I love the fact that 20 years later we are still getting new content about FF8!

Such an overlooked villain, I thought he was a perfect foil to Squall. Definitely one of my favorite characters.

As a huge Seifer fan, I'm just really happy videos are being made about him. He's a great antagonist but overall just a great character with a lot of depth.

Seifer: This is my final reality. Squall: It's a final fantasy. Seifer: :O

When seifer killed Odin was probably the most badass moment in gaming

Can you do an origin story for Laguna Loire? He's one of the favorite characters of many fans

Part of me wishes Seifer was playable more than one mission. Also, wish he had different gun blades like Squall

I have always felt Seifer had a special role. He was not evil at the core, but misguided along the way. I would love to see you do a video on FFVII's Yufie and her origins.

I relate to Squall Leonhart the most in my life.

One of the best antagonist because he is the living embodiment of the darkness sleeping in all of us that is so often on the brink of seeping out. His character was the perfect preview of what it would feel like to take that final critical step that there is no return from and that again we were all so close of crossing at one point in our lives. Witnessing the sobering descent into hell that became his reality after his choices was soul crushing when confronting him at different points during the game. You could feel the mental fortitude he probably summoned in order to present a stoic facade in front of his ex comrades when really he was on the brink of caving and crumbling. It was refreshing that Square didn't just kill this antagonist to move the story like most medias.

“One of these days, I’m gonna tell ya ’bout my ROMANTIC dream!”

Thanks for this. I just beat FF8 for the first time this week after not getting the junction system when I was a kid. I really liked the story, especially Laguna's. Very underrated Final Fantasy in my opinion.

Seeing him smile was probably my favorite part of the ending. Because you really feel bad every time you beat the brakes off him. Felt like Doc Holliday fighting Johnny Ringo.

My first video game man crush was Seifer! He just resonated with me so much. I still remember freaking out when he cut Odin in half. I think after Seifer, my next man crush in gaming was Dante from Devil May Cry 3.

Seifer did NOT get enough screen time and this origins story has given me even more respect for his character

When I first played VIII, I was so happy that you can play Seifer at the Dollet Mission, and then I found out that it's the only scene where you can play him. I think they could've made him playable after defeating "controlled" Edea. I was so sad. 😥 Speaking about Edea, her design inside battle is just too detailed for me.-

Awww... I never knew that Squall was given a degree of special treatment in Garden before he became a SeeD. I guess that could really eat away at a guy who thought he was at the very least an equal to Squall. And I thought you'll really only snap him out of the Sorceress Knight delusion when you beat Ultimecia. Poor poor boy...

I know this would never happen, but a remake of this game would look absolutely phenomenal

This might be the first lore video to open my eyes to a characters depth.

9:37 you know I never noticed selphie running in the background of that seen nice attention to detail on behalf of the developers

I think that Seifer’s impact on Squall is also incredibly interesting as well. Seifer hates Squall much more than Squall hates him. I think this is due to the standard Squall has for himself. Squall is mentioned to look up to lions for thier “strength and pride”. Squall is always chasing this standard to be strong, fearless, and independent and Seifer is exactly how he proves himself to be worthy. Its almost like some kind of coping mechanism, because theres points in the game where Squall feels bad about himself for being scared or confused. Fighting Seifer is a way to prove to himself that he is strong enough. It’s obviously not the best coping skill because it gets him in trouble a lot and gives him scars. That kinda hits close to home for me

I’ve always loved him as a character, his flawed intentions to be the “hero” was captivating. This was probably said by someone else by now - but I loved the detail that as the game progressed: Seifer’s overcoat becomes more tattered as his defeats add up and reflecting his tattered confidence and his unraveling. By the end his once proud and polished appearance “looks” tired and defeated. Then after he’s found himself again he has a new, pristine overcoat.

Squall was winning that duel until Seifer decided to cheat by using magic.

Thank You! Seifer was always one of my favorites.

I love these Origins videos! They always have details I missed while playing the game. Thank you for making them! Hope to see an Origins video someday for Kain (FFIV) or Firion (FFII).

One of the best characters in the game. Perfect balance to Squall. Love their yin yang dynamic.

Seifer and Zell have always been my favorites and honestly Seifer needs more credit than what he's given. He seems to have the deepest story in my opinion. He seems to move forward only because of his dream since nobody ever gives him the recognition he needs. He has people that care deeply for him but he doesn't notice it because he's always trying to be better (in the end at least he's learning how to live life happily). I could be wrong but his character does have development throughout the game regardless of how little screen time he gets. Seifer always gets the short end of the stick in the end. I wish they would make a game where we could play as Seifer and the aftermath of the events of FF8.

Will forever be my favorite FF antagonist, such an understandable character. In a sense, similar to Sephiroth.

I would love to see you guys cover Fuujin and Raijin next if you do another ff8 video, together as a duo of course YA KNOW

It's been almost 2 decades and Seifer has remained my favorite FFVIII character. 💕 Heck, I think he's my favorite FF character of all time... Thank you very much for covering him! People seem to easily dismiss him as the jerk and the bully and yes, he is those things, but he's also complex and multi-layered, just that his story is more subtly told in details that require several exercises in connecting dots and reading between lines. That's why I love him a lot!

These videos are so damn interesting. I never played FF8 but i remember the video on Squall and play Opera Omnia i been interested in Seifer and Fujin. This is why i love that Mobile game so much the characters makes me interested about the original games they come from.

I have a newfound respect and relation to Seifer after watching this having played this as a child I didn't notice these aspects but I am kinda feeling relatable to seifer in some regards.

I love Seifer's dynamic with Raijin and Fujin. I wish they got more screentime together. ALso, please do a video on RYDIA from FFIV some time! I love this channel so much.

These character studies are always a joy to watch. Best FF content on KZfaq.

I'm glad someone knows how to pronounce Seifer lol! When anyone mentions me in their videos, they call me 'Seeferboy'. I try not to get annoyed because I know a lot of people don't know how to pronounce German names. Fun fact: some of my grandparents had the last name 'Seifert'!

I think Seifer was a great foil for Squall. I loved his character, so full of light and darkness in equal measures. Also, I would love to see an origins video on Irvine. He's my favorite character from 8

I have been thinking of Seifer as a brother to Squall. He even looked up to Laguna in the movie he saw. I also hoped they would realize their connection and come to a peace.

Seifer is a credible Boss in my opinion.

Wait a minute... The lead actor in Seifer's favorite movie, that Seifer looked up to and emulated... was Squall's father?! Oh man! That's all kinds of irony! I wonder why I never quite made that connection before...

I feel like things would have been different if squall wasn't put on a high pedistool. It makes me wonder if by squall going in the past warning about ultimecia and matron and did training seed and preparing squall to be the protagonist it made seifer the antagonist out of understandable jealousy

I still own more then one copys of the original version of ff8 on ps1 it maybe rough around the edges but it works for me💛🤔💛

Thank you so much for this video. He's always been the most interesting character in FF8 for me.

Cool I liked seifer I just wish they fleshed him out a little more

Im so glad you finally did seifer! Plz do one on Laguna from ff8 as well.

Great video. Seifer was always just the cool rival to Squall, but it nice know more about the character beyond the surface level.

Seifer had more character than Squall and that's the reason I liked him more but was hit by cases of unfortunate outcomes and unplanned actions causing rejections, rejections and more rejections. Everything about him was relatable and I actually wished we had more chance of using him and hoping he was part of the final battles.

I end up liking Seifer way more than the whole main character crew in the game. Good thing he and his two buddies are playable in DFFOO!

Seifer's surname 'Almasy' resembles the Arabic phrase المسيح meaning "The Christ (Messiah)" and he is always shown with at least one Cross in his outfit. I'm unsure what the significance is, but it was clearly a deliberate choice in part of the artists. He often is at the center of things and sees himself this way.

Thank you for working so hard on these videos! I always feel like you really hunt down as much as you can and dig for every bit of nuance that you can reasonably fit into one video, and it's very satisfying. Even when I don't agree with your overall assessments of a given character (which isn't often), I still have so much respect for the way you put together the presentation of facts.

No one thinks that Martine (Galbadia Garden's headmaster) might be the father of Seifer? They resemble each other alot, plus Martine has Seifer's Card.

Thank you for making this video. He's definitely one of my favorite antagonists of the final fantasy series. And I agree let's do an episode on the Laguna next!

This is an interesting perspective on Seifer. I always assumed that Seifer was the superior fighter of the two and Squall simply wanted to step out of his shadow, hating the constant comparisons. That said I completely agree that Squall was the target or preferencial treatment that he didn't appreciate. That's just what I think though.

My favorite character from all FF's

I just noticed that Seifer wears very similar clothing to when he was a child at the orphanage, whilst the other characters' clothes change significantly as they grow up. I feel like that can't be an accident.

Thanks that was awesome I think I will re watch this again

Just as Squall was based on River Phoenix, I wonder if Seifer Almasy was based on Keifer Sutherland.

I know 7 is the most popular entry, since it was people first FF (it was for me) but, 8 was always my favorite. The story was well written (for the most part), paced properly, and the characters were so relatable. Each character represented a different human emotion. Which is why they all needed each other.

I kinda hope that Seifer was able to meet "Zefer" (see the beginning of Disc 4, they could've bumped into each other or something). And I would definitely love to see Zefer sharing his wisdom with Seifer. 😆

Love ur orgin vids. Amazing how you can make me appreciate these masterpieces even more decades later. Thank you 🤟

I never thought that much about Seifer. Thank you for expanding my mind for that. Can you talk about Agrias if you hadn't? Maybe Orlandeau?

Genesis Rhapsodos' Origins video next, please. There are lots of FF7R theories coming out, that cover Loveless and Project G. I'd love to see an in depth video covering his character, and influence in the lore of FF7.

I would love to see an origins video on Delita Heiral from Final Fantasy Tactics

next to maybe barrett, my favourite character ever

Thanks a lot, that was refreshing !

I think i might have noticed a plot hole. Cid should've known Squall and everyone else were technically his kids from the orphanage. Did he just choose to not acknowledge all his kids grew up assassinate Edea per the goal of SeeD? You'd think that would've come up at some point whenever he passed words with Squall and Quistis.

I like that all along he was really just an attention seeking bully. Its nice to see that he gets a chance to reflect on all his mistakes at the end; and hopefully, he goes forward to become more humble. Good video. I'm not a huge FF fan, but these character analyses make me want to play through the stories for myself.

Woah his birthday is the same as mine, strange how I've never known of that.

Thank you

In germany it gives a fanmade book (dont know if its still available in english) its such a great book about after ff8

Fantastic work as always. That said I'd love to see a video on Delita Hyral.

Seifer gives off so much Slytherin energy. lol

I was a kid when FF8 first came out and when I played it. I remember being fascinated with Seifer, thought he was extremely cool, and I always wanted more of him in the story. Because he could be in your party for the SEED exam and he had a portrait there and everything, I thought there could be a way to have him in your party, most likely instead of Zell (the 3rd member of the exam). I have no idea how many times I replayed the game up to the SEED graduation ceremony, hoping to see Seifer receiving his rank instead of Zell. I would try all sorts of little variations, but as we all know, he was never a playable character past that point. Heck, I started playing DFFOO with the sole purpose of unlocking Seifer and building a team around him. Here is hoping we get an FF8R down the line and more Seifer too. I would love to see who would end up voicing him.

Still surprised we never got Seifer in any of the Dissidia games

I didn't like FF8 originally.... but this just gave me a new perspective on it and I actually really want to play it again now.

The rest of Seifer’s story probably was a bit more grim, and I’d like to think it went something like this: Little did Seifer know that the Estharian military and SeeD had formed a perimeter all around the docks in waiting. The only reason they hadn’t captured and executed the mass murderer on the spot was because Squall wanted Seifer to taste true freedom, even if for just an afternoon, before the rest of his existence would be spent in a cell or hacked to pieces. The SeeDs and students from Trabia, in particular, wanted to peel him like a pear. Seifer had done too much to just walk away. But Squall pitied his rival. And as the leader of SeeD, even the most bloodthirsty among them would honor Squall’s request gladly. Squall himself knew Seifer deserved the “death beyond death” with which Ultemicia taunted them. Still, his heart hurt for the man who’d come to define greatly his life. Despite Seifer’s spiteful behavior over the years, Squall knew he was about to lose a brother to only have a deadbeat father be the substitute. Suddenly, Squall was gripped with the realization that he’d risked existence itself only for his reward to be someone important taken away again, the man who’d driven Squall to be the leader he was. Despite all he’d gained, reclaimed brothers and sisters, Squall grieved over this final scar Seifer would leave.

Siefer... an intelligent and strong individual was hounded by his own self conscience. Him wanting to be recognized for his actions led him to do things that ironically would see him admonished. If you ask me, his story is a sad twist of fate that was compounded by his feelings of inferiority and instigated by others dismissive behavior toward him.

I really loved this game; I honestly feel it would have added more depth to the story for the main cast to be more familiar with each other. The biggest reveal in this story was how they all first met, not why they couldn’t remember. You could even have Zell be a bit of an airhead and not fully remember Selphie or Irvine, since they presumably hadn’t seen each other for nearly a decade. I think that is a much more intriguing story for the characters to know each other, but the audience doesn’t know how or why until the backstory is finally revealed. That said, the premise was great and the time element was masterfully done, not too heavy in the plot, but enough to make us scratch our heads whenever Laguna and friends would appear. The gameplay wasn’t terrible, tho you could break it if you wanted. And Seifer was probably the most realistic antagonist this franchise ever produced.

I'd love to see a remake because they can expand on Seifer's backstory.

What I liked most about him is how unlikeable he was, he was not bad because of the bad stuff he did he was just an arsehole which made fighting him very satisfactory. Great video, you really delved deep into his character without going off on a head cannon tangent. I kind of feel 8 is the game that would most benefit from a remake as it had great ideas but was let down by its unorthodox narrative.

Been anxious for this one!

Please do Yuffie, especially since her story is expanded far beyond what is shown in just FF7 and AC.

I'd love a sequeal /spinoff that followed Seifer,Fujin,Rajin on a redemption arc of some kind

Considering Final Fantasy VIII is my favorite in the series, I really do like Seifer! He sadly doesn't get that much attention. If Square ever does a Final Fantasy VIII Remake (PLEASE GOD!), I hope they add additional scenes and gameplay moments where we can play as Seifer and see through his motives. While he may have been a villain at one point, and even chosen the wrong path, he still wanted to become a Hero and be the ultimate wielder of the Gunblade. But with Squall always surpassing him and defeating him everytime, Seifer was afraid that he could never reach his goal. Which caused him to become a confused misfit that doesn't know what to do anymore. There's more to it, but the video here pretty much sums it all up for me. Not to get off topic lol but I would love for Square to add more Seifer moments in a FFVIII Remake! I believe he's a character you can either sympathize with or feel sorry for. But hey! That's just my opinion. I swear you guys are the BEST channel when it comes to Final Fantasy content! Please keep up the brilliant work!

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I’d like origins videos regarding the ff type 0 characters. They’re so interesting

I always wanted to see a sequel to this game. I wanted to see Trabia rebuilt, Edea and Cid being happy, and seeing what happened to NORG. But most of all I want to see Seifer get a chance at redemption.

The character known as the Warrior of Light in games like Dissida and WoFF would probably be an interesting watch.

aw... I love/d him so much when I was little I picked his last name as nickname... I still mostly use it nowadays :D

Awesome video! Keep up the good work!

After watching this, Seifer to me is like a mashup of Vegeta and Kaiba

great work guys!

Please do an origin one of Quistis! OR Edgar Figaro!

I totally understand Seifer if I was treated like him I would be acting out too

FF8 has always been one of my favorites. I know all the flaws, but honestly it’s still a damn good game, and I’ve always loved the story.

My headcanon is the reason Zell has a head tattoo is Seifer peer pressured him by calling him a coward so Zell got it to prove he wasn't a "chicken-wuss"

I'd like to see laguna, quistis or even edea. But I'd like to see Fran, vaan or even bacsh/gab'ranth

Personally I've always felt like he was The unsung origin of swordsman rivals in videogames.. characters like Vergil, sam jetstream, Riku, henry cool down etc

Seifer truly isn't a bad character nor rival for Squall. Honestly I never seen him as much of a enemy in the game. He reminds me of characters like Draco Malfoy, and Seto Kaiba they want to be number 1 and get all the praise, but when a character that outshines them come along rather than trying to befriend them they want to prove superiority until the end when they are faced with the facts that they have lost. Hopefully when the hype for FFVII remake dies down Square will focus on making a FFVIII remake. This is TRULY an underrated FF game. If Square does this they'll leave Seifer's character the way he is. He truly is my second favorite character in FFVIII lol.

Was Seifer under some sort of mind control from Edea? That scene was always very vague to me because he switches immediately from kipnapping to joining their side in an instant. For that matter, how about Rajin and Fuijin…the game shows that they are always loyal and side with Seifer but like why would they just switch their allegiance to quickly and easily when they’ve been living in the garden this whole time?

Seifer is so damn cool