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!

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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

Yuna knows that, all things considered, Tidus has taken the situation pretty well. She can't imagine what he must have thought, coming back to the land of the living for her only to find her already head over heels in love with the Praetor of New Yevon. But while she certainly can't deny the love that brought Tidus back from the Farplane, neither can she pretend not to have fallen for Baralai while he was gone. She considers herself grateful everyday that they've managed to coexist so far.

But that's not going to stop Tidus from trying to outdo Baralai, just a little. When he kisses her, he always catches her off guard a little: His hand moves in to cup her cheek faster than she expected; his lips press more insistently against hers. And she likes being broken free of her expectations. It was that very spirit of his that inspired her to reject the Final Summoning and free Spira, and now to try this complicated relationship even though she doesn't know how it will work out. She's grateful for his energy and optimism, for the smile she sees almost every time their eyes meet. When his strong arms fold around her and pull her in close, when he whispers dirty thoughts in his ear because he knows she's already thinking them too, she stops hesitating and worrying and can just be.

Then it's Baralai's turn to kiss her, and he's always so different from Tidus. Tidus complements her, but Baralai is like her. Growing up serving Yevon, putting his own interests aside to lead New Yevon as an adult, means that he's as self-sacrificing, as shy and quiet, as she is. His kisses are slow and deliberate, waiting always until he's certain of the perfect way to touch her, the perfect time to press his lips to hers. And her hands, seeking out the man underneath the layers of Yevon robes, are as gentle in return. It's the dance of equals, two like souls; their arms never collide, their lips never miss because each already knows exactly what the other will do. When Yuna's with him, it's like looking into a mirror, and she's glad to have someone who always understands what it's like to be her, someone with whom she can forever empathize.

As he pulls away, Baralai asks, "Who's ahead?"

In the end, neither of them can really win. She needs them both, for different reasons. So, she decides to have a little fun with the question.

"I'm not sure," she says. "Maybe you'd better give me some more evidence."

Don't apologize! I'm happy either way. :3 Thank you for the gift.

Interesting! A three-way, open relationship! This is how I can see it -- a promiscuous relationship cast in the best light. I had to suspend my disbelief to enjoy this.

I enjoyed the comparisons the most, between Tidus and Baralai and how much they mean to her. I'd even go as far as to Yuna deserves some slack for everything she's done for Spira, and she has the right bake the cake and eat it, too. I also like you weave together the details in such a way you make me ignore the fact this kind of complicated relationship won't last, that it's more so a competition of "who will snap first" than it is "who will win in the end," like it's a game of patience and superiority (because although I can see Tidus be a little more willing to attempt or want an open relationship, I can't imagine Baralai tolerating for long).

But anyway! I like Yuna's ending line, because it really resonates with her FFX-2 persona, a more silly and free spirit. However, I have to say, you've convinced me to believe Yuna and Baralai have a more meaningful "present" relationship than what she has (or used to have with Tidus) developed in her past relationship with Tidus.

But of course, you tease me with a cliffhanger. Thank you for this. :3

2014 Final Fantasy Kiss Battle

FFX-2: Baralai/Yuna/Tidus, PG (OGC, sorry)

Re: FFX-2: Baralai/Yuna/Tidus, PG (OGC, sorry)