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!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Lil' warning for gore/blood/body horror?
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I.
The colors swirl around the trees and drip, drip down the roots to the clouds and then dissolve into neon crows, their feathers sinking like lead into a cup.
You watch them swimming, and groan.

II.
White ghosts circle around you, their faces electric purple and lime yellow, and with each drip of color they grow taller and taller, until they cover the royal blue of the sky in their masks, and the only thing you can see is the sun, bright orange and burning. They twist around themselves, blinking, and they too turn into crows; at first one, then two, three, and then the three were six, and then a million crows, white and purple and yellow. The sun swallowed them, getting bigger each time; and each of them sang a note, until they were a symphony, and you too wanted to sing with them, grow your wings and sing, sing and fly to the sun, and burn, and sing, and drip in colors down the roots.
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You are feverish; you are delirious. The doctors stuff your veins with medicine.
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III.
You open your jacket; There is a hole in your chest, oozing blood; it smells like asphalt and you can feel the artificial taste of strawberry syrup in the back of your tongue. The crows fly all around you, calling for you, daring you to go with them; little by little your blood turns to one, and your organs, and then you are singing and flying too, three hundred of you swirling to the sun.

IV.
You go through the center of the sun, and there you see Rose and Jade and John dancing with various copies of you; but then they are not Rose and Jade and John anymore: they are all you, dancing with you inside bottles of apple juice. There is one you left, and he extends his hand to you. You take it, and you two dance.
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Nothing works.
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V.
You kiss yourself while you are dancing, and then you are the two of you again; You kiss him again, and then you're just you. You decide you cannot decide if you like being two or being one better, so you keep kissing him; The crows are back now, watching you. The branches of the neon trees start to come out of the sun, and then you are dancing underwater, and all the crows became half fish.
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You are not responsive to the medicine, and you are getting worse.
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VI.
The other you stops kissing you, and looks up. You are underwater and everything is colored in shades of blue and teal and green, and a moon shines fat over the water. You are still bleeding.

VII.
The crows are now flying in spirals, like a staircase; they come out of the ground, endless, and go all the way to the moon.

VIII.
You ask other you if, when you go up the staircase, everything will end. He shrugs.
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Your brain is short-circuiting; they try to bring you back.
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IX.
You try to go down instead of going up, and after a while you have passed the center of the earth. There is a smuppet here; you think Bro would be happy to know it.
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The doctors are desperate. Bro is there, watching you hooked into machines.
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X.
You are on the edge of the roof; there is no wind. Looking down, you can see the center of the world, and the ocean; The moon at the end of the staircase is just a little dot lost into the blue. When you blink, other you is there, and you hold his hand. Then you close your eyes, and fall.
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You stop. There is nothing anyone can do now.

Oh wow. This is just.... I'm having trouble finding words. The journey you've crafted here is so hypnotically enticing.

BONUS ROUND 1

Bonus Round 1

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