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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 Kuroo Tetsurou/Sawamura Daichi, A1, G
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Major tags: None
Other tags: Growing wings when wings on human beings isn't normal
Square: maybe one day i'll fly next to you (A1)
Word count: 1,773
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Bokuto starts growing wings one day.
It used to be a metaphor until Akaashi notices the feathers sticking out of Bokuto's skin one day, tiny pinfeathers sprouting between his shoulder blades, barely there until Akaashi runs a hand lightly over them and feels them soft and there under his palm. Bokuto doesn't seem to notice anything and Akaashi goes home earlier for a good night's sleep that day after practice. Just in case.
But he isn't going mad and he catches Bokuto scratching his back through his shirt over the next few days, frowning absently like there is an itch he can't quite reach. The next time Akaashi sees Bokuto without his shirt on, the feathers have grown and there are more of them, forming into a small but distinct pair of wings against his back.
Bokuto laughs and chats to the other members all the same before turning to his bag for his shirt. Akaashi grabs his arm, stopping him in his tracks, and Bokuto looks at him, his head tilted in confusion. Akaashi fishes his shirt out of his bag for him and pushes it against his chest. He doesn't let Bokuto go until his shirt is on, covering his back and those many, growing feathers. The rest of the clubroom has started to stare but it isn't anything particularly unusual between Akaashi and Bokuto come to think of it and they lose interest in due time.
"Akaashi, what—" Bokuto asks and Akaashi pulls him out of the clubroom, collecting both their bags on their way out. He doesn't stop pulling him along until they have left the school building, gone past the gates and started on the way back home in the early night.
Akaashi finally lets go of Bokuto once they are far away enough from school. Bokuto looks oddly flushed when Akaashi passes him his bag, his eyes darting all over the place and his mouth wobbling around the edges.
"Bokuto-san," Akaashi starts and Bokuto whips his head around to face him, his expression eager. It catches Akaashi off guard and he derails from his previous train of thought to ask, "What?"
"Nothing," Bokuto says too quickly, too guiltily.
"Bokuto-san?" Akaashi tries again, testing the waters, trying to see if Bokuto's odder than usual behaviour has something to do with the wings growing from his back. Maybe he found out that Akaashi knew about them. Maybe he doesn't want anyone to know about them.
"Okay," Bokuto finally cracks after a full five seconds of silence from Akaashi while Akaashi thinks about his options, "Konoha told me this but I didn't believe him because it can't be but this is the moment isn't it?"
"What moment?" Akaashi asks cautiously.
"Are you confessing to me, Akaashi?" Bokuto blurts out. "Is that it?"
"No," Akaashi says bluntly, shocked. Bokuto's unexpected steering of this conversation throws him further off course from what he had wanted to say. How did they get from growing wings to love confessions?
"Oh." Bokuto wilts, trying not to look disappointed and failing. "Konoha was wrong."
"...we'll talk about this later," Akaashi says, trying to steer the conversation back to what he had wanted to say initially. "I did want to speak about something important to you though, Bokuto-san."
"Is it about volleyball?"
"It's about you."
"Me?" Bokuto asks, surprised then hopeful. "Do you like me, Akaashi?"
"I do, but not enough for a confession," Akaashi says and tries not mind how Bokuto's disappointment bothers him. "What I was trying to ask is about the wings on your back."
"The what?"
"Are you aware that you're growing wings, Bokuto-san?"
---
Bokuto-san (11:34pm): u were right akaashi!!!!!!!!!!!!
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There has never been a record of a winged person in the history of Bokuto's family as far as Bokuto knows or another other person's family history as far as Akaashi knows. But here Bokuto is, the first and possibly only human with wings they both know of. And neither of them know what to do.
His wings keep growing, day after day, week after week, and Akaashi checks their growth obsessively after every practice. He doesn't know why he does it—out of curiosity or fascination or fear? He doesn't know how big they will grow but Bokuto might end up with a full pair of wings at this rate and then how will he be able to live life as who he is? Bokuto has always been an extraordinary person but even actual wings were too much of an extraordinary thing for him. Akaashi could live his entire life by Bokuto's side and he thinks he would never run out of extraordinary things to encounter.
"What do I do about them, Akaashi?" Bokuto asks him with a curious mix of exhilaration and fear in his bright, golden eyes as they crouch in the cluboom after dark, after everyone has gone home for the day.
Akaashi wants to ask him about what Konoha said, why he had thought Akaashi would confess to Bokuto, why he had thought Akaashi had liked Bokuto like that, but there are more pressing issues at hand. Such as the wings growing out of Bokuto's back. They are about a handspan long now and Bokuto can move them as if they have always been a part of him, flapping them enthusiastically but uselessly against his back.
They are kind of cute, reminding Akaashi of the baby birds he has seen in pictures online, but they don't belong there against Bokuto's very human back. He doesn't know what anyone would do to Bokuto if they ever saw what Akaashi sees now. It's a miracle. Or a specimen.
"You have to hide them," Akaashi tells him.
---
They get through the inter-highs somehow with Akaashi worrying every step of the way that Bokuto's wings will peek through the top of his shirt when he flies in the air. By Nationals, he fears that they will be seen even if Bokuto stays perfectly still on court without running or jumping, which is what he doesn't do anyway. By the week before the third years' graduation, Akaashi starts binding Bokuto's wings because they have begun to show under his shirt, their outlines clearly defined against the thin cloth.
They stop eating at the canteen and stop hanging out in the corridor outside Akaashi's classroom when Bokuto comes looking for him, moving entirely to the rooftop where no one is because they aren't supposed to be up here. But Bokuto is graduating soon and Akaashi supposes this counts as an exception so they stay up there on days where the weather is fine and sunny like this.
It gives Bokuto a chance to breathe without the constricting pressure of the bandages around his chest because it is the only time Akaashi lets him take them off at school. Bokuto fiddles with the clips holding them in place and the bandages slide out from under his shirt, slipping to the floor in long tendrils. Akaashi sees the outline of his wings reappear through his shirt, the cloth folding along the edges of his wings.
"Much better," Bokuto sighs and he shrugs off his shirt entirely.
He hops over to the edge of the rooftop, his nose just stopping short of the wire netted fence, and spreads his arms out wide. The sunlight catches on him, drawing his shadow on the surface of the roof, the tips of his wings peeking out from behind his shadow's shoulders. They have grown again.
"Come away from the edge, Bokuto-san." Akaashi tells him. "Someone might see you."
Bokuto jumps back down, squatting close to where Akaashi is. "Do you think I might be able to fly with these one day?" he asks, flapping his wings against his back, which does nothing but work up a breeze.
"I don't know. But they would need to be very big to be able to get a full-grown human off the ground."
"I'd be in trouble then, wouldn't I?" Bokuto sighs. "They won't let me keep playing volleyball. Seems unfair if your opponent can actually fly."
"I'm not sure they'll let you keep doing anything if that happens. No one's ever seen a winged human before. They might want to investigate you."
"I don't want to be a science experiment." Bokuto wrinkles his nose.
"Research subject," Akaashi corrects. "But I wouldn't want you to be one either, Bokuto-san."
Bokuto props his face in his hands. "So what do I do about these then? They only seem to be getting bigger. And it seems like such a shame to get rid of them," he says wistfully.
Akaashi wouldn't want to see them gone either, now that they have grown this big. They reach midway down Bokuto's back with a fully formed bone structure amidst the feathers. Even with the bandages holding them down, they still make Bokuto's back look bulky and Akaashi is only thankful that Bokuto is constantly in motion so that no one can actually take a proper look at his back.
They are still growing and it would be nice if Bokuto could fly with them one day. It seems fitting. If Akaashi had to pick someone out of everyone he has met in his lifetime to be given the wings to fly, he would pick Bokuto. He has never met anyone so suited to flight.
"Hey, Akaashi," Bokuto says hesitantly.
"Hm?"
"Even if I graduate and leave for university or get kicked out of university for my unfair advantages, you'll still meet up with me from time to time, won't you?" Bokuto asks. "Like you won't want to cut all contact with me the moment I stop being your official teammate right?"
"No, I won't," Akaashi says and finds that he really means it. He won't be able to stop thinking about Bokuto even if they aren't on the same team or in the same school anymore. It isn't just about his wings or his new volleyball team in university but about Bokuto himself.
Maybe this is what Konoha had meant when he told Bokuto that Akaashi might confess to him. Akaashi doesn't know what kind of emotions might spark off a confession when he has never been involved in one before. Maybe they something have to do with Bokuto's kind of "like" when he had asked Akaashi if he liked him. Akaashi doesn't know if his kind of "like" can match up to Bokuto's but he thinks he understands it now after answering Bokuto's question. It isn't exactly a confession, not in the way Bokuto expects, but Akaashi finds himself thinking that he doesn't want to leave Bokuto's side.
Re: FILL: Team Kuroo Tetsurou/Sawamura Daichi, A1, G