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FINAL FANTASY KISSING BATTLE 2012
RULES
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FINAL FANTASY KISS BATTLE 2012
We will be running the Kissing Battle on Dreamwidth only. There are two main reasons for this: 1) Dreamwidth’s comment limit is huge, allowing for longer kissing masterpieces; and 2) Dreamwidth still supports subject lines for comments, which are vital to a meme like the Kiss Battle. However, the Battle is open to everyone. Feel free to participate with your Dreamwidth (account creation is invite-free right now~!), your Livejournal or other OpenID account (see here if you want to set up an OpenID), or anonymously.
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FFIV: Rosa/Rydia/Edge
Relaxation (Rosa/Rydia/Edge (Rosa/Cecil, Cecil/Kain, Rydia/Edge), PG-13)
It's been difficult - truly difficult - for Rosa ever since Kain came back. She'd never say the words aloud, because she can see the light rekindled in Cecil's eyes, and she can see the iron bars of tension in Kain's shoulders relaxing: but Cecil's been spending his days on the training fields, showing Baron that Kain's no traitor, helping his new General acclimate to Baron's Army, and Rosa has been stuck with that petty issue called ruling a nation.
She does not begrudge them. Cecil and Kain have a friendship closer and stronger than she can touch - and she and Cecil have always been open about their loves and other loves (for her, White Magery, and healing, and once an acolyte in the White Hall; for him, his King, and Baron, and now Kain) - so it isn't that she wishes things were otherwise. Rosa is really, truly, just tired. It's the plight of the healer, to take more upon herself than she can bear to give those she loves a little bit of light.
She'd never say the words aloud. But when Rydia comes to visit, she looks at Rosa and something flickers in her sparkling eyes, and Rosa is sure her dear friend can read them writ across her face like the lines of a spell.
Rydia falls in at her side, and for a while Rosa gets a little breathing room: it isn't that Rydia is helpful, because there has never really been anyone more absolutely terrible at courtly anything than Rydia (after the third diplomatic meeting ends in ashes and screams, Rosa asks her gently, "Rydia, please stop,"), but most of Baron is awed and a little terrified by the wild green-haired Summoner who wields their own Odin, and Rydia is really good at making angry faces and casting Thunder.
"You know," Rydia says one day, casually, the words falling into a little pocket of calm that Rosa has gathered around them by sheer will and little else, "Eblan has a beautiful spa, built into the caves. There's a pool, and hot springs, and they treat the mountain water with all kinds of scents and oils. It's different every day. Edge keeps it pristine - even now, when Eblan's struggling - because he says it's important to remember peace."
Rosa looks at her friend, and Rydia's eyes crinkle up with that wisdom no one so young should carry. "Think about it," Rydia says, and squeezes her arm, and heads off to terrify the next chancellor into obedience.
- - -
"I'm going to Eblan," Rosa tells Cecil, three weeks later.
Cecil looks up, and she falls in love with him all over again, because Cecil has always understood her: he might question her actions, but he does so honestly, because of who he is, not because she is some rose to be sheltered. She can tell by his eyes that he's reading her expression: she's set to go, and he won't argue with her. The smile on his face is warm and Rosa knows instantly that this is just one of those things all pairs must face.
"Have a good time," Cecil says. "I'm sorry, love."
"Don't be," Rosa says, and she kisses his forehead.
- - -
Eblan is different than Baron. Both are kingdoms of stone, but Baron's is engineered and wrought, the power of man stamped into its surface: Eblan is, instead, a more wild thing, hidden in the shadows of the mountains, conforming itself to the natural shape of the land around it, silent and subtle. Rydia draws her through the castle and Rosa can see what parts are newly rebuilt; they throb against the ancient stone walls like a bruise. Rydia leads her to a very grand guest room, where they deposit her things, and then slips through a hidden corridor in the hallway; Rosa is taken at how much Rydia has learned from Edge. They skitter down a thin stone passage, and Rosa resists the urge to giggle like a child.
"Come," Rydia says, taking her hand. Rosa is led through another passageway into a stone chamber, with tiny nooks in the walls: it's heated, steamy, and it smells like lilies and vanilla.
Rydia stands, wringing her hands a little, and Rosa thinks, she's nervous. "There isn't much else I can help you with," Rydia says, and then her hands are brushing against the collar of Rosa's dress, gently unfastening the buttons. Her fingers are a kiss on Rosa's skin, light and shy. "But I thought - I thought you might need this."
Rosa smiles, and bows her head to give her friend better access. "I would like to remember peace," she says softly. Rydia's fingers make quick nimble work of all of Rosa's queenly fastenings, and Rydia's own gown is a simple slip of a thing, and Rydia takes her hand again to lead her through one of the three doors.
It's a broad pool, shaped into the stone itself, shallow at the end closest to them and gradually deepening as it moves into the cavern. Steam curls off of the surface in soft tendrils, and Rosa shivers in the chill cave air without her clothes on. Rydia pulls her into the water and she follows. It's pleasantly warm, tepid and comforting like a cure spell, and Rosa smells spices and sandalwood.
"Am I allowed to come out now?" Edge's voice bounces off of the cave walls, and Rosa's startled for just a moment before the soothing warmth of the water strips it all away.
Rydia's face is the question, and so Rosa says aloud, "Come on in, Edge," because the invitation is theirs and the permission is hers to give.
There's a splash and then Edge slips out of the shadows behind a rock: he's just suddenly behind Rydia, in that way that he has, and his lips drop to press a quick kiss of greeting to her neck. Rydia's eyes flutter, and her smile is cat-like and warm.
"Lord Eblan," Rosa greets him, because she suddenly finds it amusing to give a formal greeting in the nude.
Edge's smirk is fabulous. "Lady Baron," he says, and comes around Rydia, and the kiss he bends to give her is not at all quick, although it makes a fabulous greeting.
"Thank you for having me," Rosa says, a little breathless - no wonder Edge is known with the ladies - and she does a little curtsey, which is even funnier with no clothing. The warmth of the water, the tingling soothing scent of the herbs, Edge's sly smile and Rydia's warm regard: the stress and the tension of the last few weeks are washing away. Rosa doesn't remember the last time she felt this light and playful.
"Thank the Lady Feymarch," Edge says with a wink, and Rydia's eyes flash with fond irritation.
"I told you, that isn't--" Rydia begins, but Rosa moves through the water and stops her friend's words with her fingertips. There's a bit of a moment and then Rosa moves her hand, replaces it with her lips. Rydia's mouth is soft and her breath is quick and she makes a tender little noise as Rosa kisses her more deeply.
She pulls away, eventually. They're all a little flushed.
"So," Rosa says, and she barely even recognizes her voice: it's been so strained from the past few weeks. "What other wonders does Eblan's famous spa hold?"
"Oh, my lady," and Edge is laughing now as he pulls Rydia closer. "We'll show you."
Re: Relaxation (Rosa/Rydia/Edge (Rosa/Cecil, Cecil/Kain, Rydia/Edge), PG-13)
Except the one thing but we've written about that already.Re: Relaxation (Rosa/Rydia/Edge (Rosa/Cecil, Cecil/Kain, Rydia/Edge), PG-13)
"Lord Eblan," Rosa greets him, because she suddenly finds it amusing to give a formal greeting in the nude."
And hot.
Re: Relaxation (Rosa/Rydia/Edge (Rosa/Cecil, Cecil/Kain, Rydia/Edge), PG-13)
Re: Relaxation (Rosa/Rydia/Edge (Rosa/Cecil, Cecil/Kain, Rydia/Edge), PG-13)
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Wow. I love this; I love the quiet understanding between all of them, and how they all work; Rosa overtaxing herself to keep others going, and yes oh yes, Edge, you are adorable.