Word. Tidus is a good kid. (Not sure if Kiwi is reading you actively or not, but she is a big Tidus fan also.) Okay, he freaks out some, and he complains about his lot in life on occasion, and he and his dad really could have used some therapy years ago. But he's incredibly well-adjusted compared to some of Square's heroes in the past, and considering how much crazy shit he goes through.

There's a kind of "damned if you do, damned if you don't" tendency with video game leads, I think -- not unlike the standards by which people judge RL celebrities. You know, a hero who doesn't talk about his problems is brooding, but a hero who does talk about them is whining. (...and if he doesn't have problems, he sure as hell ain't a Square hero.)