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Bonus Round 1: Three Words
A lot can be said in just three words, and we're challenging you to do just that in this bonus round! From your "I love you"s to your "red, white, blue"s, you'll have just three words to prompt and be prompted.
This round is now closed!
However, it is perpetually open to new fills!
Rules
- Submit prompts by commenting any three words of your choosing! This can be a phrase or a list of words. Example:
- Please don't go
- Morning, flower, kiss
- Past, Present, Future
- Please don't go
Format
Required Work Minimums:- 400 words (prose)
- 400px by 400px (art)
- Traditional art is also allowed with a good quality photo/scan
- 14 lines (poetry)
- Playlists - 5 song minimum with artists. Link to either a video playlist, or each song separately. Be sure to warn for content in the music videos, and you may find linking to lyrics helpful. You may also write an explanation of why you chose each song.
- Moodboards - 9 photo min, source all photos, and no fanart allowed (unless it's your own)
- If you’d like to use a different medium, please contact the mods if you have any questions about minimum requirements.
Format your comment in one of the following ways:
If Prompting
Please use the following subject line for prompt:
- Prompt: [Your Team]
- Replace [Your Team] with the name of the team you belong to (Grandstand included!). Nicknames or Official Names are both acceptable
Future bonus rounds will have a much more simplified header to copy-paste!
NSFW prompts
All explicitly NSFW prompts must be posted in
sf_afterhours in the corresponding Bonus Round post. You can find the After Hours BR1 post here.If Filling
Please use the following subject line for your fill:
- FILL: [Your Team], [Rating]
- Replace [Your Team] with the name of the team you belong to (Grandstand included!). Nicknames and Official Names are both acceptable
- Replace [Rating] with the rating of your fill (G-E).
NSFW Fills
NSFW Fills must be posted in
sf_afterhours. If you are filling an NSFW prompt, you may reply to it normally. If you're filling a SFW prompt with an NSFW fill, post your fill as a reply to the "Fills for SFW Prompts" comment, then cross-link it here. You can find the after hours post for BR1 here.
Scoring
These numbers apply to your team as a whole, not each individual member!Prompts
- Prompts 1-10: 5 points
- Prompts 10+: No points !
- Fills 1-10: 15 points each
- Fills 11-20: 5 points each
- Fills 21+: 2 points each
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- If you're having trouble finding prompts/fills, Icie's bonus round database is a great tool!
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Prompt:Team In The Zone
Fandom: All Out!, Free!, Kuroko no Basuke, Haikyu!, Kaze ga tsuyoku Fuite iru, Daiya no Ace, Days, Yowamushi Pedal, Yuri on Ice, Oofuri, TeniPuri
Major Tags: None
Additional Tags: Twin, Dopplegangers, Shapeshifters
Do Not Wants: Kishigami Komari, Midousuji Akira, Non-con, bathroom stuff, infidelity
Prompt: That’s not them.
Fill: Team Grandstand, T
Additional Characters: Aomine, Teikou
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: what is pov, ambiguous situation
Word Count: 1018
Remix Permission: yes
also on ao3
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One day, Haizaki isn’t Haizaki. It happens so suddenly, with such a clean delineation, that it can’t be in Aomine’s head. But no one says anything; no one else seems bothered at all. Akashi has to know, and Satsuki, at least, but they don’t treat Haizaki any differently. Perhaps Akashi is a bit more forgiving, but perhaps that is because there is less to forgive Haizaki for.
He doesn’t steal anything the first day, and while that’s a little unusual it’s not as if there’s that much left to steal from their teammates. Rather, it’s the stance he settles into, the way he breathes, not some hyper-aggressive patchwork of obvious knockoffs, but something closer to Aomine himself, something made of a better facsimile. (Funny, how the Haizaki who seems fake is the one who does everything more faithful to the original moves, but that’s a logical spiral Aomine will never get out of if he thinks too long and hard about it.)
It’s not Haizaki, but who is this guy? Is Haizaki a robot who’s finally been upgraded? He looks the same; he walks the same and talks in the same voice, sticks out his tongue in that same stupid way, but his basketball programming’s been overhauled. He even shows up close to on time at practice. It’s weird, a change that maybe they all would have asked for if they’d cared enough to give Haizaki advice.
Maybe Haizaki’s just screwing with them. But he’s not that subtle. He wouldn’t remember to look in the mirror differently, like he’s checking out his pores instead of just admiring the whole picture. (Perhaps no one else has said anything because some guy in Murasakibara’s class, that model guy, just up and quit school, and rumors are flying that he’d gone to China--no, England--no, the States--no, adopted by a wealthy old couple--so Haizaki practicing more seems boring.)
Sometimes, Aomine catches not-Haizaki looking at him out of the corner of his eye. Like he knows Aomine knows--like maybe Aomine’s on the list next; maybe he’s a fucking basketball robot and he doesn’t even know it. All the memories of playing with Satsuki when they were kids are false, manufactured by some creator in this weird basketball experiment. And he’ll get an upgrade of God knows what, and they all will, until--what, exactly? Or, this person (whoever they are) is not a robot but they got rid of Haizaki because he knew too much, or was in the wrong place at the wrong time. And now Aomine does, too.
(But damn, he’s starting to feel sorry for Haizaki. He never thought he’d see the day.)
Not-Haizaki can copy moves while leaving the original user with them. If he were copying Aomine, Aomine would find that more unsettling than something with the rhythm thrown off (or, at least that’s what he tells himself). He still can’t copy Aomine’s moves, or anyone else in their year, though that’s probably for the best.
He also seems to have forgotten things, as if he’s somehow made a lateral move from years honing in on his skills to being a talented amateur, a parrot who can imitate without really understanding. So maybe that means he’s not a robot, and Aomine isn’t, either. But then that traces back to who he could be--who out there is their age, with the right height and build, the right face? (Though, something’s off about that; Aomine’s caught not-Haizaki dabbing his face as if there’s makeup on it--but makeup can’t make that much of a difference, can it?)
There’s no right answer, and the question underneath all of this, the underwater volcano threatening to blow, is what happened to the real Haizaki?
No matter who his new teammate is, Aomine is pretty sure he doesn’t want to know the answer to that.
After a week, he can't take it anymore. "Satsuki, about Haizaki—"
"Don't say it," she says.
Satsuki tells him what to do all the time, but it's never quite like this, tighter than old shoes where his toes are bursting through the ends and undoing the stitches. He can't disobey that. There's something truly frightening about it, the same feeling Aomine gets when he sees the doppelganger pull moves off that aren't quite the way the real Haizaki would do them.
So he swallows the words, washing them down with the remainder of his water bottle. He'll never get used to this guy, will he? Or will he one day forget that Haizaki was ever someone else? It seems impossible that he would, but if all of this could happen in the first place then, well, anything could.
Eventually, this proves right; eventually, Aomine does forget. Sometimes, when he looks at Haizaki, he sees someone else for a flash of a second--sometimes a brilliantly beautiful, boundless person, sometimes someone who sinks his talons into everything like a hapless raptor holding onto a life preserver. It's only for an instant, and then he forgets they were there, forgets that those images are two separate someones, neither of whom is the person in front of him.
There is something else Aomine thinks of, too, involving fire and ashes and another kind of bird, a more bitter and sharp flavor of arrogance. But that is also without context, and easily filed away as a daydream or a fleeting fancy each time.
And sometimes he catches Satsuki looking at Haizaki, a frown on her face. They have never been the best of friends, but she's clearly not angry with him. There is no falling out, no murky past thing that Aomine is not privy to, no regret, just something even Satsuki can't put her finger on. That alone is a possibility that should make Aomine nervous, but it slides right over his consciousness like oil over water. He thinks nothing of it, nothing more of Haizaki than he always has.
He does not notice the gleam of gold in Haizaki's eyes, the brightness of his teeth, like a wolf's, but merely what he expects to see.
Re: Fill: Team Grandstand, T
Re: Fill: Team Grandstand, T