No True Pair

Title: (under)stand
Author: takerzmuse
Fandom: Vampire Knight
Pairing/characters: Yuuki/Ruka, Ichiru/Zero
Rating: PG
Warnings: GL, BL, twincest.
Prompt: Zero & Ruka, the warmth of the sun
Author's Notes: Set in the same ’verse as Arise From Loving, Occasion, and wea(ken)ed.

( There were many things Zero expected to glean from the Night Class students that he met. )

Title: wanting and having
Author: takerzmuse
Fandom: Vampire Knight
Pairing/characters: Ruka/Sayori
Rating: PG
Warnings: Somewhat TWT, though set after the time skip. Uh, girl/girl action?
Prompt: Sayori & Ruka, Tyrant

( These are the fates that await them. )

Title: strange and so surreal
Author: takerzmuse
Fandom: Vampire Knight
Pairing/characters: Aidou+Yuuki, Kaname/Yuuki
Rating: PG
Warnings: Unrequited love. Set during the latter portion of the time skip.
Prompt: Aidou & Yuuki, Only If For A Night

( “Aidou-senpai? Hello~ Aidou-senpai~” )

Title: rain(drops)
Author: takerzmuse
Fandom: Uta no Prince-sama
Pairing/characters: Masato/female!Ren
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Het via genderswap. Non-graphic sexual content.
Prompt: Ren helps Masato out of those wet clothes...
Author's Notes: I…totally did not plan on this when I started writing. Where’d the genderswap come from? Not that that’s a bad thing, just. Unexpected.

( Not once had Masato ever regretted that night. )

Complete as of 4/1/2012. :)

( All the posts (IJ & DW), separated by prompt: )

46 awesome posts have gone up here this round!

The most "popular" prompts (based on how many times they were filled)? They were a lot of equally popular prompts (at least at this point) each filled 3 times!

Fandoms represented (including those present in crossovers): 17 [+ original works!]
[Including: Kiddy Grade, Final Fantasy X, Dragon Age (2), Tales of Vesperia, Final Fantasy VII, Baccano!, Suikoden Tierkreis, Final Fantasy X-2, Final Fantasy V, Portal, Homestuck, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Suikoden III, Tales of Legendia, Final Fantasy XII, Fullmetal Alchemist, Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together]

And a round of applause please:

...the most prolific member this round was kalloway with 28 Kiddy Grade fics (this means kalloway wrote a fic for every prompt this round)! (Wow! That's insanely awesome!! (Surely this is a No True Pair first?!) Tell all your friends who are into Kiddy Grade!) (Kalloway, I want to hear your secret method for pulling this off! :D)

A big thank you and congratulations go out to our wonderful participants thus far: kalloway, vieralynn, person4, sincere, gnome, rinyula, mako_lies, sirvalkyrie [with me added, that's 9!]

There was a great variety of art and fic posted! I want to encourage all of you to continue to post anything you write/draw for these prompts up until the beginning of sign-ups for the next round! (information regarding the complete and total posting amnesty forthcoming)

Title: Take a Break
Artist: catdevigri
Fandom: Crossover - Final Fantasy XII x Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together
Pairing/characters: Ashe & Ravness
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Prompt/challenge you're answering: Ashe & Ravness, the warmth of the sun
Artist's comment: For no special reason, sort of fits together with Siesta

( Warriors at rest. )

Title: Siesta
Artist: catdevigri
Fandom: Crossover - Baccano! x Fullmetal Alchemist
Pairing/characters: Czeslaw Meyer & Scar
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Prompt/challenge you're answering: Czeslaw & Scar, the warmth of the sun
Artist's comment: For no real reason, matches up with Take a Break

( They deserve to take it easy. )

Title: There May Be Cake
Artist: rinyula
Fandom: Portal/Homestuck
Pairing/characters: Dave & GLaDOS
Rating: PG
Warnings: Very minor amounts of blood
Prompt/challenge you're answering: GLaDOS & Dave, "Let's try that again"
A/N: Background texture ripped directly from this screenshot.

( Let's try that again. )

Title: No Need to Get Soaked
Artist: catdevigri
Fandom: crossover - Puella Magi Madoka Magica x Suikoden III
Pairing/characters: Akemi Homura & Sarah
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Prompt/challenge you're answering: Homura & Sarah, sharing an umbrella

( Stand a little closer, why don't you? )

Title: Ice Cream Parlor
Artist: catdevigri
Fandom: crossover - Baccano! x Tales of Legendia
Pairing/characters: Fenimore Xelhes & Czeslaw Meyer
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Prompt/challenge you're answering: Fenimore & Czeslaw, "How about dessert?"

( It's not so extravagant if you share. )

As a reminder, here's the posting format:

Please include as a minimum in each post, the following headers:
Title:
Author/Artist:
Fandom:
Pairing/characters:
Rating:
Warnings: [character death, rape/non-con, and shota/chan/loli-con, or otherwise at your choice (if you want to entice us with your "warnings," I won't have a problem with that either)]
Prompt/challenge you're answering:

And the standard subject line is something like: Title (Fandom(s), Pairing), but please proceed as you see fit.

Tagging policies: Each piece will get a tag for its fandom(s), author/artist, pairing, and the challenge round that it answers.

I'll create new tags as they're needed -- feel free to add tags to your pieces if they're already in the tag list. That usually includes your author tag, and the '! 2012 eight characters challenge' tag. Otherwise, I'll be happy to handle them myself.

Feel free to start posting once it is March 1st in your area.

Once again, best of luck to everyone, and I hope we see a lot of excellent stories/art!

Are you ready? How 'bout it? XD

The only numbers are in the appropriate locations in the prompts, so you should be able to just find and replace them on your word processor of choice.

( Here they are! )

So? So? Did you get something wonderfully hilarious, brain-breaking, or inspiring that you'd like to share? Feel free to chat and mention some of your favorites here!

And if you still want to sign up, just head on over to the sign-up post and make your lists. If you already peeked at the prompts though, don't cheat! ^^; Tell me you signed up late and I'll mix the numbers up into a new order to keep things randomized for you.


Posting starts March 1st! Good luck and have fun!

The first rule of No True Pair is: have fun!
The second rule of No True Pair is: Suzume-mod always jumps the gun. (apparently not this time)
(The third rule of No True Pair is: talk about No True Pair- just in case you were wondering)

0TP Round Nine is officially open for sign-ups!

Sign-ups will run from now until February 11th!
(If you show up between February 12th & February 29th and ask me nicely, I'll probably let you join in anyway with the numbers on the prompts reshuffled, but it's better to get in early, right?)

February 12th: Prompts are revealed.
March 1st: Posting starts.

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Comment here with your numbered list of eight characters for the February/March round of No True Pair. As per previous rounds:

- your list can contain characters from one fandom or different fandoms
- you may use your original characters
- you may have more than one list (as many as you like)
- you can also use less than eight characters -- simply repeat the same characters until you have a name next to every number
- every character in your list will have a prompt with every other one.

This is a low pressure challenge. Signing up does not obligate you to complete any fic/art.

I do hope that you will participate and I encourage you to invite your friends!!

(By the way, that last influx of posts was just delightful! I'll have the latest masterlist updated by the end of the day)