a soft spot
for final fantasy 8

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~ if only by flowergirl862000 ~ ~seifer/zell, seifer/irvine, zell/omc, angst, non con, romance, suicidal themes~
while i'm not one for caring too much about seifer's mindset i can kind of jive with the author's take. i like the fact that seifer is glaring different by himself as he is with people, and that his mouth doesn't always say things he means to say. so when he happens to admit that he likes zell, there's the usual chain of events of: nuh-uh! are you serious? well... i don't know... i guess we could try. but the garden doesn't approve and that's the first barrier, then there's irvy who likes to seduce new transfer students, not to mention evil townsfolk, and... well it's just a long angst fest all around, with a ton of misunderstanding. but damn it, i love selphie in this fic, she's such a goodun'

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~ violence of the storm by tenshi no korin ~ ~squall/zell, one shot~
the slash pairing is barely there, it's all about a simple, sweet moment that's so powerful that the entire fic rides on it and it works. the premise is completely simple. zell wants to let his gf quezacotl go. much akin to releasing an animal back into the wind. it's a very humbling story and a well done fic. there's also a great fan art for this story but i can't find it at the moment...

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~ the wedding fic by tenshi no korin ~ ~squall/rinoa, squall/zell, squall/irvine, irvine/selphie, irvine/quistis, seifer/fujin, humor, one shot~
*chuckles* this is probably the funniest ff8 fic i've ever read. the dialogue is dynamic, and there's no character bashing at all. it is slash but not explicit but too damn good to pass up. i mean, you know a fic is going to be funny when a main character's middle name becomes "tortellini" okay, so it's squall and rinoa's wedding and it all goes wrong. squall's no where to be found, rinoa's got cold feet, irvine's coat has a hangover, selphie is in mad planning mode, quistis is spiking the punch, and zell is in looooooove, the dialogue for cid is had me rolling, same for squall's inner thoughts versus his dialogue. it's a comedy of errors that weaves almost all the background characters into the story. the fic alone is priceless for the fight between laguna and general caraway. bloody marvelous.

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