Idle Thoughts On Garden

[mimi_sardinia]

It strikes me that Garden - as an organisation - is still very young. I mean Edea got the idea for the place from Squall when Time Compression sent him back to the orphanage after Ultimacea's death and the child!Squall in that scene was what? 4? 5 years old?

Squall was probably sent there as soon as it was ready to take in students (Quistis said she ended up in Garden at the age of 10 and she's a year older than Squall, yet Squall was there before her) but I do wonder, they must have taken in older students at the begining as well if they wanted to start drawing in money from incidental mercenary jobs.

I can see why the internal war that Squall can back from Galbadia happened, I would think the first lot of instructors that would have been hired would have all been outsiders - old soldiers, school teachers, people like that. They wouldn't have the sort of loyalty the younger students would grow up with and more likely go with the one who they saw as holding their paychecks.

That also makes me think that as the first group of truly Garden-raised SeeDs (that sound so botanical) became "veterans" (one would think that Squall and his friends would be counted as such pretty early, considering their status as heros post-game) they would take over positions as instructors which in turn would probably make something like that civil war less likely and would seriously start in-Garden traditions setting in.


Generally though, the simple thought I have in mind is that Garden is still young, the Sorceress War may be over but SeeD has a long future ahead of it.

Comments

[neo-rufus.livejournal.com]

Wow, you are so perceptive. :) That would have been a great debate topic as well. I have an awesome topic for tomorrow. ;) It's about Seifer, I noticed a few new things. :)

Hmm, those dates do seem a little bit odd. Plus that Norg guy probably has something too do with the date confusion as well. You never know.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

So you think maybe I should post it on new_shinra87?

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I'll go over it then - there's another point that has come to me that I'd like to add to it before I post over there.

[neo-rufus.livejournal.com]

Oh sure, that would be an awesome idea. :) I'm sure* the comments would be very interesting.

[fateplan.livejournal.com]

Hope you don't mind the add. FF8 is my sentimental fave from the ps1 gen, and reading some of your posts almost makes me wanna play it again... (found you on ff7)