Congradulations! You're the first person to poison the Compendium forums w/a topic about FFVII (as far as I can remember anyways)! Hooray for you!
Anyways, the only person in FFVII w/any amount of likability was Vincent and he was optional! At least one of the most annoying, Yuffie, was also optional...But Clod was a numbskull idiot who was always a few steps behind (worse than Watson) and he was the main character!?! Give me FFVI, FFTactics, or FFIV any day over this convoluted crap.