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)

There is no max work cap.

Format your comment in one of the following ways:

If PROMPTING:	If FILLING:	If FILLING as a TEAM GRANDSTAND participant:
PROMPT: TEAM [YOUR SHIP] Replace [YOUR SHIP] with the name of the team you belong to, including Grandstand or Sports Teams Write it exactly as it appears on the team roster or your team will not receive points Place the prompt's relationship in the first bolded line of the comment. Including the canon isn't required, but it's nice. Visual example	FILL: TEAM [YOUR SHIP], [RATING] Replace [YOUR SHIP] with the name of the team you belong to Write it exactly as it appears on the team roster or your team will not receive points Replace RATING with the rating of your fill (G - E) Place applicable major content tags and word count before your fill (when applicable) NSFW FILLS: Post written/text fills directly to the round with clear tags. Please link to art/visual fills. You can include a small safe-for-work preview if you'd like. To place an image in your comment, use this code: <img src="LINK TO YOUR IMAGE" /> Visual example	FILL: TEAM GRANDSTAND, [RATING] Replace RATING with the rating of your fill, G - E, as explained in the rules Place applicable major content tags and word count before the fill, where applicable NSFW FILLS: Post written/text fills directly to the round with clear tags. Please link to art/visual fills. You can include a small safe-for-work preview if you'd like. To place an image in your comment, use this code: <img src="LINK TO YOUR IMAGE" /> Visual example

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.

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Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Word count: 673
Content warnings: Mention of blood, hospitalization for non-life-threatening injuries, mention of needles

lmao canon divergence where rei is silly enough to listen to nagisa's bad ideas???? who knows, otherwise a very flimsy au but i couldn't stop myself

Rei wakes in an unfamiliar bed with a needle in the crook of his elbow, stitches in his left arm, his right leg in a cast, and Nagisa sitting very close, staring at him with wide, watery eyes.

“Rei-chan, you’re awake!” Nagisa says thickly, as if something is stuck in his throat, and Rei feels Nagisa clutch the arm that’s not currently in a sling.

“What...why am I in the hospital?” Rei asks, and Nagisa laughs a little forlornly.

“You don’t remember? You did a backflip into the pool, but you slipped and got hurt,” Nagisa says, but his eyes flit to the side like he doesn’t want to look Rei in the face. Rei notices that Nagisa’s eyes are a little red around the edges.

“Why would I do that,” Rei asks, perplexed. “That doesn’t sound safe at all!”

Nagisa’s cheeks flush a little, and Rei realizes there’s more to the story. “I may have, um, suggested that you do it, and I would record it on my phone and send it to Haru-chan because he would think it was cool?” It’s coming back to him now; Nagisa pleading with him, it’ll be cool, Rei-chan, doesn’t that look fun? Rei had been skeptical but the gleam in Nagisa’s eye was the same as when he said he wanted a strawberry cake from the store or when he wanted Rei to help him with his math homework -- irresistible and impossible to ignore. And here he is, in the hospital, and he still can’t work up any anger.

“But...how come I don’t remember coming to the hospital?” Rei asks, and that’s when he remembers the stitches in his arm.

“You took one look at the blood and just passed out,” Nagisa says, and Rei laughs a little hysterically. “It was really scary,” Nagisa continues, his voice wavering, and Rei still feels weak and in pain but he offers Nagisa his hand, wants to comfort him in any way he can. “You were just bleeding and you passed out and it was all my fault, and now you’re in the hospital and you’re never going to talk to me again --”

“Wait, what?” Rei laces his fingers through Nagisa’s and squeezes. “Nagisa-kun, it is entirely through my own gracelessness that I landed myself in the hospital.” Nagisa squeezes his hand back, but also furrows his brows unbelievingly. “Okay,” Rei amends, “it’s mostly my fault and a little bit your fault.” Nagisa giggles, helplessly, and leans down to press a kiss against Rei’s fingers. Rei is feeling a lot right now -- his leg twinges like hell, the stitches are kind of itchy, the IV in his arm pinches a little bit, and he just feels woozy in general, but when Nagisa’s lips press against his skin, he can practically feel every cell in his body light up with happiness. He eyes the IV -- it might be the pain medication, but Nagisa presses another little kiss to his palm and he feels that spark again, and he’s not convinced.

“I think you’re graceful, Rei-chan,” Nagisa says, a little playfully, laying his head down on the bed next to Rei, and he extracts his hand from Nagisa’s grip to pet his hair. “I’m really sorry,” Nagisa says, his voice quiet and transformed again.

“It’s okay,” Rei says, leaning over to press a kiss into Nagisa’s hair. “I’m okay now.”

“I was going to get you flowers for when you woke up but I didn’t want to leave you,” Nagisa says, lifting his head back up, and Rei is overcome with fondness.

“I expect flowers tomorrow, then,” Rei says, trying to be stern but his smile gives him away.

Nagisa’s eyes light up again, and he smiles back, and he’s so beautiful that it almost hurts to look at him. He leans up and presses his lips against Rei’s, soft and sweet and lingering. “Only the most beautiful flowers for you,” Nagisa says, and Rei smiles into their next kiss.

Edited (commas, how do they work) 2015-06-17 22:43 (UTC)

This is so beautiful, and Nagisa is so contrite and Rei so smitten. Gosh.

“I was going to get you flowers for when you woke up but I didn’t want to leave you,” Nagisa says, lifting his head back up, and Rei is overcome with fondness.

Me, too, Rei. Me, too.

Bonus Round 2: AUs

Bonus Round 2: AUs

FILL: Team Arakita Yasutomo/Fukutomi Juichi, G

Re: FILL: Team Arakita Yasutomo/Fukutomi Juichi, G