Yeah Squall basically lives in the closet.



Hurrrrr

...It's a scar, dude. Squall has it the entire game.

You ever seen Cloud shirtless though? If/when I do draw Cloud shirtless I draw him with that scar.

Plus, if it comes down to it, FF8 has different world rules. I.E, magic works inside cutscenes/real world. The developers established this during the D-District section where Selphie attempted to use Cure but was stopped by an anti-magic forcefield, Squall also casts Thunder for another student if you pick the wrong thing and you can lose a SeeD rank during early Balamb sections. Meanwhile, FF7 had no instances of battle magic/items being used outside of battle, which is why nobody used a phoenix down on Aeris and no one used a Soft on Seto. Or, at least, that's the general idea.

edit: Cloud is also superhuman, which means he heals faster/is stronger/speedier than the average human being. Squall is 'normal', but uses GFs to do the same thing.

Cloud and Squall are fairly matched if neither are using Materia or GFs anyway, since Cloud has no formal training- i.e he brute forces everything (he was only formally trained with a rifle). Squall is a tactician and has something like 10 years of military training on top of being a gifted fighter in his own right. The meeting of superhuman strength to formal training makes them pretty much equal. Basically while Cloud hits harder, Squall can hit more often.

If Squall was SOLDIER, however, Cloud would start having a little difficulty keeping up :P.

//rant over