Indeed. That scene wouldn't really make sense otherwise, since the Cosmo Canyon bloke has no idea that Nanaki's been known as Red XIII. When he says that "Nanaki is Nanaki", he's saying "he is what he is", a deliberately vague and quasi-new-age way of summing up the character without saying anything genuinely useful.Originally Posted by Psychotic
He says that no matter what you call him.
I've called him Nanaki in the past; sometime, I'll do a run where everone's called Sephiroth or Aeris is 'my balls', since that one's a timeless classic. I called her Aerith one time, but it messes up a couple of lines where the possessive form of her name is usually given as Aeris'.
Hmm... maybe it could be fun to call Cloud "my angsty shadow"? Could lead to some entertaining lines.
"Because, my angsty shadow, you are... a puppet".
"I'm sorry, I'm going to stay here with my angsty shadow..."
"This is my angsty shadow. He's my bodyguard".
In some instances, it gives a pretty literal - if cynical - picture of Cloud's character, and how the other characters (especially Cloud, Tifa, Aerith) all act toward him.
To think about it... very soon, it'll only be through games like FFVII where we can have the fun of giving puerile nicknames to characters in an otherwise-serious story. Voice-acting might add something to a game, but it takes away one of the less-renowned replay options.
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