FINAL FANTASY KISS BATTLE 2022!!!
well HELLO FRIENDS????? after MUCH delay which is MY OWN FAULT, i am here to present to you the tiny fandom event of the year: Final Fantasy Kiss Battle 2022!!
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 but at least i'm sometimes funny). 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
OTHER FINAL FANTASY CANONS
FF CROSSOVER PROMPTS
FF / OTHER CANON CROSSOVERS
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! -- EDIT Discord link has been updated!
AO3 COLLECTION
If you're posting your work on AO3, add it to our collection here!!!
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 OR QUESTIONS??
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lassarina will help you out!
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Re: FINAL FANTASY XIV
untitled Emmanellain/Sicard, T, slight spoilers for Endwalker
* yup, filling my own prompt
* this one was brutal to write so I hope it turned out okay!
* special thanks to
Emmanellain was in a funk. Had been for months, to be honest. He'd felt lost ever since Honoroit took his leave of him. He'd grown accustomed to the young pageboy following him around faithfully and looking out for him. But now Honoroit was off on his book tour, of all things, and Emmanellain was left to fend for himself.
Sometimes he wondered if he was up to it.
Oh, he liked his carefree life, he did. It was fun to do as he pleased, to pretend that everything was all right. But then he'd wake up in a panic in the wee hours of the night, his own voice still reverberating in his ears: "Do something!" and he'd see the arrow fly again to strike that protestor. He'd wipe the sweat off his brow and try to get back to sleep, but all his failings would come rushing back and traipse through his mind like skeletons on parade.
Artoirel would have known something was wrong, but his brother wasn't here in Sharlayan, thankfully. No, there was no one here to remind Emmanellain of his faults... except for him.
It rankled Emmanellain, it did, that a bloody pirate should get under his skin so, and yet he did. For every barb Sicard tossed out was like salt in a wound. The pirate had a way of seeing straight to the heart of all of Emmanellain's innermost fears about himself. His response to the barbs had been to defend himself, because who wouldn't? He'd talk big, trying to make his accomplishments, pithy though they were, seem much more important, but he could see the truth in Sicard's laughing eyes, and hear a hint of doubt in his own voice. It was enough almost to make him want to change, to become a better and stronger man just so he could shut that pirate up.
Emmanellain scowled down at his drink. He'd come to The Last Stand when he had awoken yet again, thankful that the eatery was open all hours of the day and that he could drown his sorrows in his ale, but it didn't seem to be helping tonight. Perhaps a walk was in order...
* * *
Sicard had just finished directing his crew, who had been offloading the latest batch of supplies the Scions had ordered. That task complete, Sicard now set off towards the Last Stand for a late-night pint. His lips curled into a grin as he spotted his favorite chew toy walking up the harbor.
Emmanellain was walking alone, his hands clasped behind his back, clearly lost in thought, but he looked up as Sicard approached and stiffened, dropping his hands to his sides in tight balls.
"Out for a late jaunt, eh?" Sicard said.
"And what business of it is yours?" Emmanellain responded.
"It's my business to see everyone in this Contingent is pulling their own weight," Sicard said. "What were you off doing while I was getting more supplies? Prolly lazing about, like always."
Emmanellain dropped his eyes. "I...want to do better," he muttered.
"Eh? What was that?"
"I want to do better, all right?!" Emmanellain said bitterly. "You're right about me. Every. Single. Thing you've said about me has been right. I'm weak, and a coward, and lazy, and it's not right and I know it but by the Fury I don't know how to change."
"Emmanellain..." Sicard said, and stepped close to him. Emmanellain's eyes grew wide as the pirate leaned into him, but he didn't put up his hands to stop Sicard.
It was by no means a perfect kiss. Sicard's lips were chapped from from the sea spray, and tears wear running down Emmanellain's cheeks, but the kiss was surprisingly touching, Emmanellain thought, and afterward Sicard rested his forehead against his.
"One step at a time, luv," Sicard said softly. "That's how you change. Just one step at a time."
"Why?" Emmanellain whispered, and Sicard smiled.
"What, you think a pirate like me can't care? 'Course I can. And besides," Sicard said, his voice quieting, "I've been there. Been forced to change because of what someone else thought of what I was doin'. I managed it, but it weren't easy. You can, too. I'll help you."
Emmanellain felt a small spark of hope in his chest. Maybe he could change, and the nightmares would stop. At least he wasn't alone anymore.
Re: untitled Emmanellain/Sicard, T, slight spoilers for Endwalker
Re: untitled Emmanellain/Sicard, T, slight spoilers for Endwalker