language. Languages are so cool and multilingual people are awesome.
I'm glad you're having a great trip, and that you enjoyed this fic :D
Re: FILL: Team Grandstand, G
I love your characterization of Otabek here, his fear that shrugging Phichit off might damage their forming friendship, the way he reacts to Phichit so casually saying that they're friends. The way that Phichit is the social media who HELPS his friends is so on point for how I see him and I grinned so much at him editing on the fly.
The details about Otabek's life in Kazakhstan, esp the translations to Russian being the ones he grew up watching, are fantastic and really show how much work you put into research. It's really immersive and Otabek is just so solidly fleshed out here!
The ear hats bit made me laugh. I've been to Disney World when I was a little kid, like maybe even 20 years ago, so it was fun reading about what it's like now. I could feel Phichit's joy and it was lovely to experience that magic again through his and Otabek's trip.
Michele looking around when people say Micky and Otabek getting flustered over being told he looks like Prince Charming were such CUTE moments too! The pacing in this fic is fab, honestly, you keep the reader interested and interpose detail with vista well enough that the reader doesn't get bogged down in minutiae but still feels like they're actually there. It's a difficult balance to strike and you managed it perfectly.
Also the cotton candy idea is BRILLIANT, wow, I would love to have cotton candy like that! What a great note to end the fic on. Very sweet, if you'll pardon the pun. XD
Thank you so much for this great fill! It was a joy to read and I'm delighted by it on every level.
Re: FILL: Team Grandstand, G
Ahh, I'm so happy you like Otabek though. I rp as Phichit so I'm not too worried about my ability to write him, but I think Otabek is such a complex character and he only got to be in three episodes so he's still very much an unknown. I was worried about how he was coming off whether his insecurities were realistic or not; I'm relieved you like his character~
l;kal;dkal;dkas I am just really happy you like this because I had so much fun writing it <3333 And doing the research was so amazing; I was totally impressed to learn that Disney films have started being dubbed into Kazakh since 2015, it made me so happy.