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Bonus Round 2: AUs
Bonus Round 2: AUs
SASO 2015 is over, but this round is perpetually open to new fills (no new prompts).
This round is made for exploration of all those "what-if?" scenarios, like "what if my favorite sports anime was actually a spaghetti western?" or "what if everything was the same except everyone was actually a car?"
This round ends at 7PM on June 27 EDT. Countdown Timer.
RULES
- Submit prompts by commenting to this post with an alternate universe idea, along with a ship from one of our nominated fandoms.
- An AU could be a canon divergence, e.g. "what if [team] didn't win the Inter High in season 1, but [other team] did instead?", or a completely different setting altogether, e.g.s 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]
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FILL: TEAM [YOUR SHIP], [RATING]
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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 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!
PROMPT: TEAM FUKUTOMI JUICHI/KINJOU SHINGO
(someone's gotta get here eventually so it might as well be me)Pacific Rim AU(I know there's a big one for this fandom already but there is NEVER ENOUGH PACRIM)
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Mihashi made his way up the creaky metal stairs, carefully balancing his lunch tray as he walked. When he was finally up on the scaffolding in the jaeger assembly bay, he was shocked to find that he wasn’t the only one there. A black haired man was also sitting on the grated surface, with a half eaten lunch tray in front of him. Mihashi backed away slowly.
“Oh, um… Sorry to bother you,” Mihashi said. “I should, um…”
The man looked around slightly. “There’s plenty of scaffold left if you wanted to eat up here.”
“Oh, um.” Mihashi balanced his tray while picking at his face nervously. “Well, I just didn’t want to be in the way. You work up here, right?”
The man grunted and shrugged. “I’m not working right now.”
Mihashi nodded. It seemed like invitation enough, so he sat his tray down a few paces away.
“You just transferred here, right?” the man asked.
“Yeah,” Mihashi said. “I’m Mihashi. I was in the San Francisco dome before I was re-stationed here.”
The man nodded. “I’m Abe.”
Mihashi nodded. There didn’t seem to be more conversation forthcoming. Mihashi bit into his sandwich, waiting, but eventually he got tired of the silence.
“So, how come you eat up here?” Mihashi asked. At Abe’s questioning look, he continued, “I mean, I came up here because I don’t really know anyone yet, so I kind of wanted to eat alone.”
“Kind of backwards,” Abe muttered, surprising Mihashi. “You’re not going to meet anyone by eating alone.”
“Well…” Mihashi wasn’t sure if he should point out that technically they had just met.
Abe looked out across the jaeger bay. One of them was glowing hot with crews welding over it. “I like watching the jaegers,” Abe said.
Mihashi perked up. “Me too,” he said brightly. “I mean, normally when I see them, they’re just blips on a screen. It’s nice to see them up close once in awhile.”
Abe nodded.
Mihashi put his sandwich down, bracing himself. “Could you maybe… I mean, I just had my first shift in LOCCENT earlier today, during the drop. It was great, but… I didn’t really get the chance to see any of the jaegers I was monitoring, so…”
“You want me to introduce you to them,” Abe guessed.
“If you could,” Mihashi said quickly.
Abe stood up, leaning over the railing. He pointed down to the far left end of the bay. “See the one all beat up down at the end. That’s Gemini Gold. Kaiju nearly took off one of it’s arms. We’ll be working hard to get her running again.”
Mihashi stuck his head over the railing to look at it.
“The one next to that is Dauntless Oni. It went down, but honestly the right hemisphere pilot was more damaged than the jaeger was. They’ll both be fine,” Abe continued. “Then that one’s Tandem Star. Just got activated today. You probably were here for that part.”
Mihashi nodded. “First drop, first kill.”
Abe nodded back to him. “Then this is the last one,” he said, pointing to the one that still had welding crews climbing all over her. “Last of the restorations we’re working on.”
“What’s her name?” Mihashi asked, staring at the jaeger with wonder.
Abe sat back down. “Don’t know yet. The new pilots will probably pick it, once they’re chosen.”
“Cool,” Mihashi whispered.
Abe was still staring at it. “Some nights, while she was still half built, I would come up here just to look at her, and I’d think —” He stopped abruptly, as if pulled from a trance. He looked down at his near empty lunch tray, his eyes glued to it.
“What?” Mihashi asked, leaning closer to him.
“Nothing,” Abe said. “It’s just a dumb fantasy. I used to… think about piloting it myself.”
Mihashi gaped at him. “That’s so cool! Did you go through ranger training?”
Abe scoffed. “Who hasn’t?” he asked. “Half of any shatterdome crew is made up of ranger training washouts.”
Mihashi hummed, shoulders slumping. “I guess that’s true.”
“What about you?” Abe asked. “Another washout?”
Mihashi froze, before nodding. “Yeah. Me too.”
Abe nodded in understanding.
“I couldn’t really find a partner,” Mihashi said. “I mean. I’m not that great at hand-to-hand, and I’m not the most confident fighter, so...”
Abe looked at him. “So, you just couldn’t find a match? What was your simulator score?”
“Oh, uh…” Mihashi leaned away, rubbing his neck. “One hundred percent,” he muttered.
Abe heard him anyway, eyes widening just slightly. “That accurate? You’re joking.”
Mihashi shook his head.
“Huh,” was all Abe said looking back to the unnamed jaeger. “You said your name is Mihashi, right?”
“Yeah?” Mihashi said.
Abe shifted uncomfortably. “Mihashi… would you like to go to the kwoon room?”
“What?” Mihashi’s eyes widened.
Abe shrugged. “It’s normally pretty abandoned at lunch. No reason two washouts couldn’t take a shot at it while everyone else is busy.”
Mihashi stared at him. “Do you think we could be a match?”
“Who knows,” Abe said. “But seems like a waste to let that one hundred percent accuracy go to waste.”
Abe stood up and offered his hand. Mihashi grabbed it and smiled. “Okay, let’s try it.”
Mihashi was a bit shocked to see Abe smile as well.