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

no tags; 497 words
i know you wanted soutaku and/or soumegu but this is more like soutaku and takumegu I AM SO SORRY.

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He falls in love with him quickly.

It’s difficult not to, of course.

Yukihira is more than the snobby kid who made the announcement on the opening day, more than the person that Takumi wants to beat. He’s the boy who makes Takumi’s heart stutter a little out of time from a mere glance or word, the one who places a warmth in Takumi’s cheeks that he’s certainly not used to feeling.

Takumi is young, but he thinks he knows yearning when he feels it—the type of aching hollowness in his chest, the instant lightness whenever he and Yukihira meet eyes. But he’s even more awed when he sees Yukihira with his knife, especially in battle. The type of courage that Yukihira has in the face of adversity, no matter the foe, is yet another thing that Takumi keeps on his list of things that entrance him about Yukihira (a list that will never, never leave his heart if he can help it).

Things seem to naturally fall into place, even the way that the two accidentally drunk-kiss during a night in the Polar Star dorm where someone accidentally switched the drinks with actual alcohol. They laugh—well, Yukihira laughs and Takumi yells—about it in the morning with their hands folded together. It doesn’t seem strange, Takumi thinks.

They do not fall in love quickly.

It’s not easy to, of course.

He steps on eggshells around her, startled by the way she flusters easily. He doesn’t know what to say when she stutters to him and closes her eyes like she’s afraid she’s wronged him in the worst way. She doesn’t set aflame the flare of rivalry within him, and the space between the two of them seems almost as unreachable as Italy is from Japan whenever Souma isn’t there to halve the distance. If she’s not surrounded by the members of her dorm, she’s encircled by something else that Takumi just can’t seem to get past even in their conversations alone.

It’s awkward, the way she puts people off. If Yukihira was here, it would be easy enough with his bluntness and charisma. Yukihira insists that Takumi is missing something if he’s overlooking Tadokoro. When Takumi says he doesn’t understand it, Yukihira grins and invites him to watch one of Tadokoro’s shokugekis; and the conversation between her and the knife says more than any words she could’ve ever spoken.

It is then he begins to fall, as Yukihira loves pointing out with a laugh, their fingers entwined together. Tadokoro’s hand is smaller, but her fingers also fit perfectly in the gaps between his. The feeling is different from the one he has around Yukihira, but it’s a mellow comfort, always welcome.

(And the seasons pass like this:

Yukihira, without a doubt, is always going to be his light—no, their light. But Takumi isn’t going to deny the soft, open palms that wait for them both, miles and miles away from their hometowns, are somewhere that they also call home.)

Bonus Round 4: Quotes

FILL: TEAM ALDINI TAKUMI/YUKIHIRA SOUMA, G.