August 23 is FINAL FANTASY VIII protagonist Squall’s birthday! To commemorate, we’d like to introduce a line that anyone who’s played FFVIII surely remembers well.

“...Whatever.”

A member of Balamb Garden’s SeeD mercenaries, Squall appears cold and uncaring, often using this phrase in what seems a bitter effort to place distance between himself and the people around him. However, experiences he faced in the past have merely left him hesitant to form close personal relationships. What will he learn from his comrades during their journeys together...?

Squall evolves much as a character over the course of FFVIII’s story! Do you have a favorite line of his?