Quote Originally Posted by Fox_ View Post
The weirdest age related thing in Final Fantasy was Quistis, I felt. Usually you get away with the fact that everyone's like, 19 by simply not talking about it. But Quistis? "I became a SeeD when I was 15, and then an instructor when I was 17. That was one year ago."

How can you be an instructor at that age? Is she even old enough to be drinking the champagne at that party?
I'm not getting into the rest of this argument because I don't care to really, but Quistis has always been an interesting character to me. The fact that she was made an instructor at such a young age is absolutely ridiculous, but she never really comes off as a particularly good instructor either. I've always thought that she always seemed a bit immature, and she acted like a teenager for much of the time I felt. Balamb Garden is kind of poorly run in general. The initial purpose of building the school was shakily vague at best, and it eventually just seemed to become a school where they were simply training kids from a very young age to become highly trained mercenaries by 18ish. Cid doesn't seem to really be running things well in the glimpses we see of the school. Honestly, the garden faculty and NORG all seem to have more control at the end of the day.

Interestingly, we never see any other teachers either that I can think of. I wonder if all the teachers in that school are young like Quistis, or if maybe Cid had the stupid idea of thinking "well, maybe the kids will be able to relate better to an instructor that is the same age as them." The whole of the VIII world and the Garden concept is really weird when you think about it.

But I digress, that has little to do with the arguments being made in this thread, and has literally nothing to do with XV.