Hello everyone and welcome to Rairpair Roulette! I ran this back in September in the CB Patreon server as a little test case, but I think I've got the wrinkles ironed out and am ready to open it up as a public event!
What is it?
Formally known as Silly Ships and Three Themes, this is a little event for those who want to take on the creative challenge of selling everyone on a randomly allocated and uncommon ship. Aspiring participants will submit a rarepair ship and at least three prompt words, and I will, by the magic of the internet, turn these into spinner wheels. Then, anyone who wants to can draw a ship and three themes, which they must bring to life through whatever medium calls to them (flash fic, poetry, art, mosaic made out of vintage bottle caps, etc).
Crucially, the creation must be sincere. Your goal is to sell your ship like it's your new OTP. There's no points, but if they were, it would be for the number of new converts you can net with your moving tribute.
We've got a couple of Hard Rules, and a couple of Soft Rules for this game.
Hard Rules
Major character death is not permitted as a theme
No pairings between family members. While participants don't have to fill prompts romantically, they should have a bit of choice over what relationship dynamic they'd like to go with.
Characters may be aged up/down as much as as you like. If the pairing canonically includes a minor and an adult, this must be done for non-platonic dynamics (i.e. either both characters are kids, or both are adults).
Pairings with characters from other media are allowed only if the other character is extremely well-known. If anyone in my jury of peers says "who?" when shown the ship, it will be removed from the pool.
No fastpass spoilers!
Soft Rules
These are the ones for maximum clout, but also, who am I to stop you?
No rerolls
Gotta go fast (no more than 10 minutes for a prompt fill)
If you're submitting to the AO3 collection, the upper rating is T. You're more than welcome to do prompt fills at M and above, they just won't be accepted in the collection for linking to Discord reasons.
How do I take part?
For now, submit your prompts! The form will close at... well, it's 11:59pm AEDT Tuesday, which is "a little under 12 hours after the update drops" your local time. Spinner wheels will open next weekend.
Optional:
Use #cbrarepairroulette on Tumblr or AO3
Submit to the surprise CB RarePair Roulette collection on AO3 (any fics in this collection will be hidden until Valentine's day!)
If you'd like to see some examples, the September round of fics, at least, is available here (fanart is, alas, a bit scattered to the winds, but I've put my own under the cut).
