Comments: Man, I worked on this for the longest time. It all started as a ZellxNida, if you'll believe that, and I wanted to put Nida in the orphanage. The only way to do that was to have Irvine have had a GF previously, although he states otherwise, and to have Nida have had a GF as well. You'll note how Zell and Nida share a bed -_-'. Anyway, after I thought up how to do that, I realized I could put anyone I wanted in. I chose Nida, (duh) Xu, Fujin, Raijin, and lastly I said why not? Rinoa. I knew, after I put her in, that I'd have to have a good reason Rin's in the orphanage, and there is, and I can make it fit with the game, or else I'd prolly get flamed. ^,^' Aaaanyway, It took me a while just to figure out which GF everyone had (based on who I junctioned them with in the game and the personality of the character) And it took me a lot of research to write this too. So everyone be proud! I will tell you, I'm not going to develop any relationships between the characters fully. Except for Squall and Rinoa, because of the game. There is a ZellxNida hinting, duh...theres a definate QuistisxXu (that..looks kinda weird...) in Chapter Ten, mind you, I don't write lemons, there's just a kissing scene. Theres the IrvinexSelphie and a FujinxSeifer...I saw a RaijinxXu at one point but I left it alone. Thats...not happening in my fic. But I told you, beyond Xu kissing Quistis and Squall and Rinoa developing like they did in the game, I'm not turning this into a relationship fic. Needless to say, this fic is now about how the GF's affect peoples memories in FF8. Enjoy!
****** Just to tell you, up until Chapter Seven everyone's six, turning seven, except for Quistis, and Raijin, who are seven, turning eight, Xu, whos eight on nine and of course, Ellone is ten or eleven. (Oh! I was just informed on how to properly pronounce her name! It's Ell-ou-ne...I'm used to saying Ell-ohn...This is going to take some adjusting to.....) We're starting off in March, right after Rin's B-day (March 3rd) and up until Quistis' (October 4th).I told you I did a lot of reasearch ^,^'********
Birthdays:
Squall- August 23-Leo
Seifer- December 22nd-Capricorn
Rinoa-March 3rd-Pisces
Xu- we never know this, but I made it April 23st-Taurus
Quistis- October 4th-Libra
Zell-March 17th-Pisces
Selphie-July 16th-Cancer
Irvine- November 24th-Libra
Nida-we never know this, but I made it September 19th-Virgo
Fujin-we never know this, but I made it May 28th-Gemini
Raijin-we never know this, but I made it December 3rd-Saggitarius
((Notes;almost everyone fits, Fujin doesn't ~I gave her my birthday~, Quisty definately doesn't portray a Libra... Rin and Selphie really should both be Gemini,but their signs do work, and we all know they only made Squall a Leo because of the Squall <=>Lion connections. He's more of a Virgo -_-;;))
List of Chapters:
Part I: The Orphanage
1) Refugees, Dancing and a rousing game of Candyland (March)
2) Shiva emerges (April)
3) Angelo and Leviathan (May)
4) Posse (June)
5) Cute and Carnivorus (July)
6) Fire and Reliability (August)
7) Song for the Sweet (September-October)
Part II: Hit the fast forward button and the Deja-Vu radar (8 years later)
8) Tattoos and Detention (March)
9) Helping hand (April)
10) Instructing becomes her (May)
11) Scarings and Stealings (June)
12) Dollet Mission (July)
13) Dancing Again (July)
14) Experiments (August)
Part III: You give me Memories
15)Timber; a train and an old friend
16)A grand parade and a breakdown
17)Torture opens eyes
18)Concert Masters
19)You give me Memories
21)Esther and beyond
22)Adel and Ultimecia
Part IV:Epilouge
23) Odine
24) Sigh of releif