July Round-Up

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The round for July has closed - here are our results:

In first place:

Team Ifrit, with 80 points total

In second place:

Team Shiva, with 50 points total

In third place:

Team Ramuh, with 30 points total

HOLY CHOCOBOS. We have started off with 16 works this month -- that's an incredible start to this year's races. You've blown our minds like Typhon, congratulations. We can't wait for the rest of this year!


The Edge of Green (965 words) by intaglionyx
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Final Fantasy XII
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Fran/Penelo
Characters: Fran (Ivalice Alliance), Penelo
Additional Tags: Pre-Relationship, Mentor/Protégé, Magic Meta
Summary:

She has not lost control; the green is not Mist, to take her mind and set her feral with strength and fear in equal measure. These are simply desires of hers, raised from dormancy, dragged past self-set limits broken by the green as the green is wont to do.

--

Fran teaches Penelo some rudimentary green magick.

To Spot a Sapling in the Woods (628 words) by intaglionyx
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Final Fantasy X
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Characters: Jecht, Braska, Auron
Additional Tags: pre-game, Bloodplay, Mild Gore
Summary:

Jecht sees the worst of it.

(He doesn't handle it well.)

Scars (587 words) by intaglionyx
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Final Fantasy IX
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Garnet til Alexandros XVII/Beatrix, Beatrix/Brahne
Characters: Beatrix (Final Fantasy IX), Garnet til Alexandros XVII, Brahne Raza Alexandros XVI
Additional Tags: Pre-Relationship, Bodyguard Romance, Scars
Summary:

In which Beatrix engages in metaphor, thinks more than she probably should about the respective naked bodies of her first and second queens, and does her job well.

Paradigm Shift (668 words) by intaglionyx
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Final Fantasy XIII
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: Lightning/Fang
Characters: Lightning (Final Fantasy XIII), Oerba Yun Fang
Additional Tags: Pre-Relationship, Gore, Hunting
Summary:

Lightning decides to make a change.

Weak Points (533 words) by intaglionyx
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Final Fantasy X
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Characters: Auron (Final Fantasy X), Tidus (Final Fantasy X)
Additional Tags: Mentor/Protégé
Summary:

Auron teaches Tidus where to most effectively stick his blade.

Disillusionment (606 words) by Wallwalker
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Final Fantasy IV
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Kain Highwind, Bahamut
Additional Tags: Worldbuilding, Character Study, Dragoons
Summary:

What can a man do once he's bested the one he once prayed to?

Familiar Habits (1024 words) by Wallwalker
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Final Fantasy XIII
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Oerba Dia Vanille/Oerba Yun Fang
Characters: Oerba Dia Vanille, Oerba Yun Fang
Additional Tags: Fluff, Sadness, Hair Braiding
Summary:

Fang hadn't seen any harm in old habits, at least for a little while. She'd thought that it would be soothing.

Yes, Miss Arrowny (819 words) by tinamachina
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Final Fantasy VI
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Relm Arrowny, Terra Branford
Summary:

Relm teaches the children of Mobliz how to sketch. Relm learns a lesson in patience.

Solutions (676 words) by eerian_sadow
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Final Fantasy X
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Rikku, Tidus (Final Fantasy X)
Additional Tags: chocobo races, Community: ff_exchange, Challenge fic, Competence, knowledge, Character building, Al Bhed
Summary:

Rikku knows how to solve the newest problem to come up during training.

The Secret Life of Lulu (639 words) by wimblydonner
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Final Fantasy X-2
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Lulu/Wakka
Characters: Lulu (Final Fantasy X & X-2), Rikku, Vidina
Additional Tags: Character Study, Community: ff_exchange, chocobo races
Summary:

Lulu's glad to have a family, but she still has fantasies about her own adventures. Rikku's thoughts are just the opposite.

Freedom of the Press (662 words) by owlmoose
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Final Fantasy XII
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ashelia B'nargin Dalmasca/Al-Cid Margrace, Balthier/Ashelia B'nargin Dalmasca/Al-Cid Margrace
Characters: Ashelia B'nargin Dalmasca, Al-Cid Margrace
Additional Tags: Tabloid Journalism, Polyamory
Summary:

Ashe would rather the press not publish gossip, but if they're going to tell tales, she might as well give them good ones.

20% Cooler (28 words) by storyless
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Final Fantasy X, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, My Little Pony
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Shiva (Final Fantasy), Auron (Final Fantasy X), Braska, Jecht
Summary:

It's Jecht, Auron, Braska, and Shiva. And they're ponies.

Night Flights (1524 words) by Ayulsa
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Final Fantasy VI
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Terra Branford/Celes Chere
Characters: Terra Branford, Celes Chere
Additional Tags: Esper Terra, magic!meta, TEAM SHIVA, probably not actually that mature so don't get your hopes up, but if you read into it the right way..., so i err on the side of caution
Summary:

Nobody knows why Terra goes, but Celes feels it.

Wildest (556 words) by Ayulsa
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Final Fantasy VI
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Terra Branford/Celes Chere
Characters: Terra Branford, Celes Chere
Additional Tags: Esper Terra, Xeno, TEAM SHIVA
Summary:

There is something of Terra that Celes cannot hold.

Written as part of the Her Shining and Her Grace ficlet series, but it turned out more M-rated than I'd planned for that collection, so I'm posting it separately.

Exquisite Corpse (700 words) by Ayulsa
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Final Fantasy VI
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Celes Chere, Ensemble
Additional Tags: magic!meta, Magic, TEAM SHIVA
Summary:

After Zozo, the party learns about Magicite. Celes watches.

Her Shining and Her Grace (3122 words) by Ayulsa
Chapters: 8/?
Fandom: Final Fantasy VI
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Terra Branford/Celes Chere
Characters: Terra Branford, Celes Chere
Additional Tags: Esper Terra, TEAM SHIVA
Summary:

I wanted to write a collection of Esper!Terra/Celes ficlets, but I needed seeds of ideas to base them on. So I filched quotes from another of my favourite stories, The Last Unicorn. This is the result.

Till Death and Ever After (15515 words) by Vrazdova
Chapters: 4/4
Fandom: Final Fantasy VI
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: Clyde/Baram
Characters: Shadow (Final Fantasy VI), Clyde (Final Fantasy VI), Baram (Final Fantasy VI)
Additional Tags: Backstory, sleep paralysis, Canonical Character Death, Dom/Sub Play, POV Fuckery, Unreliable Narrator, Psychological Horror
Series: Part 2 of Blood Before Water
Summary:

Some nights, a demon comes and pins me down. He holds me on the edge of consciousness, taunts me with my past - mocks me for being alive.

I dread ever going to sleep.

Stargazing (1147 words) by Lassarina
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Aerith Gainsborough, Tifa Lockhart
Summary:

After Cloud's revelations in Kalm, Aeris goes to gaze at the stars, and maybe sort some things out.

Next month's theme will be posted shortly! Stay tuned!