2014 Kurofai Olympics: Trope claim post!

[reikah]

Hello again guys! It's time to post the tropes we'll be using for this year's Olympics, but first let's check the team lists! This has changed since the last time you saw it so please check the lists carefully to be sure which team you're on!

Team Comedy	Team Drama
animangod mikkeneko uakari bottan cloverfield steadfastsonnet caffeine_buzz	zelinxia farenmaddox eijentu reikah mindlessadri kokochan ereshkigali

These teams were chosen for the optimum mix of veterans and newbies! Our pinch-hitters this go around will be badluck_koi and sotongsotong, both of whom deserve all our thanks for bowing aside for later entrants and who are both guaranteed places next olympics. Let's have a round of applause for them all!

Now, instead of vague one-sentence themes for you to interpret at your leisure, the aim of this olympics is to have a crack at well established fanfic cliches. There are seven cliches/tropes below, and it is, as always, first come first served! To claim a trope, please comment below IN YOUR TEAM THREAD. Do NOT reply to this entry directly!

Please remember that you will be abiding by the comm rules when it comes to posting, ratings, threesomes & moresomes (that is, we have decided to allow pairings of kuro/fai+others, so long as kurogane and fai are the focal point of the fic).

The themes:

[+] Rule 63 {Comedy: cloverfield | Drama: zelinxia} [+] Amnesia {Comedy: uakari | Drama: kokochan} [+] Bodyswap {Comedy: mikkeneko | Drama: farenmaddox} [+] Wing!fic {Comedy: bottan | Drama: eijentu} [+] Mythological creatures AU {Comedy: steadfastsonnet | Drama: reikah} [+] Quarantine {Comedy: animangod | Drama: ereshkigali} [+] Doppelgangers {Comedy: caffeine_buzz | Drama: mindlessadri}

(As with last year, I've included some details of this year's tropes on my journal, [here] for those of you who don't recognize them or aren't familiar with them).

Trope claiming will be open until 0:00 PST/ 8:00AM GMT on Saturday 22nd March, when writing will begin. Please feel free to trade tropes amongst your teams. Anybody who has not claimed a trope by Saturday will be automatically assigned one, so get in while the getting's good! You will have three weeks to write, and fics will be posted started from Saturday 12th April continuing until Saturday 19th. If you are not going to be able to post during this week for any point, please let me know so I can schedule your posting dates accordingly.

That should be everything, but if not, ask your questions in the comments below! Get claiming, and remember, this contest is all about fun! (Also last minute deadline stress.)

Comments

Re: TEAM DRAMA TROPE CLAIM THREAD

[ereshkigali]

DUEL AT DAWN WITH WATER PISTOLS LET'S SETTLE THIS WITH ~HONOUR~

or I could opt for something else /peruses list MOSTLY I JUST WANT A WATER FIGHT

Re: TEAM DRAMA TROPE CLAIM THREAD

[zelinxia]

DEAL

(*looks at list again*)

Re: TEAM DRAMA TROPE CLAIM THREAD

[ereshkigali]

this is the most complex decision I've had to make all day IT'S TOO 1 AM FOR THIS but having given much careful thought to the matter (i.e. asked my cat for input and interpreted his whisker twitching wisely) XIA IF YOU ARE SUPER ATTACHED TO AMNESIA THEN HOW ABOUT I GO FOR QUARANTINE INSTEAD because if I'm team drama I think I could rock that actually

Re: TEAM DRAMA TROPE CLAIM THREAD

[reikah]

NEGL I am disappoint at the lack of jousting

(but ok)

Re: TEAM DRAMA TROPE CLAIM THREAD

[ereshkigali]

look I commemorated our water fight with this beautiful work of art

http://oi61.tinypic.com/33xd4qw.jpg

Re: TEAM DRAMA TROPE CLAIM THREAD

[reikah]

actual perfection +1

Re: TEAM DRAMA TROPE CLAIM THREAD

[zelinxia]

Psssh, you know, Kurogane totally would participate in an epic water gun fight. But Fai nails him since he's the master of long-range fighting.

Re: TEAM DRAMA TROPE CLAIM THREAD

[ereshkigali]

oh our dear Kuro-sama would get SUPER INTO IT and get kitted out in camo gear and devise stealth tactics and lay ambushes and go in with all guns blazing (or squirting whatever) only to find that Mokona has used one of her super secret disguise techniques to act as a decoy, whereupon Fai, ensconced in a nearby tree, gives an elegant yawn and neatly squirts Kurogane in the ear

possibly there is also a sex metaphor in here. not possibly definitely. I should sleep

Re: TEAM DRAMA TROPE CLAIM THREAD

[reikah]

if fai is squirting kurogane in the ear the metaphor has extended to unnatural and side-eye-inducing levels, tho

Re: TEAM DRAMA TROPE CLAIM THREAD

[ereshkigali]

can I claim "unnatural ear-squirting" as my trope

or just put it on a t-shirt, whichever's easiest

Re: TEAM DRAMA TROPE CLAIM THREAD

[reikah]

come on fai semen is just a terrible remedy for excessive ear wax production you should know this

Re: TEAM DRAMA TROPE CLAIM THREAD

[reikah]

it occurs to me that 'come on fai' was a poor choice of words in this context

Re: TEAM DRAMA TROPE CLAIM THREAD

[ereshkigali]

IF I END UP PRODUCING A TRAGIC DRAMA!FIC ABOUT THE DREADED EAR WAX ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE IN WHICH KUROGANE IS QUARANTINED UNTIL FAI'S BODILY FLUIDS CAN HEAL HIM FROM HIS EARWAXY ZOMBIENESS WITH THE POWER OF LOVE, IT WILL BE my own fault for staying up past my bedtime really

Re: TEAM DRAMA TROPE CLAIM THREAD

[reikah]

i looked for the like button, i think we should probably make a sleep pact and go the fuck to sleep already

Re: TEAM DRAMA TROPE CLAIM THREAD

[zelinxia]

A shame you're on the wrong team. XD

GO TO BED. ALL OF YOU. NOW!