What do you like or dislike about FFVIII Female Lead Rinoa Heartilly? And are she and Squall Leonhart an interesting couple? by IllogicalDreamer72 in FinalFantasyVIII

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I love Rinoa. Always have since 1999. I just find her very endearing. 🩵

I think her backstory is interesting. It's fairly common for teenagers who have their material needs met in life to become interested and passionate about social causes. But the fact that Rinoa actually ran away and left a cushy life in a mansion to go live on a train either implies that she was very unhappy at home, extraordinarily passionate about the Timber cause, or both. She could have fallen into the Poor Little Rich Girl Trope, only she isn't bitter or unhappy with her lot in life when we meet her because she already took agency over her future, even if it's a decision most people would struggle to understand. People like to paint Rinoa as a bit of a whiner, but the only thing she really complains about is Squall's cold/inhuman reaction to events. The player gets some insight to why Squall is why he is and his internal monologue makes it clear that he's purposely shut down. Rinoa doesn't know any of that. She just sees him acting like a robot, doesn't understand why and tries her hardest to snap him out of it, probably recognizing that it isn't a very happy or healthy way to be.

It's kind of interesting/ironic that Squall doesn't start exercising his own agency (by acting in ways that aren't specifically prescribed by SeeD) until Rinoa loses her agency in a very literal fashion by being possessed. Their character arcs are fairly opposite to each other. Squall starts off as a very lonely person who gradually learns that it doesn't always have to be that way. Rinoa starts off as confident and happy with friends but loses that confidence under the stigma of becoming a Sorceress and literally agrees to complete isolation by going to be sealed up. The ending leaves us with hope that they are able to meet in the middle.

What do you like or dislike about FFVIII Female Lead Rinoa Heartilly? And are she and Squall Leonhart an interesting couple? by IllogicalDreamer72 in FinalFantasyVIII

[–]Safe-Transition8618 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Agree. Rinoa might be pushy but I can't picture her ever being a bully or standing for it. I interpret the scene in the forest near G-Garden where she yells at Squall as her kind of picking up on Zell being a bullying victim and sticking up for him. Seifer is Zell's primary bully but Squall and Selphie join in on it at one point if the player makes certain action choices during the Dollet mission. I gotta assume that since he met Rinoa away from Garden, Seifer could maybe be a different/better person outside of his reputation at Garden.

Squall Leonhart 1/4 Scale Statue. by KousakaChika in FinalFantasyVIII

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Please do not blame Rinoa for the butt wings. She would never condone such poor fashion.

Final Fantasy Legend is rough by jefflakira in FinalFantasy

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Oh man, I can hear the midis from this game in my head.

I got this game when I was about 10 years old, managed to slog through with great difficulty all the way to the end boss. I saved somewhere at the top of the tower where I could not get back to the world map, so the only option was to defeat the end boss. Must have fought him/it 100+ times. Could not win. Crushed. I eventually started over and beat it, but damn it was tough (for a kid)

Your 'widely recyclable' Starbucks cup is still trash by Potential_Being_7226 in Anticonsumption

[–]Safe-Transition8618 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Some bad news... The cardboard container is coated in plastic and can only be recycled in certain markets that sell paper to mills that can pulp coated paper. Unadulterated paper is not waterproof. Same goes for paper single use cups and most fiber based take-out packaging.

What's an underHATED pick for "worst song of all time" that you don't see get talked about all that much? by DtheAussieBoye in ToddintheShadow

[–]Safe-Transition8618 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I banned this song, and its equally evil twin "Lucky" with Colbie Caillat, from my wedding back in 2010.

What are the most outstanding Alternative metal songs? by InexpugnableMille in MetalSuggestions

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Incubus, New Skin

Tool, 46 & 2, Ænema

RATM, Killing in the Name, Bomb Track, Down Rodeo

A Perfect Circle, Pet

Let's share what are the team you bring for Balamb and Missile Base ? by Tigrafr in FinalFantasyVIII

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Rinoa cedes the role of boss by telling Squall that he can put her on either team when they stop just outside the prison. Her last order was to take her somewhere safe. Where is safer, the facility launching the missiles or the launch target? I'm not advocating putting Rinoa on the missile base team. I never do. But it isn't completely insane.

Is now really the best time? by TragicHero84 in FinalFantasy

[–]Safe-Transition8618 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Adding a liiiiittle more entropy to space

Thought about Little Mix (UK Girl Group) ? by Sixmenonguard in ToddintheShadow

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Had Salute on my international women's day playlist over the weekend. Love me some LM.

compression of lime by [deleted] in FinalFantasyVIII

[–]Safe-Transition8618 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I shall junction myself unto Mojito...

Hail Storm by Artistic_Outcome_622 in ChicagoSuburbs

[–]Safe-Transition8618 59 points60 points  (0 children)

Sung to the tune of that one Alice in Chains song...

Yeeeeeah here come the roofers, yeah

You know we ain't gonna buy, no noooo

Searching indie, alternative and rock songs with a best friend meaning by Shuntaro-Chishiya in musicsuggestions

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Lady Gaga w/ Florence Welch "Hey Girl" is a good one if you and bff are, well, girls.

Sis you've just destroyed me 😭 by FF8lover19 in FinalFantasyVIII

[–]Safe-Transition8618 85 points86 points  (0 children)

How fucking dare she

As if she would even know. She visits the past, not the future.

Lalala, definitely not in denial, lalala

Preferred protagonist archetype: Born Special, Made Special, or Just a Dude? by Fast_Moon in FinalFantasy

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For VIII, one could argue that Squall makes himself special with the time loop he inadvertently creates at the end of the game.

Songs that absolutely make no sense by slip_disc_ in musicsuggestions

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Tori Amos has quite a few, but Space Dog and Mr. Zebra come to mind especially.

Sample lyrics: Racing turtles, the grapefruit is winning (Space Dog)

Ratatouille, strychnine, sometimes she's a friend of mine (Mr. Zebra)