#raine leonhart

[st4rfunk]

This MIGHT be the Winhill flashback 🗣️🗣️‼️‼️

[ethernalium]

Love is the one thing we're capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space.

FINAL FANTASY (1999)

[evieeion]

Despite everything, it's still you

Happy Birthday Squall!

[tifamex]

some things never change (.❛ ᴗ ❛.)

ref

[foxtrottcantfindshit]

Diiddling around thinking about familia facial features. Definitely wanted something distinctive of Raine for Squall and Ellone. So same nose!

[midnightraine131]

Me doing eeny, meeny, miny, moe to decide which Aruani wips to finish first when my cat stared at me dead in the eye, as if she knew I couldn’t get things done, and then decided to puke on my floor.

[angelosearch]

Two heroes, one legacy, and an adventure that will change everything.

Chapters: 3/3 Fandom: Final Fantasy VIII Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Squall Leonhart & Laguna Loire, Laguna Loire/Raine Loire, Rinoa Heartilly/Squall Leonhart Characters: Squall Leonhart, Laguna Loire, Rinoa Heartilly, Ellone (Final Fantasy VIII), Kiros Seagill, Ward Zabac Additional Tags: Father-Son Relationship, Fate & Destiny, Family, star wars-coded, Sorceress-Knight bond

Summary:

Laguna invites Squall on a fateful hunting trip with the intention of confessing his relation to him, but they come to face challenges they never expected.

[translucentchick]

FF8 Doodles

[joiedecombat]

Does the character have other characters connected to them? Do you have a family tree and "offscreen" connections made up for them or do they exist in a vacuum purely for the purpose of the story?

For MEIYI, since I know about Raine. Unless! You would rather talk about Raine!

Honestly, talk about whomever you please, I'm not your mom. <3

Meiyi doesn't have a whole lot of offscreen family/connections built - YET, it could change!

The main connection I've established for her is her adoptive father, which is itself a bit of a tale: Smiling Mountain, a Hellsguard Roegadyn Warrior, blundered his way onto the Azim Steppe and into the arms of the Dotharl, with whom he got along so splendidly that they basically adopted him as a Dotharl who'd been reborn as a Roe.

Smiling Mountain was the one who found infant Meiyi after she was orphaned in one of the many intertribal scuffles that are part of life on the steppe. He showed her to the Dotharl khatun at the time, who identified her as the reincarnation of a mighty Dotharl warrior (mostly because she immediately bit him).

Smiling Mountain had no experience with raising kids whatsoever but he took responsibility for caring for Meiyi alongside the clan, and pretty much spoiled her rotten. Later on he had a Roegadyn daughter, Dawn Star - I haven't yet figured out if she's also adopted or is his biological kid, but she and Meiyi were raised as sisters and they're close. Dawn Star has a much milder and more down to earth personality compared to Meiyi, who was always the ringleader of any shenanigans. Dawn Star eventually set out to find her own way in life and became an Arcanist, she lives in Reunion these days but also spends some time in Limsa Lominsa.

(If these names are sounding familiar, it's because Meiyi began life as the Spirit Monk in my Let's Play of Jade Empire. I quickly determined that there was no need for a Master Li equivalent, so Smiling Mountain became her parental figure, and that's such an obvious Hellsguard name that the rest of the adaptation for him and for Dawn Star sprang from those roots.)

X'khal's mother X'rahne died in Bozja when he was a baby. His father Lagun'a, a Keeper of the Moon, is still alive out there somewhere, probably bumbling his way into some kind of Garlean public office. Neither of them knows anything about each other and they're probably better off that way, to be honest. I've yet to nail down anything about the Garlean training program that fucked up his early years or the Ala Mhigan resistance group that took him in after, beyond that he was a child soldier and that did as much of a number as you'd expect from Catboy Squall Leonhart FFVIII.

As for Raine, I've talked about her family before but it's turned out that she has family all over the Far East - some quite surprising to her when she traveled through Stormblood. Her parents (Fitzwilliam and Elizabeth D'arcy), her younger twin brothers (Richard and Fitzwilliam aka Fitz and Will), and her aunt Georgiana live in Radz-at-Han; her older brother (Bennet aka Ben) followed her to Eorzea and had his own reluctant adventures there I may flesh out one day. Aunt Jane and Uncle Charles have a successful trade business out of Kugane, and Aunt Kitty settled there with them. Aunt Mary is a traveling scholar who's been around Doma and hangs with the Qestir in Reunion. There's a Fitzwilliam cousin in Gyr Abania whose name and details I don't know yet. Aunt Lydia is living her best life with the Confederacy out on the Ruby Sea.

(As always, Raine's family is an extended Pride And Prejudice homage.)

[doublerainebow]

Please tell me someone else is thinking that Han is giving off Squall Leonhart vibes in this picture LOL

[silalcarin]

My favorite FFVIII moments from the FF 25th Memorial Ultimania Vol. 2 — Part 1

The summary of the game:

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Squall's character summary:

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Squall saving Rinoa from being cryogenically frozen forever is among his "Memorable Quotes":

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The moment when Rinoa genuinely, sincerely, fell in love with Squall is among his "Memorable Scenes":

^ Read that again, carefully: "Just Stay Close to Me — On the surface, these words only refer to Squall's concern for her safety, yet they sway the young girl's heart."

There's the confirmation, folks. Rinoa didn't fall in love with Squall for being "the best looking guy here," nor for his supposed bad boy charm/troubled but cute appearance. She fell in love with him because he was protective of her. That's a far more realistic and organic reason to fall for someone, not to mention way better than simply falling for a handsome face.

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Squall revealing all of his insecurities to the comatose Rinoa on the bridge of Fishermans Horizon is also among his "Memorable Scenes":

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Squall's promise to Rinoa, to meet her at the flower field in Cid and Edea's orphanage, is also among his "Memorable Scenes":

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Rinoa's character summary:

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Rinoa wanting everyone to know that she and Squall are pretty much dating at the end of Disc 2 is among her "Memorable Quotes":

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Rinoa's "hypnotism" on Squall at the SeeD graduation ball having worked on him after all, albeit very slowly, is also among her "Memorable Quotes":

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Rinoa's feelings for Squall being confirmed as love — not a crush, not an infatuation, but love — when she wants him to hug her in the Ragnarok is also among her "Memorable Quotes":

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Rinoa hearing Squall while she's drifting away in space is among her "Memorable Scenes":

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Rinoa falling into Squall's arms, with her feelings for him being confirmed as love a second time, when he saves her from the Sorceress Memorial is also among her "Memorable Scenes":

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Quistis calling out Squall for letting Rinoa be sealed away in Esthar, despite everything he'd done to save her, is among her "Memorable Quotes":

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Quistis admitting that she gave up on her inappropriate crush on Squall** after Rinoa danced with him is also among her "Memorable Quotes":

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Quistis being jealous of Squall dancing with Rinoa is also among her "Memorable Quotes":

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Quistis getting angry with Rinoa in Deling City because she sees her as her rival for Squall's affections*** is also among her "Memorable Quotes":

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Laguna finding his heart changing as he spends time with Raine and Ellone in Winhill — which is very similar to how his son will find his heart changing as he spends time with Rinoa during their journey (as stated in Squall's character summary above) — is among his "Memorable Quotes":

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Laguna remembering the night he proposed to Raine in Winhill, almost two decades later, is among his "Memorable Scenes":

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Ward allowing Squall and his party to leave the Sorceress Memorial with Rinoa, with the description confirming that Laguna is Squall's long-lost father, is among his "Memorable Scenes":

This also implies that it's canon for Zell and Quistis to be in Squall's party when they rescue Rinoa.

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Raine's character summary, which confirms that she and Laguna are Squall's long-lost parents:

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The Moomba's character summary, which confirms that Laguna is Squall's long-lost father:

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The romance scene between Squall and Rinoa in the Ragnarok is among the FFVIII Memories:

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Notes:

** = It doesn't matter that Quistis is only a year older than Squall. She was still his SeeD instructor for about a year, meaning she was in a position of power and authority over him for about a year. Therefore, it was very inappropriate for her to have a crush on him.

*** = This is despite the fact that Squall literally never liked Quistis to begin with — which was already confirmed in her previous Memorable Quote: "[...] rationalizing Squall's lack of interest." During the revelation sequence in Trabia Garden, Squall remembers that Quistis was "difficult to deal with" even at the orphanage. Even when they were children growing up together in the orphanage, Squall didn't like Quistis. Her crush on him was doomed from the beginning, long before Rinoa even showed up.

Link to Part 2

[st4rfunk]

Winhill family on vacation 🌊⛱️

[gardengalwrites]

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Thank you and enjoy your stay! 💙

[aleheartilly]

[RANDOM FANFICTION SPOTLIGHT] The wolves (what might have been lost)

Today's spotlight is for another story I conjured while on bed rest, and that I wrote later on. I'm proud of this story, especially its beginning. I hope you'll enjoy reading it.

This is The wolves (what might have been lost). Written as a sequel to Latch, it delves a little deeper in my headcanon about Laguna being told Squall is stillborn, and what happens 25 years later, when Squall goes through something that may help him understand his father better.

Trigger warning for a non-fatal medical emergency.

Read it on AO3 or FF.net, possibly while listening to the song that inspired the story:

[sevi007]

@hikagekitsune

Oh but her gravestone reads „Raine Loire“, is that a translation thing again? Does it say her maidenname in the original? I assumed they were married because of a combination of that and the proposal scene.

Ah I see that explanation makes a lot of sense. I think I was mainly confused because in the German version, Squall points out several times „I‘m not aline anymore“ while searching for a way out, which for me meant he should have gotten out easy (since Love and Trust and Friendship was supposed to get them out). Seeing him confidently state that and then still be trapped felt like a huge contradiction and confused me.

Oh I did enjoy it a lot, don’t let my ranting at the final boss lead you to believe otherwise! XD Squall and Co are great, and I felt like a proud big sister seeing Squall open up slowly and form attachements (those are hard, and even harder for a kid with bad experiences like him).

[joiedecombat]

I am delighted with what the graphics update has done for Raine, especially her eyes and the gloss it's given her hair.

Meiyi and X'khal are looking pretty good, too.

I am

OBSESSED

SEND ME YOUR 7.0 WoLs!!!! I WANT TO SEE THEM!!!!

If you're withholding to prevent spoilers, DM them to me, it's fine. I just want to enjoy how GREAT everyone looks. (But if they're posts, I'll reblog!!)