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Bonus Round 1.5: 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 Kominato Ryousuke/Kuramochi Youichi, G
Other Tags: overuse and reference of classical music, very vague and wishy washy, i don't know what im doing
Word Count: 832
pls take this away from me i dont know what i have wrought here (also i did have specific pieces in mind when i started writing this but augh)
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There’s an old music room in the school, with stories of the piano playing itself at night, particularly when the moon is full. They say that there is a ghost, as all these stories go.
It’s how he meets Midorima, on a night he wanders out to the music room. He’s simply curious, and he can’t remember the last time he’s heard someone play Debussy. Akashi watches him for a minute, or maybe more. So it’s you. Midorima finishes the piece he’s playing before he turns to look at Akashi. He’s solid, not at all like a ghost.
Are you a ghost? The question begs to be asked, and Akashi lets his curiosity get the better of him. No, I’m not. They stare at each other for a minute. Midorima adjusts his glasses primly, then starts on a sonata by Schubert.
When he leaves, Midorima is still playing. The sound of it is muted when he closes the door, and Akashi goes back to his room wondering if he has imagined the entire experience.
--
Akashi is almost certain that Midorima Shintarou is a ghost. But he is solid, real in a way Akashi cannot ascribe to many things. But in the small hours, perhaps they are both ghosts, haunting the old music room. The piano plays, sometimes Akashi, but more often Midorima.
It doesn’t feel real, the way late nights take on the hazy feeling of dreams. A part of Akashi is almost certain he is in his bed, sleeping. But he is also here, watching Midorima’s long fingers stretch over the black and white keys of the piano with a surety of someone who has spent years playing.
It turns into a habit, wandering into the old music room when it’s late and he’s restless, listening to Midorima play. He never has any sheet music with him, and yet he plays with the long practice of someone who knows the pieces by heart, having played them over and over again. They don’t talk very much during these times, and Akashi doesn’t comment on the pieces Midorima chooses to play. Many of them are tinged with a sense of melancholy that Akashi cannot shake. It lingers, well into the next day when daylight should have banished such feelings.
You know, some people think that the room’s haunted by a ghost. Akashi tells him, sitting next to Midorima. His hands are resting on the keys, and he has an urge to play something, anything. His fingers run over an arpeggio, familiar and easy, coming to rest in a chord.
What is a ghost anyways? Midorima asks. Are memories not ghosts of a sort too? Akashi mulls it over, while Midorima starts up another piece. It’s not a classical piece, at least not one that Akashi recognizes, something lilting and full of vague yearning. Akashi doesn’t know why he thinks it sounds incomplete, only that he does.
He leaves after that song, bidding Midorima good night as he closes the door behind him.
--
He brings his violin with him one night, watches as Midorima’s fingers dance over the piano’s keys in a familiar nocturne. Akashi picks up his violin and joins in, fingers moving through a vaguely remembered melody. They play one nocturne after another, until Midorima stops, his hands resting on the keys. The last note hangs in the air, yearning and incomplete.
Why do you stay? Akashi asks, but Midorima merely looks at him, head tilted a little.
Why does anyone? For the first time, he looks tired. Or perhaps, this is the first time Akashi is realizing, caught up as he is in these late nights, his attention on Midorima’s hands and not his face.
It is strange he has never noticed it before, or perhaps he’s never wanted to before. Midorima turns away, his fingers curved over the piano and poised to play.
It is familiar in its triadic rise and fall, and Akashi lifts his violin to join. He can’t remember learning this song, but the first note he plays is long and haunting, slowly rising. The song rises and falls in parts, but retains a sense of calm melancholy throughout. It leaves an ache in Akashi’s chest, and a sense he has forgotten something he should know.
Do you remember? Midorima asks, long after the last note has faded. Akashi shakes his head, but he can hear something like the chiming of bells and the rush of wind, something lingering on the edge of his memory. There, the sound of his mother’s laughter, except his mother has been dead for years, and yet, he can almost hear her calling his name. Seijuurou, come here.
He bids Midorima good night and takes his leave, unable to shake the feeling he has forgotten something terribly important.
--
Inside the old music room, Midorima sighs and closes the piano. He will try again, tomorrow night and the night after, until Akashi remembers, until he’s ready to let go of Akashi as well.
Re: FILL: TEAM Kominato Ryousuke/Kuramochi Youichi, G
(wow i suck at recognizing pieces but the first one...clair de lune?)
this is so lovely and atmospheric and melancholy and oh MIDORIN;; the last part where they played together, and then when akashi remembers his mom........aaaaa o)-<
thank you so much for the fill ;;; i really enjoyed this!!
Re: FILL: TEAM Kominato Ryousuke/Kuramochi Youichi, G
Clair de lune ye, actually let me just.. make a bunch of links i was too tired to do last night after staring at the fill for the better part of the day
debussy, schubert, mystery piece #1, mystery piece #2
but also aaaaaaaaaaaaa i'm glad you enjoyed it!! when i saw the prompt i just whispered oh no to myself and put it on my to fill list o(-( thank u for the prompt!!
Re: FILL: TEAM Kominato Ryousuke/Kuramochi Youichi, G
I love anything classical music... and I just love it even more here with the haunting, haunted, poignant atmosphere you've woven around these liminal moments that Akashi and Midorima share. I am a huge sucker for these sorts of stories that linger on the unsaid, on memory, and the thought of memory being a kind of haunting too. Midorima's quiet devotion is what really kicks me in the heart here ;____; he's so patient, even Akashi asks why he remains, but it's so true to his character and his regard for Akashi that he'll keep returning for as long as he needs to. That they both need to let go of each other...! starts quietly sobbing
This was so beautiful, thank you for writing it.