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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!
FILL: Team The Prince of Tennis, M
Fandom: Prince of Stride
Major Tags: tags omitted
Other Tags: tags omitted
Word Count: 553 words
Creeeeepy. Because I’m bad at anything else. Unhealthy relationships, dependency, exploitation.
***
Heath doesn’t run anymore. He barely even walks.
The shoes that Tomoe keeps putting him in are impossible to Stride in and only just possible to walk in.
Photographers love them, magazines love them, outlets love them and stars love them. Nobody ever comments on how the people that wear them are always posed with someone at their side to lean on, someone who can steady them and hold them up.
The people that wear them are all people who understand a price tag comes with everything and true luxuries cost more than money.
Love, for example, is bought by Heath practicing for hours in crystal sneakers until he can lift his legs gracefully and glide without clunking his feet down in a way that’ll look unattractive to the photographers that’ll be in the front rows of the fashion shows. There is no give in the crystal, no support, but they have been fashioned to fit his feet so perfectly that his feet don’t slide around inside.
There’s an invisible seam down the back, hidden amidst the sparkling diamond cuts of the crystal, where the sneakers are superglued shut and then the glue is melted off by nailpolish remover. Heath learns how to do it on his own so he can walk around the house in the crystal sneakers while Tomoe sleeps.
He can’t practice until his feet bleed. He can’t develop callouses. The crystal has an odd magnifying-capturing effect, distorting the pieces of Heath’s feet so that the shoes look shot through with slices of pink.
Tomoe cups Heath’s crystal-sneaker-clad foot in his hand and wonders out loud about applying some nail polish, something blue and pale to counterbalance Heath’s skin.
Heath smiles shakily down at him and concentrates on balancing on only one foot, on not screaming with pain.
*
“There’s something wrong with you lately,” Kyousuke says and takes Heath’s hand in his. “This isn’t how a relationship is supposed to be.”
Heath smiles at him but doesn’t hear. His feet are throbbing and the fountain across from the cafe looks so tempting. He could bathe his feet in its waters for just a little. If anyone catches him, it’ll make for a good photo - Heath relaxed in public, the edges of his trousers wet, his red stilettoes on the edge of the fountain. Tomoe’ll like it.
“Heath? Are you even listening to me?”
“Why don’t we have our meal at the fountain?” Heath asks, looking back at Kyousuke. “It’s such a nice day. Let’s ask for everything to go.”
*
The photos are of him and Kyousuke, laughing together and talking, seated on the edge of the fountain with Kyousuke and Heath’s trousers rolled up so they can both bathe their feet in the water.
The tabloids run it under titles like ‘AN END TO THE PERFECT COUPLE?’ and ‘FRIENDS OR MORE?’.
Tomoe says nothing but Heath knows he’s angry.
*
At the next shoe, one of the crystal sneakers shatter. Shards dig into Heath’s foot, into his ankle; he raises up onto his toes to keep his gait even and walks on, gaze fixed on Tomoe and blood smearing over the runway.
Blood always take the front pages; if the publicity from this makes Tomoe forgive him, then Heath will count every scar and every drop of blood as worthy sacrifices.
Re: FILL: Team The Prince of Tennis, M
those first two lines!!! fashion is pain omg, haute couture only more so?? yikes and to take their shared love of stride away from them like this, tomoe whyyy
ah, love the thought put into just how demented crystal sneakers would be to make, fit and and move in, the extra hours that no one can really witness of heath's devotion to managing this affliction, the dependencies created by tomoe's sneaker-monstrosity-nightmare, this is fucked up!!!!
and kyousuke notices but oh god, he really can't see it for how far gone it is. and the framing by publicity throughout the entire thing doesn't help either, like 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder' gone whoosh right over everyone's heads
creepy stuff indeed, unbalanced and just teetering on the edge because yeah, fashion has its own dark secrets
thank you!!
Re: FILL: Team The Prince of Tennis, M
Prompt me iron sneakers and the same ship and I'll wirite you the prequel that explains EVERYTHING.
This is such a good verse and prompt, I love fucked up fairy tales and I lve how you pick up on all the details I so carefully weave in.
Re: FILL: Team The Prince of Tennis, M
thanks again!