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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.

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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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I can't get over how ridiculously pretty this is. All the little details...

TA: TZ
TA: hey TZ
TA: wake up and 2ay 2omething
TA: tell me you're alriight

You wake up to the smell of sweet-honey mustard and the constant sound of your prox alarm, the one that Sollux insisted on having installed so that he'd feel better about you knowing where people were. You switch it off; the sound isn't going to help you, now that you know they're there.

Better let him know that you're okay, or else he'll just keep bugging you!

GC: H3Y CMON 1M F1N3 >:-]
GC: T4K3S MOR3 TH4N 4 L1TTL3 4MBUSH TO T4K3 M3 OUT
TA: TZ
TA: you are 2o iimpo22iibly full of iit
TA: iif ii hadnt hacked that 2ec drone they'd 2tolen you'd be dead
TA: that wa2 an iincrediibly well planned ambu2h and you know iit
GC: OK4Y 4LR34DY! >:-[
GC: WH3N 1 T4K3 TH3M 1N 1 W1LL G1V3 TH3M 4LL TH3 PROPS FOR TH4T!
GC: FOR NOW 1 N33D SOM3 B4CKUP
TA: already done, do you thiink ii'm stupiid
TA: dammiit ii knew ii 2hould've come wiith you in per2on
TA: why diidn't ii get off of my 2tupid butt
GC: H3Y, NOW, NON3 OF TH4T!
TA: riight
TA: 2orry
TA: 2ending you updated 2chematiic2 now

The data-transfer flashes in your interface. You poke at the sound and are rewarded with a complete, up-to-date echolocation map. Bless that partner of yours - he must've done some digging while you were out! Probably got into one of the sec-drone's heads and uploaded his own echolocation software. That'll make getting out of here a dozen times easier.

"- the hell did the cop go?" someone said, and your echoloc protocols immediately locate them. Ten o'clock, not far at all, and he's got a gun. Sounds like fun.

You jump up, grab your cane, and leap out, disarming the jerk before he can even blink. "Right here," you say, speedcuffing the first guy and smacking the other guy right in the stomach, so that you can grab his arms and cuff them too. "And you are you are under arrest!"

Seriously, why was he so worried? It was almost too easy!

The mustard symbol blinks again.

TA: okay that wa2 good
TA: but the re2t of them are coming two check on them 2oon
TA: and ii would recommend not being there when they arriive
TA: ii'll be watchiing but ii am only able two do 2o much from here
TA: 2o you'd better be careful

You'd grin at him, if he was really there.

GC: DONT YOU KNOW BY NOW?
GC: G3TT1NG OUT OF T1GHT SPOTS 1S MY SP3C14LTY!
GC: R3M1ND M3 TO BUY YOU 4 TH4NK-YOU DR1NK WH3N W3 G3T TOG3TH3R 4G41N! >:]
TA: fiine
TA: ii'm goiing two hold you two that TZ
TA: now get goiing

twinArmageddons [TA] has ceased trolling gallowsCalibrator [GC]

The exit's not far, if you can stay out of the way of the sec-drones. Time to show Sollux he's worrying about nothing again - you were MADE for this kind of action!

You grip your cane tightly in your hand and start running. You'll read these two jerks their rights later.

Edited 2012-06-12 20:41 (UTC)

dirk<3uu
domesticity + bizarro fiction

Ship: Karkat <> Spades Slick
Genres: post-apocalyptic + surrealism

Ship: Grand Highblood <> Her Imperial Condescension
Genres: military + fantasy of manners

Ship: Executor Darkleer <3 Her Imperial Condescension
Genres: high fantasy + cosmic horror

Ship: Executor Darkleer <3< Grand Highblood
Genres: dystopian + military

Ship: Gamzee <3< Rose
Genres: circus + cosmic horror

Ship: Jade <> Tavros
Genres: dieselpunk + pirates

ahahaha yeah I ... just realized earlier they probably didn't mean sworcery (and then promptly curled up in a ball and sobbed) but thanks all the same!

sfdsfdffkl. This is beautiful.

Thank you! Sometimes Kanaya's life is so hard *g*

Thank you!

Oh man, thanks! I'm glad you liked it! I'm not 100% happy with it, but I'm super glad you enjoyed it!

This is lovely, thanks!

You come limping home with a hand pressed to your middle and a really nice shirt ruined. "Ros," you're whining as you get the door open, "Ros, my stitches."

You hear her sigh before you see her come breezing down the stairs, fluttery and gothic as shit and even now when you're pretty seriously distracted there's still a bit of you that goes stupid over her. All that cool elegance and composure, damn.

Then she says, "So what did you do this time?"

"Wwhat makes you so sure it wwas my fault?" you demand, trying to give her a good pout. You're distracted, though. This really is pretty uncomfortable.

Rose cups your face in her soft human hands and gives you that little pitying smile she does, the one where her eyebrows alone are saying you poor stupid wreck, how do you do this to yourself, and that's how you know you're really home. "It's always your fault, you arrogant brat," she says, and paps your cheek so gently you could die all over again.

You sniff. "I ain't concedin the point," you say, "but I guess I could not argue it just at the moment."

"On account of you need a hand?" Rose asks, soft smile turning all teasing.

"On account a I need your inestimable expertise," you say, because two can play at the mocking-each-other's-speech-tics thing, and you award yourself a few extra points for doing it when you're hurt.

She sighs. There's something sort of comforting about how she refuses to make a big deal out of it when something goes wrong. You get to do all the big-deal-making yourself, which is generally how you like it. "All right, let's see how bad it is," she says, and starts in on the buttons of your shirt.

"Complete fuckin loss is how bad it is," you complain. "It's fuckin impossible to get blood out a silk, Ros, as wwell you know."

"Tell me you won," she says, without bothering to double-check that it was another fight (it's always another fight), "and I do not have to go stalking the streets in search of your assailant."

When trolls claim that humans can never understand how serious moirallegiance is, you think to yourself, there's a troll that nevver met rose lalonde. You lean your head on her shoulder as she strips off your utterly destroyed champagne silk button-down. "A course I wwon," you tell her. "I been through wworse an come out in one piece." You look down. "Evventually."

"If only it didn't take such work to keep you that way," Rose says. "Here, sit down while I fetch my supplies."

You sit, on one of the smooth kitchen chairs that can be wiped clean later, and hold your guts in while your moirail goes to get her needle and thread. You bleed really fucking slow now you're dead, but you're still oozing a little purple out between your fingers. The punk who jumped you tonight only got one good hit in, but it was enough to split a bunch of the stitches that hold your two halves together. You hate it when this happens. It's uncomfortable and looks a mess and really gets in the way of pretending like being dead hasn't changed anything.

Rose comes back before you can work yourself up into a good sulk, though. "Stop making that face," she says as she kneels beside your chair. "You're going to be fine." She brushes your hands out of the way and takes a good look. Your stitches have torn out for the space of about six inches, and there's a loop of intestine trying to sneak out the gap. Rose makes hmmm noises and pulls a set of gloves on.

"I just hate this," you tell her. "Feels all gross, havvin this ugly mess across my middle." Rose tucks your guts back in and picks up her needle, and you chew on your lip because you don't care for this part at all.

"Would you take better care of yourself if you didn't find it so ugly?" she asks. She's a quick hand with the needle, closing you back up with tight, even stitches.

"Maybe," you say through gritted teeth. Her gloves have little purple smears on them when you glance down. "You got somethin in mind?"

"Embroidery," Rose says crisply. She traces a little filigree along your raw edges in blood. "We can come up with a design you like, and I can give you some stitches that are decorative as well as functional."

You picture that, your own design stitched across your skin in fine fancy thread, the message that would send: fuck you, I ain't ashamed a wwhat I am. "Yeah, I guess maybe I wwould havve to be more careful wwith 'em then," you admit. "Sounds pretty swwag." She's fucking clever, is Rose.

"Indeed," she says, looking all pleased with herself. "It's a date."

Oh man, this is EXCELLENT. I now want THE ENTIRE 200,000 WORD STORY.
STAT.
Seriously though, this is excellent. Way to fit a fair amount of requirements and strange stuff into such a small space and make it all work. Really good stuff.

Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue
(A Ballad.)

Come all ye tired, ye war-worn and weary,
Come all ye playing The Game
Sit for a minute relax, take a break
To hear a tale of unknown fame

Once upon a time there was
A knight noble and true
A handsome heir his heart desired
A prince with eyes of windy blue

The knight, he traveled far and wide
To seek the lord of his dreams
But once the lad the knight did find,
The story was not as it seems

The minute he saw him the knight's heart beat
For the happily smiling young man
But little did the soldier know it was
The center of an evil plan

The loyalty of the knight and
The love that he had for his heir
Is a story that has stood the trials of time
And travels on breath in the air
And the lord who loved his knight so much,
oh, la-da-di-la-da-di-do
Their adoration was for real--
As roses are red, violets are blue

Stolen away from his castle,
Kidnapped by a thief in the night,
The knight needed to find his heir,
And so sought the seer of light.

The seer, a woman quick-witted and wise
Could only see what came to pass
She told of a place hidden deep in the forest
And where he'd find the heir at last.

The knight, he ventured cross the land
To seek out his captures amour
The first of three places he'd stumbled upon
Was a maze that was blocked by a door

Trapped in a forest, surrounded by scorpions
With dragons guarding the four gates
All the knight knew was that he had to rescue
His heir before it was too late

The loyalty of the knight and
The love that he had for his heir
Is a story that has stood the trials of time
And travels on breath in the air
And the lord who loved his knight so much,
oh, la-da-di-la-da-di-do
Their adoration was for real--
As roses are red, violets are blue

The knight fought valiantly and fair,
Stabbing at the dragon's head,
And storming through poison with speed on his side,
When he came out, his boots were red

And then, he came upon a place
Salamanders farmed the dirt
He trudged on through the earthen clay,
The red soil stained his shirt.

The third place that he at last found
Was haven to ruffian thieves,
He challenged their leader to a duel
So that the heir could leave

A beat like a rhythm sang through the air
As half a sword clashed against scythe,
And soon it appeared that it would be clear
Only one would leave with their life

The loyalty of the knight and
The love that he had for his heir
A story that has stood the trials of time
And travels on breath in the air
And the lord who loved his knight so much,
oh, la-da-di-la-da-di-do
Their adoration was for real--
As roses are red, violets are blue

The heir, who could cleverly trick
And fool those who weren't aware
Tried to escape to help his knight
Oh, how foolish of the heir!

Having gnawed at his rope for days
Wishing he had larger teeth
With one final SNAP! The strings came loose
And now the heir was free

Armed with only a hammer,
The heir leapt into the fray
But the thief would have none of that;
She swore that she would kill today

In order to make her escape,
She stabbed her scythe to the knight's chest
The knight collapsed to the floor with the scratch
And took his well-earned rest.

The loyalty of the knight and
The love that he had for his heir
A story that has stood the trials of time
And travels on breath in the air
And the lord who loved his knight so much,
oh, la-da-di-la-da-di-do
Their adoration was for real--
As roses are red, violets are blue

The heir allowed the thief to run,
And begged his knight, “Don't leave like this,”
But the knight could only say,
“My love, give me one last kiss.”

But the Time, I'm afraid, had wasted away
And the minutes ticked on far too fast
The heir pressed up his lips to the knight's
And he breathed his last Breath at last

Now, the rumors say one day they'll meet
In another life once again
The question isn't who or what
It's only a matter of when

Once upon a time there was
A knight noble and true
A handsome heir his heart desired
A prince with eyes of windy blue

The loyalty of the knight and
The love that he had for his heir
A story that has stood the trials of time
And travels on breath in the air
And the lord who loved his knight so much,
Though not all the story is true
Their adoration was for real--
And I can see it in you

Clandestine (via google) Kept secret or done secretively, esp. because illicit.

or dictionary.com: characterized by, done in, or executed with secrecy or concealment, especially for purposes of subversion or deception; private or surreptitious:

I shouldn't have added the d. It was late for me. XD

Oooh yes I am going to do this ASAP!

Gamzee<3Jane - in the style of SBaHJ, and personality swap.

Go ahead! Please do link me the story once it's done :D
Thank you!♥

medieval + steampunk
Eridan<3Feferi

Edited 2012-06-12 21:45 (UTC)

Bro<3Dad
Romantic comedy + campus novel

wow so these character voices are perfect
and so is their interaction

this is really really great

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BONUS ROUND 1

Bonus Round 1

Re: FILL: TEAM ARADIA<3FEFERI

FILL: TEAM ERIDAN<>ROSE

PROMPT: TEAM ARADIA<3JADE

PROMPT: TEAM GAMZEE <3< TEREZI

PROMPT: TEAM GAMZEE <3< TEREZI

PROMPT: TEAM GAMZEE <3< TEREZI

PROMPT: TEAM GAMZEE <3< TEREZI

PROMPT: TEAM GAMZEE <3< TEREZI

PROMPT: TEAM GAMZEE <3< TEREZI

Re: FILL: TEAM WV<3PM<3AR

Re: FILL: TEAM AUTO-RESPONDER <3 ROXY

Re: FILL: TEAM TEREZI >3> VRISKA

Re: FILL: TEAM TEREZI >3> VRISKA

Re: FILL: TEAM PARCELPYXIS

Re: FILL: TEAM DIRK<3ROXY

FILL: TEAM Dirk<3Equius

Re: FILL: TEAM DIRK<3JAKE

FILL: TEAM DIRK<3JAKE

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

Re: PROMPT: TEAM ERIDAN<>ROSE

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Re: PROMPT: TEAM ENGLISH

PROMPT: Equius<3Eridan

PROMPT: TEAM DAVE<3<KARKAT

Re: FILL: TEAM ERIDAN<>ROSE