#squall and angelo's friendship!!

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Summary:

Angelo and Squall meet and get off on the wrong foot… feet… paws. But not even Squall knows the right ST-Def junction to make him immune to the antics of a dog.

A fluffy fic from Angelo's POV about how she became friends with Squall over the course of FFVIII. This might have accidentally kicked off a series of Angelo fics...

Thanks @silalcarin for inspiring this one! And of course, thanks to dogs. I am nothing if not a dog person.

[silalcarin]

There should be more fanfics/fanart about Squall and Angelo's friendship

I was watching this walkthrough of Dissidia Final Fantasy Opera Omnia, and among the Lost Chapters — specifically, The Ice Reaper chapters — more specifically, The Secrets of Silent Types chapter — there's a conversation between Rinoa, Eiko, and Trey about silent-type/taciturn/lonely characters and their love for animals.

Take a good look at what Rinoa says about Squall and her dog, Sant' Angelo di Roma:

"Squall and Angelo are like best friends."

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It reminds me of two scenes in Disc 3 of Final Fantasy VIII:

When Angelo follows the party into Lunar Gate, and Squall silently reassures her that he'll take care of Rinoa:

And when the party is at Edea's House, where, if Rinoa is not in Squall's party, he has a silent conversation with Angelo before she arrives:

In a relatively short amount of time (since, officially, it's never been established how much time passes during the main narrative of Final Fantasy VIII), Squall did become like best friends with his girlfriend's dog after all.

Eeeeeeee~!

And~ now I want to see more fanfics and/or fanart of Squall and Angelo's friendship~

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NOTE 1: View the screenshots from left -> right.

NOTE 2: I am posting this before Opera Omnia ends its services. Tomorrow, Wednesday 2/28/2024 is the last full day of service for this iOS / Android video game! On Thursday 2/29, it will close its services for good.

RIP Opera Omnia, you will be missed~ ☹️😔😞🥺😢😭

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Magical adventures of Rinoa Heartilly, by Garden_Gal

Magical adventures of Rinoa Heartilly

An ongoing collection of AU vignettes: 10-year-old Rinoa Heartilly loves her mom, her puppy, and her friends. These mini story arcs will focus on friendship and family themes while also developing the beginnings of Squinoa, Seiftis, Selvine, and Zell/Library Girl.

Characters: Rinoa Heartilly, Julia Heartilly, Angelo, Squall Leonhart, Seifer Almasy, Quistis Trepe, Irvine Kinneas, Selphie Tilmitt, Zell Dincht, Library Girl Pairings: Rinoa Heartilly/Squall Leonhart, Seifer Almasy/Quistis Trepe, Irvine Kinneas/Selphie Tilmitt, Zell Dincht/Library Girl Additional tags: Alternate Universe Prompt: Love Grows Author: @gardengalwrites

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[STORY] The Angelo Diaries, by Garden Gal

Title: The Angelo Diaries Author: @gardengalwrites

A week in the life of Sant' Angelo di Roma: Best Friend and Loyal Doggo of the Sorceress Rinoa Heartilly.

Characters: Angelo, Rinoa Heartilly, Squall Leonhart Pairings: Background Rinoa Heartilly/Squall Leonhart Additional tags: Friendship, Adventure

Card: Places Prompts: "ON VACATION!?"; "I hate this pet shop!!!"; Timber Challenge word used: Ebullient Team: Island Closest To Hell Total Points Earned: 8424 (since there were 3 prompts used, points were multiplied by 3)

Read on AO3 of FF.net

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Some writing updates, if ya'll are interested...

Since I substantially overshot my May and June writing goals, I've decided to stretch myself for July... 50k words. Yes, this is how I am choosing to spend my summer. Writing feels great and the sun/heat makes me sick and I have the time so... here we are.

And if you're growing tired of me, do not fret! I am certain that come late August/September I will be scarce. I am writing my brains out now while I have the space because who knows when/if I'll ever be able to do this again.

I have a few irons in the fire, one-shot-wise. I am working on my Squall and Angelo friendship fic request and I'd like to do a little something for That Guy's birthday. I think my FFVIII Bingo Card may be finished this month, but it's not my highest priority.

I am still considering trying again at a 5k AU for ficwip simply because writing Eyes of the Storm was such an amazing experience and cannot stop thinking about it. Hoping I'd recapture that magic. But we'll see.

The final chapter for A New Beginning is in the works, but right now I am realizing I may have gone overboard with the drama, so that progress may have to be undone. But either way, I suspect it will be posted within the next 10 days.

Vessel of Hyne's Grace and FFVIII the Musical may get some love, but both of those projects are very inspiration-dependent.

Chaos Theory. Trust me when I tell you I am working on that constantly. But I have never tried to finish anything like this before, and it's a big trust exercise between me and my writing ability. I have written 3ish chapters of part 4 already but I have no idea when I am going to feel ready to post them. I just want things to come together cohesively and I don't want to have to retcon myself. So it may be a few weeks before an update, but then you're probably going to get like two chapters a week or something.

That's the lineup!!

[angelosearch]

So~ remember that post that I made a few months ago? "Squall and Angelo are like best friends"? I was wondering if you could write a fanfic about Squall and Angelo's friendship? I'm pretty open-minded about how you go with it — it can be completely canon/in-universe to the game; it can be canon-compliant to FF8 or Dissidia (since Dissidia {Dissidia NT and Opera Omnia} is one of the few Final Fantasy-related games Rinoa ever appears in), as long as Squinoa's also there somewhere (it is her dog after all), either in the forefront or background. Please and thank you~! 😌🙏🏼

OH YES this is something that I would have fun with!! I love writing scenes with Angelo probably more than anything. 😂

I'll get started on this but I am *probably* going to add to one or more of multichapter fics first. ETA: two weeks? How's that?