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Bonus Round 5: Clue
Sometimes, all you need are a few little details to imagine something bigger. This round is inspired by a classic board game with a cast of colorful characters, but for SASO your only limits on "who", "where", and "with what" are what you can imagine (and the SASO fandom list, of course)!
Please read this whole post before commenting to ensure that your team gets the most points possible. (There are changes from last year!)
RULES
- Submit prompts by commenting to this post with the format of a Clue mystery - "[character] in the [location] with [item]", along with any ship/ot3/etc. from one of our nominated fandoms.
- Example: Sawamura Daichi in the teachers' lounge with the Hello Kitty! lunchbox
- The person in your prompt MAY be a member of your ship, but is not REQUIRED to be part of your ship. They must still be a named character from a SASO-nominated fandom.
- Your place must be a physical location, not a state of being or a state of being. However, this location is not required to be real, nor must it be from the same setting as the characters.
- The "item" used must be a physical object that the character can hold or manipulate.
- Unlike the board game, your prompt is NOT required to imply murder. The scenario implied can be anything at all! (As always, please tag properly!)
- 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 Clue-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)
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 the Prince of Tennis
Fandom: DAYS
Major Tags: violence, blood
Other Tags: Hunger Games AU, I'm still sorry
Prompt:
Tsukishima in the Hunger Games with bandages.
FILL: Team Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov, M
Fandom: DAYS
Major Tags: Violence, character death
Other Tags: it's been so long since I've read/watched THG that I can't vouch for this, main thing is murder kids though right, I wanted to put Mizuki in here too but then the whole thing would be Mizuki ('Bfffffff. That's the sound of his head exploding.')
Word Count: 714
>:(
Also on AO3
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Tsukamoto wasn’t one the youngest tributes selected that year, but with his rosy cheeks and dark, startled blue eyes, it was easy enough to see why he’d stir up some sympathy among the sponsor-class. Not enough to help him, of course, there were kids like Tsukamoto in the Games every year. It was the aim of the Games, after all, to destroy youth and innocence and that Tsukamoto had in spades.
Jin was the same age as Tsukamoto, but he was a Career. He’d done his time in the arena two years before and emerged the victor in one of the shortest Games in recent history. Indou, a past winner who had decided to take him under his wing, said that Jin’s win had displeased some of the higher ups -- his brutality made for good television, but his efficiency did not.
Jin watched Tsukamoto run into the woods as the starting bell went off. If nothing else, he ran well. If only that could save him.
*
Past victors didn’t tend to watch the Games. Indou didn’t, even though he had trained the tribute for his district this year -- Narukami, who was small and deadly -- and when Jin asked why, Indou had shrugged. “It doesn’t help me to see him suffer, and it doesn’t help him either. If you want them to win, you have to convince the sponsors to support them.”
He looked at Jin, his eyes sharp. Jin understood him well enough.
If Tsukamoto won, then Narukami would lose.
*
Everyday, Jin dreaded getting the news of the tributes’ deaths. He scanned each update as they came in, but so far, Tsukamoto’s name wasn’t on them. He seemed to be surviving by eluding the rest, but that wouldn’t last forever, not as the number of tributes continued to fall. Jin was finally able to convince a sponsor to donate a blowgun and twelve darts -- the number of the still-living tributes -- to Tsukamoto. Jin watched long enough to see him receive the gift and look up to the sky in wonder. He wondered if Tsukamoto knew that he existed.
*
Only two left now. Tsukamoto and Narukami. No one was betting on Tsukamoto.
No one but Jin.
*
Narukami had done so much damage to Tsukamoto that there was doubt that this year’s Hunger Games would even have a winner. But despite everything, Tsukamoto held on stubbornly to life, day after day, and Jin was forced to act as his spokesman, do the rounds, charm those who needed to be charmed in order for Tsukamoto’s medical bills to be paid for. He hadn’t talked to Indou since Narukami’s death. There didn’t seem to be anything to say.
Jin didn’t actually meet Tsukamoto until six months after the Games were over.
Tsukamoto’s cheeks were still pink and his eyes were still blue. But he looked back at Jin with an expression that Jin could easily recognize, because he’d seen it on his own face often enough. It was doubt and pain so deep that it couldn’t be hidden.
He wanted to take Tsukamoto’s hand and shake it, to tell him that he was his friend, that he had helped him survive. But had he been a friend, to do all that? Or did he just want another person to be broken in the way he was?
“Why did you help me?” Tsukamoto asked, not looking at him. His eyes were trained on his bandaged hands, folded neatly on his lap.
“You were so unlikely,” Jin said with a smile, “I mean, you were so hopeless that I had to help.”
Let Tsukamoto look at him now and hate him. Let him see what a rotten person he was. Instead, Tsukamoto looked at him and burst into tears. Jin was so startled that he almost fell over, scrambling to find a tissue or something for Tsukamoto to wipe his face with.
“Tsukamoto -- Tsukushi, don’t cry, it’s all right,” Jin muttered when he found it, handing a fuzzy tissue that had been in his pocket for days. Tsukushi stopped in mid-sob.
“Sorry,” Jin said, “don’t you want me to call you that?”
“No, I -- it’s been so long since -- I like it. Please don’t stop.”
Carefully, Jin placed a small kiss on top of Tsukushi’s sweaty forehead. “All right. Welcome back.”
Re: FILL: Team Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov, M
AND HIM CRYING AND NARUKAMI NEARLY WINNING, holy shit, you really brought out the big guns to wreck me here. I loved the detail of Jin won as well, that's such a good description, and the way you added in Indou as well! Their interplay was fantastic and such a good counterpoint to the brutality of the Games.
Jin watched long enough to see him receive the gift and look up to the sky in wonder.
That line is so simple but so evocative, I can picture it in my head perfectly. Thanks for a great fill!
Re: FILL: Team Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov, M
I enjoyed making them Suffer, which is a bit disturbing but eh. Narukami is such scary darling that I was genuinely sad to kill him off.