Coming home from work today I found myself faced with two packages - one a familiar brown square box no doubt containing Star Trek models, the other a postal tube labelled from... America!

Taking a closer look at the address, it is from an Anime Shop somewhere in CA (California?), with the sub-note of "Final Fantasy 8 -01".

Putting aside everything else, I set to trying to open the tube, however it was well sealed to prevent anyone from opening it. Ever. Commanding my nurse to hand me the scalpel, I set to downing the barrier.

Before opening a present I always like to guess what might be inside. Judging by the postal tube I would be inclined to say a poster or wall-scroll.

Popping the tube open my guess was quickly confirmed - a wall scroll! Removing it from the tube and packaging I was greeted by a strange metal pattern... identifiable as the base of a gun-blade.

Squall greeted me as I unfurled it, the Lionheart symbol burning its way across the print. Continuing to glare at me, I realised very quickly that the weights were on the wrong sides, unless it is meant to be hung sideways with Squall forever at ninety degrees.

Now with Squall forever judging me I will need to figure out how to hang him, and indeed where! Thanks, Secret Final Fantasy Santa!

Stop judging me, Squall!