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Topic	SaveEstelle/LeonhartFour in Different Houses: Remastered Edition [SELF]
LeonhartFour 09/17/19 10:59:53 PM #303:	Anyway, Ellone is still in the library where we left her, and this scene is the first time one of my favorite songs in the game occurs. I feel like this is one of the more underrated gems of the FFVIII OST because I never hear anyone else say it's one of their favorites, or maybe it means I'm just weird! Either way, the song is called "Drifting." It actually reminds me a lot of "Prisoners of Fate" (or whatever of the million translations of that song title you prefer) from Chrono Cross. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH9bLJI-mHM" data-time=" The fact that Ellone is clearly much older now than she was in the Laguna dream sequence should immediately clue you in that we've been viewing the past. Squall doesn't miss out on that connection either, obviously. He also makes the connection that she's the one responsible for those dream sequences, so he asks her what exactly they've been experiencing this whole time. She says it's hard to explain (and she's not wrong!), but she tells him that it's about the past. Specifically, Ellone wants to change the past. It may be impossible to change the past, but if there's even a slight possibility, it'd be worth a try, in her opinion. As I've mentioned before, Final Fantasy VIII seems to operate on a closed time loop, so along with the game's theme of "Fate," you really can't change the past. Things that happened in the past happen as if whatever influence from the future was always there. Laguna, Kiros, and Ward notice Squall and company's "presence" in the past, and that was always the case. Edea encountered time traveling Squall and the dying Ultimecia in the past, getting the idea for SeeD and Garden in the process, and that was always the case. Time in the world of FFVIII is all connected and almost predetermined in a way. Ultimecia wants to compress time to escape her fate, but that very act ends up sealing her fate. Past, present, and future all can influence each other, but they can't change each other. It's like an unbroken chain. For the record, the game only lightly touches on this, but the specific event Ellone is trying to change is when Laguna left Raine after they married and got pregnant with Squall to go rescue Ellone from Esthar. As a result of all that transpired, Laguna never came back, Raine died (presumably from complications in childbirth, but perhaps it was something preventable. Ellone must believe so, in any case), and both Squall and Ellone ended up in an orphanage. This speaks to how much she loves Laguna, Raine, and Squall that she's willing to change a past where she gets rescued from the clutches of Adel just so the three of them can live happily ever after together (or so she thinks). Anyway, getting back to the scene itself, Squall asks the million dollar question: Why him? Of course, if you've played the game before, you know the answer. He's Laguna's son, and Ellone sees him as a little brother (I've seen people mistakenly assume Squall and Ellone are actually blood related because child Squall calls her "Sis," but that's impossible. They all called her "Sis," for one thing, but Ellone's parents are confirmed to be dead and she was already a young child by the time Laguna arrived in Winhill. In that dream sequence, he had only been there for a year). --- http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/080/145/638.png https://imgur.com/WqDcNNq <cite>LeonhartFour posted [p:927591437] in SaveEstell... [t:77977709]...</cite> <quote>Anyway, Ellone is still in the library where we left her, and this scene is the first time one of my favorite songs in the game occurs. I feel like this is one of the more underrated gems of the FFVIII OST because I never hear anyone else say it's one of their favorites, or maybe it means I'm just weird! Either way, the song is called "Drifting." It actually reminds me a lot of "Prisoners of Fate" (or whatever of the million translations of that song title you prefer) from Chrono Cross. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH9bLJI-mHM" data-time=" The fact that Ellone is clearly much older now than she was in the Laguna dream sequence should immediately clue you in that we've been viewing the past. Squall doesn't miss out on that connection either, obviously. He also makes the connection that she's the one responsible for those dream sequences, so he asks her what exactly they've been experiencing this whole time. She says it's hard to explain (and she's not wrong!), but she tells him that it's about the past. Specifically, Ellone wants to change the past. It may be impossible to change the past, but if there's even a slight possibility, it'd be worth a try, in her opinion. As I've mentioned before, Final Fantasy VIII seems to operate on a closed time loop, so along with the game's theme of "Fate," you really can't change the past. Things that happened in the past happen as if whatever influence from the future was always there. Laguna, Kiros, and Ward notice Squall and company's "presence" in the past, and that was always the case. Edea encountered time traveling Squall and the dying Ultimecia in the past, getting the idea for SeeD and Garden in the process, and that was always the case. Time in the world of FFVIII is all connected and almost predetermined in a way. Ultimecia wants to compress time to escape her fate, but that very act ends up sealing her fate. Past, present, and future all can influence each other, but they can't change each other. It's like an unbroken chain. For the record, the game only lightly touches on this, but the specific event Ellone is trying to change is when Laguna left Raine after they married and got pregnant with Squall to go rescue Ellone from Esthar. As a result of all that transpired, Laguna never came back, Raine died (presumably from complications in childbirth, but perhaps it was something preventable. Ellone must believe so, in any case), and both Squall and Ellone ended up in an orphanage. This speaks to how much she loves Laguna, Raine, and Squall that she's willing to change a past where she gets rescued from the clutches of Adel just so the three of them can live happily ever after together (or so she thinks). Anyway, getting back to the scene itself, Squall asks the million dollar question: Why him? Of course, if you've played the game before, you know the answer. He's Laguna's son, and Ellone sees him as a little brother (I've seen people mistakenly assume Squall and Ellone are actually blood related because child Squall calls her "Sis," but that's impossible. They all called her "Sis," for one thing, but Ellone's parents are confirmed to be dead and she was already a young child by the time Laguna arrived in Winhill. In that dream sequence, he had only been there for a year). --- http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/080/145/638.png https://imgur.com/WqDcNNq</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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