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Bonus Round 3: FSTs
Please read this whole post before commenting to ensure that your team gets the most points possible.
RULES
- Submit prompts in the form of a short playlist (1-6 songs) and a ship from any of our nominated fandoms. Submit only the track listing and a link to where they can be listened to; the idea is for others to interpret what you present. You may also link to lyrics if you would like.
- Your prompt MUST include some kind of relationship. Platonic relationships are indicated by an "&" between the names (e.g., Lilia & Sara). Non-platonic relationships use "/" (e.g., Lilia/Sara). Please don't say "Any pairing," either.
- Create content based on the playlists of others! Fill prompts by leaving a responding comment to the prompt with your newly-created work.
- Fills may be in any form you choose (except for another FST of course) as long as they are inspired by/fit the mood of the soundtrack they are filling for.
- Remember to 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)
- 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]
|
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 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.
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 GRANDSTAND
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: none
Prompt:
Different Seas (Self Cover) - Circus-P
FILL: TEAM KAGEYAMA TOBIO/OIKAWA TOORU, G
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: Angst
Word Count: 421
***
Tatsuya feels like he's living in a never ending cycle of watching as Taiga leaves him behind.
It was bad enough the first time, back in Los Angeles when Taiga left with an apology, with their competition still hanging in the air waiting to be resolved. Even now, with years behind them, with their rings still hanging around their necks and their relationship in one piece, Tatsuya can't help but feel the bitterness sinking into his bones all over again, thinking about how Taiga is the one who always leaves, like he's leaving Tatsuya to chase behind him, even though they both know that he's going somewhere Tatsuya can't reach, no matter how hard he tries.
(The worst is when Taiga doesn't believe it at all; when he believes in Tatsuya instead, like he can solve all of Tatsuya's problems if he just pours enough love into the situation. Tatsuya hates it and even more than that, he hates the fact that he wishes he could believe it too.)
In the end, it all boils down to this: Alex has an opportunity for Taiga in the States, and so Taiga goes. It's not an opportunity for just anyone, and it's definitely not one for Tatsuya. He knows that Taiga will chase his basketball dreams as hard as he has to. Between basketball and Tatsuya, it's always been an understood fact that Tatsuya was never Taiga's favourite. He was never Alex's favourite either but he doesn't think he can fault either of them, when he isn't even his own favourite. He's too good at being second best to be anything better, and he's accepted that now, has taken it on as part of who he is.
He'll live with it.
"Taiga," Tatsuya greets, the first time he calls. "I didn't expect to hear from you so soon. I thought you'd be busy."
Taiga laughs, as if that's an unreasonable thought. As if Tatsuya is actually important enough to warrant a phone call on Taiga's first day back in the States. "I wanted to talk to you. How are you?"
Tatsuya gazes out the window and lets his poker face slip into place, even if Taiga can't see it. He doesn't tell the truth, that he's been burning with jealousy from the first moment he heard that Taiga was going, that he's been burning with longing, wishing that they could be in the same place for just a little longer this time.
He exhales quietly and instead, he says, "Fine. How are you?"
FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, T
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Other Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Word Count: 403
(tatsuya comes to the wrong conclusions a lot tbh)
***
It’s better off this way. Both of them are better off this way, with nothing and everything between them. Every time Tatsuya closes his eyes he sees Taiga, holding back, trying to lose; Taiga, shackled by his place next to Tatsuya. He doesn’t need that; he doesn’t need Tatsuya holding him back, not when he’s this fucking brilliant of a player, not when he maybe could have blown past Tatsuya a long time ago and maybe he’d been holding back the whole time, subconsciously, out of respect for the same role Tatsuya’s been trying so hard to protect, the same role that destroyed itself, and any bond between them.
It had been a chain, the one around their necks, the one Tatsuya slides, guilt in his eyes, over toward the jeweler; the question of why he’d want to repair such a cheap thing does not fall from her lips but Tatsuya sees it on her face. It hadn’t been cheap, their bond; it had come with the price of that kind of limit. The price Tatsuya had paid for it was the price it took to dissolve it, his fist and Taiga’s face, the words that were almost as irrelevant as they were important. Either way this had ended, they couldn’t be brothers; either way Tatsuya is unworthy of that kind of title. Regardless, even.
(He pushes down the thoughts of how his feelings have been less than brotherly for a while, the way he has to look up slightly to see Taiga’s face, the baby fat falling away from his cheeks, the muscles defining themselves more daily, the confidence in his hands, larger by the day, gripping a basketball.)
This is what he had to do; this is what had to happen. Tatsuya repeats it to himself, again and again; it doesn’t make it hurt any less (he deserves to hurt; he deserves to feel the pain for Taiga all over again). But still, repeating it doesn’t make things better for Taiga, wherever he is out there. It doesn’t stop basketball from feeling empty, Tatsuya feeling alone on the court no matter who’s on his team, more alone than if he’s just playing by himself, going one on one. It doesn’t stop the shots from feeling like they don’t matter, just blankness falling through the hoop, insubstantial, like maybe the way this bond was all along if it was so easily erased.
Re: FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, T
i love this pain so much, thank u for filling!!