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Bonus Round 1: Memory
This round is CLOSED as of 7PM on June 9 EDT. Late fills may be posted, but they will not receive points.
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! You prompt should consist of one scenario beginning with the phrase "Remember when", along with any ship/ot3/etc. from our list of nominated fandoms.
- Your prompts can take the form of recalling canon facts/events ("Remember when Nozomi and Eli got parfaits after school?"), non-canon events ("Remember when Megumi and Jin met at the Tadokoro Family Reunion?"), or somewhere in-between ("Remember when Bokuto and Kenma first met?"). Headcanons and AUs are welcome!
- 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., Rei & Nagisa). Non-platonic relationships use "/" (e.g., Rei/Nagisa). Please don't say "Any pairing," either!
- Post fills by leaving a responding comment to a prompt with your newly-created work.
- Remember to follow the general bonus round rules, outlined here.
- 400 words (prose)
- 400px by 400px (art)
- 14 lines (poetry)
- 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.
- Below that, place applicable major content tags (when applicable; otherwise write "no tags" or "none")
- Visual example
- 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; otherwise write "no tags" or "none")
- NSFW FILLS: Please cross-link these fills and use clear tags in your comment. Written/text fills should be hosted at AO3 ONLY. Art/visual fills can be hosted anywhere. You may include a small safe-for-work preview of the fill in your comment.
- To place an image in your comment, use this code: <img src="LINK TO YOUR IMAGE" alt="DESCRIPTION OF YOUR IMAGE"/>
- Visual example
- Replace RATING with the rating of your fill (G - E)
- Place applicable major content tags and word count before the fill, where applicable
- NSFW FILLS: Please cross-link these fills and use clear tags in your comment. Written/text fills should be hosted at AO3 ONLY. Art/visual fills can be hosted anywhere. You may include a small safe-for-work preview of your work in your comment.
- To place an image in your comment, use this code: <img src="LINK TO YOUR IMAGE" />
- Visual example
FORMAT
Bonus round shenanigans all happen in the comments below. Brand-new works only, please.Required Work Minimums:
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.
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)
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 Matsuoka Rin/Nanase Haruka
Remember when they first held hands?
FILL: TEAM Miyuki Kazuya/Sawamura Eijun, T
653 words.
The first time that they hold hands, both of them are too young to really remember it. Their mothers bring them close, swathed in warm quilts and blankets, and they blindly reach out for someone and end up finding each other. Cautiously, slowly, perhaps even optimistically, they wrap their hands around each other’s and curl towards their newly found anchor, breaths synchronizing as they both fall back to sleep.
The first time that they hold hands when they can remember it, Iwaizumi’s rolling his eyes as Oikawa’s crying. Again. So it’s only natural to drag Oikawa back home to get patched up by his mother, this time by the hand. Neither of them thinks of it as holding hands; there’s no butterflies, no romantic petals falling to the ground as Iwaizumi stomps and Oikawa sniffles and stumbles. There’s only a sense of trust, of stability, and Oikawa’s sniffles die to mere hiccups by the time that his mom disinfects the scrape. He’s still clutching Iwaizumi’s hand, squeezing harshly when the cut stings from the antiseptic, and finally relaxing after his mom presses his lips against the bandage covering his knee.
(He makes Iwaizumi kiss it better too. Iwaizumi shrugs his shoulders and kisses his knee as well, as if it’s no big deal. Oikawa’s left pouting long after Iwaizumi leaves.)
The first time that they hold hands and it means something more, it starts out as something less. Oikawa’s back from the hospital, his ankle twisted and his lips a thin line, his doctor’s words echoing in his head. He’s trying too hard, he knows, but what else can someone like him do in the face of overwhelming talent? His mom takes his bag and he shrugs off his jacket at the front of his house, hanging it up and heading up to his room with a promise to come down for breakfast.
Iwaizumi’s in his room, a frown deeply etched into his face. It stays that way all throughout dinner, except when Iwaizumi thanks his mom for the meal, and continues long after Oikawa’s set out the spare futon and joined Iwaizumi down on the floor to sleep.
“Your face is going to stay that way if you keep going like this,” Oikawa says in a laughing manner, hobbling over to pull at Iwaizumi’s cheeks.
Irritably, Iwaizumi bats his hands away.
“I could say the same thing about your ankle,” he says with anger laced through his voice. Oikawa instantly sobers up.
They’re sleeping next to each other; the lights are turned off and all that filters through the room is natural lighting from outside. Oikawa opens his mouth to say something but closes it. Repeats this a few times. Feels all the words leave his mind. His voice disappears. He wants to apologize but knows that it’ll be empty.
Blindly, he reaches out for Iwaizumi’s futon, snaking his hand underneath the blanket. His fingers brush the fabric of Iwaizumi’s sleeve and they trail down, fingertips light against the skin of his forearm, touching the ridge of his wrist, brushing over his knuckles, and finally coming to rest against his fingertips.
It’s so slight yet so intimate, so unlike the touches that he and his previous string of significant others have done underneath the sheets. Carefully, Oikawa shifts over and presses more forcefully, his fingertips against Iwaizumi’s limp fingers, relishing in the small contact that provides him insurmountable comfort. The fingers are rough but warm, just like Iwaizumi himself, and Oikawa suspects that Iwaizumi’s palms are calloused with years of volleyball practice, years of spiking the tosses that Oikawa sends him.
Very slowly and without looking, Iwaizumi turns his hand around so Oikawa’s fingers rest against his palm. And, very slowly, Iwaizumi curls his hand against his fingers, keeping them there, rubbing his thumb feather light against Oikawa’s pinky.
“Goodnight, Iwa-chan,” Oikawa whispers.
“Goodnight, Oikawa,” Iwaizumi whispers back. He doesn’t let go.
Re: FILL: TEAM Miyuki Kazuya/Sawamura Eijun, T
10/10
Re: FILL: TEAM Miyuki Kazuya/Sawamura Eijun, T
i'm so glad that you like it! and haha, i just saw the prompt and went "friends can i fill it" to my team and they were like "Sure" so i just went!!!!!
Re: FILL: TEAM Miyuki Kazuya/Sawamura Eijun, T
Re: FILL: TEAM Miyuki Kazuya/Sawamura Eijun, T
i'm so happy you like it!! thank you so much for reading + commenting!!
Re: FILL: TEAM Miyuki Kazuya/Sawamura Eijun, T
FILL: Team Kyoutani Kentarou/Yahaba Shigeru, G
Physical contact with Tooru is not something that Hajime is used to thinking about. They've known each other for their entire lives and some things just come naturally because of it; like Hajime's instinctive ability to differentiate between when Tooru is putting himself down to be facetious and when he truly believes what he's saying. He knows when to push Tooru, when to pull him along, when to be a little rough with him because it's the only way he'll stop for long enough to actually pay attention to what Hajime is saying to him.
He knows Tooru, like the back of his own hand. Better than himself, he thinks. He likes this fact, he's secure in it, and so when he starts paying attention to Tooru's hands for a little longer than necessary, he notices it immediately. It throws his off balance. He's comfortable in the knowledge that he loves Tooru; that much is obvious in the time that they always spend together, the way that Hajime knows when to open his arms, letting Tooru shuffle into his space for a quiet moment of comfort. He's used to it. Perhaps that's why this throws him off just as much as it does.
There's a difference, he realises, in being prepared to comfort someone, and actively wanting to make them smile.
These days, it's all Hajime can ever think about in his spare time.
He wonders what it would be like, to earn Tooru's smiles not with jokes or pranks, but a small, quiet gesture instead. He wonders what it would be like to make Tooru smile just because they're looking at each other, because they're in a moment together and it's all that either of them really need at the time.
He thinks about it when he watches Tooru gesticulate as he speaks. Tooru's fingers are long and beautiful, and Hajime wonders what it would feel like to reach out for them and hold on, twining them with his own.
Perhaps it shouldn't be this difficult to find out. He could easily just reach out and take Tooru by the hand next time instead of grabbing him by the wrist or by the shirt to pull him along, but that's not how he wants to do it. It's just not the same context, and he doesn't know when the right moment will be, but he'd rather wait for it than mess things up entirely.
When the moment finally comes, it's on an afternoon that doesn't outwardly seem any different to any other. Hajime knows, though. He can feel it in his very core; he can tell that this is right.
It's a week after they've suffered yet another defeat against Shiratorizawa. Hajime knew that it couldn't be directly after, with their wounds still too fresh, but it's been a week of even more practice, of regrouping and rethinking and trying out new things. Tooru isn't upset, but determined, and it drives the rest of the team forward as well.
They're walking home, with the sun low in the sky, painting everything with a soft orange glow, and Hajime doesn't let himself hesitate. He reaches out, taking Tooru's hand into his.
Tooru stops in the middle of what he's saying, his eyes going wide for a moment as he looks down at their joined hands. Then, he tightens his grip on Hajime and smiles.
For a long moment, that's all either of them can really do; they stand there, half turned towards each other, their hands joined in the space between them, and smile together.
Hajime realises that he's been wrong about this whole thing. He's always made Tooru happy, just by being there. He should know, because Tooru makes him feel the exact same way.
Re: FILL: Team Kyoutani Kentarou/Yahaba Shigeru, G
Re: FILL: Team Kyoutani Kentarou/Yahaba Shigeru, G