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hs_olympics2012-08-06 09:24 pm
hso_mods) wrote in hs_olympics2012-08-06 09:24 pm
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.
PROMPT: TEAM DIRK<3JAKE<3JANE<3ROXY
An abandoned spacestation
FILL: TEAM DAVE<3ERIDAN
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When the young commander first meets former fleet admiral Jade English, one of the greatest minds in the decade and the mastermind behind a great deal of the technology that allows for space-colonization as well as the English Warp technology he expects a sagely old lady with military patience and a solid, clean-cut fighter’s mentality.
Instead he finds himself sitting opposite an ancient looking woman who grins like all of the dangerous things that hide in the dark, all teeth and an increase of wrinkles around her piercing electric green eyes that hardly seemed watered down with age at all. Even below her worn, aged skin her muscles are impressively toned and the way she carries herself is that of a predator, and suddenly he begins seeing reason in why this woman was forced into an early retirement.
But humanity is in danger, just like she’d told them they would be, and there is no-one but Jade English to crawl to in the face of humanity’s first attempt at intergalactic warfare. So he straightens his back and braces himself before saluting her. “Greetings ma’am. My name is Commander Van Voort and-“
“Yeah yeah squirt, I hear ya. Wally’s yer name, right? Well kid, you and me have a lot of work to do. My dear old Johnny boy tells me you’re pretty damn qualified, so I’ll be counting on you to deal with the bureaucratic BS for me. We’ve got pretty much no red tape because I’m the only genius in the world who was smart enough to prepare for this scenario. No reason to believe in the existence of intelligent alien lifeform my ass. With that said, welcome to the English Initiative. Just follow my lead and I’m sure we’ll kick plenty of extraterrestrial butt.”
For a moment Wally is stunned into silence. Then a small boy appears in the doorway, looking up at Admiral English with sparkling eyes and without any of the fear a woman like her would command in most. “G’andma, I found something cool, come see!” he chirps, not quite pronouncing his r’s right.
Jade English softens, and for a moment he can almost imagine her as a normal old lady knitting on her porch, but then she decaptchalogues a rifle that is about half her size and carries it with the same ease anyone else would a cup of water and he suddenly remembers that a wild boar is at its most dangerous when it has cubs.
“In a minute dear,” she croons at the boy, mussing his hair with what looks like almost punishing force. The boy just beams, shouting a ‘you p’omised, g’andma’ over his shoulder as he darts out of the room again.
“That was…?” Wally asks carefully, not sure if his nosiness would be considered rude or not.
“Don’t be daft boy,” Jade scolds him, once again all old fighting instinct and feral grace with the child gone. “That was my grandson. Isn’t he the cutest lil’ fuckass you’ve ever seen? Yeah? Well, you didn’t have to change his diapers. Ha!”
Then she gives him a serious look, and unclouded by that haughty attitude of hers her eyes seem to contain all the wisdom in the galaxy itself. “Children,” she says in the sagely tone he’d been expecting from the beginning, “are the future. We forget that this isn’t an adult world alone and we’ll miss out on the greatest minds of all. And that one, he’ll be the greatest mind yet. And when he comes out the greatest soldier on the English Initiative I’ll be right here, old bones and old minds be damned.”
And Wally, despite knowing her age, found himself completely convinced she’d outlive them all.
Continues on AO3
Re: FILL: TEAM DAVE<3ERIDAN
EEK
Re: FILL: TEAM DAVE<3ERIDAN
So thank you for giving me a new ship to fuss over!