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Seifer of the Opera (or, Seifer's Constructively Weaponised Theatricality) by b0red0mink
Fandoms: Final Fantasy VIII
23 Feb 2026
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Summary
AU High School Fic. Originally a crack!fic.
Seifer Almasy, a blonde six foot two disaster faces threatened expulsion from Garden, an elite military academy for kids who really need scholarships/jobs in the military (see: orphans) and/or political connections (see: old money military brats), following a series of disciplinary issues and an unfortunate training accident with Squall Leonhart, the emotionally-constipated , model-student Captain of the Combat Arts Club.
Seifer's not a bad kid, he's just a misguided, talented teenager with problems, a need to be The Chosen One (i.e. Main Character Syndrome) and major impulse control issues. He's crushed when he receives the threat, which puts even more distance between him and his romantic dream to be someone great. Overcome with emotion, he monologues to himself in the library - unaware that straight-A student/peer mentor Quistis Trepe overhears this.
Garden's resident multi-hyphenate/resume-padder Selphie Tilmitt smells talent, when her straight-A prodigy friend Quistis Trepe recounts witnessing The Blonde Disaster's monologue, and Selphie's determined to cast Seifer as the Phantom in her whacky student production of the Phantom of the Opera.
Chaos ensues.