FINAL FANTASY KISS BATTLE 2021!

[seventhe]

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 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.

Comments or Questions?

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!

FF FRIENDING THREAD

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!

Comments

COMMENTS, QUESTIONS, SUGGESTIONS

[seventhe]

holla

Re: COMMENTS, QUESTIONS, SUGGESTIONS

[autumnstwilight]

Heads up, your post says fills can be anon, but I'm getting a "This account has disabled anonymous posting" message

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[seventhe]

THANK YOU — can you try now and let me know if it works?

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[(Anonymous)]

Seems to be working!

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[fireeye]

FINALLY!

but wait oh damn, i forget how do write smooch

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[spindizzy]

Mate this is the exact process my brain went through too!

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[lassarina]

*squeals in delight to see you here*

I also forget how do write smooch I GUESS WE MUST JUST PRACTICE there's nothing for it! ♥

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[fireeye]

*snugs* ♥

AO3 Collection

[althea_valara]

Just wanted to let everyone know I asked on Discord if there'd be an AO3 collection, and lassarina was kind enough to make one. It's here:

https://archiveofourown.org/collections/ffkiss2021

Re: COMMENTS, QUESTIONS, SUGGESTIONS

[threewalls]

Is there any implicit deadline on these? I am trying but it's slow going.

Re: COMMENTS, QUESTIONS, SUGGESTIONS

[lassarina]

There is no implicit deadline! We did it in February because tradition/Valentine's, but kisses and joy and friendship are welcome year-round!

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[threewalls]

That's a relief but I'm now going to pretend I didn't see this and try to finish by the end of the month.

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[(Anonymous)]

Hello! I just saw this event and I wanna join so bad! my limitation is, I'm only familiar with one of the games (I'm going to play another one soon, but sadly I've been super busy). Would it be okay if I joined, writing for only one of the games so far? I know I'd also write at least one story for others before leaving a prompt myself haha.

Thank you in advance! <3

Re: COMMENTS, QUESTIONS, SUGGESTIONS

[lassarina]

Hi! You are welcome to write for as many or as few games as you might desire; not everyone here is a multi-fandom person. We're excited to see your contributions!

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[(Anonymous)]

Thank you very much for your answer! I'll be very happyy to contribute, I am in fact already writing two stories :>
I will also be making an account here, for I'm new to the fandom, and I'm excited to know more people!

Re: COMMENTS, QUESTIONS, SUGGESTIONS

[seventhe]

Of course! Write whatever you like!!

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[(Anonymous)]

the discord link is invalid :(

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[dragalia]

I'm very late (the Kiss Battle was dead when I was last on DW! I stumbled on this while Googling!), but are fills still allowed here?

Re: COMMENTS, QUESTIONS, SUGGESTIONS

[lassarina]

Fills are welcome year round!

Re: COMMENTS, QUESTIONS, SUGGESTIONS

[dragalia]

I've spent much of the last couple of hours discovering just how many once-lively DW communities are trapped in amber, so getting such a quick response here was practically a jump scare.

(But thank you!)