sportsanime | 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.

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Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Manami Sangaku/Teshima Junta (ywpd) or Oikawa Tooru/Sugawara Koushi (HQ!!)

no tags

"Step one: light me on fire
Step two: walk clean away
I won't burn long
And evidence of your done wrong will be gone
In seconds I swear

But if you got time anyway
Why not watch me hurt?
And nothing is sweeter than needed revenge
Oh, that's right
I did nothing
And you were the mean one
In fact, you even broke my good tape deck
In fact, I don't wanna be friends"

- In Fact, Gregory and the Hawk

Edited 2016-07-08 06:21 (UTC)

angst... the thing oikawa did isn't specified but i guess right now it reads as cheating. it isn't cheating or some romance drama mistake where suga thinks he cheated but he really didn't. they both know what "it" was and it was immaterial compared to the disintegration of trust. sorry that this is a lot.
word count: 435

Tooru carries his spine upright, but he is curling in on himself, visibly, at the edges. His proud head is bowing, in resignation, his hands are in his pockets (to keep Suga from seeing how they shake and sweat), and his elbows are tucked close to his frame.

"You hate me, don't you." Despite Tooru's visible discomfort his face is remarkably dry. It's cold and composed and even in tone, like marble. Damn him, Suga thinks, how can he not be feeling anything. "I knew you'd hate me, if you found out, so I hid it. It's alright. I can take it. You're under no obligation to stay. No hard feelings." Suga feels a surge of hatred toward him. Of course Tooru can handle it, Suga's seen him- helped him!– work through the exact same process before, after his last breakup. Suga is disgusted that he let himself get sucked into this pattern.

“You’re the worst, Tooru.”
Tooru takes it with the same cold eyes and shallow grin. Suga’s face is hot, tear ducts burning with pressure, and what he wouldn’t give to make Tooru feel the same way.
“You’re malicious. You even admitted that all your exes said it. Why did I believe you when you said it wasn’t your fault? Why did I think we’d be different, anything but the next link in your pattern?”
Tooru’s mask is cracking and Suga relishes the thought of getting to be the one to see beneath it, one last time.
“It was only a matter of time before your malice turned on me”
Tooru’s smile is stretched thin like a rubber band. Even this close to snapping he is taking it with grace.
“The thing that gets me most isn’t even what you did,” I walked you through the aftermath of the last time you did it, after all, I knew what you were capable of, “it’s that you hid it from me, out of spite. Rot in hell, Tooru.”
Suga gets to see his face shatter, as he turns on his heel to leave. Good.
Tooru's eyes bug out. "No, I didn't- wait- I didn't mean it- I wouldn't spi- never- wait!"
He had been so, disgustingly! prepared for the whole encounter, but Suga got to see the real Tooru, one last time.
"Su- Suga-- Koushi!" His voice was shaking, hands were out of his pockets, jittering like they did after too much caffeine.

Less than three minutes after Tooru told Suga "you can go, no hard feelings, I won't ask you to come back," he was begging for Suga to return. He was repulsive.

aa, this is. sad. it /is/ a lot, i feel very /there/, the sickening discomfort of being on either side, and it sucks, but that just means that it's a powerful piece of writing imho. i liked the descriptions a lot. especially Oikawa keeping his facade up and then breaking. aside from cheating i'm not sure what i'd guess at the thing being, but. it can remain a mystery... like you said the important thing seems to be the betrayal itself.

Bonus Round 4: Quotes

Prompt: Team Kozume Kenma/Kuroo Tetsurou

FILL: Team Kanzaki Miki/Tachibana Aya, T

Re: FILL: Team Kanzaki Miki/Tachibana Aya, T