Told you.
Allow me to muse on FF 8 for a second.
The story seems like it doesn't make sense but it all comes together the moment you get to Esthar. People get caught up on the whole Squall/Rinoa thing in the same way that people get caught on Luke in star wars. FF8 is about two men and how the stop the reign of the sorceresses.
Look at the story in chronological order. You have Laguna and his boys, soldiers for Galbadia who stumble upon what very well coulda been the thing that pops off the Sorceress War (Lunatic Pandora), after being a deserter basically, he knocks up a village girl and his step daughter is kidnapped by the Soceress nation (Esthar) and he goes to find her. After finding her, fighting them and helping over throw Adel he sends his step-daughter back to the village, never knowing that the village girl gave birth to his son. Laguna becomes president and locks up the entire nation knowing that Galbadia and Esthar would be locked in perpetual war if he doesn't and dedicates his nation to monitoring and maintaining the prison that Sorceress Adel is locked in.
Meanwhile, his son and step-daughter are sent to an orphanage ran by a lady named Edea. She ends up creating the Gardens due to the high amount of orphans created from previous war. Laguna's son ends up aging out of the orphanage and ends up in the Garden system, along with many of his friends form the orphanage. Edea goes crazy from being possessed by a sorceress who wants to melt time into one singularity so she can rule it all. SeeD is created to stop not just her but ALL sorceresses. The events of the game begin, with Laguna's son and his friends having minimal memory of their previous friendship, due to GFs causing memory loss. Laguna's son named Squall becomes a SeeD, fights Galbadia, get wrapped up in the new War because of his client becoming the next target for the Sorceress. He also see visions of the past because that very same sorceress has been tampering with the time line. And those who have junctioned the same GF are placed in the same shoes as those who junctioned it in the past. (That's why Squall and Laguna always have the same GFs equipped.)
They investigate, and fight all the way to Esthar where thy find out that one Sorceress has been possessing and de-possessing women with the Sorceress blood throughout time. (Ultimaecia). Squall and his party finally beat her, and Laguna's and Edea/Cid's (separate but same) campaign of stopping the sorceresses is seemingly complete. And Laguna can finally start to build a relationship with his son.
Squall and Laguna are basically Luke and Anakin Skywalker.
Ppl just got caught up in love story not realizing that its not even really about that.
he got his in his left chestside close to his shoulder and fell off a building. No scars tho. No explanation of what happened 
