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That is a question of debate!
Rinoa technically represents the natural order, while Squall is humanism (along with Laguna).
It was preordained that the great Hynes descendents were to rule man kind...and as we witness in today’s world individuals have replaced the holy regents (I admit that some rulers are the destructive form of the divine (luciferin) e.g. Genghis Khan). Laguna represents the modern humanism replacing the traditionally ordained ruler. The fact that the people feel that Laguna is better than Adel, reasserts his image as a manifestation of the anti-Christ. So Hyne sends an Armageddon, which was ordained to destroy the secular Esthar just as it did Centra.
So pheonix in a way Rinoa is actually the good guy being defeated by squall.
When I first played it I thought that Ultimecia was a descendent of Rinoa.. but not Rinoa herself. It made little sense why Rinoa would possess herself in the past only to have herself die in space... If Ulti had forgotten about Squall then how would she know that Squall would come to her rescue? Or here is the catch…she wanted to die so that Adel would be free to complete time compression, rather than Rinoa/ ulti who would loose in the future to Squall?
This debate is starting to sound like the old…Is Deckard from Blade runner a replicant? There is as much evidence for as there is against, I guess we will never know.
Phoenix, I have talked with a lot of FF players and they believe that the Ulti ending was a bit lame. Many have dreamt of a full scale war where one of the leads died. My choice is Rinoa and Squall for that Romeo and Juliet element….
Ahhh Big D.. As you know pop American kulture insists that if you vant a German sounding Kolonel (Herzog) Klinck type baddie give em a K instead of a C... This also inclinated Ulti with Dr. Odine (those mechanical Germans) This is based on the sound and the fact The Capital in German is Das Kapital... As you may know being a student of German.
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