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.
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FORMAT

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

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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

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Miyuki Kazuya/Sawamura Eijun, daiya no ace

reincarnation au

no tags!
64 lines ig I don't know I'm on mobile

i.

first time i am reborn
you speak in tongues that i do not know
it is a struggle to speak
we get frustrated too quickly
the prior glow of our relationship fading with every complications

i yell and you stare
you quip and my reactions fall short of the mark
frustrated tears force us to part

you die when your hair is white as snow
i try to tell you i love you for one last time
you understand nothing
but you smile anyways

ii.

you pursue me with a fervor that wasn't there in our previous lives
too many regrets that you were unable to voice
you sob openly in my palms

emotions cross when words cannot

we walk hand in hand
i point out a flower
speak my language
your eyes widen
speak your language
i repeat it and you laugh
mock my pronunciation
and i huff and speak my language
your mouth twitches and you grimace

then you speak my language

iii.

for the first time that we've met
you don't recognize me
it's hard because i come off as a little too strong
desperation lacing my butchering of your language
you scowl and brush me off

i can't tell which one hurts more
you don't know me
or that
you don't want to

iv.

who are you?

v.

we meet at 3:12 in the afternoon
on the dusty diamond of a field
you smile and you see me
and your mouth falls open
my loud bluster fades away

it's you
we say at the same time
and fall into a familiar rhythm of understanding

what do you have

i splutter
nothing but fastballs
that's all i need

you laugh and i try a language from one of our lifetimes

shut up
i love you

you say something

what was that

you smirk
it's i love you

that's what i thought!
that's what i said!

i know
you snort
i learned 4 languages because of you

well, you say and point to the monster
let's take him out together
as a couple

my face flushes

you choose our first language

partner.

Bonus Round 5: Myth & Lore

FILL: TEAM Miyuki Kazuya/Sawamura Eijun, G