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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 MIYUKI KAZUYA/OIKAWA TOORU
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: selfcest, possible horror, mirror kissing maybe?
Prompt: Akashi thinks there's a man in the mirror. Akashi thinks he looks exactly like him, as all reflections should be, but there's something more to him. Something more in the way other's right eye sometimes flickers yellow. (Oh, mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the most absolute of them all?)
FILL: TEAM PRINCE OF TENNIS, T
Other Tags: Creepy!
Word Count: 415 words
***
The man in the mirror says a lot of things.
The man in the mirror says he isn't a man, he's only a boy, because Akashi's only a boy because Akashi never grew up.
(A flower stripped of its petals withers and dies, Akashi, and you died young.)
Akashi tells the servants to stop filling the house with mixed bouquets. He wants daises instead.
White and innocent, shining little sunshine-hearted blooms. There's a big vase of them on his desk, scentless but shining.
Sometimes, when he's concentrating hard on something, he loses track of time. When he comes back to himself, he inevitably finds his mouth full of soft, sodden flower petals, chewed and chewed into a wet mass that he chose not to swallow for whatever reason.
He spits them out into a tissue and then flushes them down the toilet in his bedroom. If the servants find it strange that that there are so many flowers in his vase that are nothing but golden eyes, they know better than to comment.
The man in the mirror wears a daisy crow these days and has gold flecKs smudged on his lips like glittering pollen.
Akashi tells him it's tacky and the man in the mirror laughs.
(Does it look as if I kissed Ryota? Are you repulsed by the thought of allowing anyone so close to you?)
Sometimes, his reflection moves without Akashi moving. Sometimes it reaches out and touches a glass-cool hand against Akashi's cheek.
People don't touch Akashi. Ever.
He's not sure if this what a real human hand would feel like. When he puts his own hand on his other hand, it feels coarse compared to his reflection's hand. Too warm, almost clammy under his chin where the palm curves.
That's good. If his hallucinations are unrealistic, that makes it easier to remember they aren't real.
(I was you for years. I'm real. There are photographs, interviews, medals, trophies and certificates in your room that belong to me.)
He feels like a parasite that has taken its host skin when he looks at all the awards he accumulated over the years.
Some are his. Most are not.
If he throws them out, his father will question why.
(Don't. You want them there. You want the security of knowing you can always be me again if you need to.)
He asks the servants to remove all the mirrors from his room.
He says he has no time for vanity; his father approves.
FILL: Team Imaizumi Shunsuke/Kinjou Shingo, T
Other Tags: mild horror/body horror, possession
Word Count: 456
***
Akashi is in middle school the first time the mirror flickers. Nijimura has just handed the team over to him, and he feels the responsibility settle on his shoulders, just one more weight among many. When he looks in the mirror that night, his reflection seems to waver, and he swears one eye is suddenly yellow instead of red.
He blinks and his reflection is back to normal, and he writes it off as a trick of the light coupled with fatigue.
By the end of the year, the weight of responsibility to the team has grown into a heavy burden. His teammates are all growing, and he fears he won't be able to keep up. But failure isn't an option. When he looks in the mirror now, the reflection that looks back always has one yellow eye.
The first time his reflection moves without him, he wonders if he's going mad. He's afraid, and in his locked bathroom in his locked room in an empty house, he finally lets his mask crack, and for a second, he lets the fear show.
His reflection doesn't mimic him. It smiles—a terrible smile that nevertheless seems to promise greatness—and it tempts him.
But he resists that night and turns away from his mirror. Every night he challenges himself, and every night he resists the pull of his reflection.
Then the day comes when he nearly loses to Murasakibara in practice, and he knows his first loss to one of his teammates is imminent. He's not strong enough, and when his reflection beckons, he finally gives in and rests his forehead on the mirror.
He closes his eyes, and when he opens them again, he's on the other side of the glass. The yellow-eyed creature who had been trapped where he is now is inhabiting his body, and when it smiles at him, he feels a sudden flash of fear and wonders if he's made a terrible mistake.
There's nothing in the space behind the mirror, just a blank, windowless room with a lone stool in the middle for him to sit on. Every day, he promises himself he'll demand to be let back out, but every night when his reflection looks back at him, he finds himself caught in the pull of its hypnotic gaze as it shows him scenes of victory.
It's not until long after the creature leaves that the pull fades, and then he can see everyone's unhappiness and the cost of victory, and he regrets. He begins to wonder if he can break the mirror. He wonders if doing so will free him or destroy him. He wonders if it matters if it will finally break the creature's hold over him.