Originally Posted by
Iceglow
Ok, the article was a pile of steaming bull.....lets move on quickly.
Heres a logical explanation for the whole ending sequence where Squall gets lost onwards:
At one point in disc 3, just prior to the time compression activation if I remember correctly there is a warning given to the party to remember who they are otherwise they may not make it back from time compression.
Squall has never been the most sure of who he is since he met Rinoa. She changed him, shook his world up like a snow globe he's confused and he's been through a damn lot recently: Day one, goes in to battle in Dollet, Day 2 he's sent to Timber call it Day 3 he's sent in to assassinate the sorceress Edea and fails, call it a few more days, maybe a week before he is interrogated (he may have spent a lot of time in the prison recovering from his injury, we assume he was treated at least partially by magical means) About a day after he escapes, garden begins to move having made it back to Balamb and going through yet another big battle. 2 days floating at a randomly slow speed to reach FH, more battles plus garden festival which confuses him all the more. Due to the refit on garden we could possibly call that 2 weeks (though the game makes no point of these times, I could be wrong and it's still only like day 4) basically once you go through the story giving the events maybe a day or two depending on distances and events what make it hard to get there the storyline covers perhaps a month of solid war fighting for him he'd be weary, he's confused and he's all of a sudden alone as he always thought himself to be.
He loses himself in time compression because of the tired, confused and lone wolf status, he can't do everything alone he's realized this now and the idea of being alone is worse than the idea of having to put up with Zell worshipping him on his knees in what looked like a dodgy position. I'd get bent out of shape by that too.
Being lost in time compression he begins to forget himself, then a feather falls and he remembers something important and begins to remember Rinoa he doesn't appear to be calling her name merely calling out could be anything from "Hey biatch" to "help!" eventually he remembers her and she is looking for him between the two of them he gets found just as he's about to fail and she saves him. The weird blurry images going through the screen? Well thats Squall trying to remember, to make sense of everything it's when he either does or doesn't he gets swallowed by the white light. Personally I think he does but he only manages to put together the memory of the "I'll be here" discussion and thus goes there where Rinoa finds him.