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@ff_press: [FFVIII] justira & seventhe: Same As It Never Was (1-4) (Rinoa/Squall, Laguna/Squall, Quistis/Rinoa) (PG13) (41,000 words)


Same As It Never Was


Fandom | Cast: FFVIII. Main characters Rinoa, Squall, Quistis, Laguna, Ellone. Lots of Kiros, Watts, Zone, Ward. Main ships Rinoa/Squall, Laguna/Squall, Quistis/Squall. Also Kiros/Laguna, Quistis/Rinoa/Squall
Rating | Warnings: For these chapters, PG or PG13 or something, but eventually at LEAST an R. See list of ships for the warnings; don't think there's anything that's not obvious from that.
Words: 41,000 out of approximately 200,000+
Feedback: OH GOD ARE YOU KIDDING? YES PLEASE. ohgod. Crit is SO SO WELCOME, as is ANYTHING ELSE.
Notes: Co-authored with seventhe! There are going to be REAMS of author notes when we're done. For now, I think our list of tags is instructive: oh shit it's a long final fantasy fic get in the car!, the fandom hell bus has arrived honk, no I am not going that way, sqwhale, incest, no seriously this fic is freaking long we are not kidding, meta, magic meta, suddenly bechdel, we ship everyone/kiros


Summary: Rinoa's gone public as a Sorceress and is campaigning for Timber's independence, Laguna's steering Esthar's re-emergence, Galbadia won't give up, Squall's dealing with the political fallout as Garden Commander -- and in case no one has enough on their plates, something's wrong with the Sorceress-Knight Bond. When terrorists attack Timber in the middle of Squall and Rinoa's argument over where the new Garden should go -- Timber or Esthar? -- they decide to take a break, hoping that if they can sort out the politics in their separate spheres, they can come back and sort through the quietly desperate mess of their private lives and repair their Bond.

Sorceresses still make the world nervous and Galbadia won't let Timber go; Esthar needs to come out of hiding and Garden needs to decide its place in the world. Four lives are unraveling -- but maybe, between them, they can find the answers...

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( Same As It Never Was @AO3 )

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Okay, those of you peeps who aren't into my fannishness can piss off right about now cause I am about to SQUEE MADLY, k? =D

Now then.

OH MY GAWD

Okay. I've told some of you that I'd been getting a bit meh about the endless endless fight going on for the last, oh... 30 chapters. Since Oda is Oda and roughly equivalent to God in mangaka form, it was of course spiced up with random wackiness and little character moments and between Luffy and co. being as awesometastic as they are and the impending presence of MUCHO LUCCI, it was enough to keep me reading. Kind of. Last week's chapter restored my faith completely with much WIBBLE and SQUEE and I remembered that when Oda wants to wrench your heart out HE REALLY FUCKING DOES IT.

=D

This week, though! I have very few words. Because.... GUH.

( Cut for pic spam and SPOILERS! RENAY, JOHN, and TAIRAKO I'M LOOKING AT YOU! No cheating =P )

Hoyes. I know who what I'm spending my lunch break doing.

Just one question. Where the FUCK is Hattori???