Playing FF8 recently has obviously got me thinking a lot about how it fits into FtPverse, and the latest topic of discussion has been
The circumstances of little Squall's birth
Me and magik have adopted the canon for our universes that Winhill = Radiant Garden in it being the Place where Laguna shows up after being injured in war or, whatever (the exact circumstances in FtPverse are up in the air) and also being where Raine lives.
In my consideration of Raine living in Radiant Garden, I considered "what if she and Aerith's mom (Elmyra, btw) knew each other?" and that was an idea I liked immediately.
So! Laguna shows up, injured, Elmyra heals him up, and then Raine offers to let him stay in the spare room at her place until he's 100% again and ready to go, whenever that may be. Obviously, they fell in love, got married, this still follows the plot of FF8, no major changes except the setting.
One day Ellone is kidnapped by Adel for yet undetermined reasons, and Laguna leaves an unknowingly pregnant Raine behind to find her. This still follows the events of FF8, though in FF8 Ellone eventually got sent back to Raine---that is not the case here. Raine dying shortly after giving birth to Squall is, though.
The assumption from there had been "Raine's dead, Laguna's not going to come back, so Squall ends up in the orphanage."
Then I got to thinking:
If Aerith's mom, Elmyra, knew Raine well, and they were good friends..... why, exactly, would Elmyra let Squall, one of her best friends' son, go to an orphanage when she's perfectly capable of taking care of him (and at least at the beginning there was pretty sure it was only until Laguna returned).
So.
Aerith's mom raised Squall.
Aerith and Squall are literally siblings.
This is 100% canon, and I haven't been able to stop grinning about it for the past two days because it's such a good idea, it's such a good dynamic, and it adds an extra element to the "Zack and Aerith tag along for FF8" thing but also as to FtPverse as a whole.
Of course: they both know they're adopted, but that doesn't change the fact that they consider Elmyra their mother, nor the fact that they consider each other as siblings.
Also: Leon most likely introduces himself as "Leon Gainsborough" and that makes me the happiest person alive. (If you wanna get sad about his name change from Squall to Leon, please click here.)
SO YEAH!!! THEY'RE SIBLINGS AND IT'S REALLY COOL!!!!! I CAN'T WAIT TO WRITE MORE!!! OF THAT!!!!! MAYBE!!!!!!!! It'll definitely happen when I write FtPverse's FF8, but that's a long way off.
In the mean, thhough time I've updated their character pages (Aerith's, Leon's) with this info and further details about their relationship as siblings.
I also edited Dead Inside ch102 so that it, specifically, better reflected the fact that they're siblings.
Other chapters of Dead Inside are yet to be updated because I still have to go through all of the ones with Aerith and or Leon and see what needs to be tweaked, and other things (like, writing ATR,) have to take priority over that. But it should happen eventually, and, I'll be sure to let you all know when it does!!
WHOO!!
.....oh yeah, for anyone wondering about Aerith's birth.
Similar to FF7 canon, her biological mother, who's name I've forgotten, shows up dying on Elmyra's doorstep with a baby in her arms. Elmyra can't save the woman, but she takes the baby in and raises her as her own. (This happens just a few months before Raine gets pregnant with Squall.)
SO YEAH THAT'S IT ANYWAY LEON AND AERITH ARE OFFICIALLY ADOPTED SIBLINGS AND IT'S REALLY GOOD, GOOD DAY!!!! ENJOY YOUR SIBLING FEELS!!!!!
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