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Specifically, around [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future|fifteen years or so after the ending]], Rinoa's [[The Masquerade|secret of being a Sorceress]] is revealed to the world. The wounds from the previous Sorceress conflict [[Too Soon|still not entirely healed]], this goes about [[Burn the Witch|as well as you'd expect]], and [[Ungrateful Bastard|most of the world rises up to]] kill her before she goes [[Axe Crazy]]. [[The Champion|Squall]] [[Badass|declares war on the entire world]] in order to protect her. Sadly, [[War Is Hell]], and no matter how much of a [[Badass Army]] he commands, the forces of several entire nations wear them down over a number of years until, eventually, the heroes from the game are pretty much all that's left. As they slowly fall, Rinoa starts [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope|edging towards the slope]], [[The Power of Love|with Squall as the main force holding her in check]]. And, once he finally falls, [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|Rinoa finally]] [[Unstoppable Rage|snaps]] a la [[Elfen Lied|Lucy]], [[Super Mode|unleashes her]] [[Let's Get Dangerous|powers]] [[One-Winged Angel|in full]], and [[Person of Mass Destruction|lays utter]] [[Walking Wasteland|waste to]] every remaining military power in the world.

 

 

However, [[Chekhov's Gunman|the White SeeD]] have been fighting a war of attrition across generations to try and stop this, and they actually come close to winning because [[Orcus on His Throne|Rinultimecia has been occupied with her studies, and only rarely gets involved with the battle herself]], normally leaving it to the monsters summoned in repeated Lunar Cries.

Rinultimecia [[Sequential Boss|tries everything she can think of to calm the heroes, or at least Squall, down]]. She creates Griever, the Squall's ideal of strength and pride, as a sort of [[Trust Password]], but Squall doesn't take the bait. She ends up resorting to [[Disney Death|temporarily removing the other heroes from the timestream]] to get Squall alone, but he mistakenly believes that his [[True Companions]] have been [[Killed Off for Real]], and [[Unstoppable Rage|flips out]]. Upon realizing that there's no way to make Squall recognize who she is, [[Despair Event Horizon|her heart finally breaks completely]], accepts that [[You Can't Fight Fate]], and lets her once and future husband-to-be [[Mercy Kill|put her out of her misery]] after [[No Ontological Inertia|ensuring that all of her magicks will undo themselves upon her death]], [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy|allowing Squall and past-Rinoa]] to live [[Happily Ever After]].... [[Tear Jerker|but only]] [[Stable Time Loop|for a time]].

 

 

Addendum: This also explains the [[Foe Yay]] in Dissidia - because of the war of the gods, Ultimecia has forgotten the ''exact'' nature of her feelings about Squall, but still remembers that they were quite strong, and would act accordingly... if only she could remember if it were [[Belligerent Sexual Tension|love or hate]]....