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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!
FILL: TEAM PRINCE OF TENNIS, A1 T
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: tags omitted
Other Tags: tags omitted
Square: You are not a god.
Word Count: 450 words
***
“You are not a god,” he says, tenderly, terribly, terribly-tender and tenderly terrible. His fingertips, cool and rough, graze over Akashi’s forehead. The stickiness of blood doesn’t adhere to his fingers but slips free, streaking over Akashi’s pale skin. They write runes in a language long forgotten, never known, and Akashi feels the thrill of power right through his bones and in the empty spaces of his heart.
He tilts his head back and draws on the fading power of Emperor’s Eye. Like before, he sees nothing. There is a vast and fearsome emptiness where the boy should be, a void that takes the strength from his eyes until he fears he is blind.
He shuts his eyes and blinks, then looks at Kuroko normally.
He is still there. Blue-eyed, blue-haired, and smiling in that soft, sweet way that Akashi had never understood the lasting power of (had never been able to forget).
(They were friends once and then they grew up. They were friends once but then they grew and oh, how horrible are the monsters they became without each other as anchors to reality.)
“You are not a god,” Kuroko says again and paints Akashi’s lips with his own blood. “But I could make you one.”
An Emperor has very little power against a shadow. One shadow is every shadow. They are all primal pieces of the night.
When there is no light, Akashi cannot see and still Kuroko’s smile draws him in.
“And what sort of god would you make me?” Akashi asks, the words coming thickly from a tired tongue and near-toothless gums.
(Emperors age. Emperors die. And yet Kuroko’s hair is still blue, not white.)
“A dark and terrible one, Akashi-kun,” Kuroko says and leans down. His breath drifts into Akashi’s mouth, scented like ice and an endless cold, and Akashi thinks of the oxygen they fed him at the hospital. This refreshes him more.
“What other sort of god could you be?” Kuroko’s smile is tender again, so soft that it looks like it would bleed under the bite of Akashi’s kisses, and he strokes Akashi’s cheek as if Akashi were a favored pet.
(Once it had been the other way around. Once Akashi had thought that power was the prize.)
Akashi nods and parts his lips, tilting his head back. Kuroko’s blood is black when it drips past his lips and into Akashi’s opening mouth. It slides down Akashi’s throat so smoothly that Akashi isn’t even sure he’s swallowed.
“I am the gatekeeper of the divine,” Kuroko says, using his fingertips to close Akashi’s eyelids. “And I bid you welcome.”
The last thing Akashi sees with his Emperor’s Eye is darkness.