#ffviii fanfiction

[angelosearch]

Did I just post my fake academic article about GF-use? Yes. Should have I been studying/doing homework instead of doing this? Also yes.

[ffviiicharacterweek]

FFVIII Yuletide Exchange!

I am very happy to announce a 2024 Yuletide Exchange for FFVIII!

This is the first exchange I'm coordinating, so please bear with me, and if there's something weird feel free to tell me!

Now, onto the main event!

The Rules

Rules are very straightforward, so please make sure to read them before joining:

You'll need to sign up using the form linked below.

During sign-up, you will be asked what you'd like to receive and what you're willing to give.

1 request = 1 gift to give, so please don't sign up multiple times if you're not willing to draw/write multiple gifts.

Your requests will then be paired with a matching creator.

You won't know who's your "Secret Santa" until your gift will be posted.

It is very important to follow the guidelines provided. Make sure to include what was asked for and avoid the "do not want" specified, to ensure a nice experience for everyone.

Of course, no character bashing unless it's explicitly asked for!

The Phases

There are a few phases to ensure everything will run smoothly. These are:

Phase 1, September 8th - September 15th: sign-up phase. Everyone can join! That means you can sign up even if you never took part in FFVIII Character Weeks or never requested a bingo card at @ffviiibingo. You can send multiple forms, but every request means one gift to give, so make sure to be ready for that.

Phase 2, September 16th - September 22nd: matching phase! Every request will be paired with a creator, who will be contacted with the info provided during sign-up.

Phase 3, September 23rd - January 15th: creation phase! You can start working on your gift, and if you need extra motivation, there's always our Discord server, with its brand new Yuletide Exchange channel.

Phase 4, January 16th - January 31st: posting phase! You can finally post your work. Make sure to tag the person you're gifting the work to (or use the gift feature on AO3 if you're publishing fanfiction!).

The Sign-Up Form

So, wanna sign up?

Fill out the form!

[irishais]

fic: turned away from it all like a blind man. (seifer, ffviii)

They say you can never go back home-- but sometimes, it feels like you've never left. Seifer, time compression and afterward, inspired by Bowie's "Under Pressure." Gift for @savaereardon.

AO3

[suleikashideaway]

Five Lines Tag

Thanks for tagging me, @angelosearch!

rules: find five lines based on the prompts you are given, then change one of the prompts at the end!

A line about butts

Angel

“Oh, shit!” Zell leapt backwards at the sight before him: Squall and Rinoa, hands wrapped tightly around each other’s backsides, lips locked together like they’d been glued that way. They immediately unglued their lips with a sound like the pop of a cork, then stared blankly at Zell.

A sad line

They Are My Family

Laguna couldn’t let himself imagine what his poor little Elle was going through. He often did, anyway. Was she scared? Was she lonely? She hadn’t figured out how to get the buttons on her dress yet – was there anyone there to help her with her buttons?   His stomach lurched. He had been trying to teach her how to get the buttons. 

A furious line

Time Will Tell, Chapter 12 (unpublished)

Squall remembered why he was angry. “I’m not just talking about that!” he raged, throwing his hand to wave Cid’s poor excuses away. “I’m talking about all of it! You never let me have a life of my own! You never let me have a single choice in what I did! All you knew was my one purpose. You could have let me have a life!”

A line describing scenery

Time Will Tell, Chapter 1 (unpublished)

The beach stretched out, gorgeous and empty in the midday sunshine. It matched the perfect serenity of Balamb: gently lapping waves, the overhead sun glinting like glitter upon each little crest, the salty air carried on the lightest breeze.

A fun line

Angel

“Oh, and we have hats!” Selphie said, grabbing the stack of pointy paper monstrosities from the desk. “Not wearing that,” Squall monotoned, making Selphie cackle as she catapulted herself at him once more, securing the purple hat to his head.

This was so fun! I loved getting a chance to comb through my stuff and find some of my favorite lines that I’ve written. (Also I searched through every single work and I haven't used the word "butt" once?! Surprised at myself and I guess I'm going to have to make up for that.)

Tagging whoever wants to play! 

your lines to search for are!

A Line About Butts

A Sad Line

A Furious Line

A Line About Food

A Fun Line

[ffviiibingo]

Discord server!

We have a discord server!

It's still new, but you can chat about your cards, share wips, find inspiration and have writing sprints and much more!

Join here!

[aleheartilly]

[FFVIII] Surrender

He wonders, does she know that every time she makes him laugh, he falls in love with her a little more? Does she know that he probably looks so besotted all the time because this falling feels like flying, and he doesn’t want it to stop?

Characters: Rinoa Heartilly, Squall Leonhart, general Fury Caraway Pairings: Rinoa Heartilly/Squall Leonhart Additional Tags: smut, explicit sexual content, sexual content Writter for: a prompt that ks-9885 sent me through a comment. “If you keep looking at me like that we won’t make it to a bed.”

Read on AO3 | FF.net

[watchitnowulala]

me, writing AND posting something? more likely than you think! will probably have a typo my tired ass couldn’t find but idc because i’ve finally posted on ao3 after having an acc on there for eight years!!!!! love you xoxo gonna go have the nap of my life rn.

[uncanon-xiv]

Our pirates set sail for their first post-Calmity run and Seifer proceeds to annoy the ever-loving hell out of Sicard.

Rating: Mature Archive Warning: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Category: M/M Fandoms: Final Fantasy XIV / Final Fantasy VIII Relationship: Seifer Almasy/Sicard Spence Additional Tags: Slow Burn, Slow Build, Angst, Crossover Pairings, Pirates Language: English

[pinkpersonsblog]

Squall x Zell fic

Summary : Squall finds Zell in the training center late one evening and the two have an enlightening conversation. Emotions are sparked and feelings are laid bare, but what will come of it?

Rating : Mature (light sexual content)

[aleheartilly]

She giggles, and he tries to smirk too. He swirls his beer into the bottle, feigning indifference, and then he drowns a sigh in a sip. “So, it’s been a while. How have you been?”

“Same old,” she smiles, and it’s so soul-crushing because he feels she never quite smiled like that when they were together. Freedom makes her happy in a way he never could, and it’s bittersweet to realize that letting her go has probably been the one true act of love he did for her. Made her more complete, while he has been just a hollow shell, pretty on the outside for those who looked, but empty on the inside.

From Nothing but dawn

This week’s word is…

✨ OUTSIDE ✨

Find it in any WIP and share the sentence containing it! Reply, reblog, stick it in the tags, tag us in a new post, or keep it private. All fandoms, all ships, all writers welcome.

[phantomstatistician]

Fandom: Kingdom Hearts

Sample Size: 1,939 crossover stories

Source: AO3

[angelosearch]

Be brave.

Some Chaos Theory art I commissioned from @thornart (Insta: thorlincorn)

I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS!!! It was such a cool process bringing an iconic scene from my alternate timeline FFVIII fic to life! This scene is from the end of Part 3: Spontaneous Order | Trust Falls if you are curious why Rinoa is in a Galbadian soldier uniform! The scene itself is under the cut!

Thank you to thornart for this amazing work!! I knew I wanted to commission something special when I completed Chaos Theory and then I saw your Locked Tomb fan art and... well, here we are!

The building began to shake violently. There was the distinct sound of engines activating.

They were digging out the drill.

“Come on!” Squall yelled to Rinoa as he started up the stairs again.

A mass of Moombas and prisoners was following them again. At this point, the momentum of the escapees was too great—soldiers were being swept up and consumed by the wave.

The Spiral was designed so in the event of a catastrophic security failure, the drill could raise the building up high enough to prevent escape.

The drill was already a few stories high when Rinoa and Squall arrived on the top of the north drill. Massive drill structures rotated aggressively, kicking up a nearly opaque cloud of dust and expelling an earsplitting whirring.

Squall was horrified to realize that unburying the drill did nothing to deter escape. Dozens of desperate and broken prisoners sentenced to life in D-District prison tossed their bodies off the platform and into the unknown waiting for them on the other end of the dust cloud—if their bodies didn’t get caught on the drills.  

“What do we do?” Rinoa screamed over the grating sound of the twisting drills.

Squall looked back at the entrance they had just come out of. It was swarmed with bodies trying to get their shot at freedom, whether that freedom be in this life or another. They were not going to get back down there.

“Do you have any float spells?” Squall called out.

“A few.”

“Rinoa, we have to jump,” Squall couldn’t see much, but he could see the panic wash over Rinoa’s face. “We have to jump before we get any higher.”

She shook her head several times.

“We don’t have a choice. Just cast float, it might break our fall.”

“IT MIGHT?!”

Squall walked to the edge of the platform. Rinoa walked up beside him, looked over, and cried.

“I can’t, I can’t!”

Through the cyclone of dirt, Squall could just barely see the ground, which was getting further and further with every second. He looked over at Rinoa, who had turned away and was holding herself, terrified.

In the last decade of his life, his only method of fighting fear was ignoring the feeling and pushing forward anyway. But it wasn’t always that way. He was always a fearful little kid. He cried, he hid, he avoided. Ellone was the only person who could get him to stare down what he was afraid of. She would stand by his side and remind him he could do it. Back then, her love was the sword he used to keep the demons at bay.

Squall removed his gloves, walked up to Rinoa, and offered her his hand.

She looked at him with apprehension.

“When I used to get scared… Ellone always held my hand. You can do this, Rinoa. We’ll do this… together.”

Rinoa bit her lip. She squinted her eyes shut and slapped her hand into Squall’s.

“Okay…”

Squall walked them carefully back to the ledge. He did not like how high up they were now, but they had no options.

“Alright, on the count of three, we’re going to jump, and once we’re in the air, you need to cast float, okay?”

Rinoa did not open her eyes but fiercely nodded her head.

Squall gripped tightly on Rinoa’s hand. He found himself squeezing his eyes shut as well.

“One, two, three…!”

Be brave.

The two teens leaped from the Spiral and disappeared into the veil of sand.

[ffviiicharacterweek]

Squall Leonhart: August 23rd - August 30th

It's time for our broody and loyal Commander: Squall Leonhart!

The prompt list

Lone Wolf

Whatever

Commander

Griever

The Sorceress Knight

Promise

Bonus

Scar

Sis

Triple Triad

Free Choice!

The creative marathon

From now on, we'll have a creative marathon running on our discord server, and the first one will be on August 23rd!

In the special channel #creative-marathon we will cheer on each other with writing and drawing sprints to celebrate the character and give the final push for all your creative efforts!

Submissions

Submissions can be posted in the AO3 collection (you can find it here) and on Tumblr starting August 23rd; please fill in this form, because from now on only the fanworks submitted through the form will be reblogged. You can also tag @ffviiicharacterweek and/or use the hashtag #ffviiicharacterweek.

And remember: HAVE FUN, AND SHARE THE LOVE!

[skaylanphear]

It's Ellone as she appears in my fic, Origin Reclamation, which is a retelling novel of Final Fantasy VIII. Her name is actually Ellone Tycoon in this fic, and she is as mysterious as ever. Art is NOT done by me, but by my very good and amazing friend, @auroralynne, who always does a wonderful job <3

[suleikashideaway]

Word Search Tag Game

Rules: In a new post use the words below (or choose your own) to find where they appear in your WIP/s and share those parts.

Very grateful for the tag from @summonerluna! I chose the words justice, yellow, breath (I put together my own remix from her posts - could not find a good excerpt with glass or even glasses to save my life!)

Justice: From Time Will Tell - Chapter 23: Untitled (!!!). This may get changed around a bit, but I like the sentiment, so you can have a peek.

What would the Rinoa of a year ago say? What did she used to dream about?  "What do I dream about? Let's see… I dream of a world where people get along. Where there's no more violence, and no war. And there's justice and freedom. And it keeps me up at night, thinking that there are people out there who are oppressed and enslaved. And I want them to be free."

Yellow: From Time Will Tell - Chapter 18: Hold Me Tight (!!!). I think this passage needs a bit of editing, but I'm kind of in love with where I took this scene 🥹 (Hopefully to be posted sometime this week?!)

He found some pretty pink and red flowers that looked like small wild roses. Then, some yellow ones that stuck out a bit like cones, then some small blue bunches. At the last second, he picked tiny white little things to round it out.  Squall organized the stems together in this hand. He had no idea what he was doing, but it looked good. It looked real, like he had actually picked it out, and not some florist who didn’t know anything about Rinoa.  He presented the bundle to the florist. “How much?” The florist regarded him curiously. “Do you need a job?”

Breath Breathed: Again from TWT ch 18. I'm so excited for this scene, you guys. I'M SO EXCITED. And yeah there were actually about nine "breath"s in this chapter but I like the part with "breathed" in it best lol

I’m alive?  It was all he could do to stare at her, a whirlwind of color around them, outlining her shining face.  She saved me…she found me…How? Other voices soon resounded around them, all of them joyful, but still he stared at Rinoa, and she stared back at him. “You’re alive…how did I…” It felt as though they were bound together, like a string or a rope tied his chest to hers, and he felt the pull towards her, though he could not move. He only breathed. 

This was so fun! Tagging @tr1ck5, @failed221b-chill and @gardengalwrites and anyone else who'd like to join! Your words are dust, warm, urgent

[ffviiibingo]

We now present... the team competition!

Well, now that all users have received their cards - and maybe someone has even started working on it! - I want to present another little idea to add some more fun on the bingo cards!

And this is...

The Team Competition!

Users have been randomly assigned to a "team". The two teams are:

Island Closest To Heaven

@angelosearch (1 card requested)

@cynic-view-ahead (1 card requested)

@antidiluvianobservatory (1 card requested)

@summonerluna (1 card requested)

@aleheartilly (2 cards requested) Total: 6 cards

Island Closest To Hell

@wickedlittlewordsmith (3 cards requested)

@gardengalwrites (2 cards requested)

@rowrowmyboat (1 card requested) Total: 6 cards

The Rules

Every fanwork will grant points to the team assigned to the users. Points will be distributed following these criteria:

The team will gain 1 point per word for fanfictions. This will be considered the base score. AO3 word count will be used as reference.

Other fanworks such as fanvideos, fanarts, comics, music and so on will grant a fixed base score: 5000.

Using the challenge word will grant an additional point haul, consisting of the base score multiplied by 0,5 for each challenge word used.

A monthly summary of points gained by the teams will be published as soon as the submission form opens, with a breakdown of the points gained by each team.

Here's an example: User publishes a 4529 words story using 1 challenge word. Base score: 4529 Additional point haul: 2264,50 Total points gained: 6793,50

Wait, so what do we win?

Well... nothing! Except for some lovely graphics that @pinnadraws will prepare for the winning team and all the users who can complete their cards.

And some harmless fun, which is a win in and for itself.

So now GO HAVE FUN AND MAKE YOU TEAM PROUD 👊 🏆 ⚔️