The Mega Flare Mixer

[owlmoose]

Welcome to boss_battle, the Mega Flare community! Everyone should join and check out the rules, here.

Now that all our authors have signed up, and many artists as well, it's time for us to get to know each other. Please post your answers as a comment!

Name:
Name(s) on DW/LJ/AO3:
First FF game:
Favorite FF game:
Which other FF games have you played?
Which FF fandoms are you now or have you been active in?
For authors - What story idea(s) do you have in mind?
For artists - What kind of stories do you like to create artwork for?
Anything else you think we should know?


<b>Name:</b>
<b>Name(s) on DW/LJ/AO3:</b>
<b>First FF game:</b>
<b>Favorite FF game:</b>
<b>Which other FF games have you played?</b>
<b>Which FF fandoms are you now or have you been active in?</b>
<b>For authors - What story idea(s) do you have in mind?</b>
<b>For artists - What kind of stories do you like to create artwork for?</b>
<b>Anything else you think we should know?</b>

Comments

[owlmoose]

Balthier/Al-Cid! That is such a fun pairing, but I have only seen it written rarely, and then usually as crack. Although I'm not really pairing them in my story, I am hoping to get some nice tasty interactions between them.

The Tidus/Gippal idea is a particularly interesting one, because although we never see them interact in canon, I've always had the idea that they'd get on really well, both from their personalities and because Tidus gets on with all the other Al Bhed.

[millilicious.livejournal.com]

Name: Milli
Name(s) on DW/LJ/AO3: Millilicious on LJ
First FF game: FFVII
Favorite FF game: FFVIII or FFVII
Which other FF games have you played? All except for 11, 12 and 13 (yes, even the crappy FFX-2)
Which FF fandoms are you now or have you been active in? FFVII: Crisis Core and FFVIII
For artists - What kind of stories do you like to create artwork for? Slash stories! I don't like drawing women... Cloud and Zack, Squall and someone else, etc.
Anything else you think we should know? I'm a huge perv? I dunno hahaha~

[rosehiptea]

Oh thank you! Glad I might have at least one reader then. XD

Kimahri is probably my favorite character in the game, and I'm happy to be exploring him more, even besides the ship aspect.

[rosehiptea]

Oh yay, someone's writing FFVI. And that's a great premise. I can't wait to read it.

[rosehiptea]

I'm writing furry stuff, so I think I get a front seat on the bus! XD

[suzume]

Ha ha, thank you! I'm looking forward making some art!

[stealth_noodle]

Thanks! I'm having entirely too much fun figuring out how a Terra-free Empire changes things. :D

[stealth_noodle]

I want a seat on this bus. I'll bring snacks and magnetic board games!

[stealth_noodle]

Tifa-centric and Aerith/Tifa are both awesome things in my book. :D

[stealth_noodle]

Magic meta and boys making out! This is exciting.

[eggcrack]

It's an awesome thing to hear that! :D

[spindizzy]

Name: Susan
Name(s) on DW/LJ/AO3: not_cynical/spindizzy/Spindizzy @ AO3
First FF game: Final Fantasy I on the PS1. (♥!)
Favorite FF game: FFI/FFX&X-2 - FFI is adorable and awesome and has characters I adore and write terrible Mary Sue fic about in my brain, whereas X has some of my favourite characterisation and storytelling EVER. *cuddles it lots and lots*
Which other FF games have you played? II-VI, Dirge of Cerberus, Revenant Wings, and XIII I've started but never finished. VII, VIII, and XII I've completed, IX I played most of the way through and watched someone else complete (=_=).
Which FF fandoms are you now or have you been active in? I'm most active in FFX/X-2 fandom (thanks to my obsessive love of Auron and liking Baralai/Gippal), and periodically wander into FFVIII and FFXII to write about Balthier and Vaan or Seifer and Zell.
For authors - What story idea(s) do you have in mind? Well, I did a poll, and I'm now writing an FFVIII fic I've been meaning to write since before I finished it. ^^; The closest thing I have to a summary right now is Deling soldiers are turning up brain dead. Esthar scientists are being shot at. SeeD candidates are being kidnapped. Seifer and Zell punch each other in the face. (Not covered in this summary: Lunar Cry monsters. Quistis being badass. Rinoa practicising with her sorceress powers. Squall getting a headache from facepalming. Laguna. Make-outs!) ... Yeah, this is going to end well. *cries*
Anything else you think we should know? I've never participated in a big bang before, and I've not written anything longer than 5000 words since I was fourteen and writing terrible fantasy AUs for Yu-Gi-Oh. HELP!

[spindizzy]

Ashe/Al-Cid! I love this pairing a HIDEOUS amount (Especially if it's practical instead of romantic - Ashe always struck me as a practical person first and foremost, romance was for later), because um, Ashe/Balthier didn't make as much sense to me? I AM INTRIGUED BY THE COMBINATION OF THESE TWO PAIRINGS, basically! Also politics, YAY!

[spindizzy]

Also I have faith in you! You've done well so far, and I have no reason not to believe you'll continue being awesome!

[stealth_noodle]

Ha, this is totally my relationship with FFI, too. :)

[traxits]

Name: Traxits
Name(s) on DW/LJ/AO3: Traxits. ^^; I'm horribly uncreative.
First FF game: FFVIII was the first one I was allowed to actually play. But I watched FFVII be played, and I was already in love.
Favorite FF game: Oooh... My favorite one to play is FFIX, but my favorite one to write for is a toss up between VII and VIII, with Crystal Chronicles trailing closely behind.
Which other FF games have you played? I have played FF, FFII, FFVI, FFVII, FFVIII, FFIX, FFX, FFXI, FFXII, as well as FFVII:DoC, and CC:FFVII (and I have seen FFVIIAC). Also, FFCC, FFCC:MLaK, FFCC:RoF, FFCC:MLaDL, FFT, FFTA, FFTA2, Dissidia and KH.

Which FF fandoms are you now or have you been active in? I have written fics for FFVII, FFVIII, FFIX, FFX, and FFXII. I really haven't been active in the FF fandoms though for at least a year, probably longer. ^^;

For authors - What story idea(s) do you have in mind? Well, I'm doing FFVIII, with a slant toward a Irvine Kinneas/Zell Dincht pairing. I keep thinking that I might do it as an AU, but currently, I'm pretty up in the air about my plot. *laughs* Hopefully I'll get something nailed down soon!

For artists - What kind of stories do you like to create artwork for? I haven't decided yet if I'm going to try as an artist, but, in the event that I do (say, if I finish my MF early... X3), I like drawing slash and femme slash, quiet, romantic scenes are my favorite.

Anything else you think we should know? I love romance stories in particular, but I prefer romance that feels "realistic" in place of the swooning, men-act-like-lovesick-girls romance. I am also a major slash writer (even though I'm a woman, I find writing as a male character so much easier. I think it comes from roleplaying as Reno and Reeve for so many years), and I write... a lot of explicit stuff. Most of my work is not safe for consumption at work, although I'm always exceptionally careful to label everything so that no one is surprised by sudden graphic sex.
Another thing I feel like I should mention: I am transferring back to the FF fandoms finally, after a long time of not writing at all. I started writing fanfiction again less than a year ago, in Swooping Is Bad, a Dragon Age fan community for Alistair. ^^ You'll have to forgive me as I relearn the ins and outs of the FF fandoms!

[person4]

Name: Person
Name(s) on DW/LJ/AO3: person4 here, haku_kaen at livejournal, and Person at AO3
First FF game: Mystic Quest, I think
Favorite FF game: VIII and X/X-2 at the ones with the biggest soft spots in my heart.
Which other FF games have you played? All of them except 11, 13, and the various sequels and prequels of VII.
Which FF fandoms are you now or have you been active in? I've written fic for VI, VII, VIII, IX, X/X-2, and XII, though I'm never really active in any fandom in anything apart from fic-writing.
For authors - What story idea(s) do you have in mind? A Tifa/Rude FFVII AU where not long after being brought to Midgar helps out Rude in a fight (just seeing it as a bunch of people ganging up on one man without realizing what he is, of course, or she'd have thought twice about stepping in) and ends up being recruited into the Turks. She sees it as a great chance to find a way to sabotage the company from the inside, but is quickly disturbed by just how likable she finds the members of the big evil company she's supposed to hate forever that she deals with on a regular basis. But it's not until Cloud reenters her life that she's forced to recognize just how deeply she's become involved in the organization that she told herself she'd be bringing down.
Anything else you think we should know? Can't think of anything!

[imadra_blue]

Genfic is love! I well know the dilemma of trying to finish SNES rental games before you have to return them. SNES rental games were my life for a while. XD Good luck!

[imadra_blue]

Ah! Someone who started at the very beginning, and knows of Mystic Quest! Awesome! FF6 fics, especially those starring Terra, are made of awesome. :D

[chaosraven]

I've never actually read Balthier/Al-Cid but I've found some yummy fanart (sadly the site is no longer there, but I saved a few). I can see fic with them being a lot of PWP because people don't know how to handle them.

Yeah, that's kind of why I like the idea of them. I think they could play blitzball and makeout on beaches and be hottt and tan together. >D

[imadra_blue]

It's not my very favorite, but I have that same rosy feel about FF4, since it was my first, and such an amazingly good game, especially for its day. How is FF4:TA? I played the first chapter, but I... have mixed feelings.

And Figarocest is kinda cool. I absolutely suck at writing it, since my brain refuses to work, but I can see it. Post-game FF6 has a lot to explore. Good luck! :)

[imadra_blue]

Aw, Crisis Core! I really kinda loved that game. It was tons of fun. Bothing wrong with a little pervy slash. ;)

[imadra_blue]

Ahahaha, FF1 is great for filling out details in your head. :D You should really finish some of the older games, though, I really love them. But then, I'm rather dated. FF13 was fun, too. But the new games like 7, 8, 10, and 12 do seem to be very notable in fandom, so it's not a bad showing. :D

And Laguna! Someone mentioned Laguna in their fic idea! *loves Laguna and all his myriad of flaws* Good luck with all that story epicness. :D Just keep writing until your brain falls out, is my advice. XD

[imadra_blue]

I know so many who got into FF through watching others play FF7. XD FF9 is definitely underloved, though. Good luck with sorting out your story ideas--that's always the scary idea. I'm barely involved in the FF fandoms, so I know nothing. XD

[imadra_blue]

Ahahaha, a Mystic Quest player. More than I imagined! :) More Tifa fic is always awesome. I adore Tifa. Good luck with all that writing!