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

[esmenet]

Akira does, in fact, have a life outside go. Not that anyone outside his immediate family would believe it -- except Ogata, who has known Akira since ever, and maybe Shindou, who is Shindou -- but sometimes the constant nineteen-by-nineteen grid hovering behind his eyes, potential moves considered and discarded a hundred times a minute, gets just a little tiring. Sometimes he just wants to do something else for a while.

So far, he's burned out on shogi, painting, sketching, bread (if he wanted to wait two hours for something to happen he'd go watch one of Zama's matches), and seventeenth-century European literature. He picks things up, does them near-constantly in between games, then sets them down again when he gets tired, which is often. Sometimes he goes back to one or two (he still makes cookies once or twice a month) but that's rare. Once he's decided on something, it fills him to bursting until he starts seeing it when he closes his eyes, when he sits down at a goban -- and then he has to stop, because he only has room for one all-consuming obsession and he already has it.

Today he's going to learn to play the piano, and he's going to go out for coffee with his sort-of friends, who laugh at him good-naturedly and call him "Akira" like he's just another teenager. Mari-san is going to tease him for getting tired of Italian cooking so quickly.

[love]

♥ AWESOME. ♥ I so identify with that moving-around-hobbies thing, too! (BTW, what team are you on? Say China, PLEASE... ♥)

[esmenet]

Sure! :D Can't let Japan get everything.

[raikushi]

"if he wanted to wait two hours for something to happen he'd go watch one of Zama's matches"

Haha!! XD I laughed out loud at this line. Great!

[lacygrey]

It was fun trying to imagine Akira doing these different hobbies. I wonder how he got on with the piano - its as if he's expecting to just learn it 'like that' in a day and then pop out for a coffee XD.

'he still makes cookies once or twice a month'
Ah ha! Could this is the basis of his rivalry with Akari in the later prompt I wonder...?

[esmenet]

Admittedly, playing the piano (okay-ish-ly) isn't too difficult if you already know how to read music. ^ ^;; He probably sat down, learned the basics in a week or so, then spent three months burning through all the sheet music he could find. (But on day one he spent a few hours on it and used his coffee time to bitch about bass clef to his friends. Who laughed at him and showed him their sheet music, with the thirty-second notes and the little trills.)

And yes it totally is. :D