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.

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!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Aomine Daiki/Kuroko Tetsuya OR Akashi Seijuuro/Midorima Shintaro, Kuroko no basuke
meta, tag as u see fit

"I won't stay here suspended forever
I must be on my way
I won't stay here helpless forever
I must be on my way
I won't stay here suspended forever
(here comes another)"

-- "It Pulls Me Under" by Butterfly Boucher

no tags
word count: 422

His light is fading, running ahead of him, out of reach, and Kuroko feels himself fading into the darkness around him, a shadow with no form or shape. He has no definition without any light, and he does what he can to reach out, to grasp at Aomine's retreating back, but there's nothing he can do.

His first instinct is to help. He owes it to Aomine, who has already done so much to help him. He thinks and thinks, but it's no use. He can't think of anything to do, and he's left feeling absolutely helpless, watching as the situation gets worse.

He tries reaching out to Aomine again, but he's already so far away that Kuroko can barely even see him across the distance between them. He has no way of closing it, and he wishes that he could somehow learn to emit all the light that he's absorbed from Aomine, to be his lighthouse in this storm, to guide him back to shore.

It doesn't help if Aomine doesn't look, though. Even if it were possible for Kuroko to do, there's no point when Aomine has no desire to be guided back. It already feels like he's long gone, and it'll take more than just a reflected light to bring him back.

What Kuroko needs, he realises, is another light. A strong one, that will help him become a stronger shadow. A pale imitation of a light isn't going to work, the way that Kuroko wants. It's going to take a light and shadow together. Kuroko will have to surpass the kind of shadow that he is now, he'll have to break free of the shadow that Aomine's light has turned him into and learn to be someone else's shadow instead.

He knows that he isn't going to get the chance to do that until high school, but the finals of their last year in middle school are already drawing near. He won't have to wait for very long after that.

The team itself no longer feels like a team, and Kuroko knows that it's not just Aomine who he needs to guide back. The others need it to, one by one, and it's too much for him to do on his own. It'll depend on the kind of team that he ends up with. The kind of players he shares the court with.

Kuroko isn't going to sit idly by and watch this happen. He'll find another light, and he'll change all of it. He knows he will.

Bonus Round 4: Quotes

Prompt: Team Iwaizumi Hajime/Oikawa Tooru

FILL: Team Kyoutani Kentarou/Yahaba Shigeru, G