History Fridge / FinalFantasyVIII

* When Squall is voiced, his voice tends to be slightly nasal. This wouldn't really make sense, except for one thing-the scar across his face. Getting smashed in the face by a gunblade would have damaged his nasal passages slightly, leading to a nasal voice!

*** The most logical conclusion is that he had them train with GFs because that's the only way to have enough power to fight a Sorceress and have a chance of winning. Sure, we can fight and win without them but that's just game mechanics not what's actually supposed to be happening.

** This doesn't seem to be ''precisely'' the case, given that Cid specifically encourages the [=SeeD=] trainees to think for themselves, saying he doesn't want them to be like automatons, and completely abdicates authority to Squall as soon as Garden makes the shift from military ''academy'' to active fighting force. It's more probable that he did it, at least in part, to make sure that Squall and his team would be able to fight against Edea without being conflicted by their memories of her as their childhood Matron. Which is still pretty creepy.

** Then the waitress that handed him a drink probably had the same idea. Isn't the usual practice to take your own drink and stuff from passing waiters rather than the opposite?
*** Pretty sure it's a waiter's job to give partygoers a chance to get a drink if they want one, which includes stopping to offer one if there's an opportunity to do so.

* Why did Headmaster Cid use Guardian Forces that can make people forget their early childhood? So he will have loyal ChildSoldier that only remember growing up under his care.

** ... Okay, now I ''have'' to completely drain that draw point when I reach Trabia Garden. [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel Just in case]].

** ... Okay, now I ''have'' to completely drain that draw point when I reach Trabia Garden. [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel Just in case]].

** Pretty sure it's a waiter's job to give partygoers a chance to get a drink if they want one, which includes stopping to offer one if there's an opportunity to do so.

* About the TrainJob in disc 1. I was wondering how the heck the uncoupled cars could somehow catch up and recouple if there's no locomotive on their end. Sure, the FMV shows the Timber Owls train deliberately slowing down to couple to the cars at the back before picking up speed to connect to the front, but that didn't explain the cars recoupling after the Timber owls train made off with the President's car. Then it occurred to me... ''the dummy President car'' probably has its own mini-locomotive built in to do that.

* A small one, but... what ''did'' happen to that student who went to the Tomb of the Unknown King and never returned? Sure, two girls run out in a panic, but it's specifically mentioned that only ''one'' student went to the Tomb, and that the student was male. And then you find an abandoned sword/gunblade on the floor. Nowhere in the tomb do you find a body, or anything to indicate what might have happened to the student -- which could be considered a good thing, [[NothingIsScarier or not]]. He might have escaped the Tomb, perhaps dropping his weapon in a panic on the way out, but [[EverythingTryingToKillYou considering what's waiting for him outside]], it's unlikely he would have survived the long trip back unarmed and alone. And for that matter, if the student hadn't been heard from since leaving the city, [[EpilepticTrees how did Caring know for certain that there would be anything to find at all]]...?

* There is a Zombie draw point in Trabia Garden's graveyard. I repeat, [[CameBackWrong zombie magic]] is flowing through the place where Garden students are buried.

* There is a Zombie draw point in Trabia Garden's graveyard. I repeat, [[CameBackWrong zombie magic]] is flowing through the place where Garden students are buried.
* Squall's dialog with Rinoa after freeing her from Esthar: "Even if you become the world's enemy, I will be your knight." Was anyone else reminded of Seifer's schtick throughout the entire game that he is the Sorceress' Knight? Squall and Seifer are more alike than either of them care to admit, and had things gone differently, Squall could have been in exactly the same position.
** The parallels between Squall and Seifer are pretty obvious and certainly intentional. It's more of a contrast than a direct similarity, though, since their approaches are very different - Seifer aspires to knighthood for its own sake (his "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_(heroic_literature) romantic]] dream") so Ultimecia is able to use his aspirations to manipulate him. Squall, meanwhile, has no such aspirations and assumes the role purely for love of and in order to protect Rinoa without caring about the imagery or trappings of the role.

* Squall's dialog with Rinoa after freeing her from Esthar.
-->'''Squall:''' Even if you become the world's enemy, I will be your knight.
Was anyone else reminded of Seifer's schtick throughout the entire game that he is the Sorceress' Knight? Squall and Seifer are more alike than either of them care to admit, and had things gone differently, Squall could have been in exactly the same position.

* In ''FinalFantasyVIII'', you can summon Eden, which delivers a blast so powerful it sent your enemies to a nearby galaxy and destroys said galaxy in a sort of EarthShatteringKaboom fashion. If you happen to use this summon often, or even sometimes, it means that there's a strong possibily that the [[DesignatedHero heroes are inadvertently mass murderers]].

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* There is a Zombie draw point in Trabia Garden's graveyard. I repeat, [[CameBackWrong zombie magic]] is flowing through the place where Garden students are buried.