BONUS ROUND 1: THROWBACK PROMPTS

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In this round, we'll be using prompts from last year's bonus rounds! You can either come up with a prompt based on the previous themes, fill a prompt from previous bonus rounds, or fill a prompt that's been posted this year!

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FILL: TEAM [TEAM NAME]

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FILL: Tokusatsu Yuri Ships United Front

[eloquentalias]

I realize in retrospect there's not much of a competitive element here but listen. I thought about "who's a character who would care about their ship's AO3 numbers" and just started writing.

Fandom: Blue Reflection: Second Light
Ship: Kinjou Yuki/Miyauchi Rena
Words: 1,034

Yuki usually found it pretty cute when Rena got worked up about an anime.

Rena liked magical girls, slice-of-life hobby stories, and just about anything with a cast of cute girls she could draw. It ran so contrary to her self-image as Serious and Intellectual that Yuki, despite knowing nothing about fandom before dating Rena, found herself goading Rena on when she was explaining why her cartoons were the best thing ever, and then she’d enjoy the show that was Rena when she allowed herself to be enthusiastic, forgetting to be dignified at all when telling Yuki about the touching story of this character or the sheer moe of that one.

Recently though, Rena had gotten into a shonen series, and it was giving her rambles a bit of a different flavour.

“I just don’t get why people even like Ayumu so much, he’s just a male audience self-insert.”

“Uh-huh,” Yuki said, watching across the kotatsu how Rena started to clench her fist as she said it.

“Mr. Deguchi is always joking in the author’s comments that really, he just wants to draw girls, but I think that’s true? I just think that’s true, and it’s obvious both in the art and the way he writes that he has no real interest in Ayumu. It makes absolutely no sense to me that so many fans get fixated on him anyways, they held their first popularity poll recently and he was ahead of Sorapyon! You know, the “villain” from the first arc who’s stuck around through the next four because people liked her so much? How on Earth is Ayumu more popular than her?!”

Rena was bringing her laptop out now to gather evidence for her points. Yuki leaned forward on the table, resting her chin in her hands to look appropriately attentive.

“I was thinking about it because of this, just look,” Rena turned her laptop around and showed Yuki a website with a grey sidebar she was pointing to… Written entirely in English. “Aren’t those numbers such a travesty?”

“Um,” Yuki took a moment to recognize the text she was looking at as names written in romaji, then recognized the first item in the list had the name “Ayumu” in it, “they’re just five apart?”

Rena turned the computer back to herself, “Exactly! AyuMatsu shouldn’t be ahead, and KikuMatsu should have waaaaaay more fic than this, it just makes no sense as it is right now. Kiku’s five times the character that Ayumu is! The way she overcomes her shyness to help Matsuri win her first match!… That’s love, not a surface level crush like Ayumu has on Matsuri”

Yuki now knew the English website was for fanfiction, which was a step up for her being able to understand what Rena was talking about, “Why are you checking an English site for fic, though?… I thought you like manga doujin more anyways.”

“I do like manga more,” Rena seemed pleased that Yuki remembered, “but I’ve run out of doujin from the last event and I’ve read through all the Japanese fic too, I thought this would be a good opportunity to study English and get more KikuMatsu at the same time.”

“Studying and fangirling at the same time, huh.” If anyone could do it, Yuki thought, that “anyone” was Rena. “That’s very you.”

Rena was in full ramble mode though, and ignored Yuki’s very sweet and insightful compliment, “I thought it would be just perfect, but then I saw these numbers and thought ‘no, I can’t let this stand!…’”

Once she took in what Rena said, Yuki sat up at attention.

“Wait, Rena, are you saying you-“

Rena smirked at Yuki’s attention.

“Yes, the last six fics in the KikuMatsu tag were written by me.”

“In English?!”

Rena nodded, and Yuki laughed in delight, “No way, Rena!! When did you even have time?!”

“On my lunch breaks,” Rena said proudly. “You can post really short fic on this site, as long as you’re posting in good faith then-“

“You gotta translate them for me.”

This time Rena blushed, “What? No no no, you haven’t read the canon yet, and I’m not that good at writing, I’m kinda going for quantity right now and it’ll be really embarrassing for you to-“

“Too late,” Yuki said, getting up from her seat so she could scoot in beside Rena, “I have girlfriend privilege, if you’re writing something I wanna read it.”

Rena belatedly shut her laptop, just as Yuki sidled in on Rena’s side of the kotatsu and leaned her head against Rena’s shoulder.

“Just tell me what they’re about?” Yuki said, turning her eyes up at Rena in a way she knew Rena was weak to.

Rena didn’t even look, just sighed and opened the laptop again, “Okay, you can read the summaries.”

“The summaries?!”

“You tell me what they say and I’ll tell you if you’re wrong.”

Yuki pouted, “Now you’re making me study…”

“That’s how I’m getting past this being embarrassing,” Rena said. “If you’re studying too then I know you got something good out of reading them.”

“Taskmaster Rena strikes again…” Yuki continued to pout to herself. “Aren’t you like, proud of them though? You’re working towards a victory for KikuMatsu nation after all.”

“In that sense I am, but… I’m not good enough at writing for you to read them yet. You deserve my best work.”

“I want all your work, though,” This time, Yuki smiled and Rena looked down at her in surprise. “Isn’t that the point of being partners, sharing everything?”

The word “partners”, even after everything they’d been through still made Rena blush. She looked to the side, and Yuki thought she might have won this argument.

“That’s true, but… Maybe not my fanfiction…”

“You tell me everything else about your fandom life.”

“Just forget about it!”

Rena closed her laptop again, and Yuki would have protested, but Rena went in for a kiss instead and at the end of the day, no matter how cute Rena’s hobby rambles were, Yuki would always take a kiss they shared over an interest they didn’t.

(Yuki knew Rena’s username anyways. She could always check out Rena’s writing on her own.)

Re: FILL: Tokusatsu Yuri Ships United Front

[tabby_shieldmaiden]

Aw, I love this. You did a good job with this prompt! And the fact that she's learning English for yuri purposes just makes me want to improve on my Mandarin lmao.

Re: FILL: Tokusatsu Yuri Ships United Front

[eloquentalias]

Thanks so much!! Many such cases of language learning for fandom... I myself, despite my middling Japanese, have internalized the rules for constructing ship names specifically...