Rare Pair Fest!
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hikarunogoRare Pair Fest
Another event to keep the Hikago Month momentum!
HOW IT WORKS:
Post anything to do with a rare pairing: Fic, art, podfic, vids, screen caps, inappropriate captions, plot bunnies, your deepest wish for the secret rare pair of your heart, five things, poems, gifs, manifestos, random squee, models out of clay, WHATEVER!
Love on what everyone else has shared.
WHAT CLASSIFIES AS A RARE PAIRING:
So, my deepest hope is to inspire everyone to dig deep into their imagination and their pull out the pairings they've always wanted to write but never had the occasion or motivation to do so before, or to go crazy and create someone else's new favorite rare pair. The sky is the limit!
However, we also wanted to set down standards so that there was no confusion later. So, any pairing that has over 100 fics on AO3 is disqualified.
Which means that... Hikaru/Akira is the only pairing disqualified for this round.
I know, I know, but the second most used pairings in the fandom are Ko Yeong-ha/Yashiro and Isumi/Waya, tied at 44 fics each (to Hikaru/Akira's 399). Since no one else comes close, it's unfair to shut this fest out to otherwise under represented pairing, despite how we think of them. So, take this as inspiration to produce more content for your favorite ship and help grow their visibility on AO3!
IF THERE AREN'T BATTLES TO THE DEATH, I'M NOT INTERESTED
Okay, well, everyone is the winner here because there will (hopefully) be tons of lovely things to read and look at and enjoy.
HOWEVER! To make it a little interesting, let's see which rare pairing is the most improved by June 1st.
The Fest can go on as long as people like, but we can have multiple rounds of awards after this if we're still going strong.
Feel free to take this opportunity to archive old fic to AO3, post your Hikago Day drabbles, and bully (nicely) others to do the same, as well as create new content. It's free range! Just link back to this post so we can find it!
Threesomes and moresomes are happily welcome, too!
Ready?
Let's go!
EDIT: You can now post to our Collection on AO3!
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Date: 2013-05-18 11:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-18 11:44 pm (UTC)Thanks, Ai!
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Date: 2013-05-19 06:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-19 01:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-19 04:10 pm (UTC)1. KANEKO/MITANI FOREVER. I'm never not going to say this.
2. Kaga/Tsutsui. Same thing. Never not going to be there.
3. I'm actually really digging the recent Yashiro/Hikaru thing right now.
4. Waya/Hikaru. Not something I actively ship, but I think it's interesting. Also it's totally part of my headcanon that they fooled around at some point.
5. Ogata/Isumi. Again, not a surprise to most people, but I just love it even though there's basically no canon support for it. XD
Bonus: I love love love Ashiwara/Saeki, but I think Saeki/Isumi could be interesting too. Also Ogata/Ashiwara is an interesting dynamic.
Ogata/Isumi
Date: 2013-05-20 07:37 am (UTC)awwwwwwwwww yeeeeeeeeeah
Re: Ogata/Isumi
Date: 2013-05-20 07:44 am (UTC)Re: Ogata/Isumi
Date: 2013-05-20 07:47 am (UTC)Re: Ogata/Isumi
Date: 2013-05-20 08:00 am (UTC)Re: Ogata/Isumi
Date: 2013-05-20 03:49 pm (UTC)(famous last words)
Re: Ogata/Isumi
Date: 2013-05-20 11:19 am (UTC)Re: Ogata/Isumi
Date: 2013-05-20 03:45 pm (UTC)Re: Ogata/Isumi
Date: 2013-05-20 11:04 pm (UTC)Oooooh man. What is Ogata and Isumi are dating, and Isumi starts to get all worried that Ogata is actually in love with Kuwabara and he'll never measure up. And when he finally says something to Ogata, Ogata is all ".....Swear that you'll never caddie for that man." because he was concerned Kuwabara has been trying to take Isumi from him just for the lolz.
Actual facts: Kuwabara has been intentionally messing with both of them. Obviously.
Re: Ogata/Isumi
Date: 2013-05-20 11:11 pm (UTC)Obviously,
Re: Ogata/Isumi
Date: 2013-05-20 03:47 pm (UTC)Re: Ogata/Isumi
Date: 2013-05-20 05:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-20 03:03 am (UTC)Not terribly secret either. XD
1. Ogata/Kuwabara, their connection is deep and true, drawn to each other across a chasm of time.
2. Waya/Yang Hai - friendly and sociable, they hit it off on the internet and then in real life.
3. Le Ping/Isumi - Le Ping is so bright and friendly - and despite his similarities quite different to most people Isumi's met.
4. Waya/Hikaru - Waya just can't help himself with looking after this guy.
5. I too, am digging the Yashiro/Hikaru thing right now.
Bonus: Nase/Akari - cute and fluffy, they make their own way through.
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Date: 2013-05-20 03:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-20 11:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-20 11:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-20 09:07 am (UTC)1. Hikaru/Touya Kouyou, because Hikaru's thing for older dudes and his sincere respect for Touya-sensei would make this the headiest thing. I am a huge sucker for intense go in fic, and you could write so many different kinds of games and leave so many things unsaid based on the flow of the games and they would just CONNECT on this unimaginable level above anyone else.
2. Hikaru/Touya Akiko, because Touya's mom is a stone-cold fox and so very darling and you just know she'd be charmed by him and the effect he's had on her lonely son. Hikaru would feel SO INCREDIBLY GUILTY about it too and it'd be all he could think about whenever he looked at Akira.
Unnumbered because I totally get this a freebie based on my previous choices, Hikaru/Touya Kouyou/Touya Akiko, because in my head the Touyas have this wonderful marriage of true love and understanding and of course it would be fun to share a pretty young thing like him between the two of them (and their friends *coughcough* (oh man I'm like 6k into this fic and I feel like I'm going to hell just for writing it)).
3. Hikaru/Yashiro, because Yashiro didn't insei with him and doesn't know that Hikaru used to be some teensy babyface scrublet who barely made it into the Wakajishi tournament; Yashiro meets Hikaru when Hikaru's starting to grow up and lean and is the Strongest Shodan who plays with an intensity and an inventiveness that dazzles everyone, so of course he's gonna think Hikaru's the bees' knees. Long distance anything sucks, and that's almost enough to kill things, but then the next time they get to see each other it's so intoxicatingly wonderful that he knows beyond a shadow of a doubt that it's worth every moment.
4. Hikaru/Waya, because as much as Waya never thought to or wanted to get involved with Shindou like that, it just happened. I'm with Ver on them fooling around being BASICALLY CANON COME ON YOU TOTALLY KNOW IT, and neither of them really meant to get into a relationship but whoa it's been like six months since they started fooling around and if that means something then oh shit Waya's so boned.
HOW THE HELL AM I AT FIVE ALREADY SHIIIIIIIIIIT okay well I could say Mitani or Togari or Suyeong or Ichikawa or Tsubaki but aaaaaaaaaack okay I guess I'll go with:
5. Hikaru/Ogata, because Ogata is a desperate man with no sense of appropriate boundaries as we have already seen, and I think he's an intensely lonely person (too young to be comrades with Zama or Nogi and Touya Meijin and Kuwabara are out of the question, too old to be comrades with Saeki or Ashiwara and the New Wave is out of the question) so he's just a disaster waiting to happen (hooking up with an underage kid is a disaster IMHO; I am judgemental). For Hikaru, I think the appeal could come from many different directions, but I think most of all he'd really respect and find attractive Ogata's intensity. Hikaru'd start out all rabbity and nervous around Ogata since holy crow the nailing to walls and interrogation about Sai thing, but Ogata is a really, really good and inventive go player and he's pretty ridiculously charming so I don't think Hikaru'd see Ogata coming until he was already caught in the undertow.
Also, it would drive Touya positively BATSHIT INSANE, and I would read a million times about the power dynamics involved with all three of them in every direction when Hikaru and Ogata are hooking up/in a "relationship"/in a no-shit holy-crap relationship.
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Date: 2013-05-20 11:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-20 11:32 am (UTC)A: Before we get married, we have to clear up the history of your strong connection to another man.
H: ((What does he mean? Has he been jealous of me and Waya this whole time? I guess we do share the same pants.))
A: Just who is Sai--
H: You don't have to worry about Waya--
A: What. WAIT, WHAT DO YOU MEAN, WAYA??????
XDDD
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Date: 2013-05-20 01:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-20 11:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-20 05:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-20 11:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-20 03:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-20 11:08 pm (UTC)Isumi/Waya
Date: 2013-05-20 04:01 am (UTC)I went through looking my works, because I thought "I've done heaps for this pairing!", and then realised when looking through my Waya stories - that it was, a background ship, something that could be read as Isumi/Waya or something else -it was deliberately vague, threesomes, or podfic which personally I enjoy as somewhat shippy but didn't specify a ship for the original story. @___@;;;
I mean that's only 5 stories at most that I could add, but I didn't feel comfortable tagging with as such, so that's probably why people are like "but it's everywhere" when actually, if you get down to the individual story analysis - not really?
Re: Isumi/Waya
Date: 2013-05-20 04:25 am (UTC)It's just it's uh, 4 pairings to my 9 Shindou Hikaru/Touya Akira pairings, and I ship Isumi/Waya more than I ship Shindou/Touya.
Re: Isumi/Waya
Date: 2013-05-20 11:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-20 11:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-20 12:20 pm (UTC)2. I've joked about it a lot with Draffyn, and she's written me hinty stuff, but I don't think there's any actual Isumi/Ochi out there. :(
3. Waya/Ochi could be interesting too...
4. Yashiro/Ochi could also be interesting too - they strike me as thinking the other type is pretty irritating, but it would be cool to see them gradually develop respect for each other.
5. Ochi->Touya is basically canon right?
6. Look, Ochi relationships are just hard to find, so I'm going for the low hanging fruit. Ogata admits he was a lot like Ochi, when he was Ochi's age, and then Ochi stalks him for inspiration only gets a little surprise.
7. Ogata/Kurata - ahahaha again, they strike me as thinking the other type is pretty irritating, but it would be cool to see them gradually develop respect for each other.
8. Le Ping/Hikaru - they can be utter little shits together!
9. I've actually been having vague Akari/Tsuda Kumiko thoughts lately, Tusda wants to be /really/ good friends with Akari.
10. Fujisaki Akari/Ogata - Hikaru will never sleep again. XD man, I can just see Ogata trying to hit up Akari for information, and Akari also trying to hit Ogata up for information.
11. Ogata/Mitani, Ogata again, in persuit of information and Mitani is.... XD
12. Ogata/Kaga - I would like to see Kaga be amazingly brilliant in Ogata's presence and make the foolish mistake of admitting that he was involved in getting Hikaru to join the go club.
13. But thinking about it more, I think it would be even more fun to see the same with Tsuitsui and Ogata! :D
14. Waya/Akari - Waya thought he finally met a nice girl. Little did he know that Hikaru was now about to become his brother in law. XD
15. Crossovers count right? Shidou Hikaru/Shindou Hikaru - both have experienced loss on things they can't easily speak with outsiders on.
16. Nara Shikamaru/Fujiwara no Sai - pfft. Death, time, reality, who cares, they can escape from the world together with a good game of Go.
17. Shindou Hikaru/Natsume Takashi - they've both seen things not of this world, I'd love to see them bond.
18. Tsubaki/Hikaru - get your bear pairings on.
20. Tsubaki/Ogata - I don't even care how, I just want to see it happen, Tsubaki manhandling and ruffling Ogata out of his nice white suit. *happy sigh*
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Date: 2013-05-20 03:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-20 07:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-20 11:27 pm (UTC)69 is really underrepresented in fic, too.
Ogata/Kurata
Date: 2013-05-20 11:22 pm (UTC)Okay, so, the company running the Hokuto Cup at first wanted Ogata to be the coach for Team Japan because they wanted someone who would photograph well and appeal to more lady attendees.
Kurata volunteers because he's seriously interested in the new wave and wants to shut An's fucking face with a triumphant victory, etc.
So, Kurata is all, "okay, fine, I'll play you for it." and Ogata is all, "Ugh, whatever, I'm too cool to care." and the PR company is all, "Anou......"
So, they go off and Kurata is all, "Let's play blind go. >D" and Ogata is all, "Let's make this more interesting *glasses glint*"
And long story short (too late), the next morning, Ogata has a terrible hangover and a sore ass, and Kurata is coach of Team Jailbait.
THE END.
Waya/Akari
Date: 2013-05-20 11:26 pm (UTC)Waya and Akari meet and start dating. Waya is interested to meet this "Hikaru" person that Akari is always talking about, but he always cancels at the last minute or doesn't show up at all.
Ochi/Yashiro, Waya/Yashiro, Ochi/Waya, Yashiro/Waya
Date: 2013-05-23 12:16 am (UTC)http://archiveofourown.org/works/813721
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Date: 2013-05-20 03:43 pm (UTC)The only one I can think of at the moment that I've never seen, that Qem didn't already mention, is honest to god Hikaru/Mitani (not just Mitani crushing and Hikaru being oblivious, but even at that, I can only think of one of those). Maybe I'm wrong, though, and I would be happy to be shown otherwise. :P
Also I will second the Waya/Akari, because I can -so- see that happening. She goes to a tournament or whatever and he runs into her, she manages to not talk about Hikaru every five seconds, they hit it off, and it's not until they actually have their first date that he realizes that Akari is that annoying neighbor that Hikaru had told him about, because she finally mentions him.
Oh oh, or maybe in his blissful paired state, Hikaru decides that he's going to set everyone else up too, and that starts with his best buddy. He knows Waya is more or less straight (even though there was that one time...), so he sets him up with the only single girl he knows besides Nase. And Waya sort of wants to kill him for it, but then he meets Akari and she's so cute he forgets all about killing him. Or something.
(I'm just throwing stuff out there. XD)
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Date: 2013-05-20 11:30 pm (UTC)Oooh, Hikaru/Mitani.... So many feelings.
OH MY GOD, I WANT MATCHMAKER HIKARU LIKE I WANT AIR. PLEASE TO BE WRITING THIS???
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Date: 2013-05-21 04:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-30 07:17 am (UTC)Although now that I think about it, I could of totally asked for Akiko/Sai/Touya |o/ which could be pretty epic... and Sai/Yeong-ha amuses me with how much it would irritate Shindou. (Again, evil place, blah, blah) XD