Zero personality: the character

Makes the scenes like in Aerith's house garden with Tifa even better where he does show compassion

I will never understand why people like anything FFX related other than maybe the music.

IX was a disaster design-wise. Kuja winning the number 1 spot for the worst design. It's basically "Hey, how about we have Sephiroth-like villain, but with far worse design in every way instead."

He's correct though. Not counting spin-offs like CC (Zack), Zidane is the only FF protagonist with any personality to him at all. Even if it's the annoying one, point is that he has one.

The theme of the game is that cloud lacks personality because he hates himself and has unattainable expectations. That's why trauma causes him you subconsciously steal zack's persona.

FFIX gave me this vid

youtube.com/watch?v=5R2xVGN-XSg

So I'm happy.

That is his personality. He's a dude with PTSD learning how to open up to others.

Wrong. At the very least, he's prideful in the "tutorial-infodump" zone at the beginning of the game, where he's all like "heh, listen up kids, the simply epic warrior that I am is going to tell you about game mechanics".

Nope

PTSD that's not even his own.

Pretty much yeah. That would probably fuck anyone up.