Drabble fest!: Hokuto Cup

[troisroyaumes]

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

[hostilecrayon.livejournal.com]

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

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.

Re: Team Japan

[troisroyaumes]

What a lovely interlude! I like how quietly comfortable they are with each other.

Re: Team Japan

[jetsam]

Thanks! I think one reason I like Kouyou and Akiko is that they have such a quiet intensity

Re: Team Japan

[hostilecrayon.livejournal.com]

So pretty! I totally see Akiko like this. <3

Re: Team Japan

[jetsam]

Thank you! Akiko has always conveyed this sense of calm to me