Nanaki's has too many holes for my liking. It's one of those "conveniently petrified in a way we can't cure" kinds of things. I also don't understand why he had to believe Seto was a coward. I still cry like a bitch every time I see Seto cry that tear but yeah, the impact is diminished a little by those holes.

The upside to Dyne being crazy is that he can do something unthinkable like kill himself and have it make complete sense. It's just... yeah, that always hits me, and then Barret talks about his own hands not being any cleaner. Powerful stuff. Then I snigger like a moron because they only got one set of hands between the two of them.

I have to say, I do like Soup Dude's arc. It's subtle, but it's really powerful and aromatic.

Vincent trying to talk to Lucrecia is... okay. I don't think it quite gets where it needs to in the game, and then the compilation just turns him into even more of an emo. Now that I am older and a little better educated, I find his entire scenario a little preposterous, but having a former Turk vampire dude who can fly (?!) and turn into demons is pretty smurfing cool regardless of the other stuff.

EDIT: oh yeah, Cid. There's my winner. Just. Space, man. He had these dreams, and then Shinra screwed him. And he gets there, for the most fleeting second, and it means the world to him. You see how even Shera is just nonplussed by everything, and Cid is there with his face glued to the window, looking at earth from space. The dude needed that, craved it with every fibre in his being, and he thought for years that his dreams were over. I mean, he is "old" by video game standards; there was no way the tech to get him there was ever coming around again.