Bonus Round 5: Remixes

SASO 2016 is over, but this round is perpetually open to new fills (no new prompts).

Congrats, this is the home stretch! You've worked hard and created hundreds of fanworks for sports anime fandom to enjoy. This round encourages you to look back at everything the SASO has made and use it as inspiration.

This round ends at 7PM on August 8 EDT. Countdown Timer.

RULES

Choose a fanwork created by other participants in a previous main or bonus round of SASO and create a new piece based on it. You could create a fanart of another work, an FST inspired by a piece’s style, retell another person’s fanfic from another point of view, create a new fanfic inspired by a great piece of art... go wild!
You cannot remix your teammates' works.
You must have permission from the original creator. There's a blanket permissions post here (feel free to add yourself to it!), or you can leave a comment on their original post asking for permission.
You must include a link to the original work in your post.
Since all fills are based on previous works, there will be no prompts for this round. Simply post your fill as a comment in response to this post.
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 FILLING:

If FILLING as a TEAM GRANDSTAND participant:

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), and LINK to the original work you are remixing

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" />

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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 fills as you want!

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.

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

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Remix of this fill by

hapaxlegomenon, who gave blanket permission.

No Major Content Warnings
Words: 531

The feeling that settles in Arakita's chest after a battle, a victory, is exhilarating, the combination of lingering adrenaline from a fight and a steady sense of calm, silence because it's over, they've won, they're safe.

There's relief, at escaping the danger unscathed; pride, at fighting and winning, at being successful; contentment, at being by Fukutomi's side, trusting and loving him so completely.

This is what it means to be one of the strongest teams of Jaeger pilots in the world, to have a successful kill rate, to have people admire and look to them as hope for a world that once didn't have any.

("I love you." Fukutomi had said it after they first drifted, after any space between them had become nonexistent, after any lines of unfamiliarity and their status as basically strangers had blurred and then completely bled together.

What's mine is yours; what's yours is mine,

Memories, thoughts, feelings. All of it.)

Arakita knows that he doesn't need to say the same words aloud—Fukutomi has seen everything, knows everything, knows every single piece of him; it's a sentiment that goes without saying, that exists between them both that they know as well as they know themselves, each other.

(The meaning is there, present, in subtle glances and brushes of their hands; in the gentle bump of their shoulders as they walk through the hallways of the Shatterdome; in the tangle of Fukutomi's fingers in Arakita's hair, his hand cupping Arakita's cheek, triumphant, happy, proud, because they've won, they're alive, victorious and together; in Arakita's smile, impossible to hold back, and in Fukutomi's own when they look at each other.)

This is what it's like to be part of something, to be half of a whole.

"I love you, Fuku-chan," Arakita says, still a little out of breath after their most recent battle, victory, together, the overwhelming feelings of triumph, happiness, and love rushing forward in his words and his satisfied grin.

And Arakita pulls him into a kiss, smiles when he feels Fukutomi's automatic response to pull him closer, to hold Arakita's face in his hands, similar to how he's held Arakita's heart for so long, even before they knew each other like this—before distance between them became nothing, before me and you became us.

"I love you too, Yasutomo." Fukutomi murmurs the words against Arakita's still upturned lips without any hesitation, as if it's the most natural feeling in the world—because it is—and like it belongs and always has. He gently bumps his forehead against Arakita's, smiles too.

This is what it means to have something to fight for, to have renewed and revitalized reason and purpose.

This is what it's like to feel both invincible and infinite, to experience brief flashes of immortality despite testing fate consistently when constantly throwing themselves into the dangerous and possibly deadly outcomes that can accompany battling kaiju. But moments like this, when Arakita feels stronger than anyone, when he feels like he can reach and achieve anything with Fukutomi by his side overpower that fear, make him feel like he's on top of the world instead and that nothing can touch him.

Maybe together they can be.

Maybe together they are.

Bonus Round 5: Remixes

Bonus Round 5: Remixes

FILL: TEAM IWAIZUMI HAJIME/OIKAWA TOORU, T