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Bonus Round 1: Time and Place
Bonus Round 1: Time & Place
Who, when, and where? Send your favorite sports animanga characters to any time and place you want—but the filler decides what they do there.
This bonus round will close on June 29th, 2018 at 11:59PM PT. (Countdown Timer)
This Round is CLOSED, but is perpetually open to new Fills.
Rules
Submit prompts by commenting to this post with a time and place, along with any character/ship/group/etc. from one of our nominated fandoms. Your prompt can include characters from any animanga title regardless of your team affiliation.
- Please format your prompt like so:
TIME: [Time]
PLACE: [Place] - The place can be any real or fictional location.
- The time can be as specific or vague as you want.
- Your prompt MUST include one or more specific nominated fandoms. Please do not prompt “Fandom: Any”.
- If your prompt includes a relationship, make sure to use the proper notation. Platonic relationships are indicated by an "&" between the names (e.g., Natsuo & Yuzuko). Non-platonic relationships use "/" (e.g., Natsuo/Yuzuko). Feel free to add additional clarifications as needed.
Here are a few examples to get your creative juices flowing:
TIME: Victorian Era
PLACE: The catacombs of London
TIME: Monday morning
PLACE: The coffee shop down the street
TIME: The last pitch
PLACE: Koshien
TIME: June 16th, 2018 at 4:20 PM
PLACE: 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney
Fill prompts by replying to the prompt with your time and place-inspired fanwork.
Please make sure to adhere to the specific prompt/fill formats!!! Otherwise, the BR scorer may miss your fill. If you make a mistake, please edit your post, or delete and repost if editing has been disabled.
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. Nickname or Official Name are both acceptable
Copy/Paste the following into the body of your comment. Delete all instructional text in parentheses.
NSFW Prompts
EXPLICITLY NSFW PROMPTS must be posted to the After-Hours comm. To join, click here.
After joining, you will be able to access the AfterHours BR1 post.
“Explicitly NSFW” means that the prompt includes outright sexual content (whether in a photograph, drawing, or in words), and prompts that in the additional requests are asking for explicit fills. Prompts are posted with the same HTML format, in the same manner as a SFW prompt, just under the designated post for that Bonus Round in the After-Hours comm. See ‘Filling’ for the procedures for NSFW Fills.
If Filling
Minimums
Required Work Minimums:
400 words (prose)
400px by 400px (art)
14 lines (poetry)
There is no max work cap.
Format
FILL: [Your Team], [Rating]
- Replace [Your Team] with the name of the team you belong to. Nickname or Official Name are both acceptable
- Replace [Rating] with the rating of your fill (G-E).
- Find a guide to tagging HERE.
- Copy/Paste the following into the body of your comment. Delete all instructional text in parentheses.
NSFW Fills
All NSFW fills MUST be posted in the corresponding Bonus Round post in the After Hours community. To join, click here.
After joining, you will be able to access the AfterHours BR1 post.
If filling a prompt that has been posted on the after-hours comm, simply reply to that prompt. If filling a SFW prompt, let the prompter know by replying to the original prompt on the main comm with a link to your fill on the corresponding after-hours Bonus Round Post. Please DO NOT use the Fill subject line or Fill header when cross-linking. This will cause the BR scorer to count your fill twice.
Scoring
The scoring for bonus rounds depends on the number of people (n) on your team. You’re welcome to make as many prompts and fills as you like!
For prompts: 5 points per prompt, limited to 5 times the number of team members (5n)
For fills, where (n) = number of members on you team:
- First 5n fills: 20 points each
- Fills 5n to 10n: 10 points each
- Fills 10n to 15n: 5 points each
- All fills after 15n: 2 points each
All scored content must be created new for this round.
Additional Information
If you're hunting through the prompts looking for what to fill, a good trick is to view top-level comments only (see the line of links below this post). We’ll also have a prompt/fill database up and running soon that will help you filter through BR posts.
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PROMPT: Team Grandstand
Fandom: Haikyuu!!, Shokugeki no Soma
Major Tags: NONE
Additional Tags: NONE
Do Not Wants: NONE
Prompt:
TIME: first date
PLACE: the ticketing booth
Fill: Team Kinkage, G
Fandom: haikyuu
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: first date, first kiss
Word Count: 878
Remix Permission: go for it
***
“You’ve got to be kidding me,” Konoha groaned when the ticket booth attendant at the auditorium near their school told him that the tickets he had gone out of his way to reserve for his first outing with Akaashi were suddenly ‘unavailable’. “I reserved them two weeks ago.”
The attendant gave him a sympathetic smile. “I realize that, Konoha-san. However, the stage designated for that particular play sustained some structural damage after the last earthquake, and it had to be moved to another stage.
“Unfortunately, its seating capacity only half the size of the original, so some ticket tiers had to be eliminated. We did try to contact you, but we weren’t able to reach you. There’s a note on your reservation that we left a voicemail.”
So that’s what that is, Konoha muses, having left a recent voicemail on his phone unheard nearly all week. “Thanks anyway.”
Pocketing the voucher she had given him for a future showing at the next level up in ticket pricing, Konoha wandered dejectedly over to where Akaashi waited for him. So much for an impressive first date. He couldn’t even get into the play he didn’t want to see.
Akaashi raised a brow. “You look annoyed.”
“That’s an understatement.” He gave Akaashi a quick rundown of the situation, and Akaashi merely gave a nod of acknowledgement.
“We’ll find something else to do,” Akaashi said, taking Konoha’s hand and guiding him away from the buzzing crowd to a nearby bus stop. “It’s not the end of the world.”
Inside, Konoha railed. It had taken him forever to screw up the guts to ask Akaashi out, after months of trying to figure out if they were the same ‘type’ or not. Yet his efforts to show his brand new maybe-boyfriend a good night on the town were already rapidly swirling down the toilet.
Akaashi gave him a soft smile, however, and all the wrongs of the night went from terrible to not all that bad in a hurry. “I have an idea, if you don’t mind a change in plans.”
“Sure,” Konoha murmured, knowing Akaashi could have asked him to saw off a limb with that smile and he would’ve seriously considered it. What a gorgeous guy like Akaashi was doing with him, Konoha still couldn’t figure out. He just counted his lucky stars and rolled with it. “Lead the way.”
They boarded the next bus and headed to a familiar part of town, and soon they were at a movie theater with giant buckets of popcorn and sodas to match. Akaashi bought tickets to a film Konoha didn’t quite catch the name of, and they settled into their seats toward the middle, with the rest of the Friday night crush not yet trickling in.
While the previews droned on, they chatted about school and volleyball and their mutual friends, and Konoha almost resented the sound of the film beginning to roll. Almost. That was, of course, until he saw the transformation in Akaashi.
Eyes glued to the screen, Akaashi ate fistfuls of popcorn and blindly sipped at his drink, barely blinking as he watched. Konoha was, in a word, stymied by this development when he realized that the movie they were watching was a romcom all the girls at school were passing around trailers for. Something based on a manga, he recalled.
He tore his attention away from Akaashi and back to the film, and it didn’t take long for him to get sucked into its orbit, as well. He laughed, he sighed, and his heart filled at all the right moments, and by the time the end credits rolled, Konoha was smiling like a total nerd.
It startled him when he caught Akaashi staring at him with an indiscernible emotion on his face. “What?”
Akaashi reached up and thumbed some of the popcorn butter smeared around Konoha’s mouth, and Konoha gaped when Akaashi stuck the thumb in his mouth and sucked it off, his eyes never leaving Konoha’s. “I wasn’t sure you would like it. I just hoped you would because I’ve been dying to see this movie.”
“Yeah.” Konoha choked out that single syllable, his everything transfixed by Akaashi’s mouth, which slowly, achingly slurped the butter from his own popcorn off the rest of his fingers. He had to squeeze his eyes shut and think about sweaty socks and accidentally seeing his grandma in her underwear to ward off any potential embarrassment.
Opening his eyes, Konoha caught Akaashi with a satisfied smile on his face. “I had fun. Thank you for letting me pick.”
“Yeah,” Konoha croaked once again. His chest felt tight with something warm and full when he watched Akaashi watching him, and he didn’t have to think twice when he leaned forward to press their mouths together.
Akaashi’s lips tasted like coke and popcorn, and Konoha loved it all. He had no idea how he got lucky enough for Akaashi to agree to see him outside of school or volleyball at all, let alone date him, but he decided he would spend a stupidly large amount of time making sure Akaashi felt the same way.
They walked out of the theater hand in hand, fingers greasy and threaded together for the rest of the night.
FILL: Team Knife Emoji, G
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Major Tags:None
Other Tags:theatre au, first date
Word Count:1180
A/N: This is based on a true story. Two friends of mine discovered on their first date that ... hush no spoilers, Carole :D
***
It was an incongruous start to a date, but when he’d received the text from Akaashi saying he’d been asked to work an hour more, Akinori thought he might as well saunter up to his place of work and wait for him. It wasn’t as if he’d stand out, as he was known to the other members of staff, and it wasn’t like this was anything other than a casual ‘let’s-grab-coffee sometime’ type of invitation (even if he’d been screwing up his courage to ask for weeks now).
In black jeans and a pale blue shirt, Akinori hope he looked relaxed. Moderately pleased with his hair, he swept it off his face then let it fall back at least three times as he approached the theatre, taking a deep breath as he wandered in.
Akaashi Keiji was in the ticketing booth, dealing at that moment with an agitated woman and a clutch of kids demanding sweets and drinks.
“Have you ever tried taking five children to the toilets at the same time?” she was saying, her voice shrill. “I need to be near the aisle!”
“I can’t reallocate your tickets, Madam,” Akaashi replied, his voice patient but with a slight rip of speed to it. “The performance is sold out.”
“But we’re in the centre of a row. Surely it will annoy the other members of the audience if I’m having to get up every five minutes with one of them?”
“The audience is mainly children,” Akaashi said, not turning a hair. “It is a family show, so I’m sure everyone will understand.” Then catching Akinori’s eye, he gave a slight smile. “Please accept these free programme vouchers.”
Mollified, possibly by the fact that Akaashi’s smile, even a half one, was pretty devastating, the mother sighed, took the vouchers, then harried the children through the doors and towards the refreshment stand.
“I won’t be long,” Akaashi said as Akinori approached. “And you didn’t have to meet me here.”
“Ah, I was close by,” Akinori replied. “Busy day?”
“Not especially. Always that last flurry of customers before the show starts, and not helped by Komi calling in sick.”
“Is he?” Akinori asked, sounding innocent.
Akaashi gave him a look. “Pretty sure he has an audition, but I suspect you already know that.”
“He might have mentioned it,” Akinori said idly.
“You and your housemate don’t talk?” Akaashi queried.
“Well, yes … we do, but it’s not like I thought it would impact you.”
He looked around, anything to change the subject because this first date/grabbing coffee/whatever was not getting off to the most auspicious start.
Then Akaashi gave another smile. “It hasn’t really. Onaga’s coming in early, and he’s pleased to get the overtime.” He rolled his shoulders, then stretched them out over his head. “This … um … date.”
“Uh… yeah.” Akinori swallowed. “Look, I understand if you’re tired or … um … I don’t know… if you’d rather it was just coffee, then, yeah, that’s cool with me, too and—”
“I was going to say, could we go for a walk instead?” Akaashi replied. “Only I worked through lunch, and I’ve forgotten what daylight looks like. If th-that’s all right with you.”
“Oh… yes.” He smiled. “That’s cool.”
Outside, once Akaashi had changed from his ‘theatre uniform’ and looked far less formal. The sun was still bright in the sky. It wasn’t too hot thanks to a breeze whipping around them, so the walk to the park was a pleasant one, and because there was traffic on the roads, it was noisy too making awkward conversation nigh on impossible anyway. It gave them a chance, Akinori thought, to be comfortable walking together, and talking could happen when they’d arrived.
(He wondered briefly if this had been Akaashi’s plan, as Komi had once told him Akaashi always seemed to have three separate scenarios in his head for any occasion.)
“Why did you take the job at the theatre, Akaashi-kun?” he asked when they walked through the park gates. “Is it something you’ve always wanted to do?”
“Be involved in entertainment?” Akaashi considered. “Yes, I suppose so. We used to live on the outskirts of the city, but two or three times a year, my parents would buy tickets to a show and we’d make a day out of it.”
“No plans to tread the boards yourself?”
“Me? No. That’s not my style. Not like Komi-san. He tells me you used to act.”
“I did. I prefer backstage now,” Akinori replied, and hoped he didn’t sound bitter because he wasn’t, but there was always something faintly pathetic about his life, with people would keep telling him he should have stuck at the acting, when actually he’d found his niche among the lights and sound and found he preferred it.
“Tell me about the shows you saw,” he said instead.
“The best one was in the winter,” Akaashi replied. “It was my first show. I was seven or eight, and the theatre was lit up with fairy lights. I thought it was the most amazing thing I’d ever seen.”
“And the show?”
“Peter Pan. With a beautiful Tinkerbell flying across the stage, a very cross looking Wendy Darling, and a Peter who fought with his sword, leapt around the boat and was … highly dynamic.” He smiled more to himself than Akinori. “Possibly fell in love right then.”
“I remember that show,” Akinori said. “With the lost boys and the ticking crocodile. Hook was amazing!”
“Oh goodness, the lost boys!” Akaashi gasped. “I’d quite forgotten, but one of them fainted on stage. We were right in the front row, and my Mum thought he was going to fall on us. Then another boy, with amazing presence of mind, hauled him offstage by his foot.”
“You were there that night?”
“Um, yes…” Akaashi stared at him. “Why, were you?”
“Uh, yeah, I was on the stage. Child actor and all that!”
Akaashi’s eyes widened. “You weren’t the boy that fainted, were you?”
“No, no, that was a kid called Bokuto Koutarou. Used to get wildly excited before hand, stuff himself with sweets, then had a sugar crash.” He smiled lazily. “You were lucky. He puked backstage after that.”
“So you were…”
“The one who dragged him off. Not as noticeable.” He coughed, not wanting to be pitied. “I’m still in touch with Koutarou. He’s doing pretty well in action movies. Still loves his sweets, though.”
“And the others?”
“Hmm, well, Tinkerbell now runs a stage school, Wendy Darling really was not a darling at all, got married to Hook, then divorced him five years later. Peter Pan…” He winked. “Your first love—”
“Stop it.” Akaashi scowled. “I’m not living this down, am I?”
“Gave up the stage and works for the Tokyo Stock Exchange.” He lowered his voice. “Possibly a shady businessman.”
“He became a pirate!” Akaashi said, sounding shocked, but laughing.
“Yeah.”
“And you…”
“Backroom boy. Nothing special.”
Although they were still walking, Akaashi reached out, touching Akinori’s little finger with his own. “You illuminate them, Konoha-kun. They wouldn’t perform half as well without you.”
Re: FILL: Team Knife Emoji, G