allhailthevirtualboy:

there are tears streaming down my face. please give FF8 a remake

edit: crying bc squall leonhart is a good boy who’s trying his best. he tries to be funny, realizes he hurt rinoa’s feelings, and apologizes. it’s really sweet.

tiny interactions like this are really important when you think about how protagonists and supporting characters usually interact with each other. it usually has some huge philosophical meaning or backstory to it, or it directly benefits the player. and sure, scenes like this contribute to squall’s character growth, but it’s still is just a little interaction between two characters that are starting to get to know each other. it’s important to see squall struggle with his personality in terms of understanding his character development, but it’s also important to see a man like him apologize when he hurts one of his companion’s feelings.

i don’t see this as a burn; it’s an optional interaction that sets up squall and rinoa’s relationship and opens the door for squall’s development. we need optional character interaction like this in more games, especially between characters of opposite genders—not interactions that directly benefit the player or reveal some aspects of a deep backstory, but as a way to see the characters as people with thoughts and feelings of their own.