Ellone Ellone is a non - player character in " Final Fantasy VIII " who is pursued by evil sorceresses who wish to exploit her mysterious powers over time . In Japan , published " Final Fantasy VIII " materials spelled her English name as Ellione . Profile . Appearance . Ellone ' s look and overall clothing style don ' t change much over the years . As a child she wears a blue short - sleeved dress with a white collar and yellow shoes , while her attire as an adult consists of a blue sleeveless top with a bigger white collar , paired with a white , below the knee skirt and similar yellow shoes . She wears a green shawl and her brown hair is trimmed above the shoulders and has brown eyes . Personality . Ellone ' s dream is to have her family reunited , and she uses her unique powers to achieve this . When she discovers she cannot change the passage of time , she learns to accept the present . Despite being hunted her entire life for her unusual ability to send a human ' s consciousness back in time , Ellone maintains a childlike innocence about the world , even as a young adult . Abilities . Both Adel and Ultimecia seek her for her unusual powers that allow Ellone to connect with the consciousness of someone she knows , and send their consciousness back in time to experience the events of someone else she knows . She can also communicate with others in the present through telepathy . When Ellone links herself mentally to another person , she calls it " connecting " and when she severs the mental link , she calls it " disconnecting " . Ellone can use her power consciously , but it can activate while she is asleep , and she is unable to disconnect until she wakes up . Ellone can only link her mind with those in the present , but once she sends their mind back in time both she and the person she is connected to can experience the past . When Ellone connects with someone , the subject falls into a sleep - like state . They experience the events of the past , which they may interpret as vivid dreams . The individual in the past , whose actions are being experienced , may be aware of those in the present , hearing their voices as indistinct buzzing . The person viewing the past is only a passenger and Ellone believes they cannot directly influence the person in the past . The Junction Machine Ellone allows the user to control the person in the past , as Ultimecia does to control Edea and Rinoa . It is unknown if this is due to Ultimecia ' s own magic , or the Junction Machine Ellone being stronger than Ellone . The " Final Fantasy VIII Ultimania " explains that Ellone ' s ability to connect to the mind of another is the same kind of process as when a person junctions a Guardian Force ; one ' s consciousness can ' t be connected to another without an intermediary with a special ability — a Guardian Force , Ellone herself , or the Junction Machine Ellone . The " Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy " character file for Ultimecia refers to Ellone as a sorceress , but this is an erroneous translation , as the Japanese profile merely refers to her as one with power over memories . Story . Ellone was born in the village of Winhill on the Galbadia n continent , about four years before Laguna ' s Winhill days , making her at least five years older than Squall . Ellone lived with her parents next to the town square , next door to the town pub . When she was two the Sorceress War broke out between Galbadia and Esthar and Estharian troops raided Winhill . Esthar ' s leader , Sorceress Adel , was searching for an heir , and the soldiers demanded the village hand over all of its young girls for consideration . Ellone ' s parents refused to hand over their daughter and were gunned down for their rebellion . Ellone escaped the Estharians ' clutches , and once the soldiers had departed , she was taken in by her next door neighbor , Raine . Ellone and Raine enjoyed a peaceful life in Winhill and Ellone accepted Raine as a mother figure . Their makeshift family was not completed , however , until Laguna Loire , a wounded Galbadian soldier , was brought into their home . Raine , at first out of sheer obligation , took him in and in under six months nursed him back to health . Eternally grateful , Laguna remained with Raine , repaying his debt to her by helping her raise Ellone and patrolling Winhill in a daily effort to keep its residents and streets safe and monster - free . Ellone bonded with Laguna , calling him " uncle " and following him everywhere . Laguna was similarly taken with the little girl , and enjoyed playing and joking with her . Ellone encouraged Raine and Laguna to develop their relationship , and they fell in love and married . Their family was torn apart when Sorceress Adel ' s soldiers returned to kidnap Ellone , this time succeeding and taking her away to Esthar to become Sorceress Adel ' s successor . Ellone ended up in Estharian scientist Dr . Odine ' s lab where he studied her powers of telepathy and sending a person ' s consciousness back in time . Laguna , along with his friends Kiros and Ward , departed for Esthar to rescue Ellone never learning Raine was pregnant with his child before leaving . Once in Esthar Laguna , Kiros , and Ward joined forces with a resistance group against Adel and Laguna enlisted the help of Dr . Odine to build a special cryo - containment device to bind Adel ' s powers and place her in suspended animation . The resistance placed the device inside a building outside of the capital , which would later become known as the Sorceress Memorial . They lured Adel to the site using a holographic projection of Ellone . Laguna and Ellone reunited , Adel ' s frozen body was shot into outer space to prevent her from ever passing on her sorceress powers . With the threat of Adel removed , Laguna hoped he and Ellone could return to Winhill . The Estharians begged him to stay and unaware of Raine ' s condition , Laguna agreed , and sent Ellone home to Winhill ahead of him , promising to follow when his work was finished . Ellone returned to witness Raine ' s baby being born , who was named Squall , but Raine died shortly after . The people of Winhill sent both Squall and Ellone to Edea Kramer ' s orphanage where Ellone — who was older than the other children — helped care for them like an older sister earning the nickname " Sis " . Although Squall had no recollection of his mother or his hometown , he was drawn to Ellone , and became more attached to her than the other children . One day a dying Sorceress Ultimecia and a teenage Squall appeared out of a time warp . Mortally wounded , Ultimecia transferred her sorceress power to Edea , who was a sorceress herself , albeit she tended to conceal it from the world . Squall told Edea he is a SeeD , a concept he claimed was started by Edea herself , before disappearing back into the time warp . Puzzled by these events , Edea concluded the orphan boy Squall will one day defeat a powerful sorceress . For this prophecy to come true , she must found the SeeD to train Squall to one day meet his fate . Because SeeD was to be an anti - sorceress force , Edea ' s husband , Cid Kramer , was reluctant to go with the plan , fearing the SeeD might one day want to fight Edea . Edea and the orphans who were not joining the Garden s thus went into hiding on the White SeeD Ship , and Ellone and Squall were separated . The orphans who joined Edea and Ellone on the White SeeD Ship would become the White SeeD to ensure Edea and Ellone ' s safety ; Ellone herself needed protection as Dr . Odine of Esthar was keen to have her back for his studies . Whisked away under utmost secrecy , Ellone did not have a chance to say goodbye to her younger brother who grew up believing she had intentionally abandoned him . Ellone remained with the White SeeD for many years . Although grateful to those who had taken care of her , she wondered how things might have turned out had Raine lived and Laguna returned to Winhill in time . One day , twelve years after Balamb Garden ' s completion , Edea was possessed by Ultimecia . It is unknown whether Edea left the White SeeD Ship before or after being possessed , but the White SeeDs and other orphans voyaged to Balamb Garden to tell Cid of what had happened , while Ultimecia proceeded to use Edea ' s body and name to pursue a political career in Galbadia . While in Balamb Garden Ellone comes across a wounded Squall in the infirmary , but he no longer recognizes her . Squall graduates to SeeD and during the graduation celebrations visits the Balamb Garden Training Center and runs into Ellone being attacked by a monster . Ellone calls out to him , but Squall doesn ' t remember her . Squall saves her but she is led away by the White SeeD before she has a chance to explain . The next morning Squall is sent away to a SeeD mission and Ellone comes up with a plan to use her power to prevent her own kidnapping so Laguna would never leave Winhill . She sends Squall ' s consciousness back in time to inhabit Laguna ' s past in a dream world . Although unsuccessful at changing the past , Ellone comes to learn how much Laguna had loved her by viewing the past through his eyes . Ellone ' s attempt to change the past teaches her an important lesson : people may not be able to change the past , but they can make the most of the present . Squall , unaware what is happening to him and puzzled by the mysterious dreams , confronts her after he returns to Balamb Garden . Ellone reveals she is the one sending him back in time and how saddened she is he has forgotten about her . A confused Squall pleads her to stop sending him back in time even if she claims he is her only hope . Determined to regain her family , Ellone returns to the White SeeD Ship only to escape again at earliest opportunity , fleeing to Esthar on board an Estharian ship in search of Laguna . She has decided to not send Squall back in time again , but does so unconsciously while asleep . As she realizes what is happening she apologizes to Squall in a telepathic message . Squall calls out to her but the connection is lost . Ellone follows Laguna to the Lunar Base Space Station . Presumably during the time she is put into a forced sleep to be launched in a pod to the base , she again accidentally sends Squall back in time . After arriving at the base she tells Laguna , who is at the station to oversee Adel ' s containment , of his son . Squall follows her to the base , desperate to find a cure for a comatose Rinoa Heartilly . Squall , who by now has recovered his childhood memories , begs Ellone to send his consciousness into Rinoa ' s past to see what has happened to her and prevent it . Ellone is happy Squall remembers her , and sends Squall into Rinoa ' s most recent past to help him uncover the secret to her strange behavior : Rinoa has become a sorceress and been possessed by Sorceress Ultimecia from the future . As the Lunar Cry begins the space station is destroyed and Ellone , Squall and the staff evacuate to an escape pod . Squall pleads for her to try again , although Ellone had already explained to him changing the past using her ability is impossible . She instead connects Squall to Rinoa ' s mind telepathically when she is floating in space , Rinoa ' s body having been left to die by Ultimecia . Via Ellone ' s powers Squall communicates to Rinoa to activate the emergency oxygen supply in her spacesuit before abandoning the escape pod and jumping out to space to catch her . The escape pod lands safely on the coast of Esthar and is found by Galbadian forces who take Ellone captive within the Lunatic Pandora , which the G - Forces have recovered under Ultimecia ' s orders . Squall and Rinoa return from space on the derelict spaceship " Ragnarok " , and he and his friends meet with Dr . Odine and Laguna . They are surprised to learn Laguna is the president of Esthar , which is why he was unable to get away and reunite with Ellone for so long . Laguna says Ellone has " told him everything " and that the two of them will have a lot to talk about later . As explained to Squall and his friends by Dr . Odine , in the future , Sorceress Ultimecia is using an invention of his called " Junction Machine Ellone " to send her consciousness into the past to possess past sorceresses to compress all time and space to become a godlike being . The junction machine mimics Ellone ' s powers and was created by Dr . Odine as a result of experimentation done on her brainwaves when she was held captive in Esthar as a child . The machine has limits to how far back it can send Ultimecia , and so she wants to make use of Ellone ' s power to travel even further back in time . Odine uses this knowledge to design a plan to stop Ultimecia : Squall and his SeeD partners have to do away with Sorceress Adel , whose tomb was swept away by the Lunar Cry and has landed in the Lunatic Pandora , forcing Ultimecia to possess the only sorceress left in the present , Rinoa . Squall and his friends infiltrate Lunatic Pandora and save Ellone and kill Adel . Once Rinoa is possessed , Ellone sends both Rinoa ' s and Ultimecia ' s consciousnesses as far back in time as she can . Ellone pulls Rinoa back to the present and sends Ultimecia back to the future , halting the time compression ( if only temporarily ) , allowing Squall to travel through the partially compressed timeline to reach Ultimecia and defeat her . Laguna returns to Winhill to visit Raine ' s grave , and Ellone ' s family is finally reunited : with her " uncle " back in Winhill and Squall — her brother in every way apart from blood relation — looking over them from Balamb Garden . Gameplay . Triple Triad . Ellone possesses Laguna ' s Triple Triad card . It can be won from her while aboard the Lunar Base . This may prove to be a challenge as the Lunar Base uses almost all the card rules found across regions ; this can be made easier if the player by chance abolishes the Random rule . Etymology . " Ellone " may be derived from " Elona " .