ff_exchange | 2013 KISS BATTLE!

Final Fantasy Kissing Battle 2013

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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!

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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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A/N: I suspect that this is something of an inversion of the prompt, but I also suspect it's one you'll like! I sort of meant for them to have a proper kiss but Ingus went all chaste and noble on me, dammit.

She finds him standing on the parapet of Castle Sasune, after they’ve returned from defeating the Djinn, together. After he’s agreed to leave with the heroes.

He waits for her to reproach him for his choice--- or worse, to wish him well in all seriousness, with no more regret for his absence than is... proper.

He knows his feelings for her are anything but.

But her first words are anything but what he expects. “Why did you come to the Sealed Cave?”

He turns in surprise to see her regarding him, intent and thoughtful. “I--- beg your pardon, princess?”

“Why did you come to the Sealed Cave, after me? I had the task well in hand.”

He regards her closely--- yes, there is a hint of reproach there, but also a hint of curiosity: she will at least wait to hear his answer before she rebukes him.

And if he is to receive the ultimate punishment that is the loss of her favor, he decides that he will at least receive it for nothing less than the truth. He goes to one knee where he stands, solemn and earnest. “I feared for your safety, my lady---“ oh, it is perhaps forward, to call her such and not “princess” or “highness”, but if he is to be censured it will be for the truth and nothing less--- “I could not stand by and risk harm coming to you.”

She regards him, still with that intent and considering look--- then, smoothly, comes toward him. “Silly,” she says gently, and tips his face up (he thrills to the touch of her hand). “I promised I would return.” Still holding his chin with the lightest touch of her fingertips that bind him more firmly than steel, she says, “And I expect the same of you, when you leave. And for the same reason.”

For a moment, he has no words, his breath caught by everything she has said in those few words, said without the vulgarity of speech; then he bows his head, even as, greatly daring, he turns his head to brush his lips against her fingers; she starts, then her hand lingers against his touch. “Gladly will I make this vow, my lady, or any other you should ask of me.”

“Come home, then, when your task is complete.” For a moment, he thinks that she is done, and that is enough--- then she adds, “And we shall see what other vows we may exchange,” and for him, that is all the world can hold.

*squeaks and flails frantically*

oh. yes. this. This inversion is fantastic. Bravo.

*squeaks and flails back*

As soon as I saw this prompt, which I only did after starting my playalong with M_U, I knew I had to write for it! And I was going to play it straight, but, your trope-inversion fic! And Sara being the not-quite-trope-inverter but still at least something of a self-rescuing princess, well, I just HAD to! :D Thanks for such an awesome prompt to play with!

I am perfectly fine with these two either playing the trope straight or inverting it (we have talked before about my fondness for both), so I would have been delighted either way - and I absolutely love what you did with it. Thank you so much!

You are so welcome--- filling prompts for someone whose preferences I can all too easily play to is a gift to me, too! :)

2013 KISS BATTLE!

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