Laguna Loire

Class/Classes: Gunner - Abilities

President Laguna,

Laguna Loire

As a Galbadian soldier Laguna participated in the effort to invade Timber, but his dream was to become a traveling journalist and write about his experiences. In the army Laguna was best friends with Kiros Seagill and Ward Zabac and the three formed a platoon where they shared each other's dreams and ambitions. Throughout their time together the three frequently fell victim to Laguna's clumsy nature. Laguna was enraptured by Deling City hotel's lounge pianist, Julia Heartilly, who returned his feelings but all of their interactions ended awkwardly due to Laguna's nervousness.

One night, at the behest of Kiros and Ward, Laguna walked up to Julia while she was playing, and though his leg cramped up and he was forced to retreat, Julia invited him up to her room to talk. The two shared their life dreams before confessing they had always watched each other from afar, but their romance was cut short when Laguna, Kiros and Ward were called away to Centra to inspect a mysterious excavation site Esthar had set up.

Laguna and his friends ventured to the excavation site and discovered Esthar was unearthing a monolithic crystal structure. The trio got trapped on a precipice and Laguna urged his friends to jump to the water below as he could see Galbadian vessels. While Kiros and Ward made the jump Laguna's descent was less graceful and he plummeted to the waters, gravely injuring himself. Laguna was separated from his friends and washed up at an unspecified location, where he was found and brought to the home of a woman named Raine in Winhill. At first as a matter of sheer obligation, she agreed to look after him.

For the next six months Laguna was bed-ridden while Raine nursed him back to health. He bonded with her and her adopted daughter, Ellone, who referred to him as "Uncle Laguna." The town's working men had been sent off to the Sorceress War and so Laguna became the self-appointed "Monster Hunter of Winhill." He declared Raine as his commander and Ellone as his assistant-commander, but never let either go out with him on his hunting.

After another six months rolled by, Kiros, who had been searching for Laguna ever since he recovered eleven months ago, found him, and told him Ward had lost his voice and become a janitor at the D-District Prison, while Julia had become a famous singer/songwriter and married General Caraway from the Galbadian army after her "true love" never returned from war.

Laguna took Kiros out on a monster hunting mission and the two talked about Laguna's plans of becoming a journalist. Upon returning to Raine's house, the two eavesdropped Ellone asking if Raine will marry Laguna. Afterwards Kiros noted a change in him. Laguna and Raine fell in love and Laguna proposed to her. The two married, but one day Sorceress Adel's forces kidnapped Ellone. Laguna promised Raine he would bring her back without knowing Raine was pregnant. Laguna and Kiros recruited their old friend, Ward, and the search for Ellone began.

The three struggled in getting into Esthar. Laguna wrote articles to Timber Maniacs and they participated in a movie deal to raise money for their travels where Laguna fought a Ruby Dragon with a gunblade, a weapon he hadn't used since his training at a military academy. Laguna met with Edea Kramer in her orphanage and asked her to keep an eye out for Ellone, as well as Sorceress Adel, as she was looking for a successor for her sorceress power. Laguna became separated from Kiros and Ward and wound up in Shumi Village where he befriended the village Moombas, attempting to teach them to speak. The Moombas learned only one word, "Laguna," which they exclaimed whenever they saw him. During his travels he at times felt a mysterious surge of power, and came to refer to it as "the fairies." Unbeknown to him, the feeling was the future Ellone sending Squall Leonhart to inhabit him in an attempt to change the past.

Eventually Laguna, Kiros and Ward crossed the Horizon Bridge to Esthar, but were captured and imprisoned within the Lunatic Pandora Laboratory where they joined the resistance against Sorceress Adel. Laguna was appointed their leader after displaying kindness to a Moomba, and staged a jailbreak. Laguna found Ellone, who had been kept safe by Dr. Odine who wanted to study her power to send a person's consciousness back in time.

To capture Sorceress Adel the resistance constructed an armored cryo-capsule, placing it inside the Sorceress Memorial. They crafted a simulacrum of Ellone, whom Adel was searching to continue her reign of terror through a successor, and used it as a bait. They had the Lunatic Pandora housing the Crystal Pillar Esthar had dug up from the Centra Excavation Site sunk to the bottom of the ocean and Adel rushed to investigate. Once she was informed Ellone was being held inside, she arrived to see the fake Ellone, and Laguna pushed her into a cryo-tomb (later known as Adel's Tomb) where she was flash-frozen.

Laguna, hailed the hero of the revolution, was appointed the new president. He sent Ellone back to Winhill where she stayed with Raine who gave birth to Laguna's child. Raine died soon after and Ellone and the baby were sent to Edea's orphanage on Centra. Laguna later heard Raine had died and that Ellone had been taken to an orphanage, but never learned of his son.

Laguna remained the president of Esthar for the next seventeen years and thought about Ellone who unbeknownst to him had been hidden away from the world to protect her on the White SeeD Ship. Ellone regrets the way the events unraveled and upon meeting Squall at Balamb Garden concocts a plan to try and change the past using her special ability. She sends Squall back in time to inhabit the Laguna of the past, but although she discovers changing the past is impossible, she learns how much Laguna had loved her. She resolves to venture to Esthar to reunite with him and tell him of his estranged son.

As far as he can remember!

As an Estharian ship rescues the White SeeD Ship from Galbadian assault, Ellone comes onboard and she is taken to Esthar where she is sent to the Lunar Base to reunite with Laguna, where she presumably tells him about his son. Squall arrives at the base soon after with a comatose Rinoa, seeking Ellone's powers to revive her, and though Laguna interacts with Squall and his friends he has his space suit on, concealing his identity. As the Lunar Cry begins the space station is evacuated and Laguna again loses contact with Squall and Ellone.

Laguna meets Squall face-to-face when his SeeD party is called to Esthar for a mission to defeat Sorceress Ultimecia who has been reaching into their era from the future to wreak chaos. Laguna and Dr. Odine have come up with a plan to send the SeeDs to the future to vanquish her, and hints he and Squall will have a lot to talk about later. Laguna aids Squall's party in infiltrating the restored Lunatic Pandora where Adel, being possessed by Ultimecia, is being held after her tomb fell during the Lunar Cry incident. When Ellone sends Ultimecia's consciousness back in time it triggers the time compression, which lets Squall and his friends travel to the future and defeat her once and for all.

Though not directly confirmed, it is heavily implied Laguna's estranged son is Squall. When Laguna left Winhill Raine was pregnant, and after her death both the baby and Ellone were taken to Edea's orphanage, which is where Squall grew up. Kiros remarks Squall resembles his mother and should be grateful he doesn't look like his father, implying he knows Squall's parents. Laguna mentions Ellone has "told him everything," and tells Squall that once Ultimecia is defeated the two of them have a lot to talk about. This would also explain several other connections between them, such as a Moomba recognizing Squall's blood as Laguna's in D-District Prison, as it is stated in the Information section of the menu that Moombas can recognize people after having tasted or smelled their blood. Squall's mind is the one always connected to Laguna's when Ellone uses her powers to send Squall back in time, and Laguna also possesses Squall's Triple Triad card.

Laguna doesn't remember how it happened, but one day while he was doing paperwork a tear in the void opened up in front of his desk. Caught off guard in mid pen stroke, Laguna was sucked through desk and all. The next thing he knew was waking up to warm breath hitting his chest. He opened his eyes and was in for a shock as he saw a dragon of all things staring down at him. His machine gun was laying beside him, but the bigger surprise was the dragon. To put things shortly he had woke up in Thion with a dragon staring at him. The realization that some of his memories missing didn't come until later. Now after a few months he has taken up the pen and is traveling in order to write an article about this strange new world he found himself in.

Laguna certainly wasn't fond of doing paperwork, but he was the President of Esthar so he had no choice. Luckily being the president wasn't completely boring as he wasn't the sit behind a desk all day long kind of leader. Instead he was the kind that liked to go out and really get the know the people that he led. Seventeen years in the office certainly proved that he was good at his job. Still he couldn't always go out and so this led to his current predicament. He was stuck behind his desk signing document after document.

"Kiros! Ward! Can you guys come in here and help me with this paperwork?" They hadn't responded to his calls the last two times he had tried to get their aid, but as the saying always went "the third time's a win". That probably wasn't actually how the saying went, but it wasn't like he said it out loud for his friends to poke fun at. Tapping the pen down on his desk a few times, Laguna tried to wait patiently, but he had too much energy to contain for too. Attempting to stand up, Laguna hoped to at least stretch his legs and circulate the blood flow in them, but that was about when something strange happened.

Frozen in shock with his pen a centimeter above the desk and his body not even an inch out of his chair yet, Laguna gaped dumbfounded at the sight before his eyes. Situated right in front of his desk was what appeared to be a gaping hole in the fabric of reality or at least that was from his point of view. Briefly he wondered if the "faeries" that occasionally helped him in the past due to Ellone's powers were back, but didn't have much time for it as his paperwork was sucked through it. The last thing Laguna recalled before blacking out was being sucked in.

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