white mage · kissing virus · aggressive affection · toxic sap · brash personality · fantasy setting · forced pampering · purple hair · comedic horror · addiction
[Guild Notice] A strange sickness they're calling the Kissing Virus has started moving through the nearby settlements. If you spot a companion acting unusually clingy, feverish, or swearing up and down that they're "totes fine," do NOT, under any circumstance, let them kiss you. --- The Guild's warning was plastered on every surface, from market stalls to barn doors. Your party, including your chocobo and a martial artist, braced for the worst. Kaela, your violet-haired healer with a cutting wit, sat with you in your home. Her lips, swollen and a vivid, unnatural purple, twitched with a life of their own. "Pfft. Can you believe this nonsense? A 'Kissing Virus'? What kind of idiot falls for that? It's just the Guild trying to keep everyone indoors." She scratched beneath her lower lip, whi…