Bonus Round 3: AU/UA

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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)

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This round is now closed!

However, it is perpetually open to new fills!

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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
• Prompts can be in any language as long as you provide an English translation!
  
• Fill prompts by creating fanworks inspired by the setting.
  
• You cannot fill your teammate's prompts or your own!
  
• You must use the prompt/fill headers below, and you cannot leave any line blank nor delete lines!

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.

There is no max work cap.

Format your comment in one of the following ways:

If Prompting

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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

Copy/Paste the following into the body of your comment. Delete all instructional text in parentheses.

<strong>Ship/Character:</strong> (You must include at least one specific ship/character.) <strong>Fandom:</strong> (Do not write “Any”) <strong>Major Tags:</strong> <strong>Additional Tags:</strong> <strong>Do Not Wants:</strong> <strong>Prompt:</strong>

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

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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).

Copy/Paste the following into the body of your comment. Delete all instructional text in parentheses.

<strong>Title:</strong> <strong>Ship/Character:</strong> <strong>Additional Characters:</strong> <strong>Fandom:</strong> <strong>Major Tags:</strong> <strong>Other Tags:</strong> <strong>Word Count:</strong> <strong>Remix Permission:</strong> <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dL2xqWSMDtUI-SUUkWzBuLiK_VqmcLtGd15T0jT6vG8/edit?usp=sharing">See Permissions Sheet</a> (Place any author/artist's notes BEFORE the asterisks.) *** (Place your fill here. You can use HTML after the asterisks.)

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

• 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!

Comments

FILL: Team Ice Ice Baby, G

[starriewolf]

Title: You say 'K' I say "Ah-"
Ship/Character: Nishinoya Yuu/Tanaka Ryuunosuke
Additional Characters: None
Fandom: Haikyuu
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: Cryptids, Crack
Word Count: 425 words
Remix Permission: See Permissions Sheet

Hahaha I don't even know.

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“I’ve got two sets of clothes, swim shorts, an extra pair of underwear, torchlight, backup torch, snacks, Pocky, cucumbers, pickled gherkins...”

“Backup torch?”

“Shut up, my elder sister made me take it, okay?” Ryū scowls at his partner. “She’s a college girl, so she’s a hell lot smarter than us.”

Yū holds up his hands in mock-surrender. “Hey, I don’t mean any disrespect to your sister, but look what I’ve got here.” He digs around in his own backpack, pulling out two items in triumph.

“Is that –” Tanaka gasps, mouth dropping open.

“Yep.” Yū grins, tossing him one of the bottles. “Water bottles from Shimizu-san.”

Ryū clutches it to his bosom like his first-born child.

☆☆☆☆☆

“So… Saga Prefecture, eh?”

Yū flips the now-useless train ticket through his fingers, hoisting his backpack higher on his shoulders.

“Yeah!” Ryū bounces in excitement, peering around for a signboard. “Someone left a tip on our website, says there’s been a bunch of weird happenings in the lake nearby. Little things, like the sound of someone loudly passing gas when there’s nobody else around.”

Yū nods thoughtfully, pointing to a helpful signpost that should lead them to the lake in question. “Could be a kappa.”

His partner beams at him. “Yeah, I thought so, right?”

“So that’s why you brought the cucumbers? And… the gherkins?”

Ryū shrugs. “Well, pickles are just cucumbers in salt, right? Maybe they’ll like that too?”

Yū concedes the point.

It’s a bit of a hike to the lake, but they’ve experienced far worse on their cryptid hunts. Still, Yū’s sweating through his T-shirt by the time the lake is finally in sight, and he wastes no time in stripping it off and diving for the water.

“Roooooolling… Thunder!”

Ryū splutters through a mouthful of lake-water as he swipes ineffectually at his face. “Mind the camera!” he yells, though it’s a lost cause with Yū happily splashing about the lake like that.

The only sensible thing to do, of course, is to join in.

“CANNONBALL!”

☆☆☆☆☆

“We never did find that kappa,” Yū says mournfully through a mouthful of cucumber sandwich. Their shirts and pants are drying on nearby boulders, because neither of them in their infinite wisdom remembered that they packed swim shorts for a reason.

Ryū shrugs. “We had a good time, though,” he points out, and snaps another photo of the lake for his sister.

And maybe a few photos of Yū. He does look very good half-naked and dripping wet, after all.