Okay! So. Squall! Is really emotionally needy but extremely emotionally retarded. These don't really go together well! So he ends up actively pushing people away on the off-chance he might get hurt if he lets someone close to him and they decide he's not good enough and leave.
Rinoa shows up and-- well, her first act is to say 'you-are-going-to-like-me' while waving her hand in his face. Her second act is to DRAG HIM OUT to dance. Neither of those is sending a message of "oh by the way I'm going to reject you once I get to know you", obviously. And then she walks away and he's like ... :(
But then the Timber mission happens! And she LEAPS INTO HIS ARMS all 'yay! SeeD is here, SeeD is here!' And-- this is a vastly positive reaction to him, and Squall is like ... at this point I think he's already gone (And Quistis can tell; she says she'd given up by the time Rinoa got into the picture and I do believe in Quistis' ability to read Squall like a book with huge font), it's just a matter of getting him to admit it! And ... what gets him to admit that YES OKAY FINE HE LIKES RINOA is ...
... Well, guilt, actually. She goes into a coma while under his protection, after implying repeatedly that she likes him and trusts him. And this hits two buttons at once-- "holy shit someone likes me and I let them down" as well as "oh god I fucked up this mission really hard". These are like huge flashing red buttons. So ... even though he acts like a dick to Rinoa all through disk 2 and even into disk 3 a little, he does genuinely care about her and want to protect her! And she can tell that he's not actually mean-spirited, he just doesn't know how to not be blunt. And he can tell she can tell! So ... yes.
(option #1 coming soon after I finish baking a cake)
The only way to eke something approximating a confession from Lina is to kill all her friends twice first and THEN she has convenient magic amnesia about it.
Okay! So. Squall! Is really emotionally needy but extremely emotionally retarded. These don't really go together well! So he ends up actively pushing people away on the off-chance he might get hurt if he lets someone close to him and they decide he's not good enough and leave.
Rinoa shows up and-- well, her first act is to say 'you-are-going-to-like-me' while waving her hand in his face. Her second act is to DRAG HIM OUT to dance. Neither of those is sending a message of "oh by the way I'm going to reject you once I get to know you", obviously. And then she walks away and he's like ... :(
But then the Timber mission happens! And she LEAPS INTO HIS ARMS all 'yay! SeeD is here, SeeD is here!' And-- this is a vastly positive reaction to him, and Squall is like ... at this point I think he's already gone (And Quistis can tell; she says she'd given up by the time Rinoa got into the picture and I do believe in Quistis' ability to read Squall like a book with huge font), it's just a matter of getting him to admit it! And ... what gets him to admit that YES OKAY FINE HE LIKES RINOA is ...
... Well, guilt, actually. She goes into a coma while under his protection, after implying repeatedly that she likes him and trusts him. And this hits two buttons at once-- "holy shit someone likes me and I let them down" as well as "oh god I fucked up this mission really hard". These are like huge flashing red buttons. So ... even though he acts like a dick to Rinoa all through disk 2 and even into disk 3 a little, he does genuinely care about her and want to protect her! And she can tell that he's not actually mean-spirited, he just doesn't know how to not be blunt. And he can tell she can tell! So ... yes.
(option #1 coming soon after I finish baking a cake)
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TWO SEASONS LATER, THERE'S NO PROGRESS.
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... Man that is really really bad DO YOU NEED LIKE, TIPS FROM SQUALL OR SOMETHING
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