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

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She can keep up with them. She can! And she's so determined to prove it that when she stumbles and falls, scraping her knee on the pebbled path, Rydia gets right back up again. Tears burn in her eyes, and she tries to hurry her steps to match Cecil's. If they don't make it to Fabul in time...if she's too slow and they can't get there...

She can keep up with them. She can!

Until she falls again, and Rosa finds her. Rydia curls her legs up and looks desperately at a small patch of grass clinging to the mountainside, anywhere but at Rosa's face. "You must be brave," Rosa had said earlier, and with her encouragement, Rydia had found it in herself to call upon the flames, to melt the ice.

"I can get up," Rydia says, trying not to cry. She has to be brave! For Rosa and Cecil. For Fabul. If she can cast fire, she can deal with a silly scrape, can't she? She uses her rod to try and get back on her feet. "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry."

But Rosa's hand finds her shoulder, keeping her down. "Let me help."

Shame courses through Rydia as soon as Rosa sets down her bow and kneels down before her, her soft, gentle hand resting on her wounded leg. "Don't waste your energy," Rydia pleads with her. Rosa's only just recovered, and their journey has been difficult already. Rosa needs to conserve her strength.

But Rosa just smiles kindly as she whispers her incantation, and Rydia feels a slight pressure, a tingling sensation running down her leg as her wound stitches itself back together. It's not like drinking a potion, not like anything she's ever felt. It's not the rumbling power she feels when she calls. It's not the same punishing heat as her fire spell. Instead it's a soothing warmth, as warm as Rosa's smile and as warm as her mother's embrace had been on a cold night in Mist. A pang of longing swells up within her and makes the tears come all the more, even though Rosa's magic has left her skin clean and healed.

Rosa removes her hand. "Now there's a second stage to this spell, but you must promise not to tell."

"Not even Cecil?"

Rosa shakes her head. "Especially not Cecil."

The sad thoughts of her mother, of Mist, fall away at the idea of learning something special, something new from Rosa. And only Rydia can know! She has to pay attention. She has to be brave.

"Tell me," Rydia says, wiping her eyes.

Rosa merely leans forward, pressing her lips to Rydia's knee. Rydia's own mother had done this back home whenever Rydia had fallen down. It's not really a spell, is it? It's not really magic.

And yet Rydia feels tons better, enough to spring to her feet without Rosa's assistance. "Healing magic is never a waste if someone needs help," Rosa tells her. "Will you remember that?"

She nods, grasping her rod tightly. "I will," she promises as they start to walk again.

She can't walk as fast as Cecil, but it doesn't matter. Rydia keeps pace with Rosa instead. She can keep up with her. She can.