>what makes Lightning appealing?

"Claire is like Beatrice Portinari, gone but always in our thoughts and feelings, always reminding us of "Spring who springs first, and that bears the name Love"; she is like the incomprehensible, alluring and absolute Night, sung in the odes and poems of the 18th century romantics, especially the German ones; she is like the Goddess from the poem "Loveless" — "she guides us to bliss, her gift everlasting"; like Héloïse — a philosopher of love and friendship, exerting critical intellectual influence and inspiring us with her wisdom; she is like the tenth, the ideal Muse, whom many ancient Greek philosophers, including Plato, artists and even scholars searched for among mortal women poetesses; she is like the goddess Aphrodite: metaphorically speaking, even having given up her belt of grace — Cingulum Veneri — she remains naturally beautiful; she is like the gorgeous, mystic, magical and contradictory rose, sung and exalted in the poems of Rainer Maria Rilke; she is like Claire from the novel "An Evening with Claire" (1929) written by russian novelist Gaito Gazdanov — a beautiful woman from author's youthful memories and his first love, whose memory gathers and holds together his personality and sanity, helping him through the horrors of the revolution, leading him through life like the North Star, calling him to return to her;
Claire is like.....The Final Fantasy."