CELEBRATING THE HOLIDAY EVERYONE LOVES TO HATE*

[seventhe]

Fandom: taking back Valentine's Day since 2008!

So last year bottle_of_shine had a Kissing Battle. The last edition is here (EDITED TO ADD: this is the old battle, not the current one!). It was a lot of fun and might be known around FF-fandom circles as the best Meme ever**.

Pretty much everyone I know is stressed about something, too, so this round of the Kiss Meme Battle honestly couldn't have better timing. (I love you guys) This round is about feeling good, it's about love, and it's also about seeing who can write the most kissy drabbles and ficlets in one week!

Final Fantasy Kissing Battle: Valentine's Edition!***
Happening right here in this very entry

This portion of the rules I borrow from Nay, because she explained it well.

Requirements:
  - Kissing. Of any sort, even if it happens to be platonic. Otherwise known as: gen kisses are okay!
  - Put the fandom and pairing in the header of comments with kiss fic! SERIOUSLY. This makes it 300% easier for people to browse (and for me to compile).
Limitations: above the belt (this isn't about porn) and Final Fantasy only (crossovers are cool).

There are many ways to play! Write kisses and post them as comments. Make a list of requests and hope someone will fill them. Write other people's requests and hope they do the same back. (Requests can be filled more than once.) Find other good kisses and squee! EDIT - You can request anonymously, if you want!

This is about love and feeling good and that kind of stuff so people who are stupid about it will get my steel-toes in their ass. WITH LOVE ♥ ♥ ♥

I'm thinking about a week for this, so whoever writes the most kisses in that time wins!

GO TO IT, GUYS.
Let the Kissing Battle begin!
Feel free to pimp and invite people! THERE'S LOVE FOR EVERYONE.


*Don't lie to me. You hate it, you know you hate it, and you love to hate it. You love to complain about how stupid of a holiday it is. Single, committed, married, playing the field, porn star, straight, gay, bi, curious, into donkeys - we all have a hate-on for Valentine's Day, and we all compete with each other over the size of our Valentine's-Day-hating cock. I've had it. ENOUGH. THE HATE STOPS HERE! FILL THE WORLD WITH MOTHER FUCKING LOVE, YOU FUCKING COCK BITCHES.

**it might also not. I may have made that part up.

***the name of this color is "Dark Hard Magenta." HAHAHA. HARD. i am such a loser. Also, I hope it's as annoying on YOUR screen as it is on MINE.

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REQUESTS
Updated: ~1:00pm 02-18-08

♥ Each *asterisk* represents one kiss already written for that request. It certainly does not mean you can't write another - it's really for people who are trying to make sure everyone gets their fair share of the kisses.
It's only based off of kisses with labeled comment headers. If you forgot to label your kiss, reply to it with a comment WITH THE PAIRING IN THE HEADER and I'll try to update you.
♥ Newest requests are at the bottom of each list, labeled with a heart. ("New" simply means "the most recent people I've added".)

Again, if you don't want your name on your request, feel free to comment anonymously.

FFI
Garland/Sara*, Arylon/Elf Prince, Jim/Kope, Light Warrior/Anyone - ovo_lexa

FFII
Paul/Leila, Maria/Guy - ovo_lexa

FFIII
Ingus/Sara* - kristinmachina
Dorga/Unne - ovo_lexa
♥ Arc/Alus, Cid/Mrs. Cid - rosehiptea

FFIV
Cecil/Rosa*, Cecil & young Rydia* - venefica_aura
Edge/Kain - katmillia
Rosa/Rydia, Edge/Kain/Rydia - first_seventhe
Edge/Rydia*, Kain/Rydia*, Kain/Valvalicia/Golbez/Rosa (any comb.)* - lassarina
Edward/Anna** - ovo_lexa
Rosa/Edge**, Rosa/Palom*, Anna (as Rosa)/Edward*, Rosa/Sylph - salarta
Porom/Edward, Porom/Anyone* - shiny_glor_chan
Rydia/Asura*, Kain/Rosa, Kain/Cecil, Edward/young!Rydia, Palom/Porom* - eerian_sadow
Cecil/Kain/Rosa - wakka_luver
♥ Yang/anyone** - fanaticalone

FFV
Syldra & Faris* - ovo_lexa
Reina/Faris* - salarta

FFVI
Setzer/Celes* - astrangerenters
Maduin/Madeline* - deadshrimpblues
Terra/Anyone*, Locke/Celes - first_seventhe
Celes/Leo* - aesriella
Locke/Celes, Leo/Celes* - lassarina
Terra/Celes/Kefka - salarta
Sabin/Cyan* - jianna
♥ Cyan/Terra - rosehiptea

FFVII and assorted
Tseng/Elena - irish_ais
Tifa/Elena*, Reno/Aeris*, Lucrecia/Ifalna** - venefica_aura
Veld/Ifalna*, Veld/Lucrecia, Vincent/Ifalna* - astralavator
Cid/Shera**, Rude/Elena*, Tifa/Barret*, Chocobo Joe/Esther, Ilfalna/Elmyra* - deadshrimpblues
Tifa/Barret, Tifa/Rude, Yuffie/Reno - first_seventhe
Vincent/Tifa* - rhianna_aurora
Vincent/Cloud* - kristinmachina
Cid/Vincent, Cloud/Zack, Cloud/Sephiroth, Sephiroth/Zack, Zack/Aeris, Reno/Rude, Rufus/Reno - jameva
Zack/Aeris, Reno/Rude, Tseng/Elena - lassarina
Tifa/Scarlet - salarta
Tifa/Vincent, Tifa/Veld*, Tifa/Tseng, Tifa/Reno, Tifa/Sephiroth - is_bel
Vincent/Elena*, Aeris/Elena*, Reeve/Tifa, Anna/Veld* - tijuana_pirate
Vincent/Cloud*, (AC) Marlene & Denzel - solitaryjane
Any combo: Cloud, Reno, Zack, Sephiroth, Rufus, Angeal, Genesis - jenovas_boy
Tifa/Vincent - sarasa_cat
Cid/Loz, Cait Sith/Red XIII*, Aerith/Cait Sith* - wakka_luver
Cloud/Tifa, Loz/Tifa, Yuffie/Vincent, Yuffie/Cloud* - anime_angel_ash
♥ Cloud/Barret*/a> - firefly99
♥ Zack/Tifa, Zack/Cloud, Rude/Tifa - fiorieart
♥ Reno/Rude/Elena* - fanaticalone

FFVIII
Squall/Rinoa*, Seifer/Zell, Seifer/Quistis, Seifer/Xu, Seifer/Fujin, Irvine/Selphie*, Cid/Edea** - irish_ais
Seifer/Squall, Rinoa/Ellone*, Fujin/Xu*, Cid/Edea* - venefica_aura
Squall/Ellone* - katmillia
Squall/Quistis*, Irvine/Quistis* - astrangerenters
Selphie/Seifer*, Irvine/His Hat** - achenar
Quistis/Zell*, Seifer/Zell, Quistis/Laguna*, Selphie/Seifer, Irvine/Anyone* - first_seventhe
Irvine/Rinoa** - rhianna_aurora
Seifer/Zell, Irvine/Squall* - dior_anghel
Quistis/Xu*, Xu/Nida, Quistis & Angelo***, Quistis/Bobo/Zell - aesriella
Quistis/Shiva* - aesriella
Seifer/Zell, Irvine/Selphie - jameva
Seifer/Irvine!*, Seifer/Squall - lassarina
Seifer/Ma Dincht*, Seifer/Raijin*, Seifer/Xu*, Seifer/Fujin, Selphie/Edea, Xu/Martine, Xu/Zell, Zell/Fujin, Zell/Irvine*, Zell/Chocobo - siva630
Edea/Quistis - salarta
Quistis/Irvine* - solitaryjane
Quistis/Squall - owlmoose
Seifer/Zell - not_cynical
Edea/Laguna* - mrsteninch
Squall/Rinoa, Seifer/Zell, Xu/Martine*, Irvine/Seifer - bottle_of_shine
Ultimecia/Anyone*, Ifrit/Shiva* - wakka_luver
Selphie/Irvine, Zell/Library Girl*, Seifer/Xu*, Seifer/Rinoa*, Raine/Laguna - anime_angel_ash
♥ Quistis/Odin*, Zell/Quistis, Squall/Zell*, Squall/Nida, Seifer/Nida, Cid/Dr. Kadowaki* - fiorieart
♥ Zell/Selphie/Irvine* - fanaticalone

FFIX
Beatrix/Steiner, Beatrix/Garnet* - aesriella
Kuja/Zidane, Zidane/Garnet - jameva
Freya/Amarant, x7 - siva630
Garnet/Beatrix - salarta
Steiner/Beatrix, Freya/Fratley, Vivi/anybody - owlmoose
Zidane/Garnet, Eiko/Vivi* - anime_angel_ash
♥ Freya/Zidane* - fanaticalone

FFX/X-2
Lulu/Rikku, Tidus/Rikku, Yuna/Auron or Yuna & Auron* - venefica_aura
Auron/Rikku**, Baralai/Gippal, Yuna/Baralai* - katmillia
Wakka/Rikku*, Lulu/Rikku*, Yuna/Anyone* - first_seventhe
Gippal/Baralai - dior_anghel
Lulu/Chappu - aesriella
Auron/Jecht*, Lulu/Auron - jameva
Lulu/Auron*, Nooj/Paine - lassarina
Yuna/Kimahri, Rikku/Wakka*, Wakka/Lulu, Wakka/Yuna - siva630
Lulu/Doll, Lulu/Leblanc, Elma/Lucil - salarta
Kimahri/Rikku, Braska & young Yuna, young Yuna / young Auron - eerian_sadow
Lulu/Luzzu, Yuna/Isaaru, Buddy/Anybody*, Paine/Nooj! - owlmoose
Auron/Braska, Auron/Jecht, Tidus/Yuna, Baralai/Gippal*, Paine/Nooj*, BARALAI/ISAARU - not_cynical
Auron/Belgemine, Shelinda/A Chocobo - mrsteninch
Auron/Braska, Dona/Bartello*, Baralai/Gippal*, Shinra/Pacce, Buddy/Brother, Yuna/Beclem* - bottle_of_shine
Braska/Jecht* - jianna
Kimahri/Moogle - wakka_luver
Gippal/Yuna, Paine/Rikku, Nooj/Lucil, Beclem/Elma, Isaaru/Belgemine* - pink_rapid
Tidua/Yuna, Wakka/Lulu, Nooj/Lucil, LeBlanc/Gippal, Paine/Baralai, Braska/Yuna's mother*, Jecht/Tidus' mother* - anime_angel_ash
♥ Lulu/Wakka/Luzzu - fanaticalone
♥ Wakka/Tidus - rosehiptea

FFXII
Basch/Ashe* - katmillia
Balthier/Ashe**, Drace/Gabranth - astrangerenters
Penelo/Larsa/Vaan - achenar
Vaan/Ashe - astralavator
Balthier/Vaan*, Balthier/Fran - kristinmachina
Fran/Balthier - aesriella
Balthier/Fran, Balthier/Basch*, Basch/Vossler* - jameva
Balthier/Ashe*, Gabranth/Drace*, Gabranth/Ffamran**, Vayne/Ashe* - lassarina
Larsa/Penelo**, Vayne/Drace**, Fran/Vaan* - mariagoner
Balthier/Vaan, Balthier/Basch, Ashe/Al-Cid* - not_cynical
Basch/Ashe, Basch & Noah*, Noah/Penelo**, Ffamran/Fran* - aorin107
Fran/Penelo - mrsteninch
Drace/Gabranth*, Penelo/Basch**, Venat/Dr.Cid - sarasa_cat
Reks/Penelo* - mariagoner
Ondore/Drace, Balthier/Penelo, Basch/Fran, OLD DALAN/HOOKAH* - pink_rapid
Al-Cid/Ashe, Vaan/Ashe, Larsa/Penelo - anime_angel_ash
♥ Vayne/Larsa, Vayne/Gabranth, Zargabaath/Zecht, Gabranth/Zecht - manic_intent

Revenant Wings
Lluyd/Filo, Penelo/Velis, Fran/Mydia - kristinmachina
llyud/Filo, Kytes/Filo*, Llyud/Penelo/Vaan, Kytes/Filo/Llyud - shiny_glor_chan

Crossover
Reno/Rydia****, Quistis/Rydia, Squall/Cloud - katmillia
Basch/Celes* - astrangerenters
Quistis/Rydia** - first_seventhe
Ferris/Setzer, Edgar/Ashe* - kristinmachina
Auron/Celes, Ashe/Celes, Zack/Rydia - lassarina
Rosa/Edea*, Rosa/Kefka - salarta
Ultros/Balthier!!* - sarasa_cat
Faris/Leila* - shiny_glor_chan
♥ Balthier/Mustadio, Balthier/Zalbaag, Balthier/Cidolfus Orlandeau - manic_intent
♥ Rude/Fujin - fanaticalone

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HONORABLE MENTION FANDOMS THAT ARE NOT FINAL FANTASY BUT YOU MIGHT KNOW THEM ANYWAY
Sir Hilldo / Kitty Kitty by hilldo

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REQUESTS FOR CHARACTER/INANIMATE OBJECT
I am not going to be able to keep track of all of these, so feel free to just respond to the entry with any kisses these prompts might inspire!

Already requested:
   - Irvine/Hat (all over the place)
   - Lulu/Doll

New
   - Sabin/His Too Sweet Fists Of Fury
   - FF7 Cid/Pack of Cigarettes
   - FF7 Cid/The Highwind
   - Wakka/Blitzball
   - Reno/Nightstick
   - Kadaj/Jenova bits
   - Cloud/Cell Phone
   - Cloud/Fenrir
   - Squall/Triple Triad Cards
   - Shinra/CommSphere
   - Leblanc/Nooj's Glasses(/other parts)
   - Balthier/The Strahl
   - Yuffie/Materia
   - Rikku/Auron's Sake Jug
   - Seifer/Quistis/Quistis' Whip




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Comments

REQUESTS

[irish-ais.livejournal.com]

FFVIII:

Squall/Rinoa
Seifer/Zell
Seifer/Quistis
Seifer/Xu (Okay, he is my fandom whore, SO WHAT.)
Seifer/Fujin
Irvine/Selphie
Cid/Edea


FFVII:

Tseng/Elena

Cid/Edea, FF8 (with some background Squall/Rinoa)

[venefica-aura.livejournal.com]

"You know, it's healthier to choose a Knight that you don't love at first."

She'd been so quiet since it had all happened, and sometimes Cid wondered if she was lost within her own mind. Over the years she had always come back but in all the years she had never wandered so far.

Those impenetrable eyes were watching them of course, and he had to think he never looked as good as Squall did and she had always been a little on the darker side, unlike Rinoa who was still clear as a sky.

"So you didn't love me then?" It was a foolish thing to ask, but Edea had left such an impression their first meeting, pulling him aside at the school and just kissing him and commenting on how the bookish types really were better at it.

"I just said it wasn't healthy."

BARRET/CID, FFVII, PLZ R&R!

[deadshrimpblues.livejournal.com]

"Daddy?" Marlene was studiously picking at her seat belt with the kind of abstract distraction only children can muster. "What did Uncle Cid mean when he told you to kiss his 'big swingin' %&^*$'? Does he have a sore place there?"

If it was possible, Barret's face went a deeper shade of purple. The word 'glowering' didn't even begin to cover it.

"When I kick him in his goddamned %&^*$ he's sure as fuck gonna," he muttered under his breath, jerking the truck's steering wheel so hard there was an audible creak as it strained at its moorings.

"... Huh?"

A heavy sigh.

"Never mind, bebby-love. Jes' never mind."

Re: BARRET/CID, FFVII, PLZ R&R!

[irish-ais.livejournal.com]

That was hilarious. And amazing, and large amounts of concentrated win all at once.

I Request for GREAT JUSTICE

[venefica-aura.livejournal.com]

FFIV:

Cecil/Rosa (THEY ARE SO EFFIN CUTE)
Cecil/baby!Rydia (IN THE CUTE PLATONIC WAY PLZ)

FFVII: aka, indulge my crack

Tifa/Elena
Reno/Aeris
Lucrecia/Ifalna

FFVIII:

Seifer/Squall (yes, I'm uncreative stfu)
Rinoa/Ellone
Fujin/Xu
Cid/Edea

FFX:

Lulu/Rikku
Tidus/Rikku
Yuna/Auron (CUTE GEN PREFERRED)

FFIV- Cecil, Rydia

[katmillia.livejournal.com]

"Don't turn the lantern out."

Cecil sighed, wishing for the tenth time that Rosa was there to help him deal with the strange quirks and needs that accompanied a seven-year-old child.

"It's night," he explained, again, as he tucked the covers in around her small form. "Night means sleep. And to sleep, it needs to be dark."

"No," Rydia said. Her bottom lip was trembling in a precariously held pout. "I don't want it out."

"But it's night," he said.

"No," she repeated. "It's scary."

"Look," Cecil started, "just close your eyes, and it won't be scary anymore."

"Promise?" she asked, dark eyes wide. Pudgy hands were clutching the thread-bare linen of the Inn– didn't anyone bother to stock the beds with real blankets anymore?– and she seemed on the verge of believing him.

"Yes," he said, withholding a relieved sigh. "Yes, I promise."

"Well, I need a goodnight kiss," she said, huffing. He leaned forward and kissed her forehead where the emerald strands blew across her eyes.

"Goodnight," he said, and tip-toed over to the lantern before she changed her mind. Again.

[deadshrimpblues.livejournal.com]

"Got a light?"

As Don Corneo leaned in to light his lover's cigar, all he could think was I'm so lucky to have him. And then President Shinra grasped his pudgy hand and kissed it, kissed it with all the tenderness of a whiskbroom fellating its dustpan mate, and the Don knew that he would never stray.

[venefica-aura.livejournal.com]

Yes the Don is full of love.

~Cendri

[katmillia.livejournal.com]

Jesus. This could be intense.

FFIV:
Edge/Kain (not my fault I swear)

FFVIII:
Squall/Ellone

FFX:
Auron/Rikku
Baralai/Gippal
Yuna/Baralai

FFXII:
Basch/Ashe

CROSSOVER:
Reno/Rydia (SOMEONE DO IT MWAHAHA)
Quistis/Rydia (NOT MY FAULT)
Squall/Cloud (Okay, that one is my fault)

Yuna/Baralai - I want to play too!

[astrangerenters.livejournal.com]

“He’s been returned to you, the one you were looking for?”

She nods and smiles, watching as he masks the disappointment with a neutral expression. “Yes. I had never imagined it possible.”

They stare out at the spires of Bevelle in silence, and she wishes he could find someone to make him happy. He deserves happiness after all the struggles he’s faced. Yuna isn’t sure why she felt it was necessary to come and tell him, but she thought it best he heard it from her before rumors began to circulate.

The sun begins to set, and she knows they are all waiting for her aboard the ship. “I have to get back.” She turns to leave but pauses. Yuna bites her lip and knows she shouldn’t ask – knows it will probably hurt. “You are welcome to join us. We are having a bit of a celebration…”

He sighs and shakes his head. “My place is here, Lady Yuna.”

She nods, hearing the finality in his words and wishing it could be different. As she moves away from him, she barely notices his hand grasp hers until he’s already brought it to his lips. She can feel the hairs on the back of her neck raise as he bids her farewell, and his eyes are solemn when he releases her hand.

“You are always welcome here,” he whispers before turning back to gaze out at the city.

(LOL I've never written FFX before, can you tell?)

[hilldo.livejournal.com]

That magenta is not annoying at all.
The rest of the post...however... :)

[katmillia.livejournal.com]

JAMES THAT IS NOT A KISS FOR THE MEME. YOU FAIL.

FFVI: Relm/Gau, BUT NOT REALLY DAMMIT SAYS RELM

[deadshrimpblues.livejournal.com]

Relm would have never admitted it to anyone, but she had almost begun to enjoy Gau's company. In some vague way he understood her, and Relm could say that about very few others in these latter days of the world.

Take today, for example. The two of them had been fishing for three hours straight, swatting midges and skipping stones in companionable silence. How many other people could keep their traps shut for that long? Relm suspected it was a pretty small number. She dug her toes deeper into the warm river mud and leaned back to lie on the grass, squeezing her eyes shut against the sun's glare. Luxury. Pure luxury.

She felt the shadow fall across her before she even re-opened her eyes. There was a brief flutter of movement. Something soft and wet pressed against Relm's mouth; she blinked again and found herself staring up into the face of Gau.

His lips were firmly planted against hers. Not that he was moving them around or anything - it was more like the boy had a hazy idea that pushing lips together was a good thing, and hadn't quite cottoned on to the rest of the rulebook.

Relm let the two of them stay that way for about thirty shocked seconds. Then she remembered who she was - Relm Arrowny, ninja painter extraordinare, tied to no-one and nothing - and sent her friend flying into the river with a shriek of outrage.

In-between having his head dunked repeatedly, Gau managed to sputter one thing in defense:

"Please ... Relm ... Edgar told me to! Ple--"

Re: FFVI: Relm/Gau, BUT NOT REALLY DAMMIT SAYS RELM

[katmillia.livejournal.com]

LOLZ

[astrangerenters.livejournal.com]

Can I play too? :)

FF6:
Setzer/Celes

FF8:
Squall/Quistis
Irvine/Quistis

FF12:
Balthier/Ashe
Drace/Gabranth

CROSSOVER CRACK:
Basch/Celes (mmm yes)

FFVIII: Squall/Quistis

[katmillia.livejournal.com]

Smack.

She should have known, before she even saw the frightened cadets running through the halls, that their commander was, once again, taking his aggression out on the unfortunate piece of wood whittled into what would later become his desk. After all, it was the year anniversary of Rinoa leaving the Garden– and much as she knew he hated to admit, Squall definitely remembered the date– and things had been proceeding slightly less smoothly than they all had anticipated with Martine and Galbadia.

She sighed and pushed her chair back, moving into the hallway of the second floor where the whispers surrounded her senses.

Smack.

The elevator ride seemed longer than usual, as if the contraption itself had been slowed to deliberately aggravate her further. How was she supposed to teach a class when the very walls of Balamb sounded like they were coming down around her?

With a ding, the doors opened, and she stepped into the commander's office.

Smack.

"Squall."

Smack.

"Squall!"

The pounding stopped for a moment, and he looked up at her as if just registering her presence.

"You're scaring the cadets," she said. His reaction of raising his gunblade once again, blunt side down, of course, was not what she was looking for. She darted forward and caught his wrist in mid-fall, effectively stopping the banging. "You're scaring me."

That got his attention. He raised one eyebrow at her.

"Sorry," he mumbled, after a moment's pause. "It's just–"

"I know," she said. "Try not to take your aggression out on Garden property next time, okay?"

She made to withdraw her hand at the same time he scooted his chair backwards, and she found herself falling foward, and the ensuing pile of torsos and limbs was more than a little awkward. As she struggled to right herself from her position half-atop her commander (oh, what Xu would say should she walk in on them now), Quistis accidentally brushed her lips past Squall's cheek. He froze, and so did she, and there was a long moment of silence where neither moved.

"Maybe you could find more constructive methods of dealing with your anger," she whispered, hoping to dispell some of the tension that had quite suddenly settled down on her shoulders. His hand found the small of her back, and it didn't seem to be accidental at all.

"Yeah," he said.

Vincent/Shera/Lucrecia!

[deadshrimpblues.livejournal.com]

If someone had asked Vincent why, he could have never said. She was his friend - not just that, she was his best friend's wife, for the love of Da-Chao. It was an abominable way to act, undisciplined, discourteous and downright emotional.

But for just a moment, when the late afternoon sunlight had thrown her cheekbones into profile and turned the lenses of her glasses into mirrors, Vincent hadn't seen Shera Highwind sitting next to him. He had seen her. They laughed the same, they adjusted their glasses the same, they even smelled the same. Vincent had gotten lost in a memory, and when he emerged, things were shaping up to be awkward, very awkward indeed. Another sin to throw on the pile.

Shera put a hand on his shoulder. When Vincent finally managed to meet her gaze, what he found there wasn't embarrassment, or anger, or even, Gods forbid, reciprocation.

It was pity.

"It's alright, Vincent," she finally said with a small, shy smile. "It wasn't me you were kissing anyway."

And they both knew this was true.

Re: Vincent/Shera/Lucrecia!

[heybitchmove.livejournal.com]

Aw. That was cute and yet incredibly sad at the same time. Tears of bittersweet joy!

FFVII: Zack/Cactaur (i.e. no not meta at all YOU KNEW THIS WAS COMING)

[katmillia.livejournal.com]

Spring, the season of flowers and fat raindrops and new SOLDIER recruits and the Cactaur's annual mating ritual in full bloom.

But not all the Cactaurs were prancing about with their pins stretched out and gleaming in the sunlight– no, for one Cactaur, the mating ritual was a lonely, difficult affair that was merely a valley to grimly forge through to get to the rest of the year (especially summer with the sweet fruit on the low-lying bushes). She had no mate to run through the sands with, no partner to call her own. She spent her days trudging across the dunes while the others frolicked in semi-illicet fun.

Her days were long and lonely, until she saw– him.

Oh, but he was perfect! Dark hair, bright eyes, clearly capable of defending himself as noted by the large sword lying next to his rather prone form. Even in sleep, as he was drifting in his dreams under the warm afternoon sun, he was completely perfect in every way. Surely she would not have to spend another Spring alone, not with him here!

Pleased, and hoping that no others noticed the wonderful speciman lounging before her vision, she skipped up to his body to take note of the even, rhythmic breathing. She could just imagine his beautiful eyes looking with devotion upon her. They could even prance through the dunes like the others, anticipating the arrival of the Summer without the pang of longing she usually possessed. Ah, the world was wonderful once more!

She scampered up his uniform front (and very nearly fell over when she felt what perfectly toned muscles he had beneath the fabric) and planted a kiss right on his lips, to signal that she had chosen him.

A few yards away, the guard looked up momentarily in confusion, wondering what could have prompted the anguished shriek of pain that was echoing through the air.

Re: FFVII: Zack/Cactaur (i.e. no not meta at all YOU KNEW THIS WAS COMING)

[astrangerenters.livejournal.com]

OMFG Katy, you are twisted ;)

Re: FFVII: Barret/Myrna

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

...OK, see, now you've stopped being ridiculous and just gone and made me sad.

<3

[achenar.livejournal.com]

OH GOD YOU HAD TO DO THIS TO ME AGAIN. <3

FFVIII:
Selphie/Seifer
Irvine/His Hat

FFXII:
Penelo/Larsa/Vaan TRIANGLE OF WEIRD

Will totally start writing very soon~

FFVIII: Selphie/Seifer

[katmillia.livejournal.com]

Honestly, she's very good at reading people. She knows when Rinny and Squall fight because she can pick up the vibes they both give off, and the way they avoid public areas like the plague. She knows when something big and bad is going on politics-wise because Quistis has a tendency to stare vacantly past the lid of her coffee cup. She knows when Irvy is going to try and ask her to the movies again (and subsequently when she's going to have to think of a very good reason to be very busy that night). She's good at reading people.

But Seifer is hard. He doesn't do things like the others do, and he distances himself so far she can't pick up on his normal habits and actions. And she doesn't quite know what to think when he swings his gunblade at the T-Rexaur looming over her as her magic piddles out and she realizes she doesn't have as many spells stocked as she thought she did. After all, where had he even come from, anyway?

Best not to think too far into it, she thinks. Move along like always, that's the best idea.

But then he goes and dumps a piece of chocolate cake on the table in front of her during lunch, and she knows that it's the last piece because the line for the dessert buffet dissipated quite suddenly, and she doesn't know what that means, either.

Of course, when he pulls her aside (rather harshly) outside the second floor classroom and kisses her, it's hard not to put two and two together.

Even if he does walk away afterwards like nothing had happened at all.

Besides, Selphie is awfully good at reading people.

FFVII: Barret/Myrna

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Barret's mama had always taught him that it was just fine if a man wanted to shed tears. Why, even the good Lord had wept sometimes, she said, and Barret believed her, as he believed everything Mama told him. If she said that the sky was pea-green and coal came outta a mule's asshole, Barret would roll up his sleeves and get ready to give that critter a thorough rectal exam.

When he got older that didn't stop him from drying up, of course. Corel was a coal-mining town, and coal miners generally didn't wail like damn babies, not for nobody or nothin'. Barret Wallace had a reputation to maintain, after all.

No-one bothered to be stoic the day after the massacre.

Big fat tears went rolling down Barret's nose and splashed onto what was left of Myrna and he didn't even notice he was crying until the world blurred like smeared newspaper ink. He leaned down close to her face - there was a scent like charred meat and gunpowder; it was a long, long time after before he could eat anything over a cookfire again or even smell woodsmoke without retching - and, gentle as he knew how, kissed her on the lips.

Then Barret Wallace picked his wife up for the last time and carried her home.

Re: FFVII: Barret/Myrna

[katmillia.livejournal.com]

Um omg you just killed me. With angst.

FF8: Zell

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Hmm.

This sorta thing shouldn’t really be left lying around, he thinks. Someone could get the wrong impression about him. How a copy of that trashy Girl Next Door had gotten mixed in with his back issues of Combat King, he isn’t sure. It belongs in the trash. It’s gross and objectifies…

Does this girl have pigtails?

Well, maybe it wouldn’t hurt to just peek. He's not a pervert like Zone. He closes his eyes. No. No, this isn’t the sort of thing he needs to waste his time on. But pigtails…

He cracks one eye open just slightly, so it’s kind of blurry, but there’s no mistaking it. For more, turn to page twenty-seven. Alright, he’ll just read it and throw it away. Turns out Pigtails is actually named Lerinne and she’s from Deling City. She enjoys Triple Triad, going to the movies and…

What was that? He slams the magazine shut quickly and looks up. Nobody in the hallway. His mind’s playing tricks. He learns more about Lerinne’s hobbies, and if she wasn’t topless on top of a Galbadian army truck, he’d probably be interested. Her eyes are so pretty, maybe it wouldn’t hurt to just give her a kiss before he dumps the damn thing in the garbage.

This is really stupid, he thinks as he presses his lips against the glossy paper. But he hasn’t been on a date in a while, so what’s the harm really? When he pulls back, Lerinne’s just as happy as ever, her hand saluting a passing General as her pigtails fall to her shoulders. One more won’t hurt…

“Chicken wuss, what the hell are you doing?”

He drops the magazine like it’s burned him, the pages falling open to show Lerinne laying in the grass outside the Deling City gates, naked as the day she was born.

Seifer’s laughter stings his ears as he continues on his way down the hall, and Zell picks up the magazine in a huff, dumping the stupid thing straight in the trash. There will be no living this down. He kicks the garbage can angrily. Pigtails will be the death of him.

Re: FF8: Zell

[katmillia.livejournal.com]

I think I want to have your e-babies. BECAUSE THIS WAS JUST THAT AWESOME.

Request

[astralavator.livejournal.com]

FVII:

Veld/Ifalna
Veld/Lucrecia
Vincent/Ifalna

FXII:

Vaan/Ashe

FFVII: Veld/Ifalna (because I'm one of like five people who know who he is!)

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Ifalna was one of those people that let him kiss her first, which was strangely not something that happened often. He had to wonder why that was; it wasn't something that he typically thought of.

"Some day I'll be doing something different."

It was a strange admission, the kind that she tended to draw out of him. Not even Veld knew that he wanted to be something other than a Turk one of these days.

"Not a priest, I hope," she teased. They'd been in the supply room for nearly two hours now, as he had no desire to let anyone know he was in Nibelheim, again, and she didn't seem particularly sociable.

"No, I couldn't keep all the vows."

"Chastity?"

He decided now was a good time to kiss her, and hopefully she wouldn't notice what was likely showing in his face. No, that sort of vow was never really a problem.

Thou shalt not kill, however...

[deadshrimpblues.livejournal.com]

I actually have a few requests. Let's see who bites.

Cid/Shera (FFVII)
Rude/Elena (FFVII)
Tifa/Barret (FFVII)
Maduin/Madeline (FFVI)
Chocobo Joe/Esther (FFVII oh yeah you heard me right)
Ilfana/Elmyra (FFVII)

FFVII: Elmya/Ifalna

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“It must me hard on you.” Elmya hadn’t much bothered to listen to the speaker as she knew the lady all at once from that sort of tone. One of those nameless types who were “charitable”, all it amounted to was a good pair of shoes and pockets so full the lady forgotten she could share. Not that Elmya need sharing mind you but there were plenty of others here who need a good pair of shoes and a full meal. Even if she shouldn’t as she had her girl to consider Elmya wasn’t above given a hand every once and awhile as long as she’d been able to get the hand back. There were all sorts down here she learned after her dear had found courage or whatever the Planet he’d called it. All his little nuisances she’d have given anything to have been able to ignore had been drifting out of her mind since she’d—

“If you need any help?” This time she stopped because ever since she’d found that poor child she’d been having to deal with people pestering her with this question in particular. Most of them were harmless but there’d been a few she’d been certain had been whispering around the corners with boys in blue suits. Down in the slums people didn’t know what those suits meant and Elmya couldn’t say she was any different. There were times when she’d see them that she’d feel a brush of wind, real wind, not the cooling system that keep them from all boiling alive down her against her ears telling her secrets.

Now Elmya couldn’t say she understood a word of it but the wind was whispering warning in her ear and she’d be a fool if she didn’t take heed of them. Those boys were dangerous was all she need in the end.

“Why would you be asking that?” This one was a young thing barely old enough to have understood all the stories people were tell about were little Aeris had been come from. Good thing her poor dear hadn’t come home. He had never been able to have lived with want people were saying about her. It was ridiculous anyway as Aeris was too old to have come from her fooling around with some other solider boy.

Though, sometime the way she’d speak to the wind made her—

“Well, raising a girl all on you—“

“I’m not raising her one my own.” A fool would believe she was. Fools wouldn’t have felt the wind down here even if it had knocked them over good. Elyma wasn’t the type of woman who’d take credit when it wasn’t do her.

“Who’s helping you then?”

She’d seen that poor woman’s eyes, freak eyes like Aeris had, but that wasn’t what she’d notice when she’d been knelling beside her. There’d been an ache in those eyes, one Elmya seen too many times down her. Mother’s unable to protect there children. She’d seen something else there something she could have touched, something more real than an ache.

It’s was the same loneliness Elmya had herself then for her dear gone off on a foolish war. In that woman’s eyes there’d was a woman abandoned by some noble knight wanting what was right and missing it entirely. That’s why Elmya had taken the girl and kept her because someone had to do a woman like that right.

Maybe she’d had another reason for keeping the girl. Ever since the first terrifying encounter with the wind she’d been…well...

“I say it was her mother.” The wind could be staying around whispering in her ear to protect her little girl but Elyma know it wasn’t the only reason. Because that wouldn’t explain why it was kissing her cheek now, in a warm summer’s breeze she could almost remember from her girlhood.

Elmya liked to think someone was doing right by her as well.

SEV'S REQUESTS! THERE ARE MANY

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

FFIV - Rosa/Rydia (young or old Rydia), Edge/Kain/Rydia

FFVI - Terra/Anyone, Locke/Celes

FFVII - Tifa/Barret, Tifa/Rude, Yuffie/Reno

FFVIII - Quistis/Zell, Seifer/Zell, Quistis/Laguna, Selphie/Seifer, Irvine/Anyone/Anything/Me

FFX/X-2 - Wakka/Rikku, Lulu/Rikku, Yuna(& Anyone)

CRACK - Quistis/Rydia :D :D

FFVIII: Quistis/Laguna

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Why, why did Squall have to assign her to be Balamb's official embassador to Esthar's rather ill-perceived ball?

She did not work well when confined to whatever it was that she was wearing (Rinoa had insisted that the blue looked wonderful on her and brought out her eyes, and the slit in the skirt was entirely appropriate given the circumstances), and she wasn't sure who she was more irate at- Squall, for giving her such a stupid mission when he should have been the one going, or Laguna, for thinking that such an idea had merit in the first place. She rolled her shoulders in an attempt to work out the kinks, but it seemed to be a lost cause.

If she found Laguna and handed off the reports and details for the Sorceress treaty between them, she could probably duck out early and change back into her far more practical uniform. She searched the room until she found his bobbing head, and marched towards him with resolution.

He didn't seem surprised to see her.

"Evening, Miss Trepe," he said. It thew her, initially, how much he looked like his younger self- and, given that she'd been in his memories too many times to count, it was slightly awkward at first speaking with him. She cleared her throat and shook her head.

"I have the papers for you," she told him, all business. "If you'll just–"

Someone- someone that looked suspiciously like Kiros- bumped into Laguna from behind and sent him reeling into both her and the unfortunate cocktail waitor next to her, who, even more unfortunately, was holding a platter of champagne flutes. She didn't know who was more coated in the bubbly concoction- her, or the waitor himself. Laguna looked aghast, and immediately grabbed her hand to pull her to the side where one of the buffet tables was located.

"I'm so sorry," he babbled, wiping at the front of her dress with a napkin, completely oblivious to the fact that his hand was getting rather close to–

"It's fine," she said quickly, waving his hand away. She was going to kill her commander for this, father issues be damned. "I'll just pass the papers off to you."

"You look very nice," he said, with that crooked smile she remembered so well.

"Thank you," she answered instinctively. "Here are the–"

He leaned forward and kissed her cheek, and she was so flabber-gasted that she completely forgot about her soaked dress AND the papers still clutched between her fingers. When it was clear that some sort of response was necessary, and he looked somewhere between embarassed and rejected, she scrambled to come up with the correct reply.

"Thank you," she said again.

[night-is-fallen.livejournal.com]

FFVII - Vincent/Tifa
FFVIII - Irvine/Rinoa

FFVII: Irvine/Rinoa

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Maybe they all read the fairy tale wrong. Maybe it wasn’t the knight who was supposed to wake the sleeping princess, but the gunslinger.

Irvine sat by Rinoa’s bed. Squall had been sitting at her side for days, stepping away only at his friends’ insistence that he eat something and get a few minutes of air.

Irvine found it very sad that this spitfire of a girl, the spunky daughter of a Galbadian general that threatened Irvine with bodily harm if he did not turn the car around immediately to rescue their friends from prison, lay comatose, almost lifeless.

Maybe she was just waiting for her kiss. Maybe Squall wasn’t the guy.

Irvine removed his hat and leaned over to kiss her. Rinoa’s lips were cold. Only the slightest warm breath from her nostrils indicated that she was still alive. She did not open her eyes. She did not look up at Irvine with a word of thanks, or with a punch to the nose.

Nope, a cowboy’s kiss just would not do. Irvine shrugged sadly, and rose to leave her to her slumber.

[kristinmachina.livejournal.com]

Yay! F*ck V-day!

III: Ingus/Sarah
VII: Vincent/Cloud
XII: Balthier/Vaan, Balthier/Fran
Revenant Wings: Lluyd/Filo, Penelo/Velis, Fran/Mydia
Cross-over: Ferris/Setzer, Edgar/Ashe

CROSSOVER FF6/FF12: Edgar/Ashe

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Larsa has requested, nay, commanded them all to commence mingling, and much as she longs to depart, she doesn’t need to start a diplomatic incident. Rising from her chair, she can already see the predatory eyes of half a dozen suitors working their way through the dining hall of the Archadian palace to request a dance. She’s stuffed to the gills with the lobster and mutton and gods know what else she’d been fed that evening, and dancing is the last thing she wishes to do.

Al-Cid nabs her first, and she allows him to march her around like some prize. In truth, Ashe isn’t looking for a husband here at this ball. She doesn’t require one, but as the most eligible lady in Ivalice and beyond, her ministers keep prodding her to attend these events – these “goodwill parties to strengthen diplomatic ties” which are in actuality blind dates for the Queen of Dalmasca.

After the first few dances and dull conversations, she spies an elegantly attired blond gentleman leaning on Larsa’s table laughing and joking. She’s not seen him at these events before, and there is a certain intelligence and spark in his eyes that sets him apart from the other irritating suitors. Breaking away from the Duke of She-Can’t-Remember, she approaches Larsa’s table, insinuating herself between the new man and the Archadian Emperor.

“What a lovely event, Lord Larsa,” she cheers, although her eyes suggest otherwise and the young Emperor nods knowingly. His advisors are trying to find him a match as well. She turns to the other man and raises an eyebrow. “I’m afraid we haven’t been introduced?”

To her surprise, the man immediately drops to a knee and takes her hand, laying a kiss on it that puts all of Al-Cid’s previous attempts to shame. “Edgar, King of the great land of Figaro, Your Highness.”

Oh dear. She mistook the lust in his eyes for intelligence. And now she has made the first move by coming over. “I am unfamiliar with Figaro. Where is that exactly?” She tries to put a bit of scorn into her words – perhaps this Edgar will be deterred by the icy manner of speaking that has scared off so many dukes, counts and gentlemen these past few years.

But King Edgar is undeterred, finally rising to his feet but not releasing her hand. Ashe can see Larsa’s embarrassment from the corner of her eye. “Ah, it is far west of this great place, my dear lady.” He is daring to brush his thumb over her knuckles possessively, and she understands immediately why this man, though a King, remains a bachelor even now. He’s rather greedy.

She snatches her hand back as smoothly as possible. “Well, it has been lovely to meet you, but I really must be…”

He’s already got her by the elbow and is half-escorting, half-dragging her to the floor. She can see the eyes of others upon them, and it disgusts her to read approval in their faces. Surely she is mistaken. “Lord Larsa has informed me that Dalmasca is in need of an heir?”

“Are you propositioning me so soon?” she hisses as he pulls her to him.

“You are not a romantic, are you, Lady Ashe?”

“No.” She tries to step on his foot, but he dodges gracefully. “What is your game, sir?”

“I will win you.”

“I am no prize to be won.”

“So you say.” He leans forward to whisper in her ear. “If you win, I’ll leave, never to trouble you again. If I win, you let me court you.”

She stops dancing to glare at him. “Win? Win what?”

He slips a hand into his pocket, producing a shiny golden item. “Just a coin toss. What do you say?”

FFVI: Edgar/Chainsaw/Hockey Mask

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(This is astrangerenters' fault. I swear.)

They were all like his children–Edgar’s tools. It felt wrong to pick a favorite, but one of his little beauties made the blood pump through his veins like none of the others.

True, sending toxic smoke, mind-altering sound-waves and razor-sharp arrows through the air at the enemies was cool enough. Even his drill, clean and direct in its design, made elegant work of death-dealing.

Top amongst all of his creations was his chainsaw–twenty-pounds of gleaming metal and screaming teeth. There was nothing like sending claws, wings, tentacles and heads flying in a spectacular shower of blood and bile and shredded flesh. The roar of the teeth drowned out the screams of its victims.

Edgar gave his chainsaw a kiss, but unfortunately remembered he was wearing his protective white mask.

Re: FFVI: Edgar/Chainsaw/Hockey Mask

[night-is-fallen.livejournal.com]

So much lolz.

And yup, astrangerenters fault. That sounds about right! ;)

requests =)

[dior-anghel.livejournal.com]

FFVIII - Seifer/Zell
FFX-2 - Gippal/Baralai
FFVIII - Irvine/Squall

Irvine/Squall

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It was just a New Year's party. A stupid one, Squall thought - all parties were stupid, though, and with that in mind it wasn't particularly bad. There was food, the crowd wasn't too big, and Zell had already done his shirtless dance for the evening, so at least that was over.

Irvine was walking around, kissing everyone. Squall had overheard him telling some girl that it was an old Galbadian tradition, to kiss for luck at the New Year. If it were actually true, Irvine was destined to be the luckiest man alive in the coming months. Even if it wasn't true, Irvine might still get lucky by the end of the party, really.

Squall shrugged a little, directing it at his beer for lack of a better target. It wasn't as if he believed in that luck stuff anyway. It hadn't really worked out for him so far, had it?

He took a sip from the bottle, and when he lowered it, Irvine was standing there with a grin on his face.

"Pucker up, Commander," Irvine said, and he took Squall's face in his hands and pulled their lips together.

Squall thought for a moment about pulling away, but - fuck it, man, Irvine's lips were warm, and hey, he could always say it was for luck, right? He moved forward, brushing his tongue against Irvine's lips.

When they parted, Squall could feel his face flushing. Someone in the crowd hooted.

"Now that's some luck," Irvine said with a grin.

THIS IS OFFICIALLY THE AWESOMEST MEME EVER: REQUESTS

[aesriella.livejournal.com]

Okay, so, many of my favourite couples have already been requested, but here are my additions to the squeeing barrel of fantastic monkeyful love!

FFVI: Celes/Leo
FFVIII: Quistis/Xu, Xu/Nida, Quistis/Angelo (ROFL, please don't make this gross, I have a weak spot for Quistis + fluffy animals is all, Quistis/Bobo/Zell
FFIX: Beatrix/Steiner, Beatrix/Garnet
FFX: Lulu/Chappu
FFXII: Fran/Balthier

Okay, so, any of the FFVi, VIII and IX ones would totally make my day ^^.

I'll get started on my share of responses tomorrow, sque ^^!!

FFVIII: Quistis/Angelo

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Angelo had changed since Rinoa had gone into a coma. The dog was subdued, sad and cried sometimes when he caught a whiff of his mistress on the wind, pitiful and dismal and hurting for the girl. Quistis found it was hard to watch, and even more so because she didn't know how to comfort Angelo. She understood that he would only come back to life when Rinoa did.

Those times when he was completely hopeless he'd come and nudge her leg, begging for attention, and from the way he sniffed obstinately in the folds of her clothing, she suspected Angelo was hoping to find Rinoa's smell, but alive and warm and healthy. It was a disappointment every time, but Quistis couldn't make herself push him away. Instead she knelt down and hugged his neck and scratched his ears.

"It'll be ok," she said, and at first she thought she should feel foolish for trying to comfort a dog, but she'd never managed to. It just seemed the thing to do. "She'll come to soon." She'd place a small kiss on his forehead and Angelo would whine, beg for more attention, and bury his head in her arms as if understanding her every word.

Requests

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Spread the love~

FFVII:
Cid/Vincent
Cloud/Zack
Cloud/Sephiroth
Sephiroth/Zack
Zack/Aeris
Reno/Rude
Rufus/Reno

(I know, I'm a sucker for FFVII. Shoot me.)

FFVIII:
Seifer/Zell
Irvine/Selphie

FFIX:
Kuja/Zidane
Zidane/Garnet

FFX:
Auron/Jecht
Lulu/Auron

FFXII:
Balthier/Fran
Balthier/Basch
Basch/Vossler

Auron/Jecht

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Jecht didn't even have to turn around to know that he was being watched. "Couldn't sleep?"

"Are you aware that you were singing like a dying chocobo?"

Auron sat down on the log next to him and Jecht shot him a grin. "C'mon, I'm not that bad."

"Yes. You are." Auron scowled into the fire.

Jecht snickered and took another swig of the bottle before offering it to Auron. "Want some?"

Auron glanced sidelong at him with a look that clearly said Jecht was crazy to have asked. "It's late. You should be sleeping. We have a lot of ground to cover tomor-"

Jecht heaved an exaggerated sigh. "You always like this, man? How d'you walk with that thing up your ass?"

Auron did not deign to answer the ridiculous question. This only made Jecht laugh harder.

"Quiet. You're going to wake Braska."

"Hey, man, f'my singin' didn't wake him..."

"I put a Sleep spell on him. If you aren't going to sleep, you at least will not deprive him of his own rest. But it won't last too long."

"So cast a Haste on me tomorrow and I'll be as chipper as a squirrel on crack."

"A what? Jecht, you are drunk."

That same rakish grin, with a crookedness to it that turned Auron's mouth dry. "Clever boy," Jecht said, winking, and Auron couldn't take any more of this disaster waiting to happen.

He sighed, shaking his head, and started to stand up. "Jecht, go to sle-what are you-"

Jecht had dropped the bottle to the ground and the whisky was soaking into the soft earth; was twisting his fingers in Auron's jacket and pulling him down to press their mouths together. It was clumsy and awkward and tasted sharp and sour like the whisky Jecht had been downing like water. The stubble on Jecht's unshaven face scraped at his cheeks and Auron was standing bent at an uncomfortable angle.

And yet there was no way for Auron to deny that it was not an unpleasant experience - not by a long shot. And when Jecht pulled away, all Auron could say (and it was more of a croak than anything), "You're drunk."

"You already said that," Jecht answered, and somehow he was still grinning.

Auron stumbled back to the tent before he made an even bigger fool of himself than he already had.

But he couldn't wipe the taste of whisky from his lips.

Extra double point score request from the mook forgot to include it

[aesriella.livejournal.com]

Also, as I forgot before:

FFVIII Quistis/Shiva

FFVIII: Quistis/Shiva (hopefully not a gigantic disappointment)

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Quistis had never been careless in battle before, but her mind was elsewhere when she went to the training center that day. She was worried about her status as an instructor, what it meant for her to leave it, and especially if she was doing it for the right reasons at all. She didn't have many friends her own age, but she recalled some of her own female students conversing, admonishing one of the group for having ditched them for "some guy," they had said with scorn. But that wasn't really why she was quitting being an instructor, was it? It didn't matter what Squall thought, not one bit, and talking to Squall was the same as talking to a wall anyway.

But as she continued to fight, her magic became more and more half hearted and her attacks were losing their usual force and precision. Another Grat went down, but three more appeared in it's place. Any other day, she could have handled this, but without her usual focus she was becoming overwhelmed, the monsters attacking her one after another, too fast for her to keep up. She snapped her whip directly on one of them and it fell, but the other two were upon her before she could do anything to hold them back. A rough and heavy arm struck her temple and all was silent and black.

In the center of the blackness a small speck of blue light appeared, slowly swelling. Quistis had collapsed on the ground, or what felt like ground, at least. There was nothing to be seen, except the light. It grew brighter and she had to shield her eyes from the brightness. When the light diminished, she sat up and gasped. In front of her stood her Guardian Force, Shiva, cold, beautiful, and intimidatingly powerful.

"It's not like you," Shiva said, looking down at Qustis' collapsed form. Her voice was low and cool and oddly distant, like it was echoing in a deep ravine.

"What?" Quistis asked, shocked.

"This weakness." Shiva answered simply.

"I-I'm sorry," Quistis said helplessly, utterly embarrassed at her own failure.

"This is not you. Stand up," Shiva commanded calmly.

Quistis struggled to move her legs, which didn't want to respond to her mind's command. She began to panic and tried to move her legs with her arms instead, becoming more and more upset as her body seemed to rebel further against her. She could feel a lump forming in her throat. She looked up at Shiva, who was looking down at her. Quistis could not let her down. She paused and took a moment to gather herself. She concentrated first on regaining control of her right foot. When it moved obediently, she continued, focusing on each part of her body, willing them to obey her like they were supposed to. She managed to get one leg underneath her, then the other, and finally, she unsteadily stood up to her full height.

She was surprised that her height matched Shiva's. She had seemed somehow so huge before. She was even more surprised that Shiva was smiling at her. Quistis face felt unnaturally warm and she realized she was blushing.

"Well done," Shiva said, placing her ice cold hands gently on both sides of Quistis' face and she gently pressed her lips to Quistis' They were as icy as her hands, but Quistis felt an intense, powerful warmth build up inside, until it felt like she would burst. When Quistis opened her eyes she was back in the grassy training center. The Grats that had been attacking her were now encased in huge pillars of ice. Quistis touched her lips and smiled.

REQUESTS

[lassarina]

I'm single this year, make my day shiny!

Also I am SO NOT PREDICTABLE. AT ALL.

FFIV
Edge/Rydia
Kain/Rydia
Kain/Valvalicia/Golbez/Rosa (ANY COMBINATION. Or OT4. I'm all good with that one too.)

FFVI
Locke/Celes
Leo/Celes

FFVII
Zack/Aeris
Reno/Rude
Tseng/Elena

FFVIII
Seifer/Irvine!!!!!!!!
Seifer/Squall

FFX/X-2
Lulu/Auron
Nooj/Paine

FFXII
Balthier/Ashe
Gabranth/Drace
Gabranth/Ffamran
Vayne/Ashe

Crossover:
Auron/Celes
Ashe/Celes
Zack/Rydia

Re: REQUESTS

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD. YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE GETTING. >.> *eyes all of your crossovers*