BONUS ROUND 1

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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

1. 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.


2. Look through the prompts and fill whichever you like!


3. You may not fill prompts for your ship, nor may you fill your own team's prompts.


4. 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.
PROMPT: TEAM [YOUR SHIP]
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.
FILL: TEAM [YOUR SHIP]
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!

Comments

FILL: TEAM DAVE<3ROSE<3TEREZI

[magnificentbastards]

...This may actually be the most ridiculous thing I've ever written, fuck. If you feel it stops too abruptly, that's because I looked at my life and my choices and decided it was probably best to cut my losses there. If you know your Antigone it'll be obvious what episode this is parodying.

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John is king of Thebes. The city is suddenly and mysteriously struck by a terrible plague

The following fragment is all that remains of Hussides’ John. Scholarly opinion is divided as to whether this extract follows immediately after the parados, or whether it is preceded by an episode involving DAD and BRO. The play is believed to end with the suicide of JOHN and the descent of CROCKER upon the machina. Though less well known than Hussides’ more infamous work, the Vriska, the John is recorded to have won first prize at the City Gamzenysia, beating Dirkylus’ Detective Pony, the only surviving play from a trilogy of tragedies exploring the traditional myth of the Pony Pals.

…

DAD:
John, you’ve come here knowing your father’s actions.
Do you think less of me for them?
Or have you accepted that the exile of the Striders
was a necessity for the sake of the city’s safety?

JOHN:
Father, I’d never hate you for something like this…
You acted as you saw fit,
as your son it’s my place to obey.
You are known for your good judgements
and your undying care for the city you protect.

DAD:
It’s wise of you, my son, and only proper
to thus support your father’s actions.
A hero who raises his sons to be heroes,
to take up the cape and the mask
and to follow their father in all he does;
why, he is truly blessed.
But all men pity the hero whose household
is filled with the weak and villainous,
for in his old age he will find no respect
and waste away to nothing, mocked
by his enemies.

Son, the actions of the Striders
threatened the very life of the town
I have worked so hard for, and hold so dear.
Heroes like them, their insolent ways,
their callous disregard for tradition,
for the established hierarchy of the city,
cannot be allowed to sow their seeds
upon our way of life.
We must root them out!

JOHN:
Father, I respect your decision…
I wouldn’t presume to question your authority
and your choices as highest of the heroes
of this city. What son is more proud
of his father than I of you?

And yet I can’t help thinking, perhaps,
your single-mindedness, your loyalty
to the established tradition, may do harm.
It’s always been our way to fill the city
with many heroes, all good people,
to encourage healthy discussion,
to fight at each other’s backs
and it’s clear this has led to great peace,
a city blessedly free from crime or villainy.

The expulsion of the Striders—
if this is only the beginning,
and you plan to get rid of any heroes
who disagree with your proclamations;
why, I believe you are endangering
the very people you want to protect.

CHORUS LEADER:
To us, the citizens safe under your wings,
the ones you have protected from every evil,
we urge you, Dad Egbert, to listen to your son.
It seems there is some truth in what he says,
just as your words are sensible also.

DAD:
Insolence—
My own son, telling me how to behave?
How to act in my role as head of the heroes
of this city that obeys my every word?

JOHN:
It’s not orders I’m giving you, father, but advice.
The city agrees with me, the other heroes
whisper that you must relax your rule,
do the sensible thing.

DAD:
A city of underground criminals and vice,
barely held in check by a band of traitors?
Why should I listen to its advice?

JOHN:
O, would that there was some way
to tell a man’s corruption from his face,
or that a loyal son was not bound to obey
the worst of all fathers!

DAD:
You go too far.
You’ll pay for your disloyalty;
this city obeys me, and me alone.

…

[ex_lionpyh573]

oh my God. I'm so glad I'm in this fandom. I'm so glad you're in this fandom. HUSSIDES.

Re: FILL: TEAM DAVE<3ROSE<3TEREZI

[laughably_unimportant]

Let me touch your face you beautiful, beautiful person.

Re: FILL: TEAM DAVE<3ROSE<3TEREZI

[nextian]

I...

Thank God for HSO.

Re: FILL: TEAM DAVE<3ROSE<3TEREZI

[megaparsecs]

dirkylus.

that's it that's my response.