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Bonus Round 1: Quotes
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!
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]
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FILL: TEAM [YOUR SHIP], [RATING]
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FILL: TEAM GRANDSTAND, [RATING]
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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!
Prompt: Team Haikyuu!!
When it feels like all the walls are caving in, it's okay
We can let 'em fall;
Climb on top and we'll get higher, higher
Get on top and take it higher
- The Ready Set
FILL: TEAM NANASE HARUKA/TACHIBANA MAKOTO, RATED G
743 words
It had been fourteen days since Onoda’s visit to Hakone. Fourteen days since he had seen Manami, the usually cheerful, careful climber who always had a smile on his face. Except that his smile was a bit forced at first when he saw him.
He took out his phone. There were a couple of new messages, but none from the one he was waiting for.
That was when he believed that Manami had no intention whatsoever to maintain their friendship, even in the most convenient way.
A couple of days ago he had given sending Manami messages since none of them were replied to. Being the overly-considerate person he was, Onoda spent the rest of the hours worrying about how Manami must had gotten annoyed at him, and was trying to avoid him at all cost.
But the other never failed to surprise him in one way or another.
“Sakamichi-kun, I am in Akihabara now.”
When Onoda frantically rode on his bike and dashed to the place he loved the most, the only evidence left of Manami’s presence was a water bottle, tucked on the sidewalk unnoticeably.
Onoda had regretted so much why he had not picked up the phone earlier, so he could come here earlier, and ask Manami directly if he really was being the worst friend he thought himself as.
A few more weeks had passed and Spring crept into the air, wiping away the last scent of Winter and bringing warmth again, which meant that training would start anytime soon.
“Sakamichi-kun,” he started. “I’m in front of the back-gate slope.”
Onoda’s heart almost skipped a beat when he heard this news.
“You mean…the one at the back of our school?”
“Yup.”
“I’m coming over! Please-please wait for me, Manami-kun!”
In fear of Manami disappearing again, Onoda quickly grabbed his bike, not even bothering changing into his jersey, and rode down the slope as quickly as possible without tumbling over.
There he was, with his trademark grin and a casually-worn school uniform, waving at Onoda as he pulled the brakes and stopped in front of him.
“Hey,” he said. “It’s been a long time.”
“M-Manami-kun…” Onoda stuttered, still astounded by the fact that Manami was standing there, right in front of him. “Why are you here?”
“Didn’t feel like going to school, so I came here,” he merely shrugged and replied. “So, Sakamichi-kun, how about a race? Just you and me, and this slope, let’s see who’s faster this time.”
Onoda remembered the last time when Toudou ‘invited’ them both for a private race but it ended up being canceled due to the massive amount of snow that was blocking their way on the hill. He found himself returning a smile equally bright.
“Sure!”
And they did. In spite of the tire Onoda felt burdened in his body from a full day of school and training afterwards, but while Manami rode side by side to him, all the tire could be forgotten in an instance.
“You know,” halfway through the slope, Manami suddenly broke the silence. “I hated you for winning.”
Onoda did not know what to say.
“But I guess I was just being childish, I shouldn’t resent someone else for being better than me,” Manami sighed, but it was more like a sigh of relief, as if he had finally gathered up his courage to say something in his mind. “Sakamichi-kun, can you promise me that, if we are left to compete each other in the next Inter-high, just like the last one…” He trailed off, but Onoda knew what he should say now.
“Of course, Manami-kun,” he smiled at him and said. “I will race you to the top.”
Manami looked at him, and the genuine smile he had offered him after hearing the fact that Manami had once despised him for winning the race a few months ago. He felt like he somehow owed this boy something else.
“Sakamichi-kun, can we stop to rest just for a second?”
Onoda was confused because Manami never asked for an interval during a race, not to mention that this was a race on a mountain that he loved the most, but did the same when Manami jumped off his bike and put it aside.
Before he could ask what was wrong, Onoda found himself being held in a tight embrace.
“Thank you,” Manami whispered. “For climbing with me.”
Re: FILL: TEAM NANASE HARUKA/TACHIBANA MAKOTO, RATED G
TOUCHES THIS...
THANK YOU... MY HEART HURTS IN THE BEST WAY RN
FILL: TEAM ARAKITA YASUTOMO/FUKUTOMI JUICHI, G
Words: 958
While filing his change into his coin wallet, Onoda heard the same chuckle he'd heard here last week, and the week before, and several times before that (just not here). Until that second, he'd almost forgotten it was Sunday, and you-know-who would be at the store! Well, he hadn't really forgotten in the sense that, if he'd forgotten it was Sunday, he'd have gone to school by accident (and he hadn't gone to school). But all the same he hadn't remembered that when Manami-kun had said last week, "So I guess you come here every Sunday. Maybe I will, too," that it meant he'd see Manami-kun today.
He was already mostly grinning when he looked up. Blue hair and a sparkling smirk that made Onoda glow right back, white shirt in careless folds as he leaned against the "no parking, no loitering" sign where he'd propped his bike.
A laugh in his voice when he said, "Sakamichi-kun, we need to stop meeting like this!"
And just like that, the happy, friendly scene -- the kind that would be animated with gleams blurring out the surroundings, because Manami-kun was a shiny, bishounen character type -- turned into a dark swirl of confusion. Stop? But why...? and...
"Eh?" he murmured. "Like... this? How?" Onoda scratched his head, staring at nothing. Stop meeting like this? But hadn't Manami-kun come to meet him on purpose? This wasn't intentional? But Manami-kun had said...? Eeh?!
Then he felt two grip-calloused hands grabbing his, and shaking them back and forth. The sudden, dizzy feeling that'd frozen him in his tracks vanished like a cliffhanger ending cutting to the credits (that is to say, it didn't really vanish -- it just changed) as Manami-kun leaned in, nose to nose, eyes crinkled shut with his smile. "It's a joke! Do you have time to go for a ride?"
Well, technically he had to go home and sort his new cards at some point, and do his homework, and eat dinner... but he slipped one hand out of Manami-kun's grip and pulled out his phone instead of saying anything like that. He hadn't ridden up to a summit with Manami-kun in so long. He'd missed it. And he did need to practice. Right? It was a little weird dialing with his left hand, but Manami-kun was still holding his right -- whoops, had laced their fingers together and was leaning in to listen to his phone call -- but he didn't particularly want to let go. He'd gotten to like holding Manami-kun's hand when they stopped on mountain peaks and Manami-kun was dragging him somewhere to look at the view.
"Absolutely, I have time," he said, dialing his phone, "Just let me... Ah! Hello, Mom? Is it all right if I stay out for a few hours? I'll be home for dinner, of course."
"Sakamichi, weren't you just going to the corner store? You're not on your way to Akihabara again, are you? I know I worry too much, but you didn't even take your insurance card. What if you get hurt and--"
"It's okay, Mom! I'm going riding with Manami-kun from Hakone Gakuen. And it's Sunday, so--"
"Oh, Sakamichi! You want to go out with a friend? Well, of course that's fine. Can you give me his parents' number so I know where to call if you get lost?"
"I don't... actually have..."
"I'll text it to you, Onoda-san!" Manami-kun called out loud enough for his mother to hear on the other end of the line. "Thank you so much for letting me have the afternoon with your son!" He wasn't going to ask how Manami-kun seemed to know his mother's cellphone number. He'd probably just read it off his own phone when he'd dialed a second ago.
More immediately, he could just imagine his mother blinking in the confused silence on the other end. "You remember Manami-kun, from Hakone Gakuen?" he reminded her.
"Manami... kun? Oh! Manami-kun! You mean that delightful boy you were cycling with at the end of your club event! He certainly seems like such a nice, responsible boy. That's a relief. I'm sure you'll be safe if you're out with a good boy like that. You two have a good day!"
Onoda eyed Manami-kun's grin at hearing himself called 'responsible' and 'safe' (he probably hadn't even brought a helmet with him!), and gulped down any corrections that might give his mother a reason to be worried. "Thanks, Mom. I promise we won't go far!"
Click. Relieved sigh. A hand squeeze. Sudden panic at what looked like disappointment on Manami-kun's face. His smile was nowhere to be seen.
"Ma--"
"How far is not far?"
"Oh, I..." Well, he didn't really want to say he'd just said that to keep his mother from worrying. If he said that, they'd probably end up on the other side of the prefecture and he wouldn't even know how they'd gotten there or what time it was or how to get home. "I didn't figure we had to go far. Just..." He pointed his left index finger toward the sky and poked it up a few times.
That must've been the right answer, though, since Manami-kun was grinning again and on his racer before Onoda could blink. "Come on, Sakamichi-kun. I know a shortcut." Nevermind that Manami-kun didn't even live here. He came here often enough to know his way around. Onoda followed him for a quick turn down an alley (Manami-kun would know a road with no lights), and soon they were past the town's buildings and signs to a green place with open roads where they could race side by side, because they both knew the way.
Up.
Re: FILL: TEAM ARAKITA YASUTOMO/FUKUTOMI JUICHI, G
I love this so much I'm crying I love the way you characterized them so much in such a short fill both Onoda's voice and Manami's characterization were SPOT ON I love your way with words and this and sansaka and
aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh ;wwww;
Re: FILL: TEAM ARAKITA YASUTOMO/FUKUTOMI JUICHI, G
I love Manami and Onoda so much, and your prompt was such a great place to work from for them! I'm glad you like it!