Oh, I do agree with the stronger by the end of the game. Doesn't mean he still wouldn't have issues.

But, honestly, everyone tends to pick up habits from people around them. It's totally unconscious, and it happens more when you hang out even more with the person. My whole thought was a "what if" thing. Cloud has already had serious personality issues with picking up Zack's habits.

So it makes sense to me that he might slip a lot deeper into the habits than most people would. It's not on an active level, and, as I said, everyone that I've ever met tends to pick up little habits, speech patterns, gestures. And the others are super sensitive, given Cloud's past history.