Proof Rinoa is Seed.

[Avarice-ness]

GF training was a specialty of Balamb Garden, neither of the other gardens did so much with them.

I don't remember if Irvine had done his examination, but he was SeeD enough for galbadia garden to assign him a mission

Yeah, he was a SeeD. You see him at the garden for the first time, that pretty much implies that he was trained at the garden or at least I think.

Well.. I started in the game in the garden but I definantly wasn't a SeeD. I'm replaying anyways so I'll see if he mentions anything about being a SeeD.

I think Ultimecia's repetition of 'SeeD' is basically her mocking them, that's all, not addressing them personally. Remember that technically, Irvine is not a SeeD either, as he has not done any training with the GFs, and has retained his memories of the orphanage.

I have assigned GFs onto Irvine, so I don't think that was the case :/ but I think he was lucky to remember the oprange events or maybe Ulti didn't make him forget properly.

You can assign GF's onto him because if you couldn't give him any GF's he would have no buff's via junctioning, thus making him the most useless character in the history of video games.

I can assign GF's to rinoa and we don't even know if she's SeeD, hence this theory thread.

Not to mention, I just restarted the game and Quistis gave me two GF's. I'm still a student as squall, but I can clearly use them while not being under the title of SeeD.

Also, if rinoa was a SeeD wouldn't that screw with the R=U theory because in terms a "SeeD" killed Ulti, so it'd be kind of hypocrittical for her to hate SeeD's when she herself was one in her past form, not to mention it's never stated what SeeD's killed her.