Originally Posted by
Serapy
I don't think Adel looked like that before she was imprisoned.
I also don't think she looked like that before he even gained her own powers. It cannot be possible. It's likely that she looked like a normal person before all this happened.
Therefore, when she was imprisoned for many years, her physical being has begun to evolve. Something in the imprisonment made her have tattoos, strange symbols, red eyes, and muscles, as a result for living ageless (paying the ultimate price.) How did she get muscles? Did she exercise and eat free food during his imprisonment ? Cannot be possible because from the FMV she was seen to be stuck in the same position. That is what imprisonment means for witches in VIII.
So, if you compare Adel to Ultimecia, you can see some similarities. That would explain why Ultimecia was imprisoned as well. Because if she wasn't imprisoned, she wouldn't have these tattoos and other things around herself (such as her horns.) Her imprisonment caused her to go crazy, going back to the past to rule the whole world for revenge and vengeance.
The only flaw is Zell's tattoos. How did he get them, and his tattoos really look like Ultimecia's tattoos. Rubah linked me to one of the interviews regarding his tattoos, but I'm suprised the writer didn't say anything about Ultimecia or Adel tattoos so they must mean something.