DOINK! Friending Meme!

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We’ve always wanted to have a friending meme for Doink, but... in an exchange where gifts are surprises, and gifters and recipients are big secrets, it never seems like the right time. So we’d like to have one now! No one has to worry about ruining the big reveal, and we all get to have fun and make some friends!

If you’d like to participate, we’ve prepared some text you can copy and fill out to tell the community a little bit about yourself, where friends can find you, and which parts of Final Fantasy fandom make you sparkle like a happy Megalixir. Feel free to fill out as much or as little as you’d like - we encourage everybody to share their fandom likes and loves, so that you can connect with like-minded fans, but it isn’t necessary.

The way to play is quite simple:

1. Copy the text, fill it out, and leave a comment! We’ll have two posts, one for LJ and one for DW - if you’re looking for new friends in both places, feel free to fill both out.
2. Scan the page and read about the Doink community! Does someone look interesting? Strike up a conversation! Make some friends! WRITE COMMENT FIC. Whatever you’d like!
3. Add folks to your various friend networks as you desire!
4. Repeat as needed.
5. Everyone wins!

Just two notes before we start:

• This is not exclusive to Chocobo Down participants, or to Doink participants. It’s open to everyone! So please spread the word.


• We hope this doesn’t really need to be said, but please stay kind, positive, and respectful of everyone’s widely different kinds of fandom love.

Enjoy!

<b>Name / Pseud</b>: <b>Journals (LJ, DW, etc) / AO3 username</b>: <b>Other places I’m looking for awesome fandom friends:</b> [other journals, Twitter, Tumblr, etc] <b>FF canons I’ve experienced</b>: [games played, movies watched, etc] <b>FF Fandoms I’m active in</b>: <b>Ways I participate in fandom</b>: [writing, reading, drawing, reccing, flailing, lurking, etc!] <b>5 characters I love and one sentence why</b> 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. <b>5 pairings I love and one sentence why</b> 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. <b> Themes, kinks, tropes that I really love to see in Final Fantasy fanworks:</b> <b> One ridiculous thought or question I have about FF and/or fandom, to start discussion with my new fandom friends:</b> <b>Anything else?</b>

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[wallwalker]

Fun!

Name / Pseud: Wally
Journals (LJ, DW, etc) / AO3 username: wallwalker (personal) | personalapocalypse (Fic and meta) | Wallwalker @ AO3


FF canons I’ve experienced: FF, FFIV, FFV, FFVI, FFVII, FFVII:AC, FFVIII, FFIX, FFX, FFXIII, FF:TSW (...and I own FFXII but still need to play it, sob)
FF Fandoms I’m active in: ...define active. Most recently, though, FFIV, FFVI, FFVIII, FFIX and FFXIII. Occasionally FFVII and FFX, too.
Ways I participate in fandom: Writing and reading fic, putting together rec lists when I get the energy, and writing meta.

5 characters I love and one sentence why
1. Setzer - I started liking him because of the devil-may-care attitude and the crazy lifestyle; I started loving him when I found out about the Falcon and realized how complex he was.
2. Rinoa - She starts out as a spoiled brat, but as she realizes what she's gotten into, she grows up and changes and I love seeing that. (I realize I'm probably the only person who'll say this here, but I'm saying it anyway. :D)
3. Edward - I think I really love him because he isn't a Big Damn Hero like Cecil - he's just a guy who got caught up in something way bigger than himself, and did his best to help. <3
4. Sazh - His outlook on life near the end is so much like mine it's scary, and I like his level-headedness.
5. Freya - She's tough, powerful, and honorable without being blinded by honor; I love coming up with outcomes where she's at peace with herself again.

5 pairings I love and one sentence why
(This is probably the part that will make most people goggle, fair warning!)
1. Locke/Celes/Setzer - I firmly believe that Setzer should totally nab Locke and Celes and sweep them away on his airship, so that they can all live together and trip over each other's pasts and have awesome adventures together.
2. Barret/Tifa - So different in a lot of ways, so alike in all the ways that matter.
3. Quistis/Fujin - Tough, secretly longing girls in love, what wouldn't be to like?
4. Barbariccia/Kain - There are so many directions this couple can go, and all of them are great.
5. Zidane/Freya - Cracky, yes, but I still love it - two friends and battle comrades adventuring together and snarking at each other and dealing with their own issues together and occasionally having fun together? Yes, please!

Themes, kinks, tropes that I really love to see in Final Fantasy fanworks: I like meta about magic and odd ways of working game mechanics into, um, actual mechanics. I love both slice-of-life stuff and grand adventures, and I like things that essentially throw disparate characters into an unusual situation just to see what happens. I like AUs that change one small (or not-so-small) detail about the game's plot and then plays with what changes from there. In fanart I have a real weakness for fancy costuming or alternative interpretations of the tiny ingame sprites that don't necessarily follow the reference art perfectly. And as far as kink goes, I love the fact that so many of the FF games have so much opportunity for xenokink. And magic can do a lot of fun things if used properly, too. >:)

One ridiculous thought or question I have about FF and/or fandom, to start discussion with my new fandom friends:
Hmm... okay: What do FF characters eat anyway? We never see chickens or cows! Do they actually eat monsters that they kill? And the eternal questions: What about chocobos?? D:

Anything else? I often have long periods of inactivity followed by brief periods of flailing and/or fic! I'm hoping to have more fannish meta posts in December on my fanstuff journal, maybe even daily-ish, but we'll see. ^^ (Also Mass Effect has sort of eaten my brain lately, as you'll probably notice on my fic journal in short order...)

[traxits]

1. You are in no way the only person who loves that about Rinoa. And she is definitely one of those characters that sorely needs more fandom love.

2. I totally believe that FF characters eat those monsters. I also believe that eating chocobo is one of those things ... kind of like eating horse in our world. Where in some places it's completely normal and in others it's kind of taboo. ... Is it bad that I've thought about that? ^^;

[sarasa_cat]

I second all that traxits says about what FF characters eat.

[wallwalker]

So much Rinoa love here. I am happy. :D

Yeah, it just makes me wonder - literally the only actual farm I remember seeing in the whole series was the Chocobo Ranch in VII (although I could be misremembering.) Agriculture, how does it work? D:

[traxits]

Well, okay, I am quite firm on my belief that there is a lot to the world maps that we don't see. Basically, if it doesn't further our adventurers quest in some way (be it plot or sidequests), it's not on the map. That isn't to say that it doesn't exist!

FF7 is a good example of that. Because the only farm we see is the chocobo ranch, but those birds are not for eating. Those are racing birds. But in On the Way to a Smile: Case of Barret, he goes out to a small village that has a primary income from growing and selling potatoes. There's even an oil derrick near Rocket Town that was definitely not on the map.

(Arguably, we could say that all of these are retcons. I just like to think that they were already there and simply omitted from the map for the fact that they didn't contribute to the characters' adventure in FF7.)

[stealth_noodle]

You are not alone on Rinoa! I wasn't big on her when I first played the game, but fandom (well, specific small parts of fandom, at least) has completely sold me on her awesomeness.

[wallwalker]

I can see why some people wouldn't care for her as much, but it always kind of gets my goat when people seem to hate her for exactly the wrong reasons! (And in all honesty I once did the same thing, so I can't even say that much about it. ^^;)

[liri]

Didn't Wakka have a throwaway line about eating Behemoth in FFX? I bet it depends on the monster. I wouldn't want Malboro.

[owlmoose]

Another Rinoa fan here! Like you, I like how she grows and changes. She's great.

[auronlu]

What do they eat? It's even worse in FFX, where as soon as you kill something it turns into little sparkling lights (even the chocobos which show up on the battlefield in X2). It's like the Midas Golden Touch story, only with little sparklies instead of gold...NOTHING TO EAT!

In conclusion, I believe they're all vegetarians. Even Red XIII.

OH.

Also, you are in no way the only Rinoa fan in the world. FFVIII was the first game I played through, and I grokked her. Muchly. I was totally puzzled/confused/disappointed when I entered into fandom and discovered many people didn't like her.


And Quistis/Fuijin = FIERCE.
Throw in a little Xu for a threesome!