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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!
FILL: TEAM YOWAMUSHI PEDAL, G
omg i love the reference you linked, so i butchered more from it lmao IM SORRY but hopefully you like this anyway!! oiyama is one of my favourite hq side pairs aaah~ akjhajkwe
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A useful and harmless sort of horseshit. That's what Yamaguchi figures Oikawa is. Beyond, of course, being a guy with a powerful serve; being an acutely observant setter and a brilliant Captain (almost as good as Daichi-san had been for Karasuno. Almost).
"You're so full of it," Yamaguchi says, the trace of a smile on his lips. It's an odd kind of role-reversal. Tsukishima is so intelligent that being around him is sometimes intimidating. He'll tear down anyone who says half a thing wrong. (It's scary. Even if Yamaguchi is used to it. Boy is he used to it.)
Oikawa, though...
Oikawa raises a brow. "Full of what, Yama-chan?"
"Full of shit," Iwaizumi supplies handily, stuffing his volleyball into his gym bag. "I'm going home. I don't care if you serve morons overwork yourselves anymore. Don't, though." His tone is warning, like the rumble of a storm.
Oikawa huffs. "Well, fine. Guess you'll just have to miss out on our taco date then, huh, Iwa-chan."
Iwaizumi frowns, reproachful and unrepentant. "I hate tacos. They're unhealthy. If you're Japanese, you should eat rice." And then he leaves.
• Foma #1: "Tacos? I love tacos!"
All Oikawa ever gets at their post-serve-practice dates is some guacamole with plain nachos, and maybe a salad. Then he'll talk and talk and talk while Yamaguchi wolfs down his three giant soft-shell tacos (serve practice makes him hungry, okay), makes mm~hm? noises in (mostly) the right places and tries not to dribble ground beef down his chin.
Yamaguchi doesn't mind. He gets his tacos, and he gets the inside dirt on Oikawa's university team (and it's a university that Tsukki had mentioned this one time, and that Yamaguchi, if he really wanted to buckle down, would also be able to get into)...
He gets to see Oikawa laugh and his too-slick smile, and gets to hear him say, "Hey, gross, Yama-chan, you've got avocado on your lip." (Oikawa's thumb isn't soft in the slightest. It's hard and volley-calloused despite the care he must take with the rest of his beauty regimen and perfectly-filed nails. It's like a mark of pride. Yamaguchi can appreciate a little pride.)
He doesn't know what Oikawa gets out of their little dates. But, seeing as Oikawa is the one who keeps setting up serve practices, and challenging Yamaguchi to sprint down the fifteen blocks from the local park to one of the only Mexican restaurants in all of Miyagi, then it must be something.
Right?
*
• Foma #2: "I wanna learn the Jump Float Serve, too!"
This lie is a little more transparent than the others. Oikawa is not float serve kind of tricky. He's the kind of tricky where maybe he'll punch you in the face with a serve, or maybe he'll throw the ball at the ground so the ground does the punching for him.
Tricky. But not float serve kind of tricky.
If they were in a movie, Yamaguchi would be the wussy man-child who, after three arcs of angst, may or may not finally pluck up the courage to knife an enemy in the kidneys.
Oikawa would be Achilles outside the gates of Troy right from the start. Calling for Hector's blood.
Of course they serve nothing alike.
*
• Foma #3: "Iwa-chan's a real pain in the ass, you know that?"
Yamaguchi just laughs. "Yeah, and I hate Tsukki, too."
"No, you don't."
"I know."
*
• Foma #4: "I just want to help out, okay~?"
Yamaguchi almost feels bad for calling this one. He can't even figure out how Oikawa benefits from helping him—but he must somehow. It's a gut instinct.
"This, too," Oikawa says, dropping what appears to be a bottle of water into the basket in Yamaguchi's hands. They're at a drugstore. The giant one with the yellow-red-blue façade. Yamaguchi takes the bottle of water back out of his basket and squints at the label. Toner, apparently. For 951 yen?
"What—"
"After the cleanser, before the moisturizer," Oikawa says off-hand, apparently looking for more things to make Yamaguchi buy.
"Right..." Why would be the more appropriate question. But, slowly, Yamaguchi is starting to piece together the answer to that.
His inward struggle must show on his face, because Oikawa turns around, plants his hands on his hips, and says, "You don't like your pimples, do you? This will help clear them."
At the checkout, Yamaguchi wonders to himself if it's counteractive that, after spending all this money on skincare, he'll be living off instant ramen for the remainder of the month, but figures it's best to stay quiet.
Mostly quiet.
"Oikawa-kun..."
"What is it, Yama-chan?"
Yamaguchi cracks a crooked smile but doesn't look up. "Your old teammates were right."
"About what?"
Your perceptiveness is sometimes as daunting as Tsukki's intelligence.
If I weren't your friend, would you exploit my weakness?
"About you, I guess."
Lost in thought, he ends up wondering when the word 'friend' ever even came into play.
*
• Foma #5: "I'm friends with everyone!"
"I'm surprised you two even get along," Tsukishima says. Yamaguchi hears the unsaid rest of it, from long years of association: Does he walk all over you, Yamaguchi? Do you let him? I wouldn't be surprised.
Yamaguchi laughs. "Oikawa-kun's not that bad, Tsukki. Look! My skin's even cleared up lately!"
Tsukishima makes a face of (deliberately) thinly-veiled disgust. "Apparently so. Two girls have asked me if you're single in the past week alone. The second even asked if I knew how many freckles you had."
That's so funny, Tsukki, you're such a joker never quite makes it out of Yamaguchi's mouth. "...what?" he gapes. (And yet, the other side of his mind thinks, this, this is what he's been dealing with for years. Girls and their crushes on Tsukishima Kei. Tsukki is still a hell of a lot more intimidating to approach than Yamaguchi will ever be though, so... what? What?)
"Close your mouth, Yamaguchi. You look like a deep sea anglerfish."
"Sorry, Tsukki!"
There is restless fidgeting. Stomach pangs. Yamaguchi grips the strap of his messenger bag. Tsukishima, unaffected, adjusts the headphones around his neck.
"Um," Yamaguchi says. "So... Tsukki. What did you tell them?"
Tsukishima's face remains impassive but his voice is as sour as a green strawberry. "I told them to ask you their goddamn selves. And I've got better things to do with my time than count your stupid nose dots."
Of course, of course. For some reason, Yamaguchi can't stop laughing.
*
• Foma #6: "That's such a shame."
"So he's going to Todai?" Oikawa says with wonder. "The University of Tokyo? I can't say I'm too surprised, though. Kunimi doesn't tell me much about actual practice, but he's never failed to complain about how much of a pain Karasuno's Rational Mind is."
"That's our Tsukki!" Yamaguchi says, proud and... just a little devastated.
"So I guess you guys won't be playing on the same uni team, huh?" Oikawa says.
"Y-yeah..."
Yamaguchi thinks about grade school bullies and 'Shut up's and 'It's not surprising, you've practiced more than anyone these past five months, after all's and finds he can't string two words together. Now that Tsukishima isn't actually here, now that Yamaguchi's not actively congratulating him and being excited for all the places he just knows Tsukishima will go... he feels a bit overcome.
If Oikawa notices, he doesn't laugh.
"Hey, well. That's a shame, Yama-chan, but I can't honestly say I'm too disappointed," Oikawa says, slinging an arm around Yamaguchi's shoulders.
Yamaguchi looks up. There's something to the tone of Oikawa's words, a gem hiding in the inflection that makes him think...
"You'll get to know it," Iwaizumi had said one time a while ago, gruff. "You'll be able to tell when he's actually being honest. Doesn't happen often though."
"You and me," Oikawa says, leaning close, voice conspiratorial like the narrator of a bad sci-fi documentary, "Our service game is going to be unstoppable. We're gonna be the ones to do it: take the perfect 25-point set just by serving. That Shittywaka won't know what hit him at the Uni Olympics."
"...please don't take insult tips from Iwaizumi-san," Yamaguchi says, finding his face fold a little upwards. Crack a little smile. "It doesn't suit you at all. And isn't Ushiwaka-san based in Tokyo these days?"
"Wh- Rude!" Oikawa says loudly, shoving Yamaguchi away. Yamaguchi laughs. "I help you out, I buy you tacos, I practice magnificent serves with you, and this is how you repay me, Yama-chan? Rude. Rude!"
"Sorry, Oikawa!"
And, there, somewhere between the familiarity of his own apology and the smile in Oikawa's eyes, Yamaguchi finds a kind of comfort. Something that tells him, even if things are going to be different from now on, everything will work out alright.
Re: FILL: TEAM YOWAMUSHI PEDAL, G
the entire thing is just so good but THAT LAST SECTION ESPECIALLY OH MGY GOD AND wow i am so happy you were so stoked for the reference my sole my sole i am so happy my oiyama heart could burst
thank you so much for this ;___;
Re: FILL: TEAM YOWAMUSHI PEDAL, G
aaah~ it makes me super happy that you liked it though, thank you in return!! ;U; ♥
Re: FILL: TEAM YOWAMUSHI PEDAL, G
i love it!
i was grinning the whole time !! <3
Re: FILL: TEAM YOWAMUSHI PEDAL, G
Re: FILL: TEAM YOWAMUSHI PEDAL, G