Bonus Round 3
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srs2013Bonus Round 2 is now closed, and Bonus Round 3 is now open!
This round, the theme is sins/virtues.
If you have an idea for something you'd like to see, please leave the ship, a sin/virtue, and any other details as a PROMPT below. After you've posted, read through everyone else's prompts, and leave a FILL for any which catch your eye. Fills can be in any media, and they need not be long, but please put a little effort in--if anyone starts spamming this post for points, we'll be able to tell.
You should place PROMPT/FILL, your current team affiliation and a brief summary in the comment title. Do not forget to change the title of the comment when posting a FILL as a reply to a PROMPT. NSFW prompts and fills should mention this in the summary or at the top of the post. Reminder that team names must be in alphabetical order (ie. Balthazar/Death, not Death/Balthazar) and that portmanteaus (ie. Lubriel, Annaby) are not allowed when identifying team affiliation.
You will be awarded five points per prompt for the first five prompts you leave. The first three fills posted for each prompt will receive 15 points, the next three 10 points, and the next three 5 points. Prompts with ten or more fills will no longer receive fill points.
Bonus rounds are still rarepair only, but you can post prompts or fills for any rare ship this round, including gen/platonic ones (which should be indicated with an & as above). Due to some unforeseen complication from last round, we have changed the rules. It is now 15 points per fill for the first three fills by three different people. So if someone does a fic for Fill 1 and a fanmix for Fill 2, then get 15 + 10 points, and then Person 2 does a fill and Person 3 does a fill, so even though those would be fills 3 and 4, they count as 15 and 15 points since they're fills by new people. You are still not permitted to fill your own prompt. We also encourage people not to fill prompts from their teammates, although the points will not be deducted if you do.
Bonus round fills can include links provided they are publicly viewable. Works can also be cross-posted to other websites, as there is no anonymity requirement in bonus rounds. However, works posted directly to comments will be limited to 16,000 characters by the Dreamwidth comment limit. Longer works should therefore be divided between multiple comments.
Remember, Team Chuck can participate in bonus rounds, and if you change teams, points earned will transfer with you until the end of the team shuffle period.
This round is now closed.
This round, the theme is sins/virtues.
If you have an idea for something you'd like to see, please leave the ship, a sin/virtue, and any other details as a PROMPT below. After you've posted, read through everyone else's prompts, and leave a FILL for any which catch your eye. Fills can be in any media, and they need not be long, but please put a little effort in--if anyone starts spamming this post for points, we'll be able to tell.
You should place PROMPT/FILL, your current team affiliation and a brief summary in the comment title. Do not forget to change the title of the comment when posting a FILL as a reply to a PROMPT. NSFW prompts and fills should mention this in the summary or at the top of the post. Reminder that team names must be in alphabetical order (ie. Balthazar/Death, not Death/Balthazar) and that portmanteaus (ie. Lubriel, Annaby) are not allowed when identifying team affiliation.
You will be awarded five points per prompt for the first five prompts you leave. The first three fills posted for each prompt will receive 15 points, the next three 10 points, and the next three 5 points. Prompts with ten or more fills will no longer receive fill points.
Bonus rounds are still rarepair only, but you can post prompts or fills for any rare ship this round, including gen/platonic ones (which should be indicated with an & as above). Due to some unforeseen complication from last round, we have changed the rules. It is now 15 points per fill for the first three fills by three different people. So if someone does a fic for Fill 1 and a fanmix for Fill 2, then get 15 + 10 points, and then Person 2 does a fill and Person 3 does a fill, so even though those would be fills 3 and 4, they count as 15 and 15 points since they're fills by new people. You are still not permitted to fill your own prompt. We also encourage people not to fill prompts from their teammates, although the points will not be deducted if you do.
Bonus round fills can include links provided they are publicly viewable. Works can also be cross-posted to other websites, as there is no anonymity requirement in bonus rounds. However, works posted directly to comments will be limited to 16,000 characters by the Dreamwidth comment limit. Longer works should therefore be divided between multiple comments.
Remember, Team Chuck can participate in bonus rounds, and if you change teams, points earned will transfer with you until the end of the team shuffle period.
This round is now closed.
Prompt (team Castiel/Lucifer),Any Angel, first sin
Date: 2013-11-03 03:27 am (UTC)Fill: Team Castiel/Lucifer, First Sin
Date: 2013-11-03 10:12 pm (UTC)The thought hit him all at once, sudden and out of nowhere.
Why should we have to bow?
Lucifer was stunned for a moment, quickly withdrawing to an isolated section of Heaven and trying to close his consciousness off from the rest of the Host. It didn’t really help. In fact, it made him feel more broken and ashamed for hiding when what had he really done but have a thought? It was a deviant thought though, something wicked and rebellious, something that challenged the will of God and thus committed the most unforgivable sin. He decided, quite simply, that he would just ignore it. It would go away. Lucifer didn’t want to be that person.
He kept to himself after that, grace perpetually in turmoil, watching evolution and trying not to think. Humans were God’s chosen children, and he would have to learn to love them. He needed to love them, but still, whenever Lucifer looked at them, he felt nothing but a cold hollowness at his core. Father forgive him, but why did they have to be so filthy? It wasn’t the biology that appalled him; he found that relatively interesting. It was the pettiness, the asinine squabbling, the selfish violence they inflicted upon one another without true cause or reason. Humans were such corrupt little things. And Lucifer was supposed to love them. How?
This question came to him even easier than the first one had, and Lucifer looked quickly around himself to make sure nobody had overheard. A pit of self-loathing settled at the heart of his essence and soured his mood. Soon, his siblings began to notice, and that only made it worse.
First it was the little ones, young angels like Inias and Anna and Castiel. They trailed along after him, dancing happily among the stars, blissfully unaware of their futures and his dark thoughts. They would draw close to him, brushing wings against his and asking in gentle whispers why he appeared so troubled. Lucifer wouldn’t lie to them, but he also couldn’t tell them the truth. He tried to smooth things over with vague answers that meant practically nothing. I find myself weary today. I saw something troubling in the new world, but I’m sure it’s of no consequence. Don’t fret; I’ll be fine tomorrow. He never was.
Gabriel came next, not so much bothering to find out the source of his brother’s misery as he sought to fix it. He tried to entice Lucifer into games, the sort of playfulness that had delighted them through their youth, but ultimately found him unresponsive, offering the same half-formed excuses. I’m sorry, little brother. I just don’t feel like it today.
The tenderness with which his younger siblings crowded around him and sought to console him only made the vile selfishness of humanity stand out in even starker contrast. How could God raise humans above angels when one shone with love and support for their kin and the other seemed to view life as nothing more than a self-serving competitions.
And there he was asking questions again.
But worst of all was Michael. Whether he noticed last or simply tried not to acknowledge the situation, Lucifer didn’t know, but when his older brother finally came to him, his eyes were a mix of pity and disappointment. Lucifer couldn’t meet them. It was as though Michael knew already what was inside of him, as though he could see all the anger and doubt prickling the center of Lucifer’s grace and clouding the radiance that had given him his name.
Lucifer began to feel as though these humans were going to ruin him, and then, he began to hate.
The feeling was unfamiliar, something sick and dark churning deep inside of him. Doubt prickled constantly, stealing every second of peace of mind that he tried to grasp for, feeding the hatred which then fed the doubt in return. Soon enough, Lucifer stopped questioning and started knowing. Humans were flawed, broken creatures, and even if the other angels, in all their superior splendor and light, could bow down before them, he simply could not. There was no faking love and devotion, so in the end, Lucifer had no choice.
Disobedience came to him like a strike of lightning: sharp and hot and all-consuming, and so he fell and became much the same.