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sportsfest2018-06-16 12:14 am
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.
A Tip: We all want SportsFest to be a fun and safe environment. If you notice someone has made a mistake in their required tagging, or any other html or rules related aspect of their comment, do let them know, message them privately rather than replying - if you reply, they can’t edit the comment! If you aren’t comfortable letting the commenter know directly, contact a mod and we will make sure they update the required tags.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact a mod.
Fill: Team Kinkage, G
Fandom: haikyuu
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: worried Kageyama, repairing relationships, happy and hopeful ending
Word Count: 1184
Remix Permission: sure
***
Kageyama held his breath as he stepped into the gym at Aobajousai High School for the first time, and he didn’t miss the way everything fell silent the moment he was noticed. The first years carrying net posts stopped in their tracks, the second years wheeling out ball carts, follow suit, and the third years stretching off on the sidelines look up in curiosity.
The quiet was broken by Iwaizumi coming up to him and clapping him on the shoulder. “Hey, Kageyama. It’s great to see you again.”
“Thank you, Iwaizumi-senpai,” Kageyama mumbled, his eyes glued to the other side of the gym where two achingly familiar faces coaxed the net pole into place while looking at nothing else but him.
Kageyama looked away.
The gesture did not go unnoticed. Iwaizumi sighed. “You need to talk to them sometime. Give them a chance to give you a chance.”
Iwaizumi’s earnest expression fortified Kageyama’s willpower to strike up a conversation with the teammates who had borne the worst of his terrible demeanor back in middle school. It had only been a few months since then, but the event had sparked a metamorphosis of self-awareness.
Taking a deep breath, Kageyama stepped forward, his stride growing in confidence as the people around him resumed their usual business. That was, of course, except for Kindaichi and Kunimi.
Kindaichi’s attention thoroughly fixed on the pole, he mumbled, “You’re never late for practice.”
“Yeah.” Kageyama didn’t say anything else, unsure how to impart that he almost didn’t come at all because he didn’t know if anyone would want him there. Instead, he opted to string the bottom of the net while Kindaichi used his superior height to secure the top.
Practice churned by like any other, with the sole oddity being the coaches. They carefully watched their new crop of first years and the three of them in particular. Kageyama supposed they knew what had happened at Kitagawa Daiichi in that horrible final match. How he had been invited to Aobajousai despite that was a mystery to him.
Well, if one also considered it odd that Kindaichi and Kunimi didn’t hesitate to hit his tosses during spiking practice and were happy with the sets they received, then perhaps it wasn’t a normal practice at all.
At the final whistle, everyone hustled to the locker rooms except for the first years, who lingered to shag stray balls and tear down the nets. About half of them were on the same team at Kitaichi, and more than a few furtive glances were thrown Kageyama’s way. He wasn’t all that surprised; he had expected at least that much.
Kindaichi and Kunimi end up at the same train station, something Kageyama had not thought of but made sense. They all lived within a kilometer radius of each other. Kindaichi used to take the bus because it dropped him off closer to his house, but with them farther from their usual neighborhood than in middle school, the train was the most efficient option.
Unwilling to exacerbate a situation they would all have to live with for three years, Kageyama found a spot along the fence and lingered there waiting for the 6:40 to arrive. He nearly jumped when Kindaichi and Kunimi followed suit and stood next to him.
Kunimi smiled wryly at Kageyama’s panicked expression. “Relax. No one’s here to bite your head off.” Kindaichi nodded in agreement. “It happened, and now it’s over. I’m over it, Kindaichi’s mostly over it, and I don’t think anybody’s interested in dragging this out for three years.”
Blinking in surprise, Kageyama gawked at Kindaichi, who was at ease around him for the first time in a year. If anyone deserved to hate him, it was Kindaichi, yet he stood right next to Kageyama on purpose, idly scrolling through his phone like they sat next to each other every day. Like they used to.
Kageyama swallowed hard, an emotion he couldn’t describe knotting in his throat at the normalcy of the scene. Kunimi talked about having homework on the first day of school, Kindaichi sympathized, and Kunimi even asked him if he’d gotten any and sighed in lament when Kageyama shook his head in the negative.
They boarded the train, opting for the back of the car and the long, open bench there. Their bags stowed under the seat, they sat shoulder to shoulder as the train lurched into motion.
Five minutes into the ride, Kindaichi growled under his breath and grumbled, “This is ridiculous.” He turned to Kageyama with a grumpy frown. “Will you stop acting like you’re standing next to dynamite or something? Nobody’s going to blow up at you.”
“But I —” The rest of the words didn’t come out, but they rattled around in Kageyama’s head: I deserve it.
He reeled when Kunimi reached across Kindaichi to flick him in the forehead. “Stupid Kageyama. Nobody’s mad at you anymore. We said what we needed to say in that game. You received the message and adjusted accordingly.
“Why would we keep torturing each other for the next three years when we could, you know, not do that. Grudges are boring. It’s a lot easier being friends like we were in the first place.” With that, Kunimi dug an issue of a popular shounen manga publication out of his bag and held it up. “I finished it. Anybody want it next?”
Kindaichi eyed the magazine with interest but turned to Kageyama instead. “What about you? Do you still read One Punch Man?”
Kageyama’s eyes widened at the comment. Kindaichi remembered his favorite manga and even wanted to give him first dibs on the latest chapter. He let out a shivering breath and nodded, hesitantly reaching out to take the book from Kunimi’s extended hand.
His fingers traced the cover, trembling as he absorbed what this magazine truly meant. Not just manga or politeness, but a new beginning. They could go back in time when they did everything together as first years in middle school, but with enough maturity and growth to keep from making those same mistakes again.
Eyes watery as he looked up at them both, Kageyama’s lips slowly spread into a soft smile. “Thank you.”
He saw Kindaichi’s face flash a myriad of emotions, but relief won out and he put his hand on Kageyama’s knee and gave it a gentle squeeze. “Yeah.” Kunimi gave him a lazy salute and sat back to start on his geometry homework, giving Kageyama time to absorb it all.
At the last stop before they all went their separate ways, Kindaichi said, “Hey, wait for us tomorrow morning. We’ll be here at six thirty.”
“I will.” Kageyama headed home with a dopey grin on his face because he finally had a chance to make things right, to be the friend they had deserved and to receive the same treatment in kind. There was probably a lot of stuff to talk about, but they had three years, and this Kageyama Tobio could wait for good things when they meant this much.
Re: Fill: Team Kinkage, G
i'm so glad for happy endings for these three they deserve so much more !!!!!! Ó╭╮Ò