Irvine Kinneas

Irvine Kinneas is a playable character from Final Fantasy VIII.

Appearance & Personality
Irvine is a lady's man, plain and simple, and uses his loner sharpshooter persona to try and impress them. He's not shallow, however: inside Irvine is actually a sensitive person with a sharp mind. During the course of the game he focuses his charms on Selphie, but whether they actually get together is up for debate.

For a number of reasons, the foremost being that he is the only Garden student in the party that has not yet reached SeeD status and is the only one to remember the party's shared past in the orphanage, Irvine is the odd man out.

Irvine wears his brown hair in a ponytail with a black cowboy hat over it, a purple shirt, and a khaki colored long jacket. He joins your party near the end of Disk One, and is also the last (permanent) member to join.

Story
Not much is given to Irvine's backstory: he lived in the orphanage with the others, was adopted and sent to Galbadia Garden to train as a SeeD. Due to Galbadia Garden refusing to use GFs in their training program, he is the only one who remembers his past at the orphanage, and this is presumably why he refuses to kill Edea when he had the chance.