LeonhartFour posted... it really shouldn't make a lot of their bonding moments optional but the game does plenty to show you ahead of time that Squall has feelings for Rinoa even if he won't admit it to anyone, including himself
I don't think it does a very good job of that at all, actually. Until he suddenly decides he's in love with her when she's in the coma, he at best seems to think of her no different that the rest of the party/his friends. He holds himself back but does obviously care about them. The closest it comes is during the Garden Battle when she's hanging off the side and no one can reach her. He gets extremely stressed out because he wants to save her, but also has an important duty to Balamb to lead the battle but I never took that part to be about how he would react about her in particular. It would have been the same if it had been Zell, Sephie, Quistis, etc. hanging on there.
The game shows he cares, it just doesn't successfully show he cares about her romantically until the scene he comes out and says it. Or at least that's how the game has always seemed to me.
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