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Bonus Round 1: Quotes

SASO 2015 is over, but this round is perpetually open to new fills (no new prompts).

PLAY BALL! For this round, we'd like you to take inspiration from songs, sayings, poems, and other kinds of famous words.

Because this is our first full round, please read this post carefully before proceeding!

This round ends at 7PM on June 13 EDT. Countdown Timer.

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: "Hi-ho, Kermit the Frog here!" -Kermit the Frog
- The quote can come from anywhere. Famous people, poetry, songs, books, movies, your neighbor, etc.
- Your prompt MUST include some kind of relationship. (This is not the sports anime gen olympics.) Platonic relationships are indicated by an "&" between the names (e.g., Yachi & Kiyoko). Non-platonic relationships use "/" (e.g., Yachi/Kiyoko). 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.
You cannot fill your team's prompts or your own prompts.

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, including Grandstand or Sports Teams Write it exactly as it appears on the team roster or your team will not receive points Place the prompt's relationship in the first bolded line of the comment. Including the canon isn't required, but it's nice. Visual example	FILL: TEAM [YOUR SHIP], [RATING] Replace [YOUR SHIP] with the name of the team you belong to Write it exactly as it appears on the team roster or your team will not receive points Replace RATING with the rating of your fill (G - E) Place applicable major content tags and word count before your fill (when applicable) NSFW FILLS: Post written/text fills directly to the round with clear tags. Please link to art/visual fills. You can include a small safe-for-work preview if you'd like. To place an image in your comment, use this code: <img src="LINK TO YOUR IMAGE" /> Visual example	FILL: TEAM GRANDSTAND, [RATING] Replace RATING with the rating of your fill, G - E, as explained in the rules Place applicable major content tags and word count before the fill, where applicable NSFW FILLS: Post written/text fills directly to the round with clear tags. Please link to art/visual fills. You can include a small safe-for-work preview if you'd like. To place an image in your comment, use this code: <img src="LINK TO YOUR IMAGE" /> Visual example

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.

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 3 fills by any member of your team: 20 points each
Fills 4-10: 10 points each
Fills 11-20: 5 points each
Fills 21+: 2 points 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.

Have a question? Check The FAQ first. If you still need help, feel free to contact the mods. Happy fanworking!

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This is so cute!! I love their expressions, especially how happy Rin looks. It is definitely a good look for him~

Thank you so much for filling my ~~crack~~ prompt!! *throws all the love and hearts at you*

Himuro/Kagami (Kuroko no Basuke)

"I made some cocoa and got engaged." --The Doctor

Akashi &/ Aomine (Kuroko no Basuke)

"Oh the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all." --Dr. Seuss

THIS IS SO GOOD i love gay teen married i hope this gets filled

Kise Ryouta & Nioh Masaharu (Kuroko no Basuke, Prince of Tennis)

"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery." --Charles Caleb Colton

Manami Sangaku/Onoda Sakamichi, Yowamushi Pedal

"Living people sure are warm." -Nezumi, No. 6

XYYYYYYYYYH

can i fill this with a poem that uses they/them pronouns for suga? just checking to make sure you're comfortable with it, but if not i can use he/him!

OMG.......... THIS MAKES ME SO EMOTIONAL I'M LITERALLY CRYING TOO FJFASHjsahjsk and the last part where they're going into it again... ajsjasdkjs hold me

THANK YOU SO MUCH THIS IS SO (clutches heart) GOOD I LOVE THIS SO MCUh... i can't even type properly

Arakita Yasutomo/Manami Sangaku/Onoda Sakamichi OR Arakita Yasutomo/Onoda Sakamichi OR Manami Sangaku/Onoda Sakamichi, Yowamushi Pedal

"You are light. Sometimes you shine so brightly, I must look away. But even so, is it still okay if I stay at your side?" -Killua Zoldyck
i'm so sorry for those who know the context of this

<3333333 I'm so glad you like it omg

I LOVE THIS PROMPT ITS SO SWEET...i was wondering if i could fill this using they/them pronouns for manami and she/her for onoda? if you're not comfortable with it i can use he/him no problem!

THIS IS SO CUTE!!!
MY HEART HURTS

Himuro & Haizaki (Kuroko no Basuke)

Face your superior. Bow down and say my name!
I hear losing rap battles is your claim to fame.
--Tomodachi Life Rap Battle

Rin &/ Haru (Free!)

"It's time to d-d-d-d-duel!" --Ancient Egyptian Proverb (aka english ygo opening)

catches all the love and hearts eheee

I do love making that expression. ( *｀∀´) also drawing gigantic ponytails.

(bokuto and kuroo totally go to oikawa's place wearing hats to hide their signature hair like, dude, what the hell. i thought we were friends. oikawa's ship alights planetside and he definitely has a megaphone, swans in to say hello and doesn't bother disembarking off his ship. iwaizumi shoots off their hats like a spaghetti western. bokuto is so mad about the hats. kuroo is so mad about his hair. oikawa's ship hovers over them with yahaba, kyoutani, hanamaki, matsukawa, and watari pointing blasters at their heads. iwa-chan shouts down how are we friends, i shot you. and bokuto blankly says well, yeah. but it was just a little, why is everyone making such a big deal out of this?)

thank you for leaving such a gr8 prompt LOL i was going to make it a little less G but ???? U___U yes. lmao i loved firefly so much in 2002 lololol this was an A+ trip down memory lane <3

I'm so tired but seeing this prompt made me jump out of my seat AHA

omg noooo this is so good but i think we're on the same team ahjfkfefj

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It came as a surprise hearing the news from Kisumi, but even more shocking learning that you still plan to follow through and swim despite your injury.

Your reasons why are shrouded in mystery, just like the rest of you.

I can’t offer criticism nor blame if you’re doing this for your friend(s), I know that feeling. I guess you and I are similar in that sense. But, it worries me at what lengths you’ll go to in order to achieve this goal of yours. Is it really worth the risk?

Something doesn’t settle well with me about this upcoming race, and I realize it’s not just the nerves talking.

Hey, Yamazaki-kun.

If I told you this was a bad idea, would you think about it? Would you put any meaning behind my words? Or will they just be another passerby’s concern, probably dozens tucked away in your subconscious. Disarrayed thoughts swirling about, only to re-surface at the dead of night in the form of belligerent whispering.

'Why are you pushing yourself so hard?'

'What if your injury gets worse?'

Ah, maybe I shouldn’t press then. You’ve probably heard it so many times from coaches and doctors.

Hey, Yamazaki-kun.

I wish you weren’t so opaque to me.

I hear good things about you from your teammates, how you help them and give advice. You sound like a pretty nice guy, but there’s still a wall between you and I. And I’m not just talking about the floating racing lanes that divide us.

If something’s bothering you, whom do you go to? Seeing Rin the other day makes me wonder why this is a secret worth keeping even from him.

If your injury’s gotten that bad you should really sit this race out and get it checked out—

Ah, sorry. I’m doing it again.

It’s funny, despite knowing so little about you; you already pull on my heartstrings. A bleeding heart they tell me. Wearing one’s emotion right on their sleeves too. But I’m guessing that’s not really your thing.

Maybe worrying about you from the sidelines is okay. It’s better than not having anyone care right?

You don’t have to do this all on your own. I hope you tell your teammates soon; they’re your friends and want the best for you, even if you refuse to believe that sentiment and disagree. I wouldn’t be who I am without these guys over here.

Besides, I think it’s you who is doing the most worrying. Not wanting to burden them with your troubles and mistakes, maybe it’s you who is the most caring out of all us, you just have a different way of showing (or not showing) it.

But still, I can’t help but think…

Hey, Sousuke.

You’re a walking anomaly of rough edges, hidden motives, and secret smiles. I like that last part best about you.

x-o-x-o-x

You’re undiscovered,
I want to see the rest of you
— Laura Welsh

Edited 2015-06-13 04:50 (UTC)

Ohhh my gooooshh that's so cute!!! Bless the Matsuoka siblings, and Gou must we really turn him back. He's so cute this way (´⸝⸝•ω•⸝⸝ `) sheepy!Rin that is too adorable, daang I want to see this twitter account now ahaha

Aomine Daiki/Kagami Taiga (KNB) OR Matsuoka Rin/Yamazaki Sousuke (Free!)

"I'm not gay- my boyfriend is." -ecards
~~sorrynotsorry~~

no major warnings apply. canon; reincarnation fic
850 words

the first time, hajime is not quite himself and tooru is also the same. hajime can remember, in smudges, color and light and sound--tooru is loud, so loud, and happy and different and strange. but not a stranger. hajime is a fighter and tooru is not; tooru is a coquettish princeling of a boy who tells hajime where to stand and what to do in his pouting, whining voice and his hands on his hips.

he looks like he hates him when they grow, tooru taller than hajime and hajime never quite catching up. tooru’s reach is longer with a sword in his hands, straight-edged blade keen and singing, whirling in neat patterns that hajime picks apart in practice. he never lets up on him, doesn’t ever allow him an easy match. hajime can pull back the thread in time and jiggle at the memory of tooru’s face, golden in sunlight, sweaty and alive and enthralled by the give-and-take of swordplay. hajime shouting and grinning, tooru laughing while he parries swift strikes. (he remembers how tooru dies only because he goes first--and learns a simple pattern. where tooru goes, hajime follows.)

the second time is stranger than the first. hajime barely remembers anything but tooru knows everything--he remembers so much about hajime that he should have forgotten, a mind that was never wiped clean before it was turned out, factory-new.

tooru finds hajime after they’ve grown. he is no longer a prince set to inherit anything but he walks like it, talks like it, and hajime nearly cleans his clock when tooru does not shut up. but it’s comforting to put a face at last to the voice that talks in his dreams, the person that hajime’s always felt like was missing.

tooru is a stargazer and hajime does not realize that there is so much out there, not until tooru shows him the path of moons and planets. he sees beyond the world that hajime inhabits, so he yanks tooru in by the lapels to force him back down to earth. it’s a good life, a long life, and there is no kingdom--but also nobody watching when hajime presses kisses to tooru’s body, stargazing eyes full of wonder and a familiar delight.

(somewhere between the countless turns of discovery--revelation--loss, it is not as straightforward as his spirit expects. sometimes he misses tooru entirely. sometimes the door in his head stays locked and neither of them see each other, until the next life. where tooru goes, sometimes hajime forgets to follow.)

as neighbors, tooru is very nearly hajime’s first conscious memory. he is babyfaced and puffy-cheeked, pouting with his hands on his hips. he watches curiously as hajime nets stag beetles and cicadas in midsummer, points up at the night sky while their mothers chat.

hajime never grows taller than him. “iwa-chan” is a diminutive nickname, twice as irritating when tooru grins down at him while saying it. he is stupid, and impulsive, a sore loser, and the most dedicated, obsessive volleyball nerd hajime has ever grown up with.

“we’ll take nationals this year,” tooru says, iron will behind his words, and his team follows his every order. they put their faith in him and his absolute skill, his drive to win whetted by years of coming in second-best. hajime has no time to appreciate the hard-won arc of his arms and the curve of his back, straight shoulders and thick legs--not in the middle of a match, not in practice.

besides, tooru winks at girls in school, gets ambushed by waves of them coming from the main building to the gym. he waves long fingers at them and smiles when they giggle. “hey, stop that,” hajime usually says, and whaps him on the back of his head for good measure.

“iwa-chan, so mean,” tooru whines, and hajime rolls his eyes. today, he pats where he’d slapped him, ignores the circles under his eyes. (tooru confides to his oldest friend, iwa-chan, i haven’t been sleeping well lately. i dream about dying.)

he sets to hajime for an hour, hour and a half, and their legs shake during cooldown. hajime stretches, careful to watch tooru and his knee. tooru’s need to prove himself is a double-edged sword. he is also careful not to say, me too, i haven’t been sleeping well either. i dream about you. successfully does not say anything about it at all while walking home, splitting up only at tooru’s doorstep.

hajime’s dreams are populated by different faces and a well-worn spirit similar to his own. but invariably, there is always tooru somewhere in the dream: bathed in sunlight and laughing, playing one long game of volleyball on a court that stretches to a far, far point in the horizon. hajime’s body settles down, shoes squeaking on the gymnasium floor. his hands are waiting for tooru’s serve, for a toss that comes unfailingly to him. distantly, he can hear the referee’s whistle.

when tooru jumps, as if he’d torn himself loose from the weight of the world, hajime can very nearly see a crown.

Murasakibara & Midorima (Kuroko no Basuke)

"He took 40 cakes. That’s as many as four tens. And that’s terrible." --The Super Dictionary

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Word count: 871

When Midorima was in Teiko, he had nothing but respect for Akashi (admittedly from the fact that he beat Shintarou at everything.) He often wondered why the redhead even bothered to speak with him, let alone play games of shogi, yet every afternoon, without fail, there was the same crimson haired player sitting across from him.

He didn’t mind, though: Akashi was important to him, and he simply felt more at ease with the captain. While most wouldn’t call a rapid increase of heart rate ‘ease’, it was better than the pain that happened when the redhead turned into his other self around players that left him wondering who his friend really was. But when they played shogi against each other, the captain smiled more, even laughed, and, most noticeably, his eyes sparkled with something Midorima could not name, yet it made him happy to see it. Thus he learned shogi was Akashi’s home, and it became Midorima’s as well.

He never knew three simple words could destroy a home until the last weeks of middle school, during the closest game of shogi he ever played with Akashi.

“Shintarou,” he glanced at twin rubies, but found himself stunned. For the first time in his life, no doubt, Akashi appeared uncertain.

Frozen with shock, it took several moments for Midorima to regain his composure and respond, only to have it shattered entirely by a simple: “I love you.”

Words of comfort bubbled to his lips, prying them open, but no more than a slight gush of air coming out. He wished he could simply say what he felt, respond in what he felt was proper. But words found no foothold and, as such, was left as a gaping fish in front of the emperor. Midorima’s chest tightened- those cold eyes look surprisingly hurt at his lack of words.

“I see…” the shorter player smiled, albeit bitterly. “It was a fool’s gamble to even assume you preferred men. My apologies.” With a loud screech of the chair breaking the heavy silence, Akashi excused himself from the room. As crimson hair exited his sight, Midorima, for reasons unknown, saw the world blur and felt his eyes sting of bitterness.

He didn’t see the redhead again for the rest of middle school.

The next time Midorima saw Akashi, it was at the quarterfinals of the wintercup. There, he saw the same cold and ruthless captain, but deep down he knew the smaller man had changed. He hardly acknowledged Midorima, and the ace felt that same pressure on his chest from middle school.

He remembered he cried afterwards and split off from his teammates, tired of the sad atmosphere and wanting to mope alone. It was a chilly night, he saw his breath in front of him, but made no move to return inside, not when Akashi was there.

As if defying his every wish, he saw crimson hair turn towards him, face impassive and delicate lips curved into a frown. “Midorima-kun,” his voice was hard, making the larger man flinch. Internally he knew he deserved such coldness. A lack of response to such a heartfelt confession was unforgivable. “You should head inside, your teammates are concerned.”

“I don’t want to,” it was admittedly childish, but he knew once he stepped into the light, then Akashi would know everything.

Red eyes narrowed, appearing snake-like at this point. He knew he would eventually submit to the emperor, everyone always did, but his body did not react in the way he expected.

Midorima was curled up on the floor now, crying into his arms. His breath fogged up his glasses and his tears stung his cheeks as drops hit cold air, but he couldn’t bring himself to care. His chest was unbelievably tight now and his head spun. He whispered apologies over and over: sorry for hurting you, sorry for causing you trouble, sorry for not saying I love you.

When he looked up, he saw ruby eyes filled with warmth, and the cold night was entirely forgotten. Rough hands wiped away his tears, delicate lips twisted with worry and eyebrows furrowed with concern. Midorima reached out and touched Akashi’s face, his own hands seeming colossal against such a surprisingly small face (he knew Akashi was small compared to him, but up close he appeared almost doll-like), pale skin soft and warm.

The duo sat like that for a long time, Midorima on the floor, hands cradling Akashi’s face, whilst the red head crouched and held his tears. They found no words to say, and this time it was the crimson haired boy that gaped like a fish, so unused to seeing such an emotional response from Midorima.

“I’m sorry I think about you,” Midorima whispered. He leaned in and learned Akashi’s lips were soft. The redhead smelled like vanilla and sweat, and his heart raced with each intake of his scent. His hair was liquid as it poured through Midorima’s fingers, and each gasp of air made the world spin faster.

When they finally broke, their foreheads still touched, and red eyes were intense as a flame. Lips curved into a smile and said: “I’m sorry for thinking about you too.”

~~I don’t even know where this went it just happened sfdfssdf merry summersmas~~

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Bonus Round 1: Quotes

Bonus Round 1: Quotes

Re: FILL: TEAM MATSUOKA RIN/NANASE HARUKA, G

PROMPT: Team Akashi Seijuurou/Nijimura Shuuzou

PROMPT: Team Akashi Seijuurou/Nijimura Shuuzou

Re: PROMPT: TEAM FUKUTOMI JUICHI/KINJOU SHINGO

PROMPT: Team Akashi Seijuurou/Nijimura Shuuzou

PROMPT: TEAM YOWAMUSHI PEDAL

Re: PROMPT: TEAM KAGEYAMA TOBIO/OIKAWA TOORU

Re: PROMPT: TEAM HAIBA LEV/YAKU MORISUKE

Re: FILL: Team Azumane Asahi/Nishinoya Yuu, M

PROMPT: TEAM YOWAMUSHI PEDAL

Re: FILL: Team Azumane Asahi/Nishinoya Yuu, M

Re: PROMPT: TEAM AOYAGI HAJIME/IZUMIDA TOUICHIROU

Re: FILL: Team Oikawa Tooru/Sugawara Koushi

PROMPT: Team Akashi Seijuurou/Nijimura Shuuzou

PROMPT: Team Akashi Seijuurou/Nijimura Shuuzou

Re: FILL: TEAM MATSUOKA RIN/NANASE HARUKA, G

Re: FILL: TEAM AKAASHI KEIJI/BOKUTO KOUTAROU/KUROO TETSUROU, G

Re: PROMPT: Team Akashi Seijuurou/Nijimura Shuuzou

Re: PROMPT: TEAM YOWAMUSHI PEDAL

FILL: Team Tachibana Makoto/Yamazaki Sousuke, G

Re: FILL: TEAM MATSUOKA RIN/NANASE HARUKA, G

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FILL: TEAM AKAASHI KEIJI/BOKUTO KOUTAROU/KUROO TETSUROU, G

PROMPT: Team Akashi Seijuurou/Nijimura Shuuzou

FILL: Team Matsuoka Rin/Nanase Haruka, T