Poll of the Day > Final Fantasy VIII (SPOILERS)

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Ultimecia is Rinoa and you know it.

The only person who denies it didn't have that much creative control over the story.
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In a game with garbage characters Rinoa is an absolute garbage character
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Cotton_Eye_Joe posted...

Ultimecia is Rinoa and you know it.

The only person who denies it didn't have that much creative control over the story.

Technically whoever the Sorceress is is Ultimecia, which changes.
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Didn't square deny this? Either way I'm not against people having head Canon as long as nothing outright proves it wrong.
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It can't be. That'd make her more interesting otherwise!
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Ultimecia is whoever the current Sorceress is.
Riona is the Sorceress for part of the game
I don't see what the controversy is.

Everyone knows that Squall dies at the end of Disc 1 anyways.
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You're all mistaken. Ultimecia isn't whoever the current Sorceress is. For one, there can be more than one Sorceress at a time. Just look at Adel and Rinoa. Adel was sealed away because she couldn't die unless she passed on her sorceress powers, and Edea passed down her powers to Rinoa at the end of Disc 2. Hence, this "current Sorceress" talk must stop. Ultimecia just controls all of these Sorceresses at different times in the story with the use of the Ellone Junction Machine (developed by Doctor Odine), which she uses to send her consciousness to the past to possess the Sorceresses from her distant past. First, she took control of Edea sometime before the start of the game (or during), making her assassinate President Deling and take control of Galbadia Garden; then she took control of Rinoa after Edea was defeated by the orphanage gang. Then after Adel was released from her space cage, Ultimecia took possession of her. Then as part of Laguna's plan to thwart Ultimecia, the group heads to Lunatic Pandora, but Rinoa gets kidnapped by Seifer, who gives her to Adel, who is possessed by Ultimecia. Then Adel is defeated, then Rinoa is possessed once again. Then Ellone sends Ultimecia's consciousnesses from Rinoa's body to some other sorceress in the past, and that's when Ultimecia's time compression commences. And that's the last time that Ultimecia possesses someone. Oh, and at the end, she passes her sorceress powers to a younger Edea, who then passes it to Rinoa many years later (as mentioned before).
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The story is a nonsensical mess anyway so who cares.
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