BONUS ROUND 1

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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

1. 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.


2. Look through the prompts and fill whichever you like!


3. You may not fill prompts for your ship, nor may you fill your own team's prompts.


4. 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.
PROMPT: TEAM [YOUR SHIP]
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.
FILL: TEAM [YOUR SHIP]
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!

Comments

FILL: TEAM KARKAT <3 VRISKA

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(Gosh your prompts are really good so I filled another.)

“You have a trollsona?!” squealed Nepeta, hopping to her moirall’s side, grabbing her hand and looking her in the eyes. “You have to show me!”

“Oh, uhm, well... No offense, lovely, but she’s sort of... private.” Calliope mumbled, eyes on the ground. Should she have lips she would be biting them right now, instead settling for scratching at the back of her head awkwardly.

“Oh. Okay, I guess, I just thought it might be fun. I showed you my adorable fursona...” she snuggled up against Calliope’s green pyjamas, nestling her warm head against the cherub’s cold body.

“Well, yes, that was very cute and I’m glad I got to see her, it was nice!” Calliope placed a hand in the troll’s black hair, stroking absently. “But... I’m bloody sorry, darling, but I just don’t feel comfortable showing her to you.”

“I’m your meowraill, Callie, you show me anything.” Nepeta smiled encouragingly. “But if you don’t feel comfurtable with that then I can respect that.”

“Thank you, Nepeta. You are a very good friend.” she thought for a moment. “Or should I say furiend?”
Nepeta tacklepounced Calliope, excitement clear in her eyes. “You used a catpun!” She thought for a moment. “You nefur use catpuns, you always say you don’t have that animal where you’re from.... You’re not trying to make up fur not showing her to me are you?”

“Well... I’ve had that one stored for a while, now seemed like a good time to use it, that’s all.” Calliope shrugged, eyes down.

“You don’t have to make up fur anything, Cattie!” scolded Nepeta. “If you don’t want to show me your troll then you don’t have to. It’s your decision.”

“Catti... Oh, Call... Right. I understand, Nepeta, I just feel... Sort of guilty!”

“Noo, you shouldn’t fureel guilty.” Nepeta booped Calliope’s nose and grinned. “How about we watch the Lion King again to clear your mind?”

“Oh, but we already watched it several times tonight; in fact it’s the only film you brought with you, sweetie.”

“Yes, but I left the sequels at home, this place is super far away from there and it takes a long long time to get back so we’ll just have to bare with it.”

The two watched the film in silence, Calliope hugged Nepeta through Mufasa’s death scene and they both giggled at the stupid jokes they’d heard three times already this evening.

“Callie?” whispered Nepeta.

“What is it?”

“Why don’t you want to show me your trollsona?” Nepeta adjusted herself to face the cherub, shifting her blue dressing gown and smiling.

Calliope looked at her for a moment before moving her gaze toward the ground. “Because she’s everything I’m not.” She awaited Nepeta’s response but none came. “She’s beautiful and smart and popular and she can feel emotions that I never could - should you have not awakened the feelings of moiralliegance within me I don’t think I could ever have felt the blessed things. So that’s why I can’t show you to her, Nepeta. Because... I’m worried you’ll,” she paused and closed her eyes. “I’m worried you’ll prefer her to me.”

“What? Meowrail, I would never ever ever prefurr anybody to you, you’re purrfect and pretty and really smart!” she exclaimed, the movie ignored as she hugged Calliope and kissed her on her hard cheek.

“I’m sure you’re just saying that, I’m pitiful enough, certainly, but I could never be loved.” she sighed, facing Nepeta head on and smiling weakly. “But that’s okay, really, because I’ve got you and you’re all I need!”

Nepeta smiled, holding Calliope’s claw loosely. “And that’s why I can’t do anything to risk losing you.” sighed Calliope. “Because you’re all I need, but you’re also all I have.”

“Okay, Calliope, I’ll do my best to be the greatest meowrail ever. I promise I will never leave you, ever! So you don’t have to show me your silly old trollsona because all I want to know is the real you.” grinned Nepeta.

“Really?” Calliope stared at her, shocked.

“Really!”

“Gosh.” Calliope smiled nervously. “Oh, by the way, look at these two friends of mine. Shouldn’t they just bleeding well go and get on with it and kiss?”

“Wow, yes, they totally should. Oh and also those two, yes, they would be so adorable together.”

“I know right!”

After spending hours talking about shipping their friends in inexplicably creepy ways, the two fell asleep in each other’s arms, a smile set on Calliope’s face and a lightness in her chest, knowing that at least one person in the world preferred her to her creation.