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

PROMPT: TEAM ENGLISH

[blackouthart]

Dave<3Karkat
Road trip, somewhere on the way to Boston (bonus points if the car breaks down)
OR
At John's wedding.

FILL: TEAM BRO<3GRANDPA

[apollosglare]

WARNING: IDK HOW CARS WORK.

"This is your fucking fault." The teen growled, kicking the old beat up car as Dave passively stood to the side as other cars passed them by. So much for this totally and ironically (but not really) passionate vacation he wanted to take Karkat on... "How is this even my fault?" Karkat glared that his authority on who was at fault was being questioned. Also he was mad at the fact that he didn't have a reason why Dave WAS at fault.

"It's your car, shouldn't you know when somethings going off the deep end? How did you not see this coming?" Another kick to the car.

"Dude, stop kicking Allyson, she had nothing to do with this."

Another kick.

Dave sighs, and turns away to lean against the car. He pulls out his phone to text something, and stares at it for a bit before putting it away. "I don't know shit about cars, we're going to have to call someone." He didn't bother looking at Karkat, who was still having some strange conniption fit over the fact that the car decided to stop working. The phone buzzed again, and he looked at it before typing back a reply and moving over to the front of the car and lifting the hood. The other teen just watched quietly, face contorted slightly in annoyance as Dave started fiddling with things.

"If you don't know anything about cars, shouldn't you stop before you fuck something up even more than you all ready have?" Dave didn't reply before checking the oil, and... "Karkat, didn't you put more oil in before we left?"

"Uh..."

The car is a piece of shit, the oil light doesn't come on all the time, so there's no indication of whether or not someone changed it besides word of mouth when you're driving 70 mph on the highway.

Sighing, the blonde moved to the trunk to get the oil, only to find it missing among their belongings. They must've taken it out to make room. Still, Dave rustled through the back looking and muttering all the while, "trips ruined like holy shit, here I was hoping we could make good time and get there with time to spare, but that shit don't work like that. It's like we got stamped with a big 'nope your plans can't work, sorry Dave' stamp, and sneezed on for good measure. I just wanted a nice weekend with my boyfriend without my Bro breathing down my neck and busting in every few seconds but I guess that's never a thing that's allowed to happen. Can't even remember to pack oil..." Closing the trunk, he moved to sit next to a guilty looking Karkat on the side of the road.

"Sorry this trip is lame so far."

The darker haired boy didn't say anything, just huffed before reaching over to grab Dave's hand and lay a head on his shoulder. "Nah, I fucked it up... It's my fault."

Dave didn't argue with him over it, but squeezed his hand to let him know he didn't blame him. "I texted my Bro, he said he'll call one of his friends in the area to come help us out."

Karkat made a face, "fuck."

"Yeah."

They were quiet for a moment, and leaned against each other in contentment with the others company. "I saw an iHop up the road if you're up to walking so we're not sitting here forever." Can't deny pancakes, Dave knew this. It was a pause before Karkat replied, "fine, but you're paying for the shit."

"Deal."