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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<3JADE
She rides a horse to her first day in a new school. He thinks this is weird, but doesn't want to say anything; horses were a rare breed on Sprizitos, since so many of its residents didn't actually have legs with which to straddle the beasts, but Jade seemed to know what she was doing. Davesprite didn't even realize that he was following her around, a little bit -- watching as she used the eye scanner for her locker for the first time, laughing as she attempted to play Sprizball without being able to fly (the hoops were one hundred feet off of the ground, how could she possibly play?).
"Hey," he finally managed to say to her as they left the building, Jade headed back to her trusty steed. She turns around and smiles at him. "I was just wondering what you do after school. Since most of the jobs require being a sprite--"
"Don't worry about me! Do you want to come and see?" Jade holds out a hand and, without thinking, he takes it. Within minutes he's riding a horse -- fuck wait until i tell mom i rode an earth relic -- holding onto Jade's waist for dear life because oh god how do you steer these things? They arrive at the SBURBian Plains, where spritecows graze contentedly. Jade pulls a length of rope from her belt and lets out a yip; a green spritedog appears at her side, and Davesprite is in awe as the green beast sprints around the field, herding the cattle.
"Do you do this a lot?" Davesprite looks like he's in between running for home and asking her to marry him. Who is this girl?
"Yeah! Grandpa always needs help around the farm. But I guess you might have to go? I know people in the city have a curfew." She looks to the east, where the two suns are setting. He nods, curiously.
"Uh, yeah. Gotta go." He slips off of the back of the horse and floats away, looking back over his shoulder to see if she was still real, still here.
The next day -- and in the following weeks -- Jade would come to school in more and more curious outfits. One day it was a giant hat (it's a ten-gallon!), the next, things she called "chaps." Sprites didn't have these things on their planet; the other kids thought she was weird, but Davesprite defended her, telling them shes not so bad for a human and lay off or ill punch your face in. In return, she showed him more of her job, milking the spritecows and keeping the spritecoyotes away from her herd. He even met her Grandpa one day, as he came to bring Jade her lunch. .There was just something weird about the two of them, he admitted. But it was something he didn't want to get rid of.
They sat behind the bleachers during lunch, swapping stories. Dave would tell her about life in the city -- not having staircases or doors, having to float in through the windows -- and she would tell him about live in the human reserves, where they had things like 'alarm clocks' and not internal mechanisms that automatically worke them up. It wasn't until the midwinter dance that they realized that they spent more time with one another than was probably normal for friends. Neither of them really seemed to mind, though. The bleachers were the highlight of the day, since they had no classes together. When she asked him out, he agreed, giving her a half-smile she'd come to recognize as a sincere expression of some other big grin he was holding inside.
"Just don't make me ride a horse again, and we're golden."
Jade laughed, and agreed.
Re: FILL: TEAM DAVE<3JADE