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.

Have a question? Check The FAQ first. If you still need help, feel free to contact the mods. Happy fanworking!

Comments

Prompt: Team Iwaizumi Hajime/Oikawa Tooru

[sotongsotong]

Takigawa Chris Yuu/Miyuki Kazuya, Daiya no Ace
no tags

package: a musical box with a hidden compartment
from: Miyuki
to: Chris-senpai
note: we don't always hear each other, but that's fine, we have this

FILL: team tachibana makoto/yamazaki sousuke, g

[miaoujones]

tags: none
word count: ~460

_________________

chris rolls onto his other side but that doesn't do it, he still can't sleep. with a sigh he yields to insomnia, sits up, and looks out the window. he feels like he's searching the night sky but he doesn't know what he thinks he'll find, doesn't even know what he's looking for.

well, that's only partly true. but no matter how much he looks for miyuki, chris isn't going to find him in the stars.

another sigh, softer this time, slower. chris gets out of bed and pads across the floor to the shelf on the other side of the room. he could easily keep the music box on the nightstand right next to the bed, within easy reach—but there's something about having to get up for it that makes having the music box in his hands feel more satisfying.

he stands in the middle of the room and winds the key, gazing out the window again as vivaldi's concerto no. 2 in g minor—summer—pours into the room.

the languor of heat swirls around chris, contradictorily invigorating him. he gazes out the window but this time not at the stars: he gazes out into the world. "miyuki." he knows miyuki can't hear him because miyuki isn't here...

even if he were here, there's a chance miyuki wouldn't hear him.

sometimes chris wonders if it was always like that. if they had always failed to talk, failed to listen to each another. if they had not only found but discovered one another through other means, other senses: sight, signal, touch.

he misses miyuki's touch. he could always sleep with miyuki beside him.

he's lost track of time, standing in the middle of the room, in the middle of real sounds and imaginary touches; he's lost track of time and he realizes it as the last notes of summer drift out the cracked open window, fading into the night.

chris looks down to watch his fingers moving over the polished surface of the music box. he knows where they're going and he doesn't try to stop them. he watches his fingertips disappear over the edge, to the latch that opens the hidden compartment. he hasn't done this for a while and he holds his breath, as if there's a chance the compartment will open empty—

the compartment slides open and miyuki looks up at him; he looks up at himself from the photograph, his arm draped over miyuki's shoulders, both of them grinning like...

chris doesn't know. grinning like it had been a good day. and it had been.

and it would be again, someday. chris has to believe that.

he closes the music box and cradles it in his hands. looks out the window, out towards the horizon, and at the better day that lies just on the other side.