Disclaimer: Final Fantasy VIII doesn't belong to me.
Raine
It doesn't rain that often in Esthar. The continent is practically a desert and the rain only falls in the fall. He likes the rain, though. He didn't when he was a child but then he grew up and met people and lived his life and ended up loving rain. It falls and falls and drops and drops and he can stand outside in it for ages. She used to love that too.
He remembers her perfectly. Her scent, her skin, her touch, her lips. Her house, her bar, her flowers, her everything. He even knows the tune she used to hum when she cleaned the dishes.
Although that might be for other reasons as well.
Why do some leave and some are left behind just to despair? He's not a person to be sad but everyone has their own sadness. He has a happy persona and thus no one think he will ever be sad or upset. But he's left behind and he's getting lonely without her. He's without her falling drops and he wants to be drenched in the rain. He wants to be so soaked that he will never be dry again.
Would it be the other way if he had been the one that left? Would she want to go and find something to remind her as the rain reminds him? Would she even think of him all the time as he thinks of her? Would she miss him? Would she, would she, would she, would she find someone else? Would she still love him as he still loves her?
He is left heartbroken but lives anyway. He can manage, he knows but why doesn't it rain more often in Esthar? He wants it to. So badly. It reminds him of her.
The hardest part is to forget but he doesn't mind. Not at all, why would he want to forget? He would feel even more despair if he did. Why would he want to forget his rain? His own drops that fall. He sometimes imagines it to be his tears that fall in the fall, for he only cried once.
He likes the rain. He didn't when he was a child but then he grew up and met people and lived his life and ended up loving rain. He ended up loving her and he sticks to her even though she is gone and he is still walking around alive. Maybe it's for her that he keeps going. Maybe it is for the boy. Maybe it is because the rain comes back. Maybe she's waiting on the other side. Just maybe.
I finally wrote a FF8 fanfiction, I've been trying for ages.