Bonus Round 2: Images

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Back by popular demand, this round uses official canon artwork as fodder for speculation and extrapolation.
Please read the rules carefully before posting!

This round is CLOSED as of 7PM on June 23 EDT. Late fills may be posted, but they will not receive points.

RULES

• Submit prompts in the form of a canon screencap from one of our nominated fandoms along with a ship. Screencaps can be from the anime or manga, as well as any other kind of offshoot media, e.g. official art, drama CD covers, light novel illustrations, magazine covers, photos from stage plays, and/or caps from games.
  • Doujinshi, fan-made games or any other fan-created work should not be prompted, even if you receive permission. Only prompt official, canon artwork.
  • Keep your prompt concise. Don't prompt a whole manga chapter, for example.
  • Your prompt MUST include some kind of relationship. Platonic relationships are indicated by an "&" between the names (e.g., Abe & Tajima). Non-platonic relationships use "/" (e.g., Abe/Tajima). Please don't say "Any pairing," either!
  • Upload the cap somewhere (imgur works well) and post here with the images themselves or a link to them. Including a text-only summary of the image is encouraged.
• Fill prompts by leaving a responding comment to the prompt with your newly-created work inspired by the cap.
  • Fills can be directly connected to the cap, e.g. panel redraws or writing fic that fleshes out the moment that was capped or that fleshes out what happened directly before/after, but fills can also be more indirectly linked. As long as the work is somehow inspired by the cap, it counts.
  • Fills that are too long to fit in a single comment should have the rest of the fill placed as replies to the original fill comment. The subjects of these extra comments should be something like "part 2 of X" or "continued."
• 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. Below that, place applicable major content tags (when applicable; otherwise write "no tags" or "none") 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: Please cross-link these fills and use clear tags in your comment. Written/text fills should be hosted at AO3 ONLY as a new, unchaptered work. 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	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: Please cross-link these fills and use clear tags in your comment. Written/text fills should be hosted at AO3 ONLY as a new, unchaptered work. 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

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!

Comments

FILL: Team Chihayafuru, G

[horchata]

no tags, 685 words


Kageyama is very observant. You don't do a lot of sitting still (or sitting, or stillness), but it's true. Tsukishima is playing for you and you are next to Yamaguchi and the new kouhai and you are watching. And Kageyama? He is also watching.

When you lined up the new players in the spring (the kouhai! your kouhai!), Kageyama was busy muttering to Yamaguchi, the way he used to mutter to Daichi, to Ennoshita. He spent tryouts watching. He tossed very few balls, and you'd thought perhaps some of Tsukishima's stingyness was catching, but it wasn't that at all. It only took that afternoon and the morning cuts and drills the next day for him to know where each new teammate should start, how they should begin, their strengths and weaknesses.

It was creepy. It was just like Kageyama to know it all. It was just like Kageyama to share everything he thought with no reservations. It was just like him to work so hard to help the team grow.

Kageyama settles into a quiet that you know means he's concentrating very hard, watching with his whole field of vision. It's breathtaking. It's creepy. You see the kouhai feel it, too. The anticipation vibrates in your skin.

You remember what Karasuno was for you that first week. At first it felt like school, like math or history or literature, like hopelessly staring at kanji that all looked the same, like failure. You are not an ace (you are not the ace, you are not our ace), and of course the question that had followed you through months of work to push yourself, to try to change your body into something that would do the work you wanted it to do: what have you been doing these past three years? (What are you doing now? How will you earn my toss?)

But that was before you knew: Kageyama watches.

He watched you when you practiced, watched you fight for yourself (like you always had, like you still do), watched you closely because he had to, you were his ticket to setter. Tanaka had been frustrated. You were nothing anyone has seen before. No one knew what to do with you. But Kageyama knew. He changed because he watched you. And you remember the first time he suggested it: decoy. Decoy! What an insult.

You kind of laugh to yourself (at yourself) in the box as Tani-kun bounces the ball in preparation for his serve. "Decoy." What a joy.

"Decoy" was never meant to replace "ace." "Decoy" was your mantle, your reason to play as hard as you did, to be everything at once: you are not just a spiker, not just a blocker, not just someone who serves and receives, you could be the best at all of those things. You could be them all because you were meant to distract. No longer were you in competition with anyone, not really; you could excel alongside your teammates. You were nothing anyone had ever seen before. You were a decoy. Everything and anything.

And how long had Kageyama known better than you -- ha! what a phrase -- how long had he known that you dreamt in the shadows of giants but you were meant for so much more? You were not yet an ace, but you weren't to be set aside. You aren't built to be what the team, what the prefecture could think of as an ace. Kageyama could see who you were, who you could be; even in middle school, Kageyama was watching. Kageyama's always watching.

You are made of different sinew. You are not a little giant. You are a force. You are nothing anyone has seen before.

You watch Umeki-kun's receive, Kageyama's toss, Tsukishima's spike, and Kageyama looks over to you, glances at the number you hold in your hand, your ticket to play, and grins his fierce grin.

You are nothing anyone has seen before.

But Kageyama sees you.