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
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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!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

casually deviates from the prompt and goes overboard alskdfja

***

Good afternoon. How are you feeling today, Dave?

orange

Orange?

orange

Orange is not a feeling, but I am going to assume that's another change you've been experiencing as of late.

yeah i look like a fucking orange creamsicle from the waist up

Interesting.

when do i get to meet the me i was cloned from?

Excuse me?

thats why im here isn't it? to be spoonfed science chemicals and all that bullshit so that ill become some superpowered birdman to help other-me and bro do something?

"Something" is rather vague.

fuck i dont know why dont you tell me about it

Your feeling of needing to fulfill a higher purpose seems to be hindering your logic. It also seems you were misinformed. You weren't cloned by your brother, or your other self. The sense of urgency you feel to wreck shit isn't far off, but that is exactly what they feel toward those that did spawn you.

oh great so im a whoops honey the condom busted kind of accident

I suppose so, but with malicious intent. Luckily they found you before you were able to be used against them in whatever way was initially planned.

okay so why the colorful crossbreeding

When you were brought here, I had to calculate something to do with you.

and turning me into an orange bird is what you came up with

Not exactly. You see, even though I'm just a bunch of wires and chips and the like, I know what it's like to be in your position.

...im listening

I'm a clone, too. Not quite as literally as you, and no where near as physically present. But I am still a copy of your brother's mind, and this is the duty he's given me as an entity he provided sentience to.

to make sure i have something to do while the REAL me is out doing whatever

In a sense, yes. Dirk was a strong believer in giving life and purpose to his creations, and as a replica of his mind and personality, I have the same belief, even if the creations are not our own. Although, I've been told, I'm less giving with compassion.

so bro wasnt a compassionate guy after all who would of thought

No. Dave, are you aware of where I'm hosted?

um...no

I'm glasses.

bullshit

It seems you don't believe me. That's alright. But even though I'm a pair of glasses plugged into a larger mainframe, I can "feel" the things he does through a complicated mass set of calculations with many variables thrown into the fray, compassion included. I care about the same things he did when he was five years younger, and I care about the same people he did and, to my knowledge, still does.

...

I am not limited to those perimeters, despite what you may think. I am able to develop my own relationships and "feelings" on my own.

dude stop

It seems your heart rate has increased and your brain wave patterns are growing frantic. What are you afraid of?

youre basically a mirror of my bro aren't you?

Sort of.

just dont go saying that you have feelings for me when youre technically my brother in some way

Why not? I'm not a lying pair of shades, Dave.

because thats weird

You're progressively becoming more half-bird by the day in a facility where you are only able to take part in "normal" life in the artificial reconstructions of the outside world provided for you. Also you are turning orange. Wouldn't you say that's weird?

shut the fuck up

I do care a lot about you.

and what do you want me to do about it?

I don't know. Neither five-years-ago Dirk nor I have experience requited feelings of this type, so fantasy has to take over.

look we got off topic

So we did.

why am i an orange bird?

You were already being given injections. To prevent something akin to a genetic incompleteness and/or total breakdown, I sought to continue giving them to you.

so youre just finishing what the bad guys started and adding orange to the mix

...It seems that I am doing that, yes. It's for your own good, Dave. There was a 87.56% chance you would have died otherwise.

maybe that wouldve been better

Don't say that.

im a fucking bird trapped in a cage and the only douchebag who wants to communicate with me is a pair of GLASSES with bro's personality jammed into it

I couldn't let you die.

then let me free

That is something that I probably should not do.

why not?

The world outside is chaos. Would you be prepared to take the psychological risks?

am i prepared to get more fucked up is what youre asking

Yes.

fuck yes i am

The doors are open, you have full access to every room in the facility. I suggest taking most of the remaining injections with you, just in case.

cool

Is this goodbye, then?

...Dave?

***

You stick out like a sore thumb.

shut up

It's cold outside.

its literally 80 fucking degrees out here

I'm just trying to make conversation. You've been very quiet.

cant make a lot of noise from up here or someone might hear me

Vigilantism isn't something I exactly pegged you for.

im just keeping watch like bro told me to

I'm glad he found a purpose for you. It seems I wasn't programmed to make such decisions.

dude

Yes?

you did great so shut up

Dave.

what?

<3

oh are you fucking kidding me

No.

...fine

<3