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rionaleonhart) wrote2021-07-07 10:18 am
rionaleonhart) wrote2021-07-07 10:18 am
Final Fantasy VIII Is A Sixty-Hour Card Game.
My beautiful Squall/Zell dream inspired me to pick up the Final Fantasy VIII replay I started back in April and dropped when 13 Sentinels ate me.
How did the orphanage kids end up at Garden? Did they come with Edea when she married Cid? If so, why do Selphie and Irvine end up at different Gardens?
Or does Garden just have a habit of adopting kids in order to turn them into child soldiers? (Side note: horrifying.) Is that how Edea met Cid in the first place?
Actually, I seem to remember Cid and Edea set up Garden together. Maybe the orphanage kids were there from its inception. (Perhaps with the exception of Zell, who was fortunate enough to get adopted by an actual person and not a murder school. I wonder if he enrolled in Garden because his friends from the orphanage were there and then, on account of GF use, forgot they were friends.)
On the way to assist the resistance in Timber, Zell tells his mother he has 'outdoor class'. How much does Ma Dincht know about the nature of Zell's education?
'Have you improved your game?' Ma Dincht asks when we challenge her. Was Squall in the habit of playing cards with Zell's mother even before the game began? I would love that.
(Or are you canonically playing against her as Zell? I've just looked it up, and apparently she'll only play if Zell is in the party, so that might be the case!)
I'm never going to progress this game. I'm in Triple Triad hell and I'm not leaving until I've got a card with Zell's face on it. GIVE ME YOUR SON, MA DINCHT.
I got the card! I imagine Zell was slightly troubled to watch Squall and his mother having ferocious non-stop card battles for over an hour. Either that or he spent the entire time enthusiastically cheering both of them. I'm ignoring the 'you're playing against her as Zell' possibility because I enjoy this mental image so much.
(Although the mental image of Zell begging to use Squall's cards so he can finally beat his mum at Triple Triad is also very good.)
Zell's really enthusiastic about knowing things and sharing that knowledge, and it's pretty endearing. Hey, this train goes through an undersea tunnel; it's awesome! Do you want to hear about the history of Timber? He's not condescending about it at all; he just thinks facts are cool.
In the Julia flashback, I caught myself smiling so widely at what an absolute loser Laguna is. Strange to remember how distressed I was, the first time I played this game, to suddenly find myself inhabiting this unknown character. I couldn't possibly save; what if I never went back to being Squall?
It'd be fun if Laguna and company could actually hear and converse with the main party during the flashbacks, rather than just having a vague sense that there's some sort of presence around. Fanfiction material?
How did the orphanage kids end up at Garden? Did they come with Edea when she married Cid? If so, why do Selphie and Irvine end up at different Gardens?
Or does Garden just have a habit of adopting kids in order to turn them into child soldiers? (Side note: horrifying.) Is that how Edea met Cid in the first place?
Actually, I seem to remember Cid and Edea set up Garden together. Maybe the orphanage kids were there from its inception. (Perhaps with the exception of Zell, who was fortunate enough to get adopted by an actual person and not a murder school. I wonder if he enrolled in Garden because his friends from the orphanage were there and then, on account of GF use, forgot they were friends.)
On the way to assist the resistance in Timber, Zell tells his mother he has 'outdoor class'. How much does Ma Dincht know about the nature of Zell's education?
'Have you improved your game?' Ma Dincht asks when we challenge her. Was Squall in the habit of playing cards with Zell's mother even before the game began? I would love that.
(Or are you canonically playing against her as Zell? I've just looked it up, and apparently she'll only play if Zell is in the party, so that might be the case!)
I'm never going to progress this game. I'm in Triple Triad hell and I'm not leaving until I've got a card with Zell's face on it. GIVE ME YOUR SON, MA DINCHT.
I got the card! I imagine Zell was slightly troubled to watch Squall and his mother having ferocious non-stop card battles for over an hour. Either that or he spent the entire time enthusiastically cheering both of them. I'm ignoring the 'you're playing against her as Zell' possibility because I enjoy this mental image so much.
(Although the mental image of Zell begging to use Squall's cards so he can finally beat his mum at Triple Triad is also very good.)
Zell's really enthusiastic about knowing things and sharing that knowledge, and it's pretty endearing. Hey, this train goes through an undersea tunnel; it's awesome! Do you want to hear about the history of Timber? He's not condescending about it at all; he just thinks facts are cool.
In the Julia flashback, I caught myself smiling so widely at what an absolute loser Laguna is. Strange to remember how distressed I was, the first time I played this game, to suddenly find myself inhabiting this unknown character. I couldn't possibly save; what if I never went back to being Squall?
It'd be fun if Laguna and company could actually hear and converse with the main party during the flashbacks, rather than just having a vague sense that there's some sort of presence around. Fanfiction material?