Emotional wrecks

[Loony BoB]

Crying doesn't make you an emotional wreck if it's something worth crying over. I'd say they are all going through some pretty stressful times in most of the games. xD

[SuperMillionaire]

There's really a lack of emotion in most of the games, and then you have bubbly personalities, who, if you think about it, actually keep their emotions in check.

Like Selphie, for instance. She seems to be the archetype a lot of the bubbly characters follow, and she handled her tragedy damn good, considering.

I have to agree with you on that one, Clo.

[Jiro]

Lightning almost cried once in XIII, but Vanille cried multiple times.

Speaking from a perspective of someone who hasn't played a lot of XIII -- I'd argue Lightning was cold hearted moreso than Vanille being overemotional.

[Persephone Stephanie]

In FFXII Reks lives up to his name after the events early on in the game. Again many people in the game lose more than he does, but they are able to cope better.

Do you mean Vaan? This considering, y'know... Reks lost his life in the opening scenes.

[BG-57]

You may be thinking of Prince Rasler who gets (SPOILER)mortally wounded in the opening battle.

Reks is the young soldier who is the first character the player can control and follows Basch on a mission to (SPOILER)save King Raminas. Reks thinks he witnesses Basch making a heel turn and killing the King himself, but of course this was a ruse by Gabranth in disguise. Reks never knows this and instead stays in a room, staring into space, his soul broken. He does eventually die, leaving Vaan alone.

[Persephone Stephanie]

You may be thinking of Prince Rasler who gets (SPOILER)mortally wounded in the opening battle.

Reks is the young soldier who is the first character the player can control and follows Basch on a mission to (SPOILER)save King Raminas. Reks thinks he witnesses Basch making a heel turn and killing the King himself, but of course this was a ruse by Gabranth in disguise. Reks never knows this and instead stays in a room, staring into space, his soul broken. He does eventually die, leaving Vaan alone.

No, I was confused by your comment, but I wasn't thinking of Rasler. It was this part of your statement that confused me:

In FFXII Reks lives up to his name after the events early on in the game.

As Reks (SPOILER)dies/is rendered comatose in the introduction sequence I was unsure what you meant by him living up to his name after this. I get it now though (I think) - that he is broken after witnessing "Basch's" betrayal, never knowing the truth.

[BG-57]

Ah, okay then. Yes, he's the one who copes the least well in FFXII, although there are other characters who arguably had lost more.