Library Girl with a Pigtail

The Library Girl with Pigtail, also known as the Girl with a Pigtail or simply the Pigtail Girl, is a non-playable character in Final Fantasy VIII. She harbors a deep infatuation with Zell Dincht and is featured primarily in a side-quest to obtain the Combat King 003 magazine.

Story
Although it is unknown what happened before the game, in game Zell Dincht and the Pigtail Girl meet for the first time just after NORG's defeat. Zell, taging along with Squall, enters the Balamb Garden Library and asks if the book 'Good-bye Pururun' had been returned yet. The Pigtailed Girl, as one of the three girls working as the Library Commitee, stammers as she enters the search.

Later, after the defeat of Galbadia's BGH251F2 unit in Fisherman's Horizon, the girl's fellow commitee members offer their support in helping her with her infatuation and, on the way back to Balamb, they interrogate Zell to find out what his likes and dislikes are. During all this another SeeD member is seen asking where the Pigtailed girl is, although her friends recognise that the guy may be interested in her they know the girl is only interested in Zell and ignore him.

Later Squall overhears the three girls in the back of the library using a fortune book to predict the pigtail girl's combatibility with Zell. The results were positive and the pigtail girl opts to find Zell and tell him her feelings. Eventually the pigtail girl and Zell meet in the Balamb Hotel where she reveals her feelings for him.

The two are then seen after Ultimecia's defeat, eating together during the celebration ball. Time can only tell where their relationship may lead.

Combat King 003 Side Quest
The Pigtailed-girl is involved in a side-quest that results in the obtainment of the Combat King 003 magazine. In order for the side-quest to work Zell must be in Squall's party and the party must visit the library after the events listed below have occured.

Visit the Balamb Garden Library after: - defeating Norg - defeating BGH251F2 at FH - FH Garden Festival/ after being asked to pilot Balamb Garden back to Balamb Town (walk in all the way to the back then leave) - defeating Raijin/Fujin in Balamb Town - after visiting Trabia Garden (go to the draw point area in the back) - before searching for Edea's Orphanage/ Battle of the Gardens - after visiting the White SeeD ship After the last library visit go to Balamb Town gas station and then visit Ma Dincht. Then sleep over at the Balamb hotel and what will follow is a little scene between Zell and the Pigtailed-girl in the hotel's foyer during which she will give Zell the Combat King 003.

Etymology
The Pigtailed Girl is a popular Japanese fictional stereotype that quite commonly appears in 'school themed' romance stories in Japan. Usually the term is an adjective but it can also be used as a noun to refer to a girl a character is infactuated with but does not yet know her name.