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!
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Aerith/Yuna, Across the Distance, G
Yuna tries to have a smile for everyone who approaches her. It falters and fades as she registers what’s been said. “I...”
The question sounds like it should be rhetorical, but the woman who asked it is watching her expectantly, head cocked to one side, waiting for an answer.
“It’s a burden I shoulder gladly,” Yuna says. “For Spira’s sake.”
She wants the people of Spira to sleep easily after she defeats Sin. If she lets them believe she feared her fate, they might feel sad; they might feel guilty. It’s important to be brave.
“People won’t remember who you were, you know,” the woman says. “They’ll remember this... this perfect version of you. It’s kind of frustrating. I don’t like being jealous of myself.”
Yuna doesn’t take her staff in hand, not yet. But she touches it, to make sure it’s there. “You... have experience?”
“You could say that.”
Her clothes are unusual, now that Yuna is paying attention. From an earlier time? They look like they could be machina-made.
“I’m Aerith, by the way,” the stranger adds, after a moment. “Maybe I should have led with that.”
“It’s nice to meet you,” Yuna says.
Aerith laughs. “Really? I think I’ve kind of messed this meeting thing up.”
It’s Yuna’s response to any introduction; it came out without thought.
“It’s... a little strange to meet you, too,” Yuna admits.
“I wasn’t planning to be so intense,” Aerith says. “I just have some complicated feelings about sacrifice. I thought maybe you’d want to talk to someone who might... kind of understand.”
“You’re unsent,” Yuna says.
“Apparently,” Aerith says. “I don’t really understand how death works here. I think I somehow returned to the wrong planet.”
Yuna has no idea what to make of that.
“I just think you’re facing something really difficult,” Aerith says. “I wanted to help you talk it through.”
Yuna tilts her head. “That... sounds like you want me to change my mind, perhaps.”
“I don’t know,” Aerith says. “Maybe? You remind me of myself, a little. It’d be nice to see one of us live out her life.”
“There are other lives at stake,” Yuna says. “I’ve made my decision. I’m sorry. But I will not abandon my pilgrimage.”
Aerith laughs again. “You definitely remind me of myself.”
Yuna hesitates. “But... I appreciate the concern.”
It feels like she shouldn’t say it, somehow. Like she’s admitting that, if she had the choice, if she wouldn’t be kept awake all her life by the thought of Sin’s victims, she would want to live.
The world needs her to walk to her fate with a smile.
Aerith’s expression softens. “You’re carrying a lot, huh? You sure you don’t want to talk about it?”
Yuna shakes her head. “It feels selfish to complain to someone who has... who has already passed on.”
“I’m not important here,” Aerith says. “There’s nothing that can be done for me. You’re still alive.”
Yuna finds it difficult to hold her gaze.
She should send Aerith, she knows. It’s her duty as a summoner. But when she’s faced with an unsent who looks and moves and speaks like a person—
The unsent aren’t alive. But it feels like removing Aerith from the living world would be killing her.
All she can think to do is seek permission. “Did you approach me because you wanted me to send you?”
Aerith blows out a long breath. Yuna finds herself wondering how that works, for the unsent. Do they need to breathe at all?
“Honestly, no,” Aerith says. “I mean, I – I understand the natural order. The cycle of life. You return to the Lifestream; that’s how it’s meant to be.”
“The Lifestream?”
“Oh. Never mind. The Farplane, I mean.” She pauses. “But... I’d like to stay a little longer, if I can.”
It’s probably Yuna’s responsibility to argue against that. “The unsent... lose themselves, eventually. They become fiends.”
“Weeeeell,” Aerith says, adopting a conspicuously thoughtful pose, “I’ll just have to stick close to you. That way there’s always someone there to send me if I start trying to eat people, right?”
“You’d like to travel with me?” Yuna asks, taken aback.
“I’m kind of invested,” Aerith says. “I’ve heard so much talk about the lady summoner. And, now that I’ve actually met you – I don’t know, you’re interesting.” She pauses. “If you beat Sin, I want to see it. And, if you get to live your life, I want to see that, too.”
It’s hard for Yuna to envision her life extending beyond this pilgrimage. She knows she won’t give it up. If another summoner brings the Calm, she might have a few more years, at least. But the summoner who died in her place will haunt her.
“This is... very sudden,” Yuna says.
“Give it some thought.” Aerith startles her with a quick kiss. By the side of the mouth, not quite on the mouth; it’s hard to read the intent. She pulls back and winks. “I promise not to be boring.”
Yuna has had very little idea of how to react for most of this conversation, but she finds herself laughing now. “I think I can trust you to keep that promise.”
Aerith would be a strange addition to their travelling party, perhaps. It makes Yuna shiver, the idea of being guarded by someone already dead. But she can’t deny that she’s curious about Aerith, her life and her death, her use of strange phrases.
And, if Aerith really does understand what Yuna is facing, perhaps it truly would help to talk about it.
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I love this; I love their similarities and Aerith's comment that people remember the ideal of you, not who you were (even her own canon did that to her, augh). And I love Yuna's focus on being who she thinks people want her to be. (This is why I actually love X-2; seeing Yuna get to live and find out who she is, is just so good, even if it's buried under a lot of uhhhhh mess.)
This is lovely. ♥
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just... loved Aerith's voice here, in particular. wry, direct, gently amused, I don’t like being jealous of myself... you make her play off Yuna so well. thanks for posting this!
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