#ff8 nida

Hmm, I just can’t see Nida. Squall might be oblivious to a lot of things, but there would be some practical value to knowing your roommate’s name. I think it’s either Seifer (who doesn’t actually live there, he found an empty single room and just moved in) or a student who has transferred out, perhaps Wimbly.

That’s fair! This is just my HC, but I always interpreted Squall as having one of those senses of humor where it’s really hard to tell whether or not he’s joking. I always thought of his hmmm who are you again to Nida as being one of those jokes (it was also a narrative choice, I think; Nida didn’t figure into the main story at all until that point, so they had to think of a way of introducing him. “Haha that random SeeD we included in graduation isn’t actually random but you didn’t know his name and neither does anyone else, even Cid said he didn’t stand out, the joke is that he’s really boring and we needed someone to fill in, get it get it” was probably the impetus for the exchange). I could be wrong, but it felt like the consensus around Garden was that Nida was the most boring person there, and even Squall kind of agreed (though not in a malicious way). 

That being said, it makes just as much sense for Wimbly, random-T-cadet, or no one at all to be Squall’s roommate, really. I dunno about Seifer...like Selphie or Zell, it feels like he’d make his mark on the room, or at the very least we’d see Hyperion’s case lying around (though again, you might argue that it’s on the opposing wall we can’t see). I can see how it makes sense plot-wise, but I’d have to have context to explain why you don’t see any evidence that it’s him.