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SASO Referees ([personal profile] referees) wrote in [community profile] sportsanime2017-08-15 08:01 pm
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Bonus Round 7: Free For All

Free-For-All


Let's finish SASO 2017 with a bang. This bonus bonus round allows any kind of prompt imaginable in any format. The sky's the limit!



SASO 2017 is over, but this round is perpetually open to new fills (no new prompts).


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 literally any kind of prompt, along with any ship/ot3/etc. from one of our nominated fandoms, with the following caveats:
    • Large image prompts should be thumbnailed and linked to, as explained here.
    • Fanart/fanfiction/fanwork prompts are only allowed if you created the fanwork yourself or if you have explicit permission to use it, and proof of permission must be linked to in your prompt header.
    • Quote prompts can come from almost anything, but please don't quote personal conversations you've had or overheard.
    • Reposting prompts is fine, but be respectful and keep crediting in mind. A prompt belongs to the person who posted it to this round, and who can fill it is determined by whether or not they are on that person's team.
      • If reposting a br2 (tic tac toe) prompt, please post each prompt square as its own individual comment. Posting tic tac toe boards wholesale will crash our br scorer and the bonus doesn't apply for this round, anyway.
    • Your prompt MUST include some kind of relationship. Platonic relationships are indicated by an "&" between the names (e.g., Akira & Hikaru). Non-platonic relationships use "/" (e.g., Akira/Hikaru). Please don't say "Any pairing," either!
  • Besides that, if you want to prompt something, regardless of format—even formats not previously allowed in SASO—go right ahead. If you're unsure you can ask us for clarification, but tbh just go for the gold.
  • Fill prompts by replying to the prompt with a 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)
  • 8 tracks (fanmixes)
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.

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.

  • NSFW FILLS: Please cross-link these fills and tag them clearly. [community profile] saso_afterhours is open to all NSFW fills.
    • Written/text fills can be hosted on AO3 or [community profile] 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.

  • NSFW FILLS: Please cross-link these fills and tag them clearly. [community profile] saso_afterhours is open to all NSFW fills.
    • Written/text fills can be hosted on AO3 or [community profile] 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.


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!
marks: little orphan annie (he's fine (hq))

PROMPT: Team Otabek Altin/Yuri Plisetsky

[personal profile] marks 2017-08-21 02:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Ship: Hinata Shouyou/Kageyama Tobio (AND Oikawa Tooru/Kageyama Tobio, if you'd like)
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: None

Prompt:
marks: little orphan annie (bokusaso (hq))

PROMPT: Team Otabek Altin/Yuri Plisetsky

[personal profile] marks 2017-08-21 02:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Ship: Nishinoya Yuu/Azumane Asahi AND/OR Nishinoya Yuu/Tanaka Ryuunosuke OR noya/anyone really
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: bait

Prompt:
marks: angry kags (kageyama (hq))

PROMPT: Team Otabek Altin/Yuri Plisetsky

[personal profile] marks 2017-08-21 02:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Ship: Tsukishima Kei/Kageyama Tobio
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Major Tags: Sexual content
Other Tags: feel free to interpret this literally but also consider...what if he's not?

Prompt:

marks: just don't piss him off (happy yamaguchi (hq))

PROMPT: Team Otabek Altin/Yuri Plisetsky

[personal profile] marks 2017-08-21 02:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Ship: Ukai Keishin/Takeda Ittetsu
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: in context he sprayed himself with Febreeze

Prompt:

marks: little orphan annie (don't mind (hq))

PROMPT: Team Otabek Altin/Yuri Plisetsky

[personal profile] marks 2017-08-21 02:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Ship: Azumane Asahi/anyone on Karasuno (OR Azumane Asahi/EVERYONE on Karasuno)
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: sorry not sorry

Prompt:

marks: little orphan annie (hinata (hq))

PROMPT: Team Otabek Altin/Yuri Plisetsky

[personal profile] marks 2017-08-21 02:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Ship: Hinata Shouyou/Kageyama Tobio
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: eyebrow waggle

Prompt:

marks: angry kags (kageyama (hq))

PROMPT: Team Otabek Altin/Yuri Plisetsky

[personal profile] marks 2017-08-21 02:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Ship: Kageyama Tobio/anyone
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Major Tags: Blood
Other Tags: listen, uh you don't need to include blood in your fill if you don't want to

Prompt:



click through for full image!
Edited 2017-08-21 14:45 (UTC)
marks: never forget this is sort of a canon picture (tsukkiyama (let's hq!))

PROMPT: Team Otabek Altin/Yuri Plisetsky

[personal profile] marks 2017-08-21 02:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Ship: Tsukishima Kei/Yamaguchi Tadashi
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: if one character gives another a towel with any kind of significance i WILL assume they're married

Prompt:

marks: get you hooked (tsukishima (hq))

PROMPT: Team Otabek Altin/Yuri Plisetsky

[personal profile] marks 2017-08-21 02:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Ship: Tsukishima Kei/Yamaguchi Tadashi
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: i'm not crying you're crying

Prompt:
marks: angry kags (kageyama (hq))

PROMPT: Team Otabek Altin/Yuri Plisetsky

[personal profile] marks 2017-08-21 02:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Ship: Tsukishima Kei/Kageyama Tobio
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: see he can be nice (ignore that he doesn't say this within kageyama's earshot)

Prompt:

marks: little orphan annie (Default)

PROMPT: Team Otabek Altin/Yuri Plisetsky

[personal profile] marks 2017-08-21 02:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Ship: Ushijima Wakatoshi/Tsukishima Kei
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: his crops are watered, his animals are strong, ps how funny is this picture?

Prompt:

marks: tsukishima (he can't help it if he's popular (hq))

PROMPT: Team Otabek Altin/Yuri Plisetsky

[personal profile] marks 2017-08-21 03:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Ship: Tsukishima Kei/Kageyama Tobio
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: my ship is strong and yet has so much room

Prompt:

marks: little orphan annie (Default)

PROMPT: Team Otabek Altin/Yuri Plisetsky

[personal profile] marks 2017-08-21 03:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Ship: Ukai Keishin/Takeda Ittetsu
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: fooling around in bathrooms is a-ok by me, in case you wondered (no one wondered)

Prompt:
marks: little orphan annie (Default)

Re: PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

[personal profile] marks 2017-08-21 03:12 pm (UTC)(link)
SO BAITED
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FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, M

[personal profile] hatchbacks 2017-08-21 03:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Ship: Nijimura/Himuro
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Other Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Word Count: 448

***

http://saso-afterhours.dreamwidth.org/96321.html
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FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, T

[personal profile] hatchbacks 2017-08-21 03:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Ship: Alex/Masako
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Other Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Word Count: 404

***

There’s a lot that Alex loves about Masako, and even these components together don't add up to how and why she loves Masako as a whole. A lot of love is without reason, but the good thing about love is that there’s always more to discover that you love about a person, even though you love them so much already. And while building up their relationship with an ocean between them hasn’t been totally ideal, it’s given Alex a true appreciation for Masako’s physical characteristics.

Like her hair, when it’s pulled back in a ponytail and it swishes back and forth behind her head; like her neck, long and slim and revealed to Alex, unadorned but certainly not plain; like the curl of her lip when she’s absolutely determined to accomplish a task; like how tall she stands next to Alex (and how Alex can tease her about being short, especially when she admits to mostly-let-go insecurities about her own height and femininity, and Alex can empathize a little too much about never feeling like you’ve left the gawky taller-than-everyone-else stage behind, and wonders if that’s why Masako likes to surround herself with two-meter-tall high schoolers, or at least partially).

And, specifically, her boobs. Alex loves burying her face in Masako’s chest, rolling over on top of her in bed and fitting her own head and torso against Masako’s body half-awkwardly, her nose poking through the buttons on Masako’s pajama top and hitting her sternum. When Masako hasn’t put anything on yet and they’re bare, her nipples pointed in the cold morning and her skin bumpy with gooseflesh, and she squawks when Alex pulls her in closer and kisses one on the side, sloppy and wet and warm.

“You looked cold,” Alex says.

Masako grumbles, but she doesn’t push Alex off until she’s really running late and needs a bra and a shirt, and Alex has to let her go out the door (and Masako always makes Alex put on something before she leaves so they can say goodbye at the door without the neighbors calling them indecent, but who gives a damn about what they say).

There have been times when Masako has complained about her chest being so average, but really it isn’t. So Alex makes sure to show Masako, and tell her when she can’t, that her chest is way, way above that.
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FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, T

[personal profile] hatchbacks 2017-08-21 03:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Ship: Aomine/Midorima
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Other Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Word Count: 416

***

Aomine’s fucking tired today, and he’s pretty sure Midorima won’t be home before he gets there. He texts that he’s picking up dinner at the fast-food joint on the corner (he only goes there as often as he does because of their loyalty program, something Midorima says doesn’t actually save him that much money since if he didn’t go there as much he would spend less money instead of spending more for the free large fries, but whatever, it tastes good). Midorima doesn’t answer; Aomine’s sure he’s still at work.

He’s not, though; when Aomine arrives at home Midorima is on the couch, his computer open, running his numbers in that stupid graphing program.

“Babe, you're here early.”

He kisses Midorima’s cheek, and Midorima barely reacts. “I have to fun these numbers; I won’t be able to do any experiments tomorrow if I don’t do this now.”

Aomine rolls his eyes. “You said that last night, and the night before. Why can’t you do your numbers when you’re on the clock? That’s part of the job description, too.”

“It has to get done,” says Midorima.

“Yeah, but what happens if your experiments get pushed back one day? You’re not even close to putting out a paper, right? So one day shouldn’t make a difference.”

“But if I can—”

“You have to take care of yourself,” says Aomine, snapping the laptop shut and snatching it away (he’s still too fast for Midorima; their too-occasional basketball sessions have already proved that).

“I need to do work,” says Midorima. “Give it back.”

“Babe, listen,” says Aomine. “You do this every damn day. You don’t get paid for it. You’re not going to get fired and the work’s not going to fail if you just, you know, spend time with your boyfriend and eat dinner without one hand on the mouse for one day. I just…I’m trying to make time for you, and I want this relationship to work.”

“Oh,” says Midorima.

He doesn’t reach for the laptop again, and Aomine puts it back, offering his hand to Midorima instead. After one second, one more glance at the laptop and its pulsing light, he reaches back, and Aomine squeezes his fingers.

“Hey, you’ve had a long day. Relax. I brought you some food.”

Midorima nods. “I’m sorry.”

“Don’t be,” says Aomine, kissing his cheek. “Just be here with me now. Tell me about the horoscopes or something.”

Midorima nods, and they make their way to the kitchen.
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FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, T

[personal profile] hatchbacks 2017-08-21 03:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Ship: Kagami/Himuro &Alex
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Other Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Word Count: 560

***

The wedding was a horrible idea. Getting married isn’t, but at this point Taiga would rather just throw everything out and elope in Mexico. Tatsuya’s mother has her own ideas, like having several different outfits and a live orchestra, an expensive venue that they could probably afford but since Taiga’s dad put his foot down about how he’s paying for his only son’s wedding, Taiga absolutely refuses to make him pay for. They don’t need hundreds of guests; Tatsuya’s cousins are fine and mutual friends are also fine but the relatives his dad never speaks to? His old nanny’s mother, whom he's never even met?

There is a certain side of that Taiga can understand; he’d probably want to be involved if his only child was getting married, especially if he was retired and bored, and she’s done a lot of the legwork and navigated some of the planning that’s too much of a headache for Taiga. Tatsuya himself has been mostly hands-off throughout the whole process, which is both good and not, especially when Tatsuya does have a strong opinion about something. Because Taiga would give in, except when it’s whose side Alex should be on because she’s both of theirs and means different things to both of them (as well as the same) and she’s just as important to Tatsuya as she is to Taiga. Which is why it’s so goddamn hard, and why they fight about it and get legitimately mad, and why they’re lying in bed with a few months to the wedding not facing each other, and Taiga lets a dumb intrusive thought go all the way through his mouth.

“What if we just eloped?”

“So neither of us get anything?”

“No. Alex could get that internet certification and do the ceremony.”

Tatsuya’s arm slips around Taiga’s waist, but he doesn’t say anything.

“Your mom would be mad, though.”

Tatsuya hums. “We could still have the wedding, but like, purely ceremonial. Do all the shinto stuff to cover our religious bases. I do want to see you in a wedding kimono, and a tux, and after that when you’re wearing a little less so we can have good wedding night sex we’ve waited all evening for.”

“But where would Alex be then?”

Tatsuya sighs. “Well. I guess I could let you have her. As long as she stands slightly on my side when she marries us.”

Taiga snorts into Tatsuya’s neck, and Tatsuya kicks his ankle gently.

“Kidding. Mostly.”

“I mean….if you want…”

“Taiga,” says Tatsuya, rolling over on top of him, staring down, letting Taiga reach up to push his bangs off his face. “All I care about is that I get a day—or two days—where I get to stare at you and think about how much I love you.”

“Oh,” says Taiga, and then, “You think that’s not what I want out of this? Even though I’m like, planning and stuff? I want our special day to be special and look good, but I’m probably not going to notice what color the napkins are when I’m looking at you the whole time.”

“Really? Because you were arguing pretty hard about that with my mom the other day.”

Tatsuya sinks down on top of Taiga’s chest, and Taiga kisses him on the forehead; he knows Tatsuya’s mostly kidding this time.
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FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, M

[personal profile] hatchbacks 2017-08-21 03:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Ship: Murasakibara/Himuro
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Other Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Word Count: 415

***

http://saso-afterhours.dreamwidth.org/96623.html
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FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, T

[personal profile] hatchbacks 2017-08-21 03:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Ship: Nijimura/Haizaki
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Other Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Word Count: 411

***

Shougo kind of resents looking like he needs saving or something, but he still takes the pamphlet the old lady in the street pushes on him, the bright words on the front proclaiming that he, too, can be saved, found where he was a lost sheep. He’s vaguely familiar with Christianity, to the extent that it involves Christmas and Easter and crosses and that Jesus was executed, that church is on Sunday and there’s a lot of enthusiastic westerners involved.

JESUS DIED FOR YOU, reads the inside of the front cover, and Shougo tosses the pamphlet on the floor of the train.

Across the car, an old man looks annoyed at him, but does not say anything. Shougo gets off at the next stop and sets off on the familiar route to Shuuzou’s apartment, only a few blocks away. Not soon enough. Jesus died for him, huh? Shougo, who’s not religious at all and can’t even bother to follow the loosely-defined tenets of religion around him, who would never go out of his way to convert to Christianity. What a crock of shit, and what an idiot. Shougo wouldn’t die for Jesus. Not for anyone—maybe Shuuzou, but Shuuzou would probably be mad if he did.

“What if I died for you?” is how Shougo ends up greeting Shuuzou, and Shuuzou raises an eyebrow.

“You’d better not be thinking of doing that. There are better ways with less dying to show you love me.”

Shougo sighs and sits down, and Shuuzou pulls him in to give him the sloppy kind of kiss he knows Shougo doesn’t like. Shougo elbows him in the stomach.

“I got this religious pamphlet that said Jesus died for me. What a fuckin’ idiot. Anyway, I dunno, I wouldn’t die for him and I don’t think I’d die for anyone, but, uh.”

This sounded a lot less pathetic in his head, and Shuuzou looks like he’s about to burst out laughing.

“What?” says Shougo. “It’s legit. Some lady pushed this thing on me; I wasn’t going to actually convert.”

“Yeah, okay,” says Shuuzou. “Don’t forget to invite me to your baptism.”

Shougo rolls his eyes. “I told you. I wouldn’t die for Jesus, and I’m not going to like, act guilty even if he did die for me.”

“I don’t think the point is that he died for you individually,” says Shuuzou. “It’s like, humanity as a whole.”

“Damn, I thought I was special,” says Shougo.
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FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, E

[personal profile] hatchbacks 2017-08-21 03:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Ship: Kagami/Himuro
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Other Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Word Count: 432

***

http://saso-afterhours.dreamwidth.org/96780.html
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FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, T

[personal profile] hatchbacks 2017-08-21 03:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Ship: Aomine/Murasakibara/Midorima
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Other Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Word Count: 558

***

Midorima is like a perfect fifth, Aomine decides, as he plays one and watches Midorima react, his face buried in the sheet music as usual. It’s just practice, but that means he won’t get yelled at too badly if his mind wanders a bit and he screws up. The perfect fifth is almost a cliche, like a tryhard, like someone like Midorima who wants to try hard and get things back into something recognizable as neat even to people who don’t know music that well. Most of their audience does, though, or pretends to, and besides, Aomine’s not really playing for them. Maybe he’s just got the luxury of saying that because they make a tidy income from chamber music, but he’s playing for Midorima and Murasakibara, and for himself.

He bows across a sour note and Midorima frowns; Aomine sighs and lifts his chin, catching his violin in a well-practiced move that Midorima hates.

“You’ll drop and break it; that’s a good instrument.”

“I won’t,” says Aomine, placing it on top of the piano and pivoting the chair so he can sit on it backwards.

Midorima sighs; he usually doesn’t give up this easily, but he’s probably more annoyed that Murasakibara’s gotten sidetracked at the vending machine again and is, of course, late (later than they are, anyway).

*

Midorima’s the last one there the next time, and Aomine ends up on a bus snarled in a traffic jam the time after that, on his way over hanging out with Kuroko downtown. He sends a message via the group text that he’ll be a while longer; Murasakibara sends back a one-word reply and Midorima nothing. Aomine will find a way to make it up to the two of them; he always does (maybe they can keep trading being the late one, or maybe he can find some obscure editorial edition of a concerto that Midorima keeps talking about and buy Murasakibara two extra giant cookies the next time they go to a particular cafe; maybe he can apologize honestly and play the shit out of the violin for them and give them both blow jobs not out of obligation but because he wants to).

His mind drifts back to that thought about Midorima as a perfect fifth—if he’s that, then Murasakibara’s a minor third, way more complex than he lets on, played the wrong way a lot, but if you take the time—yeah. So together they’re a nice minor chord, and what does that make Aomine? The overtones? He’s probably a little less subtle than that. Maybe the dominant, a little redundant but throwing them just a little bit off-balance when they’re all together (or, though, if he’s on violin he’s usually on top, so it’s maybe not that off-balance there, and he’s finally at the right stop).

He steps quietly through the halls toward the practice room, and he’s glad of it. The door is slightly ajar and he can hear the strains of a familiar piece, that Rachmaninoff barcarolle for four hands that they’d all seen together at their music school, so long ago. Murasakibara’s awfully good at piano for a cellist; he should do it more. Who cares if it’s harder to find arrangements for four hand piano and a violin? Aomine’s content to just watch and listen to them.
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FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, T

[personal profile] hatchbacks 2017-08-21 03:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Ship: Murasakibara/Himuro
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Other Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Word Count: 429

gets a biiiit gory for a second

***

Atsushi’s seen the riders before, usually from a distance, but sometimes close by. The blond one, who beckons him to join with a free hand, the one who looks like a gorilla, the tall and slim one hunched on his horse, the head that he places on his shoulders and lets roll off like a basketball. But then the new one, elegant on his steed, as if he’d been doing it for a thousand years. Are spirits like this eternal? Atushi doesn’t care that much to find out, but none of the ones he’s seen have changed at all since he was a terrified child, clutching his older sister’s hand.

The new one comes closer bit by bit. Instead of veering erratically, each night he rides closer and closer to the bridge. A flash of black hair, half the face thrown in shadow. Pale fingertips. A red-brown horse, ordinary, as if it could have come from one of the local stables, but whose feet vanish into smoke and steam, into the fog that is never there except when the riders come, that may not be tangible but Atsushi knows there’s no use touching it (it probably won’t grab him in, even if he can feel it, but).

The first time he sees the new one up close, he’s struck still almost, like the first time after he’d begged his sister to take him to see. The grin is wide, hideous but beautiful, almost artistically done, almost like a mockery of the real thing. Like his face has been carved from glass or marble, though he keeps half of it in shadow, perhaps some bump or disfiguration under the hair that covers half his face from when he’d been executed, his body keeping it and carrying it onward just like the severing. The rotting stump of a neck, spiking upward, pale sun bleached bone at the very top.

“You’re staring.”

“You’re not like them,” says Atsushi.

“Oh, isn’t that interesting.”

A flash of teeth in the grin, as wide as the whole face. One beautiful eye, flashing just as brightly, framed by long lashes. Again, like a portrait, like a piece of art. Atsushi should run, but part of him doesn’t want to, wants to find out more about this one of them (careful, his sister’s voice whispers, but it’s not very loud in his head).

“Were you trying to pay me a compliment?”

“I was telling the truth,” Atsushi says, directly to the head.

Its grin is silent, until the horse rears and the rider turns. Atsushi follows.
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FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, T

[personal profile] hatchbacks 2017-08-21 03:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Ship: Murasakibara/Himuro, Liu/Himuro
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
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Word Count: 500

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The first thing Atsushi learns after joining a proper pack is that all that alpha beta bullshit is just bullshit, in fact. Araki is the de facto leader, Okamura and Fukui her deputies, just because they’ve been here the longest, but Atsushi’s opinion holds nearly equal weight, as does Wei’s. As does Tatsuya’s when he joins, when they wake up after a full moon to find a grey wolf transforming slowly and painfully. He must be new at this; they’ve all been born this way or bitten in early childhood and their bodies are far more used to it. Still, Tatsuya doesn’t complain, doesn’t act as tired as he must feel (they all know it, but he hides it, even when Wei lets him lean against him, under the guise of what seems to actually become real courtship).

Atsushi’s not jealous, but Tatsuya’s pretty as a human. Pretty as a wolf, too, lean and grey, even though the persistent limp and sightless eye are more obvious when they’re running wild through the forest. Even though Tatsuya can’t keep up with him. He’s pretty sure Tatsuya can smell the want on him; the first year or so is always a time of hypersensitivity and, well.

“It’s okay,” Tatsuya says, when Atsushi slips back in from watch and Araki takes her turn. “If you don’t mind sharing.”

Atsushi supposes he doesn’t; this isn’t the ache of need or dissatisfaction, and only a little jealousy. A lot of that doesn’t work too well in a pack, and it all goes away once Tatsuya starts coming to him, too, spending some nights in Atsushi’s bed or pressed between Atsushi and Wei, held up by trust (and, well, two other people are warmer than one other or none at all, and it gets cold out here at night).

Every full moon could be their last; every full moon there are more and more hunters. They don’t howl as much or as freely as they used to; Atsushi’s never heard Tatsuya’s wolf voice and isn’t sure if Tatsuya’s ever used it.

He hears shots and crashing at the end of the night, under the setting moon, as he prowls back through the underbrush. He can smell the humans, the smoke from their guns (regular bullets, fucking stupid trophy hunting cesspits, he thinks; not that it can’t kill but that kind of lodged bullet death is slow and painful). When he gets back to the cave he’s already human; the sun is spreading shadows across the entrance. Okamura is bleeding from a scrape; everyone else is fine, asleep, human. Wei’s form is curled around Tatsuya, a position where he’d probably been comfortable as a wolf, but just looks awkward now. Wei’s eyes open a crack as Atsushi lays down beside them and he nods, nuzzling back against Tatsuya. They smell like the underbrush, like fresh prey, like they’d been far away from sparks and heavy metal bullets. Atsushi falls asleep with his face buried in Tatsuya’s hair.
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Re: PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

[personal profile] gionkenji 2017-08-21 03:27 pm (UTC)(link)
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eclipse glasses on and waiting!