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...

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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!
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400 words (prose)
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14 lines (poetry)

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love live, Eli/&Umi

Remember when Eli picked up crocheting

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Word Count: 708

"Hold still," Eli says, one of her hands brushing past Umi's temple to tuck a lock of hair away behind her ear. Eli smiles, and Umi cannot help but give a smile of her own in turn.

"What is it?" Umi asks. "Do I have something in my hair?"

"Not yet," Eli replies, the corners of her lips pulling up farther. "But I thought I might offer you a bit of styling. I've been working on a few new accessories, and this one would look lovely on you."

Umi ducks her head, momentarily derailed by the compliment. When she meets Eli's gaze again, she nods, unable to refuse the gentle touch of the older girl's fingers where they cup against her cheek, where they fuss thoughtfully with her hair. Eli does have an eye for this sort of thing, and a stately elegance to her designs. If Eli is the one administering to her, she trusts that she will love seeing the results.

"Of course," is what she says, then, "Should I—"

"No, this is perfectly alright," Eli says, pulling herself to sit behind Umi's chair. "I can work with this just fine."

Eli's hands are light, picking out strands of her hair, peeling away sections from the front to twist into slender ropes meeting just above the base of her neck. She can feel where Eli holds them, twisting something into her hair to fasten the twin tails together. Whatever it is, it's heavy against Umi's head — not prohibitively so, but it hangs with a weight that Umi cannot miss.

"What is it?" she asks softly. "Can I see?"

"I have a hand mirror," Eli says. "But, hmm, we may need to maneuver a bit more than that."

Umi doesn't mind. She pushes herself up from her chair with her usual resolve, catching Eli's hand so that her fingers close around Eli's wrist. Eli laughs, and it's only then that Umi realizes she may have become hasty.

"We can use the bathroom mirrors," Umi explains. "You should have shown me what you made before fastening it in place!"

"Oh," Eli says. "I suppose I could have done that."

Umi can't help but think that Eli has done things this way on purpose. But that makes no sense, and she pushes the thought from her mind. Her hand is still wrapped around Eli's wrist, Eli's other hand grabbing hold of her bag, before she pulls Eli down the hallway and into the deserted bathroom. The mirror is a broad stretch of silvered glass, reflecting back Umi's own serious face and Eli's smiling one where she stands just beside her.

Umi can see the tops of the hair twists pulling back from her temples, but other than that she doesn't look all that different from the front.

"May I?" she asks Eli.

"Allow me," Eli replies, holding up the hand mirror behind the back of Umi's head.

Reflected in it, Umi can see the hair tie Eli has fashioned, from countless loops of deep blue thread. They're shot through with silver and gold, in an interlocking pattern used to build the band that wraps around Umi's hair to hold it in place. Dangling from it are little stars and shells in gold and white, constellations of the same tiny stitches that form every other part of the hairpiece. It's delicate, lovely, and just the sort of thing Umi would willingly consent to wear.

"How did you make it?" Umi wonders, one hand coming up to finger the accessory holding back her hair.

"Sometimes beads haven't felt like the way to go," Eli says. "So I thought I should pick up some new techniques. Most of this one is crochet, although the elastic itself isn't."

Umi touches the hair tie again, gently, flicking the little stars lightly with her fingers. She doesn't have to see her face in the mirror to know that she's smiling, she can feel it in her cheeks where they're just starting to ache. All of the stitches are so tiny — she can tell that Eli must have put a lot of time into the item's construction.

"Thank you," Umi says.

"You're welcome," Eli replies, admitting, "I did make this one especially for you."

boop it's a picture

Bonus Round 1: Memory

Prompt: Team Mihashi Ren/Tajima Yuuichirou

FILL: TEAM MIYUKI KAZUYA/MIYUKI KAZUYA, G

remixed fill!