Is Cid cheating on Edea?

[Serapy]

If Cid really loved Matron, he would come closer to her, cry with her, or whatever. He didn't. Instead, he used his head to take care of the situation; by ordering the SEEDs to kill the sorceresses.

Because he is her knight. A sorceress's knight is there to keep her from going crazy, or do horrible things.

Compared to Squall or Seifer, Cid doesn't seem to have the qualities of a knight.

Or to take her down if she does.

That statement of yours is a bit hinting at R=U right there. Squall killing Rinoa in the future because of what she's about to achieve.

Cid didn't even look that bad when he's acknowledged that you're ordered to assassinate Edea.

Because he knew this day would come. Time paradox, remember? It's why they put Ellone on a boat too.

It doesn't matter where they put Ellone because Ultimecia always will fail. Just like what happened with the Adel situation. After when Squall travels back to the past and informs Matron of the Garden / SEED ideas, time will be set in stone.

Ultimecia is ultra powerful. If you were Ultimecia and when you roll a dice of probabilities of killing someone entirely based on your spells and circumstances, and thier surroundings, some tiny numbers will tell you that you will kill at least one person. Unfortunately, the main characters in VIII have survived without any problem.

Time is set in stone at this point. Hell, if Ultimecia throws a zillion of ice strikes into Squall, he will always survive somehow!

The ending party is a different story. Of course, why wouldn't they be together when everybody else were celebrating?

Because they're 'together'. And Cid stayed with Edea at the orphanage for a chunk of the game after stepping down as Headmaster.

I've already gathered that they are together. But them being together doesn't prove that they actually love each other. To me, Cid and Matron are... just one of these regular couples who cares about each other, and that's about it.

It's Matron. Edea was just a code name for her being a sorceress.

No, you benighted ninny. Matron isn't a name, it's a title, like nanny.

Matron is the person who Squall / Co. remember fondly. A person who was kind, nice, lovely and helpful back then. These things are what the party fond of and therefore they simply call her Matron. Squall even calls Edea Matron later in the game, which proves that Squall rather calls her Matron instead of Edea. So, why should they call her Edea, instead of Matron?

When the party were younger, they were never told the 'Edea' word.
The first time when the party hears 'Edea', like she was some bad ass villain who wanted to rule everything.

I'm talking about the real person here, Matron. Not Edea. It's easier to clear up the confusion, too.

Oh, and thanks for calling that name. I'll be sure to add it to my vocabulary, hope you don't mind.

Guaranteed financial control and/or preventing lawsuits.

It is not required for them to be married for Edea to tell Cid about this and let him act on it. In fact, them being married makes the plan more prone to takeover by possessed Edea due to property by the entirety.

Perhaps, destiny is what made them marry each other. If they weren't married, there may have been... more worse incidents.

If it was a time paradox, he wouldn't be able to tell Matron about the ideas at all. Actually, we don't know what kind of impacts do time paradoxes bring in VIII, do we?

You don't know what a temporal paradox is, do you?
In any case, Squall telling Edea about Garden and SeeD is an information paradox, like handing your past self the plans to a time machine, the same plans you used to build your own machine.

Guess Ellone was wrong, then.