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Bonus Round 5: Myth & Lore
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)
Remember, this is a NO-PROMPT round. Format your fill comment in one of the following ways:
| If FILLING: | If FILLING as a TEAM GRANDSTAND participant: |
FILL: TEAM [YOUR SHIP], [RATING]
| FILL: TEAM GRANDSTAND, [RATING]
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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 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.
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 MATSUOKA RIN/NANASE HARUKA, G
tags: genderswap
635 words
(Witches AU)
The grandfather clock struck twelve. Haruka added a drop of green liquid into her cauldron. A cloud of red smoke poofed into existence. She drew back from the cauldron, coughing.
“Damn it.” She’d messed up, again.
Haruka sighed and pulled off her safety googles.
Most witches thought potion making was all about the ingredients. The prettiest flower, the purest tear drop, the strongest scale. But Haruka knew better. A potion’s quality had nothing to do with the quality of its ingredients. Haruka had once used a marshmallow four-leafed clover instead of an actual four-leafed clover with any issues.
No, the real trick to potion making was the potion maker’s state of mind, their emotions, while they brewed a potion. That was something Haruka never had a problem with before. She excelled at controlling her emotions, bringing only the ones she needed to the surface as she brewed a potion. At least, she used to excel at these things.
The cauldron’s surface calmed down. The last of the smoke cleared away. Haruka took the cauldron and poured it down the sink. Another useless love potion.
Maybe she would have felt less bitter if she could at least sell the damn potions, but she couldn’t, not without causing more trouble than the money was worth. The potion didn’t do anything malicious — it wasn’t the kind of potion that made you fall in love, it was a potion that made you feel like you were in love. For a few hours you would feel hopelessly and deliriously in love, not with anything or anyone in particular. It seemed harmless enough, but after selling a few vials of the stuff Haruka learned the hard way people did very stupid things when they were in love.
Every customer that bought the potion had come back the next day to complain. One man spent an afternoon skipping around the park instead of going to work. Another had bought 200 bouquets of roses for himself. A woman yelled at her because she’d adopted twenty-seven cats while on the potion even though she was allergic to them. Haruka had started getting rid of the love potion after that incident. She had no interest in trying to find homes for twenty-seven cats ever again.
Haruka rinsed out the cauldron and sighed. She simply wanted to make a calming drought, one she’d brewed hundreds of times before without issue. But for the life of her, she couldn’t keep her mind focused or her emotions calm. It was like this with every potion she’d tried brewing lately. No matter how hard she tried to hold onto the right emotions her own real emotions would start to slip through.
She kicked the sink in frustration. This was all Rin’s fault. The stupidest things would remind her of Rin and once she thought of Rin it was over. Her concentration was shot, her emotions running wild.
Stupid Rin and her perfect body, her cheshire grin when she caught Haruka staring at her cleavage. She’d pop into Haruka’s shop to “chat” almost every day, often getting much too close, invading Haruka’s personal space, resting her arm on Haruka’s shoulder, leaning in front of her so that Haruka would get a whiff of her coconut conditioner — just all-around distracting her from getting anything done. She was trying to put Haruka out of business, that’s what she was doing. That way Rin’s rival potion shop would no longer have any competition.
Well, Haruka wasn’t going to allow that to happen. She’d inherited the shop from her grandmother. She wasn’t going to be defeated by the new witch in town.
Haruka grabbed her soap and sponge and started cleaning out her cauldron, already fired up to try again. Surely this time she'd be able to keep from thinking of Rin long enough.