ff_exchange | 2013 KISS BATTLE!

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

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

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

"It isn't for your benefit that I do this," Fran said.

Balthier slammed the panel shut and pushed back from it, rubbing at his temples. "Damn," he muttered. "Damn, damn, damn!"

Fran swiveled in her cockpit seat and raised a curious brow. "The relay is still down?"

"Not only that, I seem to have munged up some of the other connections." Balthier kicked the heavy metal casing, then hopped back on the other foot, pain shooting up his leg. "Ow!" He glared at the panel with rather more ferocity than it deserved. "Fool ship, must you torment me so?"

The Strahl made no reply; more surprisingly, neither did Fran. Balthier cast an eye in her direction and saw that she wore an expression midway between exasperation and amusement. "What?"

She merely shook her head and looked away, focusing on the starry skies ahead. Balthier plopped into the closest seat and rubbed his aching foot, then cursed again as the pain sharpened. He pulled off his boot and sock to check the offending toe -- yes, it was already swelling, with a purple tinge to the skin. He touched the swollen spot with care and muttered the words of a minor healing spell, then stood, ensuring it could bear his weight. Satisfied, he removed the rest of his footwear and stalked back to the cabin in search of something sturdier.

Halfway there, the hallway shifted, throwing Balthier hard to his right; flailing, he grasped at the handrail to stay upright. He twisted his head around, thinking to shout his displeasure at Fran, but he forbore, instead taking a moment to regain his footing before returning to the cockpit. He took the co-pilot's seat and regarded her: calm, facing forward. "Changed course, did you?"

"I did," she replied.

He glanced out the front, a sinking in the pit of his stomach as the walls of Rabanastre appeared before them. "I told you, I do not wish to--"

"So you have said. Repeatedly." Fran tapped a few buttons on the console, acknowledging the aerodrome's receipt of her flight pattern request. "But it is not for your benefit that I do this."

"Oh no?" Balthier arched a brow at her. "Then whose, pray tell?"

Fran pulled the Strahl up alongside the roof of the palace, and pushed the lever that would open the gangway. Only then did she shift to face him. "My own." She lifted her hand and pointed a taloned finger out the door. "Now go."

"But--"

She pointed again, with more force. "Go."

Balthier held up his hands in surrender, then made his way to the exit, taking careful assessment of the distane before he jumped; only when he landed on the roof and the tiles scraped the soles of his feet did he recall that he had neglected to put his boots back on. Gritting his teeth, he scrambled along the rooftop to maintain balance, only stopping when he saw a balcony below: her balcony. As quietly as he could, he swung himself over the edge of the roof and landed in a crouch. Then he turned to glare at the Strahl, already disappearing into the distance. "How did she get permission to do that?" he muttered. Then he sighed. No avoiding this any longer. He squared his shoulders and went to the balcony doors. It would, he thought, be trivial to break the lock, but impolite; instead he raised his hand and rapped his knuckles against the glass.

Long moments passed, and he contemplated the lock again, but before he reached the point of smashing it, or attempting to pick it without tools, the white curtains parted to reveal Ashe, a gauzy blue dressing gown tossed over her shoulders, her expression betraying less surprise than he would have expected. She pulled the door open and let him inside, and they stood in silence; she looked him up and down, a smile tugging at the corner of her lips.

"You're here," she said. "And barefoot."

He glanced down at his pale toes, the lush red carpeting soft against his scraped soles. "My journey here was somewhat... unplanned."

Ashe arched a brow at him. "I do recall a certain lack of response to my invitations."

"That was the intention." He took a deep breath, let it out slowly. "I fear that formal occasions -- state dinners, coronations, royal weddings -- are no longer my forte."

"Mmm." She set back a step. "Why, then, did you change your mind?"

"Fran changed it for me." Balthier leaned toward the half-open doorway and looked up at the empty night sky. "I... may have been a bit difficult to deal with, the past few days." To say the least, he realized. "Perhaps I sought a distraction. And failed."

"So instead you come here, to distract me from tomorrow's festivities." Ashe chuckled and stepped up to him, placing her hands around his neck. "As distractions go, it is not ineffective."

"Good," he started to stay, but the word was lost when Ashe pressed her mouth to his, stealing it away with a lingering kiss; his eyes fluttered closed and his hands curved around her back, pulling her into an embrace. She wrapped herself around him in return, warm through her thin dressing gown.

"Distracting, indeed," she murmured as she pulled away, her forehead bumping up against his, brushing noses. "And welcome. Will you stay?"

Balthier chuckled. "I have no shoes to carry me away, so I don't see as I have much choice."

"Thank Fran for stealing them, the next time you see her." And Ashe laced her fingers through his, tugging him away from the open window and into her chambers, kicking off her slippers as they went.

yessssssssssss

yes. good. Good job, Fran.

*squishes them all gleefully*

Ten points to Fran for excellent problem solving.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH YES

for some reason i just LOVE that he's barefoot in this

yes yes yes yes x10000000

OKAY:

Cranky!Fran is AMAZING
Sulky!Balthier is sadly adorable
and Ashe is quintessential Ashe as always

this is perfect. Thank you!

2013 KISS BATTLE!

FFXII: Ashe/Balthier

Distractions (Ashe/Balthier, T)

Re: Distractions (Ashe/Balthier, T)

Re: Distractions (Ashe/Balthier, T)

Re: Distractions (Ashe/Balthier, T)

Re: Distractions (Ashe/Balthier, T)