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Bonus Round 2: Tic-Tac-Toe
Please read this whole post before commenting to ensure that your team gets the most points possible. There's a lot of text here, but if you read carefully and follow the instructions step by step, you will be okay.
RULES
Please refer to the first comment thread of this post for an example of how this round works.PROMPTING
- Select a ship to create your prompt card about. Platonic relationships are indicated by an "&" between the names (e.g., Haruki & Kazuma). Non-platonic relationships use "/" (e.g., Haruki/Kazuma). Please don't say "Any pairing," either!
- Visit this card generator.
- Here is a visual guide to using it.
- The large text box is where you can list prompts if you have your own ideas. Please list at least 9 prompts; you can list more if you want. (The generator says you need at least 24, but it's lying.) Single words or short phrases are better than sentences.
- Otherwise, you can use the dropdown menu found right below it. Note: some of these prompts lists are NSFW. (NSFW prompts are a-ok as long as you tag for it.) If you don't like some of the options that appear in a prompt list, you can delete them.
- Text prompts only, please. Also, each card square must be unique—don't list the same prompt 9 times.
- In "Configuration Options," make sure you select 3x3 and (Normal prompt). This is the most important step!
- Leave the tic-tac-toe card with its default colors, so everyone can read it clearly.
- Click the "Create a bingo card" button.
- Scroll down to see the card that was created for you. If you don't like the prompts it picked, you can reroll by clicking "Create a bingo card" again.
- When you're satisfied, scroll further down the page until you see a textarea box full of HTML.
- Copy and paste the HTML from the box and into the body of your prompt comment, then post!
FILLING
Fill prompts by selecting an individual square to create fanwork for, then leaving a responding comment to the prompt with your newly-created work. (Optional:) If you can fill three squares from a prompt in a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal line, you get a tic-tac-toe (and an additional point bonus)! You can also just fill prompts as you please and get standard points.
- Prompt squares are labeled as follows:
A1 B1 C1 A2 B2 C2 A3 B3 C3 - If you're trying for tic-tac-toe, you cannot combine squares into one fill. If your fill can satisfy multiple squares, pick the most relevant square: e.g., one square is sailing and another is pirates and you make a fill about pirates sailing, it's mostly pirates so put down the pirates square.
- Each fill must stand alone as an individual piece, but all your fills can slot into a larger universe if you'd like.
- You cannot fill a prompt square more than once, but you can fill every square on a tic tac toe card if you want to.
- You cannot work with your teammates to get a tic-tac-toe. Only individually achieved tic-tac-toes get the bonus.
- Multiple people can fill the same prompt square. You cannot "block" others from getting tic-tac-toe.
- Remember to also follow the general bonus round rules, outlined here.
- Here is a prompt/fill index for your convenience.
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/images)
- 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], [SQUARE], [RATING]
| FILL: TEAM GRANDSTAND, [SQUARE], [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 for each tic-tac-toe card (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
Tic-tac-toe Bonus: 2 points each for the first 12 achieved by your team
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 THE PRINCE OF TENNIS
Fandom: Kuroko No Basuke
Major tags: none
Other tags: THE GREAT SCHOOL SWAP
Prompt:
Re: PROMPT: TEAM THE PRINCE OF TENNIS
Re: PROMPT: TEAM THE PRINCE OF TENNIS
Akashi and Kuroko at Kirisaki Daichi were already done last round which is why they escaped. But yeah, basically just want to see all the awful people do awful things.
FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, C3, T
Fandom: kuroko no basuke
Major Tags: violence, physical abuse
Other Tags: purposely-inflicted sports injuries
Square: Murasakibara at Kirisaki Daīchi
Word Count: 1014
***
Murasakibara is not a guy so easily led. There are tips and tricks to it, because he's not without temptation or weakness, but so far only a few have learned enough to exploit it, mostly because he won't allow anyone close enough to find out. It's better this way; they won't be disappointed to realize he really does hate everything he says he hates, and they won't disappoint him with their smothering emotions. Everyone turns out to be the same, even Aka-chin. He could say Aka-chin is the worst of them all, succumbing to another part of himself like that.
Still, he thinks he'd follow Aka-chin for as long as they know each other, and maybe even when they're strangers. That's who they are now, practically, with Teikou behind them and all their collective want for it to stay that way.
That is, until he meets Hanamiya Makoto.
-
He's received several recruitment offers, and nearly accepts one for a school up north (he's heard their cafeteria food is out of this world) until he's approached by someone who seems familiar, though he can't put his finger on it. Being told his name doesn't help.
"Don't remember me? I'm not surprised. You're all too full of yourselves to remember your opponents," says Hanamiya, though he doesn't seem offended at all.
Neither is Murasakibara, despite knowing shittalk when he hears it. "That's a sucky way of inviting me to your school. Bye." He loses interest quickly, and if this Hanamiya guy has nothing but insults for him, he'd rather have the nice-tasting food. He shoves past Hanamiya, but oddly enough the shove only makes Hanamiya laugh out loud.
"I knew it. You'd be perfect." Hanamiya doesn't specify for what, exactly. "How does the prospect of not being bored at basketball sound to you?"
Murasakibara stops. He pushes a chip into his mouth, contemplating it, before turning around.
"Mmkay. I'll listen to you."
-
He does more than listen, in the end.
He says yes.
-
Hana-chin may be malicious and conniving, but he keeps to his word and that's all Murasakibara needs. He's seamlessly woven into the intricacy of Hana-chin's web, his size and strength useful for Hana-chin's underhanded schemes. He's plied with snacks by the other members of his club, basketball isn't as boring as it used to be, so life was pretty good.
His former teammates aren't so happy with it.
Mido-chin refuses to play in their match, and Kuro-chin looks at him like he'll never forgive him after what Kirisaki Daiichi does to his team and Kiyoshi Teppei, who had insisted that Murasakibara remember his name. So demanding. He got what was coming to him.
Aka-chin, too, gives him a call, his disapproval nearly immobilizing even through the phone. Murasakibara almost succumbs, almost says, 'okay, I won't do it anymore,' but then Hana-chin motions to the phone, mouths, "who's that?" and Murasakibara is reminded of what he has to lose.
"Sorry, Aka-chin," he says, and hangs up.
-
They make it through to Winter Cup, however Hana-chin insists that actually winning is secondary to having fun. Murasakibara doesn't really get it, but he admits that what they've been doing is working for him so far, so he has no complaints. They breeze through their first matches, and sometimes Murasakibara isn't required to play, given how easy it's all been. Hana-chin gives him permission to leave his spot on the bench to check out the vending machine to satiate his cravings, but when he gets there there's a guy who seems to have gotten the last of the potato chips.
Murasakibara levels him with a stare, but the guy only holds up the bag with an inquisitive smile.
"Oh, did you want this?"
Murasakibara nods. The guy laughs—to himself? at Murasakibara? whatever—and thrusts the chips at Murasakibara's chest, and it doesn't seem to be because he's scared.
"Take it. My treat."
He goes to leave, and Murasakibara is too dumbstruck to speak, but he does manage to ask for the guy's name. He's treated to another smile, somehow more mysterious than before.
"Himuro Tatsuya."
-
They go up against Muro-chin's team next, and try as he might, Murasakibara's heart is no longer in it. His mind keeps flickering to the potato chips in his bag, and though Muro-chin is way too hot-blooded on court, Murasakibara feels his stomach churn at imagining that serious expression turn into one of pain. He's clearly the scoring power of Yosen, which is why he's the one Hana-chin's set his sights on.
At time out, the yelling begins.
"What the hell's your problem?" Hana-chin has never had to raise his voice at him before. It has the opposite intended effect: Murasakibara wants to crush him, now.
"I don't wanna," he says, simply, though he doesn't say why. Hana-chin glares at him like he knows exactly why.
"If we lose..."
"Then we lose."
"You were a fucking stupid investment," says Hana-chin, voice clipped and furious as he leads the team back on court. Murasakibara wonders if he'd made a mistake as he watches Hana-chin lose his cool, watches as the score swings in Yosen's favor, and wonders if he'd just ensured that his school life will be a living hell from here on.
He watches Muro-chin make his beautiful shot and decides it would suck more to never see it again.
-
"You're not like the rest of them," says Muro-chin later, when he chances upon Murasakibara after the match.
"Like how?" says Murasakibara, just to see him fumble with his words.
"You're not— you didn't try to—"
"You're wrong." Murasakibara thinks of all the basketball careers cut short because of him, of every crunch and snap of bone that Hana-chin orchestrated, of the bruises that bloom on guys' faces when he runs into them post-game. "I just didn't do it to you."
Muro-chin frowns at that, like he doesn't quite know how to take it.
"Well," he says, after a short while. He doesn't smile at Murasakibara this time, but he isn't frowning anymore either. "It's a start."
Re: FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, C3, T
wow wow wow wow wow WOW I love this! I don't read much Murasakibara (let's be real, I only finished KnB during BR1 of SASO so it's not like I've been reading much KnB at all) so it was really interesting to see how you write him!
they won't be disappointed to realize he really does hate everything he says he hates,
That line is gloriously sparse and incisive, getting right to the heart of what it means to never have people believe that you really are as bad as you are.
Also the deliberate ineloquence of 'nice-tasting food' because yes, of course that's Murasakibara, he isn't going to rhapsodize over it. Your third person narrative is TIGHT and fantastic.
MIDORIMA REFUSING TO PLAY. Of course he can't risk permanent injury but holy shit, his poor team being abandoned like that. And I'm wincing at poor Kuroko. AND POOR AKASHI. HE LOST HIS MOST LOYAL FOLLOWER.
of the bruises that bloom on guys' faces when he runs into themwrote:
Re: FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, C3, T
FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, A3, T
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Other Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Square: Kise at Touou
Word Count: 424
***
“Imayoshichii…” Kise whines, pouting his lips and doing everything short of literally batting his eyelashes.
Imayoshi pats his head, messing up Kise’s carefully-done hair as if on purpose; he’s still reading through the practice schedules and making his own messy notes and terrible drawings (probably still better than Kise’s, if Kise’s being totally honest). He looks up, over his glasses (at least, Kise’s pretty sure he does) and regards Kise with something.
“You want to play power forward?”
Kise nods before he can stop himself; playing on the wing plays more to his versatility but it’s not like he enjoys outside shots as much as being on the inside, under the hoop, stuffing in rebounds. And, well, that’s still being cagey about it; if the goal is to someday pass Aomine what better way is there to compete with him at his own position? It’s tempting; he’s not sure if it’s actually offered (the way Imayoshi’s phrased it is, as always, ambiguous.”
“Maybe we’ll get Aomine for a whole game if we slot you in there,” says Imayoshi.
Kise glares; that’s not funny, treating him like something to be exploited just to get the ace to put in more of an effort (sometimes he wonders if that’s why Imayoshi had recruited him in the first place, and at times like this he almost believes it fully).
“You’re awful,” says Kise.
“You’re cute,” says Imayoshi. “I just want what’s best for the team. I’m not going to play favorites if it costs me the Winter Cup."
“It won’t,” says Kise. “I’m good enough.”
(He’s walked into Imayoshi’s trap; he realizes it as he says the words, but, well. The end result’s going to be the same, and he deserves to be here. They wouldn’t have recruited him at all if he didn’t.)
Imayoshi goes back to scribbling in the margins and Kise moves closer, dropping his head on Imayoshi’s shoulder.
“You going to let me sit in your lap?” says Imayoshi. “I can’t hold you and do this at once, you know.”
It’s true enough, though if Imayoshi really wanted to he probably could. He stands up and Kise sits down in his spot, pulling Imayoshi down into his lap. Imayoshi pats his cheek; it’s probably meant to be condescending but Kise takes it as it is, a definite touch, deft on his skin. If it were anyone else, he’d tell them not to clog his pores, but since it’s Imayoshi it’s not worth it to do. He’d rather read Imayoshi’s snarky notes, anyway.
Re: FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, A3, T
This might just be my favorite of all your fills.
FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, B3, T
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Other Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Square: Aomine at Kirisaki Daīchi
Word Count: 404
***
“I don’t get it,” says Murasakibara.
“You don’t have to,” says Aomine.
It’s useless to explain this to someone on the outside looking in. It’s not about being sadistic, it’s about the inevitability of crushing people like flies under heels. It’ll happen just by Aomine being himself; he’s seen the same look of crushing despair in too many faces, so many they all look alike at this point and he’s lost count. They’re just indistinguishable, useless nuisances. It’s crueler to try and hold on, to hold himself back for them. Murasakibara ought to know that; maybe he sort of does with the way he says he’ll crush people, but even then.
Murasakibara looks annoyed; he’s the kind of guy who’s smart enough that he doesn’t have to try that hard to understand most of the time, but Aomine doesn’t feel like trying to help him get it.
“Whatever,” says Murasakibara. “It pisses me off, you know.”
Aomine shrugs. He could say Murasakibara and his team piss him off, but really they don’t. They’re on a different plane, not one Aomine’s particularly interested in intersecting with. Maybe it would be fun to play with that serious shooting guard of his, but probably not worth it (though if that’s how the bracket works out they might have to).
“Well,” says Aomine.
Murasakibara cuts him off with a sloppy kiss. “Stop talking, or I'll actually get mad at you.”
It’s a fair point; Aomine would rather kiss than talk right now, too.
-
“I don’t see the end goal,” says Murasakibara, sweeping his hair back into a ponytail. “Why bother to do it if they’re gonna end up that way when you don’t do anything?”
Aomine shrugs. “You know when you catch a mouse on a glue trap?”
Murasakibara wrinkles his nose.
“It’s like, you gotta stomp on it. Otherwise it’ll just sit there, screaming and shitting itself, until it starves.”
“I guess,” says Murasakibara. “I always just made my brother do it.”
“Well, someone’s got to,” says Aomine. “Why not me?”
“Why you?” says Murasakibara.
It’s like he’s arguing just to argue, stubborn and bored; it’s vexing but still kind of something else. Now Aomine’s the one who wants to shut him up and change the topic, avoid this discussion before they’re treading in water twenty feet deep and start to get tired. He kisses Murasakibara, tongue on teeth, and this is something he’s got no trouble understanding.
Re: FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, B3, T
holy SHIT that's a terrifying thought. I mean, yes, I came up with Aomine at Kirisaki but THE COLDNESS OF IT. THE SHEER FUCKING LACK OF EMPATHY! Also the mouse and glue trap comparison H O L Y S H I T!
I am just sitting here making the most delighted noises of horror because god. GOD. What a way to put it. And Murasakibara not going for the execute but making his brother do it like that actually helps with anything fits him too!
I just really love your Aomine here, how distanced he is from common humanity and sympathy. Fuck.
FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, C3, T
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Other Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Square: Murasakibara at Kirisaki Daīchi
Word Count: 439
***
Seto and Matsumoto are no match for him, but Murasakibara doesn’t mind sitting out sometimes. It makes him a little bit impatient sometimes (not that he loves basketball with pure-hearted enthusiasm; he’s just good at it), tapping the toe of his sneaker against the floor and looking straight at Hanamiya.
“Respect your coach,” says Hanamiya.
Sometimes Murasakibara wishes he’d gone to Yosen; their coach had seemed just as harsh as Hanamiya but much prettier. He’s told Hanamiya as much, and Hanamiya has asked him if he wants to get smacked. For all of his posturing, Hanamiya is very much not Akashi and so it’s easy not to take him seriously (and, well, it’s not like any of Murasakibara’s teammates really do, either).
He always gets in anyway, even when Hanamiya wants to play the B-Squad and sit back; he knows Murasakibara hates losing and if he needs to he can turn the tide of the game Kirisaki Daiichi’s way singlehandedly. Not that he particularly enjoys it; it’s fun when he doesn’t have to try as hard. He’ll tell that to Hanamiya and Hanamiya will take it as a compliment (he’ll do anything to pad his ego, not that Murasakibara’s not used to people like that).
It usually works, though; he gets his own ass off the bench and goes out and plays, shoots with precision and passes through the spiderweb, himself to Seto (much better at this kind of thing than Kuroko ever was, and he’s under no illusion that the two of them are friends, either) to Murasakibara and back. It gives them flexibility, not quite like Teikou even on the best days, but close enough.
Sometimes Murasakibara wonders how Akashi’s doing in Kyoto with his second-rate superteam; sometimes he plays one of the others and their stupid companions, easily crushed under a foot or under a dunk (or both; he’s learned to be a little bit less picky and doesn’t mind the extra emphasis). They’re all clinging to Teikou in their own ways; Murasakibara supposes his way is that he’s still thinking of them as a set, things that go together. Maybe they do at first glance, but when you look closer, Murasakibara belongs here, in black and green instead of blue and white, no matter what illusions Kuroko (him again) has about teaching them his self-righteous little lessons. A tree splintered by lightning is still dead even if you try and glue it back together, and Murasakibara’s not interested in illusions when he can feel the smack of solid metal hoops under his palms or the tearing of flesh under his foot.
Re: FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, C3, T
tiny gasping sounds Murasakibara is the GoM member I have the least understanding of so it's a joy to read your fills and get a better feel for him!
Also I have a sick fascination with Hanamiya so the bits about him interacting with Murasakibara just felt like SUCH A TREAT.
Also SECOND-RATE SUPERTEAM. Fuck. That kills me.
FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, A1, T
Fandom: kuroko no basuke
Major Tags: descriptions of violence
Other Tags: possible unhealthy dynamics?
Square: Imayoshi at Kirisaki Daīchi
Word Count: 463
***
To Hanamiya, the school he ends up in doesn't matter. He's always been a spider, spinning his webs in every dark corner, making traps and battlegrounds out of anywhere he wants, so it's only a matter of choosing the best possible environment where his webs can flourish.
Instead of picking schools based on their facilities or their acclaimed histories, he looks for absent or incapable faculty, the ones that could and would turn a blind eye to his playtime if that's what it takes to get trophies on the shelves. It's wicked fun, but it's still competition, after all, even if all the trappings are secondary to someone who's just doing it it to find out if he can.
So it's not the school that matters, he'd tell whoever might be listening, were he the type to reveal his schemes instead of reveling in the way they contrast against the persona he'd fabricated for himself.
It's not the school but the people who are in them, which is why, he supposes, he chooses to go to the one that had the only person who's ever been able to see through him without Hanamiya wanting him to.
"What a faithful kouhai," Imayoshi had said upon finding out, and it made Hanamiya want to kick his teeth in. He doesn't regret the decision, though, because he think they'd both suit Kirisaki Daiichi's black and green.
When he gets there, the team is decent, but Imayoshi hadn't been able to craft it as he would've liked, being only a freshman the year before. Hanamiya sees to fixing it right away, the way he'd done at their middle school—weeding out the wheat from the chaff.
The haughty senpai are the first to go, and then Hanamiya goes after the benchwarmers who seem like they won't be cooperative. Before long, he's thinned out the team to only the barest essentials, and this is where he'll start his kingdom.
Imayoshi is not exempt from it all, because when Hanamiya enters his second year and Kirisaki Daiichi has created a name for themselves, he goes straight for the crown.
"Pass down captaincy to me," he says, after everyone has left the locker room and it's just the two of them and the stink of sweat and their combined personalities in the air. Imayoshi doesn't seem bothered, smiling his perpetual fox smile.
"I'd suggest we have a one-on-one about it, Makoto-kun," he says, using the he knows makes Hanamiya want to wring his neck. "But I know you don't plan on playing fair."
Imayoshi walks by, patting Hanamiya's head as he passes. "You can have the '4', but this team's mine until I graduate. After all," he says, glancing back as his eyes open a fraction, "I was here first."