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!

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Scoring
For prompt posts: 5 points each (maximum of 100 per team)

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First 5 entries in each post: 30 (per entry)
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Jade<3Feferi, city guide+cosmic horror

Everything is beautiful and nothing hurts.
So ready to write this.

T)(-E WITC)(--ES’ GUID-E TO T)(-E POST-SCRATC)( SPAC-ESCAP-E

by Jade )(arley & Feferi Peixes

hi! now, you may be wondering how a guide to the post-scratch spacescape exists when there are no printers to have created it, but in truth, that’s going to be the least of your worries, if it isnt already.

if the utterly shit state of the universe is news to you, its a miracle youve made it this far. chances are, things are worse off as youre reading this then they are as we are writing it. its not really clear how thats possible, but every time someone comes right out and says that things can’t get any worse, they get shut up real quick. so.

things are probably worse. dont worry, though! there is ALWAYS a way to carry on!

even if it means huddling inside the scooped-out carcasses of space camels. which i have done. take it from someone who knows, the smell washes off eventually!!!

anyways, first things fir

Don’t panic.

S)(ore, s)(ore, t)(ings seem pretty bad, w)(at wit)( t)(e miles and t)(e mutant sun and t)(e )(orrorterrors and t)(e lack of sentient and compassionate life, but if you’re gonna make it in the post-scratch apocalypse, you )(ave to keep your )(-EAD! No more flim flamming around like a dumbass seal wit)( its flippers on backwa

yeah, whatever that means.

just.

keep your cool and dont scream.

T)(ey find you a lot quicker w)(en you scream.

and poor bilious isnt very alert these days but it upsets him, too.

hes been through a lot, so its just common courtesy to keep things as peaceful as you can.

Rig)(t.

okay, the next thing is a little like the first, i guess: have some respect.

You may not like t)(e )(orrorterrors, but t)(ey D-EFINIT--ELY don’t like you!

however COOL or EDGY you were before the world went to hell, thumbing your nose at the eldritch gods will get you nowhere except scattered across space in bloody chunks, ok?

ok.

A t)(ird t)(ing: don’t lose )(ope!

figuratively.

...Yea)(.

like i said, theres always something to look forward to. hopefully youve got a little band of survivors youre wandering the barren spacescape with, but if not, just keep going. its good to be less noticeable at first, too! the larger your group, the more likely youll be spotted by one of its infinite eyes.

fourth... um. theres got to be something else, lik

DON’T GO N-EAR T)(-E COLLAPS-ED GALAXI--ES!

oh, shit. yes.

that.

TURN RIG)(T AROUND.

V-E--ER S)(ARPLY TO W)(AT-EV-ER DIR-ECTION CONTAINS L-ESS )(ORROR.

if it isn’t obvious which direction contains ‘less horror’, choose right.

W)(AT-EV-ER YOU DO, DO NOT TRY TO FLY T)(ROUG)( T)(-EM.

YOU WILL NOT MAK-E IT TO T)(-E OT)(-ER SID-E.

You will N-EV-ER make it to t)(e ot)(er side of a collapsed galaxy.

its about as smart as flying straight into the gaping, beaked maws of the horrorterrors themselves.

now. um.

there really isnt much more to help you with, if youre still alive and reading this.

but find someone.

Find someone you can keep s)(ellfis)(ly near you w)(ile you look for ot)(ers. T)(e ot)(ers don’t matter as muc)(, as long as you )(ave at least one person.

one more thing.

dont follow the ho

Welcome to Void City!

We hope your travels here will show you the full wonders of our city the

T̕͟È͟R̴R͠OR ̶AǸ̴͠D͠ ͘͟M̧͢ÁJ̀͡E̷S̛T̴̨͡Y̷̧

of it.

Here are a few key sites you might want to see while you’re here!

THE SEA GARDENS

Stare into the deep endless pools of dank water as you contemplate life’s endless miseries. Hear strange unsettling sounds as you witness fish with tentacles for eyes writhe against the shore in a last desperate attempt to run from the great and hideous beast that dwells in the garden’s furthest reaches. Remember your times near happier seas, when you were young and believed in life, in the living.

Attempt to investigate the black dripping trees surrounding the ponds! Sight a girl, your age perhaps, alien and fishy. Admire the way she laughs and pushes the fish back in the water, to its doom, and claps her hands.

Spend long moments looking at the curve of her spine, the waterfall of her hair. Look away when she looks at you.

Be a little surprised when she looks your way! Become even more surprised when she walks over to you.

Allow your jaw to drop when she tells you her name is Feferi Peixes, that she is the Empress-in-Waiting. Let the dank wet taste of the air fill your mouth.

THE FLOATING BAZAAR

Follow the girl empress to the main thoroughfare of the commercial sector of Void City, you have the unique opportunity of having a tour guide who knows the city better than perhaps everyone else. Don’t be afraid to ask questions! The story behind the Great Eyeball Clock is particularly intriguing.

Sample the oozing native fruits from nearby produce stands. Don’t be afraid when she tells you that your soul will be tethered to this place forever – it already is! You’re doomed, you might as well enjoy the heady fungus laden taste of this fruit while you still are in possession of a mortal body that can taste. That has a mouth.

Let her feed it to you, juice dripping from her fingers as she strokes your hair. Laugh when she tickles your arm. Stare into her bright glassy eyes, become lost in them.

Kiss her, then, with the juice of the foreign fruit still running down your chin. Her tongue will lick your lips clean, and you’ll lean into her clammy weight.

Fail to be alarmed by the way her mouth curls into a shark toothed grin.

THE BONE PALACE

Listen to her tell you about her home! Be entranced by her childhood stories of scampering from begilled guards, and ask if you can see the palace. Be aware that this is somewhat forward. Notice that she does not seem to mind!

Don’t notice that she seems to have planned this, by the way her carriage pulls up in front of you, by the speed in which you return to the palace.

Take in the beauty and the fecund splendor of the Bone Palace of Void City, the echoing shadows of it. Grab onto Feferi’s hand, when she offers it. Be led through the flung-wide sigil etched bone doors, bleached white and tremendous.

Enquire as to whether or not she makes a practice of using human skulls as candleholders. Laugh at own joke. Explain joke to her. Note that her laugh is slightly forced.

Touch the walls, made of mammoth rib bones from some long dead creature, as you walk. Be amazed at the smoothness of them, the austere dead dignity. Blabber, spout anecdotes about the time you found the body of a whale beached on the sands of a tiny island millions of lightyears from here, how you helped the inhabitants of the island pick what was useful and bury the remains.

Follow her as she draws you deeper and deeper into the grayscale terrors of her home. Comment on how uncomfortable it must be to use vertebrae as chairs. Comment on how chilly it is, how you wish you’d brought your jacket. As a scientist, remain academic when you see the strange twisted skeletons that compose all of the furniture in the palace! Wonder how something with so many limbs and wings could exist, but do not be afraid! This is part and parcel, this is just another bit of adventure.

Become a bit alarmed that she says nothing in response. Begin to wonder if you’ve somehow offended her.

Feel fuzzy-headed. Think maybe that fruit wasn’t quite fresh.

When she pushes back a tapestry (a thousand years old, it depicts the slaughter of an alien race by the long reach of Void City’s Dark Masters, in horrid detail) enquire as to where you are going. She will open a secret door and reply, “my room,” and this will thrill you, in more ways than one.

Grow fainter with each step. Let yourself be half-carried to her door, which is yellowed and brittle. Note how her nails dig into your flesh, note how she is pulling you.

Give yourself a second to wait for everything to click. Notice the stains on the door. Get it. Resist the urge to yell.

Yelling can’t help you now. Your gravestone’s as good as written!

Check to see if your guns are loaded. Realize that your guns are missing. All of them. See her smiling, your bejeweled princess, and know that she knows this.

Struggle as she twists her hands around your wrists, wonder at her strength as she drags you into the last stop on your whirlwind tour,

THE EMPRESS'S CHAMBERS

E̢N̢̧J̨͠Ǫ̢͡Y͝ ͠Y̕O̴͟UR̷̢̕ ͟S̛T̨͏A̷̶Y͟

BONUS ROUND 1

Bonus Round 1

PROMPT: TEAM KARKAT<3KARKAT

Potential filler from Rose<3Kanaya

FILL: TEAM KANAYA<3ROSE

FILL: TEAM DAVE<3ROSE<3TEREZI