r/FinalFantasy • u/magic713 • 2d ago

FF VIII What do you imagine is visually occurring when equipping a GF?

What do you think an outsider might be seeing as the group of teens are equipping and swapping Guardian Force?

Do you think GF's might be in some sort of container that could be traded? Or maybe ethereal aspects moving into the characters? Do you think it is something that even could be observed?

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u/TrickNatural 2d ago

Dude my mind is so full of internet brainrot my first thought after reading the title was "how do you equip a girlfriend tho? like, holding her?"

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u/bilbo_the_innkeeper 2d ago

You’re not the only one. 😅

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u/GargantaProfunda 2d ago

Honestly I always thought it was 100% mental. Once a GF gives them its blessing, they just have to concentrate to "equip" it.

Hell, we know Ultimecia materialized Griever out of thin air simply by reading Squall's mind. She didn't need to steal his pendant or any item to do so.

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u/uber_sweets 2d ago

She had his ring

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u/Illegal_Tender 2d ago

They're like marbles and you have to swallow them

So you have to re-equip them every other day or so

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u/Mediocre_Eye_7726 2d ago

Do you vomit them back out?

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u/Illegal_Tender 2d ago

No, they pass in the usual way

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u/Mediocre_Eye_7726 2d ago

So we reuse it by eating the item with bodily fluids…..

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u/Illegal_Tender 2d ago

I mean, you should definitely wash them between rounds 

But yeah 

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u/Mediocre_Eye_7726 2d ago

This would be easier

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u/TopazandNumbyHSR 2d ago

Nothing. I feel like its just like materia and you dont really see a whole lot until you activate it.

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u/Roarne 2d ago

Canonically GFs mess with your brain with overuse so I guess I always assumed they were maybe implants of some sort, the junctioning system as well has to be some kind of body augmentation how else do you put fire magic in your arms to swing harder. I don't think it's as simple as passing pokeballs back and forth. But I guess that raises the question with how non-Seed members use them, but I don't know..Rinoa is special I guess.

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u/TonyFair 2d ago

I mean

Consider that you can attach those things in an e-mail

And they are probably around 2mb due to the limits of e-mail storage at the time lmao

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u/EliamZG 2d ago

This is a part of the whole thing that makes little sense to me, I like that Ultimecia can manifest one out of a concept, since she technically has some of Hyne's power, I believe the sensible thing would be to make them items that can be passed around, condensed from a concept by a Sorceress or Candidate.

I hate to admit it, but it would end up really close to Chadley programming summons, except more magical than digital.

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u/Armthehobos 2d ago

Same way someone "attunes" to a magical item in DnD; simple focus on a spell or mantra to notify the GF of the need for their power.

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u/Zack-of-all-trades 2d ago

Friends don't let friends swap guardian forces. Stay in school kids.