Squall is Dead

[Rowan]

Didnt find this anymore on this forum, thought it might be worth discussing. Dont know if its considered as playing stairway to heaven in a guitar store, but as mentioned, I didnt see it posted anywhere. This is the theory about how squall actually died from impalement at the end of disc one and the events beyond were just dreams or squalls imagination going wild before his death about the events that could have took place. In what we consider a 'flash before you eyes' type of thing.

What I wanted to focus on most was how farfetched the theory of his death is compared to the events of the game.

this is how we bridge the gap between plausibility and nonsense.

For those of you who do not know what I'm talking about, here is the link to the site with all the information.

Squall is Dead, Events beyond Edea are a dream.


What do I believe? I believe that when you write a story about time travel, you have to be open to certain ideas that almost anything can be possible. In this case, I think the subtlety of his death was far too much to be true... but then theres just so much in the game that doesnt make sense, and it all starts happened after disc one. Ill leave you to read the article and then post your thought and opinions here. In my mind, the ending of the game is the most influential in supporting the theory. The babble that ultimecia is speaking before she explodes into a 16bit mess. The landscape surrounding squall, the isolation at the end, purgatory.

As i've written this ive just realised something.

Do you remember the intro? How squalls sword falls from the sky after rinoa releases it as a feather and lands in the ground? That exact same sound can be heard at the end of the game where squall appears to die after shedding a tear and everything fades to white. Note, edea was also there before the sword fell.
The feather that gets turned into the sword in the intro, can then be seen floating down to white nothingness at the end of the game.

perhaps this is just very inctricate clever imagery, or perhaps this is another clue.

Everything we are viewing at the end of the game, only happens on disc 1, prior to the events of his impalement. All the flashbacks, the images. Distorted somewhat, the memorys are fading.

I have concluded this can be only 1 of 2 things. It can either be a bunch of careful orchestrated images that hint to us that something more is going on or it could mean the other thing, which is absolutley nothing, a random montage of images with no purpose. When Its put like that, you would tend to believe the first answer.

If you can find anything else about the game thats somewhat interesting, such as the imagery in the start of the game and its relation to the end of the game, then put it down so we can figure this thing out.



EDIT:

here what I mean about the sound in the into and at the end of the game (as well as the feather and imagery so forth)



1:00 - 1:27 is where we see the feather turning into the sword and Edea and the sound it makes at 1:24 is the exact sound that we hear at the end where squall has suddenly died (he shed a tear and fell).



4:26, the sound is heard as he 'dies'.

Also taking note that the scene directly before he 'dies' did not actually happen during gameplay, so why is it there if not to be analysed?
It seems to me like everyone just ignores all these events and skips to the happy ending without a second thought.

Just a final note, when I say 'dies' I mean it in such a way as that he is finally about to stop fantasizing about the events (since they've come to an end I suppose?)
The theory retains the belief that he died when edea impaled him at the end of disc 1.