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 Kanaya<3Vriska

[aristh]

Rose<3<Vriska alternate history/comedy of manners

PROMPT: TEAM Kanaya<3Vriska

[aristh]

Dave<3Rose family saga + mecha anime

[veebox]

jalskdjflaksjdfal WELL GOSH I'M GLAD YOU LIKE IT ;u;

always a pleasure <3

[veebox]

you're very welcome!!! i'm glad you like it! .u.

Re: FILL: TEAM DAVE <3 ROSE <3 TEREZI

[makingtriangles]

Yes!! Thank you so much!

It makes you wonder if Dave is used to this or not...

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

[chronologicalimplosion]

Squee! It's a boat, and... just... they're so cute. I've just been pondering these two in my head for days, and I'm really happy to have someone write it!

Thank you so much. :D

Re: FILL: TEAM [DAVE<3TEREZI]

[makingtriangles]

This is great! Really cool plot~ I would totally read a full-length fic of this.

Thanks so much for the fill!!

Re: FILL: TEAM DOLOROSA<3MINDFANG

[makingtriangles]

Hahaha yes! Thank you so much!

FILL: TEAM [Dave<3Jade]

[harpseal10]

Cat!Rose is already a magical girl, but Cat!Kanaya isn't yet...
(hope you like it! UuU)

Re: FILL: TEAM DIRK<3ROXY

[outcastermine]

OH WOW
that was wonderful! ;__;
thank you!

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

[sadisticbutsweet]

You're totally welcome! I'm usually so iffy about writing the Ancestors but oooh I loved this prompt and the idea that popped into my head. <3 I'm so happy you liked it! :D

PROMPT: TEAM [YOUR SHIP]

[krysta]

John <3 Vriska apocalypse + steampunk

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

[kephra]

Haha awesome. Thanks =D

Re: PROMPT: TEAM EQUIUS<3KARKAT

[uki_la_maid]

OH GOD IF ONLY I WASN'T ON THE TEAM FOR THIS SHIP, I WOULD FILL THIS PROMPT WITH THE STRENGTH OF A THOUSAND SUNS.

FILL: TEAM DAD<3JOHN

[danidoom]

Here is a little poetry reading by Calliope, to her brother.

Hope you like it!

Re: FILL: TEAM BRO<3DAVE

[blackestdaekfire]

Oh~ This is so awesome. Ah, thankoos~

FILL: TEAM DAVE<3TEREZI

[outcastermine]

What happens when the defendant of one of the most high-profile murder cases in history is innocent?
What happens when no one will believe it?
What happens when he falls in love with his lawyer?


tried to go more 70's punk with this.
wonderful prompt!

Re: FILL: TEAM Nepeta<3Terezi

[misanthropic_panda]

cries

screams

does a bunch of other stuff because i will love this fic forever

Prompt: Team [Dave<3Aradia]

[blackestdaekfire]

Nepeta<>Feferi Sleepovers and ghost stories

PROMPT: TEAM BRO<3GRANDPA

[macca44552]

Hearts Boxcars <3 Serenity

Forbidden love, comedy

PROMPT: TEAM DAVE<3TEREZI

[outcastermine]

Equius<>Nepeta
circus + road trip

Re: PROMPT: TEAM DAVE♥JAKE

[querulousartisan]

Pllleeeeeaaaassse someone fill this. I will love you forever.

FILL: TEAM PARCELPYXIS

[veebox]

good prompt, really fun-to-do fill, hope you like!

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It hadn't always been like this. He still remembers the beginning of April 13, 1996, a day filled with cakes and strifes and talking to his friends about some game he can't remember the name of, now. His house was littered with stupid clowns and cakes, his Pesterchum application blowing up with messages, and everything was normal, even if frustrating. He was Nic Cage-adoring, awful-at-programming John Egbert, prankster extraordinaire and destined for nothing in particular except to play a rad game that he'd been all too anxiously waiting for.

Then everything went red, his home became a tri-pointed castle above a sea that was never there before, and no one except him noticed the change. The portrait of his Nanna transformed into the previous Heiress of the Betty Crocker company, bathed in red, the frame made of two red spoons and forks, a homage to her career and strife specibus. John had been swarmed with information of a secondary 13 years past, and it took him years to sort it all out. His friends had still been congratulating him on another year of life, but with a solemn tone he hadn't understood at the time. He was, then, just one year closer to ascending from mere heir to owner of the company that ruled the world, all controlled by an alien tyrant John had and yet had absolutely no recollection of.

His distaste toward the Batterwitch became founded, finally, and quickly morphed into blind hatred. He'd locked himself up, gathered his friends into a memo--when did that option get there?--and began to plot the downfall of the alien sea version of Hitler. He's plotted and acted with them ever since. And while his friends understand his plight against her, they don't believe his tales of what the world used to be like, what they were supposed to be doing instead. Rose has her novels, Dave his short independent films, and Jade her brutal, physical form of rebellion, but they look upon him as a delusional boy wrought with unfounded idealism of a past that never was, a universe that they were never a part of. Nevertheless, he is their friend, and that much didn't change. Thank god.

Today is April 13, 2001. He is 18 years old and ready to be evaluated to take over the company, as he is still the heir despite his strong, vocalized desire to abdicate himself. He's to be summoned to the Batterwitch's ship, and it will be his first time ever meeting her. He's seen her picture, shrouded by the monstrous oceans of her hair, and he's not sure he's ready for this. He stands on the roof, looking up as alien drones descend to escort him. He's left goodbye messages to his friends and his father just in case this meeting ends in his culling, which, taking into account his very public negativity toward the Betty Crocker company, is a very real possibility. But if he can go down fighting, do something against her, he can welcome death as the next step to liberation.

Her ship is as red and cruel as he imagined. It's made like a shell on the inside, with sections of walls and spikes that seem almost biological. He instinctively summons his strife specibus, and no one does a thing about it. He's surprised; surely she would have expected this, wouldn't she, and have taken precautions? But minutes that feel like hours of walking further into the belly of the devil, he realizes she likely wouldn't care. She's some all-powerful alien who took over the entirety of Earth with little exertion. He's no match for her, weapons are allowed. It's a terrifying realization and he feels his breath catch when he reaches her throne room.

It's as deep red and cold as his nightmares. She sits in her throne, her hair taking up ten times more space than her lithe body, and her horns stand a good small child's height or so atop her head. Her skin is gray, and magenta stripes along her body suit accentuate her startling femininity. He bites his lower lip; it's a habit he hasn't found himself doing in years. He's nervous, and she is so calm, collected, powerful and in charge, and behind her painted pink lips are a set of teeth he does not want to mess with.

"My my, so you're the little heir, are you?"

John stiffens; she is beautiful and exudes so much danger that his senses go haywire. He mustn't panic, though, he mustn't. He clutches tighter to his hammer, dramatically named Judgement Day, and he realizes this is exactly what she wanted. Without lifting a finger, she's frozen him to his spot in fear and rage.

She grins wide, and rests her chin delicately in her hand. "You hate me, don't you?"

Don't let your enmity get the best of you, John.

be careful john!!! D:

for the love of god if you die i am going to kill you egbert

John relaxes, lets the handle of Judgement Day soothe into the palm of his sweaty hand.

"More than anything," he tells her, eyes meeting hers without waver, without fear, with honest to god hate.

[veira]

Hahahaha, oh wow this is excellent. Thank you! I would read the heck out of that fic.

PROMPT: TEAM PARCELPYXIS

[veebox]

Kanaya <3< Vriska, Romcom+Spy