Seifer Almasy Age: 18 Height: 6'2" Weight: 72kg Birth Date: 22nd December Weapon: Gunblade (The Hyperion.) Special Skill: Fire Cross Seifer is also a SeeD cadet. His skills as a soldier is very good, but his ignorant behavior is well known amongst the students in Garden. Seifer knows Squall has as much potential as he does, so he thinks he is his rival. Seifer fights fiercely, as his gunblade skills are hard to match. Seifer's card for the cardgame can be won from Cid, is there a connection there I don't know about?

The first time you see Seifer in the game he's crossing gunblades with Squall, this fight for me really proves their different strengths. Seifer's skill at handling the gunblade is grand, he stabs, slashes and parry's with ease despite the assumed weight of the weapon. Squall on the other hand uses more brute strength, his blows often swinging wide when Seifer dodges or deflects them.
When it comes to the crunch though, Seifer crosses the line. Knocking Squall down and then slashing his face as he gets up. I don't really know if this was Seifer's intent though I think it was more a demonstration of his skill. (To cut Squall's face without cleaving his head in two is some feat for such a large weapon.) Squall's reply came sooner than expected too, this blow Im sure was done in a blind rage, If Seifer hadn't dodged it partially he would be picking his jaw out of his brain.

So goes the best and pretty much only gunblade on gunblade fight in the whole game. How disappointing.
Seifer gets reprimanded of coarse for injuring Squall in training, life goes on.

The only time you get to play Seifer in the game is on the first mission you attend. He never actually follows the character you control, rather he runs on ahead and you have to follow. The only control you get is in battle where you team up to beat the bean curd out of a few soldiers and random monsters.
(Squaresoft manages to put the foot into his mouth by having him mention extra EXP for landing a final blow on a monster.)
Seifer seems desperate to be a hero. Though he's serious about battle he also rushes into things. Its this in the end that gets him in trouble for the mission.
(Though I believe the choice he made was right.)
Apparently he has a Limit Break too called: FireCross-No Mercy. Which I've never actually seen (You need to really suck badly to get his health low enough for it.) Though I want to.

Strangely enough after that in the game Seifer seems more important when he isn't in sight. After taking the blame for the mission he is apparently locked away in Balamb Garden's detention area, perhaps to see the error of his ways. When he discovers that only 3 SeeD' were dispatched to assist the Timber Owl. (A Timber rebel initiative.) He decides to take matters into his own hands, breaking out of the detention area, injuring many in the process. This may, or may not have something to do with the fact that he'd met Rinoa two years previously.
Squall, leading the group of SeeD assigned to assist the Timber Owls pull off an elaborate plot of train hijacking to capture the president of Galbadia (The nation enforcing its rule over Timber.) They succeed only to find that they were outsmarted (Squall's in charge... go figure.) And that the president wasn't on the train, but was already in Timber planning the first public TV broadcast in 17 years. They rush there, hopping that they may get lucky and catch the president off guard but upon arriving (Once again under Squall's great leadership.) Its decided that it wouldn't be possible to just storm the TV station and capture the president.
Seifer has no such notion and with Quistis in tow storms the building. What's amazing is he actually gets in! What's even more amazing is not only does he get in, but he also gets to the president and takes him hostage, on live public TV no less. Quistis, unable to stop him, calls out for Squall's group to come and assist her.
As Seifer is making good his 'Drag the president off before the authorities show up' He gets captured in some sort of dream like state. Sorceress Edea's work. For reasons assumed to be his 'romantic dream' he lets the president go and follows Edea through a portal. The dream state ends and Squall arrives on the scene to late to do anything really valuable.

Squall and the other SeeD who are in Timber decide now is a good time to turn chicken(-wuss) and run. Zell, accidentally let slip on TV that the Garden was somehow connected to Seifer's actions. They take the train to another Garden (One closer than Balamb.) They wait for instructions, realizing that Seifer has been captured, with a high probability of being executed. It strikes me as strange that while he was among them none of them could stand him but as soon as there's a chance he wont be back they realize he means more to them than they thought. Squall becomes agitated by all the talking about people in the past tense and leaves.
Its not until later the truth about Seifer's location is made known. He's not dead but is in fact now Edea's personal bodyguard. He seems strangely subdued when Squall confronts him, their fight is definitely unspectacular and as a boss he's a bit of a push over. It rather useless for him to be Edea's bodyguard, as the sorceress she easily takes down each and every one of the SeeD sent to kill her. (Stabbing Squall with a large spike of Ice seems so satisfying.)

I haven't really played the game past that, the fighting system just irritates me to much.

I do know though, that at the end of it all Seifer is still alive. Fishing on Balamb docks.