WHAT THE HELL ARE FAERIES???

[ChCx91]

you remember from the flashback when laguna is on the front porch of the orphanage with young edea asking where ellone is when its raining and stuff? he mentions faeries...after looking around and edea asking him what is wrong. i it gets mentioned again sometime in the game as well. i never really knew what they were though...what are "FAERIES?"

[Christmas]

Squall and CO conscious got send to Laguna,Kiros and Wards into the past by Ellone.

So their conscious is inside them and so it is not strange that Laguna and CO might feel the existence of Squall and the others.

Laguna: Oh, sure. Hey there! Been wanting to meet you guys! You guys are the ones who were inside my head, right? It was like there weresome kind of waves running through my head. They gave us so much power during battle. We thought they were some kind of faeries flying over us

[Mo-Nercy]

I've always thought it was just a saying within the Final Fantasy VIII world. Laguna's simply experiencing a strange feeling as Ellone sends back Squall's consciousness into the past and just like how we would say "Woah, deja vu" when we experience something that feels like it's happened before, Laguna has said "Huh? Faeries?" when Squall is 'inside him' (oh grow up)

What faeries are exactly, I don't know. I don't think the game explains at any point. But it's probably just a belief based some sort of religion.

[Anaisa]

Faeries is another spelling for the more commenly known fairys. So faeries are fairys.

[muzzer]

they are mentioned in 'Legend of mana' so do you think, square connects its games ina wierd sort of way. It also has chocobos in it too

[*~Angel Wing~*]

you remember from the flashback when laguna is on the front porch of the orphanage with young edea asking where ellone is when its raining and stuff? he mentions faeries...after looking around and edea asking him what is wrong. i it gets mentioned again sometime in the game as well. i never really knew what they were though...what are "FAERIES?"

I have been wondering the same thing!!! IT'S BEEN DRIVING ME CRAZY!!!

[Slade]

Unknowns has the right idea.

[Aerith's Knight]

fearies.. is the same as fairys and those a mythycal creatures who are believed to watch and protect over people.

[Psychotic]

Whenever Laguna mentions 'faeries' it's because he can hear (Squall and the others') voices in his head, only he doesn't want to admit that because he'll sound crazy and Ward really hates crazy people, so he says they're 'faeries', and this explanation seems to satisfy Ward.

[Masamune·1600]

Unknowns and Psy have it right. "Faeries" refers explicitly to the "interruptions" caused by the past-projected consciousnesses of Squall and the others. As this superimposition of consciousness is not something that would normally be felt, Laguna attributes it to faeries--in other words, to the unknown and the unknowable.

For example...

Laguna: No...but she's just so cute! Oh, I wish I could hear her voice!

Squall: (I want to hear Rinoa's voice.)

Edea: Is something the matter?

Laguna: No...just the faeries...

Squall: (I don't care if it's the past or what. I want to hear Rinoa. I
want to see Rinoa.) (That way, there might be a chance to save her.)

The quoted text from the game shows Laguna reacting to the unseen, intangible consciousness of Squall; there is no possible way for him to understand what this other presence is, or what he is feeling, so he simply attributes it to the fantastical, to the unexplained.

[Future Esthar]

On sorceress tales a fairy represents the opposite of a sorceress in which the sorceress symbolize evil and fairies symbolze good.
So a fairy is basically a "good" sorceress.
The fairy in this case is Ellone.
Fairies had white wings in general.
And who do we know who has white wings?
Rinoa(=Ellone).

[Christmas]

On sorceress tales a fairy represents the opposite of a sorceress in which the sorceress symbolize evil and fairies symbolze good.

In fairy tales fairies are small and puny which you can grab with a arm and crash it.

Does that apply to FF VIII too?

So a fairy is basically a "good" sorceress.
The fairy in this case is Ellone.
Fairies had white wings in general.
And who do we know who has white wings?
Rinoa(=Ellone).

I dun see any white wings and OMFG, ARE THESE ALL SORCERESS!!!????
And do the fairy godmother happens to be the mother of all sorceress?

[Future Esthar]

As I said Fairies represent Good.
Fairies had wings.
A person having white wings will most likely be a fairie.
If a sorceress is a supernatural element and is real on FF8 why not a fairy?
I am sorry but to me it is most likely that there were fairies on FF8.

[Christmas]

As I said Fairies represent Good.
Fairies had wings.
A person having white wings will most likely be a fairie.

Have you heard of something called "ANGEL"? And the picture I posted above is what most people had in mind of a concept art of a fairy. MOST FAIRY DUN HAVE WHITE WINGS.

Angel - A representation of such a being, especially in Christianity, conventionally in the image of a human figure with a halo and wings.

BTW, Rinoa's limit break is called "Angel Wings" and not "Fairy Wings".

If a sorceress is a supernatural element and is real on FF8 why not a fairy?
I am sorry but to me it is most likely that there were fairies on FF8.

Why dun you just include every supernatural element that ever appear in human history into FF VIII as well?

[Qurange]

I'm with the others, of course; the faeries weren't faeries but Squall and company, obviously. ...All jokes about Squall's coat aside.

Actually, as far as I know, aren't faerie wings different than the white, feathery wings that Rinoa displays (more like angel wings, like Unknowns mentioned)? Just, in popular myth, their wings tend to be thinner than that. I don't think that fairies and sorceresses have any particular link.

...However, given the lines at Trabia ('A gift from the faeries') and that Laguna would think to call something like the Junctions 'faeries', I think we could easily say that faeries are a popular part of the FF8 world's mythologies--not that that affects much, but it might be a little touch that better fleshes out the world.