Sums up my feelings very well.
Lightening is a female Cloud insofar as her physical body was meant to be that of Cloud but female, which honestly is not that big of a change. Aside from that, Lightening had actual personality, you know instead of Cloud more or less convincing himself he was Zack for a good part of the game.
Also, people forget that fictional characters can be just as irrational as most humans are. We do misplace emotions and project stuff and deal with stuff in our own, sometimes smurfed up, ways. Heck, excluding Sazh, they were hardly adults!





