FINAL FANTASY KISS BATTLE 2022!!!
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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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Re: FINAL FANTASY XIV
Date: 2022-02-21 01:45 am (UTC)Catching Up, FFXIV, WoL/Estinien, T. ARR/Minor HW references.
Date: 2022-03-23 04:19 pm (UTC)---
It's Estinien who lowers his spear first, but not his defenses. She can still feel his burning gaze, even behind the visor. "Your lancework has improved," he says, cautiously.
"Good to 'ear," she wryly answers, but does not lower her own trident. If she'd known to expect a duel with the Azure Dragoon - well, the one who wasn't her, apparently - she would have done some stretching. But when she'd started off to Griffin Crossing again, she had thought it would be simple. The confused young man had only asked her to check for past disturbances. She'd had no way of knowing that her rival was going to ambush her there. It was definitely a close battle. She'd fought Estinien before, but this time he was more in control; she couldn't just take advantage of his blind spots, let his anger do the work for her. Fighting him to a standstill had taken a few more tricks that time.
Honestly it's impressive, the way he keeps track of her without blinding himself. She knows her own silvery armor is bright in the sunset - one of the few advantages she has over him. The metal armor weighs heavily upon her, especially compared to the light leathers she'd worn when she first learned the lancers' art. She still doesn't trust her ability to move as fast as she needed to. Estinien definitely had an advantage there; he'd been training for this his entire life.
He sighs lightly as he secures the massive spear against his back. "I do not expect you to trust me, Quizzie," he says. Her name sounds strange from his lips - the first time she remembers him using it. "The Eye of Nidhogg is... powerful, and adept at using a man's darker thoughts against him. I admit that I stumbled briefly, and I thank you for not allowing Ser Alberic to pay the price."
"As if I'd let ye 'arm him." She snorts under her own helm, trident still unerringly pointed towards his heart, the shining silver tines glinting in the sun. She doesn't know if she can best him in a fair fight, and she's in no position to even the odds any further, but she won't let her guard down yet. The first time she'd fought a Knight of Ishgard - or a former one, at least - she'd nearly died, would have died if the Echo had not manifested itself and saved her. She won't make that mistake again.
He nods slowly. "Aye... I owe you a debt for that. I have mastered the Eye again, and I will not be taken in again so easily. You have my word."
Slowly Quizzie steps back - she is still within the range of his leaps, but that means he is still within hers. "So why th' surprise attack, then? I can think of better ways to say 'ello."
He manages a small smile. "I did not attack first. I stood ready for yours, however, given our last meeting. I knew that such a thing was... deserved."
She shakes her head, sighing. "Aye, well. Much as I enjoy a good spar, would've been nice to 'ave a warning."
"Noted. I'd heard you were still in the Highlands, so I came to find you. Your reputation amongst the populace is impressive, for a foreign adventure. Even the former Count de Dzemael is singing your praises."
Hm, she'd heard that name... ah. Right. "After bravin' that bloody cave fer 'im, he'd damn well better be," she answers - she couldn't do much more than laugh, after all of those spills through the cave and the tangles with the bloody frogs. Somehow, despite the nasty voidsent and corrupted crystals and other horrors, the frogs were the part that stuck out in her memory. "I'd be 'alf tempted to take me squadron an' tear th' cursed place down myself if he weren't!"
That makes him laugh, at least. "You're not the only one with such opinions, though I'd be careful who you express them to. An old friend who keeps watch over such things told me that you had been sent by a man in the Observatorium to investigate a disturbance here. It seemed as good a place to catch up with you as any."
Quizzie - finally convinced - re-secures her trident. She seriously doubts that Nidhogg is much for joking, from what little she'd seen. Ironically enough, she's almost sure she'd been involved in that disturbance; it hadn't been that long ago since she'd fought that odd fellow and his equally-odd army of green roosters on that bridge, and she's none too sure that all of the astrologians had been told of the plan. "Well, then, 'ere I am. Anythin' in particular or did ye just want t' chat?"
Estinien looks away. "I am none too skilled with small talk," he admits - as if Quizzie wouldn't have already noticed. "But... I wished to know if all was well. With you, and with my... mentor." His voice turns pensive. "I have not had the strength to find him again, not since...."
She sighs. "Aye, well... I've seen what some o' these things can do to a man's mind. Yer lucky that Nidhogg can't temper a man." After what she'd seen with Ifrit - perfectly sensible men turned into ardent worshipers - she'd been worried that whatever the eye had done to Estinien had done the same. Fortunately, whatever else the wyrm is, apparently he isn't a primal. "But aye, I'm alright - though it sounds like ye knew that. And Ser Alberic... well, he's not too 'appy with 'ow things went, no surprise there. But 'e believes in ye still. Said 'e knew you could fight off the dragon's influence again."
Judging from the way Estinien's tense stance sags when she speaks those words, it was exactly what he'd needed to hear. "Thank you," he say quietly. "Truly, thank you. I had feared he would..." but the words seem to catch in his throat.
"What, reject ye?" She steps forward, emboldened by this, her hands still by her side. She only fully trusts one man in this frozen country, and has only now begun to trust another; Estinien, for the moment, is a distant third, but at least she could make the start. "Sounds like you should 'ave more faith in 'im, Ser Estinien."
"Faith is... difficult to come by for me. For people, at least." Oh, is he blushing, under that visor?
"Aye, I understand that. Still, it can be rewardin' at times." She stops in front of him, but still he looks away. His manner, the crossed arms... clearly he's not used to people being so close to him. He most certainly is blushing. "But t' answer yer question - we're both goin' to be fine. An' it sounds like you're goin' to be okay too. Do ye want me to tell 'im we've spoken, ease 'is mind?"
"...no," he answers after a moment, looking back at her. "I will... I will send him a message through my own means. But thank you."
"Anythin' fer me best rival," she says cheerfully. Then she does something impulsive - she lifts her hand to her lips, kissing the tips of two of her fingers, and then gently moved to press them against his cheeks. Just an old show of affection that she had used when she'd sailed with the Krakens, not that long ago.
He doesn't pull away, but the shock in his face is obvious. "I..." He stares at her for a beat, and she could almost feel the cogs in his brain turning as he took a breath. "Thank you," he finally says, "I am sure we will speak again. For now I must go, before I am seen by the wrong people."
She smiles and gives him a wave as he turns to leap away yet again, and then shakes her head as she goes back to her work, searching for evidence of any other disturbances on the bridge.
Of course she'd keep her promise, and not speak of this to Ser Alberic. Lord Haurchefant, on the other hand... she suspects he would very much enjoy this tale.
Re: Catching Up, FFXIV, WoL/Estinien, T. ARR/Minor HW references.
Date: 2022-03-23 08:05 pm (UTC)Re: Catching Up, FFXIV, WoL/Estinien, T. ARR/Minor HW references.
Date: 2022-03-25 01:29 am (UTC)But yes, thank you very much, glad you liked it! I just needed something to bridge that gap between "You tried to kill me" and "You're my friend now, we're having soft tacos later."