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.

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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 Grandstand

[umaibo]

Ship: Teshima Junta/Manami Sangaku
Fandom: Yowapeda
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: Supernatural elements, yes this is an angsty prompt

Prompt:
Why would you be given wings if you weren't meant to fly?
― Leslye Walton

FILL: Team Kanzaki Miki/Miyahara, T

[elucidatedlucy]

Ship: Manami Sangaku/Teshima Junta
Fandom: Yowamushi Pedal
Major tags: Blood, Depictions of gore (skin punctured)
Other tags: more wingfic because sure im a joke anyway, Non-canon pronoun usage
Word count: 537



***

The thing Teshima hates most about Manami Sangaku is - the fact of wings stretching their way against the sky, translucent and elegant. Their arms rise above how the wings catch stars in their grasp. Standing easy on the railing of a mountain. He can never stop staring.

The second most thing he hates about them is the fact that they always crash.

"What kind of idiot," he spits, but not, because blood makes his heart race, so the words come out almost soft, "What kind of person," he's saying, "Even wants to jump off a mountain in a thunder storm?"

Manami hums like anything is going through their head. Their wings are skewered on a fence. Splinters jab into their arms, threatening to reach through the fabric of their shirt, and their eyes remain closed to the rain pelting the two of them. He wonders if thunder took his words to replace them with nothing. He hopes it did.

"The fun kind," Manami chooses, and -

Teshima snorts, to say, "Good thing you aren't a person."

"Mhm!" They raise an arm, and his gut churns to look at the bruised flesh. "You're pretty observant, Teshima-san."

"S'all I got going for me." He mumbles like it might cut away the nausea, or the reason.

Under the slight shelter of a bus stop roof, he digs out needles and thread. Glue and thin wire. Given electricity, he could solder Manami back together, but there was little luck of that in the wilderness. It was better to cover up the evidence outside.

When Teshima runs a needle through the feathers, it disappears into the veil of nothing. He's sure something is in his hands. But Manami doesn't flinch. Keeps smiling straight ahead. They remain as gentle as an aimless balloon, when their wings give out, and they have driven themself so far to survive. Sometimes Teshima thinks - a good person would do something.

Someone who cared wouldn't hide it.

"Don't you have a best friend," he asked, once.

"I wouldn't bother her with this," Manami had said, incredulous. "She's really busy."

"And I'm not?"

"I could do it myself."

He'd shut up with that.

There was something in the fact of knowing. In being one of the only people who knew the slipshod construction of rumored fantastical wings. That even with so much holding them up, there was only so far one could go before they crashed.

"I was thinking about going back to Fuji," Manami says, through the burn of metal between his fingertips.

"Sounds fun," he says. "Planning to break a leg, too?"

"I'm not that lucky," they laugh. "I was wondering if you wanted to come."

He could say no. He could tell them how little he needed more proof of how useless it was to have wings in the first place. That he didn't need more salt in a wound that was long-since necrotic. But -

"Isn't that just injecting pure mercury straight into my heart?"

Maybe that was why he stuck around.

Because he could say that.

"You're the one who said it sounds fun." Manami speaks, and here, it's slow - low - directly at him. The terrible truth of talent versus effort, and he smiles.

They smile back.

"I needed another souvenir."