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.

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

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Arakita Yasutomo & Imaizumi Shunsuke & Furuya Satoru(/Miyuki Kazuya or Onoda Sakamichi for any of them, if you like) (Yowamushi Pedal and Daiya no Ace)
tags: character death (sorta)

package: roughly 500 zettabytes of uncompressed biometric data
to: AKT Mk II and AKT Mk IIβ
from: AKT Mk I (decommissioned)
note: download in progress . . . [████████████████] 100%

Edited 2016-07-02 21:59 (UTC)

Tags: character death, robots, robogore
Word Count: 545

“The download seems to be complete, but it’ll take a while to make sure all the data is filtering out correctly.”

Miyuki hums in acknowledgement, but doesn’t say anything else to the other tech. Miyuki fumbles for his name for a moment, before coming up with ‘Onoda’. It’s not uncommon for techs to play the same spots as the robots they work on, and it took Miyuki some time to pick up on the fact that Onoda was a cyclist. He looked to scrawny to be much of an athlete.

“It’s not every day we get in a robot with experience in more than one sport,” Onoda says, flicking through the data logs. “He was pretty incredible, wasn’t he, Miyuki-san?”

Miyuki pauses at that, something knotting at the pit of his stomach. He’d been trying to avoiding looking at the now defunct robot in the corner, but he slips at that, glancing at Arakita out of the corner of his eye. He’s in no less than three pieces now, propped up so that his data can extracted. And now, that’s done.

He’s no more than scrap now.

“Miyuki-san?”

Miyuki stiffens before shaking his head. “Sorry, Onoda, I guess I spaced out for a minute there. What were you saying?” He turns to the other tech, and sees Onoda staring at him. There’s something like pity in that look, and Miyuki wants to wipe it off his face.

“You played with the AKT Mark One, didn’t you?” Onoda asks.

Miyuki nods. “Yeah, I did. He was a good pitcher.”

Onoda smiles. “That’s good! I raced against him once. I was surprised to hear he was pitcher-bot though. His arms didn’t seem built for it.”

Miyuki’s stomach lurches again, but he doesn’t let his smile fall.

“Not that a cycling-bot needs strong arms,” Onoda adds hastily, clearly misreading Miyuki’s pause. “And I’m sure he did a great job for a Mark One. And now you can improve with your second model.”

Miyuki forces a laugh, grinning. “And so can you.”

Onoda’s smile brightens. “I’m looking forward to it. It was really fun riding with Arakita-san, even if he was a bit, umm… Abrasive.”

Miyuki laughs. “That’s one way to put it.”

“I’m sure his data will make Imaizumi-san a fantastic racer!”

“Imaizumi-san?” Miyuki looks over to the two Mark Two’s. Nearly identical, but if you look close it’s not hard to tell one from the other. Both of them are more specialised to their individual sports; the one built for cycling is clearly a touch sleeker.

Onoda nods. “That’s the name I picked for him. Have you picked one out for your new pitcher, Miyuki-san?”

Miyuki tries to smile, but in the back of his mind he’s still thinking about the heap of parts in the corner. He forces himself not to look at it again. “I hadn’t got around to it yet,” Miyuki says.

“Oh, I see,” Onoda says. “Well, don’t worry! I can help you come up with something! We still have some time to wait before the data will be sorted.”

Miyuki forces a smile. “Great idea, Onoda-kun!”

Onoda grins, and Miyuki can’t help but think that Onoda’s bot will have an easier time at things than any bot Miyuki has ever worked with.

*WAILS*

Bless Onoda's relentlessly pure little heart, if Miyuki were working on his old bot alone, he'd ;; not have a good time, that's for sure.

(Also megane bot technicians, what a beautiful friendship this will shape up to be)

I bet Onoda and Miyuki compare notes about Imaizumi and Furuya from time to time. (I wonder if Imaizumi ever shows a few weird little Arakita ticks. Onoda would be confused and Miyuki would be... well...)

You've seen that fanart of Furuya doing Arakita's gabu gabu pose, right? :3c ...Onoda wouldn't pick up on something that subtle though, it'd have to be, like, Imaizumi suddenly developing a fondness for rare meat...

If it's something super subtle, Onoda might just bring it up casually in conversation and Miyuki just. Dies. 0w0

If it's something more intense, Onoda might be worried something is wrong. And Miyuki freezing up probably wouldn't help put his mind at ease.

This is Onoda we're talking about though, so if something dramatic happened they'd probably default to assuming it's something they did and apologize for it

Bonus Round 3: Gift Tags

PROMPT: TEAM FURUYA SATORU/MIYUKI KAZUYA

FILL: TEAM MIYUKI KAZUYA/MIYUKI KAZUYA, T

Re: FILL: TEAM MIYUKI KAZUYA/MIYUKI KAZUYA, T

Re: FILL: TEAM MIYUKI KAZUYA/MIYUKI KAZUYA, T

Re: FILL: TEAM MIYUKI KAZUYA/MIYUKI KAZUYA, T

Re: FILL: TEAM MIYUKI KAZUYA/MIYUKI KAZUYA, T

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