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
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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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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 tried, hope it's okay!
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The Masked

Your name is Feferi Peixes and you were born at the top rankings of the social ladder, much to your relief. The world you lived in was cruel and terrible, and you were glad that as a high class citizen you never had any problems—but that didn’t mean you were okay with it, not at all actually. You believed in equality, that everyone should be the same; no one should be hungry or sick because they were poor or low class and they definitely shouldn’t be treated any different. A dreamer they called you, mocked you even, but the joke was on them because you were going to do something about it, raise awareness and convince people to join you in uniting everyone.

You’re selected career path was journalism, and thankfully the position came to you very easily, it normally went to someone in the middle class but since you wanted it, you snatched it up. Your bosses were also, generally lower than you, and you felt bad about it but that let you do what you needed to. Your normal topic was coverage of the wrongs done to the lower class, and things involving it, and your case of the century had finally been presented.

Recently you had been doing some very deep research about the new programs that were being run; they had been for about a year. Their job? To support the lower class, keep them fed, healthy, and off the streets. There were significantly much less homeless on the street now, much to your joy and they thanked you for raising awareness, they said they wouldn’t have realized the issue if it weren’t for you, and so you were happy but that wasn’t the big scoop, there was an even bigger one at hand.

You heard about her only a week ago, the girl who stole from the rich and gave to the poor, you supported the thought but stealing wasn’t the way to go about it. You wondered why it was now she was showing up, after things had already been put in place for these matters, maybe it was publicity. From the moment you heard about her, you needed to find out more. Soon, you became infatuated, following her every move, you knew everything except for her identity, but soon you’d find out.
All of these events lead you here, standing to face your death. You think about all the things you want to do with your life, and all the things you’ve done in your life. Do you regret any of it? Yes, you did. Once you had begun snooping and following around the girl everyone was calling ‘the masked’ you followed her pattern, her habits, and everything you added up over time lead you to a devastating conclusion: you had made everything worse. The only thing your media attention was doing was directing the higher class to see them as a problem, an issue, they were overpopulating the cities and didn’t do anything productive, but they decided that the lower class could do something—they could be used as experiments. They were being experimented on to help cure illness, and it was your fault. Not as many homeless on the street? They weren’t being taken care of, they were being murdered, just like you were about to be murdered. The reason the masked had only just shown up was that, it wasn’t true, she had been there the whole time operating quietly and stealthy, surviving as a low class only on her wit and courage; and when the high class were up to no good, she couldn’t just stand by, but she wasn’t here right now. You were, and yes, you regretted it in the end, all it was going to do was get you killed.

That’s when you saw her, busting through the window just like in an action movie, her whip at the ready. A whip! The people had guns to your head and here comes a slim girl bursting through the window and disarming them with the crack of a whip. The girl ducked as one swung at her with his arm and she gave him an uppercut knocking him out cold and making quick work of the other peon.

The girl looked at you before she slipped off her mask, just like any superhero at the end of a movie does, and she gave you the big thumbs up.

“Could have been worse!” she declared smiling at you, and you felt yourself smiling back at her, despite all the danger she was everything you’d thought she’d be; beautiful, cunning, witty, and agile—and you loved every bit of it.
Of course, naturally, like at the end of everything when the hero comes in and saves the girl who was only trying to help, she kisses you. You know this is the end of a chapter in your life, but the kiss represents a new beginning.

Roadtrip + Robot Apocalypse for Karkat<3Jade!

Karkat<>Eridan

Biopunk + Urban Fantasy

medical romance + baby love, dirk<3roxy
bonus internet hugs for baby!rose or dave (or both)

Edited 2012-06-10 18:17 (UTC)

BRILLIANT. I hope someone picks this one up! XD

Time Travel + Fairy Tale for Aradia<>Dave!

Jade<3Karkat
Wuxia & Supernatural/Paranormal!

This prompt is the gift that keeps on giving. This fic is fabulous, and I like that they're both the private eyes in this one.

workplace romance + roadtrip, equius <> nepeta
god bless

Dirk<3Jane

Western + Detective (i love westerns so much)

musical fiction + school au, john <3< rose (ohoho)

Equius ♣ Vriska/Eridan, space opera + comedy of manners

Aradia<>Tavros

Hard Fantasy + Comedy

Dirk<3Jake, western + sci-fi

Ummm. Unf is all I really have to say on this matter. And I agree with nextian. :D

Biopunk + Wuxia- Psiioniic<>Sufferer

the fever and the delirium

if you will find a river that runs through
white sands, between high mountains,
in those industrial blight

rock gently

set your teeth

short hair, slim hips, and a mouth
that tastes like peaches.

sing while you can by all means -
the singing season of life is short;
but sing

Learn the names of God

OBSTACLES. Movement of Mirror.
Retching. Arching or A glimpse into
some possible future

there are dark times coming,

There is not a single vacant room throughout
the entire infinite hotel. because you are a lover

beyond mortality, Feel the prow s grating,
golden, on the stars. Forgive miserable sorcerer

(More like crying or sick to their stomach.)

set your teeth

sleep is a recipe

(source)

Oh my goodness, this is great!!!!

"Y'know, this is getting a bit bothersome by now," Captain Vantas sighs, leaning against the desk Advisor Ampora had barely managed to press into the captain's quarters, "the wind's been practically non-existent now for... What. Like six days?"

"Yeah, well. It's not like you've been quite bored, ain't it , Cap?" Ampora waggles his brows, letting his seadweller accent slip in. He doesn't really care for using it in the crew's company since he knows that they obviously won't appreciate his 'highborn sea-dweller bonuses', as he calls them, but he lets it reign free whenever it's time to tease his matesprit.

The redblood sighs and turns his full attention to righting the captain cap on his head, lips twitching at the edges. Advisor Ampora revels in his smile and is about to advance on his matesprit to perhaps kiss him when a knock sounds on the door and it's unceremonially opened.

"Dinner," Second officer Egbert says, not sparing a look at the disgruntled captain or his advisor before he's out of the door again.

Captain Vantas is about to shout at his second mate to remember to FUCKING KNOCK when he realizes that officer Egbert had, somehow, suddenly gained some manners.

He "hmmph"-s instead and lets out a gust of air before he stretches his arm to his matesprit as an invitation.
"Well, shall we go have dinner, then?"

The natural seadweller pushes a lock of hair out of his face and nods, pushing himself off from leaning on the table and straightening his clothes from any tear or wrinkles they could, somehow, have gotten from that.

"I guess we got no other choice then, don't want Kan tryin' ta force-feed us again."

Edited (bad spacing) 2012-06-10 19:26 (UTC)

Feferi<>Nepeta, comedy + fantasy???

Gosh I love this <333333

Um, how about Steampunk and Comfort for Sollux<3Aradia? :3

That's fine, no worries~ (and thanks!)

Aradia<3Sollux<3Feferi, dramaedy [is that allowed its already a mixed genre] and sci fi!

Redglare♠Mindfang

Picaresque + Diesel/Decopunk

Ooooh, let's give Tavros<3Vriska something cute with Historical AU (Great Depression) + fluff because why not?

Super brownie points if Vriska isn't a bluh bluh abusive bitch.

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BONUS ROUND 1

Bonus Round 1

FILL: Karkat<3Karkat

PROMPT: TEAM Dave<3Rose<3Terezi

PROMPT: TEAM ERIDAN<>ROSE

PROMPT: TEAM ENGLISH

no subject

PROMPT: TEAM Dave<3Rose<3Terezi

PROMPT: TEAM AUTO-RESPONDER<3ROXY

Re: FILL: Team Dave<3Rose<3Terezi

PROMPT: TEAM ENGLISH

PROMPT: Karkat<3Karkat

PROMPT: TEAM ENGLISH

PROMPT: TEAM Dirk<3Equius

PROMPT: TEAM MEENAH<3<ROXY

PROMPT: TEAM KANAYA<3VRISKA

Re: FILL: TEAM Dirk<3Equius

PROMPT: TEAM GAMZEE♥KARKAT

FILL: TEAM DAVE<3ROSE<3TEREZI

Re: FILL: team dave<3vriska

FILL: TEAM Eridan<>Rose

PROMPT: TEAM Dad<3Roxy

PROMPT: TEAM KARKAT<3TEREZI

no subject

PROMPT: TEAM Dad<3Roxy

PROMPT: TEAM MEENAH<3<ROXY

PROMPT: TEAM Jake<3Terezi