seventhe | FINAL FANTASY KISSING BATTLE 2023: FASHIONABLY LATE

murderstomps into the lecture three days late with starbucks what's UP CHUCKLEFUCKS it's time for your favorite kissy event of the year: Final Fantasy Kiss Battle 2023 is a GOOOOO!

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)"
- "Eiko & Vivi, friendship, G"
- "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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AND NOW... GET TO THE KISSING!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

From:

seventhe

BEEP BEEP LETS GET SOME RAMEN

From:

necrophilia

Lunafreya/Nyx - Offense of kings

From:

necrophilia

Gladio/Ignis - Touch, in lieu of sight

From:

queenlua

ignis &/ gladio, drove through ghosts to get here

From:

queenlua

leviathan & any, despicable creatures

From:

necrophilia

A speck, but bright - and loud. Bone white and garish yellow.

The only one who dares speak Her name like one would scold a disobedient child. A searing column, blood promised, a covenant glancing off Her fins like refuse.

She was here first. She has slumbered, while the world above bled and sweat and died and created nothing, left nothing, were nothing. They pulled Her out of her cradle deep in the seabed for a drowning, dying king.

But a speck. A defiant speck, a gnat buzzing in Her ear, a glow that lingers on Her peripheral vision no matter where She turns Her head.

One who dares call Her by name.

Leviathan dips Her head. Lashing out with teeth and voice, She suffers no more than a graze across the speck’s skin — and when She’s driven back, it is with the taste of brightness and hope lingering in Her mouth like a cancer.

—

I love the Six, they're so cosmic and stupid. Don't ask me what I just wrote, though, idefk.

From:

lassarina

Love the massiveness and inhumanity of Leviathan here, and also how it touches on Lunafreya's strength and steadfastness. ♥

From:

queenlua

sorry for the appallingly late reply, just got back from travel, BUT

ohhhh my gosh i loved this. i am ALSO so very into the Six, lol, and this captured Leviathan's vastness(/pettiness lmao) so well, that last line hits so hard

tyyyyyy <3

From:

enemytosleep

I love inhuman POV and this succinctly captured parts of Leviathan that I adore (and quietly at the same time, the powerful spec that is Lunafreya: Certified Badass).