FF VIII Poster, Who Are These Characters?

[TheAbominatrix]

They arent original designs for Squall and Rinoa. They're exact pictures of Vaan and Penelo, in the exact cg's for XII, and someone took the picture and slapped it on a recolored (used a tool in photoshop no doubt) picture of Balamb Garden, and were too dumb/unobservant/lazy to change/remove the Final Fantasy VIII logo.

If you go in small Korean/Chinese/Japanese shops (like in Chinatown/Little Saigon/Little Tokyo/etc edit: and no I'm not being racist, these are simply the only places I've found them in, mainly because they're the only places who carry this sort of merch) they have stuff like this everywhere. And there's people who sell this stuff to schmuks on ebay who're desperate for XII merch. They do this kinda stuff with anime and video game pictures all the time. People make a lot of money with these pirated materials.

There, I've attached a scan from JUMP magazine with both of those pictures included. You can also visit the official site and learn the exact same thing.