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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 NISHINOYA YUU/TANAKA RYUUNOSUKE
"She was not conquered." - The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkein
FILL: TEAM LOVE LIVE!, T
587 words
Tanaka Saeko would lie, if she said she wasn’t a little impressed by Shimizu Kiyoko.
Well, this would also be untrue, because she was, in fact, constantly being swept off her feet by the younger girl’s aura.
Each of her numerous admirers viewed her as a challenge and a prize to be won. They almost always gave up, when the realization Kiyoko wouldn’t perform any of their fantasies on them sank in. Some called her a bitch and warned her that her superiority complex would take its toll on her social life in the future, after she had rejected them. Others just walked away quietly, swallowing the rest of their manly pride. Shimizu regarded the both types with a silent stare that couldn’t be mistaken as anything but dismissal.
Saeko knew her better than them though.
She saw her as a star. Beautiful, cold and distant, but the closer one gets, the warmer and brighter Kiyoko is. Yet still dangerous and unclaimable. She remembered all the tales about her brother’s team’s beautiful manager and the passion in his eyes as he talked about her. Saeko had brushed it off as an exaggeration of a teenage boy with his first longtime crush then.
But there she was now- wiping her palms on her pants, preparing herself for asking the girl who made conventional Japanese beauty standards seem extraordinary out.
What she was the most scared about wasn’t rejection. Not even close to the top. The worst was perspective of disappointment in Shimizu’s eyes and being dismissed as one of the obnoxious, shallow admirers, despite their friendly encounters in the past. Or maybe because of them. She shivered at the thought of her jokes holding no more importance than all the simple-minded attempts to win a date with Kiyoko. She wanted them to matter.
She came prepared. She made additional bento for Ryuu and planned on giving it to him at morning practice, saying he forgot it. He already had one, but she believed he was able to take the hint and help his awesome big sister for once. She didn’t have a plan for actually talking to her little crush, but there’s a time for everything, right?
She was about to enter the gym, when the door suddenly opened, revealing the crush in question.
“Tana- Saeko-san, what are you doing here?”
“Oh, Ryuu forgot his bento today, so I decided to have mercy on him and bring it to him.” She shook the box, but stopped, hearing the contents moving inside. Oops, Ryuu wouldn’t mind, would he?
“I see. Well then, I need to go. Goodbye, Saeko-san.” Kiyoko turned to leave and the woman slapped herself inwardly for missing the perfect chance.
“Ah, wait!” rushed from her mouth. The younger girl turned around and looked expectantly at Saeko without a word. “So, well, do you want to grab a coffee sometime? Uh, maybe?”
A silence followed. This wasn’t her smoothest moment. Maybe she shouldn’t have done it. Kiyoko had probably received all sorts of extraordinary, flashy confessions. She totally screwed this up, didn’t she-
“Sure.”
Saeko rediscovered the phrase “to reach the stars”.
A few days later her brother approached her.
“Woah, you’re so lucky! To think my sis would be the one to conquer Kiyoko-san’s heart!” And she could only shake her head and laugh to herself quietly.
She may have gotten a permission to kiss her goodbye, but Shimizu Kiyoko wasn’t and would never be conquered by her or anyone else in this world.
(sorry)
Re: FILL: TEAM LOVE LIVE!, T
I love that Ryuu was happy for her, and that Saeko realized that conquering wasn't what she was trying to do. Great way to use the prompt!
FILL: Team Akaashi Keiji/Bokuto Koutarou/Kuroo Tetsurou, G
Kiyoko is steadfast, and she’s been called morose. It’s rare, these days, to see her smiling, and as she walks through castle corridors people whisper.
“Kiyoko’s strength is in her silence,” they say, and she ignores them, “Do not try to get her to talk to you.”
Some days it seems as though Kiyoko defends the walls by herself. All of their soldiers have left, their general hoping to cut of the head of the snake, but the siege continues, and they are poorly equipped. No one knows why Kiyoko stayed behind - except, perhaps, Sugawara, but when they ask, he tells them just to be thankful that she’s there.
When the army comes, Kiyoko leads them to safety. The castle falls, but they escape, and that is enough for them. They sing their thanks to Kiyoko, and she ignores them, much to their chagrin.
Sugawara smiles sadly at Kiyoko’s back, turned away from the survivors in the cave, and goes to rest a hand on her shoulder.
“You have waited too long,” he tells her, and she shrugs.
Kiyoko’s strength is in her silence. She won’t break it, even for a friend. Sugawara sits with her before going to distribute supplies, and Kiyoko keeps watch, one sword against an army, if they find them.
They don’t, and the people begin to function again. They live in the caves now, but it’s not so bad, and Kiyoko’s name has become revered, only uttered in whispers, never when she’s within earshot.
Stories grow in the caves like mould on the walls, and speculation continues. All that Sugawara would say was that she was waiting for someone, but he doesn’t refute any of the gossip that spreads. It’s good for morale, probably, and Kiyoko herself doesn’t care for it enough to be hurt by it.
“It’s the General,” they say, and Sugawara laughs. “She must be in love with him. That’s the only reason they’d make her stay behind.”
A hawk brings them news that the General was killed in battle, and Kiyoko is unmoved.
“She’s hiding a broken heart,” someone insteads, but they’re laughed off.
“You just don’t want to admit that you were wrong.”
Months pass, and the war comes to an end. They survive it, but only just. There is no more news from their soldiers, and the people watch Kiyoko grow restless, pacing at the mouth of the cave system they’ve come to call home.
She’s asleep, though, when it finally happens. Their troop has made it home - what’s left of them anyway, fifty ragtag warriors with no ranking system between them. Medics usher them in, but Kiyoko sleeps on, and it’s only when she hears a brash voice piercing through the crowd that she sits up with a gasp.
“Oi, you call this a welcome wagon? Where’s the wine? Where are the dancers?”
One soldier sits perched on a log, shrugging off the people trying to attend to her with casual ease. Her armour is wrecked, and her hair is cut roughly, a sign of too much time on the road. Kiyoko pushes her way through the crowd, and Saeko stops complaining the second they make eye contact, staring at her with wide eyes.
There’s a long silence. No one wants to speak in front of Kiyoko. Then, Saeko smirks.
“So, I’ve heard you’ve been up to big things while I’ve been gone. Nobody told me the glory came with staying at home.”
Kiyoko’s in Saeko’s arms in a second, punching her once, harshly on the shoulder before burying her face in her chest. Saeko laughs loudly, and the villagers look on, scandalised. Tilting her head upward, Kiyoko stands on tiptoes, pressing a soft kiss to chapped, dirty lips.
Kiyoko’s voice is a hoarse whisper, but everyone strains to hear it.
“You came at last.”
Re: FILL: Team Akaashi Keiji/Bokuto Koutarou/Kuroo Tetsurou, G
Re: FILL: Team Akaashi Keiji/Bokuto Koutarou/Kuroo Tetsurou, G
Re: FILL: Team Akaashi Keiji/Bokuto Koutarou/Kuroo Tetsurou, G
Re: FILL: Team Akaashi Keiji/Bokuto Koutarou/Kuroo Tetsurou, G