Look, Zell is the first name of an ex-Georgia governor (now Senator, I think... or maybe House) and he is, like, SO old. I mean, this dude's social security number was, like, well, you know the joke. One. So anime didn't exactly invent the name either (although I'm pretty sure they didn't name it after Mr. Miller.....)

there were squalls on graal before the ff game was there not?

Are you saying there were indians on graal before?

It does. Its another saying for an Indian woman.

*Pokes his cool original name, that only a few tried to copy, but failed*

:)

He's probably right.

1. A brief sudden violent windstorm, often accompanied by rain or snow.

2. A loud, harsh cry.

Squa, or something of that sound, is the name for the wife of an Indian.

before FF8 came out, im sure there were people who knew the main characters name before hand. Im saying that there was a squall, not necessarily not influenced by FF, but there was one.