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[Future Esthar]

Do you realize that the reason Ulti looks like Rinoa is that she could be her mother?
Not exactly herself.
If not mother,the heritage must be very direct so it´s not like Ulti lives too far on the future.

This explains the great similarity of their pictures.

[.:fairydust:.]

Forgive me, but wasn't that singer Rinoa's mother? The one Laguna went to see in Galbadia Hotel? I can't see her going from singer to one of the most powerful sorceresses of all time...

[Future Esthar]

Or another direct heritage,I said?

[Yar]

Julia dies in a car accident anyway. Rinoa is a child when she dies.

[Serapy]

I don't think Adel looked like that before she was imprisoned.
I also don't think she looked like that before he even gained her own powers. It cannot be possible. It's likely that she looked like a normal person before all this happened.
Therefore, when she was imprisoned for many years, her physical being has begun to evolve. Something in the imprisonment made her have tattoos, strange symbols, red eyes, and muscles, as a result for living ageless (paying the ultimate price.) How did she get muscles? Did she exercise and eat free food during his imprisonment ? Cannot be possible because from the FMV she was seen to be stuck in the same position. That is what imprisonment means for witches in VIII.

So, if you compare Adel to Ultimecia, you can see some similarities. That would explain why Ultimecia was imprisoned as well. Because if she wasn't imprisoned, she wouldn't have these tattoos and other things around herself (such as her horns.) Her imprisonment caused her to go crazy, going back to the past to rule the whole world for revenge and vengeance.

The only flaw is Zell's tattoos. How did he get them, and his tattoos really look like Ultimecia's tattoos. Rubah linked me to one of the interviews regarding his tattoos, but I'm suprised the writer didn't say anything about Ultimecia or Adel tattoos so they must mean something.

[MJN SEIFER]

Originally Posted by Future Esthar ^

Do you realize that the reason Ulti looks like Rinoa is that she could be her mother?
Not exactly herself.
If not mother,the heritage must be very direct so it´s not like Ulti lives too far on the future.

This explains the great similarity of their pictures.

To be perfectly honest, I've never really seen any resembelence to Rinoa and Ultimeica. (I'm not saying this 'cause I hate the R=U stuff, I just don't see it).

But... It's brilliant to see you post here again FE (hope to see some more stuff from you )

[Future Esthar]

Can you post me the link to that interview Serapy?

[Serapy]

Zell was drawn with the "main character of a shonen-manga" image. Beforehand, Nomura saw a music clip on MTV featuring a man with an all-over body tattoo. Remembering how cool it looked, he decided to add a large tattoo on Zell's face

Source - FLAREgamer | Tetsuya Nomura's 20s

At the bottom of the page, it shows:

Sources:
Squaresoft Staff
Ultimania & Dismantling
V-Jump & Famitsu

I really don't know if this information is reliable, but who knows really. Noruma did not mention Adel or Ultimecia tattoos . . .