Bonus Round 4: Quotes

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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 MIYUKI KAZUYA/MIYUKI KAZUYA

[catlarks]

Kanzaki Miki & Miyuki Kazuya (yowapeda & daiya no ace)

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"Walk with a switch, fire in her fist
Biting at the bit
Swing at every pitch
Coach put me in like
Forget the bull in the china shop
There's a china doll in the bullpen" — "The Bullpen" by Dessa

I'm sorry, I just, please. Please give me this. I want them to meet.

Re: PROMPT: TEAM MIYUKI KAZUYA/MIYUKI KAZUYA

[tsunderekita]

SCREAMS MORE AT EVERY PROMPT FROM YOU

[catlarks]

—alright there we go now

FILL: TEAM FURUYA SATORU/MIYUKI KAZUYA, G

[tsunderekita]

tags: Low-key sexism and baseball chaunvinism, because Miyuki
words: 746

"Oh and this," Kanzaki continues, with obvious relish, swiping to another image in her phone's photo gallery, "is when Kinjou-senpai and Arakita-san finished first in the Chiba Under-20 Invitational."

Miyuki suppresses a yawn.

"...You sure go to a lot of races," he manages, for lack of anything more interesting to say. Which he hates, he has no patience for mindless small talk, would certainly resent a person for filing back the same noncommital replies he's presently giving this woman -- but Kanzaki doesn't seem fussed in the slightest, flipping through her photos as though she has the most captive audience in the world.

"I've had to cut back, what with my exams," she says. "It will be great next year when I'm managing for a university team."

She passes through another few photos of this 'Kinjou-senpai' of hers, and as Miyuki's gaze drifts disinterestedly from the line of racers he snags on the snarling brunet leaning over a seafoam green bike. A tiny ember of recognition starts to glow in the back of Miyuki's mind.

"Say... that guy..."

"Oh yes! That's Arakita-san," Kanzaki says, lighting up. "He's an all-rounder like Kinjou-senpai. In high school he was his captain's domestique -- that sounds inappropriate, but really it just means he was his assist and supported him through the final sprints. He--"

"--Didn't he used to play baseball?"

"Oh... I think?" Kanzaki shrugs. "He doesn't talk about himself a lot. We didn't go to school together; I only know him because he's senpai's classmate. He looks rough, but actually he has a couple of sisters at home, so he can be really sweet. He never gives me any problems when I visit Yonan."

"Problems?" Miyuki's having a hard time wrapping his head around that one.

"Oh, just the usual. You know, my family runs a bike shop too, and sometimes people come in and they won't talk business until my brother comes over, even if he tells them I work there. People are funny like that..."

She falls silent, and that in turn makes Miyuki feel even more out of place. He's not sure why he's even here, why he took a break from his own coffee-and-cram session to slide over and strike up a conversation, he didn't even know this girl -- she just had an aura about her like Rei-chan, and he thought, maybe...

Anyway, Miyuki is mean but he's not about to tell some high school kid that cycling isn't a real sport.

"You gotta have a thick skin in a boys' world, I guess?" he hazards, instead.

"Who said it's a boys' world?" she counters, eyes darting over to him. And there it is again, that velvet-gloved knife's edge cleverness that drew him over here in the first place. She's nothing like him, she isn't a hard person, probably doesn't possess a mean bone in her body, but there's a confidence to her he recognizes. Maybe less like Rei-chan and more like himself. "I think girls can be just as good at racing as boys can. Same with any sport."

That, howver, he can't resist challenging. "Do you see many girl pitchers?"

"Do you go watch any girl pitchers?"

And then it's Miyuki's turn to fall silent. After a few moments, he realizes his mouth's still hanging open, and shuts it. And then he grins.

He remembers the kids on his junior team telling him catcher wasn't a 'real' position. He remembers the words they spat and their knuckles wearing open the skin of his cheek. They didn't know because they hadn't studied up, and even as they laid him out in the dirt he'd thought to himself, their ignorance is gonna cost them someday. Not him. He knew more about baseball than any of them.

Back in the present, Miyuki smirks down at his coffee and thinks, yeah, he can ease up on the asshole schtick a little.

"...So what universities are you looking at?" he asks Kanzaki. "You mentioned Yonan, right?"

"That's where you go, isn't it? I saw your bag."

Miyuki smirks to himself again. His uni crest isn't even on his bag, she must mean she noticed the baseball gear sticking out of it, ran it against some internal database of local sports magnets schools, and calculated the averages. The little detective. It's probably a good thing she isn't into baseball, or she might've ended up his opponent somewhere along the way. Although that might've been nice too.