hs_olympics | 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!

Threaded | Top-Level Comments Only

Thank you! :D

Cheers!

Jade<3Vriska, Fighting + Slice of Life.

Edited 2012-06-12 07:31 (UTC)

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

Jane<>Kanaya, paranormal romance + maid cafe

Feferi<3/whatever Jane
Cooking book/Nonsense?

Darkleer<3<Dualscar, school club + tournament

: D Thank you!

Sollux<>Eridan, vampires + western

Aw, thanks, I'm glad you liked it!

Oh thank you, I'm really happy you liked it!

Thank you so much!

sufferer<3disciple
Highschool AU/Death for illness(hope this can be considered a prompt)

Thank you!

Feferi<>Condesce, epistolary + comedy of manners

Dirk<3Gamzee, nonlinear narrative + erotic romance

Nepeta<3Eridan
Romcom/Zombies

Karkat<>/<3<Karkat, epistolary + body horror

Feferi<3Karkat, courtly love + conspiracy

UU/<3</uu Poetry/romance

Eridan<3<sollux Genderswap/Dying earth *edit because of sweet, sweet typos

Edited 2012-06-13 17:46 (UTC)

Dirk<3<uu, barista au + marquis de sade parody

Autobiography + paranoid fiction, Dolorosa♥Mindfang.
(it's not paranoia when ~~they really are out to get you~~ your owner really is implanting thoughts in your brain!)

aranea<3meenah
Grease (the musical)/ romance

She died protecting him from culling drones. The most loyal assistant he had ever had, and a combatant better than anyone he had ever met - he would be dead twice over if it wasn’t for her. And she had been felled by one lucky shot. The cryogenics facilities they had been working on together needed to be completed quicker than he had ever anticipated, but a few drops of mind honey in his coffee took care of that. From there, it was a simple matter of learning how to raise the dead.

It went slowly at first, of course; breakthroughs always do. He had the expertise of Drs. Harley, Vantas, and Lalonde (Sr.) to draw on, but he outstripped even the knowledge of the brightest minds in the field of reanimation within a month. They simply didn’t have the drive he did, or the vast stores of mind honey, either - when Nepeta was helping him, he didn’t need its jolts of energy, and his stockpiles bloated; now, he needed a dose to even get up in the evening. He needed all the help he could get. It’d be all right again once she was alive. It had to be.

He ran the tests of his first serum on culled grubs. When they awoke screaming and died in moments, leaking blood from every orifice, he tried again with a tweaked serum, and again, and again, until he had run out of the grubs that were supplied him from his grant. He began to visit the breeding caverns so he could barter with the jadebloods that guarded them, receiving more corpses in return for whatever scraps of his research were useful to them. Soon even those weren’t enough. He slipped by the guardians and ambushed fresh crops of grubs during their trials; no one was the wiser, and he eliminated the additional variable of accidental death. He saw no downside.

Sleeping in his recuperacoon, so far away from the freezer where she languished, became harder and harder each day. He began instead to curl outside the heavy metal door that separated them, and he eased the nightmares he was plagued with by taking small doses of sopor slime. Of course he had heard of the dangers of ingesting the slime, but surely small amounts wouldn’t hurt. And anyway, he needed it. He needed all the help he could get.

His breakthroughs came faster with her closeness; sometimes the grubs would survive for hours at a time, squirming around the lab table and nibbling on his fingers, even happily eating the pellets of food he gave them. He liked the greenbloods especially; the sounds they made when he rubbed their abdomens soothed him as well as it soothed their passage back into death.

His research hit a plateau nearly a sweep in. Every night he made no breakthrough, he needed more sopor slime to sleep, and the more sopor slime he took to sleep the more mind honey he needed in the morning. His hands were beginning to shake, his head to ache, his thoughts to wander so far he couldn’t bring them back. Sometimes he would sit a whole evening unable to make any sense of the notes he had taken the night before. He had to do something before he deteriorated even further without her.

His serum wouldn’t get any better as long as he was slipping, and the longer he went the less effective it was. He couldn’t afford failure. He couldn’t take failure. So, one night when his head was clear enough to think, he took her body from the freezer and laid her on the table.

She was as beautiful as he remembered - even more so in death, her lips the green of fresh-sprouted grass. The chest wound that killed her had been sewn up by the expert hand of Dr. Harley; he barely noticed it was there until his fingers brushed the stitches. He bent and kissed her cold forehead, remembering how she would do the same for him when he was in one of his moods. Her hand was limp in his, but he knew deep inside that soon he would feel it tighten again, full of strength and vitality and love.

He flicked the hypodermic, sending bubbles to the top of the sickly-green solution within. He squeezed the plunger; a single bead of fluid glistened on the needle, and he wiped it on his coat. He put the needle to her vein and looked at her still face one last time; when he slipped it in and pressed the plunger, he waited for the first breath of her new life to come.

It didn’t.

She lay there as still and as silent as the grave, and as cold as loneliness.

Edited 2012-06-12 07:53 (UTC)

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BONUS ROUND 1

Bonus Round 1

Re: FILL: TEAM GAMZEE<>KARKAT

no subject

PROMPT: TEAM JOHN<3KARKAT

Re: FILL: TEAM JOHN<3DAVESPRITE

PROMPT: TEAM SOLLUX<3TEREZI

PROMPT: TEAM ARADIA<3FEFERI

PROMPT: TEAM SOLLUX<3TEREZI

no subject

PROMPT: TEAM SOLLUX<3TEREZI

Re: FILL: TEAM KANAYA<3VRISKA

Re: FILL: TEAM KANAYA<3VRISKA

Re: FILL: TEAM KANAYA<3VRISKA

PROMPT: TEAM ARADIA<3FEFERI

Re: FILL: TEAM KANAYA<3VRISKA

PROMPT: TEAM SOLLUX<3TEREZI

PROMPT: TEAM BRO<3GRANDPA

PROMPT: TEAM ARADIA<3FEFERI

PROMPT: TEAM SOLLUX<3TEREZI

PROMPT: TEAM SOLLUX<3TEREZI

PROMPT: TEAM ARADIA<3FEFERI

PROMPT: TEAM ARADIA<3FEFERI

PROMPT: TEAM SOLLUX<3TEREZI

PROMPT: TEAM ALPHA!DAVE<3ALPHA!ROSE

PROMPT: TEAM ARADIA<3FEFERI

FILL: TEAM ROSE<3ROXY