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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]
|
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!
PROMPT: Team Daiya no Ace
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: None
Prompt: AU where Oikawa and Futakuchi are cousins.
FILL: TEAM PRINCE OF TENNIS, G
Other Tags: spoiler alert! also, oh my god, im sorry? im very passionate about futakuchi specifically
Word Count: 694
wow. this was. ??
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Tooru is barely one when his cousin Kenji is born.
Kenji’s mom is his mom’s sister - and their moms are close. They live within train distance of each other, meet often for holiday, and even for birthdays.
Tooru is five when they first meet, and he doesn’t like the way his cousin’s face is chubby, or the way he laughs, or the way he manages to take his mom’s attention from him. More importantly, he doesn’t like how Kenji trails around behind him, a smile on his face and fingers grabbing at his shirt.
He is not endeared. Not at all. Not by Kenji’s little giggles when someone pokes him, or his peals of laughter when he’s tickled. Much more, he is not endeared by the fact that Kenji wants to do volleyball because his cool cousin wants to.
( He is definitely endeared. )
Tooru and Kenji grow apart, quite understandably. They drift away as they go to different schools, and as they make their own friends. Tooru finds a boy named Iwaizumi Hajime, who torments him with bugs and other gross stuff, but Hajime still supports him even if he’s a little rough.
Kenji, on the other hand, has always been a chatterbox, and talks off poor Aone Takanobu’s head, but Takanobu is a good listener, and so he doesn’t mind. Takanobu likes volleyball too, and he likes it when Kenji gets excited about things, because he gets a gleam in his eye and his smile reaches farther.
Tooru knows that Kenji is good at volleyball, but they never meet in tournaments in primary school. They see each other from across the gymnasium, but never across the court.
Tooru goes to Aoba Jousei, because their volleyball team is very good, and because that’s where Hajime wants to go too. It’s close to their homes, as well, so it’s pretty convenient too. He’s not in love with the uniform - the pants go against every law of fashion he believes in, but … Seijou is a good school. And he’s the district’s best setter. With Hajime, they’ll be unstoppable.
( They aren’t. Shiratorizawa stops them in their tracks. )
Kenji, on the other hand, goes to Date Kougyou because Takanobu is going. And Datekou has a good volleyball team - but in all the different ways. Their blocking rate is unbelievable, and both he and Takanobu are tall. They’re good blockers - Takanobu especially. They tell themselves they’re going to take the tournament circuit by storm.
( They’re working on it. )
They meet in the Spring High and it’s bittersweet. They both want to win so bad, and yet, only one of them can walk off the court. Tooru is proud, a little, of how much his baby cousin has grown in the years, but he is also determined to win. This is his last chance to make it to Nationals with Hajime, and he is going to win.
It frustrates the both of them - and yet, there is no regret or hatred in their hearts when Seijou wins. But it is still such a bitter, bitter feeling, to win against someone he has known all his life.
( They have never been particularly close, but Kenji asked for help on how to lead, how to play better, how to do better, and the fact that he asked Tooru touched his heart. )
Tooru swears that they will beat Karasuno and Shiratorizawa, because not only is it his goal, but because it is also for his younger cousin, who works so hard to be half as good as Ushijima.
( It does not happen that way. Tooru is left with too many regrets, too many tears, and a dream that can no longer be a reality. )
He is done with volleyball now. He still practices with his team, but his time in secondary school volleyball is over. If he indulges his cousin in practice matches, and gives him advice he didn’t know he needed, well, that’s another thing. Kenji has another year to go, and his cousin is strong and determined. He doesn’t have a behemoth like Ushijima standing in his way, and if Tooru can help his cousin reach Nationals - well, that’s enough.
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Thank you so much for this!!!! I'm still screaming!!!!!!! Ahhhhhhh
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thank you ;w;!! im so glad you like it a lot aaahh ;;;;
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FILL: Team Miyuki Kazuya/Oikawa Tooru, G
Other Tags: Food
Word Count: None
so, oikawa and futakuchi at family gatherings and getting a little too into the video game tournaments (click through for the bigger images!)
***
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OIKAWA'S FACE IN THE LAST PANEL. THE MIXTURE OF SALTINESS AND REGRET WHILE BRIMMING WITH TEARS
Re: FILL: Team Miyuki Kazuya/Oikawa Tooru, G
THANK YOU FIN :DDD
FILL: TEAM GRANDSTAND, G
Other Tags: None
Word Count: 723
This one was written to go with nautilics' comic. Thank you for the prompt, I love Oifuta :')
***
“You know, Tooru, Kenji used to be your favourite cousin. He was the first boy you ever played volleyball with—”
“Ugh, I don't remember! I only remember Iwa-chan!”
“I think we still have photos somewhere… he was taller than you back then!”
“—when we get home, I’m burning them.”
It would be him, of course. It would be him who sat down next to Takeru, smiled and bribed him all too easily with the cherry-red snake from his packet of sour gummies, and shoved him out of the way to pick up Player 2’s gamepad.
“Why does it have to be you?” Tooru grumbles.
Kenji cracks his knuckles and smirks.
“Thanks, Takeru!” he calls loudly over his shoulder. “I’ll take you to Li’l Tykes next week!”
“That’s my job!” Oikawa yelps.
“Aren’t I kind to take it off your hands? Hey Takeru, who’s your favourite uncle—”
“Don’t answer that!”
But Takeru’s already gone off somewhere else to play, and Kenji’s settled down into a way too comfortable cross-legged position and mashed the New Game button while Tooru was distracted, and his car’s got the jump on Tooru’s and there’s a flashy plastic cone flying his way and if there’s one thing Tooru hates more than Kenji’s stupid sour gummies, it’s losing.
“You jerk,” he mutters, and pretends not to notice the grin that Kenji throws his way.
In truth—
“Hey.”
He turns. A split-second later, and he would have been too late; but it is not for nothing that they spent all those long, languid summers out in the yard at Aunty Yuki’s, and with unerring reflexes, Tooru reaches up to catch the ball that comes flying towards his face.
Kenji stops where he is, just beyond the shade of the old camphor tree. Hands on hips, hair mussed and T-shirt half-untucked, he is a far cry from his poise on court, and yet—
That grit, thinks Tooru in begrudging recognition, and crouches low.
When he springs up and off his heels, ball arcing in a perfect toss, Kenji leaps to spike it. It hits the top of the fence, lightly grazing the edge before tipping back into their side of the garden.
“Geh,” Kenji mutters. “That nearly went over.”
Tooru smiles, smug. “It wouldn’t have.”
“Huh? How do you know?”
“Because I set the toss for you. I know how you spike, Kenji.”
A moment passes, so infinitesimal Tooru might have dreamt it, but as he holds it tight, clenches, unclenches his fist, Kenji pulls a face at him and makes a well-worn retort about how much Tooru creeps him out.
Tooru gives him a V-sign and goes to collect the ball.
In truth, he does remember.
Of course he remembers.
After the match, Tooru finds Kenji outside the Datekou locker room, but he has nothing to say. He’s not going to apologise. He’s not going to feel sorry for them, either. So he leans back, stares at the ceiling, thinks, one of the lights looks like it’s going out. It is flickering on and off in the most annoying way. There is a crack next to it that looks like it might become a leak.
“Do you ever think,” he says, “about how we could have been on the same team?”
Kenji, through narrowed eyes, shoots him a look.
He doesn’t answer, not for a while. He digs his heel into the wall, zips up his green and white jacket and brushes a speck of dust off the sleeve.
He wears it with pride, thinks Tooru, and realises he knows the feeling too.
“Yeah,” says Kenji. He pauses before speaking again, his voice level, and careful. “But it’s better that we’re not.”
Tooru laughs. It’s a quiet chuckle, without pity, without regret.
“I’m glad you think so too. My life would be so much more boring without you to beat.”
Kenji kicks him in the shin. Tooru lets him.
“My team is waiting for me. I have to go.”
“See you at New Year’s,” Tooru calls after Kenji’s retreating back. “You owe me ten rounds of Mario Kart!”
As Kenji walks out the gym doors, Tooru catches sight of the middle finger he briefly flashes him, and he is glad of the shadows and the solitude that hide his smile, for now.
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Thank you for filling!! It was a treat to read and just, ahhhh ;;;;
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