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The Worth of Memory (FFVIII, PG)

Aug 17, 2009 22:38

Title: The Worth of Memory
For: aesriella
Medium: Fanfic!

Request(s): FFVIII Quistis, with Xu, Rinoa, Seifer or Irvine, recovering from, working through or living the immediate aftermath of a difficult or draining experience with a GF, be it junctioning, withdrawal, an experiment or otherwise. Quiet, gentle romance, please. Additional prompts: Hands, ( Read more... )

ff08 [char] quistis, ! [round 002] .gifts, ff08 [char] squall, [tag] f/f, [medium] fic, ff08 [char] kadowaki, ff08 [ship] quistis/rinoa, ff08 [char] xu, ! [round 002], ff08 [char] rinoa, ff08 [all] final fantasy viii

Comments 9

invocations August 18 2009, 10:13:52 UTC

I loved this! The tone and mood were just right.

venefica_aura August 18 2009, 16:57:55 UTC

Yesssss.

You know I'm all over the Quistis/Rinoa femmeslash knight meta. AND PHOENIX. WHICH IS ACTUALLY MY FAVORITE SUMMON. Really, but that's mostly due to my obsession with it mythologically.

AWESOME JOB ON THE BACKUP FIC.

first_seventhe August 19 2009, 13:08:45 UTC

I LOVE PHOENIX, WON'T LIE. totes unrelated: I saw part the last X-Men movie at the gym last night and fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck I am so gay for Dark Phoenix

aesriella August 19 2009, 09:42:44 UTC

Ah, this was gorgeous. Thank you so much, and extra especially thank you for doing this so quickly at such short notice. I loved the reflection of Quistis's mind in the fragmentation of the sentences and structure, the intercutting of Phoenix's voice, and especially the way it's always still Quistis because of those moments of poetry among the control and decision-making. I really particularly loved the contrast between Xu and Rinoa and the different ways they love and understand Quistis; I've always liked the symmetry of their pairings, since to Xu Quistis is the soft one but for Rinoa she's the rock. Also, Phoenix/Quistis may be my new ultimate meta pairing; no one *ever* writes about Phoenix in FFVIII and there's such a great connection between it and Quistis, I feel. I really enjoyed this and it was well worth the wait, so thank you very much <3!

first_seventhe August 19 2009, 13:07:40 UTC

Trufax: when I started writing this, I actually couldn't decide whether to go for Quistis/Rinoa or Quistis/Xu - I love both pairings and I really like the way they compare and contrast (yes, I agree with you in your analysis 100%) and so this ended up having hints of both in it, because I figure either way both Rinoa and Xu would care about Quistis a lot and try to show it in their own ways.

And I couldn't pass up a chance to interlace meta; one of my favorite things to write about in FF8 is GFs, new GFs, hunting them or finding them or what would happen, and because of my other works for FFEX I've been feeling the FFVI and it. it just happened, haha.

I was really happy to get your prompts, too. I kind of wanted to write all of them. >.>

lassarina August 20 2009, 04:35:43 UTC

SEV. HOW ARE YOU THIS AWESOME.

I flail at you in incoherent glee a lot. FF6. RACHEL. the memory loss! the GF voice! Xu and Rinoa's different ways of dealing, and oh Squall honey that stick is sure lodged up there good and proper, isn't it? and. and. YOU WIN.

mercuriosity August 23 2009, 02:41:51 UTC

Oh my god, I think I just exploded in a shower of hearts and flowers. I- I don't know if this is a weird thing to say, but I love how feminine this story is. I don't know how else to put it. It's not just that the characters are female, it's the whole story somehow--the tone, and the character dynamics--gentle and fierce in equal measure. I AM DOING A BAD JOB OF EXPLAINING MYSELF. BUT ANYWAY.

This fic hits buttons I didn't even know I had. Quistis as Rinoa's Knight! Rachel! Phoenix! Memory fragments! Squall being frigid! Quistis reading her own work for reference! I can't believe you wrote this as a backup; the prose is so lovely and measured, not a word out of place.

Basically, I would like to marry this fic.