seventhe | 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 lassarina will help you out!

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From:

requiems

i was driveby-ing this post and saw this prompt and had a whole Feeling about it so here you go!! ♥ (i'll probably put this on ao3 later when i think of an actual title.)

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It's safe.

He's been nothing but a gentleman from the moment they got here, these ten small years into the future that he's had to slowly walk by himself, her the last one to leave; smiling when she talks, offering his hand to help her up. He's still the same. Still thoughtful, still harbouring a burden that isn't the one she passed to him, but it is what's led both of them here.

She knows how hard having to be strong in defiance of fate is.

It's like no time has passed at all, and for her, it hasn't. But she was alone when she left, and he's been entirely alone since.

It's safe, and it's familiar, Serah supposes. Because he doesn't press her, doesn't ask. They're both supposed to be asleep but they're not, and distantly she thinks of Snow, because it's the same level of attentiveness with which Hope regards this kiss, that, the next. All quiet. Maybe he's thinking of Alyssa, his assistant. Maybe he's thinking of her sister. Maybe he's just thinking of only her, that it's come to this – and that here, now, they can both pretend that the twisting knife isn't there.

It's just another meeting, another departure. The loneliness is inevitable. Come morning they likely won't speak of this, and that's to assume they'll say anything at all as she kisses him a little more fiercely, sincerely, because he's real and not gone, and his fingers lace securely between hers and she sniffs.

"We can stop if you like," Hope says softly. Wanting to spare her it, as they all always have. It shatters any illusion she has, brings the reality crashing back. That if this ends it'll be just another night spent worrying: her journey's barely started, but she has so much to carry. They both do.

She could talk to Noel, who lived at the end of days. He could talk to Alyssa, who dreams her own death.

But they don't understand. Not like they do. Not after everything the seven of them went through, now just two.

"No," Serah says. Gentle, breaking. "I don't want to be alone."

His smile is bare. Neither does he.

She's here now. And this time, as he kisses her, he's Hope.

From:

rionaleonhart

My tiny rarepair!! Thank you so much! I have so many feelings about the fact that they're the only ones who still share that connection to the events of the first game, now that everyone else is missing.

I love the way you've phrased 'these ten small years into the future that he's had to slowly walk by himself'.

smiling when she talks, offering his hand to help her up.

Aww, I can see this so well.

But she was alone when she left, and he's been entirely alone since.

Hope's situation just breaks my heart. He's so excited when he first sees Serah again, and then he gets embarrassed about being excited! I love her implied guilt for leaving in this line.

Maybe he's thinking of Alyssa, his assistant. Maybe he's thinking of her sister. Maybe he's just thinking of only her, that it's come to this – and that here, now, they can both pretend that the twisting knife isn't there.

Perfect. I love that it takes a moment for the possibility that he isn't thinking of someone else to even occur to her.

Come morning they likely won't speak of this

I love this!

"No," Serah says. Gentle, breaking. "I don't want to be alone."
His smile is bare. Neither does he.

This is a wonderful piece. Exactly what I needed for these two. Thank you so much.

From:

requiems

:D you're very very welcome!! i'm so glad you enjoyed it. thank you for giving me an opportunity to get out a little of my own feelings for them, it's an interesting ship to work with for that bond alone.