Squall The Impaled

[Sephiroth]

And I always thought the only dream in Final Fantasy VIII is about a moron.

Final Fantasy VIII has a in my opinion good but by far not the best story. Definitely interpreted by far more than it means but it is a good story.

This is looked at in the same way as someone saying "Why can't you just use a phoenix down on a character who's death is plot related?".

In early Final Fantasys you were able to die and you have been brought back in churches. Now it is just: Story dimension: real, Battle dimension: not real except the demonstration and that a battle itself happened without counting that it really happened how you see it (stats, moves which can never be used against characters or enemies in the real storyline when it comes to comparing their power). Magic like "Death" is just called that because it is fitting for the system which includes stats. In fact normally magic and items cannot bring you back to life. It is like being unconscious - the only special case is Rachel in Final Fantasy VI who is in some sleeping beauty death-like state and where Phoenix really has some story effect. Nevertheless death normally cannot be cured in Final Fantasy. What would characters like Tellah, Galuf, Leo, Aerith, Odin, Brane, Kuja, Reks, Rasler, et cetera say? "You bastard! Just buy that damn Phoenix Down!" - "Sorry, no Gil." Not everything in the battle dimension means what it shows. Attacks for example only demonstrate, what characters and enemies can do. The attack itself, not that is works against every character like people would (normally jokingly) say about characters like Sabin (who can lift many things without a doubt but not like Superman) or Tifa (who can also not lift a WEAPON but you would assume it by just looking at the Battle dimension.

When it comes to theories at least I think the one about Ultimecia, even though it is also wroing, is a bit more interesting. Finding out that nothing of what you experienced, really happened and not having one real moment to show that this is really what is meant, which is also missing for the Ultimecia theory in case you do no over-interprete too much, is really bad.