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: Sydney/Hardin, An Offering of Souls, PG (canon typical tragedy/anticipated character death)

[pantswarrior]

Ahahahahah thank you - clearly you know what I like, my sadistic soul is pleased. :D Not just the lines drawn towards inevitable tragedy, trust and devotion that doesn't hurt Hardin as much as it hurts Sydney (yet), but... ancient traditions and rituals! Hints at still more tragic backstory! (Which gets me thinking, some topics I had not yet explored myself. Hmm...) And of course Sydney having gotten himself in way over his head. The inevitable comparison to Samantha, unknowing, taken by surprise and betrayed... Hardin, knowing (or thinking he does) and being ready and willing... Ouch. In the best possible way. :D

And dark, dysfunctional, and sequels are all welcome here, of course. Very very much so. Not that I expect that to be surprising. ;)

Re: Sydney/Hardin, An Offering of Souls, PG (canon typical tragedy/anticipated character death)

[threewalls]

Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed this!

Somehow in all these decades, I'd never stopped to really think about what Hardin must have thought would happen in Lea Monde and once I had the idea I was charmed.

R&G seem to think Hardin expects to be Sydney's successor, but the more I looked at it, the more it looked like Hardin thought Sydney would be the Duke's successor. (And yes, noticing that Guildenstern is very clear he needs Samantha's soul *and* that he loves her, at that point you mentioned... it doesn't make sense that Merlose would know about the Phantom Soul needing to be 'true and fast' when she apparently knows little else about the ritual, but we know she can see John's heart and... yeah, it's not hard to imagine what Hardin might have thought his role would be, is it?)

I love a Sydney who is both fiercely pleased by Hardin's devotion and a little guilty about it at the same time. Not guilty enough to take advantage of it, though, clearly.

The sequel/continuation is: well, Sydney may believe that they won't survive long enough for Hardin to find out and call him on lying about this but... what if they did? (Sequel will have more kissing, less canonical character death, but also more kink that will require #consentissues as a tag, so I'll probably link here and post on AO3.)

Re: Sydney/Hardin, An Offering of Souls, PG (canon typical tragedy/anticipated character death)

[pantswarrior]

...That sounds VERY intriguing. :D And, uh, markedly different from my own "less canonical death" AU, aside from... they're going to have to address that. (And note, that is one of two times I can think of where a character I was writing made me tear up. Both times, Sydney. :P) Sounds like a much messier take, and hardly comes as a surprise I like things messed up. :D

And yeah, agreeing on your plot points here. Hardin clearly was thinking they were trying to wrest control of the city from the Duke, and then Callo asks what Sydney will do with that power and his soul has no answer to give. Oof. Meanwhile Rosencrantz can't imagine why a man would be loyal to anyone unless he was going to get something out of it, and Guildenstern might be able to wrap his head around it if it ever occurred to him that Sydney's "flock" is just as loyal to Sydney as Guildenstern's men are to him and the cardinal. Or, you know, not unlike Samantha. So of course they'd assume Hardin is the obvious choice. (Heck, in one of my fics the entire rest of the sect thinks Hardin's going to be his successor, and when it comes up Hardin's like "wtf NO.")

This got me thinking a lot about what Sydney might have told Hardin immediately before canon about what exactly he claimed the plot was. Because mostly when I have tried to get anything out of Hardin about that siege, what he gives me is "You want me to kidnap a little boy? I mean, yes, I would protect him with my life and it's likely better than what will happen to the rest of his household, but I am to kidnap a child and take him into Leá Monde?!" No idea if anything will come of it other than scene fragments I may or may not work into something though. =)