Bonus Round 4: Quotes

[referees]

SASO 2017 is over, but this round is perpetually open to new fills (no new prompts).

An oldie but a goodie—in this round, we draw inspiration from famous words said by other people.

Please read this whole post before commenting to ensure that your team gets the most points possible.

RULES

• Submit prompts by commenting to this post with a quote attributed to a specific person or character, along with any ship/ot3/etc. from one of our nominated fandoms.
  • Example: "That which does not kill us makes us stronger." -Friedrich Nietzsche
  • The quote can come from almost anything—famous people, poetry, songs, books, movies, etc.— but please don't quote personal conversations you've had or overheard.
  • Your prompt MUST include some kind of relationship. Platonic relationships are indicated by an "&" between the names (e.g., Natsuo & Yuzuko). Non-platonic relationships use "/" (e.g., Natsuo/Yuzuko). Please don't say "Any pairing," either!
• Fill prompts by replying to the prompt with your quote-inspired fanwork.
• 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)

There is no max work cap.

Format your comment in one of the following ways:

If PROMPTING:	If FILLING:	If FILLING as a TEAM GRANDSTAND participant:
PROMPT: TEAM [YOUR SHIP] Replace [YOUR SHIP] with the name of the team you belong to. Any way you format it is fine. Copy/paste/fill out the following form into your comment box. Delete the guidance text that's in parentheses. (Please delete all text in parentheses as you go. LEAVE THE HTML ALONE or the bonus round scoring program can't parse your comment. Don't forget a comment subject!) <strong>Ship:</strong> (the ship your prompt is focused on. "&" indicates a platonic relationship, "/" is non-platonic. Format the ship name any way you want, but clarity is more likely to get you fills.) <strong>Fandom:</strong> (what fandom the ship is from) <strong>Major Tags:</strong> (https://sportsanime.dreamwidth.org/1609.html, when applicable; these apply to content *in the prompt itself* and is NOT an implication of what you're looking for in a fill. If your prompt doesn't require tags, write "None" here.) <strong>Other Tags:</strong> (anything else that you feel requires tagging; can include jokey tumblr-style tags here; may also pull from the "Additional Tags" list from the URL above, if applicable; otherwise, write "None" here.) <strong>Prompt:</strong>	FILL: TEAM [YOUR SHIP], [RATING] Replace [YOUR SHIP] with the name of the team you belong to. Any way you format it is fine. Replace RATING with the rating of your fill (G - E) Copy/paste/fill out the following form into your comment box. Delete the guidance text that's in parentheses. Make sure you use tags. Here is a BR Template Creator for your convenience if the textarea is confusing. (Please delete all text in parentheses as you go. LEAVE THE HEADER HTML ALONE or the bonus round scoring program can't parse your comment. Don't forget a comment subject!) <strong>Ship:</strong> <strong>Fandom:</strong> <strong>Major Tags:</strong> (https://sportsanime.dreamwidth.org/1609.html, when applicable; otherwise write "None".) <strong>Other Tags:</strong> (anything else that you feel requires tagging; can include jokey tumblr-style tags here; may also pull from the "Additional Tags" list from the URL above, if applicable; otherwise, write "None" here.) <strong>Word Count:</strong> (if applicable; otherwise write "None") (Place any author/artist's notes BEFORE the asterisks. Leave the asterisks alone or you may not get points!) *** (Place your fill here. You can use HTML. FOR NSFW FILLS, please cross-link these fills and use clear tags. Refer to the body of the post above for more information. To place an image in your comment, use this code: <img src="LINK TO YOUR IMAGE" alt="DESCRIPTION OF YOUR IMAGE"/>. Thumbnails only, please; more info @ http://referees.dreamwidth.org/5647.html#images ) NSFW FILLS: Please cross-link these fills and tag them clearly. saso_afterhours is open to all NSFW fills. Written/text fills can be hosted on AO3 or saso_afterhours ONLY. Art/visual fills can be hosted anywhere; you may include a small safe-for-work thumbnail of the fill in your comment.	FILL: TEAM GRANDSTAND, [RATING] Replace RATING with the rating of your fill (G - E) Copy/paste/fill out the following form into your comment box. Delete the guidance text that's in parentheses. Make sure you use tags. Here is a BR Template Creator for your convenience if the textarea is confusing. (Please delete all text in parentheses as you go. LEAVE THE HEADER HTML ALONE or the bonus round scoring program can't parse your comment. Don't forget a comment subject!) <strong>Ship:</strong> <strong>Fandom:</strong> <strong>Major Tags:</strong> (https://sportsanime.dreamwidth.org/1609.html, when applicable; otherwise write "None".) <strong>Other Tags:</strong> (anything else that you feel requires tagging; can include jokey tumblr-style tags here; may also pull from the "Additional Tags" list from the URL above, if applicable; otherwise, write "None" here.) <strong>Word Count:</strong> (if applicable; otherwise write "None") (Place any author/artist's notes BEFORE the asterisks. Leave the asterisks alone or you may not get points!) *** (Place your fill here. You can use HTML. FOR NSFW FILLS, please cross-link these fills and use clear tags. Refer to the body of the post above for more information. To place an image in your comment, use this code: <img src="LINK TO YOUR IMAGE" alt="DESCRIPTION OF YOUR IMAGE"/>. Thumbnails only, please; more info @ http://referees.dreamwidth.org/5647.html#images ) NSFW FILLS: Please cross-link these fills and tag them clearly. saso_afterhours is open to all NSFW fills. Written/text fills can be hosted on AO3 or saso_afterhours ONLY. Art/visual fills can be hosted anywhere; you may include a small safe-for-work thumbnail of the fill in your comment.

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!

Comments

PROMPT: TEAM THE PRINCE OF TENNIS

[fickle]

Ship: Asahi/Nishinoya, Aomine/(Kuroko, Sakurai, Akashi)
Fandom: Haikyuu Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: please imagine Aomine forgetting during sex it’s someone’s first time, please, and then realizing whoops should’ve been gentler)

Prompt:


“Oh, right. It’s your first time.” - Aomine

PROMPT: Team Daiya no Ace

[hailing]

Ship: Yuuki Tetsuya/Isashiki Jun or Yuuki Tetsuya/Miyuki Kazuya or Umemiya Seiichi/Team Ugumori
Fandom: Daiya no Ace
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: mention of hell... it's hell chess

Prompt:

FILL: TEAM GRANDSTAND, G

[themorninglark]

Ship: Kuga Kyousuke/Serizawa Nao
Fandom: Prince of Stride, Free!
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: None
Word Count: 635

SLAMS THIS ON TABLE

***

At 3 AM, Nao’s up for a drink of water, and the black jacket’s gone from behind the front door.

It’s the kind of night that brims with cloudy dreams, the kind of night, he knows, that cleaves close and quiet and that you forget when you wake, and as Nao takes in the empty spot on the hook, sets his glass down on the counter and looks out at the driveway, he wonders if he will make it in time if he heads out now.

On cue, there’s a revving like a low purr below their window.

Trailing considerations in his wake, Nao grabs his own windbreaker, pulls on his sneakers in a hurry and runs down the stairs. He is panting just a little by the time he reaches the bottom step. He finds his smile anyway, and his voice is light when he speaks.

“Hey, Kyousuke,” he calls. “Nice weather, huh?”

Kyousuke’s head snaps up. He’s got his helmet on, one leg swung over the seat already. In the dim light, Nao can’t make out his eyes widening behind the visor, but he can picture it anyway.

Nao beams. “Your jacket was gone. You don’t take your jacket running.”

There’s the fleeting shadow of an answering smile at Kyousuke’s lips. He reaches back, grabs a spare helmet and throws it at Nao, who catches it with pitch-perfect reflexes he spent another lifetime honing.

“Come with me, if you like,” says Kyousuke, and Nao does.

It smells of a raw summer storm in the air, rain on the grass, rain on the damp earth and the pavement. Nao breathes it all in as he straps on the helmet and gets on the bike behind Kyousuke. It’s not his first time riding pillion. Kyousuke gives him lifts sometimes, to class when he’s running late, to his part-time job at the swimming club, and Nao’s comfortable here, his arms winding easy round Kyousuke’s waist.

It’s not his first time riding pillion, but it is a rare occasion that Kyousuke takes him on one of these night rides to nowhere. He is filled with surprising kindnesses, Nao has learned. These include stepping with infinite care, closing the door with barely a whisper so he won’t disturb Nao.

As they take off, Nao thinks: the wind is louder at this hour.

Unlike Kyousuke, he does not make a habit of talking to the wind, and so he cannot read the timbre of it; but tearing down the streets like this, Kyousuke’s hair whipping back like a moonlit curtain, Nao would be hard-pressed to say that it is nothing at all. More than restless murmurs, more than a swelling chorus of cicadas and the constant buzz of power lines.

The first time he’d told Kyousuke about his condition, they’d been at home, having cup noodles for supper because that was what university students did. Nao had smiled his way through like he always did, armed with reassurances, ready for the inevitable sympathy.

Kyousuke had offered none. He had listened, and he had finished his noodles in silence, and then he had remarked: the wind is gentle tonight. Come with me, if you like.

That ride had been a daring glimmer, a glimpse of an open road that could be his, could be theirs, and Nao did not need to ask what it was that Kyousuke chased with such a single-minded focus. He saw it crystal clear himself, through the veil of all his compromises.

Tonight, the wind is not gentle.

Nao closes his eyes for a moment, rests his cheek on Kyousuke’s shoulder and lets it sing to him, glad of the fact that it is no lullaby, for there are times he needs to be awake. There are times he needs to live.

Re: PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

[fickle]

...Oooooh.

PROMPT: TEAM THE PRINCE OF TENNIS

[fickle]

Ship: Asahi/Nishinoya, Imayoshi/Hanamiya, Akashi/Sakurai, Mei/Miyuki
Fandom: Haikyuu, Kuroko no Basuke, Daiya no Ace
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: none

Prompt:

“It’s so wonderful to hear someone’s heart breaking.” - DAYS

PROMPT: TEAM THE PRINCE OF TENNIS

[fickle]

Ship: Asahi/Nishinoya, Usui/Tsukomata, Touou Academy/Sakurai, GoM/Kuroko
Fandom: Haikyuu, Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: dubcon, emotional manipulation, let’s make it terrible?

Prompt:

“You say you want to do things ‘for the team’.” - DAYS

PROMPT: TEAM THE PRINCE OF TENNIS

[fickle]

Ship: Asahi/Nishinoya, Imayoshi/Hanamiya
Fandom: Haikyuu, Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: none

Prompt:

“He deserves be called the Bad Boy.” - Imayoshi

PROMPT: TEAM THE PRINCE OF TENNIS

[fickle]

Ship: Asahi/Nishinoya, Imayoshi/Hanamiya, Mei/Miyuki
Fandom: Haikyuu, Kuroko no Basuke, Daiya no Ace
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: none

Prompt:

“Pain looks great on other people.” - Linus, Peanuts

Re: PROMPT: TEAM OIKAWA TOORU/USHIJIMA WAKATOSHI

[jessibot]

is this bait it feels like fucking bait

Re: PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

[jessibot]

god damn you are not going easy with these

FILL: TEAM Kominato Ryousuke/Kuramochi Youichi, G

[hyalinee]

Ship: Kozume kenma/Hinata Shouyou
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: None
Word Count: 420

lays my kenhina feelings down to rest, also formatting might be a little wonky despite best attempts

***

things to look for in person for a relationship

- quiet
- loyal
- smart
- good at games
- will get along with kuro
- will line up with me to buy games, or will line up to buy the game for me
- likes apple pie
- patient
- not a morning person
- careful
- energy conservationist

Hinata is a lot of things. He’s exuberant, he’s noisy, he’s easily excitable and he’s exhausting. He’s a morning person, he’s a bad singer, he does everything with so much enthusiasm that just watching him makes Kenma tired. He’s terrible at games and cheers Kenma through boss fights, watching explosions and magic with rapture.

He’s nothing at all like what Kenma wants from a partner, not a long term one at least. He’d always figured he’d wind up with someone more like Kuroo, laid back and easy-going. Hinata’s almost anything but, with his energy and excitement. He comes up with ridiculous ideas and sets about them, enlisting help from Tora and Inuoka, sometimes even Fukunaga. They throw Kenma a highly unwanted and unsurprising surprise birthday party, but Kenma finds himself enjoying it despite that. When Hinata turns to him, slice of apple pie held at the ready, Kenma can’t help the smile that creeps over his face

He gets along too well with Kuroo, if anything. They gang up on Kenma and drag him places, makes him participate. Coupled with Bokuto’s nonsense and Hinata’s awe of him, Kenma finds himself the voice of reason most of the time when they come up with wild ideas to ride the trains all night, hop on the next bus to Nagano, go to Nara and feed deer. He wonders how Akaashi deals with Bokuto sometimes, and if the reason for Akaashi’s eyebags were because he’d stayed up late dissuading Bokuto from another impromptu trip to Miyagi or wherever it was that caught his fancy.

Hinata’s careless and clumsy in his excitement, tripping over his own feet but picking himself up just as quickly. He’s always smiling and turning back to look for Kenma, an outstretched hand that Kenma takes, and allows to fit at his side, allows to take him places, old and new. He’s an entirely different person from anyone Kenma could have imagined himself being with. If anything, he’s everything that Kenma doesn’t stand for. He rushes headlong into things without thinking, he gets caught up in the moment far too easily, he could talk off a person’s ear if they gave him the opportunity.

Somehow, he’s still everything Kenma could want.

FILL: Team Himuro Tatsuya/Nijimura Shuuzou, G

[cherrysalmon]

Ship: Himuro Tatsuya/Nijimura Shuuzou
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: tags omitted
Other Tags: none
Word Count: none

nijimura takes a moonlight stroll and stumbles upon something not meant for mortal eyes sjfjsdhjghdhfsjh

***

click to get a better view!!

Re: FILL: TEAM KAGEYAMA TOBIO/OIKAWA TOORU, G

[gurosan]

Oh my God this is so beautiful it killed me ;_; the descriptions you wrote are so lovely and poetic but flow so nicely without sounding cluttered. I especially, really love the last two paragraphs and the description of Aoyagi drawing on the window and their hair growing asfjfks
Mundane magic is my shit thank you <3 <3 <3

Re: PROMPT: Team Daiya no Ace

[hyalinee]

H A Y LEY YUUKI CAN BARELY MANAGE SHOGI how could you put him through hell chess--

PROMPT: Team Daiya no Ace

[hailing]

Ship: Kominato Ryousuke/Kuramochi Youichi or Kominato Ryousuke/Tanba Koichirou or Kominato Ryousuke/Shirakawa Katsuyuki
Fandom: Daiya no Ace
Major Tags: Implied violence
Other Tags: "ryosan no"

Prompt:

"Well, the pen is mightier than the sword, but a baseball bat can be pretty effective too."
— Richard Castle

PROMPT: TEAM Kominato Ryousuke/Kuramochi Youichi

[hyalinee]

Ship: Bokuto Koutarou/Kuroo Tetsurou OR Matsuoka Rin/Nanase Haruka
Fandom: haikyuu!!, Free!
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: none

Prompt:

"dude, don't you kind of need your heart?"
"not really. look this is terribly awkward and not at all how i wanted to tell you. but it really is okay. it was something i was planning to give you anyway."
-- Hwei Lim, Hero

Re: FILL: Team Himuro Tatsuya/Nijimura Shuuzou, G

[greenowl]

u ever seen an art so beautiful u started cryin

PROMPT: TEAM EYESHIELD 21

[rosebrook]

Ship: Imaizumi Shunsuke/ Naruko Shokuichi
Fandom: Yowamushi Pedal
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: None

Prompt:

"Look that's classy Jen over there. Tryin' to be all fancy."

- @Katieryan430

PROMPT: Team Kominato Ryousuke/Kuramochi Youichi

[snowysatoru]

Ship: kominato ryousuke/kuramochi youichi
Fandom: daiya no ace
Major tags: none
Other tags: no brakes on this train we go through the angst like men

Prompt:
"It's your hands. They weren't meant to kill. They were meant to give life."

- edward elric, fullmetal alchemist

Re: PROMPT: Team Daiya no Ace

[hailing]

HE'S TRYING HIS BEST??

(tetsu throws chess pieces at jun and doesn't understand why he's mad)

[greenowl]

Ship: Kominato Ryousuke/Kuramochi Youichi or Kawakami Norifumi/Sawamura Eijun or Ryuugazaki Rei/Matsuoka Rin or Tsukishima Kei/Hinata Shouyo or Mihashi Ren/Tajima Yuuichiro or Aomine Daiki/Himuro Tatsuya
Fandom: Daiya no Ace, Free!, Haikyuu!!, Oofuri, Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: this is way long so sorry, last line in my prompt is optional!

Prompt:
Will you raise me up? / Will you help me down? (/ Will you get me right out of this godforsaken town?) - Meat Loaf (I'd do anything for love)

Prompt: Team Daiya no Ace

[greenowl]

Ship: Miyuki Kazuya/Maezono Kenta or Kagami Taiga/Kise Ryouta or Ushijima Wakatoshi/anyone
Fandom: Daiya no Ace, Kuroko no Basuke, Haikyuu!!
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: ouch

Prompt:
He unlaced his arms and took a step forward. "You hurt?"
"Not badly." She tried to smile, but her lips only curved on one side. "My main problem is that I'm stuck to a cactus."

--Karen Witemeyer, A Tailor-Made Bride

Re: FILL: TEAM miyuki kazuya/sawamura eijun, G

[hailing]

AH! I thought I could nab you, Hil... doing the good work for miyunabe

You make excellent use of your panelling! I really feel the moment that ticks past when Miyuki is supposed to say something but it doesn't come out. Shakes these two and their communication

Thank you for the feels today!

Re: PROMPT: Team Kominato Ryousuke/Kuramochi Youichi

[hyalinee]

HANNAH akjsgshsjskdk

/screams into the void

Re: PROMPT: Team Kominato Ryousuke/Kuramochi Youichi

[snowysatoru]

I'M SORRY!!!! (but also have fun crying in same team jail :'D)