Bonus Round 3: Gift Tags

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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 Kyoutani Kentarou/Yahaba Shigeru, G

[kiyala]

medical issues, body horror (wing-related?)
word count: 484

Miyahara spreads her wings the moment she discovers that she has them, and he cannot envy her for it at all, doesn't even think to. The wind rustles through her feathers and he watches as she takes flight, disappearing into the sky. The world is hers, he thinks, with satisfaction. He's glad for it. He always knew that it would be; knew that she would make it hers, because that's the kind of person that he knows she is.

He's told her about the wind all this time, about how it feels to fly, and he's glad that she understands now, glad that she no longer has his words and her faith to go by. She has so much more, and he thinks that he sees her through the window sometimes, making graceful arcs in the air, faster than anyone else that he has ever seen.

Unlike her wings, made of feather and bone, his are made of glass, lying in shattered pieces now, carefully collected from where they'd scattered among the mountain, some of the edges still red with blood from when he'd carefully and painstakingly picked each and every single shard up, gathering them all into a jar.

They tell him that he won't be able to put them back together and he isn't yet sure if he wants to defy them and try. For now, it sits there beside his bed, as the doctors and nurses tend to the broken glass that still grows from his back. Glass within glass, catching the sunlight as it filters in from the window, turning it into fractured rainbows all around the room, the bright colours dancing over the drab monotony of the walls and the sheets and the clothes and the curtains.

He lets the colours paint the sights that Miyahara must see. The green of the mountains that he misses, the blue of the sea. The red of the desert, its sands blowing across the vast distance between them, carried by the same wind that carries her from one destination to the next. She greets him in postcards, carefully chosen, their messages handwritten, promising that he will see them too, because glass can be melted down and made whole again, because there is still glass growing from his back, growing and twisting and trying to knit itself back together into something that he can use.

His body hasn't given up yet, she tells him, and he doesn't even know who is updating her on all of this, but Miyahara has always been clever. He isn't surprised that she knows. He isn't allowed to give up either.

Smiling, Manami adds the newest postcard to the stack, watching his broken wings refract rainbows across the wall in front of him again, painting out the scenes that he's missing out on.

He isn't giving up at all. He'll break his wings again himself before he does.