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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
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If your team name is not in this format and in the title we cannot guarantee that it will be counted.
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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!
PROMPT: TEAM ERIDAN<3FEFERI
Mermaid + Fairy Tale
FILL: Karkat<3Karkat
Edit: I AM SO SORRY FOR THAT. It was a complete mess I was insane to post it, but I fixed it.
One day when the sun was going down, young knight, Karkat Vantas was strolling along the beach by the castle. It was his first night at his new station, and like most nights he was having a hard time sleeping. Stay away from the beach, they said, it’s dangerous, they said; he didn’t really see how, he couldn’t swim but it wasn’t like he was going to randomly jump in the middle of the ocean. He was a knight for Gods sake! And they were treating him like a small child whose hand needed held. Their superstitions were nonsense, telling him that wicked creatures roamed the seas; sirens and mermaids—creatures from the pits of hell. If you went near the ocean, they sang songs and lured you in, they’d eat you, or so he was told, or maybe even turn you into one of them if the monster decided it wanted you.
He believed none of those tails, he wouldn’t be out here if he did, and it appeared someone else was also not terrified by the prospect of evil mermaids. Under the light of the moon he saw someone else perched upon a rock by the ocean and staring out at it. Karkat wandered closer to inspect who it could be; it was someone about his age, and very regal looking. The boy on the rock had hair that was in a strange upward movement with a streak of purple in the middle, and Karkat had never seen the boy before, but he had the weird feeling that he knew him pretty well in a past life or something.
“Hey, what are you doing out here?” When he asked that, the boy turned around almost slipping off the rock, like it was the most surprising thing in the world for someone to be out here—then again according to the locals apparently it was.
“I…just sittin’,” the boy grumbled hunching over, and Karkat can tell he’s defensive, maybe even scared (his knight training tells him so).
Karkat scooted up onto the rock to sit beside of the hunched over boy and stares off at the ocean, eventually the other relaxed a bit, and that’s when he decides to make conversation. “It’s my first night being here, they told me some bullshit about monsters or something.”
The boy didn’t even make a noise for the first few moments, “Maybe you should believve them” His accent was funny to Karkats ear, but not unwelcome.
He shrugged, “No such thing, it’s all stories and fairy tales, anyway…” he looked at the other, “my names Karkat.”
The other smiled at him, suddenly he hadn’t looked so scared, he looked like the most glorious thing in the world, and his smile brighter than the moon. A weird feeling rushed to the pit of Karkats stomach; a mixture of anxiety and need. He swallowed the feeling back.
Every night for the first month Karkat snuck out from his room and went to meet Eridan on the beaches shore, even though he only showed up when there was a moon in the sky. They talked; they danced, gazed out at the ocean, and became very close. Each day when Karkat ventured down to him he felt even more attached than he had previously, and afterwards, when he would go to bed, he’d only feel longing in his heart. After the first month had passed and went away there came a time when Eridan had stopped showing up, but Karkat kept going down to the place they would always meet, and waited there for him until dawn. One day, Karkat had thought, one day he’ll be back, he has to come back; and one day Eridan did come back.
Things picked up where they left off, almost like Eridan had never been gone in the first place, but this time things were different. Every night, Karkats would feel like Eridan was the only thing in the world that mattered. Karkat realized he loved Eridan; he wanted to be with Eridan. “Eridan, where are you during the day?” he asked him finally one night, “how come I only see you under the light of the moon.”
Eridan reached forward and pushed a strand of hair from his face, “I havve a secret, you wwanna hear my secret Kar?”
Karkats heart pounded in his chest, blood rose to his cheeks and he nodded his head slowly. He wasn’t sure what the secret was, but he decided he could handle whatever it was. “I really don’t care what it is fucker, but you can tell me, I guess.”
“Howw about I tell you…a little later,” he gave him that smile again and it became the last straw for Karkat, who leaned in close to capture their lips together. What had started with the kiss, ended as more; if it hadn’t been for his sore body when he had woken up alone, he would have thought it was all a dream.
The next day when he went to see Eridan, the other was fidgety and pacing around in circles—like there was something he was extremely anxious about. “What’s wrong?” he asked him worried, he hoped it wasn’t about the night before (he’d hate for things to be awkward between them).
“It’s about last night,” he said as if voicing Karkats worst fear, “not that I regret it, it wwas just too…too soon. Listen I havven’t been completely honest wwith you.”
Karkat listened to Eridan explain about the myth, and the truth behind it; Karkat had slept with a siren (or a mermaid). He rubbed his head in confusion, not sure what to say. “Okay,” he started, “I really don’t care, you don’t seem vicious or anything.”
He stopped pacing and looked over at him a look of relief across his face before it flashed back to panic. “No, no, no you’re wwrong. I am. See that’s the thing, I wwas supposed to kill you, it’s a puberty type ordeal or somethin’. Go up on shore, lure in some helpless person, eat them,” he rubs his neck awkwardly, “only I didn’t wwanna do that to you…and I’m sort of in big trouble ovver that and so…”
Karkats face paled and his body nearly collapsed, he didn’t want to have to fight or kill Eridan (hell he knew he couldn’t bring himself to do it). Thankfully, Eridan saved him from his worrying by shaking his head and muttering, “I’m not gonna kill you damn it. I havve a choice, my times almost up and then I won’t be able to come back here anymore. I can leavve you be, tell them I ate you...or you could come wwith me?” he asked looking him in the face.
“Come with you?” he asked, he didn’t even have to think about it before nodding; after all Eridan had became his life, there was nothing for him up on land. “I can do that.”
“You realize though, you can’t evver come back up here, not evver Kar. You’ll be stuck there, and the only times you can come on land is wwhen there’s a moon in the sky.”
He still just nodded his head at him, “I don’t care, there’s nothing for me here,” he crossed his arms and kicked at a rock, “You know if you had been anyone else I would have beaten the shit out of you forever ago.”
His face lightened, “Yeah I knoww Kar, come back here tomorroww okay?”
When Karkat made his way down to the beach, he was happy that he could finally be with Eridan, “Hey,” he greeted him, “Do you havve a tail for legs?”
Eridan scoffed at him, “Are you crazy? No wway, couldn’t even use the bathroom like that…you’ll like it,” he walked towards the water a few feet from the shore so that everything but his head is covered in water. He held out his hand to him, “There are big cities, wwe have technology and evverythin’ it’s almost like one of your human cities.”
Karkat stepped forward lowering into the ocean, “So just like that? I’ll be one of you?” he held onto his hand.
“Yeah, wwhen you havve sex wwith one, for the next week if you go into the ocean you’ll turn,” he smiled up at him, “come on Kar let’s go.”
Karkat followed him in, and he never looked back.
Original End:
Karkat stepped forward lowering into the ocean, “So just like that? I’ll be one of you?” he held onto his hand.
“Yeah, wwhen you havve sex wwith one, for the next week if you go into the ocean you’ll turn,” he smiled up at him, “come on Kar let’s go.”
Karkat smiled down at him and began to drop into the water, and suddenly Eridan had no clue what was going on—just that Karkat was slumping over on top of him and there was a gushing wound right through his middle. Eridan held onto him trying to cover the wound frantically, “Eri…dan….I lo…” his eyes closed shut. Eridan sucked in a breath and saw the arrow through him; it’s only then that he noticed there were arrows coming from the shore, he was too wrapped up with the body dying in his arms to notice before.
He takes his body, and he swims back down to his city. Like hell he’ll leave his lovers body to be mutilated by those human scum, he fucking hated humans.
Re: FILL: Karkat<3Karkat
FILL: TEAM DAVE<3ROSE