After the war
Remembering the gang
"Global
News"
Sunday, October 28th, 4150
Remembering
the "Gang"
Today is the anniversary of the defeat of Sorceress Ultimecia. This is no
ordinary anniversary. Three years have passed since six brave teenagers, with
the theme of "Love, friendship, and courage", traveled to the future
and defeated the most powerful sorceress of all time. Her name? Ultimecia.
Squall Leonhart, Commander of Balamb Garden (at that time) was a lonely, silent
and cold man and as everyone of you know he uses a gunblade. Leonhart leaded the
attack to Sorceress Ultimecia. Now he's a 20-year-old changed man thanks to
Rinoa Heartilly, also his girlfriend at that time. Heartilly helped him to open
more to her and to her friends during the sorceress war and, naturally, feelings
for each grew bigger everyday until (2 years ago) they broke up.
Rinoa Heartilly, daughter of Julia Heartilly and galbadian General Caraway and
leader of one of Timber's most famous resistances movements "The Forest
Owls" is a very kind and loving person. She gives with no thought of
reward, and that is what draws people to her. Her weapon is called the Blaster
Edge. Now she is 20 years old.
Selphie Tilmitt is the heart of every party also she's a cheery and outgoing
person. Her weapon of choice is the nunchaku. One of Tilmitt's qualities is that
she's there to cheer up the rest of her friends.
Irvine Kinneas is know by all the press as the real Ladies Man because he never
gives up (on the ladies ). He is an expert sniper and was the one that gave that
perfect shot to Sorceress Edea during the parade in Deling City.
Zell Dincht, is a very temperamental person, and tends to have mood swings. He
has great close combat skills that's why he is one of the most requested SeeDs
in any mission. He loves the hot dogs sold in the Balamb Garden cafeteria.
Quistis Trepe, with blonde hair, blue eyes, and a good curriculum is a prodigy
at fighting skills. She entered the Garden at the age of 10, by the time she was
15 she was in SeeD, then she was an instructor until she loosed her license
because (as she told us) lack of leadership qualities. After the war she was
presented with a challenge: to train Seifer Almasy to become a SeeD if she
achieve it she could be an instructor again. Thanks Hyne she succeed! Now she is
Commander of Balamb Garden.
After the war these six mercenaries were invited to all kind of celebrations,
social parties, events; even a film producer made a movie about their life's
accompanied, of course, by a lot of merchandising. The movie was a total
success!
But not everything is as happy as it looks. Two years ago, one year after the
defeat of Ultimecia and during almost 6 months these headlines filled all the
tabloids all around Gaia "FORMER BALAMB GARDEN COMMANDER RESIGNS"
"LEONHART RESIGNS" "LEONHART AND HEARTILLY END THEIR
RELATIONSHIP" Sad, isn't it? Things couldn't get worse that they were until
this headline was in all the media "THE GANG (as they were known) IS
BEAKING UP" Yeah, everyone was shocked about that news, the question is:
why? Until now nobody can answer that.
First, Squall Leonhart and Rinoa Heartilly after one year of been a couple had a
friendly break up because (as they told the press) they needed some time; they
ARE friends (not as some newspapers say). Now Leonhart is living with his father
President Laguna Loire and his stepsister Ellone in Esthar and Miss Rinoa
Heartilly is living with her father in Galbadia. We can hopefully wait if they
get together again.
Second, Irvine Kinneas broke up with Selphie Tilmitt (at the beginning not a
very friendly break up but the last news are that they dating again) after a
galbadian tabloid published (false) pictures of him in a restaurant with other
girl with this headline "WHO'S THAT GIRL, KINNEAS?" what is weird is
that in all the pictures we only can see "Kinneas" back and his long
hair. Kinneas said, "That's not me! That day I was with Selphie in
Balamb!" Now he's studying in Galbadia Garden and Mrs. Tilmitt is
instructing in Trabia Garden.
Zell Dincht (finally!) got his hot dogs from Balamb Garden Cafeteria and about
him nothing is known except that he's dating a librarian and is head of the
Disciplinary Committee in Balamb Garden.
But what is having all of us watching the news, reading magazines and
newspapers; what everybody talks in every social party in the world is about
them: Quistis Trepe and Seifer Almasy. How? Nobody knows but certainly it was
when Mr. Almasy (who was declared innocent in his trial because Edea Kramer said
he was manipulated during the Sorceress War) was readmitted in Balamb Garden
during the management of Squall Leonhart. Now he's a SeeD, one of the best ones.
She's Commander (as I pointed out before) since Leonhart resigned and she's been
handling her duties perfectly, Headmaster Cid Kramer couldn't make a better
choice!
This is how life of six mercenaries who once (together) saved the world of
disaster has turned. Nobody knows what the future has in store for them but I
hope, just like everyone else that things get better for them in their life's
because everybody wants to see the Orphanage Gang together again.
By Ron Sckylt