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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
"People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom."
-Yoko Ono
FILL: TEAM MATSUOKA RIN/NANASE HARUKA, G
1316 words
I.
Annoying, you think, as the boy introduces himself to the class. His hair is too red, his teeth are too sharp, and his laugh and eyes are too bright. You’re even more irritated when he walks over to sit beside you, grinning at you like you’ve known each other for years. You look away, deciding that you’re better off avoiding him.
…But that doesn’t happen. In the next two weeks after the boy’s arrival, he’s already joined your swim club, hangs around you whenever he gets the chance, and won’t stop pestering you about that stupid relay. As much as you tell him that you only swim free, or that you don’t care about timings, he won’t get off your back. It’s beyond tiring for a twelve year old boy to handle.
Finally, finally, you decide to swim in his relay. It wouldn’t have happened, of course, if he hadn’t been leaving to Australia. You decide, why not? This might be the last time I get to swim with him.
He said that he’d show you a sight you’d never seen before.
And after your relay team wins first place, you do see it.
II.
It’s quiet when he leaves for Australia. Not that you miss him, of course, but you’d gotten used to that…brightness of his. The weight of his arm around your shoulders, that annoying (yet strangely infectious) giggle of his, those constant embarrassing romantic ideas he’d have, the way he’d cry at nearly anything and everything… The list could go on.
You’ve started middle school, and something at the back of your head is urging you to join your school’s swim team, to enter competitions, to train hard. You decide that it’s probably because of him. Not that he’s motivating you or anything, but you think that, if he’s training hard in Australia to make his dad’s dream come true, then why shouldn’t I?
Besides, maybe you’ll get to swim with him again someday.
Maybe you’ll be able to see that sight again.
III.
You’re beyond thrilled when you run into him that winter. He’s visiting his family for New Year’s, and you’re a bit surprised that he didn’t tell you or any of your friends that he was coming. And he seems…different, somehow. He’s not enthusiastically yelling out your name and throwing his arm around your shoulders, and his smile seems…forced. And the first thing he does is challenge you to a race.
You win, but you didn’t expect him to start crying.
You didn’t expect to feel waves of guilt washing over you when he rejects your hand and walks away.
You didn’t expect yourself to run after him, yelling out his name.
You definitely didn’t expect him to say that he was going to quit swimming.
You’re convinced that it’s your fault, and you decide that you’re better off not swimming either.
IV.
The next time you seem him is three years later. He looks different, to say the least. His face is more angular, his eyes look sharper, and he’s taller and far more muscular. He’s acting completely different, too. He challenges you to a race, ignoring everyone else, and isn’t satisfied even when he beats you.
In the next following months, he’s joined a powerhouse swimming school, and you and your friends have formed a swim club. He keeps pressing you to race him, saying that he can’t “move on” if he doesn’t beat you.
Even though his persistence is irritating, you find yourself agreeing to race him at the Prefectural Tournament.
Maybe it’s because you understand his reason. If he beats you, he can move on. You won’t have to worry about him quitting swimming again. He’ll move on, and you’ll be free.
But if that’s your reason, then what’s this feeling you’re getting while racing him? It’s…unexplainable, really. When you see him pulling ahead of you in the water, you don’t know why, but something, some invisible drive is pushing you to swim faster, to give it your all.
You haven’t felt like this in ages.
And you don’t expect to feel…crushed when he tells you that he’ll never swim with you again after he beats you. You shouldn’t be feeling like this. You…you were supposed to become free after he beat you, right? Then why…?
You don’t really understand why he decides to become a part of his school’s relay team, but all you know is that you’re going to be swimming with him again.
His reason doesn’t matter as long as you two can swim together.
He was taken out of his relay team. He’s giving up swimming.
You feel like your heart is breaking, but you’re not going to let him quit that easily. He wants to swim in the relay, and you want to swim with him. You’re not going to let him run away again. You won’t have a repeat of what happened three years ago.
V.
The next thing you know, he’s on top of you, his tears falling down onto your face. You can feel every wet drop as if your senses have been magnified, but you still feel…dazed, somehow, like you’re in a dream.
“Why can’t I be free? I want to swim with you guys!”
When he says those words, you smile. Your chest feels warm, and you feel something like…relief spreading through you. Happiness. You realize that his reason was the same as yours all along. He wants to swim with you as much as you want to swim with him.
Your team breaks the rules and lets him swim in the relay. But when you see his face, you know that, at that moment, you couldn’t care about anything else. He yells out your name before you dive in after him, and…
With all four of you swimming together, you finally see that sight again.
Your team wins, and the next thing you know, he’s running up to you, crying and pulling you into a firm, passionate hug, his cheek rubbing against your damp hair. He’s telling you that you’ve showed him the best sight he could’ve ever asked for.
And if there was one moment that you wanted to live in forever, it was that one. With the audience cheering in the background, you wrapped in your friends’ arms, him laughing and crying simultaneously, just like he was in elementary school…
Everything was bright, and you feel like your senses have been magnified. Everything feels real. You want to feel like this forever.
And that’s when you realize that you started loving that red-haired boy a long time ago.
VI.
He and you have done it. After months and months (hell, maybe even years) of training, you’re both standing there, proudly wearing Japan’s National swim team’s uniform and gold medals around your necks. He has his arm around your shoulders, just like always, and he looks so…radiant in the moment, laughing and grinning and waving at the cheering crowds.
And without knowing, you’re leaning up, not caring about the audience or the fact that everything was being broadcasted live, and you’re cupping his face and kissing him.
He seems surprised at first, giving a little gasp, but then you feel him smiling against your lips. His arms are going around your waist and he’s kissing you back. You can both hear gasps coming from the audience, but you stay where you are, wrapped in each other’s arms.
And just like that relay in high school, you’re mesmerized by how real everything feels. It could’ve been a dream, but no. You can feel his lips, soft and warm and having the slight taste of chlorine against yours, you can feel his wet hair as you run your hand through it, you can feel the weight of the medal against your chest, you can hear the audience…
And you’ve never felt happier in your life.
(Waah, hope this is okay! ^^)
Re: FILL: TEAM MATSUOKA RIN/NANASE HARUKA, G
Re: FILL: TEAM MATSUOKA RIN/NANASE HARUKA, G