2013 KISS BATTLE!

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Final Fantasy Kissing Battle 2013

RULES

• This year, we're creating Master Links for each fandom. When leaving prompts, please put it under the right canon! If in a compilation canon, please leave the important details!


• To leave a prompt: leave one prompt per comment, with FANDOM: CHARACTERS/RELATIONSHIP in the subject line and your prompt in the body.


• To leave a fill: reply to the comment in question. Please use the subject line of your comment to label your work: TITLE (if relevant), FANDOM, CHARACTERS/RELATIONSHIP, RATING (ANY KINKS, WARNINGS, FLAGS).


• There should be kissing! All kinds of kisses are welcome: gen, shippy, smutty, chaste, familial, friendly, angry, happy! We’re pretty open to anything you want to call kissing. We are fans of all of it.


• Fanart, fanfiction, drabbles, doodles, live action movies -- whatever you want to supply, we’d like to have it.


• Be kind to others regarding character or ship choices and prompts. This should be fun for everyone!


• Prompt early, prompt often, and leave as many as you want.


• Prompts can be filled multiple times!


• To leave a blitzkrieg kiss: If you have something but no one has prompted it yet, blitzkiss away! Just reply to the comment for your fandom, and make sure you use the subject line to label your work.


• Be sure to check back often -- new kissing action could be showing up everywhere!


• Spread the word! Tell your friends!

FINAL FANTASY KISS BATTLE 2013
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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.

Have fun! Get smoochin'!

FINAL FANTASY I
FINAL FANTASY II
FINAL FANTASY III
FINAL FANTASY IV COMPILATION
FINAL FANTASY V
FINAL FANTASY VI
FINAL FANTASY VII COMPILATION
FINAL FANTASY VIII
FINAL FANTASY IX
FINAL FANTASY X AND X-2
FINAL FANTASY XI
FINAL FANTASY XII COMPILATION
FINAL FANTASY TACTICS COMPILATION
FINAL FANTASY XIII COMPILATION
DISSIDIA: FINAL FANTASY COMPILATION
FINAL FANTASY: CRYSTAL CHRONICLES COMPILATION
ASSORTED FINAL FANTASY
CROSSOVERS (WITHIN FF)
CROSSOVERS (FF/OTHER)
OTHER / ASSORTED

Comments

"Dopplegang", TAY: Kain/Porom, PG-13

[ser_pounce_alot]

He comes to with the fuzzy, warm feeling of White Magic skimming across his skin. It's not the first he's woken like that - it used to happen more, when he was younger, when he and Cecil were training. His mind is very hazy, addled by the magic and the force of the drop - which he can't remember, not really, only in pieces; pieces that include the sky, the summit, the clouds, and the harsh fall to the ground, wind whipping at his ears.

He must try to move, even though he can't focus on his surroundings, because there is a hand on his arm and a soothing voice near his ear saying, "Don't try to get up. You're still weak."

"Rosa," he mumbles, half-aware, and he knows this feeling of her, the familiar cocoon of safety, the light smell of incense in the air from the lingering after-effects of the healing spell.

The fingers on his arm tighten a bit, and then release. "Just rest."

He complies, because there is nothing else to do.

--

The second time, he wakes from nightmares. He can't remember what they were once he has opened his eyes, only that they caused him to scream - perhaps they are of the summit and the shrine. That is the part of his memory that is the most closed off to him. He struggles against the strange bonds holding him down, and then the presence is back, bringing with it a wave of serenity and the jingle of thin metal chains.

"It was only a nightmare," she says, and her palm is warm against the side of his face, cupping his jaw. "Shh. You're fine now."

"It felt so real," he mumbles.

Fingers smooth errant hairs away from his forehead. "I know. But you're safe now."

He sighs, and wants to reach for her. He opens his eyes, but they are sore and weak from disuse, and the light is too bright - he can make out only her outline, the soft curls of her hair, and the roundness of her shoulders.

"Always safe with you," he says.

"Always," she promises; he only vaguely notes the way her voice hitches.

--

He sees Rosa in his dreams. It is a common occurence, despite his own internal battles against it, only now, the dreams have shifted. He knows it's her, because he can follow the scent of flowers in her hair, but he can't make out her shape - her features are blurred. Her mouth is a swipe of dark pink and her eyes amber and round, but he cannot make out the edges to any of it.

"Don't fight it," she tells him, and she is a step ahead of him, always out of reach. His fingers tingle, as if they are alight with magic. "You're going to make it worse if you keeping fighting it like this."

"Stop," he tries. He nearly falls, faltering on his steps. His legs have become like stone. "Wait, stop."

She leans in and there is warmth against his mouth. "Let me do this, Kain. Let me bring you back."

"Rosa," he murmurs against her lips.

"I never meant for things to go like this," she tells him, and sounds infinitely sad.

Just before she disappears, Kain blinks, and wonders when her eyes stopped being blue.

--

It is later, much later, that he finally wakes up with a clear head. His memories are restored - the bits fall into place, even the ones he wishes he didn't have. There is a lot of time to piece back together and it takes him several moments to reorient himself, lying on a cot with several cream-colored blankets laid neatly over his form.

He expected it to be worse, as the outline solidified, but it hardly feels strange at all. Coherent, he can notice the differences; she smells of jasmine, not lavendar, more spice than sweet. There's a tang to her magic that promises a bite. Her fingers sweep over his brow with a sense of purpose and urgency, and yet gentle enough to lull him back into a haze of calm.

"Welcome back," she tells him.

"Porom," he says; it even falls easily from his tongue. His mouth is dry from his days being tended, and he swallows hard, wetting his lip. "Thank you."

Her smile is genuine and stretches up to her eyes. "I told you that I would bring you back."

"I never doubted you," Kain says, and it's true.

She kisses his temples, his forehead, his nose - when she kisses his mouth, her palms are holding the sides of his face, almost reverently. He wonders now how he could have ever confused the two.

"Next time," she whispers against his mouth, as she pulls away but keeps her fingers pressed against his skin, "duck when I tell you to."

Re: "Dopplegang", TAY: Kain/Porom, PG-13

[lassarina]

This is really bittersweet, and I love the sensations (and scents) of white magic in this, and the way his confusion comes through.

Re: "Dopplegang", TAY: Kain/Porom, PG-13

[stealth_noodle]

Oh, my heart. I love delirious Kain and the contrasts between Rosa and Porom.

Re: "Dopplegang", TAY: Kain/Porom, PG-13

[seventhe]

a;sldka;sldka;lsdksa yessssssssssssssssssss

because of course Kain would be all noble and confused and IDIOT

I love the parallels with Porom-Rosa and what it says about white mages underneath. YES