Actually Aulayna, one of the more overlooked features of Final Fantasy VII was its branching dialogues which changed how you interacted with people and influenced how much certain party members liked you. It didn't all have to be obviously broody. I also have to question him being a brawler. He has the highest Magic stat in the game. Keeping him in the back row to nuke is a pretty legit strategy in lower level playthroughs. After all, he dresses in all blue, has spikey hair instead of a pointy hat (yellow), and his hometown burning down coinciding with him only starting with Lightning/Ice echoes Rydia from FFIV pretty strongly. At least, that's how I interpret it

I guess we're all going to have to agree to disagree here. I definitely have to stand by my memorability assertion about text vs. voice. A Song of Ice and Fire is a pretty good example. There's lines from those books that will stay with me forever. There's some good actors in Game of Thrones, but none of the lines really stay with me, even when they're delivered from the book.