Well, this thread has been beaten to death.

Um, no, Ultimecia and Rinoa are not the same people. There. The whole point was that Ultimecia was posessing people from the current time in order to take over the world or whatever, i.e. Edea and Rinoa.

Edea is Edea, Rinoa is Rinoa, and Ultimecia is Ultimecia. Period.

(wonders where you were for half the story)