2014 Final Fantasy Kiss Battle

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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
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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

Comments

"The Tie That Binds" FFT: Ramza & Alma, G

[vrazdova]

They stand before the massive headstone, hands entwined. The tips of her fingers grip his knuckles, and he can feel her trembling. The night air is cool, but it comes as a relief after so many days of sweltering summer heat, hidden under cloaks and scarves as they traveled northwest back to Eagrose, solely to pay respects to...

“It is surreal,” she finally says, after such a long silence. They haven’t had much to say for hours now, possibly days. What happened at Mullonde has left them stunned and largely speechless, and they’ve spent the past week operating on autopilot; legs dragging themselves onward, away from the wreckage, away from their fallen comrades, away from Hell.

“It is wrong; that I should have this monument, where you have none --” and then she lets out a quiet whimper, as though she realizes the morbidity of such thoughts, and her trembling intensifies.

He squeezes her hand. “It is a trifle,” he whispers, choking on the last word. “I need not recognition.”

But he scans the cluster of headstones, eyes falling upon the names of his father and his father’s first wife, their sons; and then his second wife, and Alma... Ramza’s entire family, for whom his love remained steadfast beneath it all -- yet he was banned from resting among them, however symbolically. It was wrong. It hurt.

Barbaneth must weep over his children’s empty graves. Perhaps he wonders why, though all pronounced dead, none have joined him in the Promised Land.

The thought finally breaks him. A strangled sound escapes Ramza’s throat, and he pulls his sister into his arms. He buries his face in her hair, disheveled and knotted, and she clings to his waist fervently in turn. Her chest heaves against his and he kisses the top of her golden head.

“I miss them,” she sobs. “Despite everything, they will always be my brothers.”

He plants another kiss upon her crown, and he lingers there this time -- Alma shares his denial, he thinks. They both desperately want their memories of Dycedarg and Zalbaag to be from happier times. He wants to swallow the sickness he feels seeing his eldest brother’s name so close to their lord father’s, as much as he wishes to banish the muscle-memory of his blade thrust into the desecrated Zalbaag’s heart. He is thankful that Alma wasn’t there to witness their gruesome ends.

Gently, Ramza trails his fingers down the length of Alma’s hair and takes a small step back.

“We shall be safe together, you and I,” he says, taking her hands once more. “In our father’s name do we draw our strength. Our family is not dead.”

She nods slowly, lost in thought. Then at once her eyes brighten as she knits her fingers with his, a wash of warmth upon her tired face. “Then let us prove it. Let us cease our mourning and live.”

The first sliver of sunlight peers over the horizon. A moment later, they silently release each other’s hands to refasten their cloaks and draw their hoods. Their graves will remain absent or empty not by the machinations of others, but because they yet walk the earth -- invisible, yet proud.

Re: "The Tie That Binds" FFT: Ramza & Alma, G

[sidonie]

Gah, this is lovely and sad, with some beautiful imagery, and I absolutely love the hopeful ending.

Re: "The Tie That Binds" FFT: Ramza & Alma, G

[vrazdova]

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it :)

Re: &quot;The Tie That Binds&quot; FFT: Ramza &amp; Alma, G

[seventhe]

ldjalhasksk this game

This captures so much of what they must have felt and so much of how surreal the ending is and I just MY POOR BBS LET ME HOLD YOU

Re: &quot;The Tie That Binds&quot; FFT: Ramza &amp; Alma, G

[vrazdova]

I'M CRYING BLOOD ALL OVER THE BEOULVE FAMILY AUGHH

I guess I have a thing for scenes in which not-dead characters contemplate their graves now, huh. LOL

Re: &amp;quot;The Tie That Binds&amp;quot; FFT: Ramza &amp;amp; Alma, G

[seventhe]

WHAT A KINK

Re: "The Tie That Binds" FFT: Ramza & Alma, G

[lassarina]

;_;

;_____;

ow. Perfect and ow.

Re: "The Tie That Binds" FFT: Ramza & Alma, G

[vrazdova]

I'm glad you liked it! <3

Re: "The Tie That Binds" FFT: Ramza & Alma, G

[stealth_noodle]

Heart is in little pieces now. ;_; Really love what this does with the game's ending.

Re: "The Tie That Binds" FFT: Ramza & Alma, G

[vrazdova]

Thank you! <3 Augh, there was SO MUCH packed into this game's ending sequence I could barely stand it! I would read the sequel to the Durai papers so hard if it were a thing.