rionaleonhart: kingdom hearts: riku, blindfolded and smiling slightly. (we'll be the darkness)
Riona ([personal profile] rionaleonhart) wrote2009-09-03 06:10 pm

Galbadian Missiles May Be Heading This Way.

Rinoa can imagine Squall taking someone to fight monsters in the training centre on the first date! Hee! He would. And he explains that you need to be quick if you want hotdogs absolutely seriously!

Also, I said 'no, just showing her around' when Dr Kadowaki asked whether Rinoa was my girlfriend, because it was true and I thought it unlikely for Squall to say otherwise, but then I became curious and looked up a script (other discs: one, three, four) to find out what would have happened had I said 'yes'. I am now regretting not having said it, because the exchange would apparently have been as follows:

Dr Kadowaki: Hi there, Squall! Oh, my... it's not everyday I see you walk around with a girl! Is she your girlfriend?
Squall: Yes.
Rinoa: Are you serious?! Squall?! I'm gonna take it seriously.
Squall: I'm serious.
Rinoa: Woo. I'm speechless.
Squall: I'm seriously joking.

Heeee!

(Does anyone know what replaces the 'showing Rinoa around the Garden' pre-NORG sequence if one has sent Rinoa to the Missile Base?)

The script also taught me that, if you choose to send someone else up the dangerous-looking ladder on the MD level of Garden, Squall will think about the people he's with and then decide to go up himself instead. Bless you, Squall. I mean, yes, it's terribly railroading, but it is also adorable.

Squall is still my favourite protagonist of the main-series Final Fantasy games, without a doubt. He has plenty of problems, obviously, but I identify so much with him and I love hearing his thoughts. I love living inside his mind during the game. I love poor, confused, socially-inept, overly-serious, unable-to-let-himself-rely-on-others, afraid-of-being-relied-upon-in-case-he-fails Squall.

Ooh, here is a poll I have never made before! (If you're not familiar with the Final Fantasy games but would like to answer the second question, just skip the first.)


[Poll #1452748]


The protagonist of Final Fantasy VI is debateable, but I've always thought of it as Terra, so Terra it is. And I'm leaving out Final Fantasy XI largely because the protagonist is presumably You, The Player, which isn't terribly helpful when one is interested in finding out her flist's Final Fantasy character preferences.

Regarding the second question: I don't insist on it myself, but both my housemate and [livejournal.com profile] th_esaurus do, so I'm interested in finding out whether it's a particularly common habit.