Support: Round 010!!

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It's time once again to sign up, and rope your friends and neighbors into signing up! This is your official Round 010 Support Thread! Appropriate functions would be flailing, encouraging, questioning, prompting, impromptu ficcing, despairing, hope-bringing, celebrating, and, among other things, of course, panicking. Inappropriate functions would be microwaving, vacuuming, weapons testing, and, naturally, corporate espionage.

Feel free to post anonymously if you want to avoid leaving any clues for guessing. (We'll also screen all the comments on this thread during the two week guessing period, just to be safe.) --ETA: I decided not to screen this time... there's not much guessing fodder in here, anyway, and besides, we WANT lots of guesses, so... ^_~

Writers: Complaints about lack of progress, random spam while writing, requests for fanfic writing ideas are all welcome.

Readers: Please feel free to comment as well! Leave your reassurances, fanfic ideas, and more random spam here.

Enjoy!!

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Mm, a quiet support thread is quiet. I guess I'd better ask this as I'm afraid I might miss the deadline.

Any fic prompts you'd like to see about Sai? I'm headdesking as I have no ideas, and so I'm willing to adopt bunnies you've found to be unworkable/just have no time to write/anything about Sai really.

He's difficult to write, dammit.

-one sad anon writer.

Some prompts

[(Anonymous)]

Sai/Torajiro slash.

Sai discovers the rest of the internet beyond the Go forums.

Remember when Waya found Hikaru being forced to do stretching exercises by Sai? Perhaps Waya found that it was helpful, and keeps doing it.

The end of the manga with the "can you hear my voice?" page seems like a natural fic prompt to me, but I don't think I've seen anyone write about it.

An AU where Hikaru-pro dies and haunts Sai in the Heian period when he was alive. (Possibly he teaches Sai?)

Someone else besides Hikaru can see Sai and hear them talking, but never lets on.

Everyone keeps asking Hikaru about the internet "sai," since he told the Meijin that he was a friend of sai's. Hikaru finally makes the sad announcement that his dear friend who only played on the internet is dead, and the Go world mourns him based on his internet presence and that one holy-shit game with the Meijin (maybe the kifu of it is printed in Go Weekly as part of a memorial article?). Hikaru is dismayed to find that this does not help at ALL to deter people from bothering him about who Sai is.

For Halloween, Touya goes as some famous person from the Heian period and dresses in a Sai-esque outfit, and he can't understand why Hikaru is angsty and mopey all evening.

Hikaru and Touya have their first teenage fumblings while Sai is still around. Sai tries to look the other way and let them have some privacy, but Hikaru is still all freaked out by having a ghost there, so he screws it up and possibly causes years of misunderstanding.

As an adult, Hikaru commissions a painting of Sai at a goban from his descriptions. Touya is all like, "bluh?"

Hikaru gets completely smashed-off-his-ass drunk and spills the whole Sai story to, like, Ogata or Kaneko or Tsubaki or his mom or somebody.

Re: Some prompts

[(Anonymous)]

Hi! I love the prompts you came up with and some of them are definitely workable.

"Sai discovers the rest of the internet beyond the Go forums" <= this made me break out into "The Internet is for Porn"!

Re: Some prompts

[(Anonymous)]

You've just described two I have in the works!

Re: Some prompts

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, I do hope they're not the ones I picked from the list!

Re: Some prompts

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you! I'm not using any of these, but you gave me a good idea.

Re: Some prompts

[(Anonymous)]

Sai's phobia of frogs and toads.
Why does he find them so horrifying? Whats the story behind this?