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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.
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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
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FILL: Team Grandstand, G
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: amusement park dates, first dates, miscommunication, humor hopefully
Word Count: 2290
Remix Permission: sure
THIS GOT SO LONG AND RIDICULOUS BUT I HOPE IT IS AT LEAST ENJOYABLE (also on AO3 here)
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Sweat trickles down the back of Kuroo’s neck, and he lifts his folded park map up to shield his eyes from the midday sun. His head is sweaty under his R2D2 Mickey ears, but he refuses to take it off.
“I think I’m going to buy some frozen lemonade,” he says. “Does anyone want some frozen lemonade?”
“Yes!” Hinata says, shooting his hand up and waving.
“Mm,” Kenma says. He’s playing a game on his phone, and anyone else might have thought he didn’t even hear what Kuroo said. However, Kenma has trained in the art of tuning into the world just enough to hear Kuroo and no one else, and Kuroo has trained in the art of parsing Kenma’s hums and monosyllabic non-words.
Long story short, that’s a no.
“I’d like strawberry lemonade, please,” Tsukishima says, linking his fingers together in front of him. He still oscillates between snarky and polite with Kuroo, unable to decide which to stick with. Lately, he’s been more on the side of polite, unless Kuroo does something to deliberately provoke a reaction from him.
“Two OG lemonades and one strawberry lemonade, got it!” Kuroo says cheerfully. “Anyone want to come with me? Shrimpy, what about you? Okay, great, let’s go!” he says, and drags Hinata by the arm out of the line.
Tsukishima watches them go. He adjusts the Minnie Mouse ears Kuroo coerced him into wearing and ignores the flutter in his stomach when he remembers how Kuroo called him cute. He’s a six-foot tall high schooler; Kuroo has no business calling him cute. But he’s been doing it a lot today, and even Hinata is agreeing, which is just plain weird.
Tsukishima is actually not as averse to Hinata calling him cute as he thought he would be, but he’s definitely not prepared to unpack that right now.
“Aren’t those two acting strangely today?” he asks Kenma.
Kenma actually looks up from his phone, which in itself could be a dire comment on the situation. “I think so, too,” he says. Hinata especially; Kenma’s known Kuroo all his life and he does weird stuff sometimes, but Hinata keeps looking at him meaningfully.
It’s like Hinata and Kuroo are in on some sort of joke, and they expect Kenma to get it, but he missed the punchline.
“What are they scheming,” Tsukishima muses.
Kenma thinks for a minute, comes up short, and shrugs and goes back to his game. If they’re acting weird, it must be for a reason, and they’ll explain sooner or later. Hinata’s not the type to keep secrets, and Kuroo—well, Kuroo has no reason to keep secrets from him, either. That’s what he likes about them. They keep him in the loop. He doesn’t have to second-guess himself around them.
Tsukishima sighs and watches Kenma play. He’s not content to just let the topic rest, but it’s not like he has much to go on.
All Tsukishima and Kenma know is this: Kuroo and Hinata invited them to go to Tokyo Disney together today.
Kuroo and Hinata know one additional, crucial detail: This is a date.
Kuroo has just realized, while standing in the line for Space Mountain, that Tsukishima and Kenma have no idea that they’re on a date, and he says as much as he and Hinata line up at a frozen lemonade cart.
“Dude, Tsukki and Kenma don’t know this is a date.”
“What do you mean they don’t know?” Hinata asks. “We asked them out!”
“I should have known Kenma wouldn’t realize,” Kuroo says, pushing exasperated fingers into his hair. “That boy only experiences romance vicariously through dating sims and never actually thinks about dating himself. We’ve been on too many friend-dates. I’ve been jokingly romantic too many times that he doesn’t realize I mean it this time. I played myself.” His groan cuts off as he realizes something, and he looks at Hinata. “But surely Tsukki can’t be that dense. What did you say to him?”
“I told him to come with me and you and Kenma to Tokyo Disney, of course,” Hinata says.
“But did you state any romantic intent at all?” Kuroo asks, leaning down and looking Hinata in the eyes very seriously. “Did you inform him that this was a romantic outing?”
“Well, not directly, but… Come on, that’s kinda embarrassing!” Hinata says. “I figured he would get it.”
The frozen lemonade line inches forward.
“He does not get it,” Kuroo says. “They do not get it. How do we get them to get it?”
“Just tell them when we get back, I guess,” Hinata says, pulling out his wallet to count his change.
“No, no, I don’t want to embarrass them,” Kuroo says. “They have to figure it out without figuring out that we know that they don’t know.”
“What.”
“Then they’ll pretend that they knew all along, because they’re that type of people, and we will act none the wiser, and everything will be perfect!”
“What,” Hinata says again.
Kuroo ruffles his hair. Hinata has very ruffle-able hair. Not to mention, he’s the perfect height for it. He often finds himself thinking about Tsukishima’s hair, too, because it also looks soft and ruffle-able, but he’s too tall to do it comfortably. Kenma could have soft hair if he would actually wash it regularly instead of playing video games until he knocks out.
“Don’t worry about it, Shrimpy. Just leave the planning to me.”
It takes some effort, but Kuroo manages to not think about his (hopeful) boyfriends’ hair and how much he wants to run his fingers through them, and instead formulate a plan of attack. By the time they’re shouldering their way back through the Space Mountain line, they’re ready.
The plan is this: Kuroo and Hinata will kiss each other in front of Kenma and Tsukishima. Kuroo’s original plan was for Hinata to kiss Kenma while he kissed Tsukishima, and then maybe switch, but he didn’t want to spring physical affection on them without warning. This new plan will unquestionably demonstrate romantic intentions while avoiding potentially making the clueless party uncomfortable. Hinata is willing to roll with any idea and figures Kuroo is smarter and more experienced with this stuff, so he readily agrees.
While they’ve been gone, Kenma and Tsukishima haven’t done much: Kenma’s still playing the same game, and Tsukishima has downloaded it on his phone and now he’s playing, too.
Tsukishima is distracted, though; while Kenma has decided to just wait for an explanation, Tsukishima is still caught up on how weird Kuroo and Hinata are acting today. Kuroo is unpredictable at the best of times, so it’s not exactly surprising, but there’s still something off about today. His cheesy lines and awful flirting are coming on even stronger than usual, and sometimes he’ll say things that don’t really make sense as a joke but definitely don’t make sense seriously, unless they’re on, like…a date or something. Which definitely isn’t the case. And Tsukishima can usually read Hinata like a book, so it’s definitely off-putting that he can’t tell what a simpleton like Hinata is thinking.
“Heya, did you miss us?” Kuroo asks, sidling up beside Tsukishima and Kenma. He’s holding his frozen lemonade and the frozen strawberry lemonade for Tsukishima.
Tsukishima tucks his phone into his pocket and accepts his frozen strawberry lemonade from Kuroo. “Not particularly,” he says.
“Well, I missed you,” Kuroo says, “every second we were apart.”
Kuroo has been saying stuff like this all day. Tsukishima doesn’t know how to react, besides with, “Um, okay.”
“Kenma, can you hold mine and Kuroo-san’s frozen lemonades for a sec?” Hinata asks.
“Why?” he asks, but he complies, also putting his phone away.
Kuroo looks at Hinata, and Hinata looks at Kuroo, and they nod in agreement and step towards each other. Even with Hinata on his tiptoes, Kuroo has to bend down to kiss him. Hinata anchors himself Kuroo’s shirt, and Kuroo cups Hinata’s face.
Kuroo’s stomach does a flip because this is their first time kissing, but Hinata yanks away. “Kuroo-san, your hands are cold and wet from the frozen lemonade!”
“Oops, sorry,” Kuroo says. He wipes his hands frantically on his pants, then holds them out for Hinata to evaluate. “Better?”
“I guess,” Hinata says.
They try again, both watching from the corners of their eyes to see if Kenma and Tsukishima are looking.
They are, but they are both confused.
“What are you doing?” Kenma asks.
“Congratulations, I guess?” Tsukishima says.
In truth, there’s some hurt and jealousy pooling in their stomachs that they can’t parse. Who are they jealous of, exactly, and what right do they have to feel hurt?
But neither Kenma or Tsukishima are dwelling on it; their confusion outweighs the unhappy feelings, because Kuroo and Hinata are noticeably more concerned about checking Kenma and Tsukishima’s reactions than actually kissing each other.
Hinata drops to the flat of his feet and crosses his arms. “It’s not working.” He pouts up at Kuroo, because he’s supposed to be the ones with the answers, and then he turns his pout to Kenma and Tsukishima, because why don’t they get it?
“I guess I’m not too surprised,” Tsukishima says, “but did you have to bring us along?”
Kuroo blinks. He was so caught up in making sure today could happen—a day off, no club activities, no other plans with their families—that he forgot to consider that maybe not everyone wanted this.
He considers himself to be good at reading people, was so sure that Kenma and Tsukishima liked him and Hinata back, but maybe this time, when it mattered the most, he assumed wrong.
“Did you… not want to come?” he asks. His voice comes out smaller than he intended, but there’s an unbidden lump in his throat. He was so, so excited for today.
“Well, it’s fine hanging out together, but if you wanted it to be a date, it’s kind of awkward with me and Kenma here, right?”
A date without Tsukishima and Kenma?
“But what about you and Kenma!” Hinata blurts. How could they expect him and Kuroo to leave them behind?
“Us?” Kenma asks. His eyes are wide. “I don’t—”
“We’re not—” Tsukishima says.
They look at each other. Tsukishima likes Kenma, of course he does, and Kenma likes Tsukishima. They’re both quiet and clever and they like hanging out and playing video games together. Kuroo and Hinata are both loud and outgoing, and together Kenma and Tsukishima can balance them out, convince them that sometimes a chill movie night sleepover is better than five games of laser tag in a row.
But just the two of them together, without Hinata and Kuroo—that doesn’t sit right with either of them. They only got here because of Hinata and Kuroo. Kenma would come visit Hinata in Miyagi, and Kuroo would sometimes accompany him because Kenma didn’t like riding the train alone, and sometimes Kuroo would seek Tsukishima out to hang out with, and then they started hanging out, all four of them. Sure, after that sometimes Hinata would hang out with Kuroo and Tsukishima with Kenma, but they’d started this thing together.
“We’re not together,” Tsukishima says, finally.
“But do you want to be?” Hinata presses, because he’s done beating around the bush. “You and me and Kenma and Kuroo-san.”
Kenma and Tsukishima stare at him, and the missing piece of information finally clicks.
“Wait, all four of us?” Kenma asks.
“All of us, together?” Tsukishima says.
“AAAHH!” Kuroo shouts suddenly, and everyone jumps, except Hinata also shouts in surprise, and everyone jumps again.
“Sorry,” Kuroo says. “I thought you got it, but you didn’t it! You didn’t get it! I thought you were rejecting us, but you just didn’t get it!”
“Thank you,” Tsukishima says.
“You’re not third and fourth wheels. I mean—you are, but not in the sense that like— What’s this metaphor even about? A relationship is a bike, I guess?” Kuroo frowns for a moment, but no one says anything, so he barrels on, “You’re not extraneous wheels, and you’re not a separate bike. You are both very essential wheels on our four-wheeled all-terrain vehicle of love.”
“What,” Kenma says.
“What,” Tsukishima says.
“You’re so cool and romantic, Kuroo-san!” Hinata exclaims, jumping up and down. “Hear that, you two? We’re a vehicle of love.”
“I’m so tired,” Tsukishima says.
“Me too,” Kenma says. “How much longer is this line?”
“But will you go out with us?” Kuroo asks.
“Yeah, yeah!” Hinata says. “Please? We really like you.”
Tsukishima and Kenma exchange another look. Tsukishima has butterflies in his stomach right now, but he would die before admitting it. Kenma—Kenma’s happy, but he needs to process this. Actually, he needs to mindlessly play a game on his phone for a bit, and then he’ll be able to process it. He’s a little bit on overload right now.
But he’s happy, really.
Kenma ducks his head. “I think I would like that.”
Kuroo and Hinata turn eagerly to Tsukishima, and he fights back a startled blush.
“Well…” If Kuroo and Hinata had always intended for today to be a date, then… “We’re already going out,” he says with a shrug.
Hinata cheers. Kuroo can tell Tsukishima is only acting cool, but he’s not going to call him out on it. He’s just happy it all worked out despite the hiccups.
Besides, there are more important things to think about, like how they should pose for their picture when they finally get to ride Space Mountain.
He almost shouts again as he realizes that there are exactly four of them.
“Hey guys,” Kuroo says, “now that’s sorted out, do you all know what ‘loss’ is?”
Re: FILL: Team Grandstand, G
“Well, I missed you,” Kuroo says, “every second we were apart.” THIS WAS SO G ODFJNVG way to take it from zero to one hundred kuroo
also i know this was mostly shenanigans but i also love ur insight into how the four of them work together, clearly they all fit together really well and balance each other out and it's so sweet ;__; they truly are a four-wheeled all-terrain vehicle of love
and don't get me started on the ending. i want to hit you but mostly i love you
Re: FILL: Team Grandstand, G
hinata doesn't get anything kuroo says but he still thinks he's SUPER COOL so he goes with it. also u know i love extra kuroo
and thank you TvT i could have possibly made this fic shorter if i hadn't included all the insight into their relationship and just made it a rly silly fic but in the end that's just not my Style, i had to explore how these guys came together and why they wanna be together (tbh i didn't even go into it as much as i wanted to, esp the tsukihina but IT WAS GETTING TOO LONG ALREADY)
pls don't hit me i love u too and thank you for supporting me in all my endeavors <3 <3
Re: FILL: Team Grandstand, G
Re: FILL: Team Grandstand, G
Re: FILL: Team Grandstand, G