hs_olympics | 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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Aradia and Jade

Minnesota OR St. Olaf (the fictional town from Golden Girls or the real college)

(HOLY SHIT WHO ARE YOU?????)

You finish your soup then shove two trays down your shirt at the encouragement of Dave and Rose. John takes the other two. You have no idea how they got out of smuggling these babies, but they somehow won you over with "it's tradition, we never dirty our hands with fiberglass splinters" and well, you can't argue with that.

You both make it past the angry caf guard (how do they not notice your chest is a box???) and giggle down a flight of stairs and outside into the winter wind.

"Shit, man," Dave shudders. "Why did I decide to go here? This is like a typhoon of everything I'm not adapted to."

"You say this every year!" you reply. "Music program, duh."

"Besides," John says. "This is perfect weather for sledding! It builds character and general manliness!"

"Fuck your manliness, let me have my cargo shorts and sunburn."

You shake off your shoes in your room at Melby, an old old dorm that you've always loved to run around in. You get an excuse to do this once in a while because you're an RA and that's part of your job. Good job, best benefits.

You plop the tray down on your bed, and writhe in excitement for the annual late-night sledding party. You're on duty at 11, but after that it's a free-for-all shitfest of getting your butt wet with snow and unwashed dishware.

The lights flicker after your first shift. It's nothing new, it does that sometimes, but just in your room. Sometimes you like to pretend its haunted. You've heard stories of ghostly women in white at campfires and Halloween events, but you think most of it is a load of bull (except for that one about the dead man hanging up a hat on a phone, that one gives you the heebie-jeebies!).

You study biochem until 11, then step out with your binder into the hallway. Nothing eventful, no students smoking or drinking (loudly, anyway! You're not a mean RA), and you return to your room.

The lights are off. You never turn your lights off for shifts, but maybe one of your friends snuck in here when you weren't looking. You flick the light switch. Nothing happens.

This looks like a bad prank in the making. "Ahahahaha, uh, John? Are you in here?" you say.

No answer. Maybe the lightbulb burnt out? You're debating whether you should break into the supply room or go find a janitor to change it, when the door slams shut behind you, knocking you to the floor.

"I'm sorry! I didn't mean to do it that hard! Are you alright?"

You try to say, "Oh my gosh! Who said that? Are you a ghost?" but it comes out more like a quiet scream in the back of your throat.

A figure flickers in front of your glasses. It kind of looks like an old movie missing a few frames here and there, stilted and jumpy, not really with a physical form. She's a grey looking girl, with long hair that probably was the color of yours in life, and a ripped, white dress.

"You're- you're the woman in white!" you say, not sure what to do. Talk to it? Call John and get him to bring his ghost-busting vacuum over?

"I think so! That's what the stories about me say!" she laughs, then sits down in front of you. "My name is Aradia! I think your name is Jade?"

"It is," you say. You're a little bit nervous, talking to a ghost. What kinds of questions do you ask a ghost? "Um, Aradia? If you don't mind me asking... Why are you talking to me of all people?"

"I've been hanging out in this room for EONS!" she says, excitedly. "I always appear to whoever lives here around this time of year. It's part of the fun of being dead."

"I see?" you don't really.

"Anyway! I have a favor to ask of you! An activity to grant to a passing soul. Consider it part of... the journey. To my afterlife. Like a big, dead roadtrip. Spanning like, a hundred years and involving a lot of sledding."

"Ask away!" Granting a wish to a ghost? Sounds exciting!

"Would you take me sledding with you tonight?"

"I guess? How will you fit on the tray?"

"Oh, I'll grab onto you! Don't worry about that. And your friends probably wont see me either, so there is nothing to worry about."

You were not expecting this adventure! You agree and ask Aradia a few questions. She's annoyingly vague about the afterlife, but she seems like a really cool person! You make her promise to talk to you after tonight.

You run to Old Main to meet your friends, Aradia floating behind you and glistening in the lights. She was right, they don't see her... Which is too bad, because you wanted to show her off to your pals! Oh well.

You mount your trays at the top of the hill. You try to squeeze yourself tightly on your tray, but you always end up being too big for it so your legs float off the end. You feel a little warmer when Aradia snuggles up to you and wraps her arms around your neck. You're about to ask for a push from Rose, but Aradia flicks her wrist and a strong gust of wind blows you down the hill.

You both screech with excitement as you slide down the steep hill, flying off bumps in the way, and finally falling off your makeshift sled and rolling a few feet before coming to a halt in the big snowy field.

"Hey, Aradia," you ask, dabbing your face with your mittens. "When does your big, interstellar roadtrip on a sled come to a close?"

"Not for a while. I'm having too much fun haunting this place!" she smiles and grabs your hand. "What do you say we begin the trek back up?"

"No fair," you say. "You don't have legs! You don't get to feel the pain of this in the morning!"

She just laughs.

I AM DELIGHTED SOMEONE FILLED THIS!!!!!!!! (2011 grad, here, also OP's gf)

TAKE ME RIGHT HERE IN THE MIDDLE OF STAV

I LOVE IT

My name is Emily! I graduated in 2011, along with my girlfriend Kat. She was one of the art apprentices-- we're both from the art department.

(I HAD PINK HAIR FOR A WHILE IF THAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE)

(tumblr here btw)

BONUS ROUND 5

Bonus Round 5

PROMPT: TEAM ROSE<3ROXY

FILL: TEAM JADE<3KARKAT

Re: FILL: TEAM JADE<3KARKAT

Re: FILL: TEAM JADE<3KARKAT