FINAL FANTASY KISS BATTLE 2021!
HELLO FRIENDS????? Remember those fandoms we all used to be in? and producing things for? Well, baby, it's time for a nostalgia run, so buckle up your chocobos and get ready to roll. We haven't done a Kiss Battle in years and ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lassarina and I for one think it's TIME TO DO SO.
This event is open to everyone, even if we aren't DW circlefriends! (feel free to friend me too; i promise i'm not crazy that's a lie). If you aren't on DW, you can still play via anon or OpenID!
The Kiss Battle is simple. Players leave prompts in comments under each specific fandom, using generalized fandom nomenclature: a relationship of some sort, and a concept to inspire other players.
- For romantic relationship kisses, we use X / Y
- For platonic relationship kisses, we use X & Y
- Absolutely open to relationships with more than 2 people involved! X / Y / Z (/ A / B ...) welcome to this party!
- Prompts can be a word, a sentence, an image, a song lyric; it's a suggestion, rather than a request
- it's a kiss battle! there will be smooches!
Players then go looking for smoochin' prompts they'd like to fill. Fills can be fic, art, interpretive dance, whatever you're inspired to; they can be filled in a responding comment, or as a link (to AO3, tumblr, etc). FILLS GOTTA HAVE A KISS IN 'EM. IT'S A KISS BATTLE. What counts as a "kiss" is up to you, though -- you can be creative!
- Fills should use the comment header to let people know what the fill is; please use a format like "X / Y, (title), (rating), (any content warnings that might apply)"
- "Aerith/Tifa, memorial, G"
- "Cloud/Squall, just in time, R (blood)"
- Prompts can be filled multiple times! Don't worry if someone got there first; we love Two Cakes up in this event! The more kisses we get, the better!
- You can fill as anon if you want/need for any reason
- You can of course crosspost anywhere you'd like
It's a very simple game, and is meant to be played in good faith without anybody being a shitbag about pairings or characters. We're all too old for this.
FANDOM LINKS Fandoms with compilations and expansions should fall into their titled macrofandom. For example:
- FFXIII also includes FFXIII-2 and Lightning Returns (FFXIII-3)
- FFX also includes X-2
- FFIV includes the After Years
If you need to specify a certain microfandom / singular canon, please do so in the prompt or in the comment header!
FINAL FANTASY I
FINAL FANTASY II
FINAL FANTASY III
FINAL FANTASY IV
FINAL FANTASY V
FINAL FANTASY VI
FINAL FANTASY VII
FINAL FANTASY VIII
FINAL FANTASY IX
FINAL FANTASY X
FINAL FANTASY XI
FINAL FANTASY XII
FINAL FANTASY XIII
FINAL FANTASY XIV
FINAL FANTASY XV
FINAL FANTASY TACTICS
FINAL FANTASY TYPE-0
FINAL FANTASY RECORD KEEPER
FINAL FANTASY BRAVE EXVIUS
BRAVELY DEFAULT
FINAL FANTASY SPIRITS WITHIN
OTHER FINAL FANTASY CANONS
FF CROSSOVER PROMPTS
MAKE FRIENDS! If you're interested in meeting more FF fandom people, this comment thread can be used as a friending meme! Tell us a little about yourself, which FFs you've played, favorite characters/ships, and look around for new friends!
You can also join the Final Fantasy Old Folks Home Discord and come gripe about those kids on our lawn and the old days where you had to level grind by hand lmao. Open to all FF fans!
BLITZ KISSINS If you already know what smooches you want to write, you don't need to wait for a prompt -- just comment into the relevant fandom thread with your kiss!
REMEMBER It's only fun if everybody plays, so if you leave a prompt, try to fill someone else's!
Re: FINAL FANTASY XV
FFXV, Noctis/Ignis, "A Kind of Kiss", G
"Watching you?" Noctis asks, more because he doesn't know what else to say than because he has any real thought of managing to deny it. Ignis just looks at him, and he sighs. "Fine, yeah, I was watching you. So?"
For a moment, they just sit, the sound of Gladio's off-key humming in the shower making it slightly less uncomfortable, somehow. Then Ignis gets up and walks over to Noctis, meeting his eyes steadily. "I know that you still intend to marry Lady Lunafreya, despite these setbacks, but -- it strikes me that we'll be on the road a little longer. And that there are... burdens on you. And that while we are your companions, you're still very much alone with what you have to do."
Noctis swallows hard, tries to find some words even though his throat is suddenly strangling-tight. He looks away, but Ignis isn't finished.
"I know it's been some time since you and I... decided to end our liaison. But I don't think that we did so for any lack of desire, or feeling. And it -- frankly, it hurts, to see you bearing this alone. Can I offer you any... closer companionship? Will you allow me to do so?"
"Luna -- "
"Would understand, I think," Ignis says, quietly. "I'm sure she knows what she means to you... and what I mean to you, also. There's room for both in your life."
He reaches out, then, puts his gloved fingers lightly under Noctis' chin and nudges his head up. For a moment he just looks at him, and then his fingers drift up and he gentle presses his fingertips to Noctis' lips. It's a kind of kiss without being a kiss, a reminder of past kisses shared and words said and all the things they've done together.
"Think about it," he says, and Noctis is not sure whether he's going to be able to do anything else.
"I will," he says, because Ignis deserves an answer, and then because Ignis deserves the truth: "No. I can't."
He can't bear to look at him, but then Ignis touches his shoulder and he can't help glancing up, almost in reflex. He's surprised to find Ignis smiling.
"I expected that," he says. "But I had to offer. Noct, Lady Lunafreya is very lucky. But so have I been. Please don't forget that I think so."
There's a bang in the bathroom and the shower stops. At almost the same moment, they can hear Prompto's voice in the hallway, sing-songing about many fries he's going to eat. Noctis can't help but smile, and Ignis smiles a little more too, and steps away, and despite everything...
Despite everything, Noctis finds himself comforted.
Re: FFXV, Noctis/Ignis, "A Kind of Kiss", G
"A Kind of Kiss" on AO3
Re: FFXV, Noctis/Ignis, "A Kind of Kiss", G