Drabble fest!: Hokuto Cup

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It's Friday! As promised, that means it's time for our biweekly team competition.

How It Works

- Leave prompts in the comments. You can request anonymously if you prefer.

- Reply to prompts with any fanwork of your choice. (Fic, art, icons, FSTs, vids, etc.--all are eligible.) You can also answer anonymously if you prefer.

- When you fill a prompt, please specify your chosen team somewhere in the comment. In this round, you can choose to play for Team Japan, Team China or Team Korea.

- Each time you fill a prompt, you win a point for your team.

- (optional, but highly encouraged) Go back to your journals and recruit friends for your teams! Cheer your team on, here and elsewhere! Leave feedback!

- The team that gets the most points wins the competition! Each member of the winning team will receive 20 Dreamwidth Points as a prize.

Rules

- Fics may be of any length. Although we anticipate most people will write drabbles or short fics, if you want to write an epic AU in the comments, feel free.

- Prompts can have multiple fills. Members of the same team can fill the same prompt, and any individual can fill a prompt more than once.

- This round will end on Friday, May 28, 6 PM PST. ETA: Deadline extended to Friday, June 4, 6 PM PST.

Fight-o, everyone!

Comments

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Prompt: Ogata & Kurata: Attitude

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Prompt: Akari: The taming of Akota (Wig man)

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Suyeong and Yeongha, days as a yeongusaeng (= kenkyuusei, Korean version of insei)

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Prompt: anyone doing anything that isn't related to go (or any board-game).

[dancing_serpent]

Ogata/Ashiwara, just convenient or something more?

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Shirakawa, professionalism.

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Shindou teaching his mother how to play go

[ariadne_chan]

Akira/Hikaru are preparing for the second Hokuto cup in Akira's home

[takemyrevolution]

Ogata/Touya/Shindou, this is why we can't have nice things.

Team Japan!

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The Safe Path


"Mum!~" Hikaru drawls out in that irritating manner that only teenagers can truly master. "I've told you, and I've told you again, you can't be afraid of invading my territory. Go's not a safe game, you have to be prepared to take some risks!"

Being told to take risks, is not something new - but actually taking those risks seems so frightening. You don't know where Hikaru gets it from. You've always taken the safe path, with the safe decisions, like completing school, working for just a little while, finding a nice dependable husband and raising a son to support you in your old age. Your husband too, takes the safe path and continues to do so, by working long and hard hours and staying in Japan.

But Hikaru always turns that all around, as he shows you in this game - by laying traps the assembled territory you've amounted is lost. He lives such an odd lifestyle - but he's making a solid living with teaching games, and tournament money.

You smile though as he rambles through different strategies and take comfort in the fact that he's still teaching you. He always brushes it off as "well if I can't teach my own mother what chance do I have with some of these punks", - steadfastly ignoring the fact that he would be classified by most as a punk.

But he still thinks your worth teaching - as opposed to your own father who refuses to deal with beginners.

You still worry for him - if there's a depression surely that will affect the people willing to spend money to learn how to play a frivolous game. If there's a better player, then the chances of him winning a tournament are in turn smaller as well. It's not a safe path that he's chosen - but he's happy and you guess that counts.

"Really mum, I don't know what your so worried about - it's not like this game will affect the next, other than with what you learn from it - so you should always try to make the most of the experience!" It contradicts his first point about Go not being a safe game, but you smile and nod and get ready to start anew.

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Akari/Akira - rivalry!

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Akari->Nase - I wanna be like you!

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Akiko - She has her own private Go world, and she shares with her husband - only when he's been good.

Re: Team Japan!

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Oh gosh, this is so sweet! Shindou's mother doesn't quite understand him but she loves him anyway and is so proud of him. <3

"well if I can't teach my own mother what chance do I have with some of these punks"

Hahaha, classic Shindou! XD

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(I'm taking these prompts from the "tag lines" for each character that came with the manga rerelease.)

Suyeong, "the pursuer"

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(I'm taking these prompts from the "tag lines" for each character that came with the manga rerelease.)

Ochi, "the little king"

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(I'm taking these prompts from the "tag lines" for each character that came with the manga rerelease.)

Nase, "the challenger"

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I'm taking these prompts from the "tag lines" for each character that came with the manga rerelease.)

Zhao Shi, "the naturalist"

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YANG HAI/WAYA - virtual boyfriends!

Team Japan!

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There is absolutely nothing that stops a girl from playing Go.

There's no physical strength required other than the endurance of maintaining concentration for a long match. It's not an "un-lady like" game, with long history of women playing and a woman's tournament too.

But stupid dumb boys always act surprised when Nase plays, she finds. So at the grand old age of seven, she always has to challenge someone else into playing her, rather than having them seek her out.

It's an attitude that she carries as she grows older, of challenging better players and seeking to grow stronger.

And now as she sits, challenger to the Meijin title, she smiles. Proud of how far she's come and how far she has grown from a tiny midget that challenged her father to, "Another game Tou-san, another game!".

Also well, as her smile changes to a smirk - next year, it's definitely going to be people challenging her.

Re: Team Japan!

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Thank you!


It really is. XD

Team Japan!!!

[takemyrevolution]

FAN ART: Teaching Go

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Waya - timetravel

Team Japan

[jetsam]

When Kouyou comes home in the evening, when he's not thinking about it, he retreats into his study and Akiko can hear the clack of stones on kaya wood all evening and into the night, a narrow glow of light escaping under the firmly closed door. As the years pass, Akira starts to join him and the door is a firm barrier between her and a world she cannot enter. Such is the life of a professional go player and she has never protested - she knew Kouyou's nature when she married him and would not change him for the world.

That does not mean her smile isn't that little wider when he comes to sit with her on the sofa, Akira curled up with a book in the armchair nearby, as Kouyou puts an arm around her shoulders and they sit very still for a while. Perhaps itt lacks the black-and-white serenity of Kouyou's other life, but she can feel some of the tightness leave his shoulders and knows he loves this game just as much.

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Hidaka - ambition