sportsanime | Bonus Round 4: Quotes

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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Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Ship: Imayoshi/Hanamiya
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: tags omitted
Other Tags: tags omitted
Word Count: 545 words

Blood and injury, vengeful kids in love, underage (no sex, but they’re 12 and 13 here).

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When it happens, Hanamiya doesn’t think ‘I’m in love’ or ‘oh, that’s why I’ve been watching him’. He thinks instead, ‘I’m going to kill him’.

It happens during a match against a rival school - a player jostles Imayoshi, charges him hard enough to knock Imayoshi down and Hanamiya doesn’t look at Imayoshi. He looks at the player who hit him, fixes the 2 in his mind and promises himself to see the boy buried in that jersey.

Anger cracks across his mind sharp as a whip, a streak of red behind his eyes. Nothing but blood will satisfy Hanamiya; he waits for when the boy is blocked from sight, unintentionally screened by his own team, and sends him flying with a hard elbow to the head in the middle of a jump for a rebound. The boy’s head hits the floor and blood pools on the court quickly but Hanamiya isn’t satisfied.

Not until he looks up and sees Imayoshi’s face, not until he thinks fiercely, savagely, I avenged you and remembers Imayoshi had said not to cause trouble anymore.

He did this for Imayoshi but Imayoshi won’t appreciate it. That doesn’t matter. Imayoshi is his. Nobody’s allowed to hurt him.

...This is protectiveness, this desire to keep Imayoshi safe from harm, and Hanamiya has never felt the desire to protect anyone before. How has Imayoshi infected him with this?

Hanamiya’s going to kill him for it!

Hanamiya’s twelve years old, Hanamiya’s in love, and Hanamiya’s angry about it.

*

When it happens, Imayoshi doesn’t think ‘I’m in love’ or ‘oh, that’s why I’ve been watching him’. He thinks instead, ‘I’m going to kill him’.

He told Hanamiya not to play rough. He told Hanamiya that he might get caught or at the very least, might draw suspicion upon their team. And what does Hanamiya do? He goes and elbows a boy in the head so hard that he’s unconscious even before his head cracks against the ground!

There’s blood puddling around the boy’s head but head wounds bleed a lot. Surely it isn’t too bad an injury. Imayoshi’s already putting on an expression of grieved sympathy and moving forwards, clearing people away from the unconscious player.

He doesn’t remember that this massive fourteen-year-old was the one that knocked him down at first. The game’s been too chaotic for him to pay any attention to that.

It’s the look on Hanamiya’s face, the mixture of pride and chagrin as he watches Hanamiya like a French aristocrat waiting for the guillotine’s fall, that clues Imayoshi in.

Hanamiya’s behaved at all their other games, using his skill at passing and shooting to win instead of crippling their opponents. For Hanamiya to deviate from routine and risk getting kicked off the team…

I did it for you, Hanamiya’s eyes silently say. The proud tilt of his chin expresses that even if he gets scolded, he won’t be sorry.

Something in Imayoshi’s chest twists uncomfortably and he knows he’s done for.

Nobody else has ever defended him or his honor. Nobody else has ever felt they needed to.

Stupid kid. Stupid, vengeful, brilliant kid.

Imayoshi’s going to have to talk to him about it.

Imayoshi’s thirteen years old, Imayoshi’s in love and Imayoshi’s destroyed by it.

Edited 2017-07-14 12:38 (UTC)

THIS. THIS is so lovely, those first two sentences hit me in the chest and kept me from inhaling more air, because my head was stuck in the idea of murder and then I hit to see the boy buried in that jersey and I flailed, it was such a brilliant opening. And I adore that Hanamiya is absolutely vengeful, in a way where he'll cross the guidelines that Imayoshi has set for him and he's so angry and so twelve, with all of the intensity and straightforward thinking of that age.

And the parallel at the beginning and end of the two halves were absolutely brilliant, my heart was absolutely delighted because the same words that were so vicious in Hanamiya's part felt so exasperated in Imayoshi's part. It was so wonderful, despite the fact that there was a poor teenager unconscious and bleeding on the ground, and I did it for you, my goodness.

They're so lovely and so young, I absolutely adore this. Thank you for sharing! <3

Thank you so much for prompting it and leaving such gorgeous feedback! Hanamiya and Imayoshi are fucked up but I do believe they genuinely love each other - it's just in such a twisted and warped way that it's not always recognizable as love.

Protectiveness though, that's something that Hanamiya can't deny and that Imayoshi hasn't experienced. He's never needed protecting, he's the smart one who can look out for himself and then Hanamiya just FLIPS. Twelve years old and his only actual friend/equal got hurt and Hanamiya's plotting murder.

I honestly love how these two pull together and writing them is so much fun. I'm super appreciative of the chance to keep writing them. <3

Bonus Round 4: Quotes

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