21 Facts About Selphie

Selphie Tilmitt is a fictional character from the 1999 role-playing video game Final Fantasy VIII.

Selphie's is introduced as a recent transfer student from Trabia Garden to its rival school Balamb Garden, a prestigious military academy for elite mercenaries and home to several of the game's major characters.

Selphie's is the pilot in command of the Ragnarok starship, the primary means of air transport for the player's party.

Selphie was the second character drawn by Final Fantasy VIII artist Tetsuya Nomura after the game's lead protagonist Squall Leonhart.

Selphie has received a generally positive reception, being noted for her relatable personality as well as her carefree and energetic demeanour, although some critics did not respond well to her characterization as a childlike female character.

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Selphie is given a flip hairstyle which was popular in the United States during the latter years of the presidency of Dwight D Eisenhower, an aesthetic design Nomura considered to be improper in real life.

When Nomura first designed Selphie, he drew her in overalls; however, he realized that none of the characters would be wearing a skirt.

Selphie is depicted in the game as 17 years old and stands at.

Selphie was intended to have two additional exclusive Limit Break abilities during the game's development; though they were shown during a game demo that came bundled with the 1998 action role-playing game Brave Fencer Musashi, they were never implemented in the final release due to time constraints and cannot be accessed through normal play.

Preadolescent version of Selphie appears in the Kingdom Hearts series, with the inaugural series instalment in 2002 being the character's first voiced appearance.

Selphie's asks Squall to show her around as she is a recent transfer from Trabia Garden.

Selphie's is depicted as active and energetic, although slightly clumsy.

Selphie's participates in many extracurricular activities, such as planning the Garden Festival and running the school's online website, the Study Panel.

Selphie has appeared in several Final Fantasy franchise spinoff games, including playable appearances in titles like Dissidia Final Fantasy: Opera Omnia, and Final Fantasy Record Keeper.

Selphie's has been the subject of creative activities engaged by video game enthusiasts, such as cosplay.

In 2013 Selphie was ranked twelfth by Japanese fans in an official survey of favorite female Final Fantasy characters organized by franchise owner Square Enix.

In 2020, NHK conducted an All-Final Fantasy Grand Poll of Japanese players, with Selphie ranked as the seventy-third greatest Final Fantasy character by Japanese respondents.

Meagan Marie from Game Informer considered Selphie to be one of her "personal favorite" Final Fantasy female characters.

Matt Sainsbury from Digitally Downloaded felt that Selphie stood out to him as a physically attractive character, in spite of the graphical limitations of Final Fantasy VIII as a product of its time, because of her "cute, quirky hairstyle" and her attractive mini-dress outfit.

Parish argued that Selphie never seemed "overbearing or forced" to him, unlike many other female characters in the series who occupy the same "genki girl" niche.

Selphie observed that a lithe fighter archetype like Selphie is characterized as much by her offensive versatility as her helplessness.