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At a loss for words, she simply nodded. He kept watching her, moving his fingers on her picture. “There’s nothing true in here. The light is made to flatter you. Colors are studied. There’s styling. Make-up is used to mask. This is crafted.” He followed the line of her face on her picture, lingering just above her eyes. A shudder crept along her back. “These are not.”
[In which Squall, renowned black-and-white photographer, sees something raw and true he can't ignore in Rinoa's eyes; and Rinoa, musician turned silent, knows his gaze shifts the feel of her skin.] -
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He had sworn loneliness was ok, at some point, and this was now tumbling out of him, as he struggled, defenseless and vulnerable, to keep that promise he had made to a past self, to a sister he probably lost.
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He makes a sound, kind of disbelieving himself. But they have just traveled far into the future to defeat a Sorceress full of pain and vitriol, and also managed to come back from that unscathed, so he thinks he is allowed to be an optimist, for once.
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It started innocently enough, Zell just wanted the Lt. Commander to actually relax after missions. He should have known though, nothing on the internet stays on the internet. And that the people he knows in real life might have needs he’d never thought about them having... Again, he should have known better. It wasn’t like it wasn’t widely known that Xu Nguy was the Garden's resident cyber police.
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Exploding Caterchipillars from Space by walktothewater for Vulion
Fandoms: Final Fantasy VIII
19 Jul 2025
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Two unlikely people cross paths again after seven years, at an even more improbable event. Romance sparks.
And monster-abducting aliens. Let’s not forget those.
Written for the FFVIII OTP Festival with the prompt “Chance meeting years post-canon.”
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His favorite rock music is filling the air, and she probably got herself comfortable as soon as he stepped out of the door; she now wears only a light-blue camisole and some pretty flower-printed panties. She looks… cute. A creature he can’t help but love and be bewildered by.
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I'm a good Defender, not a good Pretender by Talliya for Siobhane
Fandoms: Final Fantasy VIII
29 Jun 2025
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Quistis goes above and beyond to keep those she cares about free from persecution. And when she finally wants to just live quietly, she gets her deserved reward.
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Memories can crawl back from the unlikeliest corners. Written for the FFVIII OTP Festival with the prompt "Guardian Forces' forgotten love."
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Now, imagine that.
Quistis Trepe in a Galbadia Grendels baseball shirt. White in the torso, black in the arms, the red and gold logo faded after a hundred-and-some washes. It’s a couple sizes too big for her, the neckline slouching off her shoulder, the hem falling just to mid-thigh.
Irvine finds his missing shirt in an unexpected place.
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They task Quistis with clearing out Seifer’s dorm room. She guesses she shouldn’t be surprised. Seifer left, after all—he turned his back on Garden and allied himself with the enemy.
Quistis makes a discovery in some of Seifer's old notebooks.
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Squall Leonhart loves in gestures.
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Only on the train, she feels like she can breathe again. An intense perfume of iris fills her nostrils, and somehow, even as alone as she has ever been, even as lonely as she has ever been, she feels at home, because it's her mother's perfume, and maybe it is a sign, and she needs to be strong and independent and confident and smart, now.
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When a beach date is cut short by a storm, Irvine reminisces about rain.
FFVIII OTP Festival.
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Xu is stuck with an aggravating recurring assignment. And yet, the strangest sparks ignite when no one’s watching. Written for the FFVIII OTP Festival with the prompt “Unexpected, unusual and/or unsettling attraction.”
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A view of life from the person who lived it. He's a hot mess, and he knows it.
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Seifer loses a card game and has a dare forced on him.
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Also for Seiftis Forever Discord Server Prompt: “We can’t hide this forever.”
Also, also this is a sequel to “Wait!”
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Sometimes, the most beautiful thing a person can witness is something blowing the hell up.
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All left unsaid.
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Irvine narrows his eyes. "Wait, wait, wait. I thought you said you wanted me to have sex with you because you'd never done it before."
Squall shakes his head. "I said I wanted you to fuck me because I've never done it before."
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- Part 30 of Lita's Kinktober 2024
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Following the events of Time Compression and the defeat of Sorceress Ultimecia, Squall has mandatory rest time for the foreseeable future. Meanwhile, Rinoa has nothing but free time. It sounds like a perfect opportunity to spend time together, even if that time is spent -ugh- exercising. Luckily, Rinoa has ideas, and a plan. And mercy fall on anyone in the way of Rinoa with a plan.
For the FFVIII Bingo Challenge, prompt: Nice Breeze, Beautiful Sun!