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Title: Discarded by Lassarina
Fandom: Final Fantasy VIII
Character/Pairing: Quistis Trepe, Zell Dincht
Word Count: 723
Summary: It is time for Quistis to walk away.
Why I Rec This Fic: I firmly believe in the power and good of quitting stuff that makes you unhappy. Quistis is the one of the main hero group that i can see doing this (but i wish it for everyone of them).

Title: when the war is over by invocations
Fandom: Final Fantasy VIII
Character/Pairing: Cid Kramer, Edea Kramer
Cid Kramer/Edea Kramer
Word Count: 548
Summary: Cid and Edna, after the war.
Why I Rec This Fic: The hestiant tenderness of getting to know eachother (again!) is one of my fav phase for fics.

When the war is over, there is only this: a man and a woman in a house by the sea. She enjoys gardening and birdwatching; he likes sleeping in, syrup with a bit of pancake, and reading books in the sun. 

Title:Bright-Eyed by cricket_aria
Fandom: Final Fantasy VIII
Character/Pairing: Rinoa Heartilly, Squall Leonhart
Rinoa Heartilly&Squall Leonhart
mention of the rest of the main party and Edea
Word Count: 1150
Summary: "Squall wakes up freed from the time compressed world."
Why I Rec This Fic: It´s tagged „Squall's Attempts At Emotional Growth“ and it does exactly that, short and sweet in a way that feels fitting for the world/characters.

Title: Bitterblue by Regann
Fandom: Final Fantasy VIII
Character/Pairing: Quistis Trepe, Dr. Kadowaki
Word Count: 4514
Summary: "Quistis learns about blue magic. Set pre-game."
Why I Rec This Fic: Some nice world building, and character moments for Quistis who i have to admit i wasn´t very fond of as a kid but now love deeply.

Witches

Title: the cape of good hope by irishais
Fandom: Final Fantasy VIII
Character/Pairing: Edea Kramer, Rinoa Heartilly, Ellone
Word Count: 1147
Summary: "They are the daughters she has always wanted. Edea, Rinoa, Ellone, and a coven of sorts."
Why I Rec This Fic: Great atmosphere and it´s always nice to read about female characters interacting.

Rinoa’s face rapt in wonder, Ellone’s eyes toward the sky, like she cannot decide if she would like to retreat beneath her bed like a child, or run out and dance in the rain.
Sometimes, Rinoa’s magic sparks with the lightning. Edea reaches across, touches her shoulder gently to calm it, before everyone’s hair is standing on end.

Title: devour by SummonerLuna
Fandom: Final Fantasy VIII
Character/Pairing: Edea Kramer, Rinoa Heartilly,
Word Count: 1197
Summary: "She helps the souls depart, and takes the pain of those they leave behind. [Edea, post-game. Eat the pain. Send it back into the world as love.]"
Why I Rec This Fic: Magic after effects and people living with the consquences of their actions – what a great match.

Title: Or From That Sea of Time by SummonerLuna
Fandom: Final Fantasy VIII
Character/Pairing: Squall Leonhart, Rinoa Heartilly, Ellone
Word Count: 1103
Summary: „They call him The Sea Walker, and there are worse things he could be. He holds himself together by holding onto her. [Squall, and witches at the end of the world.]“
Why I Rec This Fic: I love the mix of ordinary and mystic that this feels like, the worn out pain,guilt and power and the holding on, gardening, baking bread (why are this two activities so beautiful images for recovery? Its probably because you can see the result of the task but its still a bit weird how much i love it), living.

[…] half a century ago a group of children planted flowers here and did not fear. He knows they would have dared each other to sneak into a garden and bring some proof of entry if they’d been born in this time instead.

Title: Yes by seventhe
Fandom: Final Fantasy VIII
Character/Pairing: Rinoa Heartilly
Word Count: 3005
Summary: "She’ll never tell them she said yes. And she’ll never tell them why. Rinoa has always wanted to be more than she is. Magic, and the Draw of the Sorceress."
Why I Rec This Fic: Riona is perfectly captured here, the wanting, reckless, wanting to be more, but also not wanting to be helpless and how different she approche it then the SEED kids who see themself as tools of the war.

Yes, it says, wind and earth and air and Fire-Blizzard-Thunder all in one. There is a chance. She has always been reckless.
I - Yes, Rinoa says. Yes.
The world turns black.

Title: Beautiful World by astrangerenters
Fandom: Final Fantasy VIII
Character/Pairing: Rinoa Heartilly, Edea Kramer, Squall Leonhart
Rinoa Heartilly&Edea Kramer
Word Count: 2485
Summary: "Rinoa can understand why Squall, Selphie, and the others care so much for Edea Kramer. Rinoa's only just come into her powers, but Edea was a child when hers came. She grew up with that pain, the feelings Rinoa is now struggling with. It's made her a better person, a stronger person. Rinoa can only strive to do the same."
Why I Rec This Fic: “Edea and Rinoa, bonding and sorceress meta“ Both great things but what really got me in this, is the emphasize not on „fixing“ her but on learning to live with it, and because the sensory issues while not like exactly like mine are a writen great.