Lightning's real name... (spoilers)

[Cloudane]

I think I'd prefer it to FFX/X-2's Lord Tidus Voldemort syndrome
(Rikku even refers to him as you-know-who at one point)

As for Eclair, maybe when it's acceptable for a lead female video game character to be a porker

[DarkOrigins]

Eclaire? What was Nomura doing when he thought that was an exotic name o.o? It would be pretty epic to have everyone calling her it though.
I wish there was a game where they would pronounce the names you give the characters, that would be cool. Especially as I usually rename the characters to the names of the end bosses of every Final Fantasy. "Isn't that right, Zeromus?" =)

What, like the Microsoft Speech guy pronouncing the names. Now that would be epic.

Maybe a bit better than Microsoft Sam, but along the same lines. Maybe you could record names yourself for characters...

[SuperMillionaire]

I think I'd prefer it to FFX/X-2's Lord Tidus Voldemort syndrome
(Rikku even refers to him as you-know-who at one point)

As for Eclair, maybe when it's acceptable for a lead female video game character to be a porker

LOL

Yeah, but in the Harry Potter saga, his more appropriate referral is He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.

And perhaps they should have made a female Don Corneo in XIII and caller her "Eclair."

[Xanthia]

Éclair... Ah, to share a name with a kind of long custard-filled French doughnut... She must get discount at the bakery!

[SuperMillionaire]

ROTFLOL

But I thought she was the owner of that bakery, or maybe her parents and sister were the owners...

[DarkOrigins]

ROTFLOL

But I thought she was the owner of that bakery, or maybe her parents and sister were the owners...

Her parents who are dead? That would be an interesting bakery then

[SuperMillionaire]

And then of course, Claire and Serah would inherit the bake shop...

[Yliette]

Well I prefer Eclair over the more common sounding Claire in the English version. Claire is also a French name which means "Clear" and it also happens to be an anagram of Eclair.

[SuperMillionaire]

The name "Claire" is loosely related to the sky in that there are days with "clear skies," but her alias of "Lightning" is the proper representation of Tetsuya Nomura's sky-based naming trend.

Also, "Eclair" is the French word for lightning, but it's also the name of a bakery pastry with custard cream filling and chocolate fudge topping.