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

FILL: TEAM MIYUKI KAZUYA/MIYUKI KAZUYA, T

[blueminuet]

Tags: robots, robogore, non-explicit nudity, sexually suggestive content
Word Count: 535

Kaidou lays half-disassembled on Inui’s table, watching the somewhat unnerving process of Inui running fine tools across the insides of Kaidou’s tenuously attached arm. Most technicians won’t allow their android clients to be awake during maintenance. Most androids find it a bit too off-putting anyway. Kaidou is a bit contrary in that sense; he prefers to remain active, because he finds being shut down to be the far more unnerving part. That’s why he goes to Inui for all of his maintenance.

That, and one other reason.

Inui sets down Kaidou’s forearm, and quickly sets about reattaching it at the elbow. Inui works fast, his fingers working with quick precision, without any wasted effort. His work is machine-like in his efficiency; Kaidou sometimes forgets that Inui is human.

Inui runs a hand over the length of Kaidou’s arm, feeling at the tendons and artificial muscles. Kaidou can just hardly process the nerve impulses; his positronic brain is still hooked up with Inui’s computer, with scans and defragging running on it. He has to be kept in low-power mode for that, which means all of his sensory input comes in just a little fuzzy.

“How has your performance been recently?” Inui asks, his hands still digging into Kaidou’s arm.

“Good.”

“The snake shot is still effective?”

“Yes,” Kaidou says. “Though the last few matches it’s been a bit off.”

“Can you be more specific?” Inui asks, raising an eyebrow. “How far off? A matter of millimeters or centimeters?”

“Millimeters, I think,” Kaidou says. He wasn’t programmed for fine tuned measurements like that. Just to hit the ball and win.

Inui nods. “I don’t believe the problem is the arm itself. But some calibrations may need to be done on your internal systems to account for it.”

“Sure.”

Inui reaches over to Kaidou’s chest. Even some experienced technicians have trouble pinpointing the seams on the maintenance hatches on the first try, but Inui sinks his finger into the hidden groove without fail every time. He runs his fingernail under it, like a surgeon with a scalpel, until finally the hatch pops and releases with a hiss. Inui is quick to open it and get the chest plate out of the way, setting it aside.

The chest hatch is notorious for being hard to perform maintenance on, what with there being so many components and work has to be done, very often, at odd angles. It’s another reason most androids would prefer to be unconscious for the procedure. Inui doesn’t skip a beat before pushing himself up on the table, planting a knee on either side of Kaidou, and digging into the hatch with some of his finer tools.

Kaidou of course doesn’t have his uniform on, his artificial skin fully exposed. He can hazily feel the texture of Inui’s slacks slightly brushing his sides. More clearly, he can feel Inui’s hands as they run over his components, and the poke and prod of his tools as they very gently — considerately — work into his systems.

Kaidou looks up at Inui’s face, tense with concentration, focused singularly on his goal.

And Kaidou thinks that’s why he wouldn’t want to be unconscious for a single second of this.