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).

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Comments

PROMPT: Team Azumane Asahi/Nishinoya Yuu

[flippinflakes]

Ship: Hanamiya Makoto/Imayoshi Shouchi OR Tsukasa Eishi/Yukihira Souma
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke OR Shokugeki no Souma
Major Tags: Manga Spoilers
Other Tags: I SCREAMED when I saw this and I am sus about ur motivations eishi!!!

Prompt:

"Yukihira...you really are pretty good. I wish he actually agreed to be my assistant..." -Tsukasa Eishi, Shokugeki no Souma, Chapter 215 pg. 7

FILL: TEAM PRINCE OF TENNIS, T

[fickle]

Ship: Hanamiya Makoto/Imayoshi
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: tags omitted
Other Tags: tags omitted
Word Count: 450 words

***

"Yukihira...you really are pretty good,” Imayoshi said out loud as he watched the press conference. Yukihara was handling the reporters with all the ease of the consummate PR agent, deftly dodging the harder questions and expanding on the easier ones to make it seem as if he were revealing more information than he was.

“I wish he actually agreed to be my assistant.” Imayoshi sighed, still watching. The couch creaked as Hanamiya dropped himself down over the top of it, landing gracefully on the thick cushions and sprawling out with his head on Imayoshi’s lap.

“Who, the blond?” Hanamiya asked, turning his attention to the TV as well. Imayoshi automatically slid his hands into Hanamiya’s hair, scratching his nails lightly over Hanamiya’s scalp in the way that he knew soothed the other man.

“Mm. Very talented PR agent. I tried to take him away from his agency by overpaying but apparently he has some sense of loyalty to the woman that founded it.” Imayoshi scowled at the screen, thinking again of how he’d wined and dined the man only to find that he absolutely wouldn’t budge. Tch. What a waste of his time and money!

“What does a lawyer need a PR agent for anyway?” Hanamiya asked curiously. Imayoshi’s fingers found the scar tissue of where Hanamiya had had his head stitched up and gently rubbed back and forth over the raised ridge.



“Lawyers always need good PR. Especially when we take on sticky cases. He would have been perfect for dealing with the press and arranging good interviews.”

“...If he’s only staying there for the founder, maybe he’ll leave the company if she dies,” Hanamiya suggested and Imayoshi heard it was for the offer it was.

“She doesn’t have any family. There’s a risk that she left it to him or at least partly to him since he was her protege,” Imayoshi said, unable to keep the sourness out of his tone.

Hanamiya studied the screen for a few seconds longer. “Does he have any family?”

“Parents are dead. He’s got one sister whom he’s helping through medical school.” Imayoshi had even offered to pay off her student debt for him but received polite thanks and a refusal. He’d admire that sense of independence if it weren’t frustrating him.

“Mmm,” Hanamiya said, twisting about to prop himself up on one elbow and reaching up to catch Imayoshi’s hair with his other hand. He tugged Imayoshi’s head downwards, then kissed him hard enough that Imayoshi forgot all about sulking.

*

Three weeks later, Yukihira presented himself to Imayoshi’s office and asked if the position of Head of PR was still open.

Hanamiya always got him the best presents.

Re: FILL: TEAM PRINCE OF TENNIS, T

[flippinflakes]

I was gonna comment on everything tmrw when I'm more coherent but god I'm so impressed?? How you??? Twisted the prompt????? Also I think im starting to figure out their dynamic just from your fills....

Re: FILL: TEAM PRINCE OF TENNIS, T

[fickle]

omg you don't have to comment on my self-indulgent fills! XD I'm just grateful you prompted for them!

And yeah, I have NO CLUE who Yukihara is but canonically, Imayoshi wants to grow up to be a lawyer so I went with that!

I'm soft-pedaling them a little for fills for non-ImaHana peeps, I don't want you guys to be all WAIT WHY ARE THERE SADOMASOCHISTIC MURDERERS IN MY INBOX and suddenly regretting prompting for me! But their core dynamic stays the same!

Re: FILL: TEAM PRINCE OF TENNIS, T

[flippinflakes]

Please asanoya may have softened me but I do love sadomasochistic murderers still!! I'm just not good with like facial gore but that's it??? DO NOT HOLD YOSELF BACK

Re: FILL: TEAM PRINCE OF TENNIS, T

[fickle]

OH REALLY? WELL. JUST REMEMBER YOU ASKED FOR IT.

(and also at any point, you can tell me to dial it back, I fully understand sick and twisted is not everyone's cup of tea and there is no shame in that!)

FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, T

[hatchbacks]

Ship: Imayoshi/Hanamiya
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Other Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Word Count: 404

***

Well, it looks like Imayoshi is pretty good at what he does. That’s no surprise, though; there’s a reason Hanamiya had offered him a job as his assistant, and he’s still kind of pissed (okay, really pissed) that Imayoshi had turned it down and he’s still stuck with Furuhashi, loyalty and shitty excuses about forgetting he’d had his phone in his hand when he’d fallen into the pool and there went all of the emails that were supposed to be sent out. Imayoshi had seemed more intelligent, more cunning, able to come up with better excuses and smart enough to not even try and just get the work done when it had to be.

Hanamiya’s got no idea why Imayoshi had applied, turned the job down, and become a lawyer, working on the opposing counsel for this large contract on which Hanamiya’s client expects to come out looking like the winners. It’s a good deal for everyone, even cut the way Hanamiya wants it, but with Imayoshi—well, that might make things more difficult. Not that Hanamiya’s not up to the challenge.

(Still, why had Imayoshi turned him down? Why give up a cushy assistant’s job, good pay, good company, good benefits, for the stress and annoyance of dealing directly with contract law? If Imayoshi had been lazy enough to apply for an assistant’s job—had it all been an inside thing? Had he been able to get the dirt on Hanamiya? Had they let their guards down at the firm? They never do, but perhaps—no.)

Imayoshi asks Hanamiya to go to lunch with him, and Hanamiya agrees. Better to keep an eye on him there as best he can.

“Why did you apply to be my assistant if you weren’t interested?” Hanamiya asks him.

“Oh, no, I was,” says Imayoshi. “But I reckon going on a date with your boss is a conflict of interest.”

Dates? Who said anything about dates? “What?”

“Didn’t I make myself clear?” says Imayoshi. “You and me, here, this is a date.”

“Dating the opposing counsel is more of a conflict of interest,” says Hanamiya. “Don’t you want me to bend you over my desk and fuck you?”

It’s perhaps unnecessarily lewd, but it makes Imayoshi raise his eyebrows; it’s not something Hanamiya had been thinking about, but, well. Now that he is, it doesn’t seem like such a bad idea. Maybe it’s even kind of hot.