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Bonus Round 4: Quotes

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!

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OH MY GOD EM PLEASE

-secretly puts this in my pocket-

this prompt hurts me thats all

description of hearts

This is sort of a soulmate!AU? I may have taken this prompt a little too literally.

Word Count: 1575

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People don't necessarily have to flaunt it - not on purpose; never on purpose - but it's just obvious when it happens, the gaps in their heart closing over like a wound healing, leaving them complete in a way they've never imagined before.

For better or worse, Takahiro has never had to guess. Not when he can see the hearts themselves seeking out others. They're all beautiful to him, even in their imperfections - some dusted over with shades of sunset, others scarred and bleeding from the centre. They're all gouged out somewhere, too - whether it be the anastamoses of their circulation, the valves which click shut (lub-dub, lub - and a missing beat, completed in another body some unknown distance away), the very muscle that heaves and contracts, propelling them onwards; onwards, to an inevitable meeting and a joy that fills them to the tips of their toes.

It's something to be jealous of, Takahiro supposes, glancing down at his own chest. The hollow cavern of his ribcage stares back tauntingly, as it always has, right from the very first day he woke in the morning and wondered what's missing?

He doesn't wonder so much anymore.

Life isn't overly difficult to navigate, even for someone in want of a heart. Sometimes when he's in public, Takahiro hunches over defensively, as if to hide his imperfection. It's an instinct he's never been able to shake, but on the whole, he lives about as normal a life as anyone else in the school. Not many others are able to see hearts the way he can, though everyone has an intuition of sorts about it. They may be able to tell that Hanamaki Takahiro, you're missing something - but then again, so are a lot of people, at this age.

Takahiro tries not to think of the day the scales shift among his friendships, when more of his friends will laugh with hearts that sing than hearts that weep. It's still too far in the future to be afraid of, and there are more pressing matters here - one last chance to make the National stage, one last chance to leap up and immerse himself in a game where six lungs beat in tandem, and the hole in his chest means nothing when the ball flies around them, each play connected to the next.

For now, it's enough. But sometimes, at night, when the world is silent around him save for the distant hum of passing cars and the high-pitched siren of all the electronics he owns, he closes his eyes and listens for the sound of his heart wandering somewhere in the world outside.

Matsukawa has a whole heart. Whether he realises it or not, he's found who he's been looking for. There's an air of satisfaction in him when his eyelids flutter shut, an easy lilt to his smile that makes Takahiro's breath catch in wonder, or perhaps even envy. He's not a meddler, content to leave others be, and if that isn't the first sign of a human being who's reached the top, Takahiro doesn't know what is.

He pries enough for Matsukawa anyway, takes careful jabs at Iwaizumi when they go for dinner after practice. He's already known for his ability to sense when something's gone right with someone - an informant of sorts for the Aoba-Johsai gossip circle. Matsukawa never asks, but he always listens, grinning when Takahiro pulls him aside to spy on some poor couple's first date.

Takahiro hasn't seen Matsukawa's other half yet. When he asked, back in middle school, Matsukawa had shrugged and said, It just came to me one day, which is how Takahiro learned that Matsukawa can see hearts too.

He wonders what it must have been like - Matsukawa has carried that heart in his chest for as long as Takahiro has known him, so Takahiro can't think of Matsukawa without thinking of that peace he holds inside him. It seems infathomable, impossible to separate Matsukawa from it, to imagine Matsukawa as anything other than a quiet anchor, firm and solid, and whole.

He wonders what Matsukawa thinks of the emptiness that is Takahiro's own chest; if Matsukawa pities him for it. He hopes not.

But then perhaps it's the same for Matsukawa - perhaps he can't think of Takahiro without also imagining the empty space that comes with. Perhaps that's just the way they are - one and none, and Takahiro might not be top of his class when it comes to math but he figures that it evens out.

Once, Takahiro tried searching for his heart. He walked around the neighbourhood climbing up trees to all his old haunts and shook out all his cupboards looking. Finally, he dived in and scoped around his chest, looking for some remnant, if only a sliver, a couple of cells drifting through space.

If they were there, he never found them.

At some point over the course of their third year, Matsukawa starts looking at him funny.

"What?" asks Takahiro. They've never been the sort to skirt around tough questions.

Matsukawa shakes his head. "Just wondering what was up with your heart."

"What's this all of a sudden? You've never asked before."

"It never came up," Matsukawa counters, swiping one of Takahiro's egg rolls with his chopsticks. His heart pulses quietly: once, twice. "But given what's been going on with..." He waves the chopsticks, waggles his eyebrows, and Takahiro snorts.

"Nosy." It's not an insult - their friends' love lives are absolutely their business. "It's nothing big, really - I woke up one day and it was gone."

"When?"

Matsukawa is oddly insistent, his fingers twitching as he leans in.

"I would have been about seven," says Takahiro slowly. He pushes some rice around his bento and lets his knees bounce. "I don't know anyone else who's heart's just up and left, so I figure there must be a reason for it. I thought maybe my person was dead at first, but they disappear slowly if that happens. And apparently it hurts a lot."

"Hm."

"I'm not lonely," he defends, because he isn't. There are enough other singles at school to commiserate with. There's the team, their team, a group with almost too much heart at times - there's Oikawa, whose desire to win pulses strong enough to crush an opponent's lungs; he bleeds and he bleeds, and yet never seems to run dry, passions streaming free like endless waterfalls running into one an other. And there's Iwaizumi, too, stingier with his loves, who has the strongest heart Takahiro has ever seen. It's broad at the base like a wide bowl, and he catches what Oikawa spills, filling himself to the brim. Every time he's about to run over he'll yell, spike a ball straight to the back of Oikawa's head, and the basin tips, one clear shot sending everything back where it came from.

The missing pieces never come together, but Takahiro's rarely seen any pair look quite so complete.

And Takahiro isn't lonely, because he can see what he's missing in its perfected form just looking at his best friends. He tips his head to Matsukawa - the gentle shine of his heart as radiant as ever - and powers on. "I know it's not supposed to be the same, but when I look at you guys it doesn't really feel like I'm missing anything at all."

Matsukawa's eyes widen. "Taka," he says, and it makes Takahiro's chest squeeze in shock or confusion or maybe something entirely different. "Hanamaki, hold my heart."

"Wait, what?"

Matsukawa actually digs in and holds it out. Takahiro shies away from it on instinct. Matsukawa presses it into his palms, and it's so soft. "I don't want to break it," he whispers.

"I trust you," Matsukawa tells him. "You trusted me with yours, after all."

Takahiro stares.

"I might be reaching," Matsukawa confesses. He scratches the back of his neck sheepishly. "I only thought of it because - well, like I said. You've seen the two of them at practice."

"That's kind of unfair, don't you think?" Now that Matsukawa's given him ownership, Takahiro finds himself far less concerned about being gentle. He waves the heart around, shakes it in Matsukawa's face. "Everyone else gets a whole heart to themselves, but we have to share? This is a scam."

Matsukawa shifts closer so he can shoulder Takahiro properly. "We'll just have to stay together a lot. There's no point depriving you of your heart now that we know where it is."

"We'll have to spend a lot of time in each other's company."

"We might have to share meals, too."

"Hold hands, even."

"I might have to kiss you," Matsukawa says, leaning in. The heart in Takahiro's hands thrums loud in the space between them.

"You might," Takahiro agrees, releasing it so he can wind his arms around Matsukawa's neck. The gap closes, but he can still feel their heart, hammering at his chest, and the solid warmth of Matsukawa behind it, too.

(When Takahiro is seven, he passes a dark-haired boy in the playground, and his heart beats a little faster in his chest. He has really big eyebrows, his seven-year-old self thinks. Cool.

Then the boy catches him staring and grins. Takahiro grins back, but then his mother is calling for him to hurry up because there's a timesale on at the supermarket and she needs to do the groceries before it ends. He goes home, and he forgets.

But his heart doesn't.)

listen i'm very proud of this one

Edited 2016-07-10 16:39 (UTC)

truly gold

Akaashi Keiji/Oikawa Tooru/Sugawara Koushi, Haikyuu!
polyamory

"We're smashing mics in karaoke bars
You're running late with half your makeup on
This method acting might pay our bills
But soon enough they'll be a different role to fill"

-- "Greek Tragedy" by The Wombats

we're gonna have to agree to disagree on that one

no tags
poetry, 24 lines
(i hope this satisfies your prompt em, i tried :'D)

he was a boy of few words,
with a love for baseball that was unfathomable,
and a pitch with such strength no one dared to play with him.
the only sounds in his head were the impact of the ball and concrete walls,
as well as the term “monster” that followed him wherever he went.

throughout all of the boiling heat of tokyo,
the intense practice, and another pitcher whose voice volume matched his personality,
he finally laid eyes on why he traveled so far from his home.
a boy who was one year his senior,
a boy who was claimed to be the savior of seidou,
the boy who had a pretty face, and a contrasting personality to boot.
one who was going to have such an impact that he couldn’t even see it coming.

when he finally heard the sound of a catcher’s mitt, rather than the sound of concrete,
he almost couldn’t breathe at first.
all he could do was just stand there,
wearing a look as if he was asking himself did this really happen.
could this really be reality?

what shocked him even more
was what this catcher had told him just seconds later.
the words slipping out of his mouth, telling to not hold back.

however, little did either of them know,
is that the fire burning within either of them
was going to burn far brighter than they could ever hope for
just with the simple company of them being together.

:')

thanks colleen :')

Kuramochi Youichi/Miyuki Kazuya, Daiya no ace OR Kageyama Tobio/Kunimi Akira, Haikyuu!
meta, possible reincarnation, feel free to add on

"When will you know
I'm not like them?

Pulling apart --
Going for it --

All by your while

"Get up,"
in time,
not for
this life."

-- "Over" by SALES

wataya arata &/ mashima taichi, chihayayfuru
no tags

What can you learn from your opponent? More than you think.
Who will master this love? Love might be the wrong word.

Let's admit, without apology, what we do to each other.
We know who our enemies are. We know.

— richard siken, detail of the fire

Edited 2016-07-10 17:17 (UTC)

bodily functions, blood, i think that's it
17 lines.

it's monday morning and you're wearing my shirt
our feet brush lightly underneath the table
you bring out tea
scalding hot on my tongue as i stumble to catch up
burning on the way down my throat

my body balances the water in my blood
my cells
the spaces in between

my lips loosen as my mind does
a dangerous combination, volatile gasoline
you arch an eyebrow when i tell you
my toothbrush is by the sink next to yours, our toothpastes the exact same
my clothes are folded neatly in the skeletons of your closets
my chest is heavy but not full; there's still room for one more
this house is too big for one

i now understand this
you cannot teach two forces of nature how to love
the two of us are both too wary for any sort of falling

Character death okay?

GO FOR IT!!! I am sadly someone who loves pain, even for the sweetest pairs OTL So I am A-okay with that

Abe Takaya/Mihashi Ren (Oofuri)
no tags for the prompt

If there are boundaries, I will try to knock them down
I’m latching on, babe, now I know what I have found

-- "Latch", Sam Smith

THANK YOU

i'm happy that you like it!! thank you!

Miyata Ichiro/Makunouchi Ippo (Hajime no Ippo)
no tags for the prompt

You thought by now you'd be
So much better than you are
You thought by now they'd see
That you had come so far
And the pride inside their eyes
Would synchronize into a love you've never known
So much more than you've been shown

Hold on
One more time with feeling
Try it again
Breathing's just a rhythm
Say it in your mind
Until you know that the words are right
This is, why we, fight
This is, why, we fight

-- "One More Time With Feeling", Regina Spektor

Iwaizumi Hajime/Oikawa Tooru
tags: BETRAYAL??? Fhq probably?

"like moths to flame I come, too close and all my oaths are burned
as stars begin to run, all my accusers take their turn
and calling curses down, from my lips lies like poison spill
and then that awful sound, the sound of prophesy fulfilled
and then I met your eyes, and I remember everything
and something in me dies, the night that I betrayed my king"
-Thrice, Like Moths To Flame

Miyuki Kazuya/Narumiya Mei AND Kominato Haruichi/Miyuki Kazuya; daiya no ace
potential au, pls indulge me lmao

"Why do you wear your hair like that? Your hair looks so sexy pushed back. Cady, will you please tell him his hair looks sexy pushed back?"

- Regina George, Mean GIrls

doxy...

OH MY GOD THIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL
i dont even have words im
god
thank you so much

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Bonus Round 4: Quotes

Re: PROMPT: TEAM KURAMOCHI YOUICHI/MIYUKI KAZUYA

Re: PROMPT: TEAM KURAMOCHI YOUICHI/MIYUKI KAZUYA

Re: PROMPT: TEAM ALDINI TAKUMI/YUKIHIRA SOUMA

FILL: Team Tennis no Ouji-sama, G

Re: PROMPT: TEAM KURAMOCHI YOUICHI/MIYUKI KAZUYA

Re: PROMPT: TEAM KURAMOCHI YOUICHI/MIYUKI KAZUYA

Prompt: Team Iwaizumi Hajime/Oikawa Tooru

Re: PROMPT: TEAM ALDINI TAKUMI/YUKIHIRA SOUMA

FILL: Team Grandstand, G

Re: FILL: Team Grandstand, G

Re: FILL: Team Grandstand, G

Prompt: Team Iwaizumi Hajime/Oikawa Tooru

PROMPT: team kominato ryousuke/kuramochi youichi

FILL: TEAM Miyuki Kazuya/Sawamura Eijun, G

Re: PROMPT: TEAM TENNIS NO OUJI-SAMA

Re: PROMPT: Team Nishinoya Yuu/Tanaka Ryuunosuke

Re: PROMPT: TEAM TENNIS NO OUJI-SAMA

PROMPT: Team Grandstand

Re: FILL: TEAM Miyuki Kazuya/Sawamura Eijun, T

Re: FILL: TEAM Miyuki Kazuya/Sawamura Eijun, G

PROMPT: Team Grandstand

PROMPT: Team Kyoutani Kentarou/Yahaba Shigeru

PROMPT: Team Miyuki Kazuya/Narumiya Mei

Re: Prompt: Team Kozume Kenma/Kuroo Tetsurou

Re: FILL: Team Tennis no Ouji-sama, G