FINAL FANTASY KISSING BATTLE 2023: FASHIONABLY LATE

[seventhe]

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!

SHARE
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AND NOW... GET TO THE KISSING!

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Re: FINAL FANTASY FRIENDING THREAD

[threewalls]

• FFXII is the FF of my heart (Balthier/Fran OTP, Basch/Vossler, all four in various permutations, Larsa/Penelo, Ashe/Al-Cid).
  
• FFXV is a hot mess I want to save most of the characters from (Ignis/Noctis, Noctis/Prompto, well, all the chocobros in various frequently queerplatonic permutations, Holly/Cindy and Aranea/Biggs/Wedge). Maybe one day I'll actually play the Insomnia chapter and admit how the game ends. Maybe.
  
• Vagrant Story is my FF-adjacent first love (Sydney/Hardin OTP).

You could say partnerships are like catnip to me.

I have also played: FFVII (orig), VIII, IX, X, XII:Revenant Wings (and watched playthroughs of XIII's trilogy and FFVII:R and other assorted FFVII side games for which I lack the console.) FFVII Remake made me curious about Aerith/Tifa and (Sephiroth/)Cloud/PTSD.

I post little on DW but try to comment more.

You can also find me at threewalls. Currently, I'm obsessed with Persona 5: The Royal, but I have written fic for so, so many other video games and other fandoms. FFXII is the largest chunk of my back-catalogue: over 120 works (of which about 50% are Balthier/&Fran), though most of it is over a decade old.

I'll still also talk about Vagrant Story to anyone who wants that, and that game's more than 20 years old. I am tentatively interested in FFXVI for the parallels to VS and FFXII.

Now - in the correct thread!