hs_olympics | BONUS ROUND 5

BONUS ROUND 5

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

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.

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 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 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.

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oh man this is awesome - i love how clearly dave is enjoying karkats suffering, these two have such perfect interaction here

god this is great - i would read thousands and thousands of words on the story that this picture fits into!

this is really great! its exactly how i see them interacting, forever, in every situation - jade absolutely in charge while karkat tries frantically to pretend to himself that he is

dave/terezi

the suburbs

dirk/jake

military boot camp

i feel like i am commenting on every single fill you have written and i probably am, but they are all so much fun to read that i want you to know it! (i would read a whole novel about the situation set up here)

this is the cutest thing produced in the whole hso, i love this colour scheme

john/karkat

oxbridge

Dirk<3Jane
In a doomed timeline

Kanaya<>Davesprite
NASCAR track

Mindfang <3 Dolorosa

Tortuga

The Land of Crypts and Helium was always a desperately lonely place, but at least now you have Dirk at your side. Lil Seb scampers about out your heels like he always has, following you both as you explore the gray, barren land that belongs to you. The only land you managed to get in to the medium at all. Dirk is quiet and distracted all the time. When you make a joke or bring something up, he talks to you. He'll hold conversations with you, but the silence in between them stretches dark and tense for hours.

You can't talk about Jake. You can't talk about Roxy.

What you can do is explore the giant land made just for you, full of crypts and tombs and with the skulls of unusually large lizards. You try not to remember how much Jake loved skulls. You read over tablets with Dirk peering over your shoulder. He holds your hand to help you balance when you run over the backs of swollen balloons. He carries you in his arms from high ledges to put you safely on the ground.

"Why thank you, kind prince," you say with a smile.

"Of course, my lady," he replies.

When you get hungry you go back to where your house is, just as dark and dusty as the rest of the planet when you leave it too long. The two of you mess with the alchemiter and make bizarre food hybrids while you're multiplying some. You make a watermelon made of apple, and Dirk combines a box of curry mix to a package of mac and cheese and makes a combination that is not as awful as you were expecting. When you get tired, you sleep in your bed, Lil Seb always nearby and Dirk in the living room. He snoozes with his shades on so you can never tell if he's awake. He lays with his his feet up on the arm of the couch. When you come downstairs for anything, he'll talk to you no matter how quiet you think you're being. He says he's that light a sleeper. It comes with having to protect yourself from powerful troll empresses when they might spring an attack on you at any time.

"Has that ever really happened?" you ask him, with an arched eyebrow as you make him some fried eggs in the kitchen, and he looms like he hasn't eaten in weeks.

"No," he admits, and you hit his hand with a spatula before he sticks his finger in to taste the margarine. He's so smart and alert and competent but he has no idea what is food and what isn't, which is one of the most entertaining things about him you think.

There are still a handful of Dirks running around, in a sense, if you include Lil Seb. AR is still nestled into the glasses on Dirk's nose, but you still feel like he's the only one you've got. He has a small cluster of organized forces when all you have is him. Lil Seb will still listen to you, but Dirk is there and he has things under control. Each of his forces are under his sway, and out to look out for you, to protect you, to keep you safe. Unless you tell him to back off he wouldn't let you lift a finger, walking into a room and doing the puzzles in two seconds flat, which is no fun at all. Eventually he learns and lets you take your time, figuring out how to coordinate the lights, the water, the dark recesses of certain wall panels until you make a balloon sink, or soar into the air. Dirk stands back, holds his tongue, and lets you enjoy yourself.

There can only be so many puzzles on this planet, you think one day as the two of you walk back to your old house, observing Dirk's hands buried deep into his pockets. His arms are slender but muscled in a way you don't really see in the movies. When you run out of puzzles, what is there? Then what do you do?

You have a lot of dreams where you find your father. You also wonder what happened to that strange clown-demon. You wonder if they're still out there.

Sometimes the balloons float over the house and pour water down on you not like rain, but a waterfall. Dirk had to put a plug on the chimney top or else the flood would run through the house and out the front door, off of the balloon they were perched on top of. Some of it washed in through the cracks under the doors, but anything was better than the chimney. They treated those days like rainy days, even though the balloons would pass over in sometimes under an hour.

You would bake a cake or two and Dirk would loom and stick his fingers in the batter until you order him away to tinker on something. Dirk could eat cake for breakfast, lunch and dinner and wash it down with orange faygo and not even blink twice. He doesn't like steak or chicken. He doesn't like much, but he likes cake, and being able to do something he can't for once, to look out for him in this way, really makes you feel better about everything. You think baking him cake and teasing him until he tastes a little bit of tomato and laughing at his look of disgust is something you wouldn't mind doing until this timeline dies. Or until you die. You wonder which will come first.

You don't know what to do. You have all this time and nothing to do with it because you failed, and you're sure he blames himself. He doesn't know what to do either, so you take care of each other.

You're okay with that.

You put on a stupid movie and when he lays down on the couch, his head on the arm, you stretch out next to him and lay your head on his shoulder. He folds his arm around you, holding you, until you fall asleep with his breath puffing a warm spot into your hair.

Edited (I should beta read things before I just go and post them.) 2012-08-12 18:03 (UTC)

That was amazing!! I never thought the prompt could inspire something like that?? Haha, and the parallels between John and Peeta's baking, and Katniss and Karkat's grumpiness I never even thought about them, wow. Awesome.

Sollux/Terezi (<> or <3)
Yellowstone National Park

(I'm sorry I know nothing about Lido di Venezia, or italy, but I love this paleship.)

__________________

The founder of Skaianet is an eccentric man. He seems to have an almost limitless plethora of hobbies and skills, and you find yourself surprised at him almost daily.

Still, the aged Jake Harley manages to be consistent in some ways: he's terribly reckless. You've already lost count of the number of times you've had to talk him out of foolish scuffles. To be quite honest, you're surprised he managed to survive to his eighties without someone like you around. Not that you're a beacon of rational, patient thinking yourself, but you manage to be reckless only in the ways he isn't, and vice versa, and that is what keeps you both out of trouble. He's there to stay your hand when you reach for that drink that might be too much, and you're there to be the voice of reason.

It's a comfortable friendship, even though he's technically your boss.

Today you're travelling to Venice. You don't know what exactly the film festival has to do with a corporation specializing in technological advancement (You suspect that it has nothing to do with it at all, and old Harley is just using this as an excuse to watch some movies). You're sitting across from him on a train, while he chats to a passing fellow who had been on the way back from the bathroom. Eventually the man leaves, and Harley turns back to you, grin entirely too wide and youthful to be on the face of an old man.

It makes you strangely sad, but you don't have time to dwell.

"Well? Having fun?"

"The wine's good."

"Dear girl, are you going to judge every country we go to on the quality of their alcohol?"

"Probably," you smirk at him. He rolls his eyes in overdramatic exasperation in return.

"Where's your sense of adventure?"

"We're on a train. I'll adventure when we're actually somewhere," you stick out your tongue childishly, and then sip your wine with some dignity. He chuckles, and you're unable to resist a return smile. "I'm guessing this isn't your first trip to Italy?"

"Not even remotely! I've been to the film festival every year since I learned about it!" He leaned forward, eyes lighting up as the topic turned to one of his favourite subjects: movies. "Some of them are really excellent, I'm sure you'll have fun."

"If you say so, then I'm sure I will."

Thirty minutes later, you manage to turn the conversation to work, which is fine because your work is science and science is something that interests you both greatly.

Eeheehee thank you! I don't know anything about Lido di Venezia either, but I need this paleship to exist like whoa.

Thank you! I told myself I'd do at least one fill before HSO was over and this was pretty fun to do. I already have head canons in my head.
Karkat's Katniss, John's Peeta, Sollux's Gale, Cinna's Kanaya, Gamzee is Primrose. I think Tavros will be Rue. The Hunger Games here are different. It's a troll and human for every District and they are segregated. No hemospectrum order here. President Snow is Doc Scratch. Madge is Jade. I'm thinking that the trolls came 20 years before, right after Dirk lost Jake. Roxy's Effie, but only because Jane managed to wipe her memory after she was brainwashed by the Empress(who led the original rebellion in district 13 shortly after the trolls' arrival in hopes of establishing her monarchy in the Capitol but lost).
Unfortunately I'm not a huge fan of the hunger games so I'm not sure whether I'll be continuing this...

omg stunning! i love the limited color palette!

Dave + Rose (gen)
traveling throughout Europe

Jane<3Roxy<3Dirk<3Jake
hot springs

oh my SWEET JUGGALO GOD this is hilarious, everyone is PERFECT, JEEZ what a predicament

thanks so much for filling this holy heck

UM FUCK YES
This is a whole lot less angsty than I expected(which is not a bad thing! My stories always drown in angst and this was a nice change of pace) and I like the calmness of it.

Rose<3Terezi
The ocean, exploring watery caves.

Edited 2012-08-12 18:30 (UTC)

AAAAAA! Holy cow! Wow this is absolutely fantastic. I sure hope fills for fills count, because this deserves it. :O

Thank you, Vintar!

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Bonus Round 5

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

Re: FILL: TEAM DIRK♥JAKE♥JANE♥ROXY

Re: FILL: TEAM DAVE<3ROSE

PROMPT: TEAM DAVE<3DAVE

PROMPT: TEAM DAVE<3DAVE

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

Re: FILL: TEAM [Alpha!Dave♥Alpha!Rose]

PROMPT: TEAM DAVE<3DAVE

PROMPT: TEAM DIRK<>ROXY

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Fill: Team Dirk<3Jake<3Jane<3Roxy

Re: FILL: TEAM ENGLISH

PROMPT: TEAM John<3Rose

FILL: TEAM DIRK<3ROXY

Re: FILL: TEAM DIRK<3ROXY

Re: FILL: TEAM ENGLISH

Re: FILL: TEAM GAMZEE<>KARKAT

PROMPT: TEAM John<3Rose

PROMPT: TEAM John<3Rose

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

Re: Fill: Team Dirk<3Jake<3Jane<3Roxy

PROMPT: TEAM ENGLISH

FILL: TEAM DAVE <3< GAMZEE

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