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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 Imaizumi Shunsuke/Naruko Shoukichi, T
Fandom: Haikyuu
Major tags: Graphic depictions of violence/gore, Bodily fluids (blood)
Other tags: Supernatural elements, FHQ AU
Word Count: 823 words
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The hero, spurred by justice, chases the monster to the clearing. They have a great and terrible battle, but the hero finally lands a fatal blow and kills the monster for good. With a scream, the monster dies. All its evil crumbles along with it, and the kingdom lives happily ever after.
—Or so the story goes.
Kageyama is not the hero. Hinata is: bright-eyed, energetic, willing to help. Kageyama just came along because he had nowhere else to go. He had nothing else to live for, no army, no nothing, if the hero hadn’t come along and offered an energetic promise.
He had to know why. Why he was forced out. Why his lord willingly let him go. Cast him out.
Why?
The rough bark tickles Kageyama’s elbows as he presses up against the tree trunk. He hasn’t been spotted yet, but he has an arrow ready for when danger comes. One last one.
Oikawa’s endurance is incredible. Kenma’s curses are gnawing away at his ankles, and sword slashes have ripped his back apart. His left arm is twisted the wrong way, dangling dangerously by a few tendons. He’s still on his feet, churning with enough magic to curdle the grass.
Kageyama’s never been good at telling monsters apart. It’s normal to fight for your life, isn’t it? It’s even harder to tell when the person in front of him looks so human. He looks like the person who took him in as a kid, who he’d devoted his life to, who smiled when he left in shame.
That red gaze is looking through the trees, on him.
A shiver runs down Kageyama’s arm, and his fingers go slack.
Oikawa flinches, jerking back. He sputters, nearly folding in half against a nearby tree. Hardly breathing.
There’s no arrow in Kageyama’s bow. The hastily crafted shaft is sticking out of Oikawa’s chest.
The world goes cold, and Kageyama starts to shake. He had no problem shooting arrows during the final battle, because Oikawa has magic. He has enough pour to churn the clouds and blacken the sky. Every step Kageyama took in the kingdom reverberated with Oikawa’s heartbeat. Oikawa is the demon king, Oikawa is invincible.
But blood is dripping down from the wound.
Demons aren’t immortal, and Oikawa isn’t deathless. If he dies, all the knowledge of the demon king goes with him. Everything he’s learned from long hours toiling over scrolls and tomes in languages Kageyama couldn’t even imagine learning would be gone in an instant.
He went on this trip to put his skills to use, as a former general, as a murderer, but—
“Answer me, Tobio.”
“Y-Yes,” he speaks, despite himself. Too late— his position’s clear, and he’s out of arrows.
“If you kill me, I’m going to be really pissed off. I didn’t plan to let you win.”
Then who, he wants to ask, but his tongue is sewn to his jaw.
“Ugh. Fine. The orb is yours, the kingdom is yours, blah blah blah.” Oikawa chokes on his words as a bubble of blood pops in his mouth. The sigh he lets out is more of a gargle. “Lost to a band of upstarts and Iwa-chan. Hope you’re happy.”
“I didn’t want this either.”
“Right, you just wanted my magic.” Oikawa’s grin is bloody and all fangs. “Always a brat pulling at my heels.”
“Do you hate me?” Kageyama blurts out.
“You shot me. I’ll keep you in suspense.”
“I don’t hate you.” I never hated you. Oikawa’s demonic beauty that chased many people away has always drawn Kageyama’s eyes, time and time again.
The blood has trickled down to Oikawa’s knees. “I know. You’re too open. And stupid.”
Kageyama came to see Oikawa again; maybe to kill him, for the sake of the land he’s neutral to, for the suffering of people he has nothing to do with. He was never so righteous. Even when he still carried the flag of the kingdom, he only wanted to learn. To get stronger. To be as brilliant as the man before him. To be a lotus growing from mud, just like the stories he used to hear long ago.
Vials of healing potion jangle in his belt, emergency aids made by Kenma for the worst case scenario.
“Are you going to finish me off?” Oikawa sneers, choking out half a laugh. “Then get it over with. I don’t like being kept waiting.”
Heroes kill monsters. Monsters have to die for the story to end. It’s the iron-clad rule.
His eyes are blurry and heavy and hurt. It has to be the dust, but he blinks it away as he feels around his belt for his dagger. Put a blade in Oikawa’s heart, or pull the arrow out and sew up the hole.
Oikawa silently watches him with flat eyes. Waiting.
Kageyama shuffles out of the trees, and makes his choice.
Re: FILL: Team Imaizumi Shunsuke/Naruko Shoukichi, T