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.

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Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

No major content tags apply (maybe mild spoilers? rated T for cursing) WC: 946

Notes: This was a good prompt, hope I did okay x) Geography is hard tho haha. Umm was vague about timeframes but this is probably ssk's initial injury pre-anime; interpret however you like tho :)

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The physical therapist's waiting room was decorated blandly, with generic landscape photographs framed on the walls and a rather ugly beige carpet. Soothing music piped in from a wall speaker. The receptionist was working on a crossword puzzle and hummed idly along to the melody without realizing she was doing so.

Oikawa Tooru sprawled out on the bench with his usual careless grace. He had his earbuds in so he could blast his trashy pop songs over the office's boring background music. Concealed beneath his loose track pants was the knee supporter he had to wear for at least another month. He smiled pleasantly at the receptionist and shot her a flirty wink. She smiled shyly and ducked her head.

He had finished his morning appointment already and was waiting for his mom to come pick him up. Normally he would take advantage of being in Tokyo and wander about to go shopping, but after these sessions his knee always burned unpleasantly, and he'd prefer to hide his weakness than limp about on the streets and be pitied. It was the same reason he didn't drag Iwaizumi along, but now with no one to annoy, he was bored.

"You're taking up the whole bench. Move over," a gruff voice muttered.

Oikawa pulled out his earbuds and sat up, an intrigued smile flickering across his handsome countenance. The teenager who sat down next to him had his arm in a sling – a shoulder brace, he corrected mentally. This guy was big, broad-shouldered and bulky with muscle, just barely half-a-centimeter taller than Oikawa but significantly heavier.

Easy on the eyes, too, even if he scowls worse than Iwa-chan.

"Football?" Oikawa guessed. Rotator cuff tears were common; could be his throwing arm.

"…Swimming," the brute growled.

Oikawa hummed in interest. "My school doesn't have a swim team. I'm from Miyagi. The one and only Oikawa Tooru, volleyball ace! Are you from around here, Frowning-kun?"

The teen shot him a death glare. Oikawa only smiled his sweetest shit-eating grin, and had the gall to flutter his eyelashes.

After a long moment, the swimmer rubbed his shoulder distractedly and gritted out, "Tottori prefecture. And I hate nicknames. 'Sousuke' is fine."

Oikawa whistled appreciatively. "You're a long ways out! It must take you forever and a day to get here, but this is the best sports medicine clinic in the country. Frowning-kun, you must have a bright future in swimming."

He didn't miss the way Sousuke's eyes darkened, and not just because of his insistence on using the nickname. Oikawa always did have a knack for honing in on weakness, especially when he was trying to hide his own. He waited calmly, predicting that Sousuke wouldn't be able to let it slide.

Sousuke glared a hole through one of the pictures on the wall. "…Not anymore. I can't keep up with the team with my shoulder holding me back. Not that it's any business of yours, but it'll only get weaker. There's no coming back from this."

Oikawa stilled. That feeling was all too close to his heart. He had felt the ground drop out from beneath his sneakers the night his knee had given out on him. (Practicing jump serves long after his teammates had gone home, screwing up the landing, screaming himself hoarse into an empty gym until he could drag himself to his cell phone and call for someone to save him from himself.)

Oikawa smiled thinly, warm brown eyes razor-sharp with the memory of that pain. He still had goals to accomplish – teams to crush – and so he would continue on this path even if his body was torn to shreds in the process.

If he couldn't earn a volleyball scholarship, he would get into college on academic merit alone and force his way onto the team. He would not be stopped by an injury. He would not be stopped by anything.

"That's a load of bullshit," Oikawa stated cheerfully.

"It's none of your damn business, brat," Sousuke growled. His large hands gripped his knees.

"Yeah, I wouldn't know anything about overworking for a sport," Oikawa lilted sarcastically, hiking up his pants leg so that the white brace was visible around his swollen joint.

Sousuke's drooping eyes cast a quick glance at him, then returned to staring at the wall. "What, do you think you understand me because you got hurt too? Just shut the hell up and leave me alone," he muttered.

Oikawa smiled and leaned in closer, unable to resist doing the opposite of what he was told. "You're right, I don't understand. In fact, I was just wondering," he asked with deceptive innocence, "what it was that motivated you to try so hard you broke yourself, but is now so unimportant that you want to quit and give it up. Seems rather fickle, doesn't it? Did you ever really want it at all...?"

Sousuke's hand closed around his jacket collar and shoved him roughly against the wall. Oikawa stared fearlessly, eyes bright with smug satisfaction at having teased a reaction out of the stoic teenager. He smiled his sickly-sweet grin, and Sousuke let him go with a grunt of annoyance.

"Before you give it up, maybe think about why you started in the first place, hm?" Oikawa winked. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw his mom at the counter talking to the receptionist. Time to go home, finally.

"I'll see you around, Sou-chan!"

Oikawa flashed him a peace sign for good measure. And if looks could kill, Sousuke would have murdered him for the tenth time that morning.

OH GOSH, I FORGOT ABOUT THE GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS--- THANK YOU FOR FINDING A LITTLE LOOPHOLE XD And I've always thought that Tokyo is where these third years will probably end up anyway, post-high school setting.

I wasn't sure how this prompt would turnout because of the "crossover"-ness, and these two have polar opposite personalities (although lmao I love ships/friendships that have that xD), but you did a great job with this!! :))

I could totally feel/sense the moment Oikawa realized the situation Sousuke was in, and how it hits kind of too close to home for him. They both work hard towards a goal, but are also paying the price for pushing beyond their body's limits.

I gave out this prompt since I believe there would be, albeit begrudgingly on maybe Sousuke's part, a sense of mutual understanding shared between the two about the sacrifices one gives to their sports and the limitations that hold them back, so thank you very much for filling my prompt! :)

<333!! I'm so glad you like this, phew~ I haven't written either of these characters before, and I had to refresh my memory a bit for Sousuke.

It was a cool idea for a crossover though, especially since all these sports anime series could theoretically be taking place in Japan at the same time and I like thinking of it that way x) (So imagining all the poor injured kids going to the same clinic is a nice fix-it)

Thanks so much for your nice comment, and the prompt! :>

Bonus Round 1: Quotes

Bonus Round 1: Quotes

FILL: TEAM AOYAGI HAJIME/TESHIMA JUNTA, T

Re: FILL: TEAM AOYAGI HAJIME/TESHIMA JUNTA, T

Re: FILL: TEAM AOYAGI HAJIME/TESHIMA JUNTA, T