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

FILL: Team Kyoutani Kentarou/Yahaba Shigeru, T

[kiyala]

some gore/body horror
word count: 444

If anyone asks him what he is doing, Shigeru says that he's warding himself.

They tend not to ask. They try not to make eye contact with him at all, as he coughs up blood and burrows his hand deeper into his own chest.

His heart beats, frantic and scared, but Shigeru thinks that it's better this way. Better he tear it out himself, before ever allowing it of another. Better that he dig his own fingers into his heart until it's pierced, until it bursts, until he can pull it out and hide it elsewhere, in a place nobody else would think to look.

He replaces it with pebbles, with smooth stones that knock against each other in his rib cage whenever he moves, like a false heartbeat that he can use to mask his lack of one entirely. The stones weigh him down but Shigeru knows that he was never meant to fly. He chooses to think of it as being grounded, not held down. Stones don't break, the way that hearts do. Stones don't seize and yearn and bleed, and neither does Shigeru.

Not for victory. Not for Kentarou, either.

Stones aren't moved by the murmur of a soft, deep voice, and lips that are warm as they brush against Shigeru's ear. They aren't drawn in, like a fish on a lure, swayed by words or actions or the gentle touch of rough hands.

Kentarou doesn't use his words often and Shigeru suspects that because of it, they hold some sort of power over him, like magic that is strong only because it is sparingly used, a stirring at the back of his mind that he can build no resistance against because it's gone before he can remember what it feels like.

Shigeru wants it just as much as he doesn't, half stepping back from the cliff and half throwing himself over and the stones in his chest clatter together with every syllable of sound that spills from Kentarou's lips, like they've been pretending to be a heart for so long that they're beginning to act like one. Shigeru tries to resist, already making plans to cut himself open again and replace these old stones with ones that are new, that haven't been tricked by his body to play the part of something they are not.

Kentarou looks at him, his gaze the colour of unchanging amber, and Shigeru already knows that it's no use.

Somewhere, locked in a box buried under a pile of older relics under a loose floorboard, Shigeru feels his heart beating just to spite him. He knows that this is a battle that he's already lost.