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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 ERIDAN<>ROSE
"I know! It's so pawfully exciting, isn't it?" Nepeta gives you a big, toothy smile. "We haven't had a crrrowd like this in so long!"
"Well, I told them that our act would bring people in, didn't I?" You take one last slip of your second martini - you're allowed to have exactly two martinis before you begin your act now, since the ringmaster is a bit of an old-fashioned sort, and two martinis afterwards to celebrate and relax. It took you a long time to get him to agree to even that compromise! But you do better on stage with a drink or two, honest!
"And now, in the center ring, we have an act that will astound you, ladies and gents. A lady who can change shapes right before your eyes -"
You reach over and give Nepeta a pat on the back. "You ready to go, kitty?"
"Totally!" Her olive eyes are gleaming with excitement.
You hustle out the curtain - if you let yourself get distracted by all of Nepeta's enthusiasm and happiness, you might end up missing a cue again. Much better to hold off on all of that, at least until the act is over.
"And so, ladies and gentlement, I present to you, the lioness and her partner, Nepeta and Roxy!"
You're ready for your cue as soon as the spotlight comes on, posing with your hands on your hips - you don't need a crop, not for your sweet little kitty - and Nepeta lounging behind you in her blue leotard and kitty mask. She stretches, poses, does amazing acrobatic contortions as you stalk around - this isn't the act. This is just a warm-up, something to keep the audience's attention while the hands set the stage for the real act. Still, the audience eats it up, and if you didn't have to smile for the audience you'd eat it up too. It's perfect, that time - the crowd's roar is loud and perfectly fuzzed by the martinis, and you're ready. You're ready for anything.
Nepeta finishes her posing and leaping and lands on all fours, and you glance over the stage entrance, looking for the flash of light - and there it is, blinking from the curtains. So you look back at Nepeta and signal, a complicated sort of wave that means hey, kitty, we're ready to go!
Nepeta grins, nods at you - and then roars. The audience gasps as Nepeta begins to shift, her body tearing out of its leotard as her hands shorten to paws. Soft olive fur covers her entire body, and her kitty tail is cast aside in place of a real one. The next time Nepeta roars, she's not just a troll-girl who looks a little like a kitten - she's a real jungle-cat, with fur the color of her eyes and massive white teeth.
And now, you think, it's time for the fun part! You leap onto her back, balancing yourself on her muscular shoulders, and point. "Go!" you yell, and she looks back at you and gives you a kitty-grin, just before she leaps.
And then you're off, balancing on her back as she makes her way through the elaborate course that the circus hands have just finished designing - leaping too, when she has to run under things that are too low for you to crouch under. You're feeling fantastic - you spent most of your childhood leaping through windows and rolling under logs and things, just so that someday you could do something like this! (Of course you never thought you'd be doing it on the back of a troll that could turn into a jungle cat, but those are just details, right?)
It's an amazing course, this time - they've really outdone themselves, right up to the to hoops at the end that sudden burst into flames as you approach, one of them way higher than usual. It takes an awesome leap for you to make it up there, but somehow you do make it, and the crowd just goes wild! You're just overwhelmed as you and Nepeta make your final bows, amazed by the way that they just love you, your entire body pumped full of adrenaline. You barely even hear the ringmaster's final words as you walk backstage with Nepeta, still in her kitty shape.
She stays in it until you make it back to your trailer. You two have a private one, now, for which you're very grateful. "That," she said as she shifted back and flopped onto the cot, "was pawsome."
"It definitely was!" You flop into bed next to her, and give her a long hot kiss. "You were amazing, Neppy, you really were!"
She makes a self-satisfied little purring sound and reaches for you, pulling you close. "I know. But you were amazing too, you know!"
"We're both amazing, okay?" you say, and kiss her again. It's usually like this after a performance, which might be why they gave you the private trailer, to be fair.
You'll have those martinis later. Right now, you've got something better.
Re: FILL: TEAM ERIDAN<>ROSE