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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 JOHN<3VRISKA
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John isn’t sure what to expect when Jade runs up to him at the end of 7th period, telling him urgently that “you need to see the science lab, pronto!!!” He thinks maybe it’s just another one of her inventions, or maybe she finally figured out how to un-miniaturize his lunch from a few days ago.
What she shows him instead is much stranger.
When they enter the science lab, Jade turns the light off rather than on, and she turns to give him an uncharacteristically troubled look. “You’ve got to promise,” she says, “that you won’t tell anybody.”
John promises.
“Not Rose,” she adds. “Or Dave. Or your dad, or any of the teachers! You can’t tell anybody.”
“I won’t say anything! You’re my best friend; I promise my lips are sealed.” And to prove it, he pulls his fingers across his mouth, mimicking a zipper. Jade seems reassured by this, and she kneels down to a cabinet under one of the sinks, opening it slowly.
At first, in the dim lighting, all John can make out are the eyes – two glowing gold embers, sitting ominously under the sink – and he’s taken aback. What on earth has Jade found? Things don’t get much clearer as he begins to make out the rest of the form. It seems to be a small, gray human with two nubby horns at the top of its head, and a mess of fangs in its mouth. It growls, and though it’s probably supposed to sound threatening, the creature mostly sounds pathetic. Like a lion cub who hasn’t yet learned to roar properly.
It’s kind of cute.
Jade kneels down next to the creature, speaking in a hushed, soothing tone. “No, it’s ok! This is John. He’s going to help us.” The creature growls again, and she gives it a stern look. “Be nice! Now repeat after me – Joooooohn.”
“Jade, what are you-” John starts to say, but he’s interrupted by a small, gravelly voice.
“Jaaaaaahn.”
From that day forward, every day after school, John and Jade sneak to the science lab. Things are difficult at first, but it seems that Karkat (at least they think that’s his name) has a good propensity for language, and once they give him the basics things run smoothly. He refuses to move from his place under the sink for reasons they still don’t fully understand – he keeps on pointing at his eyes, which makes Jade think he might be sensitive to light.
Still, they bring him food, and try and figure out why he’s there, hiding in their school science lab. It’s usually pretty fruitless, however, and they spend their time afterschool trying to teach him how to speak more clearly. Their hope is that one day that he’ll be answer the questions of what he is and where he came from, but those concepts are still far beyond Karkat’s current grasp of the English language. Instead, their conversations to be simplistic, and usually about food.
It becomes something of an inside joke. Jade and John will giggle about the latest ridiculous thing Karkat has done behind their hands during lunch, much to the annoyance of their other friends.
“You two had best be careful,” Rose warns them one day. “If you two continue to behave as you are, we might have to assume that you have become, as the saying goes, ‘an item.’”
This only causes them to giggle harder.
As the weeks progress and Karkat becomes more articulate, he begins to say more troubling things. He has trouble piecing together the right words, but he begins speaking of activities “below ground,” of “other friends.” Jade and John continue to try and get more out of him, but eventually every conversation ends with Karkat pointing at his eyes. “Not see,” he insists. “Not see here.” Then, when he sees that they don’t understand him, he strings together a few curses Jade accidentally taught him, and he clams up.
It takes a month and a half for John and Jade to put together the pieces, but it comes too late.
They go to the lab that afternoon, as they always do, but when they open the sink, Karkat is gone. John and Jade both tense, and they look at each other.
“You don’t think he left on his own, did he?” John asks after a moment, even though he knows the answer.
“Of course he didn’t,” Jade says. “He couldn’t leave because of...” she lets out a frustrated sigh. “’Not seeing.’”
It hits them both about the time that they realize there is somebody standing behind them. Both of them whirl around to find themselves face to face with a tidy-looking man in a mostly-white suit.
“John Egbert and Jade Harley, I presume?” Neither of them can find the proper words to respond. “My name is Doctor Scratch. I do not take tampering with our test subjects lightly, I’m afraid.” There’s a weighted pause. “You two will have to come with me.”
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