hs_olympics | 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.

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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.

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Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Dave<3Rose family saga + mecha anime

(( I'm not particularly good at family saga, but I tried! ))

When they're thirteen, they find the robots, half-hidden in the sand. Rose is quick to spout off facts - of course they'd be here, the people who used them have been long gone for centuries - but Dave can only think of one thing. He turns to Rose, putting his hand on her shoulder.

"Lalonde, how do you feel about learning to pilot? We should start our own baby robot family, you and me, maybe Jade and John if they're up to it. Jade knows how to fix cars already, these can't be too different."

"They're entirely different, Strider. Obviously you never caught up on your pre-devastation era history." Dave gives her a shrug and pulls a piece of rope out of his sylladex, tossing it to Rose. She looks at him blankly for a moment before going over to the red, rusted piece of metal sticking out of the sand and tying it on. "Fine. But only because this will make a glorious substitution for your long-awaited birthday present."

--

"Dave, get into your robot and fight me."

"Bro, it's three o'clock in the morning, I'm asleep, and we're in the ruins of a downtown Houston. How are we going to ride a robot dong across the sky if you don't have one of your own?"

"Always did. It's just a simple matter of keeping it a secret from you. Now, are you going to show me what the hunk of metal you found does, or let me push you down some stairs?"

"You're on."

Dave learned that day that no one challenges Bro to a mecha battle, not without a good mechanic on standby. Thankfully, Jade was already on her way to visit. (It took her a month to put Davebot back together. Best hundred dollars Dave ever spent.)

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"Dear, you left your mecha parked in the front lawn, you're going to ruin the shrubs and then I'll have to do some more gardening! Won't that be fun?"

Rose looks up from her schoolwork to see Mom, in a mecha of her own (painted flourescent pink of course, how ghastly), holding Rose's comparably smaller one by the leg in front of the large windows of their house. She sighs.

"I do apologize for my horrible error. I'll fix it as soon as I'm finished with English. Now will you please put it down before you endanger yourself?"

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At sixteen, on a "fun vacation where the Striders and Lalondes spend more time under umbrellas than actually in the ocean," Dave and Rose are in the middle of what might have been a purely platonic game of who could kiss for longer without gasping for breath when they heard the clank of metal over their hotel balcony.

"Bad guys, Lalonde. Also you lost."

"Should we go take care of them? And I make claims to no such thing, I recall you breathing through your nose that time."

"Yeah, why not. You're a bad kisser anyway." As Dave runs to the balcony and leaps off, landing squarely in the pilot seat of his (much better condition and well-maintained) mecha, Rose leaves herself a reminder to place something overly soft and comfortable in Dave's bed as a sincere reminder that she knew where he slept.

--

At twenty-one, saving the world's just become a regular routine. A whole lot of "oh, these guys again? I swear they get bigger every time, it's like Pokemon" and much more time in the guts of machines, working on wires while stealing kisses and glances from each other. Bro and Mom have gone off somewhere together - Rose found the note that said they were retiring their supermecha statuses to vacation in a different dimension Mom had found when punching the universe - so they were left by themselves to make due.

As they stand before yet another bad guy, Rose holds out her mecha's fist. Dave obliges, giving it a bunp in the most hardcore of manners.

"Pizza and booze and makeouts later."

"On the roof? Or in the apartment?"

"Don't care, let's just make this snappy. I'm an important dude with lots of stuff to do."

"As you say, oh magnificence, paragon of importance."

"Make fun of my ego one more time and I'll punch your mecha to Hong Kong."

"I seriously doubt you could do that."

"....yeah, me too."

BONUS ROUND 1

Bonus Round 1

PROMPT: TEAM Kanaya<3Vriska

FILL: TEAM DAVE<3JADE