hs_olympics | BONUS ROUND 4

Bonus Round 4

Mobius Double Reacharound FST - Revisited

Hi shippers! Welcome to Bonus Round 4! Bringing back a favourite from last year! (Sorry for the delay, we're very busy!)

Here’s how this is going to work: somebody will submit a selection of 3-6 songs without comment. Then somebody else will come along and create a companion fanwork to fit the soundtrack!

Rules

If you are submitting a soundtrack: submit only the track listing and download or youtube links. The idea is that people should ~interpret~ your selections!

You are not allowed to fill soundtrack prompts with your team's ship, nor are you allowed to fill your own soundtracks. (Filling your team's soundtracks is okay!)

Soundtracks count for 5 points each, for a maximum of 100 points per team.

Fills may be in whatever format you choose (except FST, of course) so long as they link the songs by mood and/or lyrics in some kind of narrative.

Post your fill as a comment to the prompt post, using the title format described below.

This challenge will run until 11:59PM EST August 3rd.

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 per team: 30 (per entry)
Entries 6-10: 20 (per entry)
Entries 11-15: 10 (per entry)
Entries 16+: 5 (per entry)

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

We would prefer that any questions about this challenge or anything else in the HSO be emailed to us at homestuck.shipping AT gmail!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Chris Cornell - Take Me Alive
30 Seconds To Mars - Stranger in a Strange Land
Covenant - Afterhours

Fuck this shit, seriously. Fuck this stupid planet where you can only go out at night and where the stars are all wrong (and you were a city boy, what the fuck did you even know about stars?). Fuck the Game that gave you this as a booby prize. Fuck the gray skin and stupid horns and the excitable weirdo junk you're carting around in your pants. Most especially, though, fuck the ugly psycho you're tracking through the waste tonight.

You sound like Karkat. Your inner monologue just needs a sprinkling of nookblister and chutelicker and you'll sound just like your favorite little failure. Maybe it's in the blood, ha ha. Maybe it's just that being a troll destroys any hope you have of ever being cool.

Your name is Dave Strider, and you have rarely felt less cool than you do right now.

Something moves in the dunes up ahead of you, and a tiny part of your lizard brain (can you call it that when you're a troll?) gets a case of the screaming panic and wants to run, fuck, run, he'll cull you. The rest of you is goddamn furious that he makes you afraid. You want to rip his stupid painted face off with your bare claws. You want to piss in his open wounds and water down that apparently precious indigo. You want to fuck him, what the fuck is wrong with you, being a troll is the worst thing ever.

The smart thing to do would be to stalk him, to stay quiet and try to get the drop on the stupid clown. He's big and strong, a highblood, a natural ruler over this awful race of crazy violent monsters. He knows what he's doing in a fight, you know that for sure, and you can fight somebody who has you outmatched but you respected your Bro, and you think that was mutual, so. It was different. Fight smart, you tell yourself. Get the drop on him.

"I know you're intimidated by the sheer force of Strider swag," you say loudly, "but this game of hide and seek is already getting old."

The seconds tick past, four, five, six, and then you see Gamzee's horns in silhouette against the sand. Fuck, he's big when he stands up straight.

Part of you is still trying to piss yourself in abject terror. The rest of you is shoving that part into a little box in the back of your head where it can stay the hell out of the way, because you are not going to let his stupid juggalo mind tricks win this fight for you. "There you go, princess," you say, baring the short sharp needles of your fangs in answer to his smile. "Let's dance."

Fuck, being a troll makes you stupid.

Oh, Dave. All of those stupid feelings getting in the way. <3< This is delicious, thank you.

This is such a delicious set-up. I love when Gamzee is portrayed as this natural-born monster - it still hits a striking contrast in my head to how he was first introduced - and Dave tossing himself mouth-first into the fray is so terrible and great.

BONUS ROUND 4

Bonus Round 4

SOUNDTRACK: TEAM ERIDAN<>ROSE

FILL: TEAM Dirk<3Equius

Re: FILL: TEAM Dirk<3Equius

Re: FILL: TEAM Dirk<3Equius