Bonus Round 2: AUs

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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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Comments

FILL: SWAG 2016

[(Anonymous)]

SWAG2016 participant #47

mute Kenma

Hinata is full of energy and that's one of the reasons he loves volleyball so much; it gives him an outlet for it, it gives him a way to turn that energy into something productive.

He feels that when when he's talking to people as well. He likes putting his whole self into things and sometimes, there are feelings that he can't just convey through words, but his expressions, his body language.

Sometimes, when he's talking to Kenma through text messages, he feels like all of that gets a little lost. There are always exclamation marks and emojis, sure, but it's not quite the same as expressing it himself, and it's what one day drives him to ask Kenma if he'll teach Hinata sign language.

Kenma looks up from his phone, at Hinata, blinking in surprise.

I want to be even better at communicating with you, Hinata types out, and he catches the way that Kenma smiles a little to himself in reply before he looks up and nods.

--

The thing about sign language is that some things are pretty simple and self-explanatory, while other things are a bit more specific. Seeing it all being used together makes Hinata's head spin a little, and Kenma slows down, giving him an apologetic smile.

I'll start with the basics, Kenma texts him.

And so Kenma starts to teach Hinata the yubimoji.

There are links that Kenma sends him, with each of the signs of the yubimoji photographed, or drawn, so that Kenma can practice. Hinata doesn't know what he was expecting when he started, but it's a little like learning a new spoken language, where he has to start from scratch and build his way up from the basics.

He's not very good at sitting down and studying hard when it comes to complicated subjects, but this is for Kenma. That's enough of a motivator to do it.

Besides, Kenma is extraordinarily patient as he teaches Hinata things. It makes him happy, Hinata realises, to be able to sign to someone else, even if it's just really short, basic conversations for now. That makes everything worth it even more.

When Hinata doesn't know how to sign something, he'll stop and spell it out, and Kenma will teach him the sign for it. They'll practice it together, using it as often as they can in their conversations until it's something that comes to Hinata like second nature.

He doesn't realise how much his vocabulary has grown until Kuroo sees them one day, remarking on the fact that they've had an entire conversation in sign language for the past five minutes. Hinata blinks down at his hands in surprise, and looks up again to see Kenma smiling at him.

"You're good," Kenma signs at him. He glances at Kuroo, who's giving them both a knowing grin, and then back at Hinata. "It means a lot to me. Thank you."

"You're welcome," Hinata signs back. "I like being able to do this with you."

Spiking a volleyball might be a great feeling, Hinata thinks to himself, but his hands are a lot more than that to him, now. There are other ways he can use them, other ways he can express himself, and he's glad that he's learning how.