sportsanime | Bonus Round 1: Memory

Let's start our summer by looking at the past—things that happened in canon, or maybe in an AU, or maybe just as wishful thinking...

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.

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Brand-new works only, please.

Required Work Minimums:

400 words (prose)
400px by 400px (art)
14 lines (poetry)

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Fills 4-10: 10 points each
Fills 11-20: 5 points each
Fills 21+: 2 points each

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Word Count: 638

"Maki-chan!" Rin calls out, dashing across the lawn in her robe and tossing her cap again into the air. She throws her arms around Maki's neck, hugging her tightly and spinning them both around. Maki hears, but doesn't see, the soft thud of impact when Rin's cap hits the ground.

"I thought we already did that," she jokes, her hands coming up to pat awkwardly at Rin's back.

Even after three years of high school, Rin is too much a force of nature for Maki to know quite where to hold on. She doesn't have to for long — Rin gives her one last squeeze, and pulls back, opening up Maki's view enough for her to see Rin's parents off to one side, and Hanayo taking the last couple steps to stand alongside her.

"Your speech was really good!" Rin says. "I didn't realize you could write something like that, Maki-chan, why didn't you tell me?"

Maki laughs, a little self-consciously, and ducks her head. It was easier than she'd expected, standing on that stage in front of their entire graduating class, in front of all the students in the two years below them as well. She's had a lot of practice, standing on stages — but not for years, not for long enough that it feels a little bit rusty.

It feels different from performing with mu's, standing alone with only her homeroom teacher and director Minami behind her, but it also felt... Powerful, like the words she'd prepared were something that desperately needed to be said, were something only she could tell all the waiting faces that were anticipating her speech.

She couldn't have done that, back in her first year. Perhaps that's what it's like, growing up, doing things that were beyond you before.

"It was," Hanayo adds, her hands squeezing in front of her with the force of her conviction. "Nobody else could have said those things like you did."

"Thank you," Maki says. She can't help but fidget a little, though her gratitude is sincere.

"We did it!" Rin continues, her enthusiasm again picking up. "We graduated! Maki-chan, Kayo-chin, we did it!! And so many people came out to see us graduate... Look!"

She throws an arm out toward the ranks of chairs arranged on the lawn, to the throngs of people standing around the edges of them and to the clusters of individuals who haven't yet risen from their seats. Maki remembers when she first came to Otonokizaka, as part of the smallest entering class in years. At the time, there had only been enough students in her year to fill one classroom... But thanks to her friends' efforts, enrollment had increased, and the number of chairs needed to seat everyone at graduation only served as proof of it.

"We did do this," Maki says, staring out at the crowd. "We helped bring everyone together like this, didn't we?"

She glances back toward Rin and Hanayo in time to see Rin's grin widen, in time to see the soft look that spreads across Hanayo's face along with her own little smile.

"We really did make a difference," Hanayo agrees. "I don't think I'm ever going to forget it."

"Me neither," Maki says.

It sounds a little more serious than she'd intended, a little more final. For a moment she and Hanayo are both silent, acutely aware of the magnitude of the situation, of the fact that they've graduated and that high school is suddenly a thing of the past, something they have put behind them.

Then Rin throws her arms around both their shoulders, pulling Maki in from one side and Hanayo in from the other. She squeezes them tight, and laughs.

"Of course we won't forget it," she says. "But the real question is, what are we going to do next?"

Edited (whoops rating ) 2016-05-29 06:29 (UTC)