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

bokuto koutarou/kuroo tetsurou, haikyuu!!

Mal: We're not gonna die. We can't die, Bendis. You know why? Because we are so very pretty. We are just too pretty for God to let us die. - Firefly

no major warnings apply. brief violence.
741 words.

Tetsurou will, once he gets his hands on Bokuto Koutarou, kill him if he is actually dead. He keeps his gun out and doesn’t move, barely blinks when the lights of their own ship flicker off, engines dying. Standard enemy ship boarding procedure--cut the power and watch them panic.

It’s not like he didn’t know about the dangers of this life when he’d set out, two years ago, with nothing but the clothes on his back. It’ll be fun, Koutarou had said, wide golden eyes still innocent and bright in the theater of Tetsurou’s mind. Just you and me and everything in space to see. “I am a good--kind of decent--person,” Tetsurou sighs under his breath, gritting his teeth. “I do not deserve this.”

He can hear footsteps, approaching him at eight o’clock, and whirls (elbow to the nose, good) and watches with an air of sweet satisfaction when the guy goes down. “Get off my ship,” he says conversationally, and stuns him unconscious.

One down, three to go.

Koutarou will maintain, to his dying day, that his ship is the best, biggest, most beautiful thing in the universe. It is at times, he allows, unable to accommodate extra-large cargo and will, sometimes, refuse to obey the order that he, its master, commands. But his ship has character. “It’s broken,” Tetsu had quipped once, and taken a punch to the arm for the trouble.

It is, at the moment, also infested with a five-man boarding party that Koutarou would like to see gone from his sights. “Don’t you think that I’m too pretty to die?” Koutarou has seen old movies about situations like these, and knows that sometimes, if prompted, the baddie will describe his plan. The click of a primed blaster answers him. He sniffs, scrunching his nose up at the reply, and frowns. But he has to give these guys credit--whoever they are, and the odds are that Koutarou has met them before--they’re efficient about the takeover, at least. He can barely see the hostile in the cockpit’s dark.

He doesn’t like being tied up--or, for that matter, tied down--and prefers zero gravity to anything else. The plastic ties around his wrists are digging into his skin, but Koutarou will wait. He can break out of these with the right amount of force, has done it before, and settles down to ignore the slow trickle of dread that freezes against his spine.

“So, tell me what it is that you want,” Koutarou tries again, and grins when he hears something at the door. “Oh. Time to go,” he chirps, and when the hostile pulls the trigger he ducks, pulls at the plastic strips around his wrists until they break open. Tetsurou blows the doors off the cockpit with something that looks like the mega-launcher gun they'd borrowed two months back, from Ushijima's personal store. Something burns. “Nicely timed, man.”

Tetsurou peeks cautiously into the cabin, bedhead first. “It’s dark in here.” Koutarou sighs and rubs at the raw skin on his wrists. “You okay?”

“Yeah. All hostiles gone?” And in the dim glow of the ship’s safety lights, Koutarou watches a sharp, keen smile grow on Tetsurou’s face.

“Neutralized.” Koutarou shares a fistbump with him, wiggling his fingers while Tetsurou sighs in relief and does the same.

The thing about war is that it never truly leaves anyone. It seeps into Koutarou’s dreams and drives him to search for zero gravity, where fighting happens all the time but at least it is justified. It gives a truly lethal edge to Tetsurou’s instincts and keeps him awake at night, makes his hands shake while he dismantles the boarding party’s guns and stockpiles them for later trades. Koutarou puts his hands over Tetsurou’s and waits for the tremors to die, kisses him slow in the bright lights of their cargo bay.

“Wait, Oikawa Tooru--” Koutarou yells, six days after they’d left the unconscious bodies of the surprise boarding party in a heap. Remote moon, several miles from an oasis. Totally doable. “But I thought we were friends!”

Tetsurou thinks about the look on the diamond merchant’s face when Bokuto had taken a look at his merchandise and frowned, dude, my balls are bigger than these. “Yeah, no. He shot you.”

“Yeah, a little--” Koutarou pouts, and gives Tetsurou that wide, innocent smile. “You wanna go say ‘hi’?”

(dang it oikawa)

this was great. i love bokuto's little 'oh. time to go' when kuroo showed up, like of course he'll find me and everything's gonna be fine but then you threw in the effects the war's having on them and ow, that was also GREAT

(bokuto and kuroo totally go to oikawa's place wearing hats to hide their signature hair like, dude, what the hell. i thought we were friends. oikawa's ship alights planetside and he definitely has a megaphone, swans in to say hello and doesn't bother disembarking off his ship. iwaizumi shoots off their hats like a spaghetti western. bokuto is so mad about the hats. kuroo is so mad about his hair. oikawa's ship hovers over them with yahaba, kyoutani, hanamaki, matsukawa, and watari pointing blasters at their heads. iwa-chan shouts down how are we friends, i shot you. and bokuto blankly says well, yeah. but it was just a little, why is everyone making such a big deal out of this?)

thank you for leaving such a gr8 prompt LOL i was going to make it a little less G but ???? U___U yes. lmao i loved firefly so much in 2002 lololol this was an A+ trip down memory lane <3

Bonus Round 1: Quotes

Bonus Round 1: Quotes

PROMPT: TEAM ABE TAKAYA/MIHASHI REN

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