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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!
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)
Format your comment in one of the following ways:
| If PROMPTING: | If FILLING: | If FILLING as a TEAM GRANDSTAND participant: |
PROMPT: TEAM [YOUR SHIP]
| FILL: TEAM [YOUR SHIP], [RATING]
| FILL: TEAM GRANDSTAND, [RATING]
|
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)
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!
FILL: TEAM KANZAKI MIKI/TACHIBANA AYA, T
709 words
Aya’s coming back from work one day when she sees a girl-- no, a woman, an adult just like herself, she really has to start getting used to that-- slip into an alleyway. Something makes Aya linger nearby instead of continuing on her way, and in a few moments she’s rewarded, for some definition of a reward.
The woman comes out of the alleyway, helping along a limping man. Aya averts her gaze from the obvious wound on his leg, and instead catches the woman’s gaze.
“Don’t be so obvious, Imaizumi-kun,” she says, while giving Aya a sharp, bright smile, “you’re making strangers look.”
The man ignores her teasing, manages to grit out, “I’d said let’s go the other way, didn’t I? It’s too public here.”
“You’re the boss,” she says, but she’s still watching Aya, and gives her a sardonic salute before turning back into the alleyway.
Aya comes back home to a darkened apartment that feels too small and messy. She spends an hour listlessly cleaning her room before remembering dinner, which is a sad instant affair. At night, she goes to bed with a strange hope within her, of seeing the stranger again, and it eases her way to sleep.
--
The next day Aya very nearly considers waiting by the alleyway for more mysterious and beautiful women to appear. Instead she continues on her way home, feeling embarrassed.
--
Aya’s taking her afternoon break at a nearby coffeeshop, sorting through her list of things to do for work, when there’s a sharp tap on her table. She looks up and sees the woman from the alleyway. She’d given up hope before she even really had it, and now here she is like a dream, right in front of her, and what is she going to do?
“Is this seat taken?”
Aya looks around at the empty tables around her. “Of course not,” she says, moving her papers around and trying not to appear too flustered. “Please, go ahead.”
“We haven’t introduced ourselves,” the woman says, placing her coffee on the table and slipping into her seat. Despite what she’d said she stays silent, waiting for Aya to make the first offering.
“Tachibana Aya,” Aya says, amazed that she remembers her own name. “It’s nice to meet you.”
“Kanzaki Miki, and likewise, Tachibana-san.” Miki smiles. “You’re hard to catch, you know that?”
Aya blinks in surprise. “What do you mean?”
“Well, we had quite the encounter last week, didn’t we?”
Aya ducks her head down. “I suppose,” she says. How embarrassing would it be to say, ‘I didn’t realize you felt the same way!’? Probably very.
“Yes,” Miki says, and Aya nearly startles at the reply before she remembers her inside thoughts tend to stay inside. “You saw my friend in quite a predicament!”
Aya gives her a blank look.
“My friend,” Miki says. “Imaizumi-kun, he had been… shot,” she adds delicately.
“Oh! Yes, he had been,” Aya says, though in truth, she’s only seen bullet wounds on TV, so she hadn’t actually been sure of that. “He’s doing alright?”
Miki waves her hand. “No problem there. I’m a little more worried about you.”
“Oh?”
Miki breaks into a warm, genuine smile. “Well, rather, I had been worried about you. Talking, you know? But a week’s past and not a peep out of you! That’s what made it harder to find you, I guess, but now that I have, I don’t think you’ll be any trouble, will you?”
“Oh no,” Aya says, shaking her head, only dimly aware of what kind of trouble she may have been. Is this gang stuff? It feels like gang stuff.
Miki puts her elbow on the table, leans her cheek against her hand. “Would you mind terribly if I call you Aya-chan? I think it suits you.”
Aya can feel the incredible heat coming off her face. “Excuse-me!” she says, trying to save some dignity. Then she realizes she has nothing else to say about it. “Sure,” she mumbles. “Miki,” she tacks on, a little victory.
Miki laughs in delight. “Aya-chan,” she whispers, leaning across the table, a wicked glint in her eye. “I think I can teach you a lot of things you’d be interested in. Run away with me, okay?”
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well
and it's always a delight seeing that
to create the picture by which a thousand ships sail is such a wonderful part of prose and i adore it here in particular - the sense of unease and dissatisfaction aya feels, spinning her wheels over the step to a world she should know better than to touch.
and miki's curiosity about a woman who knows how to keep her mouth shut, despite those ever-watching eyes, noticing things that most people would know to keep their gaze down from.
the sense of aya's burgeoning adulthood, that she's wearing like an ill-fitting suit rather than any part of who she is - the teenaged embarrassment, and miki's delight, in knowing that someone like this would still be willing to jump through the looking glass of danger. how miki pulls and how aya pushes back, snapping her fingers in rather than away - "Aya-chan" "/Miki/"
it's beautiful, it's such a beautiful spark of a moment that leads to a forest fire and i love it thank you for filling this!!!
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i wish i had the chops to write their adventures post this bit, i'm sure they're very exciting... they're nice to think about!
thanks again :>
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