Drabble fest: Tiebreaker
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Our Hokuto Cup results are currently tied with Team Japan, Korea and China each at five points!
Team Japan
qem_chibati
takemyrevolution
jetsam
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hostilecrayon
Team Korea
raikushi
blue_cage
ariadne_chan
Team China
esmenet
lacygrey
aiwritingfic
issenllo
For our "tiebreaker" round, the team that answers the most unfilled prompts by Sunday, June 13, 9 PM PST will win the drabble fest! Reply to this post with any fanwork in response to one of the following prompts, and remember to indicate which team you're supporting.
Ogata & Kurata: Attitude
Akari: The taming of Akota (Wig man)
Shirakawa, professionalism
Ochi, "the little king"
Zhao Shi, "the naturalist"
Hidaka - ambition
Shouji & Oka - rivalry outside of Go
Mitani vs. Touya - Fighting over Hikaru!
Our Hokuto Cup results are currently tied with Team Japan, Korea and China each at five points!
Team Japan
qem_chibati Shindou teaching his mother how to play go
Nase, "the challenger"
takemyrevolution Shindou teaching his mother how to play go (art)
jetsam Akiko - She has her own private Go world, and she shares with her husband - only when he's been good
hostilecrayon Waya - timetravel
Team Korea
raikushi Suyeong and Yeongha, days as a yeongusaeng (= kenkyuusei, Korean version of insei)
Akira/Hikaru are preparing for the second Hokuto cup in Akira's home
Kaga => Tsutsui => Kaga : running hot and cold
blue_cage Ogata/Ashiwara, just convenient or something more? (FST)
ariadne_chan Suyeong, "the pursuer"
Team China
esmenet anyone doing anything that isn't related to go (or any board-game)
lacygrey Akari/Akira - rivalry!
Akari->Nase - I wanna be like you!
aiwritingfic YANG HAI/WAYA - virtual boyfriends!
issenllo Ogata - a world on a goban
For our "tiebreaker" round, the team that answers the most unfilled prompts by Sunday, June 13, 9 PM PST will win the drabble fest! Reply to this post with any fanwork in response to one of the following prompts, and remember to indicate which team you're supporting.
Ogata & Kurata: Attitude
Akari: The taming of Akota (Wig man)
Shirakawa, professionalism
Ochi, "the little king"
Zhao Shi, "the naturalist"
Hidaka - ambition
Shouji & Oka - rivalry outside of Go
Mitani vs. Touya - Fighting over Hikaru!
Team Korea!
Date: 2010-06-14 02:22 am (UTC)~ ~ ~
He snarled as he came home, throwing his laptop case down on the couch in a manner quite unlike his usual restrained behavior. Hearing the slamming of the front door, his grandfather poked his head around the corner to see what the noise was about. "Ochi?" he inquired.
The diminutive boy's face was set in his fierce protective scowl, but he refused to comment or even look at his grandfather as he pushed past and stomped up the stairs to his room.
In the safety and privacy of his bedroom, Ochi slumped to his computer chair and, head bowed, he finally allowed his held-in tears to overflow. It wasn't just that Shindou had beaten him . . . again. He could handle that. He could overcome it and prepare better next time; he learned a little more with each battle. No, it wasn't that he lost today. He lost to other players without feeling this, this overwhelming frustration, this strangling feeling surrounding his heart.
"I-it's not fair!" he shouted, pounding his fists on his knees. "No matter how I play, no matter what my game, they all look at HIM! Only him!" He was so tired of standing in the background, of hearing the others talk about him as "Shindou's opponent" instead of by name! Touya Akira had been there today. Still he only saw "Shindou" and "Shindou's opponent." Ochi swore that one day that would change. He would show Touya Akira and everyone else.
Slowly, Ochi's sobs subsided. The boy straightened, pulled off his glasses, took a tissue from the computer desk and rubbed the wet smears off the lens with focused precision. A momentary lapse, that all this was. He would regain control. He would return to the Go Institute tomorrow. He would learn to play a game to make everyone see him and his go.
Because that was the truth behind this pain in his heart. Playing Shindou made it feel like Ochi's go was worthless. And he wouldn't stop until he changed that.
Re: Team Korea!
Date: 2010-06-16 10:48 pm (UTC)What I like here is that, in the spirit of the manga, he's got some motivation out of the situation that will drive him forward also.
Its easy to forget that Ochi was making meteoric progress at the time when Hikaru first became an insei.
Re: Team Korea!
Date: 2010-06-17 01:43 am (UTC)Thankies for always leaving comments on da drabbles! <3
Re: Team Korea!
Date: 2010-06-18 05:06 pm (UTC)I could never work out whether he was deliberately trying to destablise Isumi during the pro exam or not, its rather vague. His jealously of Hikaru is understandable, but Isumi? Ochi is like twelve and Isumi is eighteen so it seems pretty unlikely to me that he'd try to play mind games. Whatever's going on though its enough to get Isumi worried.