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Storyline
Who are the Elite? Who protects the world (for a decent sum of gil, of course.)? The answer is SeeD, a fighting force established by Sorceress Edea, and Headmaster Cid, her husband, with the financial help of a Shumi, NORG.
SeeD was originally formed to defeat the Sorceress Ultimecia, an evil sorceress from the future, intent on Time Compression. However, when Squall Leonhart and his friends, Rinoa Heartilly, Quistis Trepe, Zell Dincht, Irvine Kinneas, and Selphie Tilmitt, destroyed Sorceress Ultimecia, the immediate need for SeeD was gone. However, the people of the world still had a need for the protection of the Gardens, so the Gardens remained. Additionally, two other Gardens were established: Esthar Garden, and the White SeeD Garden.
After the Final Battle, the world went into a peace, albeit an uneasy one. The Galbadian Army withdrew for quite a while, but now, sixty years after the Demise of Sorceress Ultimecia, they have emerged once more, spilling blood of innocents and taking over cities. No one knows why they’re doing it, or who the Leader of the Galbadian Army is. All they know is that the SeeDs are needed once more, this time to defeat the seemingly invincible Galbadian Army.

The government isn't your friend. Everyone knows that. But in this medieval setting, people know little else about their government at all.

For the past half a century, government scientists have been performing experiments. Certain sections designated by army officials as 'Team New Gen.' have been disappearing into forests, mountains, deserts, even venturing underground and underwater. They always went for one thing, and one thing only.

They called them 'Classifieds'. Creatures that were parts of myths and legends. Unreal to most of the world.

But they are only half of the experiment.

The government has also issued sanctions on how many children each family can keep. The fourth child, boy or girl, is taken by police officials - supposedly to die.

Alchemists from all over the country have been gathered at one building in particular. It is a great fortress, heavily guarded and the best kept secret in the world.

The 'Classifieds' and the stolen children were housed there, and lived together. Each child was paired with a 'Classified'. Some babies died right away, prey to the violence of the 'Classified' they were paired with. Some babies died later, prey to experiments gone wrong. The fact remained that most of the experiments died fairly early on. And even the ones that survived suffered innumerable injustices - abuse, pain, insomnia, insanity. Nightmares that kept them up for days, even weeks at a time.

But the ones that survived... were special.

The ones that survived the original pairings and the initial tests were 'molded'. Alchemists bonded child and 'Classified' together - mind and body. Now, each child has the keen ability to shift into the shape of their bonded, and the keener ability to confer with their bonded in private, telepathic speech. The 'Classifieds' were not so lucky. They simply got smaller - and shared the gift of telepathic speech. Their personalities melded - and though they might be different at first glance, personality similarities run deep within each pair. Their relationships are unmatched. Their love and adoration for each other is absolute.

The catch? Kill one, the other dies as well. Injure one, mind, soul or body, and the other feels it as well, is incapacitated the same way as well.

They were called "The First Generation".

Now "The First Generation" is much older. Many have broken from their bonds and are in hiding in the forests outskirting the fortress. They must band together if they ever hope of freeing the rest of their fellows and stopping these experiments. Because no matter the extraordinary outcome, each pair has suffered incredible hardships to get there.