Bonus Round 5: Myth & Lore

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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

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Required Work Minimums:

• 400 words (prose)
• 400px by 400px (art)
• 14 lines (poetry)

There is no max work cap.

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SCORING

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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

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Comments

FILL: team Kuroo Tetsurou/Tsukishima Kei, G

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Tags: Necromancy (discussions of), mention of past parent death
Word Count: 448
Miyuki Kazuya/Oikawa Tooru (daiya/haikyuu!!) hogwarts au

"In here again?" a familiar and ever present voice asks from somewhere behind Oikawa.

"Why wouldn't I be?" Oikawa asks in return with a chipper smile to Miyuki.

Pulling a face, Miyuki curls down over Oikawa's back, reaching forward to grab the book Oikawa finished with half an hour ago. "Necromancy's illegal," he comments idly, flicking through the pages.

Oikawa shoots him an amused glance. "Who's to say what is and is not legal?"

Miyuki snorts and shifts into a more comfortable position against Oikawa. "Ever think the hat made a mistake?"

Oikawa's smile turns smirk. "Miyucchi, are you implying I'm not a pure and loyal soul? This is defamation of my character." He leans in close to Miyuki, putting the book he was reading aside and inching the one Miyuki claimed out of his hands.

Neither of them are entirely sure what they are these days. Friends, probably, something else, maybe. The problem is that Oikawa knows he's the one who should set those boundaries, make the choices, he's the older one. The prefect for all that's worth. But he won't think about that. Even as he closes the gap between them and presses his lips to Miyuki's for a second. They're soft, as always.

He returns to his book. "It's purely for interest. No one is really successful at raising the dead."

Miyuki muses on his words. Oikawa can feel his breath on the curve of his shoulder as he does.

"We could do it," he says.

Oikawa adores Miyuki.

"Could we now?"

"Sure." Miyuki's comforting weight shifts against Oikawa again and he squeezes around his middle. "Do some research, pick a corpse, give it a go."

The awesome heights that Miyuki wants to reach are going to get them killed one of these days. "And who would you want to drag back into this mortal coil?" This is the real reason Oikawa isn't seriously considering delving into necromancy: all of his people are here. And the most important one is curled over his back.

Miyuki falls silent. Then lies. "Figure it doesn't matter, just so long as we get the credit for being the first ones to do it right. Become legends."

Oikawa doesn't move so he can let Miyuki know that he's aware of the lie. But they're not people to talk about themselves, no matter what other people think. They talk about who they pretend to be, who they become for their needs, and let each other see what else they are without discussing it, because that would make it real.

"So," Miyuki says, flicking Oikawa's book to the next page in preparation for changing the subject, "are we gonna fuck or what?"