Bonus Round 1.5: AUs

[referees]

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


Second verse, same as the first! This is an overflow post for br1, meant to hold new prompts and their fills (so that we don't hit comment cap on the first br post).

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.

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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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Comments

PROMPT: TEAM KAGEYAMA TOBIO/OIKAWA TOORU

[intricacies]

Ship: kagami &/ aomine &/ kuroko
Fandom: kuroko no basuke
Major Tags: implied deaths
Other Tags: supernatural elements, aokaga are idiots

Prompt: ghost adventures au but aokaga eventually end up trying to fight the ghosts. [aomine voice] COME AND HARM ME (he would later regret that command)

Re: PROMPT: TEAM KAGEYAMA TOBIO/OIKAWA TOORU

[moetushie]

I love this 😚

FILL: Team Himuro Tatsuya/Nijimura Shuuzou, T

[cherrysalmon]

Major Tags: implied dead character
Other Tags: a lot of swearing, drunkenness (aomine didn't start drinking until they stopped the car), ghosts
Word Count: 758

sorry

***

“This is a shit idea.”

“Fuck you, this is great.”

Kagami stands shivering in the snow, fumbles with his flashlight, and almost drops it. Aomine’s too busy flipping over some tires to notice him. Maybe this is his cue, Kagami thinks as the icy wind stings his face, to run away. Run back to the car, rev up the engine, leave Aomine to die out here in the cold because he deserves it.

Too bad Aomine’s the one with the car keys. (Kagami made a mental note to steal them back, because there is no way he’s gonna let Aomine anywhere near the driver’s seat at this point.)

“Oi!” Aomine shouts, into the darkness of the deserted parking lot. He waves around a stick they’d found half-buried near the car menacingly. “I know you’re there, fucking ghost!”

“We’re gonna die,” Kagami mutters to himself, teeth chattering. “We’re gonna fucking die out here you idiot, stop calling them to us, what—”

“Ghosts aren’t fucking real, Bakagami,” Aomine says, clearly too drunk to realize he’s the one who’s even more scared of ghosts than Kagami is. He walks up to the broken glass door, knocking at the brick wall. “They’re…they’re haunting, the Blockbuster.”

“You…you just said they aren’t real,” Kagami says incredulously, but Aomine’s already let himself inside. Whether or not Aomine’s ignoring him because of the alcohol or if he’s just that big of an asshole remains to be seen; Kagami sighs, biting his lip, and follows him. He’d been the one who’d joked about them going on an adventure, after all—but he hadn’t known it would’ve come down to this.

“Why the fuck am I even here.”

“Because you love me?”

“I hate you,” Kagami mutters. Then, “Oi, where the hell are you? I can’t see a thing.”

“I’m—“

There’s a crash, and he hears Aomine curse somewhere to the right of him. Only the tiniest bit of streetlight filters in through the holes in the door, and suddenly Kagami feels the hair stand up at the back of his head. Ghosts or not, it’s clear from the musty scent and lack of electricity that nobody’s been here for a long time.

(And even if there have been—he isn’t sure he wants to be accidentally walking into a meth lab, or something.)

“Hey, Ahomine,” Kagami whispers, urgently. “There’s nothing here, okay? We should leave.”

“What, you scared?”

He really shouldn’t have let Aomine have at his beer stash in the trunk. Kagami would probably laugh at him later for only daring to explore this place with alcohol in his system, but at the moment he isn’t feeling much braver either. There’s something spooky about the tiny bits of light reflecting off the metal railings, the deserted countertops—

Then he hears footsteps.

“Aomine, this isn’t funny.”

“I’m fucking funny, Kagami,” Aomine slurs, but his sound’s still coming from the right of Kagami as he maneuvers his way to where his boyfriend stands. Kagami swallows. The footsteps, if he’d heard correctly—it was the wind, it had to be—had come from his left. “I can out-funny a ghost anytime. Hey ghost, wanna hear a joke?”

“Aomine—“

“Is that his name?” comes a soft voice, unfamiliar, right next to Kagami's ear. “Aomine-kun?”

Kagami screams at the same time Aomine does, and he reaches out to grab his boyfriend by the wrist as he turns around to dash out the door, banging it open as they scramble out into the cold. He feels his legs buckle as he slows, and he kneels into the soft snow, panting. It’s cold enough that there’s no smell of rust in the air, but he can start feeling the cuts on his shoulder from the glass they’d just broken through. It hadn’t been a lot of glass, but—

He chances a look backwards now that they are far enough away. Seeing nothing but the terrifying black void of the doorway, Kagami exhales slowly as he stands up again, shaking. “Fuck, what the fuck, was that—“

“It’s just me.”

Kagami freezes.

Aomine’s hand is still in his, cold, dry, surprisingly un-sweaty for someone who sweats as much as he does. It’s also small—too small to be Aomine’s.

Kagami looks up slowly, finding himself staring into the hollow eyes of a young man, snowflakes falling steadily into his light blue hair. The streetlight behind him shines right through him, golden and eerie. Somehow, he finds himself unable to let go.

“Hello,” the ghost says. “I’m Kuroko Tetsuya. Do you want to borrow a movie?”

Kagami faceplants into the snow.

Re: FILL: Team Himuro Tatsuya/Nijimura Shuuzou, T

[moetushie]

Oh my God, Kuroko haunting a Blockbuster, oh mooooo. My poor baby.

I love this. I bet they're in for a lot of fun ghost shenanigans.

Re: FILL: Team Himuro Tatsuya/Nijimura Shuuzou, T

[cherrysalmon]

i wanted him to haunt a library at first, but like, what would aokaga be doing...in a library...lmao /brick'd

oh trust me they are ahaha...if they can stop being spooked by kuroko every time he appears, that is

Re: FILL: Team Himuro Tatsuya/Nijimura Shuuzou, T

[moetushie]

I mean, they'd definitely sleep in a library, especially if they're supposed to be studying. :P

(Wait, do kids study in libraries anymore? Lol, I'm so old.)

Same as canon!

Re: FILL: Team Himuro Tatsuya/Nijimura Shuuzou, T

[crescenttwins]

This was such a treat to read! The tension is palpable and I was terrified that I was about to read something that would keep me up at night, but that ending was a+++ and the perfect bit of humor to dispel all that stress at once.

Thank you so much for sharing!