Seifer Almasy

Age	18
Height	6'2"
Birthdate	December 22
Weapon	Gunblade
Limit Break	Fire Cross
Squall's rival who causes havoc within Garden

Seifer Almasy is both a playable character and the antagonist in Squaresoft's RPG Final Fantasy VIII. Aside from the game's main protagonist, Squall Leonhart, Seifer is the only other student at Balamb Garden to wield a gunblade, his particular model being known as the Hyperion. He and Squall have an intense rivalry, although both respect each other's abilities. Image File history File links Seifer Almasy Final Fantasy VIII This work is copyrighted. ... Image File history File links Seifer Almasy Final Fantasy VIII This work is copyrighted. ... Squalls Gunblade, Revolver. ... Limit Breaks (sometimes shortened to just Limits) are powerful combat moves featured in Squaresofts Final Fantasy series. ... Square Co. ... This article is about traditional role-playing games. ... Wikibooks has more about this subject: Final Fantasy VIII Final Fantasy VIII is a computer role-playing game created by Square Co. ... The protagonist is the central figure of a story, and is often referred to as a storys main character. ... Squall Leonhart is the main protagonist of the role playing game Final Fantasy VIII. At 17 years old, Squall is a student at Balamb Garden, a prestigious military academy for elite mercenaries. ... Final Fantasy VIII is a video game created by Squaresoft (now Square Enix) for the PlayStation and computers. ... Squalls Gunblade, Revolver. ...

Although Seifer is a gifted warrior, he has a stubborn, arrogant, reckless and unpredictable nature, and although he has taken the SeeD exam multiple times, he has failed on every attempt. At the beginning of the game, he once again fails the SeeD field exam after he refuses to follow orders.

Seifer is the head of Balamb Garden's Discipline Committee. The other committee members are Fujin and Raijin, who are named after a Japanese wind god and thunder god, respectively. Fujin is a woman who appears to be albino and wears an eyepatch. In the Americanized version of the game, she almost always speaks in terse one- or two-word sentences expressed in all caps - for example: "DECISION. HELP SEIFER?", "RAGE!" (In the Japanese version, she speaks in kanji). Raijin is a large dark skinned man who ends most of his sentences with the phrase, "ya know?" (In the Japanese version, his sentences end in "ne?") The Japanese wind god Fujin, 17th century. ... Japanese writing Kanji 漢字 Kana 仮名 Hiragana 平仮名 Katakana 片仮名 Uses Furigana 振り仮名 Okurigana 送り仮名 Romaji ローマ字 Category Kanji (   漢字?, literally Han characters) are Chinese characters used in Japanese. ...

Both Fujin and Raijin are extremely loyal to Seifer, and consider themselves a "posse." Other members of Balamb Garden consider them a "gang" more interested in excercising their "disciplinary" powers than actually keeping students in line.

Background and Character Development

Seifer enrolled in Balamb Garden at a very young age (while the exact age is unknown, it was most likely as young as five or six). Seifer had previously been living at an orphanage on the southern continent of Centra along with many other player characters. Image File history File links Final Fantasy VIII Seifer Almasy This work is copyrighted. ... An orphanage is an institution dedicated to caring for orphans (children without living parents). ...

Although the characters have lost most of their memories, subsequent flashbacks reveal that many present-day attitudes were caused by their time together in the orphanage. For example, his rivalry with Squall and tendency to bully Zell Dincht all started when they were children. Zell Dincht is a main character from Squaresofts Final Fantasy VIII. Like Squall Leonhart and Seifer Almasy, Zell is a student at Balamb Garden. ...

Seifer also has what he terms a "romantic dream" that of serving as a knight to a sorceress (this concept appears to derive from the medieval tradition of a knight protecting a lady). As early as childhood, he wore a symbol that resembles the emblem of the Knights Templar, and continues to wear it into adulthood; which seems to justify or signify his 'romantic' dream of becoming a Sorceress' Knight. A sorcerer (from Old French sorcier; fem. ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ... The Seal of the Knights — the two riders have been interpreted as a sign of poverty or the duality of monk/soldier. ...

Squall and Seifer's rivalry is intensifies when it is revealed that he was Rinoa Heartilly's first boyfriend (the game centers on the relationship between Rinoa and Squall). In order to impress Rinoa, he attacks President Deling and is almost executed before being recruited by Sorceress Edea (though his loyalities were to Ultimecia). But when Edea was freed, Ultimecia used Rinoa to order Seifer to bring the Lunatic Pandora from the sea as part of her part to freed Sorceress Adel as her new vessel. However, after being continually defeated by Squall in battle, and with the help of his friends Fujin and Raijin, Seifer eventually comes back to his senses.
Rinoa Heartilly is the main female character in Final Fantasy VIII. Rinoa is the seventeen year old daughter of General Caraway, a high-ranking officer in the Galbadian army, and Julia Heartilly, a famous singer and former lover of Laguna Loire. ... President Deling is the president of the nation of Galbadia in Final Fantasy VIII. ... Final Fantasy VIII is a RPG created by Square Co. ... Spoiler warning: Ultimecia is the chief antagonist of the Square Co. ...