I've heard a lot of people say Cloud was a socially-isolated dork who wanted to be special, and got over it, and Sephiroth had the same problem (due to being raised like a weapon) who felt he was special and never got over it, and I think that's a pretty apt comparison.
It's supposed to be amusing because the fictionalized Zack was nothing near as perfect as Cloud imagines him to be, just a really normal, friendly guy, so he gradually seems to realize he's imitating someone who never existed in the first place, and it's okay for him to be himself. The spinoffs, to me, were like a self-fulfilling prophesy, where Cloud became the angstlord his detractors said he was, sort of ruining the development he went through.
I always felt Luca made an impression because unlike Kefka, he did not have godlike power to make him scary. He was a very real, personal madman who was just an obsessed human who trained to the point of physical human limits. Admittedly, what hurts Luca most is the nature of his backstory is only alluded to indirectly in the game, but I was able to infer it from his talks with Agares and Jilia. The weird way he tried to establish a kind of "friendship" with your traitorous friend and got indirectly refused really amused me because it suggested a lot about how far he'd fallen. I think the way he went out said a lot about his character. He definitely was straightforward, but in no way as one-dimensional as Kefka. The only thing that was a bit unbelievable was how many people willingly followed him despite him being obviously insane, but then again, people followed Hitler and Pol Pot... (And eventually it did catch up with him, just later than what would realistically have happened I think.)
It's supposed to be amusing because the fictionalized Zack was nothing near as perfect as Cloud imagines him to be, just a really normal, friendly guy, so he gradually seems to realize he's imitating someone who never existed in the first place, and it's okay for him to be himself. The spinoffs, to me, were like a self-fulfilling prophesy, where Cloud became the angstlord his detractors said he was, sort of ruining the development he went through.
I always felt Luca made an impression because unlike Kefka, he did not have godlike power to make him scary. He was a very real, personal madman who was just an obsessed human who trained to the point of physical human limits. Admittedly, what hurts Luca most is the nature of his backstory is only alluded to indirectly in the game, but I was able to infer it from his talks with Agares and Jilia. The weird way he tried to establish a kind of "friendship" with your traitorous friend and got indirectly refused really amused me because it suggested a lot about how far he'd fallen. I think the way he went out said a lot about his character. He definitely was straightforward, but in no way as one-dimensional as Kefka. The only thing that was a bit unbelievable was how many people willingly followed him despite him being obviously insane, but then again, people followed Hitler and Pol Pot... (And eventually it did catch up with him, just later than what would realistically have happened I think.)
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