YURI SHIPPING OLYMPICS 2024 - BONUS ROUND 7

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For this round, we want to see prompts that are based on settings or locations! For your prompts, please provide a location or setting. It can be as specific or as abstract as you want, and can be in any medium you prefer!

POINTS - BONUS ROUNDS
For prompts: 10 points each (maximum of 150 prompt points per team per round)
For fills:
First 4 fills by any member of your team: 100 points each
Fills 5-10: 50 points each
Fills 11-20: 40 points each
Fills 21-50: 30 points each
Fills 51+: 25 points each

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PROMPT: Tokusatsu Yuri Ships United Front

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In true Tokusatsu fashion, let's set this emotional or otherwise riveting scene at a parking lot.

FILL: Tokusatsu Yuri Ships United Front

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"Mio-chan! I put the trolley away!"
Kagura bounds towards her teammate, proud that she managed to figure it out. It's hard being a kid and simultaneously trying to adult.
Sure, they're still on the Rainbow Line, but even traingoers need groceries.
Encouraged (or rather badgered) by Ticket, the ToQgers have split up to try and achieve chores in groups — and Tokacchi is definitely cheating, because he has Akira on his team.
Kagura loudly proclaimed as much inside the supermarket, which earned her a few stares. Mio didn't do anything to stop her, though - just bit her lip.
Which she's doing again now, outside in the parking lot.
And, now that Kagura thinks about it, that's really not like her Mio-chan at all.
She takes one of the two shopping bags from her.
"Mio... chan?"
"Hm?" Mio shakes her head, smiling as though nothing's wrong. "Oh, just deep in thought. That's it."
But Kagura knows her far too well to believe that.
"Come onnnn. What really happened?" She shakes her teammate's arm with her free hand. But she shakes it off.
"Kagura. Please. I'm fine." Her voice is annoyed now, maybe even... angry? Kagura can't tell. "Can you just drop it, please?"
It's uncharacteristic. It's funny. They both tear up. One of them in frustration, the other in slight despair that she can't help. At all.
Then time stops.
A plastic bag falls to the ground. Arms reach for a torso. Pink intermingles with yellow.
There's a gasp.
"Rely on me sometimes, Mio-chan. This relationship... it goes both ways, okay?"
Then there are sobs.
"What happened?"
"Dad... I always did this with Dad..." Her voice is muffled. Kagura can feel her poncho getting wetter. But it's fine, because it's her Mio-chan.
"You miss him, don't you?" She soothes, rubbing her back. Up and down, up and down, to a regular tempo. She feels the breaths getting steadier, less shaky.
"I don't know if... if we'll ever find home..."
"..." Neither does she. It's very painful to think about. Too painful. "You have me, though!"
"... Yeah." Mio looks up – or rather, down at Kagura. "I have you. Always."
"Always!" She reaches up to kiss her forehead. "I love you, my Mio-chan. Don't forget it."
And the words unsaid?
I'm sure we'll find home.

Fill: Team Webcomics/Webtoons

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Inspired by miyukitty's fills, I decided to try my hand at a chiptune as well: Parking Lot (originally by Mineral)

Parking Lot is the final track from Mineral's 1997 album The Power of Failing. It's one of the classics of the raw, lo-fi emo of the 90s, but it's also unusual for having a recurring theme of religious guilt and inadequacy. I associate this song in particular with Harrow's last appearance in Nona the Ninth:

She looked away from him, and she said: “I want to journey to find God. Maybe, at the end of that road, I will find God in you, Teacher … the God who became man and the man who became God. Or, perhaps, the child of the Nine Houses will recognise a different divine. But I am the Reverend Daughter—I am the Reverend Mother, the Reverend Father—I must find God, or some aspect of God, and understand it for myself … even if she lies, right now, within the Tomb.”

The album starts off the same place Harrow does in Harrow the Ninth - lost, miserable, and burdened by inexplicable guilt and inadequacy. It ends in parallel with Nona the Ninth too - still feeling like shit, but feeling like shit optimistically.

Idk. I have lots of feelings about Harrowhark being devoutly religious. Yes, she was raised in a cult founded by a con man that lives on the suffering of its members while weaponizing them to hurt people on the outside. She became a heretic because she believed too hard, not because she believed too little. This is definitely all real and not just me projecting. I am desperate for Alecto the Ninth because Gideon and Harrow have not had a single fucking conversation with each other for the last 67% of the series and I NEED that to change. But I also can't wait to find out just where, exactly, Harrow's devotion to Alecto will take her, and what the two of them will do to the man who became God and the God who became man.