Also, do you have any more Raine headcanons (for any verse) that you're willing to share? I love your take on her.
raine doesn’t like that her kids are taller than her at all. She is 5'5" and both her kids are 5'9". Ellone was always tall and surpassed raine by the time she was 13, Squall was a little later at 15. But now raine has to reach to hug them, kiss them, or scold their asses. And they both make fun of her when they gotta reach shit for her.
She didn't like Laguna at all upon meeting him and actually just wanted to sleep with him because he was cute, and she did lmao. But he just kept coming back like a roach, he even wrote her really lame haiku that she keeps in a box under her bed. Eventually she decided to give him a chance because, well, all the guys in Costa del Sol were mostly meatheads or gay, and Laguna was fortunately from Wutai like her. And apart from adopting Elle, then falling preggo with squall, it ended up being the best decision of her life.
Raine wears a lot of casual wutaian attire. Cottons capris, cotton tees, sandals, you might catch her in a kimono behind the bar though, but generally her wardrobe is pretty plain and comfortable.
Squall is a very different child to Ellone, and she finds it hard to bond with him at first. Elle had been bubbly, always smiling and laughing, and being adventurous. Squall was small, quiet, shy, and cried a lot when he didn't get enough attention, he was very needy and clingy, which sometimes made raine lose her temper compared to laguna who always seemed to know what to do with him. Laguna points it out to her that their son is very much like herself as a child, or at least that's how she had told Laguna she was, but it's true. That worries her because she would rather her son turned out like Laguna than herself because Laguna is fun, open and everyone seems to gravitate to him. Whereas raine is introverted and doesn't like other people much. So from then on she tries to encourage squall to be more extroverted with various outcomes.
After laguna disappears raine ends up with squall in her bed a lot. He cries and asks when papa is coming home, that their family is broken now. With anyone else she would give it to them straight and say he's probably dead, but she can't do that to her child, let alone such a sensitive little boy. So she distracts him with stories, all kinds of fantasy stories told to her in wutai as a child. It usually sends him to sleep eventually, and then she'll cry because she misses laguna just as much as squall does.
Raine comes from a long line of samurai, though their glory days are long gone by the time she is born. But she still revels in the history of the Leonhart family and the old lion crest that represents their family as depicted on squalls griever pendant. Unfortunately, most of this is all lost during the war as is her parents when shinra burns their ancient home down.