Bonus Round 3: Gift Tags

[referees]

Feeling generous? In this round, you get to give creative gifts as prompts.

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

RULES

• Submit prompts as a gift tag in the format below. You can specify the size and a characteristic of the gift, who the sender is, who the recipient is, and a one or two sentence note from the sender to the recipient. Descriptions of the package and the included note don’t have to be explicit, see below.
• Package: medium sized cube, rattles
  From: Kageyama Tobio
  To: Hinata Shouyou
  Note: These will help you get better.
• Envelope: manila, 12''x17'', very thick and heavy
  From: Tezuka Kunimitsu
  To: Kinjou Shingo
  Note: Enclosed - Play without regrets!
• Your prompt MUST include a relationship. Platonic relationships are indicated by an "&" between the names (e.g., Riko & Momoi). Non-platonic relationships use "/" (e.g., Riko/Momoi). Please don't say "Any pairing," either.
• Fill prompts by leaving a responding comment to the prompt with your newly-created work. Fillers can get creative with how to interpret the prompt: your fill can be about the character receiving the gift, one or both characters using the gift, what prompted the sender to send the gift—the physical gift itself can even be excluded from your fill. What’s important is that the gift tag is clearly the inspiration for your fill.
• 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.

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Comments

Prompt: Team Iwaizumi Hajime/Oikawa Tooru

[sotongsotong]

Oikawa Tooru/Sugawara Koushi, Haikyuu!
no tags

package: a tumbler filled with stars sprites and drops of sunlight
from: Koushi
to: Tooru
note: I reached the sky and thought of you, did you think of me too when you hung the moon?

FILL: Team Kyoutani Kentarou/Yahaba Shigeru, G

[kiyala]

no tags
word count: 696

The sky is still a light blue when Koushi gathers with bucket and ladder. The birds are calling from their trees, their wings black against the sky as the sun sinks into the horizon. Koushi hurries his pace a little, struggling with the large ladder. He's running late.

His favourite place to set up is in the middle of a park that stretches in every direction, with trees that line the perimeter of it. He walks to the very middle and stretches his ladder out, up and up and up until it touches the sky, hooking into place somewhere in the atmosphere.

With a deep breath, Koushi does his stretches first and then, with his bucket in one hand and his long paintbrush strapped to his back, he begins his climb.

He climbs away from the ground, until he's higher than the trees, and higher than the birds still flying across the sky to their homes. He climbs until he can see the top of the very tallest buildings in the city, until the temperature in the air begins to drop. It doesn't bother him, though. It never has.

He climbs until the very earth feels like it falls away from him, as if he's almost floating in the air, if not for the reassuring touch of the ladder beneath his fingers. Until he feels that if he kept climbing, the only place he could go to would be the moon.

It's a tempting thought, for all of a single, passing moment. Tooru would be there, Koushi thinks to himself. It's been a while since they've seen each other.

But Koushi has a job to do, and that comes first. He steadies himself against the ladder, even though he knows that he won't fall. He turns to the sky and, hanging his bucket on the hook that exists for this very purpose, he takes his long paintbrush from its place on his back.

His brush is longer than he is, with a wide head. The bucket is just big enough for Koushi to dip the brush into, before he raises it to the sky and paints.

In the wake of every brushstroke, he leaves countless sparkling stars. He lets them fill the sky, as the sun says its final goodbyes to the day and sinks out of sight, until Koushi is the only one who can still see it, from his vantage point up high above the rest of the world.

He's nearly painted the entire sky when he realises that he has company, in the form of one moon guardian, standing on his own ladder, extending from the moon instead of the earth.

"It's been a while since you've been over to visit," Tooru pouts, and Koushi only smiles, brushing a kiss along Tooru's cheek as he turns to his bucket to continue painting.

"I've been busy," Koushi says at length, when Tooru continues to pout at him. "There are many stars, and only one moon."

"I could help you," Tooru murmurs, resting his elbows on the next rung of his ladder, his chin in his hands. "We could paint the sky together. Weave stars across the darkness the way the world was first woven into existence."

"That sounds nice," Koushi sighs, but he knows that it's only something they can have in theory. He can make Tooru's purpose seem simple enough, but he knows better. He knows just how much there is for Tooru to do under the surface; he knows that being the guardian of an entire moon is different to being the painter of stars.

He doesn't envy Tooru one single bit.

"You should at least visit sometimes," Tooru complains. "It's unfair, hanging the moon in the sky for everyone to see, and not getting to see you in return."

"Next time," Koushi promises, because he thinks of Tooru too, in every glinting diamond he places into the sky. "I'll come and visit."

"Not just a short visit," Tooru tells him sternly, leaning dangerously far away from his ladder so he can touch his lips to Koushi's, light as the wind. "A proper one.'

"Yes, oh Moon Guardian," Koushi smiles. "I promise."