Bonus Round 4: Quotes

[referees]

A shipping olympics favorite, this round uses quotes of all sorts to fuel your creative endeavors.


This round is CLOSED as of 7PM on July 21 EDT. Late fills may be posted, but they will not receive points.

RULES

• Submit prompts by commenting to this post with a quote attributed to a specific person or character, along with any ship/ot3/etc. from one of our nominated fandoms.
  • Example: "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - M. Gandhi
  • The quote can come from anywhere. Famous people, poetry, songs, books, movies, your neighbor, etc.
  • Your prompt MUST include some kind of relationship. (This is not the sports anime gen olympics.) Platonic relationships are indicated by an "&" between the names (e.g., Makoto & Rin). Non-platonic relationships use "/" (e.g., Makoto/Rin). Please don't say "Any pairing," either!
• Fill prompts by replying to the prompt with your quote-inspired fanwork.
• 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 ALDINI TAKUMI/YUKIHIRA SOUMA

[intricacies]

kageyama tobio/oikawa tooru, haikyuu!!
possible gore and violence, but not necessary.

I’d never say that you make me sick,
but you’re turning all the questions to cancers.

— hands like houses, "this ain't no place for animals"

Re: PROMPT: TEAM ALDINI TAKUMI/YUKIHIRA SOUMA

[kazuyas]

X Y

PROMPT: TEAM ALDINI TAKUMI/YUKIHIRA SOUMA

[intricacies]

aomine daiki/kuroko tetsuya, kuroko no basuke
no tags

we all have our scars,
from loving someone too deeply.
from wanting to protect someone too much.

— tachibana mei (sukitte ii na yo)

PROMPT: Team Grandstand

[snowysatoru]

Tsukishima Kei/Yamaguchi Tadashi (haikyuu!!)

"So open your eyes and see
The way our horizons meet
And all of the lights will lead
Into the night with me
And I know these scars will bleed
But both of our hearts believe
All of these stars will guide us home"

- All Of The Stars, Ed Sheeran

PROMPT: TEAM ALDINI TAKUMI/YUKIHIRA SOUMA

[intricacies]

tatara fujita/hyoudou kiyoharu (ballroom e youkoso) or kageyama tobio/oikawa tooru (haikyuu!!)
POSSIBLE NSFW but not necessary

The conversation between your fingers and someone else's skin is the most important discussion you can ever have.

— Ian Thomas, I Wrote This For You

Re: PROMPT: TEAM ALDINI TAKUMI/YUKIHIRA SOUMA

[kazuyas]

XY!!!!

PROMPT: TEAM ALDINI TAKUMI/YUKIHIRA SOUMA

[intricacies]

imaizumi shunsuke/naruko shoukichi, yowamushi pedal
no tags except maybe death. where is my giant robots au again??

Dreams fight with machines
inside my head like adversaries.

Come wrestle me free,
clean from the war.
Your heart fits like a key
into the lock on the wall.

(I turn it over,
I turn it over,
but I can't escape.)

— fleurie, "hurts like hell"

PROMPT: TEAM ALDINI TAKUMI/YUKIHIRA SOUMA

[intricacies]

kuroo tetsurou/sawamura daichi, haikyuu!!
possible nsfw, but not necessary. THE VIDEO HAS NSFW IMPLICATIONS THOUGH SO WATCH OUT.

You say you want it, but you can't get it in.

You got yourself
a bad habit.

— The Kooks, "Bad Habit"

Fill: Team Nishinoya Yuu/Tanaka Ryuunosuke, T

[tmntransformer]

word count: 1,278

- - - - - - -

Kuroo’s face crackles into view. Slowly at first, just the vague outline of his head and shoulders and the shadow of his arm across the screen where he’s fiddling with the webcam. And then the view tips slightly, light drifting in and all at once Sawamura can see him perfectly. His heart thuds painfully at the sunset flitting across Kuroo’s hair, his fingers twitching to reach out and run their way through the soft strands.

“Told you I could get it to work.” His voice sounds a little echoey, a little too far away, but close enough for Sawamura to pick up on the smugness laced in his words.

“Yeah, two weeks ago.” He stares at his keyboard like it’s to blame for how useless his boyfriend is with technology; you’d think that growing up with Kenma he’d have absorbed at least the basics.

“Awww,” Kuroo croons, voice sickly sweet, “no need to pout! If you missed my face so much you could have just said so!” He pulls back from the screen slightly, looking up and off to the left and strikes a pose. “I mean, I can sympathise Dai, I am a one of a kind specimen.” Sawamura groans, trying not to notice the way Kuroo’s t-shirt stretches tight around his biceps and failing miserably. Well, Suga has always said: if you can’t beat them join them.

“It’s not just your face I’ve missed,” Sawamura pauses, confidence growing at the surprise on Kuroo’s face. He smiles, leaning forwards and lowering his voice to the rumbling pitch he knows causes the hairs on Kuroo’s arms to stand on end, “Tetsu.”

“Holy shit.” Kuroo’s mouth drops open and Sawamura can’t be sure but he thinks he hears him stutter in a shaky breath. “That’s really not fair.”

“Not fair?” He mimics back, “you know what’s not fair?” Kuroo shakes his head slowly; eternally oblivious to the pain he puts Sawamura through. “What’s not fair is my boyfriend going on a chemistry field trip for a month and only realising once he’s half a dozen islands away that his webcam doesn’t work.”

“Ah.” Sawamura wants to scream at how he knows the blush on Kuroo’s cheeks is at least two shades darker in person, wishes he could reach out and squeeze his cheeks together until he laughs. “It’s not such a long time.” He adds after a while. “We’ve been apart for longer before.”

“When we were teenagers,” an important point Sawamura feels. “Before we’d lived together.” Before he knew what it felt like to fall asleep wrapped around Kuroo every night and to wake up in a jumble of limbs every morning. Before he knew what it was like to come home at the end of his shift at his part-time job to find Kuroo slumped over on another text book. Before he knew what it was like to pop home to make lunch inbetween lectures only to find Kuroo had already made him one, complete with poorly drawn cartoons post-it-noted on top.

“Hmm,” Kuroo scoots closer on his chair, leaning on his desk with his elbows and resting his head in his palms. “It is really weird not waking up with your drool all over me.” Sawamura flicks his webcam, laughing when Kuroo lets out a yelp as if he’s actually been hit.

“We both know you’re the drooler.”

“You drool too!” Sawamura’s entire being itches with the need to capture Kuroo’s pout between his teeth.

“I miss falling asleep with you.” He admits, belatedly realising he didn’t ask if Kuroo was alone; he’d mentioned he was sharing his room with two other students after all. Kuroo lets out a high-pitched whine, unravelling his fingers so that he can cover his face with them.

“You’re so embarrassing.”

“Says the guy sat in my pyjama top.” Kuroo’s eyes snap up to meet his. “What you think I wouldn’t notice?” Kuroo chews on his bottom lip, huffing out a breath of air through his nose; Sawamura has seen the action so many times that he doesn’t even need to hear it to know that’s what he’s doing.

“It helps me sleep,” he admits, voice barely above a whisper, “to be wrapped up in your smell.”

“Weird. When I’m surrounded by your smell I find it a little hard to sleep.” He wiggles his eyebrows for added effect, a little surprised Kuroo hadn’t thought of using that line himself.

“Dai! Way to ruin a tender moment!” But he’s snort-laughing in the way that means he’s found something really funny, so it’s completely worth it. “Apologise!”

“I’m not sorry,” he admits with a shrug, just to watch Kuroo screech again. It’s much nicer than listening to it through a phone line, he decides, gaze tracing over the crinkles it creates around Kuroo’s eyes.

“I demand you make it up to me!” Kuroo huffs out of the side of his mouth. “Right now!”

“Oh? Any particular ideas on how you’d like it to be made up to you?”

“You could put my pyjamas on! Then I wouldn’t feel like such a saddo.”

“Your kinks just hit a new low.”

“I didn’t mean for it to be kinky!” He gasps, apparently scandalised by the very notion that he’d harbour impure thoughts. Sawamura quirks an eyebrow.

“Oh? Okay, wait one minute, I’ll go change…” he trails off, pressing his palms face down on the desk to push himself up and away from his laptop.

“Wait!” Sawamura lowers himself back down just enough to find Kuroo’s face again. “You’re not going to get changed in front of me?”

“Hmm, I don’t know, are you roommates around?” Kuroo makes a sour face.

“I wouldn’t be asking for a strip-tease if they were Dai; your body is for my eyes only.” He holds his fist across his heart as if he’s swearing a severely serious oath.

“You didn’t say it had to be a strip-tease.”

“It was implied!” Kuroo waves his hands around dismissively. “I’ve got a soundtrack prepared and everything.” His head tips out of view for a second, hands rummaging around for something. He reappears holding his iPod up triumphantly.

“You prepared a soundtrack,” Sawamura deadpans, “just how pre-meditated was this plan of yours?”

“I’ve been thinking about it since I found out about the trip,” Kuroo beams, absurdly proud of himself. “This is like the only perk of being apart.” He fiddles around with a couple of wires.

“That and you can’t fart on me anymore.”

“Dai! I really miss farting on you! That means you must miss it too.”

“That’s really not how it works.” Kuroo holds up a finger to shush him, smiling softly when the opening bars of a song drift out of the speakers connected to his iPod.

“I sent my roommates out for dinner; they won’t be back for at least an hour. How much time do you have?” Sawamura makes a show of checking his watch.

“I’m just moping pathetically until my boyfriend comes home.” He’s only half-joking. “So I figure I’ve got about two weeks.”

“Two weeks,” Kuroo echoes, face flushed again, “there’s a lot we could do in two weeks.”

“Mhm,” Sawamura hums in agreement, eyes lingering over the dip in Kuroo’s cheek where he’s biting on the inside of his mouth. “What do you want me to do first Tetsu?” If Kuroo wasn’t sitting so close it’s possible Sawamura would have missed the widening of his eyes. He places his iPod and speakers down, closer to his microphone so that the melody is a little louder on Sawamura’s end.

“Your top,” he decides after a moment, eyes sweeping across Sawamura’s chest, “get rid of it.”

PROMPT: Team Kanzaki Miki/Tachibana Aya

[luckycricket33]

Oe Kanade/Ayase Chihaya or Yamashiro Rion or Kataoka Tesshin if you Really Wanna Be That Person

"Hail, Poetry, thou heav'n-born maid!
Thou gildest e'en the Pirate's trade"

-The Pirates of Penzance

Prompt: Team Kozume Kenma/Kuroo Tetsurou

[doxian]

Shirabu Kenjirou/Ushijima Wakatoshi (HQ!!)

no tags

"See how the infinite divides
And the divers are not to blame
For the rift spanning distant shores
You don’t know my name
But I know yours"

- Divers, Joanna Newsom

PROMPT: TEAM ALDINI TAKUMI/YUKIHIRA SOUMA

[intricacies]

kageyama tobio/oikawa tooru, haikyuu!!
no tags. GIVE ME THE JOKER GAME/SPIES AU I CRAVE!!!! PLEASE :(((

"Did you come here to mock me?"

"No, I've changed my opinion of you a bit. I didn't think Sakuma-san the soldier would have caught that."

— Sakuma & Miyoshi, Joker Game

For context: the two of them were on a mission to find some evidence in a suspected spy's house, even though a previous search before had turned nothing up. They were disguised as military men. Miyoshi promised the suspect that Sakuma would commit seppuku/harakiri if no evidence was found, but Sakuma realized where the evidence was just before he was about to put the blade to his stomach. Sakuma had formerly been very vocal about his disdain for spies and spy work, claiming that they were all cowards (he was sent as a "liaison" between the military and the spy agency).

PROMPT: Team Kozume Kenma/Kuroo Tetsurou

[asinglebee]

Miyuki/Kuramochi, daiya no ace

"Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed."

--C.S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew

PROMPT: Team Kozume Kenma/Kuroo Tetsurou

[asinglebee]

Kuramochi/Ryousuke, daiya no ace

"Well, you know how it feels if you begin hoping for something that you want desperately badly; you almost fight against the hope because it is too good to be true; you’ve been disappointed so often before."

--C.S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew

PROMPT: Team Kominato Ryousuke/Kuramochi Youichi

[parasolghost]

Kominato Ryousuke/Kuramochi Youichi or Kominato Ryousuke/Miyuki Kazuya, Daiya no Ace

"He had heard about talking to plants in the early seventies, on Radio Four, and thought it an excellent idea. Although talking is perhaps the wrong word for what Crowley did.
What he did was put the fear of God into them.
More precisely, the fear of Crowley.
In addition to which, every couple of month Crowley would pick out a plant that was growing too slowly, or succumbing to leaf-wilt or browning, or just didn't look quite as good as the others, and he would carry it around to all the other plants. 'Say goodbye to your friend,' he'd say to them. 'He just couldn't cut it ...'
Then he would leave the flat with the offending plant, and return an hour or so later with a large, empty flower pot, which he would leave somewhere conspicuously around the flat.
The plants were the most luxurious, verdant, and beautiful in London. Also the most terrified."

-Neil Gaiman and Terry Prachett, Good Omens

Prompt: Team Kozume Kenma/Kuroo Tetsurou

[doxian]

Oikawa Tooru/Ushijima Wakatoshi (HQ!!)

nsfw

"Your ass is grass and I'm gonna mow it."

- Tina, Bob's Burgers

Prompt: Team Iwaizumi Hajime/Oikawa Tooru

[sotongsotong]

Hanamaki Takahiro/Oikawa Tooru, Haikyuu!
no tags

"It’s 7 AM
and the letters I send
won’t follow you home"

-- "Campfire" by Satellite Stories

Prompt: Team Iwaizumi Hajime/Oikawa Tooru

[sotongsotong]

Kuroo Tetsurou/Sawamura Daichi, Haikyuu!
nsfw if u so wish :^)

"Is it desire?
Or is it nothing I'm feeling from you?
I want desire
I wanna see what you're willing to lose"

-- "Desire" by Years&Years

Prompt: Team Iwaizumi Hajime/Oikawa Tooru

[sotongsotong]

Iwaizumi Hajime/Oikawa Tooru, Haikyuu!
no tags

"Spring in your eyes
Flowers appear
And it feels like the weight of the world
Suspended in two hemispheres
One side me, one side always you
Cause the weight of the world
Holds everybody's seasons"

-- "Marguerite" by Made in Heights

FILL: Team Kyoutani Kentarou/Yahaba Shigeru, G

[kiyala]

no tags seasonal fae au
word count: 422

Autumn arrives with a chill in the air and a promise of more to come. It is a season full of change, and Tooru ushers it in as the King of Autumn always does, his eyes the colour of the trees as the leaves begin to fall, his hair bouncing lightly as he treads over the ground, calls for the harvest in the call of the birds, makes the necessary preparations before the arrival of winter.

Hajime watches from a distance. They are half a year apart; Tooru is the autumn, ever changing, and Hajime is the spring, gentle and nurturing. For three months of the year, Tooru is at work in one half of the world while Hajime works the other half. They get their reprieve, before they're set to work again, switching halves, like they're passing the entire world between their hands, fingers brushing around the edges of it. Hajime sows seeds that bear fruit when Tooru comes by with autumn; Tooru leaves whispered messages in the unchanging evergreens for Hajime to hear when they greet him in the spring. The world keeps turning, time continues to flow, and this is a dance that they have always known the steps to; a dance that will continue between others, if not them.

The summers and winters bring their reprieve, though; pockets of time during the year where they can find each other once again, twining around each other so tightly that they don't come unwound until it's time for them to part again.

"I miss you," Tooru will sometimes whisper across the world, and the autumn will end up feeling a little colder, a little bleaker. "I want to be with you again. I want to hold you in my arms."

He sees people wrap themselves tightly around each other to stay warm and he brings storms that night, unsure whether he's pleased or jealous of the way people seem to cuddle closer.

"I miss you too," Hajime will reply, and sometimes he will grow distracted by his thoughts of Tooru, the spring sun glowing a little too warmly, making people wonder if the summer has come early this year.

If only it were possible, but they both have their roles to play in the world and they know it. Their time apart is nothing, compared to their time together. The days will turn into weeks and the months will pass like nothing at all. The wheel will turn, and they will be together again.

Until then, they yearn, and wait.

Prompt: Team Iwaizumi Hajime/Oikawa Tooru

[sotongsotong]

Oikawa Tooru/Ushijima Wakatoshi, Haikyuu!
rule 63

"She doesn't need my allegiance
I'm a buzz in her velvet battery
I'm the trust of her ancient anatomy
So I can dive the deepest
And chase the pearl below the beaches
And you send you letters from machines in the dark blue
Twenty-thousand leagues of poetry about you"

-- "Drexler" by Made in Heights

Prompt: Team Iwaizumi Hajime/Oikawa Tooru

[sotongsotong]

Oikawa Tooru/Oikawa Tooru's worthless pride, Haikyuu!
meta, selfcest

"I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am."

-- "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

throws my dignity away with this

Prompt: Team Iwaizumi Hajime/Oikawa Tooru

[sotongsotong]

Kageyama Tobio/Oikawa Tooru, Haikyuu!
no tags

"Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren't having any of those."

-- Sylvia Plath

Re: Prompt: Team Iwaizumi Hajime/Oikawa Tooru

[kazuyas]

oh my GOD

Prompt: Team Iwaizumi Hajime/Oikawa Tooru

[sotongsotong]

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

"I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them."

-- Sylvia Plath

Prompt: Team Iwaizumi Hajime/Oikawa Tooru

[sotongsotong]

Iwaizumi Hajime/Kageyama Tobio, Haikyuu!
reincarnation maybe

"We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you."

-- Sylvia Plath

Prompt: Team Iwaizumi Hajime/Oikawa Tooru

[sotongsotong]

Oikawa Tooru/Ushijima Wakatoshi, Haikyuu!
no tags

"The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it."

-- Sylvia Plath

PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

[mother_herbivore]

Makishima Yusuke/Kinjou Shingo, yowapeda
tags: sexual content in song

When his hair falls in his face
And his hands so cold they shake
-"Coming Down" by Halsey

Prompt: Team Iwaizumi Hajime/Oikawa Tooru

[sotongsotong]

Midorima Shintaro/Takao Kazunari, Kuroko no Basuke
no tags

"What did my arms do before they held you?"

-- Sylvia Plath

FILL: Team Kyoutani Kentarou/Yahaba Shigeru, G

[kiyala]

no tags
word count: 431

Shintarou's mornings are quiet and rushed and on the days that he has work, and soft and slow on the days he does not. Regardless of which it is, they always begin in the same way: with Kazunari in his arms.

It's a day off today, and there's no alarm to pull Shintarou out of his sleep. Kazunari has the day off as well and he's still sleeping peacefully, his face pressed against Shintarou's chest. Shintarou rests his palm flat against the bare skin of Kazunari's back and he can feel each deep breath as it's taken, in the gentle rise and fall beneath his hand.

Shuffling a little so that they're both more comfortable, Shintarou decides to stay in bed for a little longer. He's tired, after all, from working long shifts at the hospital, from having to leave home early and return late. He hasn't had the chance to do this in a while, to just lie in bed and memorise the way Kazunari feels in his arms.

Perhaps he's come to take it for granted, because it's such a regular occurrence now and they're both usually in too much of a hurry on work mornings to put much thought into it. Shintarou doesn't remember what it's like to not have Kazunari in his arms, can't even conceptualise what it would be like not to have Kazunari in his life. He knows there was a point, somewhere in his past that feels far too distant, when he didn't even know the name Takao Kazunari or the person it was attached to. He can separate his life into before and after, if he wants, but he no longer remembers what before even felt like. He pities his past self for what he didn't have, and it feels like pitying a stranger that he has no connection to.

"Shin-chan?" Kazunari asks as he wakes, his voice still thick with sleep. "You okay? You're squeezing me really tight."

Loosening his grip, Shintarou kisses Kazunari on the forehead. "I apologise."

"Is something wrong?" Kazunari asks, nuzzling into the curve of Shintarou's neck. He's tactile at the best of times, and it's further amplified when he's tired.

Shintarou exhales softly, stroking his fingers through Kazunari's hair. "Nothing is wrong, in fact. Everything is wonderful."

"Slow mornings are nice, huh?" Kazunari smiles, pressing a kiss to Shintarou's cheek. "Have you listened to the Oha Asa station yet?"

"No," Shintarou murmurs, watching as Kazunari reaches over to turn their bedside radio on.

He can already tell that it's going to be a good day for Cancer.

PROMPT: TEAM Miyuki Kazuya/Sawamura Eijun

[sawakise]

oikawa tooru &/ ushijima wakatoshi, hq!!
no tags

"Hey, turn around, bend over, I'll show you
Where my shoe fits"

- Cabinet Battle #1, Hamilton

Re: PROMPT: TEAM Miyuki Kazuya/Sawamura Eijun

[putsch]

friend idk if i can fill this for you but i hope someone does because i laughed way too hard