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[PhoenixAsh]

Unless they were born on the same day, one will naturally be younger than the other.

This is probably the greatest sentence ever posted on EoFF.

[Big D]

Well, someone had to explain the obvious for you. I wasn't sure if you'd be able to see it, for you might've been wearing "Besimudo's rose tinted googles."

[PhoenixAsh]

I'm quite aware of the obvious, it's been my point for quite some time. I asked where it said that RINOA had to be the youngest.

Lets pretend google was a clever computer pun on my behalf *winks*.

[IamTidus]

Actually Squall is younger. On the back of the action figure package it say Rinoa's birthday is March 3rd and Squall's August 23. So Squall is 5 months and 20 days younger.

[PhoenixAsh]

Wellity, wellity, wellity. Doesn't that just put across what I've been saying in nice little vacuum packed package.

So that gives around eighteen months between Julia, and Esthar. Not sure if that works or not.

[Big D]

Hmm. Let's propse a fact pattern here...

Shy, sensitive Laguna talks to Julia Heartilly for the first time, but one thing leads to another and Rinoa is the eventual result. Laguna later goes to Centra and is injured. Barely alive, he's found by Raine who takes him home and has her way with him. About six months later, he's back on his feet but Raine has somehow kept her pregnancy hidden. She remains pregnant for another six months or so, and doesn't give birth 'till Laguna's safely away in Esthar.

Somehow, Rinoa and Squall still manage to be born withing six months of each other.

..Doesn't quite add up, does it?
Let's face it, they aren't related.

If you really want a story about a young man pursuing his own sister, try the original Spoiler: Star Wars trilogy.

[ShivaBlizzard8]

*agrees*
Although I must admit that when I first found out that Rinoa was Julia's daughter on disc two (when Kiros tells Laguna that Julia married Gen. Caraway), my first thought was "maybe Rinoa isn't really Caraway's daughter at all. . ." but I began to dismiss that thought as it became more apparant that Squall and Laguna were related. And time-wise, it makes sense that Caraway is Rinoa's father, even with Squall being younger. By the time Kiros tells Laguna, Julia and Caraway have already been married for some time. If their wedding night bonk was the one that produced Rinoa, she would already be a month or two along at least before news gets to Laguna, at which point he and Raine haven't even admitted their budding feelings for each other, not to mention getting around to some serious bumping.
Had Laguna been Rinoa's dad as of the night at the Galbadian hotel, Rinoa would be a lot older than Squall than just 5 months. Just the time spent between Raine finding him and Kiros' arrival is about 4-5 months already.

OOC: Speaking of The Trilogy, watching that first movie now is just kind of, well. . . sick.

[Rand Al'Tor]

Or you can read Baldur's Gate 1 Imoen/main character romances, before you find out she's a half-sister...