Quote Originally Posted by BG-57 View Post
I don't know about anyone else, but I found her cuteness combined with her mastery of summoning monsters very appealing. And she has an interesting story arc. Plus her character actually ages! More than could be said than a lot of FF charcters.

BTW, was it supposed to be Lydia? Japanese often transposes R for L and Lydia is a real woman's name.
I don't think it's supposed to be Lydia because every translation, even retranslations and fan translations, still call her Rydia. Besides, I think Rydia sounds more beautiful than Lydia, and she's not an ordinary person (she's a summoner, she grows up in the Land of Summons), so the fact that Rydia isn't a real woman's name makes the name even more fitting for her, IMHO.