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

One of the first things Tseng remembers is grass; that light clean smell, crushed blades that left green smudges on his knees and the heels of his hands. When he tries to remember childhood, he can place the first time he missed a lesson and could not solve the math problems on the board when he returned. He can place the boat he and three other boys built one summer. He can place lighting lanterns when his cousin died. He can place the first few days of war. All in precise chronology; an orderly narrative line of how he came to be himself.

He cannot place grass. He cannot place clouds hanging in deep sky cut off only by the joyfully reaching hands of tree's, creeks rushing clear along winding paths, or his own hands clutching bark and pulling himself higher. These things are ubiquitous.

He's never forgotten his first language, and he's never forgotten the precise way light slants through leaves deep in the forests around Wutai.

Midgar had been a shock. All sharp lines and glass and concrete and white paint. Outwardly, above the plate everything was built for efficiency. For years, he had thought that bellow was only darkness cut through by neon signs.

Meeting Aeris at her home is an even greater shock. This time nostalgic, not alien. She'd recognized him, and after that first encounter, she hadn't been angry anymore. She invites him in and they drink weak tea. He asks about the garden, because it makes her whole being glow, and because he hadn't known there were any gaps in the plate where the sun could shine through. They maintain this routine for years. Eventually, they take their tea straight to the garden on bright days, so she can work, and he can watch.
When he asks her if he can help, she looks at him like he's grown a second head. But eventually she moves aside, lets him roll up his sleeves and kneel beside her, pulling at roots. His hands are not what they used to be, callouses suited for weapons. He helps pull weeds until his hands are raw, and his fingernails are full of dirt.

Once, when it had looked like everything he'd built was crumbling, only weeks before the order would come to bring her in, they got their fingers tangled in the roots of the same unwanted thing. It was strong, had gone unnoticed in the shade of a tree and it took both of them to drag it from the ground, clumps of soil showering both their clothes.

She'd made a laughing apology and kept hold of his hand, smiling broader and more serious when he'd brought her fingers to his lips. Her breath had hitched and fingers flexed when he'd flicked his tongue against her palm, tasting salt and dirt, the one clean thing in this entire filthy city.

This is vivid and sad and absolutely lovely, and there are a lot of amazing bits - Tseng's memories of his childhood, and how he relates to Midgar - but I especially love the way you ended it: tasting salt and dirt, the one clean thing in this entire filthy city.

That was very lovely. I really love your writing, it's beautiful.

Ohh MY GOD this is so beautiful and sad and I love the way you've written Tseng's memories of his past. I love that they drink weak tea and work in the garden together and how they get their hands both tangled in the roots of the same unwanted thing -- wow. This is wonderful; thank you so much!!!

Thank you! I'm so glad you liked it! I saw this prompt and it just seemed so perfect for the pair I couldn't not, so thank you for thinking of it in the first place!

2014 Final Fantasy Kiss Battle

"Clean" Tseng/Aeris, PG

Re: "Clean" Tseng/Aeris, PG

Re: "Clean" Tseng/Aeris, PG

Re: "Clean" Tseng/Aeris, PG

Re: "Clean" Tseng/Aeris, PG