Why is squall called leon in kh

As Ruran mentioned it's just a shortened version of his surname. He does have a reason for his name change after all. Woops I guess I didn't phrase my words too well. I know the reason he gives in game of why he changed his name, I was asking if it was known why Nomura and Square decided to have him be the one to have a name change. Swoosh said:. We decided that we would take the last part of his name. Well, there is a reason why Leon rejects being called Squall.

Gram Banned. Personally I prefer it Leon. I've never played FF8 but I like the reasoning for his name change in KH, it adds to his character and it also is Nomura's way of showing FF characters he's designed in a "new light" which was his intention with the cameos. Max Moderator Staff member. I prefer the name Squall. While I don't hate that they call him Leon, FF8 was my first exposure to Square and it kind of holds a special place.

Now, I do remember in KH1 they gave his reason for changing his name in Jiminy's journal. I believe it said something about losing his homeworld, but then that kind of made me upset when he didn't say anything about it when they reclaimed Radiant Garden. I think the worst part for me though, is when I talk to people about Kingdom Hearts and refer to him as Squall, and several people have no clue who I'm referring to. I also watched a friend as he started playing FF8 for the first time, and he changed Squall's name to Leon because of KH.

It ended up looking really stupid when people called him Leon Leonhart. Elysium Villain by Necessity. This is why Sora's Keyblade is so important, because it has the power to seal them from the Heartless.

Leon also gives Sora the Earthshine Gem , which contained the spirit of Simba , for luck. Later, after they move to the newly accommodated base, a previously abandoned house deep in Heartless territory, Leon and company tells Sora about Maleficent and about Ansem and his journal before once again, seeing Sora, Donald, and Goofy off.

Leon gives Geppetto and Pinocchio a place to live after they escape from Monstro. Sora informed Leon of everything that had happened, prompting him to follow Sora and company when they left for the final battle with Maleficent in Hollow Bastion. After Sora defeats the Behemoth Heartless that guards Hollow Bastion's Keyhole, Leon stands waiting to bid his farewells, for after Sora seals the heart of all worlds, Kingdom Hearts , the two groups might never see each other again.

After the defeat of Ansem, while skirmishing through Castle Oblivion , Sora, Donald, and Goofy later meet Leon and his friends in a memory-based version of Traverse Town. Due to that, the Leon and his friends that Sora encounter have no memories of ever meeting Sora, but somehow know his name, which they could not explain how.

Like the Leon from the first game, he nonetheless decides to help Sora and company, such as by teaching Sora the card-based system as well as providing the Simba and the Key of Guidance cards in order for Sora to proceed. Before Sora leaves, Leon ensures him that he will be okay; no matter what shape reality takes, and that while he may not remember Sora, he knows that he is in his heart.

In Kingdom Hearts II , Leon is seen to be slightly more cheerful than he was in the original Kingdom Hearts , as he and others are rebuilding their home. Leon is also the leader of the Hollow Bastion Restoration Committee , which is composed of the returning Final Fantasy characters from the first Kingdom Hearts and Merlin.

He fights alongside Sora in one of the fights near the beginning of the game, when Nobodies attempt to make a move on the city. He later gains three extra hands, the Gullwings , when Donald convinced them that Leon has a whole collection of treasure. He explains to the trio about Sora's journey and the significance of their mission, which convinces them to put aside their argument with the three.

He and Cloud were also shown back to back and surrounded by Heartless, bantering briefly before charging at their enemies. The two later returned to Hollow Bastion's outer wall and witnessed Sora's escape at the end of the battle.

By the time they visit again, the town is infested with Heartless from Space Paranoids. Rinoa lets slip her views of the way SeeD live, and Squall remarks about her group's incompetence in turn. After the two exchange words, Rinoa abandons the plan and leaves. Seifer, with Quistis in hot pursuit, takes the president hostage over the air. Under Quistis's request Squall, Zell and Selphie rush to the studio to find Seifer backing away with the president into another room. The president's new ally, whom he was meant to announce on live TV, a sorceress, spirits Seifer away.

With the Forest Owls' base destroyed, Squall and the others lie low for a while. Contemplating Seifer's fate leads Squall and Rinoa into an argument over their views on life before they are given the word, it is clear to leave town. As returning to Balamb Garden is made impossible due to the train services having halted, they head to the nearest Garden, Galbadia Garden , taking Rinoa with them. On their way, Rinoa and Squall argue over his cold attitude towards his teammates when he fails to support Zell who despairs over Balamb Garden's safety instead of Seifer's attack on the president.

During the argument, Squall passes out, experiencing another mysterious dream with Laguna. When he awakens, Rinoa apologizes. In Galbadia Garden, the group learns of Seifer's supposed execution and Rinoa reveals he is her ex-boyfriend. The team receives new orders to assassinate the sorceress during her inauguration ceremony as the ambassador of Galbadia.

A Galbadian student, Irvine Kinneas , is assigned to help them. With Squall as their leader, the group makes their way to Deling City to meet with their contact, General Caraway , and run amid a father-daughter feud between Caraway and Rinoa. As the ceremony begins Sorceress Edea kills the president and claims Galbadia as her own and Squall discovers a renegade Seifer, rather than been executed, has become Edea's sorceress' knight. Squall reasons with him, and Irvine fires, but she deflects the bullet.

Squall faces Seifer and Edea head-on, but she pierces Squall's right shoulder with an ice javelin rendering him unconscious, and the teams are arrested.

After another Laguna dream Squall wakes up to find himself imprisoned, he is tortured by Seifer in the D-District Prison and during the interrogation, Squall learns Edea has ordered a missile strike against both Balamb and Trabia Gardens. The group escapes and splits in two: The team led by Squall heads to warn Balamb Garden of the missile strike, and the other, led by Selphie, aims to sabotage the Missile Base and stop the launch.

Squall searches for the headmaster to warn him of the missiles, finding him bunkered in his office. Cid reveals the Garden's past status as a mobile bunker of Centra make and, upon activating the ancient system, the Garden transforms into a mobile fortress and avoids destruction by moving away from the spot the missiles were programmed to target.

Squall's team is called to the basement level where they meet NORG himself. NORG wants to give up those associated with the assassination attempt to Edea to quell her wrath and save the Garden, but Squall and his friends defeat him. Squall talks with Cid who admits this is the truth and explains the SeeD's real purpose was always to fight a sorceress.

The seaborne Garden has left adrift in the ocean currents and is met by the White SeeD Ship whose crew requests they hand Ellone who is still hiding in the Garden over into their protection. Squall remembers a young Ellone from one of his dreams and finds she is the same girl he met in the infirmary and whom he saved from a Granaldo. Ellone reveals she has been sending Squall's consciousness back in time to inhabit Laguna, although she doesn't tell him why.

Ellone departs with the White SeeD, leaving a confused Squall behind. When the Garden crashes into Fishermans Horizon due to a broken steering device, Squall and his group enact a formal apology.

Mayor Dobe , the leader of the pacifist city, asks them to leave as their presence can only cause destruction. Galbadia invades the town, and Dobe heads off to discuss peacefully with the soldiers.

They do not listen, and Squall fights the soldiers to save Dobe's life, being reunited with the Missile Base team of which they had no word until then. In a rare display, Squall is happy they are alive and well, something Rinoa does not fail to notice. Dobe grudgingly accepts the team's apology, and orders the city's technicians to restore Balamb Garden to full functionality. Cid presents his resignation appointing Squall as the Garden's commander; a decision Squall is not at all pleased with.

To show him their support Selphie and Irvine organize a concert in Squall's honor, and Rinoa has an eventful chat with him, encouraging him to trust in them as they believe in him. After the Garden is fixed Squall sets course to the town of Balamb only to discover the G-Army occupies it.

Squall and his team free the town after defeating Fujin and Raijin , Seifer's friends who now work for him. They head to the destroyed Trabia Garden, Selphie's home Garden, where Irvine tells everyone about their past together in the orphanage, which they had all forgotten except for Irvine, of course due to a side effect attributed to junctioning Guardian Forces: memory loss.

Remembering their childhood, the team recognizes Sorceress Edea as their Matron, the woman who used to care for them in the orphanage and decides to defeat her in spite of the past. The Garden embarks to the old orphanage in search of clues.

Balamb Garden is intercepted by the similarly mobile Galbadia Garden and the Battle of the Gardens ensues. Squall leads Balamb's defense, at one point giving a heartfelt speech to Balamb's SeeDs and cadets, encouraging them to fight on. Squall and his team infiltrate Galbadia Garden and defeat Seifer and Edea, but Rinoa becomes comatose. It turns out Edea had been possessed by a sorceress from the future, Ultimecia , the whole time and did not act of her own free will.

Ultimecia's goal is time compression to make herself a god-like being , but she needs to find Ellone to perform the spell and thus took over Edea to conquer Galbadia and use their workforce to find her. The SeeD's defeat over Edea snapped her out of the possession, and she divulges all she knows of Ultimecia to help them.

Realizing he is in love with Rinoa, Squall searches for Ellone to have her send him back in time to prevent Rinoa from becoming comatose. While crossing the Horizon Bridge Squall opens up to the unresponsive Rinoa on his deepest fears. When reaching the Seaside Station on the other side his party and Edea catch up with him, admonishing him for leaving them behind. The party makes its way into the mysterious nation of Esthar that has had no contact with the outside world for 17 years. Squall reunites with Ellone who is happy to learn he has recovered his childhood memories.

He begs her to send him back in time so he can save Rinoa, but Ellone tells Squall she has learned it's impossible to change the past using her ability, as her numerous attempts with Squall and his friends resulted in naught but reliving the past. She still promises to try, but as Squall takes Ellone to the medical room, Ultimecia possesses Rinoa and uses her to free Sorceress Adel from her space-bound tomb where she was kept to prevent her from passing on her sorceress power and leaves Rinoa to die in space.

The station is evacuated as the Lunar Cry begins and within the escape, pod Squall asks Ellone to try again. Ellone sends Squall to Rinoa's consciousness, where he tells her to activate the extra oxygen supply in her spacesuit.

Ignoring everyone's warnings, Squall jumps into space to catch her. Squall and a cured Rinoa come across a derelict spaceship Ragnarok , which they use to return to the planet. Tags: edea ffviii. Share Tweet Pin Previous Post Can you buy a hotel without buying houses in Monopoly? Next Post How do you change your loadout in mw2? Related Posts. How do I remove Google search predictions? Can I solo a Wobbuffet? Next Post. Discussion about this post. Trending Comments Latest.