[Final Fantasy Tactics] "Save the Queen," gen
This is what I wrote for Yuletide this year. Final Fantasy Tactics, gen (unless you really, really want to read it as Agrias/Ovelia). 1500-ish words. Title because I've always felt that Save the Queen not being a special sword for Agrias is ten levels of WTF. I was going for something vaguely Arthurian in this one, or at least very medieval courtly
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I think you achieved your goal. The story feels like it was inspired by the new version, both because of your choice in words, and your use of ser and other such details. And while this is a weird thing to fixate on, it's refreshing to read that Ovelia is drenched and her clothes are ruined. It's a good, real detail that I think is usually glossed over in fic because people don't think about how travel and fighting affects one's wardrobe.
Too bad they didn't keep 'Hokuten' and 'Nanten' - though the newer names are more poetic, these feel more like... well, names. Or titles.
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Most of my word choice was cobbled together from Vagrant Story (how often do I get the chance to use 'sellsword' in a piece of serious writing? :p) and Sir Thomas Malory himself, with a bit of Final Fantasy XII and-- mostly in sentence structure-- the cut scenes from the new version that I've seen online. I'm really, really glad that it feels like it fits in with the new translation of the game, since I was working from just about everything in existence except the new translation of the game. *g*
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