[30Days]: FAVORITE FF CHARACTERS, PAIRINGS, AND WHY.

[seventhe]

Okay! This couldn't have come at a better time, because, well, today has been cold and grey and grumpy and work sucked and homework sucks and lots of other people are in the suck, and guess what: IT IS TIME FOR SOME FANGIRLING.

lassarina asked for Favourite FF Characters and Ships and Why.

This... is the kind of answer I could spend thousands of words on. I have a lot of favorites, from a lot of games, and a lot to say about them! So I'm going to make this fun and challenging and way more entertaining to read for all of you: I'm only going to give myself one sentence about my favorites, both characters and pairings (although I am still allowed to abuse punctuation).

I've played I-III, but (a) I've never beaten them (I am so not the completionist) and (b) the characters didn't stick in my head, so: I'm going to start with FFIV and I will move through and point at my favorites and it doesn't mean I don't love the others, but this really has to be about favorites, so, yeah.

Final Fantasy: Characters and Pairings I Really Like

FFIV - can I say everybody? like really, I love every character in this game. I really do.

Rydia - Powerful, inhuman, imperfect, and always growing: everybody likes a fiery snarker with a heart of gold.
Edge - The only party member without a stick up his arse.

Cecil/Rosa: A romantic love story I actually buy.
Cecil/Rosa/Kain: The most efficient solution to all those pesky problems.

Rydia/Edge/Kain: They are all exactly what the other needs.

FFV

Faris - A pirate after my own sea-monster-loving heart.

FFVI - secretly casts another vote for "all"

Terra - Inhuman woman finds love and meaning through NOT A MAN; is the defender, not the protected; is hot as an Esper.
Kefka - Annoying comic relief becomes megalomanic world-destroying crazy baddie: best enemy storyline ever.

Locke/Celes - They are so beautiful when broken.
Terra/Shadow - Both have lost parts of themselves.
Edgar/Sabin - THEY JUST COMPLETE EACH OTHER OKAY
Terra/Celes - In looking to heal their wounds and lay their pasts to rest, they'd have to face and find each other.
Edgar/Locke - You Know It Happened.

Terra/Locke/Celes - They're a triangle of Espers, memories, and the trick of (not) letting go. (Alternate sentence: I CAN'T UNSEE IT OKAY)

FFVII

Tifa - Strong, beautiful, caring, kicks ass and shares my birthday.
Reno - Lives in a dumpster (HOOOOOOOOOOOOOME) and watches the Turks on secret webcams; he is my hobo soulmate.
Nanaki - 'Steel in his eyes, fire on his tail, honour in his teeth' - he is so goddamn awesome it hurts. (Alternate sentence: SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE)

Tifa/Aeris - They like so many of the same things; they have so much to teach each other.
Cloud/Yuffie - She steals his bike, his materia, his underwear and his heart, in that order.
Tifa/Vincent - Still have a weakness for it
Cid/Shera - because it ain't always sunshine and roses; sometimes it's rocketships and goddam tea.
Rude/Tifa - Mature quiet love is sooooo gosh darn pretty (and they'd have EPIC fights)
Reno/Tifa - He'd make her laugh, and she'd realize she needs it.
Tseng/Elena - She never stops trying to impress him - and succeeding.

FFVIII

Quistis - because I am her and she is me; the end.

Laguna - Goofy/smart/bumbling/hot/imperfect/funny and still trying.
Irvine - So sincere under that mask it's hard to take his flirting anything but seriously.

Everyone/Everyone - Seriously, this list was too long, I omniship this game and refuse to be ashamed of it; I literally cannot think of a single pairing I would not get behind (that is a challenge, Flist; comment with a pairing you love and I'll write you a sentence on why they are AWESOME)

FFIX

Freya - emo asskicking Dragoonism in a way that just makes me sad
Beatrix - beautiful badass; enough said.

Zidane/Garnet - another love story I can buy and believe in.
Freya/Amarant - I JUST LOVE THEM, SHUSH

FFX/X2

Yuna - Strong as steel in a way that's entirely her own.
Auron - If you didn't have a crush on Auron I don't think we can be friends.
Rikku - The silly spunkiness hides an engineer's brainpower; can feel awfully familiar.
Paine - Becky has never been hotter.

Braska/Auron/Jecht - will undo my heart every time.
Lulu/Rikku - Al Bhed and Yevon, magic and machina, sunshine and moonlight (and Yuna is their dusk and dawn)
Paine/Nooj - You should all know perfectly well who to blame for this one.

FFXII

Ashe - I liked her strength and her stubbornness.
Fran - Enigmatic, magical, sexy, intriguing, and beats down Balthier's ego: win.
Larsa - I will forever be tempted to write underage overintelligent superobservant boy emperor porn.

Balthier/Ashe - because there aren't any good solutions.
Basch/Ashe - Loyalty!kink.
Basch/Vossler - because the only thing hotter/sadder than honour and loyalty is knowing what comes next.
Larsa/Everyone - and Larsa tops.

KEEP IN MIND THIS IS AN ABBREVIATED LIST; I LIKE ALMOST ALL PAIRINGS AND IT'S SUPER HARD TO PICK FAVORITES, WHAT

This is part of my 30 Days of Posting meme - feel free to check out the schedule of posting! My month is full, but if any of the posts make you want to ask for something else, go ahead and leave a comment anyway! DW || LJ

Comments

[lindorie]

Irvine/Selphie, GO!

...because they're my OTP and I'd like to hear what you have to say about them! :D

[seventhe]

I. LOVE. IRVINE/SELPHIE.

They are SO a pairing I can get behind! They are the first pairing I ever wrote for FF8, ever, and I started the fic before I had completely finished the game because I just fell so hard for them!

SO THIS WILL BE MORE THAN A SENTENCE.

Irvine I love on principle: I felt it was so obvious that he put up this big being-a-player front to keep people at a distance, and behind it was this insecure, funny/goofy/silly, sincere, sweet cowboy guy. He tried so hard with everything but he was the only one who remembered their pasts and, really, how sad is that?

And Selphie's awesome - I'm serious, her combination of chipper-spunky-happy and super-explosions-demolitions-blow-it-to-smithereens makes her certifiably crazy in my book, and I love it.

I loved the way Irvine remembered Selphie and latched on to her - everything was about her, from then on, in a way; he tells them in Trabia, her home, and he follows her into the cockpit of the Ragnarok and sticks by her side and...

GOSH I LOVE THEM OKAY.

[wallwalker]

I accept your challenge, because some of my FFVIII pairings are like, um, yeah!

Irvine/Ellone, Fujin/Quistis and Raijin/Selphie. :D

[seventhe]

OOOOOOOH!

Irvine/Ellone is all about memories, I would think: what htey remember, what they don't, how GF usage and Ellone's powers have blurred all the lines and how your past makes you who you are now.

Fujin/Quistis is, gosh, instead of the cliche where Quistis has to get Seifer to pass SeeD post-game it could totally be Fujin; a lot of stubbornness there, a lot of communication fail, and a lot of need for friendship and trust .___.

Raijin/Selphie is terrifying because they would either throw the Best Garden Festival Ever or seriously blow the place up trying XD

[crankyoldman]

I didn't have a crush on Auron. Granted I spent most of the game going "OMG MALE ME WTF GET OUT OF THE CLOSET AND I WILL TOO". Auron is my Quistis. Which makes me wonder why I haven't written Auron/Tifa yet.

Imma pull out some of the non-obvious FFVIII ones I like!

Fujin/Xu, Cid/Laguna (BELIEVE IT), Zell/Ellone

[seventhe]

Well, that's allowable, then, if you're channeling Auron >.>


Fujin/Xu: Competent, bitchy ice queens meet in a bar to trade information and make out? Yes, please

Cid/Laguna: Wow, pre or post game? Because either way has awesome implications

And I just wrote about Zell/Ellone in the LJ post! THIS IS MY SHIP. DID I DO THIS TO YOU. IF NOT, WHERE ELSE CAN I GET SOME.

[owlmoose]

Paine/Nooj - You should all know perfectly well who to blame for this one.

Mwah hah hah hah (unless it is someone else and in that case I must know.)

Quistis/Squall, Squall/Rinoa, Quistis/Laguna, Quistis/Auron (I swear to god, I saw a half-finished fic with this pairing once and I mourned that it was a WIP)

[seventhe]

OH, Paine/Nooj is completely your fault. *STARES*


Quistis/Squall - I actually like in a sad, stumbling, "Well let's try it" sort of way? I don't like when Quistis is pining and Squall's on the rebound. But I do like Squall (with whatever happens to remove Rinoa) maybe doing the silent apology thing and them just establishing a little... understanding.

Squall/Rinoa _ I LOVE THEM SO MUCH. DOES IT MAKE ME A SUPER WOOBIE, I DON'T CARE. GOsh, everything about them. They are so sweet and yet so dysfunctional.

Quistis/Laguna - YES? (Somewhere I have planned and AU of one of my own (unfinished) fics which ends in a super large amount of Quistis/Laguna.) I actually love this pairing, very hard. Laguna could help Quistis lighten up and understand people - something Laguna's good at - and Quistis would help him learn when it's time to be an adult. Also, Squall would shit moombas, I am not joking, it would be amazing.

QUISTIS/AURON?


........YES

[temples]

Larsa does top everyone! :D

[lassarina]

Your answers for Locke/Celes and Balthier/Ashe could have been mine. Ilu, my Sev. (After NaNo we should write stuff!)

[jerkface]

QUISTIS/ZELL.

GO.

[siva630]

ZELL/WARD

IT'S CANON

[astrangerenters.livejournal.com]

I await your 50k word masterpiece that is either Ward/Zell or Kiros/Seifer then~

[katmillia.livejournal.com]

And I await the 100k sequel of Doomtrain/Everybody.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

Doomtrain/Squall: Squall's already fucked the Malboro; compared to that it's like "whatever"

Doomtrain/Rinoa: the Sorceress Junctions him like Griever and they have mind sex

Doomtrain/Seifer: Seifer bottoms, and likes it

Doomtrain/Selphie: THIS IS THE OTP TO END ALL OTPS OBVIOUSLY

Doomtrain/Zell: starts out as a race, Doomtrain vs My Final Heaven; like all good fandom rivalries, descends into porn

Doomtrain/Irvine: cause fandom!Irvine will hit anything, and that includes anything Selphie double-dog-dares him to

Doomtrain/Quistis: she's trying to learn Blue Magic, and it goes wrong... and oh, so right

[katmillia.livejournal.com]

.... what does Doomtrain use, anyway, the engine car?!

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

HIS SECRET MECHANICAL PENIS?

[katmillia.livejournal.com]

EWWWWWWWW IS THE LUBE OIL AND NOT SEXY HOT OIL BUT BLACK ENGINE GREASE OIL

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

OBVIOUSLY. AND ALL THE THRUSTING SOUNDS LIKE GEARS

[katmillia.livejournal.com]

LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOO OMG why are we doing this to ourselves

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

GOOGLE IS SHOWING ME THE FOLLOWING LINKS IN MY SIDEBAR:

Final Fantasy 8 »
FF8 »
Oil Filtration »
Engine Oil »
Wedding Dress »
Wedding Hair Stylist »
Wedding Reception »
Gold Wedding Rings »



OMFG LOOLLLLLLLLLL FOREVER

[katmillia.livejournal.com]

CANNOT UNSEE

CANNOT UNSEE

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

APPARENTLY DOOMTRAIN LIKED IT SO MUCH HE (? IT?) PUT A RING ON IT???

[katmillia.livejournal.com]

.....

ARE WE TALKING ABOUT HIS FINGER OR HIS MECHANICAL PENIS RIGHT NOW BECAUSE I HONESTLY DON'T KNOW WHICH IS MORE HORRIFYING

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

...


...


...THANKS FOR THAT BRB SCRUBBING BRAIN

[katmillia.livejournal.com]

♥♥♥

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

ILU <3

[katmillia.livejournal.com]

My sister is a god among mortals for finding this.

[irish-ais.livejournal.com]

This is my new favorite thing on the internet.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

...I JUST DIED

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

lolol seriously I am dying over here

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

OK FOR REAL, KIROS/SEIFER COULD SO WORK; I already ship Laguna/Seifer (...I TOLD YOU) and it isn't a hard jump from Seifer chilling in Esthar and doing some Sorceress-y work with Odine like community service and stuff, and Kiros is assigned by Esthar to keep an eye on him but of course Seifer's all jumpy and dickish and Kiros smacks some sense into him. WITH HIS DICK.

Ward/Zell would be the "I was in your body and it was hot, let's do it" PWP.

[irish-ais.livejournal.com]

ELLONE/NORG

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

NORG hires Ellone to help him go back in time and fix his mistakes AND THEY FALL MADLY IN LOVE/LUST TAKE YOUR PICK

[irish-ais.livejournal.com]

WHAT.

WHAT.

WHAT.

♥

[astrangerenters.livejournal.com]

[perkyandproud.livejournal.com]

I totally agree about Omnishipping FFVIII. But I'm such a Zell girl I have to work him in somewhere! *grin*

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

OOOOH HEY LET'S DISCUSS ZELL!

He didn't show up on my list because (a) Quistis and Irvine dominate my favorites and (b) Omnishipping. BUT WHO DO YOU SHIP HIM WITH.

I like some Seifer/Zell when it's done right and I blame Renay.

I personally ship Zell/Ellone because (a) it's adorable, (b) Squall could trust Zell to protect his big sis and that pushes some of my cute family buttons, and (c) Ellone is such a big fan of the family thing, and Zell and the Dinchts have it going on in spades, and (d) it's adorable. >.>

[perkyandproud.livejournal.com]

He IS my Omniship ;-) I pair him with pretty much everyone.

Most frequently Seifer, Quistis or Irvine, though (and Squall with Selphie). (But I'm an odd duck in the Seifer/Zell camp, 'cause I don't see him as the cute bottom, but rather the dominate top! (And Seifer loves it!))

Ooo, Zell/Ellone? I never considered that! You're so right though!

I adore Zell so much! :-)

[joanne45.livejournal.com]

Here are the two of my personal favorite pairings in FF history....*drumroll*

FFVII
Rufus and Tifa - I've got a feeling their tension burst at the attention slightly (remember Rufuss citing his speech, and them first person he approaches is Tifa...before he move to the next person. Then later on does they're shares their intimate relationship as he 'saves' her from the gas chamber....*twinkle, twinkle*.

FFXII
Balthier and Ashe - I know this same scene during the entire game about a pirate and a princess (you know like 'steal me' scene, 'compensation on Ashe's ring' scene and 'come back'/Bahamut scene) shared their troubled past during their relationship was platonic or romantic...or both. You decide, baby...*twinkle, twinkle*.

Ohhhh, I could feel love and lust, sweetie^_^

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

Do you have any Rufus/Tifa recs? Because I LOVE Tifa, and -- I don't think I got a very good handle on Rufus during my first playthrough, he's a character that just didn't really catch my eye, and you have intrigued me *g*

[joanne45.livejournal.com]

Tifa - Strong, beautiful, caring, kicks ass and....(I know it's came from your description).
Rufus Shinra - Ruthless, mysterious handsome, fair blonde (I love the way flipped his hair), slender, he is a normal human with no augmentations...but hey, he's the sexiest President.....*prrrrrr*

[joanne45.livejournal.com]

Also, I made a Rufus/Tifa oneshot on your ffsmuthathon site...it's for you and hope you'll like it....*meooow* er what's a rec mean? Sorry...

[ovo-lexa.livejournal.com]

Terra/Locke/Celes!

\o/

[shahrizai.livejournal.com]

Don't mind me, I'm just sneaking in and claiming Setzer and Drace while you're not looking.

...Setzer. And Drace. She'd hand the case off to some lower judge (not even with a capital J!) because she doesn't have time to waste for mere gamblers and petty thieves.

Until the Dreadnought Leviathan Sky Fortress Bahamut goes missing. How does an Imperial flagship go missing? When it is the most fucking awesome flying thing in the world.

Shush, it's been 4 years. I'm allowed a mistake.