Rinoa Heartilly

Rinoa is a young woman with long, straight black hair featuring warm highlights and expressive brown eyes. She typically wears a signature long, sleeveless light-blue ribbed duster cardigan over a black camisole and denim shorts. Her ensemble is completed by distinctive white and blue patterned arm warmers and black lace-up boots.

Compassionate, spirited, outgoing, stubborn, empathetic, and idealistic.

Leader of the Forest Owls resistance group

Rinoa is the daughter of a high-ranking Galbadian military officer who turned toward activism by leading the Forest Owls resistance group in Timber. Her life changes when she hires the mercenary group SeeD for a mission, eventually falling in love with their leader, Squall Leonhart. During the conflict against time-compressing sorceresses, Rinoa unexpectedly inherits sorceress powers herself, becoming a pivotal figure in the battle for the planet's future.