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 ERIDAN<3<SOLLUX

[kephra]

Sollux <3 John Mythological / Time-Travel

FILL: TEAM Eridan<>Rose

[headlessbird]

Sollux stares blankly at the dark skinned boy in front of him, sizing him up from his bare toes to his untamed hair before he meets the others blue eyes.

“So….you’re trying to tell me that you’re my boyfriend?”

The boy nods.

“From the future?”

Again, he nods.

Sollux scoffs and turns, ready to leave, when the boy shakes his head at him and continues with what he had been telling Sollux prior to the technerd putting him off: “You forgot to add that I’m a god,” he says.

Sollux stops in his path and almost laughs from glee. He’s had enough of a shitty and stressful day, he didn’t need this nutcase making a fool of him on top of it. “Oh, that too, is it? You know, this is getting absurd already. How about you sod off and stop making my day worse than it is?”

The dark haired boy laughs and takes a step closer to him, holding his hands up as if as an sign or forfeit, “I did not mean any insult. I see how you could have thought of that as one, but I only meant the best.”

“Best as in what?” Sollux crosses his arms over his chest.

“To see you before you’ve met me for the first time,” the weird boy shrugs as if he just brought up the most natural of reasons, reaching out his hand to grasp Sollux’s, as if to shake it. To his surprise though, the young man falls onto a knee and raises Sollux’s hand to his lips and stares up at him, winking as he touches his lips to the hand in his.

The whole exchange goes so quickly, that once Sollux has just clasped his hand to his chest, more surprised than offended, the young man has stood, introduced himself as “John, son of the king James. I look forward to meeting you,” turned on his heel and disappeared.

It takes Sollux a few minutes and the tingling of the back of his hand to convince himself that no, he didn’t just hallucinate that, and further proof presents itself to him when the young man he’d seen lands in front of his house in a gust of wind and doesn’t seem to recognize him, yet introduces himself as “John, son of king James. It is a pleasure to meet you, ser Captor.”

PROMPT: Team Autoresponder♥Roxy

[swagmageddon]

Feferi<3Aradia

Ghost Story/Ghost Character+High School AU?

I'd really like to see this happen, so go for it! :3

FILL: TEAM JAKE<3JANE

[primitiveradiogoddess]

Hope this doesn't disappoint!

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The gentle scribble of pencils moving across paper is all that she hears for a while, the silence in the room eating everyone up as they focus on their tests and try to sneak looks at that one smart person sitting next to them when the teacher is occupied by computer work.

Aradia fills in answers that she knows, and then pauses upon coming across one that she very well knows to be a trick question. She mulls it over, struggling to come up with an answer, before she gently taps the surface of her desk three times with her well-worn eraser.

To anyone else looking, she would have looked to have been doing such a thing out of habit and in her confusion. That is what they see.

What she's see's in the corner of her eye is the spectral image with long, messy black hair that all but englulfs her frame float over the teacher's shoulder, unnoticed and with a contemplative look on her face.

She drifts back over a moment later, and Aradia brushes her hair behind her ear as she leans close.

"It's B." The girl whispers in her ear. Of course, there is no need for such theatrics, but lord knows this sweet girl who she's come to call her best friend doesn't enjoy a bit of sneakiness. Aradia grins and fills in the answer.

She's the only one who get's the answer correct out of her entire class, she learns later with smug pleasure.

But for now, as she turns in her test and proceeds to exit the room before anyone else, the warmth of summer on her skin and the taste of freedom in her mouth.

They sit behind the school for a while, talking and laughing and joking about how teachers really shouldn't leave answer keys where ghosts can find them.

Feferi may be the spectral image of an unfortunate cheerleader who's life came to a quick, unfortunate end in a freak accident regarding a poorly placed mat and a misguided human pyramid back in the 80's, but the lips that place themselves on Aradia's own when it's time for her to go home are cold, tingly, but feel very, very real.

PROMPT: TEAM ERIDAN<3<SOLLUX

[kephra]

Karkat <3< Dave -Road Trip / Action, See how much trouble you can get these boys into >:D

Re: PROMPT: TEAM ERIDAN<3<SOLLUX

[swagmageddon]

possibly might do this one! it sounds fun. feel free to take it from me though, i might not live up to my promises >:

PROMPT: TEAM ERIDAN<3<SOLLUX

[kephra]

Equius <3 Aradia -First Kiddie Crush / Celtic (I'm excited to see Brave later this month, so I thought this would be cute!)

PROMPT: TEAM JOHN<3ROSE

[para_normally]

Eridan<3Feferi: 1950's humanstuck AU + school story.

wwhats wwith these homies dissin my girl
wwhy do they gotta front

FILL: TEAM DAVE<3JADE

[watchfob]

Come on, Eridan, I )(ave to finis)( studying!

aww youvve been studyin all night can you blame a guy for tryina givve his girl a break

We )(ave a test tomorrow! And besides, your jokes are terrible.

thats a load abalone im a comedic genius

PROMPT: TEAM ERIDAN<3<SOLLUX

[kephra]

Dave <> John <> Rose <> Jade Sentai Team / Supernatural (Vampire, Shapeshifters, etc.)

Re: PROMPT: TEAM ERIDAN<3<SOLLUX

[miltennious]

idk if i'm going to be able to properly fill this yet but WOW this prompt is fantastic. i just. needed to say that, lol.

Re: PROMPT: TEAM ERIDAN<>ROSE

[janeybriggs]

oH MY GOD PERFECT, i'm gonna to try to do a musical fill for this later :3

PROMPT: TEAM ERIDAN<3<VRISKA

[me_iz_here]

Dirk<3Jake: Post-Apocalyptic+Tragedy

FILL: TEAM JOHN<3KARKAT

[chibiedo]

Have some Jake<3Dirk sads. All of their friends are dead so obviously they are pretty down...

PROMPT: TEAM ERIDAN<3<VRISKA

[me_iz_here]

Dirk<3Terezi: Supernatural+Comedy

PROMPT: TEAM DIRK<3JAKE<3JANE<3ROXY

[thatreevesgirl]

Pairing: Dirk<3Jake
Genres: "Magical Girl" meets "Cyberpunk"

Re: PROMPT: TEAM DIRK<3JAKE<3JANE<3ROXY

[dragon_bagon]

okay gonna do this this post is my promise to you.

PROMPT: TEAM Dave<3Rose<3Terezi

[dragon_bagon]

Cooking Show + Vikings for John<3Karkat!

FILL: TEAM Dolorosa <3 Mindfang

[ilony]

PROMPT: TEAM JOHN<3ROSE

[para_normally]

Disciple<3Sufferer: Young adult fiction + metahistorical romance.

PROMPT: TEAM SOLLUX<3TEREZI

[rieduentant]

Handmaid<3Psiioniic, Southern Gothic + atompunk/raygun gothic. No, I don't know how I thought of it.

PROMPT: TEAM DIRK<3JAKE<3JANE<3ROXY

[thatreevesgirl]

Pairing: Davesprite<3Dirk
Genre: "Mystery" and "Romantic Comedy"

PROMPT: TEAM DIRK<3JAKE

[puppetprince]

Dave <3 Rose: Genderbent + Lovecraftian horror

FILL: TEAM DAVE<3ROSE<3TEREZI

[herfortythieves]

(Hope this is an acceptable rule 63!)

PROMPT: TEAM JOHN<3ROSE

[para_normally]

Meenah>{>Roxy: Rock band AU + lab lit.

PROMPT: TEAM JOHN<3ROSE

[para_normally]

Eridan>{>Vriska: Atompunk + sea story.

PROMPT: TEAM JOHN<3ROSE

[para_normally]

Terezi<3Vriska: Campus murder mystery + erotic romance.

FILL: TEAM [eridan♥feferi♥sollux]

[ladylovelycocks]

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m61tmw25uT1qilicho1_1280.png

PROMPT: TEAM DIRK<3JAKE<3JANE<3ROXY

[thatreevesgirl]

Pairing: Karkat<3Eridan<3Sollux
Genres: "Fluff" and "Horror"

PROMPT: TEAM KANAYA<>KARKAT

[draconicalgorithm]

Medieval fantasy and alien invasion for John<3Vriska

Re: PROMPT: TEAM KANAYA<>KARKAT

[dragon_bagon]

This is a great prompt and I am working on something for it!

PROMPT: TEAM JOHN<3ROSE

[para_normally]

Feferi<3Vriska: Dieselpunk + Lovecraftian horror.

PROMPT: TEAM JOHN<3ROSE

[para_normally]

Dave>{>Karkat<3Terezi<3Dave: Sword and planet + medical thriller.

FILL: TEAM KARKAT<3TEREZI

[xelfi]

It's been a while since I read the collab fic in question, but I tried to fit this into its canon from what I remember. :3

Triggers: a hypothetical noncon/gore/vore scenario as ranted by Karkat Vantas.

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If it were not for (a) your knowledge of the device's average lifespan, (b) the fact that it had tenaciously carried on long past its professionally recommended due date with the waste disposal unit, (c) how your moirail had asked you just last week if there were any spare parts that should be purchased while you were planet-side, and (d) her general lack of expertise with the finer details of technology, you'd suspect that she planned the whole thing. But, no, it was just Current You paying for Past You's idiotic short-sightedness once again.

It really made you wonder, though, how *prepared* she was for this scenario. Also, the softly playing classical music added a distinctive layer of whimsy to the atmosphere as the two of you floated in your shared living space among all her loose fabrics and miscellaneous belongings that were no longer contained in random piles on the floor thanks to your ship's busted artificial gravity system. Maybe now she'll understand why it was so important to keep everything tidy. Maybe if you talked fast enough, she'll even forget to remind you that it wouldn't have been an issue if you'd bothered to seek the services of a proper mechanic now and then.

Thankfully, malfunctioning artificial gravity by itself didn't cause any issues with life support or navigation, so the two of you were safely drifting through space on autopilot and on route to the nearest settled planet for now, but you never could tell, especially on an older ship model like yours, when something small and insignificant could slip through a crack and into some important wiring and become very significant very fast. You couldn't risk not having it fixed as soon as possible. Safety aside, it was also extremely annoying to deal with during supposedly simple tasks like eating and sleeping without clogging vital, delicate instruments with floating bits of food and sopor slime.

You were also lucky to have only been a few days away from intelligent life, but why, oh why, did it have to be the particular intelligent life with such hostile mating rituals that it made even the most pitch troll relationship seem pale in comparison? The particular intelligent life that, weirdly enough, could only procreate through male/female pairs, and nearly wiped itself out of existence before reaching their space age and banishing an entire gender to another planet while reserving a third planet as neutral territory for their typically fatal reproductive shenanigans?

At least you were heading for the designated female planet, she said. At least it wasn't the planet of deadly sensual relations, she said.

At least she was actually a woman and therefore had no need to worry about being molested and torn to pieces and fed to the next generation of terrifying cannibalistic sexual predators if they caught sight of her junk, you said, and please, couldn't she just seal you into a wall or something until the ship is repaired and you're safely a few solar systems away???

Nonsense, she said. You need to be present to help negotiate an acceptable payment and you actually understand more than a handful of the mechanical terms they would undoubtedly be using, not to mention that you have plenty of experience hiding your biological deviance in plain sight. Also, you need to stop talking for a moment so she can apply your lipstick properly.

You still think the dress is counter-productive in keeping your genitalia under wraps, a fact made painfully obvious in zero-g, and you plan on telling her that just as soon as she's done painting your face.

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My headcanon for cherub reproduction until it's inevitably jossed, btw.