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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
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!
FILL: TEAM DAVE<3TAVROS
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Dark magic was never something to be studied carelessly, and it was never something one should feel like they could control; The deeper you go, the more you have to be careful, and humble, and good. Being greedy about powers and summoning would only bring tragedy, and the higher you were on the hierarchy, the more careful you had to be. Rose knew it very well; Apparently, the Grand Master did not, judging by the supposedly sealed ancient gods that were now rampaging through the world, breaking all pretenses of masquerades the mages and their familiars upheld during centuries.
She and Jade met in the night the world was ending, dragged and pushed along a group of human survivors to whatever safe place they could find. Rose recognized her instantly as a white witch and Jade was the first to realize exactly what Rose was; her eyes were wide and scared when Rose smiled, putting a finger over her lips.
The horrorterrors were laying pitch-black boiling destruction over the world and everybody was busy trying to survive, so it took the others a couple of months to catch their mistake.
Jade reappeared into existence with a quiet pop and the smell of ozone.
They could see half the city from the remains of the AGT building, and Rose’s nocturnal eyes detected any movement even in the scarce light of the crescent moon. The tall piles of rubble from the demolished buildings around surrounded them like trenches and, past them, the things trudged aimlessly, leaving behind trails of deep purple goo. One of them was lying in the middle of the street, body chained to the ground by finger-thin smoky tentacles, and Rose was sitting on the ground and looking at her hands, focusing.
“Sorry I’m late” – Jade said, crouching behind the sniper rifle secured in one of the broken windows - “Magic or bullets?”
Rose shook her head once.
“Magic, then.” – She took a sharp breath and muttered a ‘goodbye, motherfucker’; a second later, Rose could feel the pressure of her own magic vanishing, and asked Jade why she took so long.
“Rose, you’re speaking in festertonges again!” – Jade said, hugging her hard and kissing her cheek – “Kisses will make you better.” – and she kept kissing her cheeks, her neck, her lips, until Rose laughed and kissed her back.
“Jade, I don’t think kissing and hugging is the correct antidote to black magic corruption.”
“But it worked! You’re normal again, hehe.” – She answered, lying on the floor and dragging Rose with her.
“I wouldn’t have had to slip into black magic if you were back here on time.”
“I’m sorry, Rose! They didn’t want to let me stand guard again tonight, so I had to do a little arm twisting.”
“Not literally, I hope.”
“Well…”
“You’ll end up in trouble” – Rose said, running her fingers in Jade’s hair. – “But they’re right; you should rest a while, instead of keeping guard every night. They don’t know I am here and they think you are exhausting yourself.”
“I wouldn’t have to keep guard every night if you had let me talk to them!” – Jade said, frowning – “I miss you, and if you were there for real we could be together every day.”
“They have their reasons for not wanting a dark mage shouting eldritch curses in her sleep around them. Besides, I’m happy enough that you still want me around, their approval is not necessary. But if we don’t want to make them suspicious, you should let someone come keep guard once in a while. They overlook your powers because they are useful and they think they are harmless, but no one would be so tolerant if they knew the nature of our relationship.”
“I know, but… it’s not fair.”
They kissed again, and Jade let out a sigh.
“Rose?”
“Yes?”
“I love you.”
“I love you, too.”
Outside, unspeakable terrors lurked in the shadows, tearing down walls and breaking minds and souls apart, turning people into mindless hungry monsters.
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