explanations. *serious spoilers. do not read uless you hae completed the game.*

[Serapy]

. he cant have died permantently because you see him in the ending sequence of the credits.

damm, that's what i was going to say.

In the last part of the ending squence, you've only noticed Squall at one point only, even after Rinoa waving her finger, familiar? A strange coincidence? Or maybe it was a dream in Rinoa's visions (seeing Squall after she blinked her finger)?