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 Grandstand, G

[yrindor]

no tags
510 words

The minute Makishima said "it's the latest trend over here; it reminded me of you," Kinjou found himself suddenly apprehensive. He had never really been one for trends himself, preferring to stick to the things he knew he liked. He still went to the mail room the minute he received the package notification though.

The box was larger than he had expected and covered in inordinately expensive postage, as seemed to often be the case with packages coming from Makishima. Its contents were wrapped in tissue paper, but before he opened them, he read the note sitting on top.

Kinjou,

Like I said, these are the latest trend here. Ren and I designed a whole line of them for the season, but this one is just for you. The pants aren't one of mine, but they're the latest fashion here too, and they reminded me of you. I think you'll know why.

In place of a signature, there was a hastily sketched spider with a mountain peak behind it. It was the logo for Makishima's clothing line and the way he signed all of his designs. It had also caused no end of speculation among the fashion critics, none of whom had any interest in or knowledge of Japanese high school sports.

Kinjou set aside the note and unwrapped the first layer of tissue paper. Inside was a pair of pants, and he could indeed tell why Makishima had chosen them. They were the same shade of yellow and the same cut as their old Souhoku uniform pants, except the thread picking out the pattern was a metallic bronze instead of the flat brown he was used to. It was downright blinding when the sun hit it just right, and it reminded Kinjou of some of the pictures Imaizumi had sent from Versailles when he had visited several months earlier.

Kinjou covered the pants before he could accidentally blind himself again and unwrapped the other item in the box. It was a jacket, and it was clearly one of Makishima's designs. The entire jacket was purple and green, and each part was a different pattern. Spiders adorned the buttons on the pockets, and when Kinjou looked more closely, he determined they were in fact real spiders encased in acrylic. And on top of it all, in what he knew had to be Makishima's special addition, a snake in Souhoku red and yellow climbed up the back of the jacket and across the shoulder, its head ending just over his heart.

If he had seen it in a store, he would have thought it was hideous and not gone anywhere near it, but it wasn't. It was from Makishima who was finally being recognized for doing what he loved and who went out of his way to customize his designs for Kinjou.

Kinjou wore the whole ensemble proudly to class the next day, and anyone who dared laugh or make snide comments was met by his cold stare until they backed away in shame