sportsanime | Bonus Round 5: Myth & Lore

Summer's a time for swapping stories around the campfire. With that in mind, this round draws inspiration from the stories humanity have told each other over the centuries.

This round is CLOSED as of 7PM on August 4 EDT. Late fills may be posted, but they will not receive points.

RULES

This round does not have prompts. Instead, we ask you to draw inspiration from the wide pool of mythology, fantasy, folklore, and fable. An urban fantasy or supernatural AU? A re-imagining of your favorite folk tale? Characters swapping ghost stories or playing D&D? As long as your fill in some way incorporates the fantastical and/or supernatural, it's welcome here.
Your fill still has to be about a ship from one of our nominated fandoms. What ships you create work for is up to you, though.
To submit your fill, simply leave it as a comment as a reply to this post.
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.

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FILL: TEAM [YOUR SHIP], [RATING]

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SCORING

These numbers apply to your team as a whole, not each individual teammate. Make as many fills as you want!

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.

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Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

416 words
character death (dead character?), graphic descriptions of violence (drowning)

Bokuto’s breath is cold on Akaashi’s face, like a gust of winter’s wind, but his touches are soft enough to light a furnace inside him. Their noses are pressed against each other’s, lips hovering so close together that they can almost touch. Bokuto grins, cupping Akaashi’s cheek with a wet, clammy hand. Most people would think it is strange. Akaashi decides he isn’t “most people” after all.

Bokuto smiles, and it is like sunlight has filled the room, infiltrating each and every corner with cheerful, radiant, warmth. Akaashi feels his heart skip a beat, and he closes his eyes. He swallows the lump in his throat, inching closer to Bokuto to press his lips against his.

Kissing a ghost, he soon finds, is enough to leave him breathless.

Bokuto’s corporeal form wraps around him, enveloping him in a misty blanket. Akaashi feels like the wind is being sucked from his lungs and his breath is being tugged from his throat; he lets out an involuntary gagging sound, but he cannot bring himself to tear away. Instead, Akaashi finds himself deepening the kiss, cupping the back of Bokuto’s neck with his hand, toying with cold silvers of hair and slight ethers of skin.

He tastes cold, but not unpleasant. It is like a fresh drink of water after going for so long parched. Akaashi moans softly as Bokuto laces his hands into his hair, tracing Bokuto’s bottom lip with his tongue. This is dangerous, he knows. He will soon run out of air, his system will soon collapse. Already he can feel his knees weakening and a sense of darkness cloying around him, a pain wrenching in his chest—another gagging sound escapes from the back of his throat, and Akaashi pulls away. His eyes widen as he lifts his hand to his lips. Bokuto’s brow crosses with concern.

“Are you okay—“ he begins, stumbling backwards with panic. Akaashi is too busy savouring the feeling of air and the coming to his senses to answer properly, but he manages to nod. Somehow, the feeling of asphyxiation just simulates how he’s felt about this entire affair. He’d practically drowned in Bokuto’s kiss, just as he’s slowly drowning in this love. Akaashi squeezes his eyes shut again, taking a long, deep breath. Life, breath slowly flows through his veins once more. He finally brings himself to smile back.

“I want this more than air,” he mutters, wrapping his arms around Bokuto once again and crushing their lips together.

I am so offended >(

AJFLSAFJds argh I love you and this so much

(OK but I read simulates and Stimulates, so I guess Akaashi is stimulated by Aspyxiation...)

Bonus Round 5: Myth & Lore

FILL: Team Kozume Kenma/Kuroo Tetsurou, T

Re: FILL: Team Kozume Kenma/Kuroo Tetsurou, T