sportsanime | Bonus Round 3: Gift Tags

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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Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

pregnancy, implied sexual relations [that's how babies are made jsyk], 609 words

Tadashi really, really wishes Hitoka hadn't opted to tell him by letter.

She lives in Tokyo now, works for a design firm that makes everything from juice labels to magazine spreads, and over the phone she always sounds like she's the happiest she's ever been. It gives Tadashi that floaty feeling inside when he hears it, like his blood isn't quite reaching his fingertips and so nothing is weighing them down. He imagines that, if she had called with this news, her voice would have sounded nothing like that.

As he reaches for his cellphone with hands that cannot stop shaking, cannot grip anything, what is reality, is this what dying feels like? Tadashi also thinks about the last time he saw her, three weeks ago when he visited her apartment for the first time. He remembers thinking that the front rooms, for all that they were beautiful and elegant and even a little edgy, felt nothing like the girl he remembered from high school, the girl he snuck kisses from before practice, the girl he gave his second button to on graduation.

Her bedroom, with its light pink furnishings and almost childish sense of playfulness, that was his Hitoka.

It's a wonder when he manages to pluck her name out of his contacts and start the call, a miracle when the dial tone is ringing in his ears.

And then it's Hitoka's voice, thick with sleep, and it's reality.

“H'llo?” She mumbles, and Tadashi remembers that she has one ringtone for coworkers and another for friends, so she knows when she can get away without formalities. He also thinks, though he can't be sure, that she didn't check Caller ID before picking up.

“H-Hitoka-chan,” he mumbles back, not because he's sleepy. He's the furthest thing from sleepy; he might never see a wink of sleep again. “I got your letter.”

There's a yelp from the other end of the phone, and then a pause that goes on for too long. When she speaks again, Hitoka sounds like she's the anxious fifteen year old he first met.

“I'm not asking you to make any sacrifices or come be part of the child's life or anything like that! I just know that I needed you to know that you're going to have a child in the world and I... I've already made up my mind, so you can't talk me out of it!”

Tadashi knoww that; he learned the hard way that when Hitoka set her mind to something, she was never going to change it. So he doesn't bring up her fledging career, or her fourth floor walk-up, or the judgemental looks she will get from strangers.

“I can be a counselor anywhere,” he says, instead of everything else. “There are always going to be people who need someone to talk to. And the baby... the baby needs a dad, too. Not just an anonymous father. So unless there's someone else you want that to be--”

“Of course not!” Hitoka screeches, because she's crying, of course she's crying. Tadashi is crying too, so he keeps his voice low so it stays steady.

“Then I hope you don't mind me moving in with you... at least until we find a good place to start a family.”

Hitoka sobs on the other line, pleading 'yes, yes' as if she was truly afraid Tadashi would say 'no'. He can't hold her like he wants to, like he so desperately wants to, to hold her and kiss her while their baby grows out of multiplying cells inside of her. So he repeats her mantra of 'yes, yes' and holds tightly onto the letter.

i'm gonna melt into the floor this is so CUTE—yachi's nervousness juxtaposed with her determination is so well handled and yamaguchi's answering resolve is just !!! i was squealing softly the whole way through <3

Yay! I thought it was super important to show how they must have grown into confidence, and to reflect on how far they've come in the span of years from the canon point to this future point. Mostly I just want these two stupid babies to be happy together forever with their five kids ;A;

Thank you!

That was the cutest thing.

Thank you, I'm glad you think so!

You literally murderered me with this. Like you write them so beautifully, it's so touching, and it's short but you really get such a vivid snapshot of this. :) I love so much so so much ur such a cool pal, pal

Edited 2016-06-24 14:21 (UTC)

Ahhhhhh I'm so glad I could impress you *sparkles*

I have a secret adoration for pregnancy stories because I'm a total sucker for domesticity so I couldn't ignore this prompt once I saw it. And then I just felt like Tadashi would be so disappointed in himself for letting this happen but also determined not to let Hitoka sense any of those negative vibes in this phonecall so he put on his firm face and got the point across that he's in this for the long haul.

I like to think they get married at City Hall quickly because Yamaguchi is really scared of people giving Yachi a hard time for being an unmarried mother but then they have their actual wedding years later with a couple of little tykes running around underfoot :D

Bonus Round 3: Gift Tags

FILL: Team Azumane Asahi/Sawamura Daichi/Sugawara Koushi, T

Re: FILL: Team Azumane Asahi/Sawamura Daichi/Sugawara Koushi, T

Re: FILL: Team Azumane Asahi/Sawamura Daichi/Sugawara Koushi, T

Re: FILL: Team Azumane Asahi/Sawamura Daichi/Sugawara Koushi, T

Re: FILL: Team Azumane Asahi/Sawamura Daichi/Sugawara Koushi, T

Re: FILL: Team Azumane Asahi/Sawamura Daichi/Sugawara Koushi, T

Re: FILL: Team Azumane Asahi/Sawamura Daichi/Sugawara Koushi, T