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}
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Seifer/Squall, Best of Five, PG13
Feint, block, twist away. Drive home an attack and find yourself vulnerable, and the first round goes to him, the flat of his blade thudding into your side even as he turns it and pulls the blow.
He's good. He's the best he's ever been and getting better, you're -- well. You're the loser, the sore loser who wouldn't just admit he was beaten and crawl away. Came crawling back instead, to Garden. To him. To Squall Leonhart, the hero.
Feint, parry, slide inside his guard. He's already backing off, already interposing his blade where his body was just a moment before, but he's breathing faster now. His pupils are wide, too, and you know by the look of him that he gets just as high off fight-or-flight as you do. He never looked like this during the war, not when you were dancing to her tune, but now --
Now you attack faster, force him back a step. Two steps. For a moment you have the upper hand, but he smacks your blade aside and you're dead. Would be dead, if this were real.
You want to think it meant something, that he never killed you when he could. But that's just not something a hero does, is it?
Best of three, and you always go for the third round no matter who scored points. One last chance to salvage some pride. You go even faster this time and he falls into your rhythm, and for a moment it's a dance and the ring of steel on steel is the percussion, driving you both faster and faster. You're alive like you've only ever been when you fight, when you fight with him. He's smiling, in the midst of it all, fucking smiling, and the moment you notice that is the moment you lose.
He presses home his advantage, gains ground. His attacks are clinical now, and each clash of blades is one you lose. He's fast.
One last block. Your blade locks with his, close to your body, and he's pushed you back almost to the wall. He leans into it, making you strain, and then -- then he leans across the blades like it's nothing, presses a kiss to your mouth that sends a jolt right through you. Head to toes, bzzzt, and that's it, you feel alive again, every cell of you humming with energy. The last thing you want is to push him away, but the last thing you want now is to lose this fucking fight, so you use the moment to push him back again, spin free, raise your blade again.
He's smirking at you.
"Are you done with the self-pity yet?" he asks, and damn him, you just might be.
"Best of five," you say, and bring your blade up once more, flick it past his guard and touch it to the side of his neck. One to you.
(now on AO3)
Re: Seifer/Squall, Best of Five, PG13
HNNNNNNNNGH
YES.
Re: Seifer/Squall, Best of Five, PG13
😁 Well that sounds like the reaction I was aiming for.
Re: Seifer/Squall, Best of Five, PG13
Re: Seifer/Squall, Best of Five, PG13
Thank you! In my head I was trying for something of the rhythm from their fight in the FFVIII opening, though my memory is probably way too fuzzy by now. :D