Squall Leonhart / Dissidia Squall Leonhart is one of the heroes fighting on the side of Cosmos in " Dissidia Final Fantasy " and " Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy " . A cold taciturn youth who wields a gunblade , a weapon part sword and part gun . He is a master of combos , able to chain together a myriad of attacks . Squall is a loner who is focused on finding the crystals and defeating his nemesis , Ultimecia . During his travels , he is torn between fulfilling his duty and protecting his friends , Zidane and Bartz , who are being targeted by Ultimecia ' s allies . A shows Squall will appear in the upcoming arcade reboot . Profile . " Dissidia Final Fantasy and Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy " . Squall ' s primary attire is a combined interpretation of both his original outfit from " Final Fantasy VIII " and the outfit in his Yoshitaka Amano artworks . He wears a black leather bomber jacket over a white deep v - neck t - shirt which parts down the middle of his chest , black pants , and white fur trimming along the collar and top of his pants . He wears a Griever pendant and has a Griever belt buckle . A sash partially covers his right leg . Squall ' s first alternate costume is the " SeeD Uniform " , he wore in " Final Fantasy VIII " during his graduation ceremony . It consists of a black jacket with gold trim held closed by a belt , black pants and knee - high black boots . The jacket ' s cuffs are red with silver shoulders connected by a chain across the chest . Squall ' s second alternate costume , " Steely Blade " , is based on of Squall . He wears a sleeveless black tank top with fingerless gloves , a chain is wrapped around his left arm , and the belt , sash , pants , and boots from his original outfit . Squall ' s DLC costume is his appearance in " " as the twenty - five - year - old " " . He wears a short - sleeved black jacket over a white t - shirt , black leather pants with zippers running down the leg , black shoes and gloves , and has three belts wrapped around his left forearm and four belts wrapped around his waist . He still has the Griever pendant , but sports a different Griever belt buckle than his previous outfits , and has red Griever emblems on the sleeves of his jacket . Squall ' s hair is longer and differently styled . The DLC costume is available as a bonus costume included with the April 2011 issue of " V - Jump " magazine in Japan , and with the European - exclusive Legacy Edition of " Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy " . Squall ' s crystal resembles a silver feathered wing , a recurring theme in " Final Fantasy VIII " , and it also resembles the shape of a gunblade . Squall ' s crystal is the only one that doesn ' t share its color scheme from the logo of his original game . Squall ' s manikin version , Transient Lion , is purplish - pink . " Dissidia Final Fantasy ( 2015 ) " . In the arcade reboot , Squall ' s default attire is titled " Mercenary of Balamb " , and has two color variations . His first variation , " Mercenary of Balamb B " colors his shirt black , the soles of his shoes white , and his fur black blending into white , and his sash is colored purple with a white outline design of Griever . " Mercernary of Balamb C " keeps the black shirt and white soles , while coloring his fur black and his pants are switched out with denim blue jeans with white tear marks . Squall ' s first alternate costume is his " SeeD Uniform " from previous games . His default weapon is his Revolver gunblade . His first alternate weapon is the Cutting Trigger , while his second weapon is the Twin Lance . All his gunblades have the same Revolver handle , though the barrel on each weapon has a different tint in appearance . Personality . Squall keeps to himself , having a quiet , calm , and cold demeanor . He has a strong will , protecting his friends and doing what ' s right . It is shown that he hates good - luck charms , but starts to take a liking to them through the course of his journey . Story . Treachery of the Gods . Prior to the conflict beginning , Squall accompanied Firion and Laguna on patrol and they found a wild rose . After Firion takes the flower and runs off , Laguna talks to Squall about their new friends and tries to talk him out of being a loner . When Squall questions why he needs to make friends on the battlefield , Laguna mimics Squall ' s voice to mock him . Laguna says that even though Squall and he were both born in the same world , they will be separated . He appears later at the World of Darkness , attempting to strike up a conversation with Lightning , who is speaking with Firion . Squall appears in the Phantom Train with Laguna , Vaan , and the Onion Knight and is exasperated over being stuck with Laguna and Vaan . At an unknown point in the story Squall , Zidane , and Vaan meet Gilgamesh , but none remember him . Squall accompanies Bartz as Zidane introduces them to Kuja , where Squall doubts Kuja ' s allegiance , suspecting him of being Chaos ' s minion . When Kefka confirms his suspicions , Squall and the others attack Kuja . They are defeated , but are allowed to escape . Later , Squall is defeated by Kain and put to sleep for the following cycle . Light to All . As Cosmos explains the need for the crystals , she transmits illusions of herself to her warriors separated into small groups due to the battle . Squall , the only warrior save for the Warrior of Light to be on his own , embarks on his quest without concern for its difficulty . He meets Zidane and Bartz , but rejects their offer to join forces after saving them from manikins . As they depart , Bartz forces a chocobo feather on him , offering it as a good luck charm . Squall travels alone to the Planet ' s Core where Ultimecia , under the guise of Cosmos , questions his rejection and hints at how to get his crystal . As Ultimecia convinces Garland to assist her , Squall starts to doubt his decision from Ultimecia ' s previous questioning . Kefka convinces Kuja to capture Squall at the Rift to further Kuja ' s plans to capture Zidane . Things do not go according to plan and Kuja is defeated and gives up on capturing Squall , telling him to wait for the second act . Squall rejects the thought of trying to warn Zidane and Bartz due to his current situation to find the crystals and continues on . Squall meets the Warrior of Light as his travel leads him to the Crystal World , where Warrior of Light challenges him to prove his conviction of traveling alone . Squall defeats him and says that grouping up is not the only way of cooperation . Warrior of Light accepts this and leaves , reminding Squall he is not alone in the war . Ultimecia appears in the Old Chaos Shrine and commends on Squall ' s cold resolve to find his crystal as he had neglected to help Zidane , and thought feelings were inconsequential to the task at hand . Bewildered , he backs down as Ultimecia allows him to go free , saying the time for their confrontation is close at hand . As he continues down his path , Squall confirms to himself what is important to him — his duty . Confronting Ultimecia at her castle , he explains what he did was not out of abandonment or selfish desire , but because of a call of duty . Garland appears and challenges Squall to fight them both , but Zidane appears and tackles Garland aside , leaving Squall and Ultimecia to fight alone . After Ultimecia is defeated and Squall obtains his crystal , Zidane explains he had come across him while looking for Bartz , who has fallen into a trap . Squall decides to help Zidane look for Bartz and pulls out the chocobo feather , saying he has to return it , as his crystal points the way towards Bartz ' s location . As the two arrive at Planet ' s Core , they run into Bartz , who explains what happened to him . Showing them the crystal he had stolen , Squall notices something suspicious about it . Zidane touches it as Squall attempts to warn him and is teleported away into another trap . As they are searching for Zidane at the Rift , Bartz resents being so easily fooled but Squall returns the lucky feather and assists Bartz as Exdeath appears . Though Squall offers to take the villain down himself , Bartz declines , saying he must gain the strength to defeat Exdeath and not someone else . Upon Exdeath ' s defeat , the lucky feather turns into the crystal Bartz was searching for . His journey complete , Squall remains with Bartz and Zidane , who escaped his trap by defeating Kuja . While the three come to rest at Dream ' s End , having collected their crystals , they share the stories on how each of them acquired them , with Squall saying he had obtained his crystal through the hope born from Cosmos ' s words . Regrouping with the others , Squall is forced to listen to Tidus ' s story alongside Cloud as they look for the Warrior of Light . Squall and Zidane rejoin the other eight warriors as they approach Warrior of Light in Order ' s Sanctuary , where Cosmos awaits , only to inform them they are too late . A fully - powered Chaos incinerates Cosmos and with her death , the side of harmony begins to fall , light being consumed into the Void , including the warriors themselves , as a gloating Chaos looks on . Protected by the crystals ' power the warriors do not disappear permanently , and reappear in Order ' s Sanctuary . As the world begins to crumble they make their way to the Edge of Madness , defeating the Chaos warriors along the way . They learn more of the war ' s endless cycle , and that their worlds are to vanish . Cloud theorizes that if they save this world , their worlds would be saved as well and Squall is thinking along the same lines , recalling a promise he had made to someone waiting for him back home . Later on he , along with Cloud and the Warrior of Light , notes the world is nearing its end , and they have to defeat Chaos to end the cycle . Squall confronts Ultimecia in her castle where she tells him Cosmos ' s final wish was fulfilled when she died , and that Chaos will soon follow . Squall learns Ultimecia wants to create a world of compressed time where everything would exist eternally . Squall , wishing to fulfill the promise he made with the person waiting back home , engages her in combat to stop her and emerges victorious . As she begins to fade Ultimecia still attempts to compress time , forcing Squall to kill her off . After killing Ultimecia , Squall travels to the realm of Chaos in the Edge of Madness with the other warriors of light and confronts Chaos . Upon the god ' s defeat , the previously destroyed worlds are reformed and balance is restored between Chaos and Cosmos . Squall , along with the other heroes , finds himself in Cornelia of World A before fading back to his own world while catching a white feather , stating that maybe one day they can all go on another journey together . Official Quests . " Squall ' s Quest 012 : The Shadow I Know I Saw " concerns Squall during the 12th cycle . Traveling with the Onion Knight , the two discuss Laguna and Vaan and their mutual problem of talking too much . Squall claims he and Laguna don ' t know each other , but Laguna likes to talk regardless of the listener . The two look for Laguna and Vaan , and Squall comes across Cloud , who hints that they have met in a previous cycle , but Squall ' s memories of the encounter have been purified . After they battle Cloud leaves , and Squall sees Laguna whose voice responds to Squall from behind him , and Squall brushes off the sighting of the other Laguna as a shadow . However , it was a manikin , and Squall ' s sighting of it was the first time a Warrior of Cosmos saw one . " Kain ' s Quest 012 : A Dragoon ' s Betrayal " , following Kain , concerns his encounter with Squall where he defeats Squall in battle to put him to sleep like the other Warriors of Cosmos . Gameplay . " Dissidia Final Fantasy " and " Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy " . Squall ' s fighting style is Relentless Revolver specializing in swift , multi - hit combo attacks that rapidly drain the opponent ' s Bravery and eventually break them . His melee attacks have low range , but execute quickly and do heavy damage . Even his magic attacks let him hit multiple times , and can set opponents up for melee strikes . He runs fast , though not as fast as characters like Tidus or Onion Knight . A major downside of Squall ' s fighting style is that his melee attacks lack range , and require him to be close to the opponent to hit . Should Squall miss , he is open to punishment , most notably against ranged characters . This weakness is compounded with Squall having few ranged attacks , with his magical abilities being only mid - ranged . All of Squall ' s HP attacks ( and he has no direct Bravery - to - HP combos ) besides Lion Heart , require a moment to charge before attacking , giving the opponent time to dodge — but if the opponent fails to dodge , or if Squall properly uses an HP attack to punish a miss , the resulting hit can be a knockout blow due to Squall ' s ability to rapidly build Bravery . In the " Dissidia " arcade reboot , Squall is classed as a Speed - type character . He uses attacks similar to the ones used in the PSP Games , but has an added gimmick where the bravery attack will do more damage if the attack button was pressed at the same time as the attack , making an explosion effect similar to the effect when you get extra damage in " Final Fantasy VIII " . His HP attacks are Fated Circle / Aerial Circle , Blasting Zone , Rough Divide and Ultima . Boss . Squall is fought in Distant Glory and Inward Chaos . In " Dissidia 012 " he is fought in , using Kuja . EX Mode . Squall ' s EX Mode is Equipped Lion Heart , transforming the Revolver into the Lion Heart , his ultimate weapon from " Final Fantasy VIII " . Squall gains the abilities " Lion Heart ( RANGE ) " and " Lion Heart ( HIT ) " . The first increases the range of all of Squall ' s melee attacks , and the second makes Squall pull the gunblade ' s trigger when attacking , increasing the number of hits his melee attacks inflict . His Solid Barrel attack also becomes unblockable in " Dissidia Final Fantasy " , but this no longer occurs in " Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy " . Squall ' s EX Burst is Renzokuken , his Limit Break from " Final Fantasy VIII " . A cursor appears and the player must quickly press as Squall slashes his opponent eight times . Squall finishes the EX Burst with Lion Heart , his strongest finishing move from " Final Fantasy VIII " , where he dashes through the opponent and strikes them , creating an explosion . Equipment . Squall can equip Swords , Thrown Weapons , Shields , Bangles , Hats , Helms , Clothing , and Light Armor . In " Dissidia 012 " , Squall can no longer equip Thrown Weapons , but he can equip Daggers , Katanas , Guns , Large Shields , and Chestplates . " Dissidia Final Fantasy ( 2015 ) " . Type : Speed < br > Unique System : Just Input