Bonus Round 4: Official Art

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Bonus Round 4: Official Art

This round is CLOSED. Late fills can be posted, but they won't receive points.


Memorable canon moments, bizarre omakes, tantalizing magazine spreads—this is the round to explore them all. Bring out your screencaps, promotional art, and manga pages, and let's talk about what really happened.
Please read the rules carefully before posting!

RULES

• Submit prompts in the form of a canon screencap from one of our nominated fandoms along with a ship. Screencaps can be from an anime or manga, as well as any other kind of offshoot media, e.g. official art, drama CD covers, light novel illustrations, magazine covers, and/or caps from games. Doujinshi, fan-made games or any other fan-created work should not be prompted, even if you receive permission. Only prompt screencaps that are taken from a piece of canon media.
• Keep your prompt concise. Don't prompt a whole manga chapter, for example.
• Upload the cap somewhere (imgur works well) and post here with the images themselves or a link to them.
• Your prompt MUST include some kind of relationship. Platonic relationships are indicated by an "&" between the names (e.g., Riko & Momoi). Non-platonic relationships use "/" (e.g., Riko/Momoi). Please don't say "Any pairing," either!
• Fill prompts by leaving a responding comment to the prompt with your newly-created work inspired by the cap.
• Fills can be directly connected to the cap, e.g. panel redraws or writing fic that fleshes out the moment that was capped or that fleshes out what happened directly before/after, but fills can also be more indirectly linked. As long as the work is somehow inspired by the cap, it counts.
• 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. To place an image in your comment, use this code: <img src="LINK TO YOUR IMAGE" /> 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.

Have a question? Check The FAQ first. If you still need help, feel free to contact the mods. Happy fanworking!

Comments

FILL: SWAG 2016, no tags

[bisharp]

this is a canon divergence ending of my own fic (haha) but also inspired by this prompt, especially to fit into canon better! thank you for the inspiration :)

He is waiting for them at the airport. Haruka's heart leaps, and he tries to still it - he remembers saying I love you, remembers the easy sound of Makoto's voice as he said it back. That was last night - less than twelve hours ago. And now Makoto is standing here, in bigger and taller than Haruka remembers, and it feels like ages since the last time Haruka had seen him.

Ages since their fight.

Around them, the airport bustles with sound and movement. Rin is next to Haruka, watching him carefully.

Haruka wishes he could be like Rin, greet Makoto like it's nothing. Wishes he could be like Rin and his host family in Australia, even though Rin had come back to Japan kind of fucked up anyway. But he's here now and grins wide at Makoto, bringing him in for a hug, even though Haruka has seen, talked to Makoto more recently.

Haruka feels too small in his black hoodie. But inside him, something big and warm expands in his chest - the thought of not leaving Makoto again, not needing to, not having that push that he's been feeling for the past few weeks. It dissipates.

Makoto smiles at him, and says, "Welcome home." His green eyes are bright, watery maybe.

Haruka swallows the lump at the back of his throat. He shakes his head as imperceptibly as he can.

"Thanks," he says, and his voice feels dry.

"Oh my god," comes Rin's voice from the side. They both turn to look at him, kind of surprised, but Rin just rolls his eyes dramatically.

"What is it, Rin?" Makoto asks.

Haruka can see it in Rin's eyes, like he wants to tell them to kiss already or something. Rin's like that.

"Nothing," Rin grumbles. He shoves his suitcase into Makoto's arms. "Come on, carry this for me."

"Okay." Makoto looks amused as he takes Rin's things, dropping them to the ground and wheeling them. He glances at Haruka like he expects Haruka to have a comment - Haruka doesn't, just watches the two of them.

Rin mutters something to himself and starts off, leading them out of the airport. Makoto hangs back instead of trying to follow him close by, angling a smile at Haruka like he thinks he needs to hide it. Anywhere else, and Haruka could still spot it a mile away.

"You called me pretty late last night," Makoto says to him.

Haruka shrugs. "You're here even though you picked up last night," he replies.

Makoto laughs to himself. "That's true," he says. "I wanted to see you as soon as you touched down, though."

"You couldn't have, I was in the plane."

Makoto laughs again. He bumps Haruka's shoulder with his own, warm and firm. Haruka thinks, this is when it's going to happen, even though he doesn't know what it is, even though all Makoto does is meet his gaze in the tinny crowd, enough to fill the emptiness and the coldness Haruka has been feeling for the past week.

Haruka goes, "Makoto." He stops in the middle of the floor.

Makoto turns around. "Haru?" he says, an edge of worry in his voice.

Haruka leans up on his tiptoes. There's some space to bridge, but Haruka gets there, reaches across the both of them, to peck Makoto on the mouth. Makoto makes a startled noise, but Haruka draws himself back.

"That's for," Haruka says, and then pauses in thought. "A lifetime."

Makoto's cheeks are pink and he's looking at Haruka a little wide-eyed. "A lifetime?"

"For," Haruka swallows. "Everything."

This time, Makoto pulls Haruka in, first by the arms and then by the face. His lips are a bit rough against Haruka's - Haruka hadn't even noticed at first - but he kisses gentle, soft, like he's afraid Haruka will break at any second. Haruka presses back more eagerly this time, accidentally dragging his tongue out, licking at Makoto's bottom lip. Makoto gasps into his mouth.

"That's also," says Makoto, when they have separated again. "For everything."

Haruka pauses for a second. And then he smiles, a brightness filling his chest, his throat and someplace behind his eyes.

That brightness is Makoto.

"We should go," he says to Makoto, and Makoto is jerked out of - his thoughts, his daze, whatever it is he's been doing for the past few seconds.

"Oh," Makoto says. He smiles, big. "Yes."

He rests a hand at Haruka's back, between his shoulder blades. Haruka is not afraid to settle into it, to turn to his side for someone. He knows Makoto will be there.