I use the wonder that is called "Junction Exchange". One person's GFs and Magic swap with another's.
Basically, I get Squall, Zell and Selphie at the start of the game(Seifer's magic goes over to Selphie, I believe). I junction spells on them and blah blah blah...
...Then I get Rinoa and I cannot use Selphie because I selected Zell to come with me after the Deling Train mission. Rinoa is weak. Selphie is not.
Junction Exchange time!
Selphie is weak. Rinoa is not.
I've always played it out like this on every FFVIII playthrough. It hasn't annoyed me once ever. Yeah, I do know Ultimecia selects three random characters in the final battle. I just either let the weak ones get killed off or have some ability like Kamikaze equipped on them so they can die and get replaced by a stronger party member AND still do some damage.
As for the extra magic if they ever come by, I dump them with a character that I am not currently using. Then when I need to use that character, I use Junction Exchange...what's the matter with someone you're not going to use have pointless spells?
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