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??
Hit up this thread and myself or ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lassarina will help you out!
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Rydia/Shiva, A Unique Intimacy, G
Many of them have become close enough to Rydia that they have offered her their strength, should she need it. Some offered it freely; with others, she asked and they obliged. For someday, she says, she must return to the surface, when she is strong enough to be of help to her human companions.
Though there has long been a fascination, and they've enjoyed one another's company oft enough now that Rydia is essentially full-grown for her species, Rydia has not yet asked Shiva, and Shiva has not offered. There is yet a distance between them, though at times no more than the layer of thick woven cloak to protect Rydia's frail skin from the chill, or the glove that permits her hands to linger longer than would otherwise be safe. Of late there is an awkwardness as well. The silences in the midst of their conversations feel hesitant.
At last it is Shiva who asks, late in the evening while the two of them are lazing in Rydia's dwelling, with the young human woman wrapped in a blanket within Shiva's arms, a warm drink in her hands. "Think not that I begrudge our time together," Shiva begins, stroking Rydia's shoulder through the blanket. "Nor that I wish for more. Yet I am curious." Rydia lifts her head from where it was settled against Shiva's shoulder, now curious as well. "All our other kin have granted you permission to summon them in the Above. All but myself, and never have you asked..."
"Ahh..." Rydia looks slightly sheepish, but smiles. "You'll think it's silly."
"Perhaps." Shiva smiles in return, in what she hopes is comforting fashion; she knows that many humans find her frightening, though Rydia has ever been bold, or she would not be here, like this. "At times, you are indeed quite silly, and I find it endearing."
Rydia laughs softly, like the tinkling of bells, Shiva thinks. She does find many of Rydia's human aspects endearing. "Well, then," Rydia begins as she settles back. "I intended to ask, some time ago. I thought I would, once I knew you better. But as we grew closer, it just... never seemed like the right time. There always seemed to be something more interesting to say - or do - and I didn't want you to think that... that was why I wanted to be close to you."
"I see," Shiva muses. "You feared the appearance of coersion?"
"Yes, that's it exactly," Rydia agrees, and snuggles a little deeper into Shiva's embrace, heedless of the cold. "And eventually I stopped worrying about it. To be honest, I have all I could want from you - far more than I ever expected."
"...I believe you." It is not a strange thing to Shiva to be admired, lusted after. It is only strange when she returns it, a favor she has shown few throughout the ages, and none other among the humans; she and Rydia share a unique intimacy. And thus there is no hesitancy in the offer she now makes: "Even so - if it pleases you to have just a bit more, then you are welcome to call upon me whenever you wish."
Clearly it does please her, from the smile that widens across Rydia's face when she looks up again. Shiva recognizes the motion as her neck cranes upwards, her eyes closing, and lowers her own head for a kiss.
Perhaps this time they have lingered a bit too long, for Rydia hurriedly takes a sip of her drink when they part, and even afterward her smile seems slightly stiff, as if her lips are numb - but regardless, her happiness and gratitude for that extra step, that additional closeness above what they already share, shines through.