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.

Summary:

Birthdays can be joyous. They can also be a reminder of what's been lost.

Just a little one-shot for Squall's birthday! Only four days late... whoops.

Also I wrote a little Laguna fic for the @ffviiicharacterweek gift exchange for @aleheartilly if anyone is interested!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/62923945

Is it cringe to make banners for fanfic? I've seen some people doing it and I like it.

Posting this one because of @ffviiicharacterweek announcing Zell week coming up, and because I wrote this several years ago and realized I never cross-posted to ao3! So here is the link to that.

Fandom: Final Fantasy VIII

Characters: Laguna Loire, Cid Kramer, Kiros Seagill, Ellone Leonhart

Prompt: The Man with the Machine Gun

Rating: E

Words: 4,310

Summary: Following some eagerly-awaited news, Laguna reminisces about the past; specifically a certain meeting which, unbeknownst to him, would further confirm the destiny of one young orphaned boy… and with it, unexpected news of his missing adopted daughter.

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September is for our elusive main villain: Ultimecia!

The prompt list

Last year, there was no Ultimecia's week, but I added a "2025" prompt anyway: Time won't wait!

ORIGINAL PROMPT LIST

Time Kompression

Junction Machine Ellone

Possessing Edea

Griever

Rinoa’s Mind

Castle

Art Gallery

Kurse All SeeD!

Remember your Childhood

Free Choice!

NEW PROMPT LIST

2025: Time Won't Wait

The creative marathon

To celebrate Ultimecia, we'll have a creative marathon running on September 21st 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 September 24th. 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.

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.

Hey everyone. This is a sad, but long-overdue announcement. Unfortunately, FFVIII Character Week hasn't been sparking interest for months now, and I think the event has run its course. I don't think it makes much sense to continue pouring time and energy into something that simply doesn't work. I'm sure I could have done better maintaining it, and I'm sorry I didn't.

So, Ultimecia's week (September event) was the last one of the Character Week series.

The prompts lists and AO3 collections will stay open and available for anyone who may want to use them; the prompts lists that haven't been moved yet will be created on AO3 in the next few days. If new fanworks come up through those, I'll surely reblog them, but that's it.