BONUS ROUND 5

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Bonus Round 5

Tales from the Road

Hey, shippers! HSO is winding down, so we thought we'd take a look back at the journey, so to speak. With that in mind, this next bonus round is going to be roadtrip-themed! Give us a little taste of your characters' life on the road, whatever form that takes.

Rules

1. Submit prompts! Prompts should consist of one ship (friendship/gen is fine too!) and a location. This cannot be your team's ship! This round we will not be giving points for prompts.


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 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 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!

Bonus Round 5 is now closed!

16/08/12 Comments are unscreened again, for the sake of comments on fills. No new fills are being counted for points.

Comments

FILL: TEAM Karkat♥Sollux

[turntecharmageddon2]

Well I humanstucked... I may write an extended version and post it up on AO3, but I was starting to spend to long on this. Also I have no clue how to Gamzee, I just gave it my best swing because this was too cute to pass up.


Feferi had never been one to doubt people when they said that they could do something, but when she looked at Gamzee and he insisted that he could help her in her bakery she had her doubts. Her bakery, something she had insisted to her parents she could run, wasn’t doing good. She could make everything cute, but nothing tasted any good.

She cast an unsure look at Karkat who was glaring at the cupcake she had him try while Gamzee busied himself in the kitchen. “I’m unsure of this situation.”

He looks up at her blinking large red-brown eyes. “What do you mean?”

She worries at her lip. “I trust your opinion over all other’s Karkat, will you tell me what to do? I know he bakes a lot, but is he actually good at it?”

“Why don’t you taste for yourself?” He gestures Gamzee.

Feferi turns and looks at him and where she thought he was making a mess, he had been cleaning up hers and making a fresh batch of cupcakes. “But Karkat, will he be able to help me?”

“I could help you and I burnt water the other day.” He dumps the mess in the trash. “Just let him do his thing.”

“Oh well, okay.” She lets out a sigh and moves to the door turning the open sign to closed before taking a seat at the table with Karkat. She’d probably already be out of business if she hadn’t had so much money to start with. “I suppose I have nothing left to lose anyway.” She pillows her head in her arms and she drifts off while she waits.

“Hey, sis.” Feferi blinks awake. “I didn’t want to wake you or anything, but I figured you’d want to try it’s while it’s still warm.”

It wasn’t anything fancy as far as she could tell. It looking like a plain cupcake with caramel drizzled over the top. She glanced at Karkat who was devouring what seemed to be his fourth one. She reached up and took it from his hand and pulled the wrapper off.

She to bit into it and was sent to heaven. He had filled it with caramel too and it was simply to die for. She shoved the rest in her mouth and reached for another one. Gamzee’s smile widens. “Glad to see you two get your grub on. Any motherfucking requests?”

“Strawberry!” Feferi says and Karkat nods viciously behind her.

“Okay, sis, I’ll get right on that.”

Feferi hires him as soon as the Strawberry cupcake her mouth.

---

It takes a couple of weeks but soon business is booming. Gamzee makes the cupcakes, the pies, the cookies, any pastry Feferi’s thrown at him, and then she makes them pretty. She doesn’t know where she’d be without him. Well she can guess she’d be right back in college.

“Hey sis, do want me to teach you how to bake these?” He holds up a pan filled with his caramel cupcakes. “You know I’ll be on vacation next week and Tav, Sollux, Karkat and I rented that cabin on the beach so I won’t be here.”

Disappointment blossoms in her chest but she smiles anyway. “Yeah, can you show me after we close up?”

His grin spreads, “Of course.” Then the two of them are back to work. The hours pass quickly and soon the two of the are left alone in the building. He’s cleaning up the floor and she’s loading the dishwasher one last time.

Feferi watch him while he works, he’s such a hard worker that it threw her off at first. She hadn’t thought he of all people would be such a hard worker, but the more she thought about it, the more it seemed to fit, the more she thought about him, the more her heart fluttered in her chest. “I’m about done.” His lazy voice snaps her out of her trance. He puts the last chair back on the ground. “I’m gonna take out the trash real motherfucking quick.”

“Okay, I’ll just be here.” She smiles at him, but when the door closes behind him she slumps against the counter. A week without Gamzee here to help her; Feferi knew she could do a well enough job by now to keep the business from running into the ground in a week’s time, but the thought of him not being here hurt. She should be happy for him though, he deserved to have some fun with his friends.

Though Feferi couldn’t deny she wasn’t a little jealous. They all got to spend time with Gamzee, but she’d be stuck here working, alone. Plus she was pretty sure that he and Tavros were an unofficial thing. That made her stomach turn.

“Hey sis, are you sure you’re feeling up too this? You look a little ill.”

“Oh!” She jumped and turned smiling up at Gamzee, “I’m perfectly fine! Just a little tired.”

“Are you all up and motherfucking sure? We don’t need you getting sick.” He looks a little worried and her heart does a little flutter.

“Yes I’m sure.”

He reaches out and places the back of his hand against her forehead. “You’re running a motherfucking fever. We need to get you home and into bed before you get any worse.”

She color’s lightly. “Gamzee, I swear, I’m fine.”

“We’re not having any of that. You’re going home and to motherfucking bed so you can be taken care of.”

“I moved out of my parents house…” You look away from him.

“Well shit, I guess a motherfucker will just have to make sure you don’t get sick on his own.”

“It’s quite alright Gamzee.”

“I insist.” He bows and she flushes darker, her head starts spinning.

“Maybe you’re right.” She had felt a little queasy earlier. “But you don’t have to come over and help me.”

“It’s the least I can do after you gave me a chance when nobody else would.” She blinks confused at him. “Everybody else was too afraid to take a chance on me, but you did even know all my problems .”

“It was Karkat’s idea, but your baking was what landed you the job.”

He smiles so sweetly at her heart almost breaks. “He’s always looking out for me, but come on lets get you to bed.”

FILL: TEAM KARKAT<3SOLLUX

[astraldeveloper]

Re: FILL: TEAM DAVE<3ROSE

[playerprophet]

aaaah beautiful!!!

Re: FILL: TEAM BRO<3GRANDPA

[playerprophet]

THANK YOU!! oh my god that floaty. Sollux honey, no

PROMPT: TEAM KARKAT<3SOLLUX

[astraldeveloper]

Aradiac3<(Karkat/Dave)

(mythological) Mt. Olympus

PROMPT: TEAM GAMZEE<>KARKAT

[rex]

Sollux/Roxy (any/gen), 2fort

PROMPT: TEAM GAMZEE<>KARKAT

[rex]

Dave<3Terezi, the back seat of a car

PROMPT: TEAM GAMZEE<>KARKAT

[rex]

Dirk/Jake, Lyra's Oxford

Re: FILL: TEAM ERIDAN&lt;3SOLLUX

[dejup]

shhh no it's fine!!
i want to read it if you'll post uwu

PROMPT: TEAM DIRK<>ROXY

[dejup]

Tavros<>Aradia
Tim Horton's!

Re: FILL: TEAM Karkat♥Sollux

[universeheart]

aaaaaaaaah, oh my Gosh, this is so perfect! <3 thank you so much for the fill, it was exactly what I have dreamed of! *___*

Re: FILL: TEAM JOHN<3ROSE

[cest_what]

Meenah, impossible, strident Meenah, who takes and takes and still brims with need.

Ooh, I really like this :) Thank you!

FILL: TEAM DIRK<>ROXY

[dejup]

shit wher-
car accident, categorized as hit-and-run. perpetuator still unfound by public. december third, 2012, 9:18 pm.

you're a dead man, dave strider.

He smiles somberly at you. Stunning blue eyes, a mop of messy black hair, shining with a whitish-cyan light. Wings on his back, an oddity in the swirls of red and black around you. Beads of sweat shyly step down your neck, and you raise your eyebrows.
oh, you say. welp
that really it? 'welp?' geez, i thought the job would be lots more interesting. more dramatic and hilarious reactions to record in my death diary.
well sorry to disappoint kiddo you say. aint really that upset right now. i feel sort of dull.
He waves a dismissive hand at you. better get used to it, bro. happy bday, by the way.
well ill be darned
thats all death is
thought itd be an exciting new adventure for my soul to undergo traversing the afterlife hanging off a cloud watching my loved ones
what happened guys this is one unsatisfied customer
geez, you are kind of a huge insufferable prick. he says, and you shrug.
anyways, welcome.
to what?
the door to hell.
welp
is now a good time to say forgive me father for i have sinned or is it too late mister angel
it's john.
woah angels have names???
you're not really racking any going-to-heaven brownie points here.
so am i not destined to burn
not yet.
You arch an eyebrow, lips pressing together in a thin line.
so
how do i get these aforementioned brownie points
well, it doesn't take much. you're here for wasted potential. you could've done so much, and you knew that. but you didn't do anything, and showed no signs of wanting to help the world.
excuse you i ran a fabulous blog
His mouth twitches from the slight frown he's been holding this entire time. congratulations, the world has benefited by your punk ass blog. dave, i'm a fucking angel. i know about your 26 followers.
fuck you i wanted thirty before my 16th
yeah, whatever.
ok so
what do i need to do to not go to hell
you didnt exactly clarify
oh, right. you just gotta make me laugh.
well fuck
He looks unimpressed.
uh
knock knock
who's there?
doctor
doctor who?
ba dum tss
He looks really unimpressed. You're screwed.
aight listen to this one
what did one wall say to the other
see you at the corner.
no you jerk im supposed to finish the jokes
He rolls his eyes. You just had an angel roll his eyes at you.
jesus christ
alright uh
what is a storms favorite article of clothing
He widens his eyes the tiniest factor and asks innocently, what?
his
...
thunderpants
He smirks a little and you jump internally.
woah there buster
got a grin out of you does that count
no.
fuck dammit
it's gotta be a laugh, man. i can smile all i want. As if punctuating the sentence, he outright beams at you, a genuine childish grin with his front layer of teeth poking out.
And holy shit, that smile sent goosebumps down your arms and you did not know angels were so cute.
thats a stupid smile, you say dumbly.
you're a stupid smile. he says back.
You look him in the eye, sigh a little.
damn son
look man i have no idea how to sway you give me a hint here
what are your tastes
are you like one of THOSE kids
those kids?
yeah man the kids who hole themselves up in the basement with a cup of lukewarm coffee singing the ghostbusters theme song laughing alone with their nineties pride and alternating between sobbing and laughing over their pure lack of a life and what the fuck are you doing
He’s laughing. He’s actually laughing, but it sounds so fake that you want to just run your face into your fist. Flat and toneless, simple and stretched apart “ha ha ha”s that leave you awkwardly shifting your weight between your feet but it’s alright, because he’s smiling and that’s all you need.
that cant be your real laugh
it’s not.
you’re a pretty interesting guy, though. can’t let interesting guys burn, i’d be pretty bored.
come on. heaven awaits.

i had no idea if this was a reference to a video game or a series or something omg so i just au'd everything. EVERYTHING. ;;

PROMPT: TEAM DIRK<>ROXY

[pyrokineticvampire]

John<3Dave
New York

PROMPT: TEAM DIRK<>ROXY

[dejup]

Dave<3Rose, Toronto

PROMPT: TEAM DIRK<>ROXY

[pyrokineticvampire]

Jake<>Jane
A fancy hotel in Shanghai

PROMPT: TEAM DIRK<>ROXY

[dejup]

Karkat/Sollux/Eridan (in any combination of quadrants)
An escape-the-room-game setting

PROMPT: TEAM DIRK<>ROXY

[pyrokineticvampire]

John<3Rose
Pizza Hut

PROMPT: TEAM DIRK<>ROXY

[dejup]

Rose<3Roxy
A cat store (alt: a pet store...in the cat section??)

Re: FILL: TEAM DAVE<3ROSE

[ohdeerling]

YES PERFECT

Thank you so much! :D <3

FILL: TEAM DIRK<>ROXY

[pyrokineticvampire]

Rose sits beside her king, her face calm and lips curved into a smile that Dave can see right through. She laughs at the right moments and she says what everyone expects her to say, the object of perfect womanly grace, a perfect queen. An amethyst stone around her neck bobs when she swallows a sips of red wine and Dave imagines his lips on that warm neck, wanting but not allowed to mark her as his. She is more than a perfect queen to Dave.

Dave reluctantly tears his eyes away and takes a drink of his own, trying to fix his mind on something else.

The unexpected foul taste of his drink makes him gag and it's all he can do to stop himself from spitting the liquid back out and succumbing to a coughing fit. Around him, his fellow knights burst into laughter, especially his best friend John who sits across the table, simply cackling.

"What have you done to my drink, Egbert?" Dave demands once he's cleared his throat.

"A magician never reveals his secret, Dave." John giggles. Dave wonders how such a goof made his way up to the Kingsguard.

"You're not a magician," Dave gripes as he steals John's drink instead and washes the taste out of his mouth. It's good wine when it hasn't been tampered with, at least. Only the best on the name day of the young prince.

John shrugs and gets himself a new drink. "You seem distracted," he states, voice lower and more serious now. Their fellow knights have found new conversation and aren't paying attention. "Is something wrong?"

Dave shakes his head. Nothing is wrong and he can't tell John his real reason for being distracted. He can't help but glance in Rose's direction just at the thought of her, she's laughing and he hones in on the sound of it, pinpointing it despite the rambunctious noise of the dining hall around them. If anything is wrong, Dave thinks, it's that he and Rose had to have been born brother and sister instead of from separate highborn families, but even then, he can't fathom the idea of not knowing her as closely and intimately as he does now, thanks to growing up as her twin, as her male counterpart.

"Just being cautious. That's kind of our job, you know," Dave teases, training his eyes back on his friend.

John thankfully lets it go and the rest of the evening is just another typical celebratory gathering in the Red Keep. The food is plentiful and the drinks go around but Dave looks forward to the end of it all. He isn't interested in the same things as the rest of the court and he spends most of the evening avoiding looking at Rose so much that it raises suspicion. They have to be careful with their secret, especially when it's the King Rose must go to bed with at night.

He gets away with visiting Rose's private chambers so late and so in private only because they are brother and sister.

"Brother dear," Rose greets accordingly when she lets him in. There's a hint of a smile on her face, a teasing smile.

"My queen," Dave replies, holding her gaze before leaning close and kissing her lips. "The king?" he asks when they break away a moment later.

"In a deep, drunken stupor," Rose confirms, "as soon as he got into bed."

"Fancy that, sister," Dave says. "How about I give you a hand out of that bodice?"

"I thought you'd never ask."

FILL: TEAM DAVE <3 ROSE <3 TEREZI

[gomimushi]

Snakes. Why'd it have to be snakes?

Re: FILL: TEAM DIRK<>ROXY

[megaparsecs]

screech yes this is precisely what i wanted thank you :)

[gomimushi]

WOW THIS IS EVERYTHING I EVER WANTED
Thank you, thank you so much ;A;

Re: PROMPT: TEAM DAVE <3 ROSE <3 TEREZI

[gomimushi]

Ahh, this is great! The fic feels so nostalgic and it's appropriate for the time of year too, haha. The idea of Mindfang eating chilli crab is hilarious to me as well for some reason skdgjlsl thank you so much!!!

Also, I don't think you can edit comments once someone has replied, but we can either delete our comments and you can edit, or you could maybe reply with the title and an explanation?