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Bonus Round 1: AUs
SASO 2017 is over, but this round is perpetually open to new fills (no new prompts).
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)
Format your comment in one of the following ways:
| If PROMPTING: | If FILLING: | If FILLING as a TEAM GRANDSTAND participant: |
PROMPT: TEAM [YOUR SHIP]
| FILL: TEAM [YOUR SHIP], [RATING]
| FILL: TEAM GRANDSTAND, [RATING]
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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.
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FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, T
Other Tags: Swearing, not super familiar w this verse but, prompt sounded way too wildly appropriate to not do for these 2
Word Count: 755
***
“You’re back.”
Shit. He’d meant to freeze time and slip back into bed before Taiga woke up, make it like he’d never been gone—not lie per se, just omit the truth, the wear and tear on his body that he can mend and melt away, the things that are, in the scheme of things, inconsequential.
“I’m back,” says Tatsuya.
“Dice quest again?”
Tatsuya nods. Of all the things he’s grateful for regarding Taiga (starting with Taiga being in his life at all, Taiga loving him after everything, Taiga loving him like this) perhaps the biggest and most complex is that Taiga isn’t a Dicer. Taiga doesn’t need it; he’s got so much talent of his own—and even if he hadn’t, there are still things it does to Tatsuya, ways in which it stretches him thin, more things he can’t make up for with more dice.
“Tatsuya,” says Taiga, but then nothing.
Tatsuya sits down on the edge of the bed; Taiga pulls back the covers and pulls him in.
-
Tatsuya’s been an A-Rank for a while now. It’s been two years and change since the first time they’d gone to the street court on one of Taiga’s off-night and Tatsuya had expected everything to change. He’d thought, maybe, this would be it; he’d be on equal footing with Taiga; he could compete; he could stop spending all of his nights on dice quests, gathering more, solidifying his power. He’d upped his stamina, amplified his arms again, and Taiga had beaten him soundly.
It’s gotten a little bit better since he’d started; the scores between them have shrunk just a little bit, but not enough—it would only be enough if there was a possibility of a back-and-forth seesaw, true competition. It’s still not close to enough. Every roll is another enhancement, better legs or better endurance, more strength or greater range. Every roll only brings him a millimeter closer, and at this point it seems as if he’d need every last die in the world and it still might not be enough, even with the S-Die.
He is warned that if he pushes much further he’ll break, but that can’t be true, can it? Taiga’s so far past these physical limitations, the way he leaps in the air, the sureness of his dunk or his block. Or maybe it’s just Tatsuya’s shitty body, rotten luck of being born with something that can only be enhanced so much, the fragile frame of a car that crumples when hit head-on instead of a sturdy body that can smash into anything. It’s not fair, but life’s not fair—but aren’t dice supposed to tilt the odds in his favor?
-
He’s beginning to crack, beginning to reach his limits; all the power of the dice weighs him down. His jumpers are flat; the scoring gap is worse; his dribbles falter. His game is weak. Taiga sits down next to him on the concrete ridge at the bottom of the fence. His arm worms around Tatsuya’s waist, scratched at by the peeled edges of the fence’s links.
“I don’t like what this does to you.”
“I don’t like not being able to compete with you,” says Tatsuya.
(It’s not the point; he doesn’t like what this does to him either, but somewhere down the line it’s going to be worth it, maybe, hopefully.)
“Tatsuya—you know I don’t think any less of you. Because of all this.”
Were Tatsuya younger, he might have made some sort of remark to clarify that all this means him not being that good, but it would hurt them both too much to say (he still runs the edge over the tip of his tongue). And it’s not even really the point; the point is that it might never change, that dice and moved goalposts and all, this is all he’s ever going to be, and this, as he is, can’t be enough.
Taiga raises Tatsuya’s palm to his lips and kisses the heel of his hand, meets his eyes.
“Please, Tatsuya. Don’t keep fucking with your body. I—basketball—it’s. I don’t care about basketball, however good either of us is—all I want is you.”
Tatsuya’s rolled himself enough clairvoyance that he could verify this as true, but he’s never needed to dip into that with Taiga. Hearing this, though, is pure and clear like a siren in the middle of the night; Tatsuya almost can’t process it.
“Please,” Taiga says again, his voice breaking like a dead radio. “Stay here.”
Re: FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, T
Re: FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, T
and now i'm reading this again and i'm just that prince of egypt gif backwards
this is hurting me omggggg op just the way that himuro keeps trying not because he really likes the dice but because he's always wanted to be on equal footing with kagami. and the way you laid it out into three little sections with each one hurting more than the last is also so, so good.
this line in particular absolutely killed me: “I don’t like not being able to compete with you,” says Tatsuya.
THANK YOU FOR THIS FILL
Re: FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, T
but yeah it's about the result not the process; tatsuya would do anything and disregard what it does to him just for a slim chance of gaining more level ground :( (that bit with the sections was unintentional but....tbh i'm glad it worked that way....!)