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!
A long-sought duel
Passion: the essence of wind. These days Bartz often wondered why the wind crystal chose him. He hadn't felt very passionate about anything for a while, not since...
...but that didn't bear thinking about.
It was after the worlds merged, after they had defeated Neo Exdeath, after they had met a year later in the recovering Forest of Moore. It had been good to see Krile, Lenna, and Faris then; they had reminisced over their journey together, laughing over things that only close friends could. Yet Bartz couldn't help feeling like something had been missing from their gathering, and after they had parted ways, he set off with Boko on another adventure, hoping that would spark his passion again.
It didn't.
He spent time at Phoenix Tower first, hoping the challenging enemies there would stir him, but he found himself fighting mechanically and didn't feel a thrill when he won.
He next visited the place where Fork Tower had stood, where he once had an epic battle against Omniscient that had seemed to last hours. But the tower was gone, and besides, it wasn't what he was truly looking for anyway.
He spent some time at the Library of the Ancients, reading book after book. The researchers there would ask him what he was searching for, but he'd never respond. Was it embarrassment, perhaps, that prevented him from answering, "...Exdeath's castle"? He wondered why he should feel embarrassed at that, but the answer didn't come. Instead he read and read, but found nothing to change the knowledge deep in his heart that he knew to be true: that Exdeath's castle did not exist in this merged world.
Finally, he found himself wandering to the castle where the Twelve Legendary Weapons were once sealed. Why he went there, he wasn't sure; it couldn't hold what he was seeking. But he had visited just about everywhere else -- might as well finish the job, he thought.
He climbed the stairs to the chamber of the weapons. The gates to the shrines were open, the weapons gone, as he knew they would be. He was just telling himself this was pointless, it was stupid, when a voice sounded behind him.
"... Bartz?"
Bartz felt his heart skip a beat. He turned slowly. "Gilgamesh", he said. " What are you doing here?"
"I had heard something about legendary weapons. Thought I'd check them out," Gilgamesh replied.
"They're gone. We used them in the fight against Exdeath."
"Oh." Gilgamesh paused. "How are you?"
How am I? Bartz thought. What a totally asinine question, coming from him. But he ignored answering the question, saying instead, "Gilgamesh. You said in the rift you wanted to fight me one more time. Did you mean it?"
"I did."
Bartz drew his weapon. "Then let us fight!"
"Gladly!" Gilgamesh said, and drew his sword.
They clashed together, again and again, and Bartz felt his blood singing as metal rang against metal. *This* was what he had been missing from his life. It wasn't battle in general he had craved, but a duel against him, who seemed to read all his moves as if they shared one mind. Slash, cut, parry, slash again: Gilgamesh met him with each thrust.
He could do this forever.
Except he couldn't. All the passion in the world was no match for the weakness of the flesh. They clashed one last time, swords screaming as their edges caught, faces inches apart, yet Bartz could not hold the position for long.
He found the sword slipping from his grasp. But Gilgamesh was RIGHT THERE, already dropping his arm so as not to hurt Bartz, and some instinct made Bartz reach his hands up to grab Gilgamesh face, and kissed him.
Bartz had expected to hear a soft sound of surprise from the other man, but it didn't come. Instead, Gilgamesh took Bartz in his arms and kissed him back. All the longing Bartz had felt this year slipped away to a sense of rightness.
Perhaps the wind crystal had known what it was doing all along.
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*rolls in this*
*squeals more*
I love this oh my god yes please post this to AO3! It is fantastic! I love tying it back to his element, and the places he looks for inspiration, and I love love love LOVE the way the kiss comes after the duel.
THANK YOU!!
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(Incidentally, I *did* battle Omniscient for hours. It was a Fiesta run where I had no mages and no good way to cheese the fight, so I ran out his MP. Do Not Recommend.)
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