>>3853002
I had the thought that maybe Cid was an Esthar Robot. Maybe even the JME. "Junction Machine Ellone".
A strange name, considering Ellone calls her power "Connect"
Potentially it could have been called CID. [C]onnect [D]evice, with the [I] being something like interface, illusion, inheritance.

After all, Ellone was allegedly meant to inherit Adel's powers, and Dr.Odine make a copy of her brain pattern before that happened, or never happened as it were.

As it were, Cid in FFXIII also had his brain scanned by Eden. This doesn't come up in the game, but it's in the novellas. While L'cie are in crystal sleep, Eden can scan their brain and upload their consciousness (or a copy of it) within a virtual space. The reason Coccoon didn't immediately fall out of the sky after you defeated the final boss, was because Cid was on the inside, like a system backup, stabilizing the gravity core.