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2013 KISS BATTLE!
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
BLITZKISS: FFVIII/Teen Wolf: Ellone/Lydia, PG-13
Still, her magic is telling her that this is where they need to be, in the mountains capped with snow and devoid of human life. She follows the ribbons until they come to a cave, and Squall refuses to let her go first - he enters with his gunblade drawn, shoulders squared, commander first even here, in the middle of nowhere, with only the tang of energy on the back of Elle's tongue to guide them.
Elle follows him, even though he didn't signal for her to; after all, she's the reason they are here.
She doesn't know what she was expecting, but it certainly wasn't this - a girl with strawberry blonde hair huddled close to a fire seemingly created out of the fewest materials possible. Her knees are hugged close to her chest, and when she looks up from them at the two intruders, she doesn't seem surprised.
"Finally," she sighs, and sounds more annoyed than anything else. "Took you long enough to get here."
--
Lydia causes quite a stir at Garden. Within hours, she is all anyone is talking about - and she walks through the halls with her chin held high like she knows what all the whispers are saying. Elle's never met anyone quite like her, quite as fiercely snappish; she's not surly like Squall. Her bite has more force to it, more attitude. Squall largely leaves her alone as if he's washing his hands of the whole thing, and Elle can't say she completely blames him. They have enough personality problems already within the cadets.
But Elle knows the sight of someone projecting outwards to make themselves seem larger - she knows the signs of one who has always been alone, unique, and hunted for it. Others will always want to use the powers they have, and Elle, of all people, understands it all the way down to her core.
--
Someone gives the girl a starter deck for Triple Triad, and within days, she's cleared Garden's card club members out of their best cards. She's impossible to win against; she pulls in Same, Plus, and Elemental rules until everyone is forced to use them, and then abruptly stops.
When Quistis asks about it, politely interested, Lydia just shrugs and says, "It got boring once there wasn't anything else to master. Numbers are kind of my thing."
--
She finds Lydia in the library a week after she arrived.
"Not interested," Lydia says, as soon as she registers Elle enters, without turning around or glancing over her shoulder.
"I'd hoped you'd be willing to hear me out first," Elle replies.
Lydia does turn, then, obviously expecting someone else. Her eyes rove over Elle's form in a way that seems to be cataloguing - maybe she's assessing for weaknesses. Elle's willing to bet that Lydia could give even Xu a run for her money in tactical strategizing.
"There's always a threat, even with the peace now," Elle begins.
"I'm not a soldier," Lydia tells her, and there's a familiar clench to her chin that Elle recognizes from the mirror. "I'm not figuring I'll be in the middle of many skirmishes."
"Maybe not," Elle says, "but there will always be people after you."
It seems to strike a cord. Lydia is silent for several moments.
"And you know this," she states.
"Better than most, I'd wager."
There's another bit of quiet, and then Lydia reaches over and closes the book shut.
"Well," she starts. "I guess Allison was always better at taking care of herself than I was. Maybe there's something to the idea of learning some defense."
"Offense is the best defense," Elle says, which is what Squall had told her earlier that morning, when he'd run the idea by her in his office.
She'll decide, later, if she believes him.
--
They start training together. Lydia picks it up far quicker than Elle does, more natural with a weapon in her hands - she goes for the old crossbow that one of the former SeeDs used to use and it seems to resonate with something inside her. Squall gives Elle a bracelet that amplifies stocked magic so she can attack from a distance with spells, and she's thankful that he pays the amount of attention that he does to know it's what she's more comfortable with.
Training is hard and long, and Elle ends up aching most nights that she drops exhausted down into her bed.
Still, it's good - they don't know where Lydia came from, or what she's doing there. Squall is right to think that if something can drop the other girl in their laps, there's nothing to stop someone else from hurtling through the portal after her.
--
The day they come up against a T-Rexaur in the Training Center is too early, probably, in their training to be effective. It's mostly a game of ducking and running for their lives, hoping that someone is watching on the closed circuit cameras and that they can get out before the thing tracks them down again. They end up crouched near a split, bent bit of fence, near bushes that smell sweet and slightly wet from the indoor sprinkling system.
"I think," Lydia says, breathing hard and looking furious, a splash of angry rose across her nose and cheeks, "that I'm going to murder someone after this mess."
Elle wants to agree, but it's hard to catch her breath. "Do you think it's gone?"
"No," Lydia tells her, blunt and honest. She peeks out the bushes, and Elle can feel the footsteps of the monster reverberating through the dirt. She's not expecting Lydia to wind her fingers around the material in Elle's shirt and pull her forward, kissing her with the sort of precision and confidence that a girl like Lydia - the center of everyone's attention, the poster child for success - can make work.
Elle is sure her eyes are very wide when the other girl pulls away.
"What was that for?" she asks, and it didn't help at all at stabilizing her rapid heartrate.
"I'm trying a new thing," Lydia answers. She's already peeking through the bushes again, searching out the enemy. "I'm making sure I tell people what I feel in case life-altering and terrible things end up happening to them."
Elle doesn't want to pry further into that. "That was telling me?"
Lydia shrugs, and there's a bit of a grin tugging at the corners of her mouth. "I'm more of a doer myself. Actions speak louder than words."
They do, indeed. Elle reaches for her bracelet, reaching out for the junctioned magic of Siren in her head.
"I think we can take this thing," she says, feeling brave and jittery and alive.
"Good," Lydia replies. Her eyes are dancing when she meets Elle's gaze. "I think we can, too."
Re: BLITZKISS: FFVIII/Teen Wolf: Ellone/Lydia, PG-13
I support this pairing. Special skilled ladies 4 the win
Re: BLITZKISS: FFVIII/Teen Wolf: Ellone/Lydia, PG-13
Re: BLITZKISS: FFVIII/Teen Wolf: Ellone/Lydia, PG-13