hs_olympics | BONUS ROUND 1

Bonus Round 1

Genre-Mixing

Hey, shippers! Welcome to your very first bonus round proper--we hope you have lots of fun with it! This time around we're going to be asking you to mix it up a little--each fanwork posted for this round will be a mish-mash of two different genres, blended together in a delightful incestuous slurry to create an UNSTOPPABLE CREATIVE CONCOCTION--er. Or. Something.

Yeah, we're genre-mixing. That's what we're doing this round.

Rules

Submit prompts! Prompts should consist of two different genres and one ship. This cannot be your team's ship! These are worth 5 points each, for a maximum of 100 points per team.

Look through the prompts and fill whichever you like!

You may not fill prompts for your ship, nor may you fill your own team's prompts.

Fills should be posted as replies to the prompts which they are for, following the format below. They may be any medium.

Title Format
If you are starting a new thread, please use this format in your title.

Replace [YOUR SHIP] with the name of the team YOU belong to; please use the characters and quadrant, not whatever portmanteau or nickname you've come up with.
If your team name is not in this format and in the title we cannot guarantee that it will be counted.

If you are filling a prompt, use this format in your title.

Replace [YOUR SHIP] with the name of the team YOU belong to; please use the characters and quadrant, not whatever portmanteau or nickname you've come up with.
If your team name is not in this format and in the title we cannot guarantee that it will be counted.

Posts not using this format in the title will be understood to be unofficial discussion posts, no matter what they contain. They, like all comments on the comm, are subject to the Wank Policy.

Scoring
For prompt posts: 5 points each (maximum of 100 per team)

For fills (as stated here):
First 5 entries in each post: 30 (per entry)
Entries 6-10 in each post: 20 (per entry)
Entries 11-15 in each post: 10 (per entry)
Entries 16+ in each post: 5 (per entry)

All scored content must be created/assembled new for this round.

If you have any questions, please ask them at the FAQ post here, or email them to us (homestuck.shipping at gmail). Otherwise, we cannot guarantee that we will see them in a timely fashion!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

There are things about him, subtle things that you can easily pick up in the slight stretches of his expressions and the tension of his hands, that set him apart from his Alpha counterpart. Moreover is the difference in his DNA, part binary and part avian wound together in tight strands that you automatically know are his genetic plasma makeup(and yours, to a much lesser extend), composed of ones and zeros in a sequence that make him up.

Sometimes the differences aren't at all blindingly bright. Because during that first year out of three, apart from the digital feathers and warm orange skin like tropical sunset drinks, you sometimes would forget that he wasn't Dave. Same sense of humor, same coolkid front, same porcelain mask tinted with orange to cover up everything that he was on the inside.

And then there were times when it would slap you in the face, hard and mercilessly, but you would not flinch away.

He's a game construct, a guide for players to follow down the rabbit holes and cross the chessboard to victory. He has codings, wireless internet connections linked to the fibers of his brain like additional receptors to the ones already in the cortex. A living, breathing computer.

And just like computers, he has bugs, and more commonly, viruses.

It's not the first time it's happened; boredom induced internet browsing of what was left of Earth's network and servers is sometime commonly used to pass the time. But this is the first time she's ever seen him hunched over in pain like this, agonized whimpers leaking through clenched teeth as a break in the spasms and violent heaving that has wracked his sprite body for the past half hour, over a cool toilet in a cramped bathroom, occurs.

It's a strong one; what is left of you that is a sprite tells you that much, and before your very eyes it hacks into his coding and it starts to break him down, pixel by singular, breathing pixel.

You keep him grounded with firm hands and massaging fingers on his shoulders, keep from truly slipping into the panic that you fear might be building up inside him as what keeps his hands solid begins to break apart, drifting from defined fingers to blurry squares and he loses his grip on the rim of the toilet and sinks to the floor, shedding feathers that disintegrate into sunset dust. He might've started crying at some point, as you kneel beside him all night, rubbing his shoulders and running your pale digits through his fine hair, but if he did, you knew better than to call him out on it.

His system recovers and quarantines the virus after an agonizing, sleepless four hours, the data that composes him pulls back together upon rebooting and you murmur 'It's OK Dave' over and over again, as everything begins to look OK indeed, and you squeeze his completed, glowing orange hand tightly once again now that it's not in danger of coming apart in a flurry and burst of pixels and sunburnt plasma.

Davesprite let's out the longest, heaviest sigh Paradox Space has ever seen, shuts his eyes as you croon to him, and you both spend the next day curled on the couch, sprite tail coiled around you carefully, and you both marathon a sitcom John had left lying around in his home.

oh wowwww. this is terrific. :0

This floored me.

DAMN this is fantastic. Love fics that tackle the more electronic side of Davesprite!

Oh my ghh--!! Ah! That was so awesome ;u;
I'd never really thought about the electronic side, wow~ Thats brilliant!

I know filling my own prompt doesnt count for points but i dont even care man~ This could not be stopped from being a thing that was made.
I thought it best to share it here~

Thanks again for the fill!

Oh my

This is GLORIOUSLY BEAUTIFUL OH MY GOD

THANK YOU!!

Fantastic writing, all the feels.

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Bonus Round 1

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