I thought Zidane was one of the cooler names in the series, so my first time through I left it as is. The second time through I named him after myself, Jon.

I didn't like the name Zidane, damn football player. but I always go for the original names so I sticked to zidane.
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When you say the word enough, it eventually mmakes no sense!!!

I always stick with Zidane or any other character. I feel that when I play the games and you are involved in a very dramatic part and they mention "XYZ" instead of "Zidane", it takes away from my playing experience.

well, I normally put the names following my friends, so it stays like this:
- Steiner -» Griever (the guy likes it very much)
- Vivi -» Laguna/Vivi (well the brother of Griever)
- Amarant -» Cloud (He played VII first,so)
- Dagger -» Liliane (not hard to guess why)
- Quina -» ???????? (what would I put here)
- Eiko -» Kanyta (the girl only has 150cm, so)
- Freya -» Juju (a friend of mine)

As for Zidane, I put or Zidane, or Death (he's the Angel of Death, and I like it) or Kuja ('cause it's me, and it's funny when Garland says something like: "Kuja, you have alimited time of life, and it will sonn, the tie was only that so a worthy genome, Kuja, would come", it's funny)

I never change Zidane's name.

One time I tried to watch IX's ending on Youtube and someone renamed him Zhako, and that was very annoying.

I Kept Him As Zidane