She hasn't!? Hmmm.... I distinctly remember Rinoa saving Squall, uh...three times. First time was at the D-District Prison, when Rinoa kicked Irvine's cowardly ass into gear, and got him to go back for the others (which included Squall). Irvine was just going to abandon them. Because of Rinoa, the gang were able to escape from there.Originally Posted by ~SapphireStar~
The second time was far more significant: when Rinoa found Squall on his island (ah...metaphor) during Time Compression, and the strength of their combined wills transformed the desert wasteland into the flower field from "The Promise". If it hadn't been for Rinoa, Squally would have been lost in Time Compression forever - and never would have made his way back home.
Finally, Rinoa saved Squall in a more abstract sense.... She saved him from a lonely, miserable future, and the bottomless pit he was going to call life.
So, I think it's fair to say that Squall and Rinoa saved each other.... In contrast, Garnet NEVER saved Zidane - yet he saved her three times (from the Plant Brain in Evil Forest, from Brahne, when she was going to have Garnet executed, and from the crumbling Alexandria Castle at the beginning of disc 3). So, Squall and Rinoa's relationship is at least more equal than Zidane and Garnet's. I don't think the fact that Rinoa and Garnet - or any other FF female lead - had to be rescued is a reflection on their characters, it's simply a part of the Love Interest In RPG Syndrome. The big "rescue" scenes in RPG love stories are not there to show incompetence on the LI's part (although this is sometimes an unfortunate side effect), they're there to give the hero a chance to show off, and to show how much he cares.
Quistis was simply not important enough to be saved by Squall.
People (i.e. Rinoa haters) make out that Quistis is something that she's not, in an attempt to make Rinoa look worse by comparison. It's sad.
