Bonus Round 1: AUs

[referees]

SASO 2017 is over, but this round is perpetually open to new fills (no new prompts).


This popular round is back once again! To begin this year's SASO, we encourage you to let your mind run wild with alternate ideas and settings.


Please read this whole post before commenting to ensure that your team gets the most points possible. (There are changes from last year!)

RULES

• Submit prompts by commenting to this post with an alternate universe idea, along with a ship from one of our nominated fandoms. There's a comment template below for your convenience.
  • Your prompt MUST include some kind of relationship. (This is not the sports anime gen olympics.) Platonic relationships are indicated by an "&" between the names (e.g., Izumi & Sakaeguchi). Non-platonic relationships use "/" (e.g., Izumi/Sakaeguchi). Please don't say "Any pairing," either!
• An AU can be a canon divergence, e.g. "what if [character] was the Team Captain instead of the canon captain character?", or a completely different setting altogether, e.g., pop idol AU, coffee shop AU, superheroes AU, etc.
• Fill prompts by leaving a responding comment to the prompt with your newly-created work.
• 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.

Format your comment in one of the following ways:

If PROMPTING:	If FILLING:	If FILLING as a TEAM GRANDSTAND participant:
PROMPT: TEAM [YOUR SHIP] Replace [YOUR SHIP] with the name of the team you belong to. Any way you format it is fine. Copy/paste/fill out the following form into your comment box. Delete the guidance text that's in parentheses. Make sure you use tags. Here is a BR Template Creator for your convenience if the textarea is confusing. (Please delete all text in parentheses as you go. LEAVE THE HTML ALONE or the bonus round scoring program can't parse your comment. Don't forget a comment subject!) <strong>Ship:</strong> (the ship your prompt is focused on. "&" indicates a platonic relationship, "/" is non-platonic. Format the ship name any way you want, but clarity is more likely to get you fills.) <strong>Fandom:</strong> (what fandom the ship is from) <strong>Major Tags:</strong> (https://sportsanime.dreamwidth.org/1609.html, when applicable; these apply to content *in the prompt itself* and is NOT an implication of what you're looking for in a fill. If your prompt doesn't require tags, write "None" here.) <strong>Other Tags:</strong> (anything else that you feel requires tagging; can include jokey tumblr-style tags here; may also pull from the "Additional Tags" list from the URL above, if applicable; otherwise, write "None" here.) <strong>Prompt:</strong>	FILL: TEAM [YOUR SHIP], [RATING] Replace [YOUR SHIP] with the name of the team you belong to. Any way you format it is fine. Replace RATING with the rating of your fill (G - E) Copy/paste/fill out the following form into your comment box. Delete the guidance text that's in parentheses. Make sure you use tags. Here is a BR Template Creator for your convenience if the textarea is confusing. (Please delete all text in parentheses as you go. LEAVE THE HEADER HTML ALONE or the bonus round scoring program can't parse your comment. Don't forget a comment subject!) <strong>Major Tags:</strong> (https://sportsanime.dreamwidth.org/1609.html, when applicable; otherwise write "None".) <strong>Other Tags:</strong> (anything else that you feel requires tagging; can include jokey tumblr-style tags here; may also pull from the "Additional Tags" list from the URL above, if applicable; otherwise, write "None" here.) <strong>Word Count:</strong> (if applicable; otherwise write "None") (Place any author/artist's notes BEFORE the asterisks. Leave the asterisks alone or you may not get points!) *** (Place your fill here. You can use HTML after the asterisks. FOR NSFW FILLS, please cross-link these fills and use clear tags. Refer to the body of the post above for more information. To place an image in your comment, use this code: <img src="LINK TO YOUR IMAGE" alt="DESCRIPTION OF YOUR IMAGE"/>. Consider posting only a thumbnail if the image is large. For more info, visit http://referees.dreamwidth.org/5647.html#images ) NSFW FILLS: Please cross-link these fills and tag them clearly. saso_afterhours is open to all NSFW fills. Written/text fills can be hosted on AO3 or saso_afterhours ONLY. Art/visual fills can be hosted anywhere; you may include a small safe-for-work thumbnail of the fill in your comment.	FILL: TEAM GRANDSTAND, [RATING] Replace RATING with the rating of your fill (G - E) Copy/paste/fill out the following form into your comment box. Delete the guidance text that's in parentheses. Make sure you use tags. Here is a BR Template Creator for your convenience if the textarea is confusing. (Please delete all text in parentheses as you go. LEAVE THE HEADER HTML ALONE or the bonus round scoring program can't parse your comment. Don't forget a comment subject!) <strong>Major Tags:</strong> (https://sportsanime.dreamwidth.org/1609.html, when applicable; otherwise write "None".) <strong>Other Tags:</strong> (anything else that you feel requires tagging; can include jokey tumblr-style tags here; may also pull from the "Additional Tags" list from the URL above, if applicable; otherwise, write "None" here.) <strong>Word Count:</strong> (if applicable; otherwise write "None") (Place any author/artist's notes BEFORE the asterisks. Leave the asterisks alone or you may not get points!) *** (Place your fill here. You can use HTML. FOR NSFW FILLS, please cross-link these fills and use clear tags. Refer to the body of the post above for more information. To place an image in your comment, use this code: <img src="LINK TO YOUR IMAGE" alt="DESCRIPTION OF YOUR IMAGE"/>. Consider posting only a thumbnail if the image is large. For more info, visit http://referees.dreamwidth.org/5647.html#images ) NSFW FILLS: Please cross-link these fills and tag them clearly. saso_afterhours is open to all NSFW fills. Written/text fills can be hosted on AO3 or saso_afterhours ONLY. Art/visual fills can be hosted anywhere; you may include a small safe-for-work thumbnail of the fill in your comment.

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.

If you see anyone breaking the code of conduct (e.g., causing drama, being rude) anywhere (not just DW), please contact the mods immediately.

SCORING

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

For prompts: 5 points each (maximum of 50 prompt points per team per round)

For fills:
First 4 fills by any member of your team: 20 points each
Fills 5-10: 15 points each
Fills 11-20: 5 points each
Fills 21-50: 2 points each
Fills 51+: 1 point 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 (see the line of links below this post).

Have a question? Check The FAQ first. If you still need help, feel free to contact the mods. Happy fanworking!

Comments

PROMPT: TEAM KAGEYAMA TOBIO/OIKAWA TOORU

[dynamite]

Ship: iwaizumi hajime / oikawa tooru or kageyama tobio / oikawa tooru
Fandom: haikyuu
Major Tags: character death, violence, gore
Other Tags: none

Prompt: oikawa tooru is not a genius: a Danganronpa AU

PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

[psiten]

Ship: Shin Seijuurou / or & Kobayakawa Sena
Fandom: Eyeshield 21
Major Tags: None.
Other Tags: Source material of AU has some serious issues with "magical natives" tropes. Please feel free to be better about that.

Prompt: Who's up for a Macross Zero AU?! I'm thinking maybe Shin as... Shin? (Seriously, that's his name.) And Sena as Mao, maybe with Mamori as Sara? But do whatever moves you!

Obligatory rundown on my show that most people here haven't seen: Prequel to the original Macross, set on Earth while the UN (yes, the UN) is at war with basically-Russia, but our heroes are in the South Pacific testing the newly designed "variable fighters" (later called Valkyries) when one non-sociable pilot named Shin crashes on a special island where the natives' history may hold the key to some artifacts left by the alien culture (Protoculture) that created humanity aeons ago. Before shit takes a right turn for the apocalyptic, Shin is in a mini love triangle with the island's head priestess Sara (who has magical singing powers because this is Macross) and Sara's tiny scamp of a little sister, Mao (who dreams of going to the big city). They teach him to respect the colors of the wind, as it were.

PROMPT: TEAM KAGEYAMA TOBIO/OIKAWA TOORU

[dynamite]

Ship: oikawa tooru / kageyama tobio
Fandom: haikyuu
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: none

Prompt: grass trial captain oikawa and fire trial captain kageyama are always contesting each other. it's probably super effective. Pokemon Sun/Moon AU.

(feel free to flip the weaknesses and make tobio a water trial captain.....)

Prompt: Team Daiya no Ace

[greenowl]

Ship: Hiyama Kiyooki/Wakana Tomochika
Fandom: Rookies
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: none

Prompt: Hunter x Hunter!AU where they hold one of the exams and they put the exam challengers through a lot

PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

[psiten]

Ship: Ayase Chihaya/Mashima Taichi/Wataya Arata
Fandom: Chihayafuru
Major Tags: None.
Other Tags: None.

Prompt: Macross Frontier AU... IN REVERSE! Chihaya is the unfairly gorgeous pilot, while Arata is the established male idol and Taichi is the newbie male idol fighting for her time and attention while everybody fights for their lives against the buggers Vajra.

... Frontier is recent enough that I don't need a setting rundown, right? Anyway, if you want to give this a try but don't know Frontier, drop me a line and I can tell you EVERYTHING <3

Prompt: Team Daiya no Ace

[greenowl]

Ship: Shinkai Hayato/Arakita Yasutomo/Toudou Jinpachi
Fandom: Yowamushi Pedal
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: none

Prompt: Pokemon AU, Toudou has a Pokemon saloon, Arakita is a gym leader and Shinkai works at a daycare.

PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

[psiten]

Ship: Kousaka Honoka / or & Sonoda Umi / or & Minami Kotori
Fandom: Love Live! School Idol Project
Major Tags: None.
Other Tags: None.

Prompt: For the adorable idol group, it's GOT to be Macross Delta AU? (Or do I mean that for a Macross Delta AU, it's got to be the adorable idol group? Either way.) You can make them Walküre when it's starting out, or have μ's be another tactical sound unit in another part of the galaxy... why would there only be one? It's a big galaxy!

Again, this series is new and I think a lot of people watched it, but if you want a setting run-down in order to do the prompt, I've got your back!

Prompt: Team Daiya no Ace

[greenowl]

Ship: Oikawa Tooru/Kuroo Tetsuro/Bokuto Koutarou
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: none

Prompt: idol AU. They're secretly dating, but enjoy putting on a show in front of the media to make everyone guess what their exact relationship is. Also they're a boyband, J Pop probably.

PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

[psiten]

Ship: Oikawa Tooru / or & Kageyama Tobio
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Major Tags: Supernatural elements.
Other Tags: None.

Prompt: Sort of a soulmate AU? But neither of our heroes have soul mates, assuming they even have souls. Oikawa is a veteran administrator in the soul mate assignment branch of the Celestial Office of Fate, and he just got an intern. Who. He. CANNOT. STAND.

prompt: team grandstand

[miaoujones]

Ship: taichi &/ chihaya &/ arata; or taichi &/ suou; or taichi &/ shinobu; or taichi &/ whoever you want from chihayafuru
Fandom: chihayafuru
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: none

Prompt: in which taichi is happy and content. (but would he even be taichi then... :/)
canon-divergent or wildly au settings equally encouraged.

PROMPT: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU

[hatchbacks]

Ship: Aomine Daiki/Midorima Shintarou
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: Animals, Supernatural Elements

Prompt: The Princess and the Frog AU

PROMPT: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU

[hatchbacks]

Ship: Miyaji Kiyoshi/Takao Kazunari
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: None

Prompt: Takao is a rookie cop partnered with stern veteran Miyaji.

PROMPT: TEAM KAGEYAMA TOBIO/OIKAWA TOORU

[chiharu]

Ship: Oikawa &/ Kageyama
Fandom: Haikyuu
Major Tags: Cisswap??? Oikawa? If you want.
Other Tags: Trans girl Kageyama

Prompt: Kageyama doesn't just want Oikawa to teach her how to serve. She wants to be as soft, as firm, and as lovely as Oikawa.

PROMPT: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU

[hatchbacks]

Ship: Himuro Tatsuya/Aomine Daiki
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: None

Prompt: Tatsuya goes to Touou instead of Yosen (can be set at any time, but post-established relationship preferred)

PROMPT: team akaashi keiji/bokuto koutarou

[earlgrey_milktea]

Ship: iwaizumi hajime/oikawa tooru
Fandom: haikyuu
Major Tags: violence maybe, mentions of mental health issues/ptsd
Other Tags: any and all your shounen stereotypical fights, awkward (b)romance, spoilers maybe, hurt/comfort

Prompt: (YET ANOTHER) SAMFLAM AU PLS
basically a sparkly supermodel by day turns into wannabe vigilante by night (complete with a dorky homemade hero costume) crosses paths with a lonely cop who keeps texting his mystery girlfriend whose only clues of existence is a pink umbrella and the occasional text back.....

PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

[psiten]

Ship: Nanase Haruka/Matsuoka Rin
Fandom: Free!
Major Tags: Animal/Human transformation, Supernatural elements
Other Tags: None.

Prompt: All is not well at Iwatobi Swimming Academy. A prince has lost his heart in battle, shattered into pieces and used to seal away a Monster Penguin - but the story isn't quite over. A ghostly apparition picks out a young dolphin named (no, not Iruka) Haruka and gives him the power to return the prince's heart. Now he just has to remember not to chirp, or he'll go back to being a dolphin until he can find water to swim in and return his borrowed human form. That, and he has to find his way around the Prince's protective best friend, Matsuoka Rin.

That's right. This is a Princess Tutu AU. BRING IT ON <3

PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

[psiten]

Ship: Sawamura Daichi/Sugawara Koushi
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Major Tags: None.
Other Tags: Supernatural Suga.

Prompt: High seas sailor Daichi thought he was getting the deal of a lifetime when he bought the first boat that he could truly call his own. What the previous owner didn't mention is that he believed the boat was haunted -- although that isn't exactly true, according to the beautiful apparition who appears in Daichi's cabin. Suga is a dryad, whose tree became the main rib of the boat, and now he goes where it goes, until the end of time.

PROMPT: TEAM TEAM AONE TAKANOBU/SUGAWARA KOUSHI

[spacewives]

Ship: Manami Sangaku / Teshima Junta
Fandom: Yowamushi Pedal
Major Tags: Character Death
Other Tags: None.

Prompt: Talk less, smile more. :)

PROMPT: TEAM TEAM AONE TAKANOBU/SUGAWARA KOUSHI

[spacewives]

Ship: Manami Sangaku / Teshima Junta
Fandom: Yowamushi Pedal
Major Tags: Character Death
Other Tags: None.

Prompt: "I'm the patron saint of mediocrities!" (Amadeus AU)

PROMPT: Team Otabek Altin/Yuri Plisetsky

[mousapelli]

Ship: Kuroo/Tsukishima
Fandom: Haikyuu
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: accidental butt photocopying if at all possible

Prompt: Office worker AU. Tsukishima is a normal office worker whose life is incredibly hard for any of the following reasons:
1. Kuroo is a senpai in his section who looks way too good in his suit and tie and keeps dragging tsukki out for drinks by his tie. they make out.
2. Tsukishima's office has the shittiest copier in the world so he has to keep calling the cute copy repair dude with the ridiculous hair who thinks Tsukki is breaking the copier on purpose just to call him again. They make out.
3. Tsukishima is the IT guy who has to keep answering the service desk requests for Kuroo which are plainly ridiculous excuses for Tsukki to have to trek up to his floor and endure comments about how often he 'services' Kuroo's 'equipment.' They make out.

Prompt: Team Grandstand

[moetushie]

Ship: Aomine & Kuroko & Midorima
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: Violence
Other Tags: that one time they played baseball in Edo Japan

Prompt: After his uncle's tea-shop goes up in smoke, young Kuroko has no choice but to recruit an itinerant swordsman and bespectacled ronin as bodyguards so he can find the samurai who smells like sunflowers! (That's right, it's a Samurai Champloo AU.)

PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

[psiten]

Ship: Himuro Izumi/Hayakawa Ryou
Fandom: Princess Nine
Major Tags: None.
Other Tags: Artificial Intelligence.

Prompt: Competing doctoral candidates in the field of artificial intelligence, both dying over their thesis projects.

[psiten]

Ship: Onoda Sakamichi/Manami Sangaku
Fandom: Yowamushi Pedal
Major Tags: Umm. This setting is likely to include abusive behavior and bullying? But you don't have to go there.
Other Tags: Genderchange.

Prompt: Manami and Onoda are cis girls starting at an elite high school for girls, in classic shoujo style. Like. Please. CLASSIC SHOUJO, with the pain and the lesbians and the vaguely inappropriate touching and tons of aesthetic *EVERYWHERE*. Bring in any characters you want (all cis girls for this, please, but no need to be femme for all of them).

PROMPT: TEAM KAGEYAMA TOBIO/OIKAWA TOORU

[chiharu]

Ship: Oikawa &/ Iwaizumi &/ Hanamaki &/ Matsukawa &/ Kunimi &/ Kindaichi &/ Yahaba &/ Watari &/ Kyoutani
Fandom: Haikyuu
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: Who has the dick piercing?

Prompt: AU where Seijou is an art school and their joint anatomy/whatever class has to sketch a nude model with a very impressive package. YOU CAN PICK WHO THE MODEL IS.

PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

[psiten]

Ship: Ukai Keishin/Takeda Ittetsu
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Major Tags: None.
Other Tags: Alcohol.

Prompt: Takeda leaves the reception for his best friend's wedding (did he have a crush on his friend? Who knows! You pick!) alone and decides to stop at a bar to decompress.

And then he meets this guy. (Spoiler: it's Ukai.)