ff_exchange | 2014 Final Fantasy Kiss Battle

Final Fantasy Kissing Battle 2014

RULES

All prompts will be organized by fandom, using Master Links. When leaving prompts, please put it under the right canon! If in a compilation canon, please include 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 2014

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

In the days after he comes back to them, after twenty long years' absence, Rosa watches Kain.

Watches--- as the countless little attentions that he had always shown her in their youth, that she had always taken so much for granted (because he had never said whispers a bitter voice in the corner of her mind, which she dismisses) gradually fade into mere courtly courtesy. When the lingering touch of his lips on her hand cools to a courtier's proper tribute, and nothing more. (She remembers deliciously stolen kisses in corridors in their youth, when Cecil had been the more proper of the two, and held himself back after he donned the dark armor in particular; when Kain had been the one of them to oblige her.)

He has accepted what he wants and cannot have; and in accepting, finally let go.

Except that he could have had it; could have had it all along, if he had only asked.

And if she had never known it, never known the longing of his that lay beneath the friendship, she never would have missed it when it died.

That is the least of the crimes to lay at Zemus' feet--- but sometimes, in the dark before sunrise, it is the thing for which she blames their erstwhile enemy the most.

I love that this is from Rosa's POV! I'm a fan of there having been at last some sort of romantic or sexual connection between them and Kain's infatuation not having been completely and always one-sided. Ahh, and the thought of Kain & Rosa having shared some youthful tryst while Cecil was distracted by his duty as a Dark Knight is delicious X)

And all wrapped up in a heartbreaking little fic! I love it; thank you for filling my prompt!

Thank you SO MUCH!!! I was a little afraid I was going away from the spirit of the prompt by having it be Rosa's viewpoint and Rosa's sense of loss, so I am utterly thrilled that that was to your liking--- and especially to find another fan who sees Kain's interest as having been at least somewhat returned.

I think last year I did a Kain/Rosa/Cecil fill where Cecil was always the perfect gentlemen and kissing Rosa's hand very decorously and so forth... while Kain was always the one who was up for a bit of more serious necking in corners. Heh.

So glad you love it--- not gonna lie, the prompt itself broke my heart, in that perfect-writer-bait way that meant I had to tackle it, so thank you for inspiring me!

I haven't played TAY--only the OG-- but holy shit do I love this. This is beautifully written; dark and wistful and tragic. I've always had a huge soft spot for Rosa/Kain, and it's because of all the reasons you've beautifully fit into the subtext (and the gloriously overt!) here.

OMG! Thank you so much! I'm a ginormous Rosa/Kain shipper, and a trioshipper, and always enthused to find a fellow-passenger on this ship! (I will admit that it hurt to write them as ending--- I tend to prefer to give the trio a happily-ever-after with all three of them together in bed and out) but that prompt could not be ignored.

2014 Final Fantasy Kiss Battle

"Never Meant To Let It Die": FFIV, post-TAY, Kain/Rosa, G

Re: "Never Meant To Let It Die": FFIV, post-TAY, Kain/Rosa, G

Re: "Never Meant To Let It Die": FFIV, post-TAY, Kain/Rosa, G

Re: "Never Meant To Let It Die": FFIV, post-TAY, Kain/Rosa, G

Re: "Never Meant To Let It Die": FFIV, post-TAY, Kain/Rosa, G