Bonus Round 2: AUs

SASO 2015 is over, but this round is perpetually open to new fills (no new prompts).

This round is made for exploration of all those "what-if?" scenarios, like "what if my favorite sports anime was actually a spaghetti western?" or "what if everything was the same except everyone was actually a car?"

This round ends at 7PM on June 27 EDT. Countdown Timer.

RULES

Submit prompts by commenting to this post with an alternate universe idea, along with a ship from one of our nominated fandoms.
An AU could be a canon divergence, e.g. "what if [team] didn't win the Inter High in season 1, but [other team] did instead?", or a completely different setting altogether, e.g.s pop idol AU, coffee shop AU, superheroes AU, etc.
Fill prompts by leaving a responding comment to the prompt with your newly-created work.
Remember to follow the general bonus round rules, outlined here.

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

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[ neither could I ;) ]
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"Is it really necessary to...."

Rin looks up. There's a contour brush held between his lips, so his retort is relegated to an unimpressed lift of one eyebrow. Makoto winces a little.

"I'm not trying to second guess you, or anything. I know you're good at your job."

Rin huffs a sigh through his nose and pulls the brush from his mouth. "I'm really good at my job," he says. "I know everyone's just used to photoshop these days, but the effects of makeup are more subtle and lay a foundation for the graphic designer to build upon. This would be over a lot faster if you just held still."

"But—"

Rin ignores him, popping the brush back into his mouth and dipping the brush he's currently using back into his pressed powder. A few quick strokes to color the brush, and then he's dusting powder between the dips of Makoto's impressive six-pack. The skin beneath the brush shivers and twists, and Rin pulls back with a harassed sigh.

Above him, Makoto is laughing, his long fingers pressed to his mouth. "But it tickles," he gasps.

Rin lightly smacks the back of his hand against Makoto's stomach. "Tense these up," he says. "It'll help. I'll be done in a minute."

Makoto obligingly tightens his muscles, and his six-pack stands out even more than before. Rin sighs and goes back to work. He's worked with hundreds of models with beautiful faces and gorgeous bodies, but even he has to notice that Makoto is a cut above the rest. His shoulders are broad; his muscles flex enticingly below his skin as he moves; his legs are long, and his calves are perfect.

On top of that, Rin thinks as he sweeps highlights onto his muscles, ignoring the way Makoto's skin shivers and the stifled giggling above his head, this model is adorable. He'd bowed to Rin when they'd been introduced, which almost no model did anymore, and tripped over himself to follow Rin's brisk instructions.

"Are you new?" Rin asks, putting his tools away and picking up new ones. "I haven't seen you around before."

Makoto glances down. "Oh, um, not exactly," he says. "I've worked for other brands, but I've never done....underwear before."

"You'll be great," Rin says. "You're gorgeous."

The words fall from his mouth automatically, a stock compliment given to puff up the fragile egos of the models he works with. Makoto stills, though, and when Rin gets to his feet he can see that Makoto is blushing.

"Th-thank you," he says softly, as if no one in this business has never told him that before.

Rin sighs, thinks Adorable a little irritably, and then brushes liquid foundation onto his cheek. Makoto flinches once but then eases; this, then, is familiar territory.

Rin brushes the makeup across his straight nose and clear forehead, blends it in the soft skin below his jawline. He gives it a second to dry while he puts his foundation brush away. "Eyes," he says as a warning.

"Okay," Makoto murmurs back, closing them obediently.

Makoto's eyes are slightly droopy at the corners, giving him a soft, puppy-like expression. Rin highlights them with eyeshadow, and when he says "Open," even he's taken aback by his handiwork. The smoky powder changes Makoto's expression from gentle to sultry.

Rin swallows. Maybe not so adorable, he grumbles to himself.

"What are you doing later?" he says, brushing bronzer in the apples of his cheeks.

"You mean the shoot? Or after?"

"After," Rin says. "I was—" his voice catches, and he has to clear his throat. "I was wondering if you wanted to grab some coffee."

Makoto's shy smile is transformed by the makeup, changes it to something alluring and hot. Rin resists the wild impulse to kiss it off his face. That would ruin all of his hard work, after all.

"I'd love to," Makoto replies.

"Good," Rin says, straightening perhaps a little faster than is strictly necessary. He gives Makoto a clap on the shoulder. "Go break some hearts."

Makoto cocks his head, his smile turned teasing. "Do you say that to everyone?"

"Yeah," Rin says, then grins back. "But I don't mean it very often. Come back when you're done and I'll clean you up."

"See you later," Makoto says, and Rin laughs, surprised by the cleverness of the double meaning.

He watches Makoto's shoulders sway as he walks onto the set and thinks, Nice catch.

I AM ON FIRE MAYHAPS???/ THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR FILLING THIS SO BEAUTIFULLY I *LOVED* UR MAKOTO AND RIN AND GODDAMN Rin sighs, thinks Adorable a little irritably AND Rin swallows. Maybe not so adorable, he grumbles to himself. JUST FCUK ME UP

Bonus Round 2: AUs

Bonus Round 2: AUs

FILL: TEAM SAWAMURA DAICHI/SUGAWARA KOUSHI, T

Re: FILL: TEAM SAWAMURA DAICHI/SUGAWARA KOUSHI, T