sportsfest_mods (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sportsfest_mods) wrote in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
sportsfest2019-07-21 12:00 am
sportsfest_mods) wrote in sportsfest2019-07-21 12:00 am
Bonus Round 3: AU/UA
It is time to be transported in another world ! Is the destination a medieval fantasy ? A lost city in the stars ? Or is everyone looking oddly normal ? Let your imagination wander in the realms of alternate universes and universe alterations!
This bonus round will be open until Friday, August 2nd at 11:59 PT. (Countdown)
This round is now closed!
However, it is perpetually open to new fills!
Rules
- Submit prompts by commenting any AU or UA idea of your choice.
AU stands for Alternate Universe. This is a broad trope that involves everything from placing the characters in wildly different settings to slightly adjusting key points.
UA stands for Universe Alteration, a subtype of AU. Its meaning is similar to canon divergence i.e settings that are mostly like canon expect a few points are changed.
You may suggest what role the characters have in said universe or let it to the filler's imagination.
Example:- Harry Potter AU
- Royalty AU where they're part of ennemy kingdoms
- AU where Karasuno lost against Shiratorizawa
- Harry Potter AU
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
NSFW prompts
All explicitly NSFW prompts must be posted in
sf_afterhours in the corresponding Bonus Round post. You can find the After Hours BR3 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. Learn more about posting in After Hours here, and you can find the after hours post for BR3 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
Additional Information
- If you're having trouble finding prompts/fills, Icie's bonus round database is a great tool!
- The Bonus Round Guidelines further explain how bonus rounds function along with examples.
- We also have an official Ao3 Collection for you to post your fills to!
- If you see any prompts/fills improperly tagged, in the wrong community, or otherwise in need of mod attention, please use our mod contact form to let us know! In fact, this form can be used to report many things, anonymously or not!
If you have any further question or concerns, please contact us!
Prompt: Team Nishiura Birbs
Fandom: Haikyuu!!, Oofuri
Major Tags: None
Additional Tags: bait? bait, found family, i was thinking werewolves but there are so many possibilities, maybe Mystique style shapeshifting, maybe animorphs, idk go nuts
Do Not Wants: None
Prompt: Shifter AU
Fill: Team Ice Ice Baby, G
Ship/Character: Sugawara Koushi & Daichi Sawamura & Asahi Azumane (can be seen as shippy)
Additional Characters: Team Karasuno
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: Brief mention of past traumatic event, were-type shifters, found family (somewhat literally)
Word Count: 1,024
Remix Permission: See Permissions Sheet
***
The Karasuno Pack has always been small, Daichi knows that for a fact. But ever since the freak avalanche that killed off half of the pack three years ago – the same event that forced an unprepared youth into the position of pack leader overnight – the pack’s size has shrunk to single digits.
They haven’t even able to muster up a team for the annual Inter-Pack Hunts for the past three years, because they simply haven’t had enough people to send. One more year like this, and they’d be struck off the pack register altogether.
It’s led to talk, here and there, that the former Champions of the Hunt have become flightless crows, their wings plucked and claws trimmed into domesticity.
☆☆☆☆☆
Daichi cracks an eye open when Kōshi’s fingers stop in their mindless motion of combing through his fur, and he whines a little bit, both in protest and as a question.
There’s no threat around that he can sense: the junior pack members are playing with a ball in the nearby clearing under the supervision of Takeda, Ukai’s skinning the bear they took down this morning, Kiyoko’s gone to the stream to fetch more water, and Azumane’s off to make sure there aren’t any more predators lurking about their territory.
"There’s no point in worrying about things you can’t change," Kōshi says suddenly, without looking at him. He’s staring into the distance where the junior members are playing, just barely visible from their vantage point atop the Pride Rock they’re sprawled on, Kōshi snuggled up against his back in deference to the early autumn chill.
It’s a well-worn argument between them. Daichi lets his tongue loll out, settling back down on his paws. He’s the pack leader, and sometimes he just worries, even if he knows intellectually that there’s nothing he could’ve done, no way of saving their packmates from that avalanche, no way of enticing new shifters into joining a motley pack that has nothing to offer them. They aren’t like Datekō over in the next mountain range with its impenetrable defences, or Aoba Jōsai with its overwhelming strength, or even Nekoma with… well, Nekoma only takes in feline shifters anyway, so it’s sort of a moot point.
He headbutts Kōshi’s hand pointedly.
Kōshi laughs in surprise, finally meeting his gaze. His eyes are a gorgeous hazel, his hair tinted the same silver shade as his fur – not that Daichi has seen much of it in the past three years. Kōshi tends to stay in human form these days, even when they bed down at night, choosing to use Daichi and Azumane as makeshift duvets instead of shifting into his own fur.
They don’t talk about it. Daichi tries not to think about the fact that had Kōshi been in wolf form three years ago, he would’ve gone right over the edge of the cliff when the avalanche hit, without the benefit of having opposable thumbs and fingers to cling on to an outcrop until Daichi found him. It’s not in their nature to dwell, but sometimes…
Kōshi frowns, sitting up. “Do you hear that?”
Daichi shakes his head, getting to his paws. Kōshi’s hearing has always been better than his, his awareness of their territory more well-developed.
“I thought –” Kōshi cuts himself off, scrambling off the rock and taking off at a run.
It’s the work of seconds for Daichi to catch up, Kōshi’s two legs no match for his four paws, and by then he too can hear what caught Kōshi’s attention in the first place.
Azumane’s back, but he’s in human form, and he’s not alone.
“Found these two,” he says shortly, depositing a raggedly bundle of feathers and a bigger ball of fur at their feet.
The black feathers uncurled into the tiniest shifter Daichi has ever seen, his orange beak barely coming up to Daichi’s forelimbs. He’s a… raven? No, a crow? The other ball of fur turns out to be a black fox, with the same flinty eyes that always reminds Daichi sharply of Oikawa.
Are they… lost?
The crow shakes himself, shifting back to human form. He’s not much bigger in this form either, practically the same height as Yū, with a crown of orange-coloured hair and a determined expression on his face.
“I’m Hinata Shōyō, this bastard is Kageyama Tobio, and we want to join your pack,” he declares.
The black fox twists himself into human form too, a massive scowl upon his face, but he doesn’t contradict Hinata’s words.
Daichi and Kōshi exchange a deeply bemused look.
“Uh…” Kōshi says, when it becomes clear that the two newcomers have no intention to elaborate. “Why?”
“I’m a fan of the Small Giant!” Hinata chirps brightly. “He used to be in Karasuno?”
It’s a reasonable request, Daichi supposes. There are few enough bird-shifters out there that many packs don’t welcome them the way Karasuno would.
Kageyama’s scowl darkens further when they look at him, but Daichi can’t smell any aggression from him, only frustration. “… I didn’t get into Shiratorizawa,” he finally admits in a mumble.
Kōshi stares, and Daichi can’t blame him. Even if he doesn’t get into Shiratorizawa, there are plenty of packs out there – if he was even a viable consideration for Shiratorizawa at all, he would’ve been a perfect member for just about any other pack out there.
“So I want to beat them to prove that I can,” Kageyama finishes in a rush.
Daichi hums, and then twists his body up, shifting into his own human form. “So you chose a pack where you’d be guaranteed a starter position in the Inter-Pack Hunts,” he points out bluntly. Another pack, and a newcomer like Kageyama would’ve been relegated to reserve, or even spectator… but he’s right. Karasuno doesn’t have that kind of luxury, not if they want to stay on the pack register and hold on to their territory.
Kageyama’s fists clench, and in his eyes Daichi can see the same thirst for victory that has dogged his dreams for the past three years.
“Well,” he says gruffly, holding out a hand. “Welcome to Karasuno, then.”
Re: Fill: Team Ice Ice Baby, G
Re: Prompt: Team Nishiura Birbs