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August event: Squall Leonhart's Week - August 25th - August 31st

In August, we celebrate our moody broody Commander: Squall Leonhart!

The prompt list

All prompts from last year can be used, and there's also a new prompt for 2025: Silence!

ORIGINAL PROMPT LIST

Lone Wolf

Whatever

Commander

Griever

The Sorceress Knight

Promise

Scar

Sis

Triple Triad

Free Choice!

NEW PROMPT LIST

2025: Silence

The creative marathon

To celebrate Squall, we'll have a creative marathon running on August 23rd on our discord server!

In the special channel #creative-marathon we will cheer on each other with writing and drawing sprints to celebrate the character and give the final push for all your creative efforts!

Submissions

Prompts can be claimed and fullfilled through the AO3 prompt meme challenge that you can find here. You can start posting on August 25th. Please tag @ffviiicharacterweek and/or use the hashtag #ffviiicharacterweek on Tumblr so I can reblog you! ONLY if you're not on AO3, please fill in this form too, so I am sure I won't lose your submission. If you need an AO3 invite to join the challenge, please let me know, I still have a couple of those.

And remember: HAVE FUN, AND SHARE THE LOVE!

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[RANDOM MONTHLY CARD] August 2025

If an entire bingo card looks like too much work, why don't you adopt one random monthly card? Five prompts only, free interpretation. Wanna try?

August 2025 prompts:

Master of Disguise

Cool Sword

...I'm glad you're so excited.

Trepies forever, baby

We've got a war to fight.

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Good morning everyone, and happy Selphie's week!

Posting starts today, so head over to AO3 (or your site of choice) and share your fanworks. can't wait to read/see/listen to them!

July Event: Selphie Tilmitt's Character Week - July 25th - 31st

In July we're going to celebrate our bubbly Messenger Girl/Pilot/Explosive Expert: Selphie Tilmitt!

The prompt list

All prompts from last year can be used, and there's also a new prompt for 2025: Irvy!

ORIGINAL PROMPT LIST

Transfer Student

Dream Band

Garden festival

First Guardian Force

Trabia

Sir Laguna

Special Magic

Garden Website

Timber Maniacs Collector

Free Choice!

NEW PROMPT LIST

2025: Irvy

The creative marathon

To boost our fanworks production, we’ll have a creative marathon running on July 25th on our discord server!

In the special channel #creative-marathon we will cheer on each other with writing and drawing sprints to celebrate the character and give the final push for all your creative efforts! Join the server and grab your marathon role!

Submissions

From this character week onward, prompts can be claimed and fullfilled through the AO3 prompt meme challenge that you can find here. You can start posting on July 25th. Please tag @ffviiicharacterweek and/or use the hashtag #ffviiicharacterweek on Tumblr so I can reblog you! ONLY if you're not on AO3, please fill in this form too, so I am sure I won't lose your submission. If you need an AO3 invite to join the challenge, please let me know, I still have a couple of those.

And remember: HAVE FUN, AND SHARE THE LOVE!

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July Event: Selphie Tilmitt's Character Week - July 25th - 31st

In July we're going to celebrate our bubbly Messenger Girl/Pilot/Explosive Expert: Selphie Tilmitt!

The prompt list

All prompts from last year can be used, and there's also a new prompt for 2025: Irvy!

ORIGINAL PROMPT LIST

Transfer Student

Dream Band

Garden festival

First Guardian Force

Trabia

Sir Laguna

Special Magic

Garden Website

Timber Maniacs Collector

Free Choice!

NEW PROMPT LIST

2025: Irvy

The creative marathon

To boost our fanworks production, we’ll have a creative marathon running on July 25th on our discord server!

In the special channel #creative-marathon we will cheer on each other with writing and drawing sprints to celebrate the character and give the final push for all your creative efforts! Join the server and grab your marathon role!

Submissions

From this character week onward, prompts can be claimed and fullfilled through the AO3 prompt meme challenge that you can find here. You can start posting on July 25th. Please tag @ffviiicharacterweek and/or use the hashtag #ffviiicharacterweek on Tumblr so I can reblog you! ONLY if you're not on AO3, please fill in this form too, so I am sure I won't lose your submission. If you need an AO3 invite to join the challenge, please let me know, I still have a couple of those.

And remember: HAVE FUN, AND SHARE THE LOVE!

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Team Competition: the winner!

(ps ps... this should have been done at the beginning of the year, but since nobody published anything in these months, I decided to close the team competition for 2024 now. Sorry!)

The Team Competition is now closed, and I'm happy to announce that the winner is...

Thanks to @pinnadraws for the wonderful image! The Island Closest to Heaven team won with 83936 points, almost double the points gathered by the Island Closest to Hell team!

So, congratulations to @angelosearch, @aleheartilly, @tr1ck5, and @marmolita, the users who contributed to the team's score with their stories.

A special mention for @gardengalwrites, who single-handedly fought for team Island Closest to Hell, gathering 44613 points!

The new team competition will start on June 1st, 2025, so stay tuned (especially if you wanna win this cute award by Pinna!)

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Final Fantasy VIII Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Seifer Almasy/Xu Characters: Seifer Almasy, Xu (Final Fantasy VIII) Additional Tags: Swearing, Seifer Almasy Being An Asshole, Unrequited Hate, Strong Female Characters, Roughness, Sleep Deprivation Summary:

Xu is stuck with an aggravating recurring assignment. Sometimes, 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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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Final Fantasy VIII Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Irvine Kinneas/Selphie Tilmitt Characters: Irvine Kinneas, Selphie Tilmitt Additional Tags: Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Rain, Day At The Beach, Memory Related, Irvine Being Slightly Pervy As Is Tradition, Scents & Smells Summary:

When a beach date is cut short by a storm, Irvine reminisces about rain.

FFVIII OTP Festival.

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FFVIII OTP FESTIVAL - March-September 2025

Welcome to the combined event for FFVIII Character Week and FFVIII Bingo: the FFVIII OTP Festival!

The event takes place exclusively on AO3, which means you need an account to be able to submit your prompts, claim them, and create fanworks dedicated to your OTP - whichever it is!

The Festival has basically two phases:

signups: until March 31st, you can submit your prompts (up to 50 per user!) using the feature on AO3. Your prompts can be generic, to allow wider interpretations, or pairing-specific - in this case, please use the appropriate relationship tag.

fanworks submission: you can claim prompts and submit your fanworks until September 30th.

On AO3, you can already find 50 generic prompts to start things up.

And remember: always have fun!

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My mind (11/11), by Alessia Heartilly

My mind

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. She will spread her wings, and fly.

Characters: Rinoa Heartilly, Zone, Watts, Squall Leonhart Pairings: Rinoa Heartilly/Squall Leonhart Additional tags: none so far Chapters: 11/11 Prompt: Bonus (shooting stars) Author: @aleheartilly

Part 11 on AO3 and FF.net

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Today's the creative marathon begins! Jump in our discord server to join in :)

April Event: Fujin and Raijin's Week - April 24th - April 30th

Welcome to April event: it's time to shower with love Fujin and Raijin!

The prompt list

Fujin & Raijin didn't have their own week last year, so I decided to skip the bonus prompt and directly add a 2025 one: Fishing!

Note: you can use both characters in your fanworks, or just one of them if you prefer. It's up to you!

ORIGINAL PROMPT LIST

Eyepatch

Posse

RAGE!

Disciplinary Committee

Pandemona

Balamb City Siege

Underdog

Thunder

Friend Loyalty

Goodbye, Pupurun

NEW PROMPT LIST

2025: Fishing

The creative marathon

To boost our fanworks production, we’ll have a creative marathon running on April 25th on our discord server!

In the special channel #creative-marathon we will cheer on each other with writing and drawing sprints to celebrate the character and give the final push for all your creative efforts! Join the server and grab your marathon role!

Submissions

Submissions can be posted in the AO3 collection (you can find it here) and on tumblr starting April 24th, by tagging @ffviiicharacterweek and/or using the hashtag #ffviiicharacterweek. Starting with this event, please fill in this form too, so I am sure I won't lose your submission.

And remember: HAVE FUN, AND SHARE THE LOVE!

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April Event: Fujin and Raijin's Week - April 24th - April 30th

Welcome to April event: it's time to shower with love Fujin and Raijin!

The prompt list

Fujin & Raijin didn't have their own week last year, so I decided to skip the bonus prompt and directly add a 2025 one: Fishing!

Note: you can use both characters in your fanworks, or just one of them if you prefer. It's up to you!

ORIGINAL PROMPT LIST

Eyepatch

Posse

RAGE!

Disciplinary Committee

Pandemona

Balamb City Siege

Underdog

Thunder

Friend Loyalty

Goodbye, Pupurun

NEW PROMPT LIST

2025: Fishing

The creative marathon

To boost our fanworks production, we’ll have a creative marathon running on April 25th on our discord server!

In the special channel #creative-marathon we will cheer on each other with writing and drawing sprints to celebrate the character and give the final push for all your creative efforts! Join the server and grab your marathon role!

Submissions

Submissions can be posted in the AO3 collection (you can find it here) and on tumblr starting April 24th, by tagging @ffviiicharacterweek and/or using the hashtag #ffviiicharacterweek. Starting with this event, please fill in this form too, so I am sure I won't lose your submission.

And remember: HAVE FUN, AND SHARE THE LOVE!

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FFVIII OTP FESTIVAL - March-September 2025

Welcome to the combined event for FFVIII Character Week and FFVIII Bingo: the FFVIII OTP Festival!

The event takes place exclusively on AO3, which means you need an account to be able to submit your prompts, claim them, and create fanworks dedicated to your OTP - whichever it is!

The Festival has basically two phases:

signups: until March 31st, you can submit your prompts (up to 50 per user!) using the feature on AO3. Your prompts can be generic, to allow wider interpretations, or pairing-specific - in this case, please use the appropriate relationship tag.

fanworks submission: you can claim prompts and submit your fanworks until September 30th.

On AO3, you can already find 50 generic prompts to start things up.

And remember: always have fun!

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FFVIII OTP FESTIVAL - March-September 2025

Welcome to the combined event for FFVIII Character Week and FFVIII Bingo: the FFVIII OTP Festival!

The event takes place exclusively on AO3, which means you need an account to be able to submit your prompts, claim them, and create fanworks dedicated to your OTP - whichever it is!

The Festival has basically two phases:

signups: until March 31st, you can submit your prompts (up to 50 per user!) using the feature on AO3. Your prompts can be generic, to allow wider interpretations, or pairing-specific - in this case, please use the appropriate relationship tag.

fanworks submission: you can claim prompts and submit your fanworks until September 30th.

On AO3, you can already find 50 generic prompts to start things up.

And remember: always have fun!

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March Event: Rinoa Heartilly's Week - March 25th - March 31st

Welcome to March event: Rinoa Heartilly's week!

The prompt list

All prompts from last year can be used, and there's also a new prompt for 2025: Space!

ORIGINAL PROMPT LIST

Timber Owls

Julia

The Princess

Liontamer

Pet Pal

Succession of Witches

La Résistance

Aquamarine

Eyes on Me

The Wrong Idea

Free Choice!

NEW PROMPT LIST

2025: Space

The creative marathon

To boost our fanworks production, we’ll have a creative marathon running on March 25th on our discord server!

In the special channel #creative-marathon we will cheer on each other with writing and drawing sprints to celebrate the character and give the final push for all your creative efforts! Join the server and grab your marathon role!

Submissions

Submissions can be posted in the AO3 collection (you can find it here) and on tumblr starting March 25th, by tagging @ffviiicharacterweek and/or using the hashtag #ffviiicharacterweek. Starting with this event, please fill in this form too, so I am sure I won't lose your submission.

And remember: HAVE FUN, AND SHARE THE LOVE!

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February Event: Zell Dincht's Week - February 22nd - February 28th

Welcome to the second event of the year, in which we celebrate the goofiest martial artist: Zell Dincht!

The Prompt List

All prompts from last year can be used, and there's also a new prompt for 2025: Ma Dincht!

ORIGINAL PROMPT LIST

Hotdogs

Big Mouth

Library Love

Mr. Know-It-All

Shadowboxing

Balamb Town’s Hero

Tattoo

Grandad’s Worship

Leader Wannabe

My Final Heaven

Free Choice!

NEW PROMPT LIST

2025: Ma Dincht

The creative marathon

To boost your Laguna-related production, we’ll have a creative marathon running on February 22nd on our discord server!

In the special channel #creative-marathon we will cheer on each other with writing and drawing sprints to celebrate the character and give the final push for all your creative efforts! Join the server and grab your marathon role!

Submissions

Submissions can be posted in the AO3 collection (you can find it here) and on Tumblr starting on February 22nd; please fill in this form, because from now on only the fanworks submitted through the form will be reblogged. You can also tag @ffviiicharacterweek and/or use the hashtag #ffviiicharacterweek. After that, if you like a prompt and want to use it later in the year, don't worry: you can! Just publish your creation, submit your form and you'll be reblogged.

And remember: HAVE FUN, AND SHARE THE LOVE!

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My mind (10/11), by Alessia Heartilly

My mind

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. She will spread her wings, and fly.

Characters: Rinoa Heartilly, Zone, Watts, Squall Leonhart Pairings: Rinoa Heartilly/Squall Leonhart Additional tags: none so far Chapters: 10/11 Prompt: Liontamer Author: @aleheartilly

Part 10 on AO3 and FF.net