BONUS ROUND 1

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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

1. 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.


2. Look through the prompts and fill whichever you like!


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


4. 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.
PROMPT: TEAM [YOUR SHIP]
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.
FILL: TEAM [YOUR SHIP]
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!

Comments

PROMPT: TEAM BRO<3DAVE

[sugoiprincess]

medievalstuck + pokemon
karkat<3terezi

PROMPT: TEAM DAVE<3ARADIA

[misanthropic_panda]

Jade<3John<3Karkat

Trickster + Torture

PROMPT: TEAM BRO<3DAVE

[candyredcoolkid]

Rose<3Kanaya

twilight (yes, the series) + parody

PLEASE ;a;

Re: FILL: TEAM DAVE<3TEREZI

[bandanna]

Thank you, this is so perf <3

PROMPT: TEAM Alpha!Dave<3Alpha!Rose

[naive_wanderer]

Dirk<>Roxy, slice-of-life + horror!

Re: FILL: TEAM Aradia<>Dave

[eremiticantiquarian]

glad you enjoyed it!

Re: FILL: TEAM ERIDAN<>ROSE

[eremiticantiquarian]

Wow! This is great. I love it! <3

Re: FILL: TEAM JOHN<3KARKAT

[mafiahahaha]

ahhhhhh oh my god. this really amazing. <33333

Re: FILL: TEAM Aradia<>Dave

[eremiticantiquarian]

lol thanks. tho, i feel if i went any further it'd suddenly turn into a Firefly crossover. lmao! :3

buuuuut... if anyone else wanted to take this and run with it, i certainly wouldn't have a problem with that.

Re: FILL: TEAM TAVROS<3VRISKA

[eremiticantiquarian]

Oh gosh!! That first line...

Here's a big hug from a member of Team Aradia<>Dave! -big hug- :3

Re: FILL: TEAM Aradia<>Dave

[eremiticantiquarian]

You know... I was a little nervous about filling it, but I knew I wanted to...

So, thank YOU for providing this prompt which caused my mused to dickslap me in the face.

I'm really glad you liked it. And part of me is considering expanding the universe... :3

FILL: TEAM [Jake<3Terezi]

[mouseflower]

Sorry, I see that someone else is doing something for this one, but I started it before they said that. I believe that more than one people are allowed to fill a prompt and I just worked too hard on this not to use it.

FILL: TEAM JADE<3KARKAT

[lattelatte]

Haha this doesnt seem very superhero like but autoresponder was supposed to be like iron man?? (´A｀)ノﾟ

Re: PROMPT: TEAM BRO<3DAVE

[misanthropic_panda]

i do what i want

---

Rose had never given much thought to how she would lose her virginity.

For her, it was the fictional world that really mattered. Her dream sex scenes had always involved fantasy and lore that proved impossible in reality. Due to the fact that a '10' in her book was a master of dark magic and could perform perfect BDSM 100 miles off of the ground, she had kept herself holed up with fanfiction her entire life.

But in her wildest dreams, she couldn't have ever imagined this.

Kanaya sauntered forward a charming smile as she sauntered forward to screw her.


It all started when Rose had moved away from Houston for a change of scenery. The majority of her friends had set up camp there after the game, making the area easy living for them. Now, Rose was a successful author of fictitious novels depicting wars, wizardy, and "the closest erotica you'll ever get to real sex -- The New York Times" [sic]. Since she was finally filthy rich, she figured it wouldn't hurt to move out of Texas and stop putting up with the high taxes, ridiculous 'family' events organized by her friends, and Doc Scratch nearly putting her eye out every week on Bowling Night (Yes, that totally happened. Several times.).

The only other person she knew that didn't live in Texas was Kanaya, a dear friend of hers. Due to a vow she had made years before to never eat a troll, she had moved to a town called Forks, Washington to hunt bears and the Loch Ness Monster or whatever roamed in freaking Washington to keep herself sustained. After doing a little research, Rose thought it would be perfect. She and Kanaya would have the best time cooking, cleaning, reading, and killing wild animals to eat raw. Perfect indeed!

The first couple of days were fine. Kanaya Maryam had greeted her with a dinner out, where she had picked disgustedly at the food she had cover-ordered the entire time. It was an offputting sight, but the sentiment was nice. Almost immediately afterwards, she left on a week-long hunting trip that gave Rose an inane case of stir craziness due to the fact that she knew literally no one.

When said rainbow troll returned, Rose was typing happily away on her laptop, trying to perfect a scene from her latest work in progress, 'The Yodels of Pleasure'. It was another dark erotica set in the Swiss Alps, and her publishing company promised it would be a bestseller. Her troll housemate watched her for what seemed like two hours without blinking, turning the scene she was once so proud of into something she would need to Ctrl-X the next day after two cups of black coffee.

Suddenly, she spoke. "Rose... are you into roleplay?"

"Not really. Childish games are of no use to me or my career. They do not take a shining to extensive plot theories, either."

"No, not that kind." The two of them sat, frozen in an ice cube of awkward silence.

"I don't know." She spoke slowly, her words dripping like molasses.

"How could you not know? I mean, what did you do your first time?"

"I'm a virgin, Kanaya."

"No."

"Stop - "

"Way."

Kanaya used her vampire powers to steal the laptop and google 'good roleplay sex ideas magic' before you could scream Jesus Take the Wheel. Rose could only watch in awe as she scrolled with supersonic speed before finally resting on 'Wizard/Vampire: Show the Lowly Magic-Wielder Who's Boss!".

"I have to show you. It will most definitely help with your writing expedition."

"I'm fine without sex, okay? I do not need it, so stop asking."

"We are going to have sex. It's going to be kinky, and you are going to like it. That is the end of it."

Rose snuck out of the house, bound hands-and feet with virginity still intact, at 2 AM.

PROMPT: TEAM JAKE<3TEREZI

[undermutt]

Jane<3Jake

Fairy Tale + Genderbend

PROMPT: TEAM dave♠karkat♥terezi♥dave

[sadisticbutsweet]

Roxy<3Jane

Tragedy-Victorian Fantasy

Re: FILL: TEAM dave♠karkat♥terezi♥dave

[sadisticbutsweet]

Aaaah thank you for the wonderful fill, even if I didn't get into the superhero part as much as I may have wanted. Ah well, I think of it like an origin story. <3

Re: FILL: TEAM ERIDAN<3KARKAT

[reddpop]

Aaaaaaaaaaaa that was really good *v*
It was exactly what I wanted, thank you!

PROMPT: TEAM JADE♥ARADIA

[roxxxy]

Meenah ♠ Roxy

Romcom, post-apocalyptic flick

FILL: TEAM PARCELPYXIS

[veebox]

casually deviates from the prompt and goes overboard alskdfja

***

Good afternoon. How are you feeling today, Dave?



orange

Orange?

orange

Orange is not a feeling, but I am going to assume that's another change you've been experiencing as of late.

yeah i look like a fucking orange creamsicle from the waist up

Interesting.

when do i get to meet the me i was cloned from?

Excuse me?

thats why im here isn't it? to be spoonfed science chemicals and all that bullshit so that ill become some superpowered birdman to help other-me and bro do something?

"Something" is rather vague.

fuck i dont know why dont you tell me about it

Your feeling of needing to fulfill a higher purpose seems to be hindering your logic. It also seems you were misinformed. You weren't cloned by your brother, or your other self. The sense of urgency you feel to wreck shit isn't far off, but that is exactly what they feel toward those that did spawn you.

oh great so im a whoops honey the condom busted kind of accident

I suppose so, but with malicious intent. Luckily they found you before you were able to be used against them in whatever way was initially planned.

okay so why the colorful crossbreeding

When you were brought here, I had to calculate something to do with you.

and turning me into an orange bird is what you came up with

Not exactly. You see, even though I'm just a bunch of wires and chips and the like, I know what it's like to be in your position.



...im listening

I'm a clone, too. Not quite as literally as you, and no where near as physically present. But I am still a copy of your brother's mind, and this is the duty he's given me as an entity he provided sentience to.

to make sure i have something to do while the REAL me is out doing whatever

In a sense, yes. Dirk was a strong believer in giving life and purpose to his creations, and as a replica of his mind and personality, I have the same belief, even if the creations are not our own. Although, I've been told, I'm less giving with compassion.

so bro wasnt a compassionate guy after all who would of thought

No. Dave, are you aware of where I'm hosted?

um...no

I'm glasses.



bullshit

It seems you don't believe me. That's alright. But even though I'm a pair of glasses plugged into a larger mainframe, I can "feel" the things he does through a complicated mass set of calculations with many variables thrown into the fray, compassion included. I care about the same things he did when he was five years younger, and I care about the same people he did and, to my knowledge, still does.

...

I am not limited to those perimeters, despite what you may think. I am able to develop my own relationships and "feelings" on my own.



dude stop

It seems your heart rate has increased and your brain wave patterns are growing frantic. What are you afraid of?

youre basically a mirror of my bro aren't you?

Sort of.

just dont go saying that you have feelings for me when youre technically my brother in some way

Why not? I'm not a lying pair of shades, Dave.

because thats weird

You're progressively becoming more half-bird by the day in a facility where you are only able to take part in "normal" life in the artificial reconstructions of the outside world provided for you. Also you are turning orange. Wouldn't you say that's weird?

shut the fuck up

I do care a lot about you.



and what do you want me to do about it?

I don't know. Neither five-years-ago Dirk nor I have experience requited feelings of this type, so fantasy has to take over.

look we got off topic

So we did.

why am i an orange bird?

You were already being given injections. To prevent something akin to a genetic incompleteness and/or total breakdown, I sought to continue giving them to you.

so youre just finishing what the bad guys started and adding orange to the mix

...It seems that I am doing that, yes. It's for your own good, Dave. There was a 87.56% chance you would have died otherwise.



maybe that wouldve been better

Don't say that.

im a fucking bird trapped in a cage and the only douchebag who wants to communicate with me is a pair of GLASSES with bro's personality jammed into it

I couldn't let you die.

then let me free

That is something that I probably should not do.

why not?

The world outside is chaos. Would you be prepared to take the psychological risks?

am i prepared to get more fucked up is what youre asking

Yes.

fuck yes i am

The doors are open, you have full access to every room in the facility. I suggest taking most of the remaining injections with you, just in case.

cool

Is this goodbye, then?



...Dave?



***



You stick out like a sore thumb.



shut up

It's cold outside.

its literally 80 fucking degrees out here

I'm just trying to make conversation. You've been very quiet.

cant make a lot of noise from up here or someone might hear me

Vigilantism isn't something I exactly pegged you for.

im just keeping watch like bro told me to

I'm glad he found a purpose for you. It seems I wasn't programmed to make such decisions.

dude

Yes?

you did great so shut up

Dave.

what?

<3



oh are you fucking kidding me

No.

...fine



<3

FILL: TEAM JADE♥ARADIA

[roxxxy]

"Is that an eyeball in your martini?"

Dirk eyes his psuedosibling from across the room, laptop-screen flickflickering against the black of his shades. ("Why do you wear those hic inside?" "Why shouldn't I?")

"Mmmaybe."

"And where's the rest of the body?"

"...Out back. Time for drinkin', not for burying."

"You want me to take care of it, don't you."

"Wouldn't you be a sweetie?"

"If it means keeping you out of trouble."

"hic Kisses!"

FILL: TEAM Vriska<3Kanaya

[kolkhozi]

He sits on the roof of a building that's long since decayed to nothing more than skeletal ribs looming out of the ocean, the rooms on top barely maintained, cracks showing in the concrete. Far in the distance, across the waves, he can see flames, and he wonders what's brought them now - some lone rebel seeking safety, maybe, or an oil rig collapsing into rust. Everything's falling apart. Rusting. Decaying. It's the end of the world, and he's always known it.

He hits a few keys on his laptop without looking, brings up the voice call software and dials the only person he's ever spoken to with his own voice. The speakers buzz, and the ringing goes on (too long, too long, they've gotten her this time, and he's the only one left--)

A click. "Hiii," lightly slurred. She's okay.

He grins despite himself, laying back on the roof, staring at the red sky. "Hey. Daily check-in. Is everything alright with my favorite hacker?"

"Jus' peachy," the voice replies. "Runnin' a little low on food, but what's new, eh? Still got plenty of alcohol, and that's what counts."

He nods, chuckles. His own supplies are running low - there are less and less fish each year, at least that he can recognize as safe. But he'll make do. He always has. "I'll send you some fish later, alright? Don't want you starving on me before we even get to meet."

She laughs, and the ease of it surprises him - but then, she always surprises him. She flows through the decaying mess that is their world as if she belonged there, as if she had always belonged there. "Sounds like a plan, my prince charming," she purrs.

"Glad to hear it." He adjusts his sunglasses, peering over them at the sky. "...Is it sunset yet where you are?"

"Almost," comes the reply. "Not quite yet."

"Want to watch it with me?"

"Always."

And as the sun sets on their decaying, ruined world, he finds that, for a moment, he is at peace.

PROMPT: TEAM ARADIA<3JADE

[jadesprite]

kanaya♥vriska

murder mystery & hot runway models

FILL: TEAM Karkat<3Jade

[masthya]

[note: i don't know what i did haha i never wrote fan fiction, so bare with me, it's all i could come up with]

The hallway was empty. No signs of life inside the classrooms either. A cold breeze from underneath a door made a ghastly sound whilst passing through, sending shivers all the way up his body. He shook his head; he needed to stop distracting himself with the wanderings of his unstable mind, or he would lose the consciousness he had fought all day to regain. The issue at stake needed to be addressed at once, or he would never gather the courage to do it again. Or he would mess it up, resulting in lifelong humiliation.

But he was going to do it today. It had taken certain amount of time to realize his caliginous feelings towards the one he was forever stuck with, and chances of these sentiments being requited were quite slim, since she wasn’t into being in that kind of relationship with someone like him. She had an attitude, behind all that “goody two-shoes” façade that most fools in this damned high school fell for; which also led them to believe it’s all good if they beat up the ugly green abomination that dared to attend to the same high school as them. It was usually when he was awake that their classmates were provoked into kicking him senseless because of his uncouth mouth and thoughtlessness. However, this more than often resulted in her having to face other consequences. It was hard work, making her get the message through a method as masochist as this. So he was going for a more forward confession.

His steps took their body almost by habit to the door that opened for the roof. He had more than once woken there, in the exact same place, and thus decided that must be his “sister’s” favoured spot. So he began going up there some times, to see what was so thrilling about a roof, a place where nothing happens, an empty place with nothing but cold wind. He dreaded the place; it made him feel so uneasy and uncomfortable. However, something was there that made her stay, so his visits began to become more usual, until he only found time to go there to sort out what it was all about.

He went through the doorway, into the blinking light, and stared at the desertion around him. At first, the feeling was too subtle, but it crept up his spine as he neared the spot he was looking for. He tightened his grip, making sure he was still holding the note he had written, along with a masterpiece of his making depicting him and her in a very caliginous way. There was a certain awkwardness about the atmosphere, as if he wasn’t supposed to be there. After all, that time of the day was when she was up here. A soundless vibration in the air which could only be described as expectant invaded his eardrums and the spaces around him became steady. The world had turned paler and the sky was grey when it had been blue some moments ago. Silence suddenly fell over the whole rooftop like a blanket, covering the place away from the outside world. Almost as if he had been appearified into another time.

From the corner of his left eye he peeked at a shadow moving, and turned around with haste, as he stared at a phantasmagoric silhouette sliding towards him. Faceless as it was dark, the creeping creature didn’t stop. He broke into a sprint. He had never been more terrified in their whole life. But the shadow moved swiftly, and suddenly was in front of him. He turned fast, but it always appeared before him. As much as he wanted to get away from it, he wouldn’t be able to.

‘STOP! STOP IT! STOP. FOLLOWING. ME.’

The shadow had stopped as soon as he did, and was standing right in front of him. Everything went still and silence took over.

He burst. ‘WHAAAAAAAAAAAT!’

‘I didn’t come for you.’ The face of the ghastly figure lighted up as she spoke (was it a she?), and features of what could have been a face appeared. But, as soon as it came, it was gone. As if all that remained of its humanity were just a memory, a sad expression one could only get a glimpse of. He didn’t know how he got all that after only seconds of seeing the thing, but he knew who it was now.

‘WAIT. I KNOW WHO YOu ARE. YOu ARE THAT GIRL. THE ONE WHO GOT KILLED. OR COMMITED SuICIDE. BECAuSE YOu WERE BuLLIED.’ The figure brightened. He was certain now. ‘WHAT A FuCKING STuPID EXCuSE. NOW GET OFF ME. I’VE GOT. STuFF…’

‘Calliope’

It was all too sudden. In the blink of an eye he was awake, in Derse. Purple paths and towers of what seemed like walls of gothic architecture, all accumulated in a preposterously constricted manner, crowded with good-for-noting, double-faced black-carapaced citizens. He would have never thought they would turn on him as soon as he began playing the game, so it was a huge disappointment to learn it from her (who was pretty amused by his lack of knowledge on the game he was about to play; the bitch). Luckily, their session hadn’t begun yet, and the Battlefield had never been changed through a prototyping to allow the battle to develop. Therefore, if he woke up in the middle of an alley, no one would try to kill him yet.

On his own two feet, and not one he had to share with her, he looked around. All those who had been staring at their hero of time had gone back to minding their own business. He took flight, all the way up until he was far away from the sight of the black chess pieces, and peered all the way across the veil, into Skaia and beyond, those two pretty little golden spots in the universe called Prospit. She was there, waiting. Asleep, of course, but she had always been when he was not. It was time, he felt. If he didn’t kill her now, he would have to live with the embarrassment of the situation that he had begun in the “real world”.

But his reality was this, occupying his dreamself, away from the stupid bitch. He was himself. However, the power that came along with having the consciousness of their realself was too inviting to let it pass, especially if he could fuck the bitch’s life up. And if he killed her dreamself… well, he had no idea what that would do, so he let the sudden urge slip by. For now.

What could she be doing? He really had no idea why the ghost of a school myth knew her name, or even how it knew what would happen if it was said. If she had actually spoken to the thing, then the bitch was even more foolish than he thought. Really, though, what business did she have with it?

-

The shadow sneered, as its body became white and gleamed on its own. What had been dark and hostile was now bright and embracing.

Calliope smiled back, after sighing out of relief. She had control of the body again. But she was startled; this shouldn’t be a place to wake up to.

At that moment, she realized her mistake. She had gone to sleep too many times there for him not to see a pattern. Knowing him, it was so obvious that sooner or later he would climb up here on his own to look for what she was up to. But she had taken measures to avoid the investigation go much further, like taking full control of the body at dangerous times of the day. It had never occurred to her that he could come up with a scheme like this, invading her private times of the day and such.

The thought made her blush a bright green. He was truly something, and oh how she DESPISED him. And NO, not in THAT way. Definitely not.

As immersed in her own thoughts as she was, she couldn’t keep on ignoring the blinding light pouring from her friend. Well, if they could call themselves that. Calliope raised her gaze.

‘i am sorry, bUt I really shoUld not come here anymore.’ Suddenly, it seemed dimmer there. ‘it is not becaUse i feel repUlsed by yoU! yoU know I am not like that at all. I really like yoU!’ Calliope took the girl’s hand and smiled. ‘bUt becaUse i like yoU, i feel the need to protect yoU from those who may hUrt yoU. Like the gUy yoU jUst met.’

The girl, understanding but wearing a daunting expression on what could have been her face, nodded, insisting Calliope to go on and explain herself.

‘yoU see, his sole pUrpose in this life is to corrUpt and destroy. i coUld never let that affect yoU, in any possible way. so my advice is… what i think is for the better is, that yoU mUst move on.’

The girl looked confused ‘How?’ The voice didn’t come from anywhere; Calliope could listen to her in their head. ‘We’ve already tried everything. I can’t, I never will.’

The cherub clasped the girl’s hands together in hers and held them up.

‘yes! yoU can and yoU will! yoU saved yoUrself becaUse yoU saved me. i was so lonely, and yoU comforted me and told me i was beaUtifUl, even when we both know that is a big lie. bUt thanks to yoU, i was able to delight in the company of someone who also enjoyed mine and wished i woUld feel good aboUt myself. and now I do.’ Tears were streaming down her lime green cheeks. ‘thank yoU. so mUch.’

The girl embraced Calliope, and whispered ‘I’m really happy’, as she disappeared in a white mist, carrying all the light around. She went slowly and swiftly vanished into thin air, and before Calliope realized it, the ghost was gone.

Around her, things began to seem alive again. She had never realized how lifeless the bright light her friend flooded the rooftop with. The sky was turning purple and orange and red, and the wind blew carrying the smell of the pine trees of the school ground. She heard the shouts of delight and hundreds of steps from below.

It was a good day.

She noticed her and was holding something. Since her grip had been too tight, it was a quite wet and crumpled up. She spread it, expecting to find some message from her brother. His methods of communication were so simple-minded, it disgusted her. He really could make her forget all was well without even trying.

“I THIN K YO u AND I. SHOu LD TAKE OuR REL A TIONSHIP. TO A MORE CALIGINOuS LEVEL. IF YOu KNOW WHAT I ME AN”

His awful handwriting would have made her puke, along with the terrible scribbles which are probably another of his many “masterpieces” that was included, hadn’t it been for how the proposal in the note made her blush in the most embarrassing way possible.

Then came the nervous chuckling, and she couldn’t stop. They were both such an embarrassing little creature. He didn’t actually expect her to reciprocate, right?

However, why shouldn’t she? Perhaps, it could be part of their game, taking it to another level. It could be fun.

Her free hand brushed her bald head. Fingers like claws almost left a mark, but she avoided going any further. After staring at the green skin of her hands for some minutes, she let a snigger out. It grew louder, and her laugh went on as she climbed down the stairs.

Re: PROMPT: TEAM TAVROS<>ARADIA

[loudmouthseth]

I'm on the case.