hs_olympics | BONUS ROUND 1

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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!

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Ahhh, this is lovely! Thank you so much for taking the time to fill my prompt! Wayward Vagabond is such a cutie, and you really fleshed it out nicely. Thanks so much! 8D

Derse Sollux <3 Rose <3< Prospit Sollux, evil twin + magical pregnancy

I'm having a lot of fun with this list of fanfiction tropes :B

Edited 2012-06-12 03:43 (UTC)

OH MY GOD

I'M CRYING

THIS IS BRILLIANT, OH MY GOD

The rules were quite strict regarding these sorts of matters. The two of them knew this. He had some form of protection about him - the princess was quite fond of him, more so than the other royal sorcerers. Aradia, however, had no such guarantee that this tale would not end in disaster for her.

She had a connection to the ether that went unrivaled - even the man she was supposed to be guarding could not hope to face her in etheric combat. However, such a connection had a price. To be close to the ether is to be close to one's grave, her mother always said. Even if she had decided to eschew the ether in favor of physical combat, the fact remained that she was doomed to die young.

And if it was discovered that a wizard and his partner had fallen for each other - well, she had no doubt of her fate, where it to be revealed.

It was all a matter of logic, after all. The wizards were raised from birth to channel the ether - they had had their marital partners arranged as infants, as to maximize their offspring's etheric potential. A wizard's bodyguard was often one of the nobles - those who had no etheric powers (well, mostly) but had strength unparalleled. And if they were to fall in love...

Well, the queen simply wouldn't allow it.

The guards knew this well, but did not fear retribution as much as the wizards. After all, wizard infants from outside the queen's reach were discovered quite frequently. A noble could not be so easily replaced.

But her case was special. If the queen were to discover their romance, there would be no doubt that her end would be swift and painful.

And yet, after another day of hard work protecting her partner from whatever forces would try and prevent him from protecting the kingdom, when the two of them are collapsed in the resting chamber while another pair takes their rounds, when they don't have any company save for the winds and the candles lighting up the room, when she's cleaning up his bumps and scrapes while ignoring her own, sparking another one of his fits of self loathing; when she takes his hand and reminds him that she is supposed to protect him, and that he needn't feel guilty; when he groans for the thousandth time that her taking care of others rather than herself will get her killed one day...

Those moments are what makes it all worth it.

Kanaya<3<Tavros, absurdism + medical drama

Oh golly - thanks so much! :'D

It was my absolute pleasure! I'm glad you liked it <3

Eeee, thank you! :D

I can't deal with how perfect this is, dear god this is the most fucking perfect...

Nationalist propaganda + found poetry:

Doc Scratch <3 Ms. Paint

Aaah this prompt! I must write it! Bookmarking.

uu<3<UU Military + Mecha

horrified by the implications yes absolutely but oh my god so good

oh my god, so good

context is amazing

Rose<3Kanaya

Children's Show + Horror

Consider it done.

Bro<3John Samurai + Space Opera

hehe hi Al! <3 hope you don't mind limeblood Karkat!

dont wworry kar i wwont bite you
not here in the open anywway

Middle Eastern History + Pirates, Eridan <> Kanaya

Posting before I read the other fills because I'm sure I've been outdone. -.-

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The steady patter of half a dozen footsteps behind her was getting steadily closer, and no matter how she tried, she couldn't run any faster. It was as though her limbs were weighted with lead, heavy and tired and groaning with every movement of muscle.
She wanted to rest, to collapse, to give up.

Blood leaked down her side, trailing from her dress skirt and splattering on the dirty concrete behind her. It left a clear trail. Even if she did manage to get away, it would be easy for them to track her down again. A wound like that would be barely a scratch to a vampire at most times, but now, when she was already so low on blood, it only made her weaker. It made her unable to reach her heightened speed, which could easily outpace the humans in pursuit, or even her greater strength, which could give her an edge if she turned and attempted to fight. The fact was, she was hopeless. An injured wolf, barely able to fight back, that limped through this steel forest until the hunters finally caught her and put her down.

It's your own fault, Lalonde, she hissed in her mind, acid in every word. You've waited too long to feed, and the hunters know that. They struck when you were weak, and you have no one to blame but yourself. She bit her lip, her fangs drawing more blood that she couldn't afford to lose. However she had dreamed she might finally die, it certainly wasn't hunted down like an animal.

So deep in her thoughts and with her ears focused on the footsteps, Rose Lalonde did not see the human woman before her until they collided—or rather, Rose struck something all too solid and simply bounced off. She stumbled, easily losing her footing in her weakened state, and fell onto the pavement. She tried to rise, but she was far too slow. The vampire hunters were already rounding the last corner. She heard a shout and knew it was too late. When she looked up, one of the hunters was already lifting a gun, its barrel trained on her. She recognized it—the bullets it shot were condensed sunlight, designed to kill a vampire in one shot, no matter where it hit. She tried again, weakly, to climb to her feet.

Someone spoke, but it was drowned out by the gunshot. The bullet itself never met her. She heard it ricochet, and when she looked up, she saw a gently glowing barrier between her and the hunters. The hunters themselves seemed to have turned their eyes away from Rose and to the woman Rose had run into.

"Stay out of the way, witch! Or don't you recognize the monster for what it is?" One of the hunters snarled. From the ground, Rose could only see part of the woman, but she could plainly see the green, tattered dress, the long black hair, and the rifle across the woman's back. She could also see the glow around the woman's hand, bright green shot through with black and flecks of white.

"I know she's a vampire, if that's what you mean!" The woman (or witch, Rose supposed) replied, perhaps a little too happily.

"You're human, too!" Another of the hunters yelled. "You know what they did, and you know they deserved to be killed!" Rose cringed at that. It was common knowledge that the vampires actively hunted humans and had killed millions. Only a few cities and a smattering of nomadic groups remained, but, of course, the vampires couldn't live without them. That was why Rose had been forced to come to this half-destroyed city. Never mind that she had only recently become a vampire herself and that it wasn't a choice of her own. The humans believed she deserved to be killed, and, not too long ago, she would have agreed with them. Now, though, she didn't particularly want to die.

"And you don't know much about vampires!" The witch replied. She turned and crouched over Rose, offering her a hand. She passed through the barrier around Rose with ease. From this position, Rose got a much better look at her would-be savior. The woman was younger than Rose had originally thought, perhaps only eighteen, with vibrant green eyes behind a pair of round glasses.

"Need a hand?" The witch asked. Rose accepted it and let her pull her up. Both Rose and the witch turned when the hunters rushed forward.

"You idiot! She'll kill you!" The witch raised a hand, and the hunters were surrounded by a pale green glow. They stopped in their tracks, obviously unable to move.

"You're kind of annoying, aren't you?" The witch said, a touch of irritation in her otherwise cheery voice.

"They're right, you know." For a moment, Rose hadn't even realized she'd spoken, until the witch turned to her with a perplexed expression. "There was nothing keeping me from killing you," Rose went on.

"Oh! It's alright," the witch replied. "You wouldn't have been able to touch me if you tried! Not in your weakened state. But to be honest, you look kind of new." She smiled brightly. "It's always the new ones that the hunters catch! And they're usually more confused than dangerous. My name is Jade, by the way! Nice to meet you!" The witch practically beamed, leaving Rose flabbergasted. She'd been able to gather so much about Rose from very little. She might not look it, but the tattered young witch had been in complete control of the situation.

"Rose," the young vampire replied after a moment of hesitation. "You know quite a bit about vampires for a witch, Miss Jade."

"No 'Miss'! Just Jade!" The other woman replied brightly. "And, well, you pick up things here and there, you know! Anyway, want to come over for a drink?" Jade jerked a thumb towards an array of buildings behind her that seemed to be mostly still in one piece. "I keep some of my own blood in bottles on hand for special spells and potions, but I always make sure to keep extra! Just in case, you know!" She glanced down and noticed Rose's injury. "We'll get you patched up, too." Rose couldn't help but smile wanly.

"I don't believe I'm in a position to say no," she admitted. "But why would you take pity on a young vampire?"

"Oh, I've got a few vampire friends," Jade replied. "I know you're not all bad! And who's to say you might not help me out in return? Either way, I just like helping people!" Rose shook her head slightly, but the genuine way that the witch spoke (and, perhaps, her own weakness and thirst) won her over.

"I can't argue with that," she said. "Please, lead the way."

"My pleasure!" Jade offered Rose her arm, and she took it rather weakly. They had only taken a few steps when Jade started.

"Oh!" She said, turning back. "I almost forgot!" She waved a hand, and the hunters fell to the ground in a heap, groaning as they climbed back to their feet. Obviously, immobility hadn't been very comfortable.

"Don't blame them," Jade said to Rose. "They're really pretty nice! They do their best to keep us safe from the really nasty vampires. They're just a little over-zealous is all!"

"I'll take your word for it," Rose replied, turning her back on them and trusting that Jade's shields would keep them safe if the hunters decided to retaliate again. "You mentioned blood?"

"Oh, right! Just this way! Oh, and don't mind Bec. He's a little wary about visitors, especially non-human ones, but he'll warm up to you pretty quick!"

---

And then Rose listened to Jade chatter about being a witch while she drank blood from a fancy teacup and patted Bec on the head.

Edited (stupid stupid dumb) 2012-06-12 04:12 (UTC)

bahahaha good prompt

Egyptian Mythology + College AU, Aradia <3 Equius

and big, should you care for it: http://i.imgur.com/ydxdy.jpg

http://i46.tinypic.com/11gnjwz.png

I really liked this prompt, and I hope you like this. UwU

This was wonderful, and I loved it. ;A;

I know, I hadn't considered it either, but I stopped to look at the prompt and... just kinda stared at it for a minute. And then something turned over and I had to at least try to write it.

I'm really glad you liked it. :D

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BONUS ROUND 1

Bonus Round 1

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

PROMPT: TEAM SOLLUX<3TEREZI

Re: FILL: TEAM JADE<3KARKAT

FILL: TEAM JADE<3KANAYA<3ROSE

PROMPT: TEAM SOLLUX<3TEREZI

Re: FILL: TEAM DAVE<3TEREZI

Re: FILL: TEAM DAVE<3TEREZI

Re: FILL: TEAM DAVE<3TEREZI

Re: FILL: TEAM KARKAT<3KARKAT

PROMPT: TEAM Kernelsprite

Re: PROMPT: TEAM SOLLUX<3TEREZI

PROMPT: TEAM BRO<3DAD

Re: FILL: TEAM PARCELPYXIS

PROMPT: TEAM DOLOROSA<3MINDFANG

Re: PROMPT: TEAM Aradia<>Dave

PROMPT: TEAM BRO<3DAD

FILL: TEAM ERIDAN<>ROSE

PROMPT: TEAM Aradia<>Dave

FILL: TEAM KANAYA<>KARKAT

FILL: TEAM [Aradia <3 Sollux]

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FILL: TEAM VRISKA<3TEREZI

FILL: TEAM Aradia<3Jade

Re: FILL: TEAM ERIDAN<3<VRISKA

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