Final Fantasy VIII ending ?

[hardboiled]

I am totally at a lose. I dont' understand what happened? Who is Laguna? Many people say they love this ending but I'm not getting it.. Can anyone drop any hints or just outright tell me what the ending is about?

[Lakenbelle]

I don't think it's ever flat-out said, but Laguna is Squall's father and Raine was his mother. There was that person in whatever town it was where Raine's bar is that that says Raine had a son, and then Kiros says that "Squall looks like his father but has his mother's eyes." in Esthar City.

Are you confused about anything else?

[McLovin']

Who is Laguna?

Who is Squall?

[Captain Maxx Power]

As with most things in life, this problem can be solved with Diagrams;

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[YTDN]

As with most things in life, this problem can be solved with Diagrams;

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Diagrams indeed solve anything.

[Owen Macwere]

the ending is about laguna when he asked raine to marry him they are both squall's perants.... and squall was lost in the time trying hard to go back but failing then rinoa bring him back using love and so on.... seifer goes back to his original life with raijin and fujin.... laguna live happily with ellone and kiros and ward and not forgetting his wife.... the six heros live happily togather in the garden and rinoa and squall be lovers... living happily ever after.. tata.. done.

[Shiny]

I am totally at a lose. I dont' understand what happened? Who is Laguna? Many people say they love this ending but I'm not getting it.. Can anyone drop any hints or just outright tell me what the ending is about?
To add on to what Lakenbelle said, there was a part in the game in which the moombas tasted Squall's blood then thought he was Laguna. The only reason the moombas could think that they're blood is the same is, because Laguna and Squall are related. And because Laguna is actually older than it reads in the book he's old enough to be Squall's father. In the booklet is says Laguna is 27 (I believe) which is only true in the flashback sequences Squall's half-sister, Ellone, triggers. In real time Laguna is in his 40's. If you look closely at the end when Laguna is at Raine's grave you will see that his eyes have slight wrinkles and around his mouth. :) As for the ending, that's up for interpretation. My opinion of the ending is not a very good one so I won't say anything further.

[Zeromus_X]

Laguna and Raine are Squall's parents. In addition, Julia and General Caraway are Rinoa's parents. :cat:

And rofl at Captain's chart. xD

[hardboiled]

Awesome, its like fate or something that Squall meets his Father's passionate never had love's daughter... interesting... Thanks for the diagram and replys, I stopped playing FF 8 for a while came back to playing it towards the end of the 3rd disk and realized I didnt' remember anything about the storyline, cause it was pretty complex, but you guys helped clear it up.. now I feel like I'lll have to play the game again to appreciate the actual story more since I didn't get it the 1st time around.

[Owen Macwere]

u r welcome mate.... anything anytime ... ^_-

[Nick Schovitz]

I was first caught in a trance at the ending when they showed Rinoa at the garden party, and with no face.

[Jessweeee♪]

Yeah...that was creepy...

[phoenix_noway]

so when the time Rinoa found Squall why is he dead??
so if he's not dead why Rinoa is crying
and how did he revive?? by using phoenix down??

oh and how did he died?? who killed him??

If you have something else to say, please use the edit button instead of posting twice! -kikimm

[Sir Bahamut]

Basically, after defeating Ultimecia, time started to de-compress. This opened up the possibility for the party to will themself back to their own time again, as you see Selphie and Quistis etc. doing after the battle. However, for this to work, it is essential to have faith in others (as Laguna explains before disc 4, it's all about love, friendship and courage etc.). Squall does NOT have faith in others, due to his continued inability to rely on anyone but himself (ie. his 'lone wolf' attitude).

Because of this, Squall's attempts to get back don't work, and after first going to the Orphanage, he ends up getting lost in a time warp of sorts. This time-warp reacts to his thoughts, emotions and memories (again, like Laguna talks about), which explains the landscape he's in; he thinks he's completely lost and alone, so the time warp looks like a vast, barren landscape. Then he gives up, and think's he's stuck for good, and the time warp now looks like a tiny island from which there is truly no escape.

Finally, his thoughts turn to Rinoa, but since his emotions are all messed up, the time warp only shows twisted images of Rinoa. All this stress and despair eventually leads to him collapsing. Now, there's no way of telling exactly what happened to him (did he faint or die?), but in the end it doesn't matter, because Rinoa (using her love towards Squall) is able to find him, awaken him, and together (using the 'power of love') they break free of the time warp and end up back in their own time.

I would say Squall merely fainted, because that enables Squall to have been woken up merely by Rinoa hugging him, but one might speculate that Rinoa's powers woke him from the dead.

[Owen Macwere]

no one killed him...... my believe say that he traviled far into the future where he can not exist so he tried to remember but faild as he was driffting so away....... other people say that he just went breserk and lost himself in his sad memories that he was unable to go back.......why rinoa cried? because she thought that he was dead or he was....how he revived..? unless he was dead he came back to life when he reached his time or that her magical powers revived him....i think that's all.. it is a little complex but you can manage to understand it dude...^_^

[~SapphireStar~]

I believed Squall died from exhastion (sp) searching for Rinoa. She finds him and then decends into madness cause hes dead. So when she picks him up and smiles, shes got mad and believes he is alive again. Then the party is Rinoas perfect dream with everyone celebrating and having fun. Thats what I believe.

[Sir Bahamut]

Err, well that belief goes against everything the game has built up to, and would also require Square to have a sick kind of humour they have not displayed in any other FF game to date. But anyway....

[Owen Macwere]

Err, well that belief goes against everything the game has built up to, and would also require Square to have a sick kind of humour they have not displayed in any other FF game to date. But anyway....

who's believe mine or sapphirestar's believe??!!! :confused:

[Sir Bahamut]

SapphireStar's. Sorry for the confusion.

[Owen Macwere]

SapphireStar's. Sorry for the confusion.

it is quite alright mate :) i just thought to ask:D

[~SapphireStar~]

As I said, thats what I believe, Im not forcing others to believe it.

[Qurange]

If done right, it could make for an interesting fanfic--though I'm sure it's been tried before--but I'm inclined to think that while Squall may have been rather close to death (though it was more exhaustion, I'm sure--he would've lived, he just would've been lost), he was in fact alive at the ending--Rinoa brought him back to the others, etc., etc.

[Ya Boy Alex]

As with most things in life, this problem can be solved with Diagrams;

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I <3 you.

[Christmas]

Squall is no longer a virgin in the ending. :smug: