I was gonna reblog that defense of Seifer with a rebuttal in the tags, but I thought better of it, so here’s what I was gonna say, edited a little bit for extra clarity (and made into sentences):
So if you’re really upset about the metaphorical baby-SeeDs sent to Rinoa’s movement thing, you want to indict Cid, not people outside the fourth wall who had emotional reactions to (or inside who have to deal with*) Seifer’s poor attitude.
Also like yeah Squall’s got a bad attitude for most of the game too, if my ‘Seifer has a poor attitude’ argument rubs you wrong.
But the way I see it, either everyone’s fucked up over Edea and having been orphans and we count it for all of them, or none of them.
And superiors will mock you in learning environments, ESPECIALLY the military.
To believe otherwise is simply incorrect.
Whether or not it’s right is more or less irrelevant.
So yeah it’s bad but let’s be honest, Seifer was not the only orphan or young military person, and again, either we say Garden was bad in that way for all of them or none of them.
He doesn’t get special treatment/excused for having the same issues Squall does just because people got mad that Seifer’s reaction to his childhood trauma was to be kind of a bully.
And tbh, he extroverted his anger/upset/reaction to trauma, while Squall introverted it and became very antisocial and reclusive.
Overall, they’re foils. It’s a narrative thing, you see.
*Oh also, Quistis was an orphan with them, so how the hell did she get to be a teacher OF them? That seems weird to me
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