Selphie Tilmitt
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Selphie Tilmitt is a playable character in Squaresoft's (now Square Enix) RPG Final Fantasy VIII.
Selphie's first appearance in the game comes when she runs into Squall Leonhart while late for her class. She asks Squall to show her around because she has just transferred to Balamb Garden from Trabia Garden.
Selphie's next appearance happens during the SeeD test. Selphie is a messenger for her squad, and is ordered to tell all the other squads to report to the beach at a certain time. Selphie chases after the squad consisting of Squall, Zell Dincht, and Seifer Almasy, and her FMV entrance shows her tripping and falling down a cliff before them. She joins the party once Seifer runs off.
Spunky, hyper and somewhat childish, Selphie seems misplaced as part of an elite military academy, but she is actually a valuable asset to the party. Highly talented with computers and machinery, during the game she runs her own website, disarms missiles, and pilots an airship. She wields oversized nunchaku in battle. Despite her girlish demeanor, she also shows flashes of a subtle bloodthirsty streak and an unexpectedly black sense of humor. In the Japanese version, it is revealed that Selphie thinks in Kansai-ben and thus her quirky style is somewhat justified.
Her limit break is Slot, which consists of using any randomly selected magic spell a random number of times, as well as four special skills which can only be used once per limit:
- Full-Cure, which restores the entire party to max hit points,
- Wall, which serves as a barrier against magic used on the party,
- Rapture, which gives the enemy wings and flies them out of battle, or
- The End, which is considered one of the most powerful limit breaks in Final Fantasy VIII. It will kill any monster (excluding the undead, but including bosses) instantly.
A younger version of Selphie also appears as a non-player character in Kingdom Hearts.
