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

Re: FINAL FANTASY VIII

[fireeye]

Fujin/Zell - okay, sure, it started as a dare, but...

FFVIII: Zell/Fujin, "A Surprisingly Good Idea", G

[shanaqui]

It started out as a dare, sort of. Well, more of a taunt: Seifer might be back in Garden and on his best behaviour on pain of a Lionheart to the face (or some kind of court martial or whatever, Zell's not clear on the details), but he's still just as good at running his mouth as he's always been. He walked in on an embarrassing breakup scene, and he hasn't stopped laughing at Zell since, not that he'd ever stopped laughing at him in the first place.

But the point is, something he said stuck in Zell's mind -- he'd said that if Zell was such a spluttering mess over this librarian, how would he be about someone like Fujin? And he'd smirked, suggested that Fujin would send him running for Ma.

It wasn't to spite him that Zell had said hi to Fujin the next day, but maybe it was a little bit to spite him when he decided to go over and offer to sit with her at lunch in the cafeteria a couple of days after that. The look of shock on her face settled it and put Seifer right out of his mind, though, because it suddenly became blindingly obvious that no one at all would sit with Fujin without Raijin and Seifer around. That, in fact, there was a two-table empty radius around her, like bad taste in friends was catching (in which case Zell feels he must be a lost cause himself by now).

And the thing is -- the thing is, it's easier to talk to Fujin, actually. She's a little stiff and shy at first, but she's straightforward in her answers, and she's amazingly smart, and when you coax her just right and you get her out of her shell, she's funny, partly because she has the most perfect sense of timing. It doesn't matter that she'd give him a run for his money in a fight; that almost makes it better, because he can find himself imagining how their lives might fit together, because he knows that there are things she can understand that someone who stays in Garden doing support might not.

So by the time he actually works up the courage to ask her out, it's not a dare anymore at all, it's nothing to do with that original taunt. It's because he can picture maybe getting a smile out of her, and he wants to know what she'll say on any given subject, and because he knows where he is with her, he always knows, and knows that she'll say yes or no and that'll be that, and they'll be friends either way.

He's not expecting the way she turns to him when he asks, when he offers to take her to dinner, when he clarifies very firmly that it's a date if she wants it to be. But then, part of why he likes her is that directness, and maybe he shouldn't be surprised that her response is a kiss -- clumsy but firm.

"Yes," she says, while Zell's still blinking at her, stunned, and trying not to grin like an idiot.

Seifer is going to hate this. Zell can't wait to see his face when he finds out.

Re: FFVIII: Zell/Fujin, "A Surprisingly Good Idea", G

[shanaqui]

I put it on AO3 because my wife liked it and it seemed more worth it than I'd thought. If any comments can be left there that would be really nice, just for posterity. ♥

A Surprisingly Good Idea

Re: FFVIII: Zell/Fujin, "A Surprisingly Good Idea", G

[sapientesgladio]

Finally, one of my other secret rare pairs. c:

Re: FFVIII: Zell/Fujin, "A Surprisingly Good Idea", G

[fireeye]

<3!!!