I don't really get why Cloud is stereotyped as being cold and unfeeling. I mean, he really doesn't act that way past the early parts of the game. Hell, he even says "I trust everyone" at one point. XD

Zidane definitely reminds me of some people I know, although he's ridiculously experienced given his age. When you first go to Burmecia, he says that he'd been there a few years before... so what, he was 12 or 13 and going on all sorts of grand adventures? At first I figured he was in his early 20's...