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FF8 Question about Ultimecia

kingdonutkingdonut Registered User regular
edited September 2011 in Games and Technology
So yeah...I'm part of that generation that played ff8. I had a question about Ultimecia, the game's big bad (lady), and was wondering if someone here might know enough to answer.

So in the story they say every Sorceress has a Knight to sort of balance her out, be her buddy, and protect her as either general or bodyguard (or some mix of the two). Who was Ultimecia's Knight? We know Edea had Seifer (the incompetent). Adel didn't haven one (which is probably why Estar was such a crummy place to live during her rule).

So...was Ultimecia's Knight killed in the future by those future SeeD soldiers with the white trench coats were laying dead outside Ultimecia's Castle?

I think a lost opportunity for a sub-boss prior to the showdown with Ultimecia would have been facing off against her Knight (whoever it would have been).

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  • BeezelBeezel There was no agreement little morsel..Registered User regular
    edited September 2011
    the most popular theory regarding that is
    Ultimecia is really future Rinoa, Squall was her knight and via some unexplained circumstances ends up dying and welp, it's crazy time after that.

    don't know how grounded that particular theory is. But I'd probably post this in the final fantasy thread. More likely to get different viewpoints on it.

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  • kingdonutkingdonut Registered User regular
    Thanks for the reply but didn't the Word of God come out saying that Rinoa =/= Ultimecia?

  • BeezelBeezel There was no agreement little morsel..Registered User regular
    I think so yeah, but it's the only theory I heard that makes any lick of sense.

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  • kingdonutkingdonut Registered User regular
    Personally, I think Ultimecia being the future corrupted/insane/depressed version of Rinoa would have been a pretty awesome twist with tragic undertones since the party and Squall would have to fight her to save the Multiverse.

    Still, with all the emphasis they put on Knights always being with Sorceresses, with the exception of nutjob Adel, I think they really should have shown us who Ultimecia's Knight was in the future...unless it was one of those creatures you fight in her Castle....

  • Xenogears of BoreXenogears of Bore Registered User regular
    It's just a metaphor.

    Seifer wanted to be Edea's Knight because he'd wanted to be a knightly figure ever since seeing that stupid movie with Laguna in it when he was just a lad.

    Squall as Rinoa's knight expresses his feelings towards her.

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  • kingdonutkingdonut Registered User regular
    In that case, I'll be Ultimecia's Knight.

    She was a tragic villain who was forced into villainy due to endless persecution for crimes she was supposed to commit in the future. SeeD are the real badguys and just a bunch of bigots with handsome faces.

  • Unco-ordinatedUnco-ordinated NZRegistered User regular
    I really wish they'd remake FFVIII and actually finish it this time around. I loved the first two discs but shortly afterwards, it just became a rushed mess.

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  • kingdonutkingdonut Registered User regular
    I really wish they'd remake FFVIII and actually finish it this time around. I loved the first two discs but shortly afterwards, it just became a rushed mess.

    It will live on in Dissidia and various other pantheon collaborations.

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