Post by Tidus on Sept 12, 2010 1:14:53 GMT -5
♥IT'S MY LIFE♥
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xx"Listen to my story. This... may be our last chance."
♥It's Now Or Never♥[/size]
Name: Tidus
Age: 19
Which game are you from: Final Fantasy X-X-2
Weapons/Abilities: Weapons:
Brotherhood
It used to belong to Chappu, who was Wakka's brother. Wakka gave it to him as a gift for when he fought as part of the Crusaders against Sin, which occurred one year prior to the storyline of Final Fantasy X. However, on the day Chappu died, he did not take his sword, but decided to fight with an Al Bhed machina weapon instead. This is what made Wakka despise machina, as well as the Al Bhed, on a personal matter, rather than on just a religious one. Wakka decides to give it to Tidus, because he reminds Wakka of Chappu.
It used to belong to Chappu, who was Wakka's brother. Wakka gave it to him as a gift for when he fought as part of the Crusaders against Sin, which occurred one year prior to the storyline of Final Fantasy X. However, on the day Chappu died, he did not take his sword, but decided to fight with an Al Bhed machina weapon instead. This is what made Wakka despise machina, as well as the Al Bhed, on a personal matter, rather than on just a religious one. Wakka decides to give it to Tidus, because he reminds Wakka of Chappu.
Caladbolg
Tidus's Celestial Weapon can be found in the Calm Lands. In the Japanese, Spanish, German and Italian versions, the Caladbolg is called Ultima Weapon.
Once the player has completed their Chocobo training in the Calm Lands, they must race the trainer and beat the trainer's time. Due to the mechanics of the race, it is possible to finish before the trainer and still lose: each balloon either racer collects subtracts three seconds from their final time, which each bird they hit adds three seconds in addition to the time they lose while the Chocobo is stunned from the hit. If the player beats the trainer's time, a man on a slope in the north-west of the Calm Lands will move. Down this slope is an altar that, when examined with the Celestial Mirror, grants Tidus the Caladbolg.
Fully upgraded, the Caladbolg has the abilities "Break Damage Limit," "Triple Overdrive," "Evade and Counter," and "Magic Counter." The Caladbolg also deals more damage the closer Tidus is to his max HP, as is tradition with the Ultima Weapon.
Tidus's Celestial Weapon can be found in the Calm Lands. In the Japanese, Spanish, German and Italian versions, the Caladbolg is called Ultima Weapon.
Once the player has completed their Chocobo training in the Calm Lands, they must race the trainer and beat the trainer's time. Due to the mechanics of the race, it is possible to finish before the trainer and still lose: each balloon either racer collects subtracts three seconds from their final time, which each bird they hit adds three seconds in addition to the time they lose while the Chocobo is stunned from the hit. If the player beats the trainer's time, a man on a slope in the north-west of the Calm Lands will move. Down this slope is an altar that, when examined with the Celestial Mirror, grants Tidus the Caladbolg.
Fully upgraded, the Caladbolg has the abilities "Break Damage Limit," "Triple Overdrive," "Evade and Counter," and "Magic Counter." The Caladbolg also deals more damage the closer Tidus is to his max HP, as is tradition with the Ultima Weapon.
Endless Road
A shield which gives him slight more health and slightly more magick.
A shield which gives him slight more health and slightly more magick.
Abilities:
Delay Attack
Delays target's next turn.
Delays target's next turn.
Quick Hit
Strike quickly with reduced recovery time.
Strike quickly with reduced recovery time.
Flee
Aids the party's escape from battle.
Aids the party's escape from battle.
Haste
Speeds up one person.
Speeds up one person.
Slow
Slows down one person.
Slows down one person.
Delay Buster
Greatly Delay's targets next turn.
Greatly Delay's targets next turn.
Cheer
Raise's party's strength and defense.
Raise's party's strength and defense.
Provoke
Draw the attention of an enemy.
Draw the attention of an enemy.
Hastega
Speeds up multiple people.
Speeds up multiple people.
Slowga
Slows down multiple people.
Slows down multiple people.
Eidolons/ Summons:
♥I Ain't Gonna Live Forever♥[/size]
History:
The story begins as Tidus, an inhabitant of the city of Zanarkand, is about to play blitzball in the Jecht Memorial Cup - a tournament in honor of his lost father, Jecht. Ten years prior to the game, Jecht mysteriously disappeared while on a blitzball training expedition out at sea. A successful blitzball player, people would talk about how his skills were unequaled, which left pressure on Tidus to match, if not surpass, his father's skill. Tidus hates Jecht for this, as well as for his constant habit of putting people down.
During the tournament, Zanarkand is attacked by Sin, an immense creature shrouded in water. The city is destroyed in its path, and Tidus manages to escape a similar fate before the blitzball stadium collapses. After falling to the ground and while the destruction still occurs, Tidus sees Auron, an old friend of Jecht and Tidus' own mentor. Auron and Tidus fight their way towards Sin. Once there, Auron drags Tidus into the depths of Sin, claiming his story begins here.
Tidus awakens to find himself in the world of Spira, in the Baaj Temple area, where he runs into the eccentric salvager race, the Al Bhed. He befriends a young Al Bhed girl named Rikku, and tells her about his life in Zanarkand, as well as his career as the star player of the Zanarkand Abes. But Rikku is rather reluctant to believe him, asking if he breathed Sin's toxin, which is known to induce amnesia. After Tidus claimed he was telling the truth, Rikku decides to take his word, but not before telling him that one thousand years have passed since the destruction of Zanarkand. Rikku also tells him that since Zanarkand is now a holy place, it would be wise not to tell anyone about his life there. After being knocked off the ship by another attack by the monstrous Sin, Tidus awakens at the shores of Besaid Island.
It is here that he meets Wakka, the coach and captain of the Besaid Aurochs, who was impressed by Tidus' talent in Blitzball. Like Rikku, Wakka is shocked to hear Tidus claim to be from the "holy city" of Zanarkand. From this point on, Tidus decides to stick with the story of being a victim of Sin's toxin, lest people think of him as a heretic. The two then arrive inside the Besaid Temple, where an apprentice summoner has not returned from the Cloister of Trials for a day already. Worried the summoner may be in danger, Tidus rushes in, despite the priest's warning about obeying the Precepts. Wakka finds Tidus near the entrance to the Fayth.
Wakka proceeds to tell Tidus about the Fayth, and the Temples: only Summoners and Guardians (such as Wakka) can go in and face the trials. Upon arriving, Tidus meets the summoner Yuna, and the guardians accompanying her, Lulu and Kimahri Ronso, who have just completed the trials and have achieved Valefor. Lulu was surprised to see Tidus, since he doesn't meet the conditions of those allowed in the temple. Afterwards, Tidus gets the chance to talk with Yuna, who invites him to come along with her on her pilgrimage.
That night, Tidus awakens after a dream about his father Jecht putting him down him to hear Lulu berating Wakka. Lulu claims that Wakka is only interested in Tidus because he reminded him of his younger brother, Chappu. Apparently, Chappu was a member of the Crusaders, a group determined to defeat Sin, but was killed the previous year. Despite this, Tidus still thinks of Wakka as a true friend. The next day, the two leave with Yuna, Lulu, and Kimahri (who unexpectedly charged at and picked a fight with him because he does not trust nor like him), on their journey to defeat Sin.
As they sail to Kilika, Tidus gets to know Yuna. She enjoys his company and believes his claims that he came from Zanarkand. When he asks why, she says Jecht told her the same thing when she was younger. Tidus is disturbed by the knowledge that his own father arrived in Spira, and Yuna tells him that Jecht helped her father, a summoner named Braska, by becoming his guardian. When Tidus tells her Jecht disappeared from Zanarkand ten years previous, Yuna said that was the same time he appeared in Spira. The group soon arrives at Kilika, only to witness its destruction by Sin. Here, Tidus witnesses Yuna's first Sending, an elaborate dance during which she sends the spirits of the dead to the Farplane.
After acquiring Ifrit in the Kilika Temple, the party arrives at Luca and the annual Blitzball World Championship. Once they arrive, Tidus finds out that his new team, the Besaid Aurochs, are the butt of the tournament, having lost their first match each year for the past twenty-three years. Frustrated, Tidus attracts some attention by grabbing a megaphone, climbing on top of some crates and yelling at the favored-to-win Luca Goers, saying that his team will be taking the cup home. This incident leaves the Aurochs in embarrassment and all of Luca taking Tidus for the "Aurochs' comedian."
Shortly after this misfortune, Tidus meets Grand Maester Mika and the newest maester, Seymour Guado, a man who is half human and half Guado. During the Blitzball tournament, Kimahri's old rivals, Biran and Yenke Ronso, picked a fight with him. When Tidus goes to help him, Yuna is kidnapped by a group of Al Bhed. Tidus and Kimahri chase after them, and with Lulu guiding them to the Al Bhed ship, and they rescue her. Afterwards it is revealed that Yuna is half Al Bhed herself, on her mother's side. Before the group goes back to the tournament, Lulu warns Tidus not to tell Wakka about Yuna's lineage, as Wakka holds a strong hatred for the Al Bhed. After the Blitzball game, Tidus reunites with Auron, who offers his services to Yuna as a guardian. Auron later tells Tidus something he never expected: that somehow, his father is the enemy.
"Yes, Sin is Jecht."
This news comes very suddenly to Tidus, as this would mean that in order to defeat Sin, he would have to defeat his own father. Before the group continues on their journey, Yuna gladly and officially makes Tidus her guardian. Yuna notices that Tidus is depressed about something and tries to cheer him up by teaching him how to smile when he's feeling sad. She then tells him to try and laugh out loud and he reluctantly does so and lets out an annoying, sarcastic laugh. She joins him and they laughed together. Realizing what they were doing, they seriously start laughing together. Yuna thanks Tidus for this humorous moment and tells him that she wants her journey to be full of laughter. She also told him to whistle if they ever get separated and she'll come running. After Tidus promised her, they realized that the others have been watching them and were worried that "they might have gone crazy."
After setting out, Yuna and Tidus have a moment together and Tidus asked Yuna why Sin always comes back. She tells him that Sin is the "punishment" for their vanity and will not go away unless they have atoned. Tidus wondered if because people were using lots of machina and asked if it was really a bad thing. Yuna couldn't answer that because she does not know herself and she doesn't know a lot of things. Tidus cheers her up by jokingly impersonating Mika, causing her to laugh. Tidus then tells her to not worry about the future until they beat Sin. But he wonders how they can beat something big like that. Yuna explains to him about the Final Aeon, the only aeon powerful enough to destroy Sin, which lays in wait in Tidus's old home, Zanarkand. This surprises Tidus, but was immediately informed by Auron that it's the ruins of an ancient city destroyed 1000 years ago. He briefly doesn't believe it but Auron tells him he'll see it for himself soon enough. Yuna asks him if he'll go with her and he decides to go to Zanarkand to see it with his own eyes, walking away depressed again.
Along the way, Tidus and the group were blocked by the Crusaders, who were planning for their big Operation Mi'ihen, an operation that was created by the Crusaders and the Al Bhed to join forces to lure Sin into a trap and destroy it with a machina that is supposedly as powerful as the mighty aeons. The Crusaders let them through under the orders of Maester Seymour. When the operation began, they fought off a Sinspawn Gui. Sin started to attack and delivered a ultimate blast that wiped out almost all the Crusaders into ashes. Horrified at what happened out there, Tidus chased after Sin, having seen enough death and wants to go home. Tidus begins to have visions of his father pestering him and wakes up near the Djose Highroad, where Yuna is still sending the fallen soldiers to the Farplane and wishes Yuna would stop, but knows she won't stop until Sin is gone. He meets up with Auron and is told again that Sin is Jecht, but still doesn't buy his story. They later travel to Djose Temple, where the surviving Crusaders are healing while a few of them pass away.
T
he next day, the group travels to the Moonflow, riding on a Shoopuf, where Tidus is shown a sunken city by Wakka, and learns more about Spira's history and the machina war from 1000 years ago. Yuna is then kidnapped by an Al Bhed and Tidus and Wakka swim after
them. Tidus and Wakka successfully defeat the underwater machina and save Yuna. Tidus meets with Rikku again, relieved that his first friend in Spira is still alive, and is startled when he finds out she was the one controlling the machina. He asks Yuna and Auron if she could come along as a fellow guardian, and since Wakka doesn't mind, (since he doesn't know she's an Al Bhed), she joins the group.
Maester Seymour's home of Guadosalam lies on the way of the pilgrimage, so the group briefly stops there and is welcomed by the Maester. Seymour has become noticeably fixated on Yuna, causing Tidus to instantly dislike him, in light of his own growing feelings for her. To the surprise of all, Seymour proposes to Yuna, asking her to marry him for the good of all Spira. She is allowed time to decide and consult with the others, and they take this time to visit the Farplane, gathering place for departed spirits. It is explained that within the Farplane, one will see images of their deceased loved ones, triggered by their own memories.
Yuna, unaware of Sin's identity, pointedly notes to Tidus that Jecht must still be alive, since he hasn't appeared. She and Tidus talk a bit more about Jecht, and when Tidus' mother appears, his resentment towards his father increases, since he blames Jecht for her death. Upon leaving the Farplane, the others stumble upon a deceased Jyscal Guado, who escaped from the Farplane to seemingly give Yuna a message. After Yuna sends him, a sphere drops from out of Jyscal's clothing. The others continue to wonder what caused Jyscal to escape from the Farplane.
When the party reached the Thunder Plains, it is revealed that Rikku suffers from astrophobia and becomes so frightened of thunder that she quickly crawled to Tidus and grabs him by the leg. She begs Auron to stop at Rin's Travel Agency until the storm stops (which will never happen). When they get there, Yuna immediately checks out a room. Tidus walks through the hall when he heard a man speaking in Yuna's room. As he tries to listen closely, the door slides open on him, causing Tidus to humorously fall into the room. As Tidus entered the room, he happens to catch Yuna looking at a sphere that shows Seymour's deceased father, Jyscal Guado. Yuna immediately turns it off and Tidus apologizes for coming in without permission. As he heads out the room, he asks Yuna if that was Jyscal. Yuna replies yes and tells Tidus that the sphere is his will and says to "take care of my son."
As Yuna leaves her room seemingly upset, Tidus decides to take a peek at the sphere when Wakka comes in and playfully tackles him by the neck, asking him what he's up to. As Tidus tries to tell him that Yuna's acting strange, Wakka, who is still hanging on to Tidus, informs him to "hold his chocobos" until she tells them when she's ready. As Tidus struggles out of Wakka's grasp, he quickly agrees, showing that he's had enough. Yuna eventually decides to accept Seymour's proposal, though the others don't fully agree, and they make ready to travel to Macalania, where Seymour awaits her answer.
However, upon arriving to Macalania Temple they find that Seymour was responsible for the death of his father, Jyscal Guado, simply so he could gain the title of Maester. The group hurries to Yuna's side to deal with Seymour, who has already guessed that Yuna wouldn't marry him knowing what he did. They are forced into battle and Seymour is killed. Before Yuna can perform a Sending, though, his body is taken away and Tromell brands them all traitors for killing a maester. Before the Guado can apprehend Tidus and the others, Sin whisks them away, and all but Yuna arrive in the endless desert, Bikanel.
Rikku decides to guide her friends to Home, the Al Bhed's sanctuary, thinking Yuna might be there somewhere, but this is false. It is here that Tidus is finally told the truth: when the Final Aeon is summoned, it destroys not only Sin, but the summoner as well; thus, Yuna has embarked on a suicide mission to defeat Sin, only for it to return some time later. When Tidus learns this, he suffers an emotional meltdown and swears to find a way to keep Yuna alive. Rikku takes Tidus and the others to the Airship, where they meet Cid, the leader of the Al Bhed and Yuna's uncle. They proceed to Bevelle, where Yuna is being forced into marrying a now Unsent Seymour.
Tidus and the rest of the guardians crash the wedding but aren't able to stop it. They were to die if they interfere with the ceremony. Unable to do anything, they are forced to watch Yuna marry Seymour, which enrages Tidus. Seymour then commanded the Warrior Monks to finish them off, but Yuna protests and threatens to commit suicide by jumping off the balcony. Seymour tells the monks to cease fire and Tidus and Rikku rush to Yuna. Yuna asks to leave but they refuse. She tells them not to worry and says that she can fly.
They don't believe it but they leave reluctantly. Yuna falls from the balcony and summons Valefor, escaping to the Chamber of the Fayth. On their way to the chamber, they stumble upon a machina in the temple, revealing Yevon's true face. When they arrived, Tidus couldn't stand and wait for Yuna to come out and attempts to break in to no avail alone. Kimahri lends him a hand and they manage to open the entrance. Yuna receives the aeon Bahamut and faints. When Tidus carries her out, Rikku tried to tell him to not come out, but was too late to listen. They are tried for killing Seymour and siding with the Al Bhed. They are sentenced to the Via Purifico, where dangerous fiends linger.
Tidus, along with Rikku and Wakka, manage to fight off underwater fiends, including Evrae Altana, and escaped. When they all reunited at the front entrance, they confront Seymour and his guardians, with one of them carrying the body of Wen Kinoc. Seymour claims that he has saved him from life, having great power, fearing he would lose it, and spends his life scheming petty schemes, never knowing rest. Now that he has no worries, he has been granted sleep eternal. He would then reveal his plans on using Yuna to become the new Sin, and destroying Spira, saving everyone from fear and suffering, having Tidus calling him "totally nuts". Kimahri aims his spear at him, not wanting him to use Yuna for any of this.
Seymour decides to kill Kimahri, thinking that he wants death so much. He kills his minions and uses their souls to transform into Seymour Natus. Kimahri orders his friends to run and protect Yuna. Auron follows his orders, but Tidus refuses. Auron aims his blade at him and forces him to go. Yuna stops running and argues with Auron, wanting to rush back to save Kimahri. Tidus agrees, reminding everyone that they're all guardians and tells Yuna that he'll follow Yuna anyway. They all run back to help Kimahri fight Seymour. They become successful in taking down Seymour, with him scattering into pyreflies. The party retreats to Macalania Woods, where Yuna, her faith shaken, departs to the forest spring. In a mutual agreement between himself and the others, Tidus follows her, revealing that he knows the truth behind the Final Summoning and apologizing for constantly talking about defeating Sin, believing that he had only stressed Yuna out by doing so; however, Yuna assures him that his words had in fact cheered her up.
Tidus attempts to convince Yuna to abandon her pilgrimage and stay with him, even toying with the idea of showing her his own Zanarkand (though it is becoming clear that he can never return); though Yuna considers it, she is ultimately unable to allow Sin to get away with all it has done, and resolves to go on. At this moment, Yuna, overwhelmed by everything that has happened, lets down her emotional walls completely and breaks down in tears. Tidus comforts her, and they share a passionate kiss under a shining full moon. The next morning, Tidus, Yuna, and the others continue on their journey towards Zanarkand, and in the meantime Tidus and Rikku desperately try to come up with a plan on how to keep Yuna alive after the final summoning, to no avail.
As the party approaches Zanarkand, another disquieting fact is revealed: neither Tidus nor Jecht are actually real. They, and the Zanarkand they hail from, are merely dreams of the Fayth, ordered into existence after the destruction of the real Zanarkand with the formation of Sin. The Fayth want Tidus to defeat Sin permanently, so that they can finally rest. Unfortunately, if he complies, the dream will end and Tidus himself will disappear. However, all is not lost, as Tidus is left with these words, as said by Bahamut's Fayth: "You have been touched by Sin... you're more than just dreams now."
The party sets up camp in the outskirts of the ruins; setting the stage for the beginning of the game when Tidus starts recounting his tale from the beginning to party (and the player) in an attempt to stall the group from continuing into the ruins where Yuna would die. He makes it all the way to the 'present' without interruption, but is lost for anything to say after that. He tries to come up with something else to talk about, but Yuna gently silences him; saying that they should continue the story another time.
When the party reaches Zanarkand, they are shown visions of the past by Pyreflies, including Seymour's childhood, summoners and guardians in the past, and even the last chapters of Braska's pilgrimage. They are presented with yet another bizarre revelation by Lady Yunalesca, and the last questions are answered: Jecht is Sin because the Final Aeon is dead, and a guardian close to the summoner will have to sacrifice him or herself to become a new one, as Jecht did. Unfortunately, the question of how to defeat Sin/Jecht becomes murkier: he's an Aeon, and now he has become Sin. Yunalesca leaves the group to decide which of the guardians will be sacrificed into becoming the new Final Aeon, but after witnessing another vision in which Jecht decides for Braska to use him as the Fayth, Tidus decides to break the cycle of death, and Yuna doesn't wish to sacrifice any of her guardians.
Yunalesca becomes dismayed at the party's unwillingness to follow the rites of the pilgrimage and offers to end their suffering through death. Suddenly, the party sees a vision of Auron from the past, grief-stricken over the death of Braska and transformation of Jecht, going to confront Yunalesca. She killed Auron, making him presently an Unsent. Auron then rallies his team to attack Yunalesca. A fierce battle ensues, and Yunalesca is defeated. Unfortunately, without Yunalesca, the Final Aeon cannot ever be attained, and summoners will never be able to temporarily defeat Sin again. Auron then decides to tell Tidus that he was an unsent all along, and his spirit couldn't rest because of the promise he made to Jecht: that he would travel to the dream Zanarkand and look after his son. The party leaves Zanarkand without the Final Aeon, but still determined that there is another way to defeat Sin.
The storyline unfolds further to reveal exactly how Jecht became Sin. Sin is actually the protective armor for an entity named Yu Yevon, the ruler of what was once Zanarkand, whose skill in summoning was so great that he could actually possess the aeons he called forth. Every time the current Sin is defeated by a Final Aeon, Yu Yevon simply possesses that Final Aeon, corrupting it, and making it into a new Sin.
The team boards the Airship and plans the next move: if Yuna can defeat the current Final Aeon, Yu Yevon will be left spiritually and ecumenically vulnerable, which is when the party could destroy him. To do this, they must invade the gigantic hulk of Sin's body and destroy Yevon from the inside. However, Seymour follows them, determined to become the new Sin no matter what, but the party successfully defeats him, leaving him weak enough for Yuna to send. As they travel further inside Sin, they finally encounter the man called Jecht, Tidus' father and Braska's Final Aeon.
Jecht speaks to Tidus the way only a father could, saying he is proud of Tidus for becoming the man he is now, and though it's difficult for Jecht to say, Tidus can tell his father really loves him. After the fight, he urges Yuna to summon her remaining Aeons and defeat Yu Yevon once and for all. Yu Yevon possesses each of the aeons in turn, and each is defeated by the group, until Yu Yevon has nowhere left to hide and is easily destroyed.
The Fayth depart, relieved and thankful, but Tidus must also meet the same fate. As he starts to fade, he apologizes to Yuna for not being able to show her Zanarkand, bids a tearful farewell to his friends, who don't want to accept the fact that he'll be leaving them. As he walks away, Yuna rushes up to him, but simply passes right through him, much to the shock of the rest of her guardians. Though distraught over this, Tidus accepts his fate, and Yuna tells Tidus that she loves him. Embracing Yuna one last time, Tidus takes a running jump off of the airship and enters the Farplane, where he is reunited with the spirits of Auron, Braska, and Jecht. Tidus slaps his father a jovial high-five, proof that the two are finally at peace.
After the end credits, Tidus is shown being revived by the Fayth and waking up in the depths of the ocean somewhere near the coast of Besaid and swims toward the surface with a smile on his face.
Once a certain percentage is completed in Final Fantasy X-2, as well as fulfilling other conditions, the player will be rewarded with an extra scene in the ending of the game which shows Tidus being revived by the Fayth. He makes his entrance to Spira in the same way he did in Final Fantasy X, appearing in the sea just off the coast of Besaid Island (at the end of Final Fantasy X, the portion of the scene where Tidus is swimming up towards the surface is shown. This is obviously the same scene and it suggests that there was some truth the Fayth's statement that "he was more than dreams"), to be greeted by Yuna and a crowd of people on the beach, including Wakka and Lulu. If the player achieves a perfect completion score of 100%, this is followed (after the game credits) by a scene at Zanarkand, in the same location as the beginning of Final Fantasy X, thus bringing the story full-circle to its final conclusion.
During the tournament, Zanarkand is attacked by Sin, an immense creature shrouded in water. The city is destroyed in its path, and Tidus manages to escape a similar fate before the blitzball stadium collapses. After falling to the ground and while the destruction still occurs, Tidus sees Auron, an old friend of Jecht and Tidus' own mentor. Auron and Tidus fight their way towards Sin. Once there, Auron drags Tidus into the depths of Sin, claiming his story begins here.
Tidus awakens to find himself in the world of Spira, in the Baaj Temple area, where he runs into the eccentric salvager race, the Al Bhed. He befriends a young Al Bhed girl named Rikku, and tells her about his life in Zanarkand, as well as his career as the star player of the Zanarkand Abes. But Rikku is rather reluctant to believe him, asking if he breathed Sin's toxin, which is known to induce amnesia. After Tidus claimed he was telling the truth, Rikku decides to take his word, but not before telling him that one thousand years have passed since the destruction of Zanarkand. Rikku also tells him that since Zanarkand is now a holy place, it would be wise not to tell anyone about his life there. After being knocked off the ship by another attack by the monstrous Sin, Tidus awakens at the shores of Besaid Island.
It is here that he meets Wakka, the coach and captain of the Besaid Aurochs, who was impressed by Tidus' talent in Blitzball. Like Rikku, Wakka is shocked to hear Tidus claim to be from the "holy city" of Zanarkand. From this point on, Tidus decides to stick with the story of being a victim of Sin's toxin, lest people think of him as a heretic. The two then arrive inside the Besaid Temple, where an apprentice summoner has not returned from the Cloister of Trials for a day already. Worried the summoner may be in danger, Tidus rushes in, despite the priest's warning about obeying the Precepts. Wakka finds Tidus near the entrance to the Fayth.
Wakka proceeds to tell Tidus about the Fayth, and the Temples: only Summoners and Guardians (such as Wakka) can go in and face the trials. Upon arriving, Tidus meets the summoner Yuna, and the guardians accompanying her, Lulu and Kimahri Ronso, who have just completed the trials and have achieved Valefor. Lulu was surprised to see Tidus, since he doesn't meet the conditions of those allowed in the temple. Afterwards, Tidus gets the chance to talk with Yuna, who invites him to come along with her on her pilgrimage.
That night, Tidus awakens after a dream about his father Jecht putting him down him to hear Lulu berating Wakka. Lulu claims that Wakka is only interested in Tidus because he reminded him of his younger brother, Chappu. Apparently, Chappu was a member of the Crusaders, a group determined to defeat Sin, but was killed the previous year. Despite this, Tidus still thinks of Wakka as a true friend. The next day, the two leave with Yuna, Lulu, and Kimahri (who unexpectedly charged at and picked a fight with him because he does not trust nor like him), on their journey to defeat Sin.
As they sail to Kilika, Tidus gets to know Yuna. She enjoys his company and believes his claims that he came from Zanarkand. When he asks why, she says Jecht told her the same thing when she was younger. Tidus is disturbed by the knowledge that his own father arrived in Spira, and Yuna tells him that Jecht helped her father, a summoner named Braska, by becoming his guardian. When Tidus tells her Jecht disappeared from Zanarkand ten years previous, Yuna said that was the same time he appeared in Spira. The group soon arrives at Kilika, only to witness its destruction by Sin. Here, Tidus witnesses Yuna's first Sending, an elaborate dance during which she sends the spirits of the dead to the Farplane.
After acquiring Ifrit in the Kilika Temple, the party arrives at Luca and the annual Blitzball World Championship. Once they arrive, Tidus finds out that his new team, the Besaid Aurochs, are the butt of the tournament, having lost their first match each year for the past twenty-three years. Frustrated, Tidus attracts some attention by grabbing a megaphone, climbing on top of some crates and yelling at the favored-to-win Luca Goers, saying that his team will be taking the cup home. This incident leaves the Aurochs in embarrassment and all of Luca taking Tidus for the "Aurochs' comedian."
Shortly after this misfortune, Tidus meets Grand Maester Mika and the newest maester, Seymour Guado, a man who is half human and half Guado. During the Blitzball tournament, Kimahri's old rivals, Biran and Yenke Ronso, picked a fight with him. When Tidus goes to help him, Yuna is kidnapped by a group of Al Bhed. Tidus and Kimahri chase after them, and with Lulu guiding them to the Al Bhed ship, and they rescue her. Afterwards it is revealed that Yuna is half Al Bhed herself, on her mother's side. Before the group goes back to the tournament, Lulu warns Tidus not to tell Wakka about Yuna's lineage, as Wakka holds a strong hatred for the Al Bhed. After the Blitzball game, Tidus reunites with Auron, who offers his services to Yuna as a guardian. Auron later tells Tidus something he never expected: that somehow, his father is the enemy.
"Yes, Sin is Jecht."
This news comes very suddenly to Tidus, as this would mean that in order to defeat Sin, he would have to defeat his own father. Before the group continues on their journey, Yuna gladly and officially makes Tidus her guardian. Yuna notices that Tidus is depressed about something and tries to cheer him up by teaching him how to smile when he's feeling sad. She then tells him to try and laugh out loud and he reluctantly does so and lets out an annoying, sarcastic laugh. She joins him and they laughed together. Realizing what they were doing, they seriously start laughing together. Yuna thanks Tidus for this humorous moment and tells him that she wants her journey to be full of laughter. She also told him to whistle if they ever get separated and she'll come running. After Tidus promised her, they realized that the others have been watching them and were worried that "they might have gone crazy."
After setting out, Yuna and Tidus have a moment together and Tidus asked Yuna why Sin always comes back. She tells him that Sin is the "punishment" for their vanity and will not go away unless they have atoned. Tidus wondered if because people were using lots of machina and asked if it was really a bad thing. Yuna couldn't answer that because she does not know herself and she doesn't know a lot of things. Tidus cheers her up by jokingly impersonating Mika, causing her to laugh. Tidus then tells her to not worry about the future until they beat Sin. But he wonders how they can beat something big like that. Yuna explains to him about the Final Aeon, the only aeon powerful enough to destroy Sin, which lays in wait in Tidus's old home, Zanarkand. This surprises Tidus, but was immediately informed by Auron that it's the ruins of an ancient city destroyed 1000 years ago. He briefly doesn't believe it but Auron tells him he'll see it for himself soon enough. Yuna asks him if he'll go with her and he decides to go to Zanarkand to see it with his own eyes, walking away depressed again.
Along the way, Tidus and the group were blocked by the Crusaders, who were planning for their big Operation Mi'ihen, an operation that was created by the Crusaders and the Al Bhed to join forces to lure Sin into a trap and destroy it with a machina that is supposedly as powerful as the mighty aeons. The Crusaders let them through under the orders of Maester Seymour. When the operation began, they fought off a Sinspawn Gui. Sin started to attack and delivered a ultimate blast that wiped out almost all the Crusaders into ashes. Horrified at what happened out there, Tidus chased after Sin, having seen enough death and wants to go home. Tidus begins to have visions of his father pestering him and wakes up near the Djose Highroad, where Yuna is still sending the fallen soldiers to the Farplane and wishes Yuna would stop, but knows she won't stop until Sin is gone. He meets up with Auron and is told again that Sin is Jecht, but still doesn't buy his story. They later travel to Djose Temple, where the surviving Crusaders are healing while a few of them pass away.
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he next day, the group travels to the Moonflow, riding on a Shoopuf, where Tidus is shown a sunken city by Wakka, and learns more about Spira's history and the machina war from 1000 years ago. Yuna is then kidnapped by an Al Bhed and Tidus and Wakka swim after
them. Tidus and Wakka successfully defeat the underwater machina and save Yuna. Tidus meets with Rikku again, relieved that his first friend in Spira is still alive, and is startled when he finds out she was the one controlling the machina. He asks Yuna and Auron if she could come along as a fellow guardian, and since Wakka doesn't mind, (since he doesn't know she's an Al Bhed), she joins the group.
Maester Seymour's home of Guadosalam lies on the way of the pilgrimage, so the group briefly stops there and is welcomed by the Maester. Seymour has become noticeably fixated on Yuna, causing Tidus to instantly dislike him, in light of his own growing feelings for her. To the surprise of all, Seymour proposes to Yuna, asking her to marry him for the good of all Spira. She is allowed time to decide and consult with the others, and they take this time to visit the Farplane, gathering place for departed spirits. It is explained that within the Farplane, one will see images of their deceased loved ones, triggered by their own memories.
Yuna, unaware of Sin's identity, pointedly notes to Tidus that Jecht must still be alive, since he hasn't appeared. She and Tidus talk a bit more about Jecht, and when Tidus' mother appears, his resentment towards his father increases, since he blames Jecht for her death. Upon leaving the Farplane, the others stumble upon a deceased Jyscal Guado, who escaped from the Farplane to seemingly give Yuna a message. After Yuna sends him, a sphere drops from out of Jyscal's clothing. The others continue to wonder what caused Jyscal to escape from the Farplane.
When the party reached the Thunder Plains, it is revealed that Rikku suffers from astrophobia and becomes so frightened of thunder that she quickly crawled to Tidus and grabs him by the leg. She begs Auron to stop at Rin's Travel Agency until the storm stops (which will never happen). When they get there, Yuna immediately checks out a room. Tidus walks through the hall when he heard a man speaking in Yuna's room. As he tries to listen closely, the door slides open on him, causing Tidus to humorously fall into the room. As Tidus entered the room, he happens to catch Yuna looking at a sphere that shows Seymour's deceased father, Jyscal Guado. Yuna immediately turns it off and Tidus apologizes for coming in without permission. As he heads out the room, he asks Yuna if that was Jyscal. Yuna replies yes and tells Tidus that the sphere is his will and says to "take care of my son."
As Yuna leaves her room seemingly upset, Tidus decides to take a peek at the sphere when Wakka comes in and playfully tackles him by the neck, asking him what he's up to. As Tidus tries to tell him that Yuna's acting strange, Wakka, who is still hanging on to Tidus, informs him to "hold his chocobos" until she tells them when she's ready. As Tidus struggles out of Wakka's grasp, he quickly agrees, showing that he's had enough. Yuna eventually decides to accept Seymour's proposal, though the others don't fully agree, and they make ready to travel to Macalania, where Seymour awaits her answer.
However, upon arriving to Macalania Temple they find that Seymour was responsible for the death of his father, Jyscal Guado, simply so he could gain the title of Maester. The group hurries to Yuna's side to deal with Seymour, who has already guessed that Yuna wouldn't marry him knowing what he did. They are forced into battle and Seymour is killed. Before Yuna can perform a Sending, though, his body is taken away and Tromell brands them all traitors for killing a maester. Before the Guado can apprehend Tidus and the others, Sin whisks them away, and all but Yuna arrive in the endless desert, Bikanel.
Rikku decides to guide her friends to Home, the Al Bhed's sanctuary, thinking Yuna might be there somewhere, but this is false. It is here that Tidus is finally told the truth: when the Final Aeon is summoned, it destroys not only Sin, but the summoner as well; thus, Yuna has embarked on a suicide mission to defeat Sin, only for it to return some time later. When Tidus learns this, he suffers an emotional meltdown and swears to find a way to keep Yuna alive. Rikku takes Tidus and the others to the Airship, where they meet Cid, the leader of the Al Bhed and Yuna's uncle. They proceed to Bevelle, where Yuna is being forced into marrying a now Unsent Seymour.
Tidus and the rest of the guardians crash the wedding but aren't able to stop it. They were to die if they interfere with the ceremony. Unable to do anything, they are forced to watch Yuna marry Seymour, which enrages Tidus. Seymour then commanded the Warrior Monks to finish them off, but Yuna protests and threatens to commit suicide by jumping off the balcony. Seymour tells the monks to cease fire and Tidus and Rikku rush to Yuna. Yuna asks to leave but they refuse. She tells them not to worry and says that she can fly.
They don't believe it but they leave reluctantly. Yuna falls from the balcony and summons Valefor, escaping to the Chamber of the Fayth. On their way to the chamber, they stumble upon a machina in the temple, revealing Yevon's true face. When they arrived, Tidus couldn't stand and wait for Yuna to come out and attempts to break in to no avail alone. Kimahri lends him a hand and they manage to open the entrance. Yuna receives the aeon Bahamut and faints. When Tidus carries her out, Rikku tried to tell him to not come out, but was too late to listen. They are tried for killing Seymour and siding with the Al Bhed. They are sentenced to the Via Purifico, where dangerous fiends linger.
Tidus, along with Rikku and Wakka, manage to fight off underwater fiends, including Evrae Altana, and escaped. When they all reunited at the front entrance, they confront Seymour and his guardians, with one of them carrying the body of Wen Kinoc. Seymour claims that he has saved him from life, having great power, fearing he would lose it, and spends his life scheming petty schemes, never knowing rest. Now that he has no worries, he has been granted sleep eternal. He would then reveal his plans on using Yuna to become the new Sin, and destroying Spira, saving everyone from fear and suffering, having Tidus calling him "totally nuts". Kimahri aims his spear at him, not wanting him to use Yuna for any of this.
Seymour decides to kill Kimahri, thinking that he wants death so much. He kills his minions and uses their souls to transform into Seymour Natus. Kimahri orders his friends to run and protect Yuna. Auron follows his orders, but Tidus refuses. Auron aims his blade at him and forces him to go. Yuna stops running and argues with Auron, wanting to rush back to save Kimahri. Tidus agrees, reminding everyone that they're all guardians and tells Yuna that he'll follow Yuna anyway. They all run back to help Kimahri fight Seymour. They become successful in taking down Seymour, with him scattering into pyreflies. The party retreats to Macalania Woods, where Yuna, her faith shaken, departs to the forest spring. In a mutual agreement between himself and the others, Tidus follows her, revealing that he knows the truth behind the Final Summoning and apologizing for constantly talking about defeating Sin, believing that he had only stressed Yuna out by doing so; however, Yuna assures him that his words had in fact cheered her up.
Tidus attempts to convince Yuna to abandon her pilgrimage and stay with him, even toying with the idea of showing her his own Zanarkand (though it is becoming clear that he can never return); though Yuna considers it, she is ultimately unable to allow Sin to get away with all it has done, and resolves to go on. At this moment, Yuna, overwhelmed by everything that has happened, lets down her emotional walls completely and breaks down in tears. Tidus comforts her, and they share a passionate kiss under a shining full moon. The next morning, Tidus, Yuna, and the others continue on their journey towards Zanarkand, and in the meantime Tidus and Rikku desperately try to come up with a plan on how to keep Yuna alive after the final summoning, to no avail.
As the party approaches Zanarkand, another disquieting fact is revealed: neither Tidus nor Jecht are actually real. They, and the Zanarkand they hail from, are merely dreams of the Fayth, ordered into existence after the destruction of the real Zanarkand with the formation of Sin. The Fayth want Tidus to defeat Sin permanently, so that they can finally rest. Unfortunately, if he complies, the dream will end and Tidus himself will disappear. However, all is not lost, as Tidus is left with these words, as said by Bahamut's Fayth: "You have been touched by Sin... you're more than just dreams now."
The party sets up camp in the outskirts of the ruins; setting the stage for the beginning of the game when Tidus starts recounting his tale from the beginning to party (and the player) in an attempt to stall the group from continuing into the ruins where Yuna would die. He makes it all the way to the 'present' without interruption, but is lost for anything to say after that. He tries to come up with something else to talk about, but Yuna gently silences him; saying that they should continue the story another time.
When the party reaches Zanarkand, they are shown visions of the past by Pyreflies, including Seymour's childhood, summoners and guardians in the past, and even the last chapters of Braska's pilgrimage. They are presented with yet another bizarre revelation by Lady Yunalesca, and the last questions are answered: Jecht is Sin because the Final Aeon is dead, and a guardian close to the summoner will have to sacrifice him or herself to become a new one, as Jecht did. Unfortunately, the question of how to defeat Sin/Jecht becomes murkier: he's an Aeon, and now he has become Sin. Yunalesca leaves the group to decide which of the guardians will be sacrificed into becoming the new Final Aeon, but after witnessing another vision in which Jecht decides for Braska to use him as the Fayth, Tidus decides to break the cycle of death, and Yuna doesn't wish to sacrifice any of her guardians.
Yunalesca becomes dismayed at the party's unwillingness to follow the rites of the pilgrimage and offers to end their suffering through death. Suddenly, the party sees a vision of Auron from the past, grief-stricken over the death of Braska and transformation of Jecht, going to confront Yunalesca. She killed Auron, making him presently an Unsent. Auron then rallies his team to attack Yunalesca. A fierce battle ensues, and Yunalesca is defeated. Unfortunately, without Yunalesca, the Final Aeon cannot ever be attained, and summoners will never be able to temporarily defeat Sin again. Auron then decides to tell Tidus that he was an unsent all along, and his spirit couldn't rest because of the promise he made to Jecht: that he would travel to the dream Zanarkand and look after his son. The party leaves Zanarkand without the Final Aeon, but still determined that there is another way to defeat Sin.
The storyline unfolds further to reveal exactly how Jecht became Sin. Sin is actually the protective armor for an entity named Yu Yevon, the ruler of what was once Zanarkand, whose skill in summoning was so great that he could actually possess the aeons he called forth. Every time the current Sin is defeated by a Final Aeon, Yu Yevon simply possesses that Final Aeon, corrupting it, and making it into a new Sin.
The team boards the Airship and plans the next move: if Yuna can defeat the current Final Aeon, Yu Yevon will be left spiritually and ecumenically vulnerable, which is when the party could destroy him. To do this, they must invade the gigantic hulk of Sin's body and destroy Yevon from the inside. However, Seymour follows them, determined to become the new Sin no matter what, but the party successfully defeats him, leaving him weak enough for Yuna to send. As they travel further inside Sin, they finally encounter the man called Jecht, Tidus' father and Braska's Final Aeon.
Jecht speaks to Tidus the way only a father could, saying he is proud of Tidus for becoming the man he is now, and though it's difficult for Jecht to say, Tidus can tell his father really loves him. After the fight, he urges Yuna to summon her remaining Aeons and defeat Yu Yevon once and for all. Yu Yevon possesses each of the aeons in turn, and each is defeated by the group, until Yu Yevon has nowhere left to hide and is easily destroyed.
The Fayth depart, relieved and thankful, but Tidus must also meet the same fate. As he starts to fade, he apologizes to Yuna for not being able to show her Zanarkand, bids a tearful farewell to his friends, who don't want to accept the fact that he'll be leaving them. As he walks away, Yuna rushes up to him, but simply passes right through him, much to the shock of the rest of her guardians. Though distraught over this, Tidus accepts his fate, and Yuna tells Tidus that she loves him. Embracing Yuna one last time, Tidus takes a running jump off of the airship and enters the Farplane, where he is reunited with the spirits of Auron, Braska, and Jecht. Tidus slaps his father a jovial high-five, proof that the two are finally at peace.
After the end credits, Tidus is shown being revived by the Fayth and waking up in the depths of the ocean somewhere near the coast of Besaid and swims toward the surface with a smile on his face.
Once a certain percentage is completed in Final Fantasy X-2, as well as fulfilling other conditions, the player will be rewarded with an extra scene in the ending of the game which shows Tidus being revived by the Fayth. He makes his entrance to Spira in the same way he did in Final Fantasy X, appearing in the sea just off the coast of Besaid Island (at the end of Final Fantasy X, the portion of the scene where Tidus is swimming up towards the surface is shown. This is obviously the same scene and it suggests that there was some truth the Fayth's statement that "he was more than dreams"), to be greeted by Yuna and a crowd of people on the beach, including Wakka and Lulu. If the player achieves a perfect completion score of 100%, this is followed (after the game credits) by a scene at Zanarkand, in the same location as the beginning of Final Fantasy X, thus bringing the story full-circle to its final conclusion.
Likes: Yuna, Wakka, Lulu, Rikku, Auron, Kimahri, Blitzball,
Dislikes: Seymour, Jecht, Sin, Those who bring danger to Yuna and his friends
Fears: Losing Yuna, Getting taken away again, Sin returning
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RP Sample: (Look to Kuja and Seifer)
How did you find us: (Same as above)
Custom Title: Blitzball Ace
Anything else you want to shout out: Potato.
Password:'Fly free like the Canary.'
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