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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 Kozume Kenma/Kuroo Tetsurou, G
605 words
ashite (ywpd), magical singing.
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Ashikiba looks at Teshima’s name in her address book for a long time before she picks up her phone to call him. She hasn’t spoken to Teshima in years, but she needs to, now. She needs to ask him to sing with her again.
Strange things happened when Ashikiba sings. She has sang the vines winding around the trellis in her family’s garden into flower; summoned swarms of butterflies of every hue and origin to the top of her school’s tallest building in the middle of the icy winter; serenaded the entire town until the spirits of everyone in it were soaring.
Ashikiba always used to enjoy singing. It was probably one of her favorite things to do aside from playing the piano. She would sing whenever she got the chance to - while walking or bicycling home from school, showering, doing chores around the house. Her voice was so beautiful that her neighbors would stop what they were doing to listen if they heard her, and people walking the same paths she took would hear her and then seek her out so they could listen more clearly. The only thing more beautiful, everyone agreed, than Ashikiba’s singing, was when Ashikiba sang with Teshima. But then Teshima moved away, and Ashikiba didn’t sing as much anymore.
Teshima’s voice doesn’t have the same demiurgic force behind it in the way Ashikiba’s does, but when Teshima sang with her, Ashikiba’s song was more potent, more powerful. Its effects traveled further and lasted longer. In the early days of their friendship, they’d sung away a drought that threatened to last all year. But towards the time where Teshima was set to move, they’d sung the river black with their melancholy and warbled a plague of locusts with their discontent, that had descended on that year’s harvest and decimated it. After Teshima left, Ashikiba had filled the sky with heavy grey clouds that persisted for weeks - after that, she decided it would probably be better for everyone for her to stick to the piano from then on.
The townsfolk had begged her to stop singing, then, but now that she’s grown up, with a home of her own, they’re begging for the opposite.
“There’s an illness,” Ashikiba tells Teshima in a quiet, worried voice when he picks up the phone.
He comes in on the train a few days later.
They’re silent all throughout the walk back to Ashikiba’s house. All that Ashikiba can think is: he looks older. Not different. Just older. She thinks about the years of change that she hadn’t seen as they walk over cobblestone steps, walk through the grove of trees leading to where Ashikiba lives.
She offers him tea when they get back and they sit at her dining room table, awkward, not looking at each other. Ashikiba doesn’t need to ask to know that he’s concerned about the same thing she is - if their relationship is as sour as it was when he left, they could just make everything worse.
Ashikiba opens her mouth and picks up the lyrics in the middle of a ballad, putting her voice to music for the first time in years. Teshima, tentatively, joins her.
She sings soap bubbles out of the faucet; Teshima spreads them through her house. Ashikiba flutes a rainbow over the table; Teshima transforms it into a double. When they’re done, they look at each other, smiling.
The disease that had been threatening Ashikiba’s home clears up within the next few days, and Teshima extends his visit to a fortnight. They have a lot of talking - and singing - to catch up on.
Re: FILL: Team Kozume Kenma/Kuroo Tetsurou, G