ff_exchange | October/November: Ladies & Fandom Tropes!

DOINK! Chocobo Races 2014
October/November - Ladies & Fandom Tropes!

Administrative Bits

If you haven't yet chosen your team, make sure you sign up here on the 2014 roster if you want your work to count for points!
Confused? Need a refresher on the rules? Wondering how to post? Get more information about the Chocobo Races here.
You can browse and fill prompts from the Chocobo Down list at any time!

For the next two months, you are encouraged to:

Create fanwork about your favorite female characters!
Create fanwork that has a format or theme in line with any common fandom tropes.
- Need some guidelines on tropes? trope_bingo has a great (but non-exhaustive!) list here, and poking around TV Tropes is another helpful resource.
It's fine to choose one theme or the other — there's no requirement to combine them, but you can if you want!

If you have any questions, please leave them on this post! We understand that "Fandom Tropes" as a theme is extremely open-ended, but we hoped it’d be a fun way to encourage everyone to have new ways of thinking about their favorite canons and characters. We also would like to stress that this isn’t meant to be a fanfic-only theme! There are many tropes that can be applied to art and other media as well, so we hope everyone can find some inspiration within the theme.

How will the scoring go?

Any work that fits either theme of Ladies or Fandom Tropes will receive 10 points.
Any work that fits both themes will receive 15 points.
Any work that doesn't fit either the Ladies or Fandom Tropes themes, but is submitted in October or November, will still receive 5 points.
Don't forget we also now award bonus points for works that go above and beyond the call of duty! The following applies to ALL works, whether they fit the theme or not:
- +5 points for every 5000 words of a single fic
- +5 points for extensive coloring or shading in a picture
- +5 points for complexity within a single picture; i.e. backgrounds or multiple characters
- +5 points for multi-paneled comics

Remember that you have to be signed up for a team before you post your work in order to get points!

What prompts are eligible for this month?

Official Chocobo Down Database
September - Free-For-All post
Any prompt left in the comments of this post! Yes, as of this year, the intro post for each theme period now doubles as the prompt post.

Some reminders for this round:

Please include the prompt you are filling somewhere when you post your work!
**New for this year!** To help ensure the mods award you all the points you deserve, please also identify the bonus theme(s) you are working with in your post. If you are doing the Fandom Tropes theme specifically, please also include the name of the trope(s) you are using.
Content warnings/guidelines are always appreciated and recommended as well.

What if there isn't anything in the Chocobo Down Database that I want to create for? What if I want to ask for something else?

You can leave any prompts that fit one or both of the current themes in the comments to this post! You don’t have to be on a team to leave a prompt, but you do have to sign up if you want to receive points for filling one.

To leave a new prompt:

Please put the most important relevant information in the subject of the comment, such as canon, character/ship, and/or trope. FFT: Agrias/Ovelia, or FFVIII: Quistis & Rinoa, or FFVII OGC: Turks, Genderswap are examples.
Leave the details of your prompt in the comment. "Anything goes" usually isn't as helpful as you'd think - even if it's true! - so please try to add some optional details or ideas for people who might want a pointer.
You can leave as many prompts as you wish, although we would ask you to stick to 5 prompts to keep things manageable. If you manage to fill someone's Ladies or Fandom Tropes wish, however, feel free to come leave as many prompts as you want!

Have fun, good luck, and prompt away!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Time travel fic! In which Yuffie accidentally finds herself in the past and attempts to change the outcome of the Wutai War.

Guardian Forces can take memories from one host and sometimes pass them to another. Characters are up to you. Whether this is a conscious process or an automatic/accidental one is also up to you. Go nuts.

(Trope Listing)

*screams quietly in your face about how amazing this prompt is*

It feels like they make a mad dash for the Crystals almost every single day, and at least one of the critters – Thomas the Doubting Malboro or some such – has to question why they keep trying to steal the damned things when the heroes mow down dozens of them day after day. (Fandom Trope: Forbidden Fruit from the

trope_bingo list.)

Edited (Added bonus theme for clarity.) 2014-10-02 12:59 (UTC)

Are the prompts left on earlier posts for previous Chocobo Races (besides this past September's prompts) still valid for points for this round? It doesn't say in the post. ^^;

Edited 2014-10-02 18:22 (UTC)

(mod is too lazy to log out and into the other account) Yes, all prompts on all earlier Chocobo Race posts, including previous rounds, are fair game. Just make sure to a) let the person know you've filled it and b) include some sort of pointer for us on the prompt you used. Thanks for checking!

Riding Out The Storm (1008 words) by Wallwalker
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Final Fantasy VI
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Celes Chere & Cid del Norte Marquez
Characters: Celes Chere, Cid del Norte Marquez
Additional Tags: Families of Choice, Survival, Stranded
Summary: Celes and Cid on the island.

flecksofpoppy asked for Celes backstory. This is more allusion to backstory than anything else, though. -_-'
Ladies: Celes-centric
Tropes: Promoted to Parent/Found Family, Deserted Island

Edited 2014-10-03 15:38 (UTC)

Trope link just in case. XD

Because the International and HD versions gave us the Psychic Dressphere, and I'd like to see how any or all of the girls deal with being able to use psychic powers. Or maybe they have psychic visions/messages of the "original" psychic, or they start communicating with people from the past/future/other worlds. Anything goes! (And I'm not picky about pairings as long as the girls are the stars.)
Trope link.

Because they are. Fic or art of Mog and his friends being both cute and deadly, please!
Trope Link

Eidolon and l'Cie driving across Pulse together, for some reason. Maybe there's some kind of communication involved.
Trope Link

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH THIS

Enter, Stage Left
Fandom: FFIX
Rating: G
Summary: Ever wonder how Tantalus manages with only one actress?
crossdressing trope
Prompt: Zidane dressing as a girl for a Tantalus performance. You choose which other Tantalus members are helping him dress/ laughing at him and carrying on.

It's my own prompt - which is weird, I know . . .

Steiner has to babysit Zidane and Garnet's children. He is very fussy and overprotective and they are holy terrors.

Fandom Trope: Badly Battered Babysitter

Title: Costume Party
Fandom: FFVIII
Pairing: Quistis/Rinoa
Themes: Ladies, Tropes. Trope is Halloween Episode.
Prompt: Quistis and Rinoa. Anything from conversations to porn is awesome. Interactions, contrasts, a growing friendship despite their differences. Further prompts: vacations, "you need to relax", dreams and nightmares. -

seventhe
Links: dA | tumblr

Description: Rinoa (with shorter hair, in a short blue dress with tassels and a headband with a peacock feather) and Quistis (in what looks like a mail shirt with leather armbands, skirt and neckguard) smiling at each other and slow-dancing on a wooden dance floor in what looks like a small conference room, decorated with (obviously fake) pumpkin torches, autumn leave stencils, and streamers.

Edited 2014-10-29 18:49 (UTC)

Title: On Mt. Gagazet
Fandom: FFVIII/FFX
Trope: Crossover
Prompt: darthneko: Crossover? I'd love to see the Garden team as Summoner & Guardians instead. And I'd love to see it NOT be Rinoa as the Summoner - not that she couldn't be in the team (I'm fine with her) but that Sorceress=Summoner is too easy. Maybe Selphie instead? Or one of the guys? (and I can SO see Zell as a blitzball player!) Just a little slice about them on their pilgrimage somewhere would be great.

I changed the prompt a little as it isn't the Garden team.

Title: Angel Voice
Fandom: FFVIII
Rating: G
Trope: Power Gives You Wings
Prompt: Yati: Rinoa, junctioning to a GF and using magic for the very first time. Any GF is fine, but I especially like Shiva and Siren.

Five times Ashe left Dalmasca (and one time she stayed). Dealers choice for pairing(s) (or gen)

October/November: Ladies & Fandom Tropes!

FFVII: Yuffie, time-travel

FFVIII, Any character, Transferable Memories

Re: FFVIII, Any character, Transferable Memories

Crystal Defenders: The Monsters – Forbidden Fruit

Question for Admin

Re: Question for Admin

Riding out the Storm (FFVI, Celes and Cid, T)

FFIV, Rosa/Cecil/Kain, Battle Couple. Er, Battle OT3.

Final Fantasy X-2, Yuna/Rikku/Paine (paired or gen), Psychic Powers

Final Fantasy VI, Moogles, Badass Adorable

FFXIII, Brynhildr and Sazh, Road Trip Episode

Re: FFXIII, Brynhildr and Sazh, Road Trip Episode

FFIX: Zidane, Baku, Blank, Ruby, Marcus

FFIX: Steiner, Zidane and Garnet's offspring

[FFVIII] Filled Prompt, Art, Quistis/Rinoa, SFW

FFVIII/FFX: Ward, Kiros, Laguna

FFVIII: Rinoa, Siren

FFXII: Ashe