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 GRANDSTAND

[psiten]

Ship: Atobe Keigo/Akutagawa Jirou
Fandom: Prince of Tennis
Major Tags: None.
Other Tags: Reference to marriage, arranged marriage.

Prompt: Akutagawa Jirou is one of the best wedding planners in the business, but he just did the one thing you can never do: he fell for the groom in a high-society arranged marriage.

Re: PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

[multilinear]

uncontrollable tears streaming down my face, this is it, this is what my whole life has been building up to

Re: PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

[psiten]

Yay! I'm glad you like!

FILL: TEAM PRINCE OF TENNIS, G

[multilinear]

Major Tags: none.
Other Tags: none.
Word Count: 484


***


Jirou is surrounded by tulle and fifteen different swatches of sky blues. He's not even sure which is the Right One, but it's probably none of these, and he should have gone with his first instinct after all. He's usually right about these things.

His desk is no less comfortable than it was yesterday, but Jirou wakes up instinctively, some sixth sense alerting him to the fact there is someone else in his presence. Or rather, he was in the presence of someone else. Jirou tears himself away from the dream-tulle, and the dream swatches, and wakes up to see,

(the color of heaven)

piercing eyes staring at, or through, him.

Atobe Keigo is his newest client. He is probably going to be the client that makes his career, and Jirou is pretty okay with that. What's more disconcerting is how closely Atobe is studying him, like he can see right past Jirou's face and read what's in his head. On the off chance he can, Jirou yawns, and then smiles. "Hi."

"You were sleeping." Atobe doesn't look that angry for a guy who's found a contracted employee asleep on the job, but as far as Jirou can tell, Atobe is the benevolent dictator sort. "Do you do this often?" He sounds gently puzzled and (very, very possibly) concerned.

"Probably," Jirou laughs, but he can't escape those eyes. He's quite sure that the color swatches are wrong now, entirely positive about it. They should be darker, and greyer. "I'm never awake enough to find out."

"Hn." Atobe's scrutiny dissolves into a kinder look, like he might understand how tiring Jirou's job is. "Ore-sama will send you something for it. My personal blend of espresso." He wrinkles his nose slightly at the idea of common coffee, and Jirou hopes Atobe never finds out about the instant coffee somewhere in his house.

So he changes subject. "But you weren't here to wake me up for that, were you?"

"No." Kabaji (and Jirou still isn't sure if that's his family name, or if he only goes by the mononym) steps forward and hands him in his massive hands a set of photographs. "These were taken at my parents' wedding."

"And you'd like to incorporate something like this into yours?" Jirou flips through them one by one, and he can see where Atobe's gotten his aristocratic features. They look like perfect dolls, husband and wife, stiffly formal and impeccably posed. Jirou can't imagine Atobe doing anything like that.

"If we must."

The rare sign of disobedience from the family's heir makes Jirou's smile grow wider. "I'll see what I can do," he promises, and finally he frees a small, upturned quirk from Atobe's stern mouth.

"Ore-sama commands only the best," Atobe replies loftily, but the smile doesn't go away.

Jirou waves at him while Kabaji escorts Atobe out, and ignores how his heart skips a beat.

Re: FILL: TEAM PRINCE OF TENNIS, G

[psiten]

Ah! How precious! I love how Jirou can tell this isn't Atobe's style, and he can tell that Atobe understands <3