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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 GRANDSTAND
"You can always catch me in the drift." - Pacific Rim
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FILL: TEAM IWAIZUMI HAJIME/OIKAWA TOORU, T
i. the beginning
“This is your—”
“You’re joking,” Futakuchi says, eyes narrowed in scrutiny, in distaste at the man, the boy in front of him. He’s smaller than Futakuchi is, frailer too. There’s something about him that seems winded, exhausted. He doesn’t even look like he’s fit to step another foot in the Shatterdome. “You’re absolutely joking.”
The Marshall does not humor him, hand clamped on the shoulder of a man that Futakuchi thinks might be his next burden. “This is your co-pilot, Futakuchi. And I shouldn’t have to remind you but Ennoshita Chikara went through all of the training you did and came out with higher marks in every single category except for physical.”
There isn’t time for compatibility tests when the kaiju are growing stronger and in number by the second. The size of their pilot class has diminished since the last Category V took out Crimson Pistol and Caerulean Tango in one go. He remembers. He remembers the rushed funerals too, the way he was ushered out of his cramped room to be told he was graduating, hushed undertones of we don’t have enough people to die for us.
“Please be kind to him,” the Marshall says, releasing Ennoshita from his grasp and exiting the training room stiffly.
Futakuchi scowls. Ennoshita looks at him mildly, hooded eyes depicting sleepiness, a disconnected sense of attention that Futakuchi thinks he might absolutely hate.
“I won’t hold you back,” Ennoshita says before Futakuchi can spit venom in his direction about how his co-pilot was supposed to be someone else (because Aone has always been the most compatible in wavelength with Futakuchi—it’s not anyone’s fault that Aone isn’t here, won’t ever be, not anymore). “Do you want to punch me?”
“What?” Futakuchi says in response, eyes narrowing in confusion because what the fuck is sleepy-eyes even saying?
“You can,” Ennoshita says, looking earnest as he rubs the back of his neck. “Punching something helped me after Tanaka died.”
ii. the middle
His cheeks are warm. Every inch of his skin is warm as he tangles his arms around Ennoshita’s waist, pulls him flush against his chest, unyielding. The alcohol is still coursing through his veins, the only lasting reminders of the party that had just been thrown in their honor—the darlings of the jaeger program, the new glimmer of optimistic hope that there might be salvation yet.
“Remember,” Ennoshita barely hiccups out, words muffled as he tries to speak against the fabric of Futakuchi’s t-shirt, tries to free his legs from their tangled state beneath the covers, “—remember when you hated me?”
Futakuchi only squeezes Ennoshita closer, harder, letting out a noise caught between an indignant groan and a much too childish whine when Ennoshita pushes him away. It barely lasts, the mourning of the loss of body heat. Ennoshita pulls himself up until their eye-to-eye, face-to-face, the corners of Ennoshita’s eyes wrinkled as he laughs, as he curls his fingers in the lapels of Futakuchi’s shirt to pull him forward. They stand no chance, any preexisting thoughts coursing through Futakuchi’s mind, any coherent words lingering on the tip of his tongue. They stand no chance when Ennoshita’s looking at him like he’s the absolute best thing on the planet.
“Are you—are you going to kiss me or not?” Futakuchi asks, lips curving into the faintest smile as he tries to will the heat away from his cheeks.
Ennoshita traces a scar running along the side of Futakuchi’s neck, a battle wound from a fight they almost lost, before looking straight into Futakuchi’s eyes again.
“Not again,” he says in a whisper, words still slurred just a touch as he leans in closer, until their lips are but millimeters away from each other. “I’m not letting you get hurt—not again.”
The promise is sealed with a kiss, one that feels like it lasts until hours are meaningless and all Futakuchi can feel are Ennoshita’s fingertips carding through the harried tangles of his consciousness, their consciousness.
iii. the end
(He keeps his promise.
This is what he all but tattoos in your mind when he is torn from his side of the cockpit, when he is hurled into nothingness. I’m sorry, he says first, and that is when you think you started panicking. I’m leaving so soon, he says second, and that is when the panic reached his eyes. Please, please, not now, he says third, and that is when you realized this wasn’t just a nightmare. White noise, static, it filled your mind as you felt a thread—a thread you’d never once seen before—drawn out, tugged apart, snapping.
You'll find me again, he says fourth. At least I kept my promise, he says fifth. At least I kept you safe, he says finally.)
The funeral procession is short and rushed. The Marshall rises in front of all of the Shatterdome, gathers up every last breath in his chest and says, “Let us take a moment of silence for our fallen pilot, Ennoshita Chikara.”
Futakuchi is quiet.
Re: FILL: TEAM IWAIZUMI HAJIME/OIKAWA TOORU, T
thank you!!! This was excellent!! <3
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stares at me own two hands... i did thsi.. voice crakcing.. I DID THIS!
THANK U SO MUCH FOR READINGOHGHG im sorry people had to take hits for the team but THANK U im so glad u read it <3
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I WROTE A HUGE THING FOR THIS BC I COULDN'T SHAKE IT AND I CAN'T EVEN POST IT HERE
btw this is definitely not a fill no way no how
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thank u for this wonderful fill i read it a lot okay
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IM GLAD U LIKE IT