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.

Have a question? Check The FAQ first. If you still need help, feel free to contact the mods. Happy fanworking!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

NO WARNINGS
967 words

He'd noticed long before that Suga wasn't in good shape. He'd always known his ... friend... wasn't human. That wasn't the problem. But the constant falling asleep got his attention, and then he started seeing things he was sure had to be tricks of the light -- until the day Suga filled in for the volleyball team during the match where their setter came down with a cold. Suga went for the ball, perfectly placed as always to send it to the spiker, but when he put his hands up, his left hand wasn't all there.

Part of it was fading away, like a ghostly memory of itself. Suga didn’t even seem to realize it was happening, and sure as hell nobody else saw. Their eyes weren't quite good enough to see the real Suga anyway, just the shell that looked like a regular high school phenom. Daichi could see, though. How the magic that made him exist was leaking out of the world like someone trying to fill a bucket with a hole in the bottom. And even if no one else could see, the effects were as real as the problem. The ball didn't get all the purchase it needed. It nearly went off in the wrong direction. Of course Suga noticed, and of course he compensated. He knew how to handle a ball. It got to the spiker a little rough, but made it there all the same, and they got their point. Only Daichi saw the confused, betrayed look Suga gave his own hands before the call went up for the next serve.

His friend's brilliant smile took over then, on their way to winning the game. Like Suga had shrugged off that one fumble as a fluke. But Daichi remembered.

And he saw it happen again, while Suga nearly nodded off in math class. His shoulder turned so transparent, Daichi could read the board through it. Was he supposed to just sit there and let the person he cared about -- as much as he cared about anyone, including his own family -- just up and vanish? Maybe he wasn't human, but he was a person. A person he wasn't going to let go.

No. Even though he could tell from the scared bunny look in Suga's eyes when he dragged his friend over to the tree after school that Suga had no idea what was happening.

"Suga... about you, I--"

Geez. Those liquid shimmers in his eyes made the words catch in Daichi's throat. They choked him up just long enough that he couldn't get anything more out before that damned Oikawa did a spinning vault out of the tree branches onto his back.

"Da~ichi!" the nuisance squealed, nuzzling the bow of a uniform neck ribbon into the back of his hair while dropping a chin practically on his forehead. Almost but not quite as subtle as Oikawa's skirt hiked up thigh high so a ton of exposed knee and leg was draped over Daichi's arms. "Sorry to bother you when you're so~ busy!"

Liar. And now Suga was pouting, and surrendering to Oikawa's interruption without so much as an objection. Like he didn't know that Daichi would rather toss the interloper off his back. But that wouldn't make Suga happy. It'd just make him feel guilty, so Daichi never did it. Even though the temptation was extra strong when Oikawa stuck out a very pointedly pert tongue at Suga. Jerk.

"So like I said, Daichi, sorry to interrupt, but the teacher says he needs copies of some handouts right away! Let's go, go, go!"

"Suga, I still want to talk later."

He never wanted to see Suga looking as scared and hurt as he did right at that moment.

And yet, with his little brother Shouyou off getting into trouble with that brat Kageyama when they thought he couldn't see, and the slowly fading magic being hiding inside Suga spending himself to keep them safe, this was only going to get worse. What was the point of having the power to see all that happening around him when he was just as powerless as everyone else in the world to stop it? Maybe that's why, as the fading problem got worse and it was Shouyou's life on the line when Suga's grip dissolved into transparent nothing over the edge of a railing, there was nothing left to hesitate over.

"Dai--" Oikawa sang out, before Daichi kicked the door shut and locked it.

"Give us a minute!" he yelled back. It wasn't a question.

Suga's eyes were brimming with nervous fear. Maybe wondering what Daichi was about to say, maybe scared that Daichi would be mad about Shouyou nearly getting hurt. If he had any sense in that pretty head of his, he'd be just as scared about the way he was vanishing, slowly but surely, and that Daichi was about to share a feeling he didn't think he'd be around long enough to return. Or maybe he knew what Daichi was planning to give up. The magic inside Suga knew. Daichi could feel it resonating with him. Its hunger.

When this was over, he wouldn't be able to look out for his brother the way he always had, because he wouldn't be able to see better than anybody else. But being kept away from danger wouldn't make Shouyou strong, even if Shouyou was willing to let him. More than that, if he gave up his powers to plug the leak taking his friend out of the world, Suga would be there for Shouyou when he couldn't be, able to stand at his brother's back at times there was nothing Daichi could do to help.

And he'd rather not lose either person he loved. That was why he'd have no regrets.

At first I was sad and then Oikawa was Ruby Moon and now I can't stop laughing. A++

(Everything will be alright)

Bonus Round 2: AUs

Bonus Round 2: AUs

FILL: TEAM ARAKITA YASUTOMO/FUKUTOMI JUICHI, G

Re: FILL: TEAM ARAKITA YASUTOMO/FUKUTOMI JUICHI, G