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 Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 9:47 pm
This is just baisically the whole story about the character, I suggest if you already know them by heart then don't read this at all. lol It might be a waste of time ^^
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Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 9:51 pm
Tidus 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 clearly holds Jecht in disdain for this, and for his distance as a father.
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.
It is here he meets Wakka, the coach and captain of the Besaid Aurochs, who was impressed by Tidus' talent in Blitzball, but like Rikku is also 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 a summoner in training has stayed too long. Worried the summoner may be in danger, Tidus rushes in, despite being warned about disobeying the Presets. Wakka finds Tidus near the entrance to the Fayth, and tells him it is alright to continue. 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. 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 badmouthing him to hear Lulu arguing with Wakka. Lulu claims that Wakka is only interested in Tidus because he reminds Wakka of his little brother, Chappu. Apparently, Chappu was a member of the Crusaders, a group determined to defeat Sin, but was killed on a mission. Despite this, Tidus still thinks of Wakka as a true friend. The next day, the two leave with Yuna, Lulu, and Kimahri 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.
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 foes, 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, they rescue her. Afterwards it is revealed that Yuna is part Al Bhed herself. Before the group goes back to the tournament, Lulu warns Tidus not to tell Wakka about Yuna's lineage, as Wakka holds a great 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. After setting out, she tells Tidus about the Final Aeon, the only aeon powerful enough to destroy Sin, which lays in wait in Tidus's old home, Zanarkand. Along the way, Tidus meets with Rikku again, relieved that his first friend in Spira is still alive. He asks Yuna and Auron if she could come along as a fellow guardian, and since Wakka doesn't mind, seeing as how 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.
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 leaving the Farplane 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 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 rescue Yuna, but not before confronting Seymour, who plans on using Yuna to become the new Sin, and destroying Spira. The party narrowly defeats Seymour and 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 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 the player is left with these words, as said by Bahamut's Fayth: "You have been touched by Sin... you're more than just dreams now."
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 so must Tidus meet the same fate. As he starts to fade, he apologizes to his friends, bids a tearful farewell to Yuna, who doesn't want to accept the fact that he'll be leaving her. As he walks away, Yuna rushes up to him, but simply passes right through him. 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.
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Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 10:04 pm
YunaYuna was born in Bevelle. Her mother was killed by Sin shortly after her birth, so Braska was left to raise her alone. When Yuna was around the age of seven, Braska resolved to become a Summoner, and do his best to defeat Sin and ease Spira's suffering. He enlisted an exiled warrior-monk named Auron and Jecht, a man who suddenly appeared in Spira and claiming to come from a city that no longer exists, as his Guardians. Braska began his pilgrimage to the temples of Spira to obtain the Final Aeon. While on the island of Besaid, he asked Auron to take Yuna to Besaid so she may have a peaceful childhood.
However, when the pilgrimage ends, Auron is wounded by Yunalesca, he then literally crawls down Mt. Gagazet. Auron makes it as far as the outskirts of Bevelle before his strength abandons him. Before dying, he places his mission upon a Ronso named Kimahri.
Kimahri then travels to Bevelle, where he meets Yuna and takes her to Besaid; though Kimahri initially attempted to take his leave afterwards, Yuna pleaded with him to stay, and he complied. At Besaid, she becomes close friends with Lulu and Wakka - in fact, the relationship is referred to as Yuna being a younger sister to the pair. Eventually, she decides to become a summoner, and refuses to allow Lulu and Wakka to change her mind. After the enormous amount of spiritual preparation, she, Lulu and Kimahri travel through the Besaid Cloister of Trials. Once there, she begins praying to the fayth to allow her to become a summoner.
A day later, she leaves the fayth as a summoner, only to find Wakka and another man (named Tidus) in the room. Her training to become a summoner is completed after summoning the Aeon Valefor. She then begins a trip to Kilika with Wakka, Lulu, Kimahri and Tidus. Thanks to her own encounters with Jecht, she is the only person who believes right off the bat that Tidus actually comes from Zanarkand (other than Rikku and Auron, who was the one that brought Tidus from there). At this point, Yuna's only guardians are Wakka, Lulu, and Kimahri.
At Kilika, she performs her first sending, and she obtains the Aeon Ifrit. After that the group fights creatures called sin spawn. then The group leaves for Luca.
At Luca, Yuna hears a rumor that her father's guardian, Auron, is somewhere in Luca. She begins a search with Kimahri and Tidus just before the opening Blitzball match. Kimahri ends up in a fight with two other Ronso and during that time, Yuna is kidnapped by the Al Bhed in hopes of making the Besaid Aurochs lose to them. However, Tidus, Kimahri and Lulu manage to rescue Yuna, while the Besaid Aurochs win their first match in 10 years. At this city Auron becomes Yuna's guardian, along with Tidus.
While traveling towards Djose Temple, Yuna is caught up in Operation Mi'ihen, where she meets Maester Seymour Guado, and witnesses Sin kill most of the Crusaders. Upon reaching Djose Temple she meets the summoner Isaru and receives the aeon Ixion.
On the Moonflow, she is yet again kidnapped by the Al Bhed. This time, the machine is underwater, so Tidus and Wakka go down to rescue her. The group later realizes the pilot of the machine was really Rikku, who becomes Yuna's final guardian.
At Guadosalam, Seymour proposes to Yuna, and she decides to visit the Farplane before making her decision. Upon the group's return from the Farplane, it is discovered that Seymour has left for Macalania Temple, and so the group proceeds to follow him.
Upon crossing the Thunder Plains on the way to Macalania, Yuna observes the contents of a Sphere left to her by Seymour's father in the Farplane and discovers that Seymour killed his own father. She decides to play at marriage in order to get Seymour to talk. This backfires when her guardians intervene, and they end up killing Seymour and being chased out of the temple by the now-bloodthirsty Guado, out to kill the ones who murdered their leader.
Yuna and the group then escape, only for them to be trapped under the ice. After being saved by Sin under Jecht's influence, most of the party is taken to Bikanel Island and Rikku leads them to their home. However, the Guado are in the midst of an attack on the Al Bhed home, which is in the midst of being completely demolished. In an attempt to escape and locate Yuna, the guardians board an airship and escape. Yuna, having been left behind by Sin, was captured by the Guado and forced to marry Seymour. She would, however, use this opportunity to play at marriage just for a chance to send him once and for all, as it is a summoner's duty to lead the dead to where they belong. When her guardians show up in an attempt to rescue her from the forced marriage, she is stopped by Mika, who threatened to force the Warrior Monks to kill her friends if she continues on with the sending.
She finishes the marriage ceremony to save her friends, but, when Seymour decides to have Tidus, Auron, Kimahri, Wakka, Lulu, and Rikku killed anyway, Yuna threatens to commit suicide by jumping off the church unless he frees them; when Seymour tells her that the idea is foolish, she merely wipes his kiss off of her lips with great disgust, and then proceeds to jump anyway, saving herself by summoning the winged Valefore. She then escapes to Bevelle's Chamber of the Fayth, where she receives Bahamut. However, her guardians once again follow her, the group is caught, and she is tried for murder and treason. She manages to escape her execution into Macalania Woods with her guardians following.
Her faith in Yevon shaken, Yuna goes off to the spring to be alone with Kimahri in tow. Tidus goes after her, a mutual agreement between himself and the others, and, now knowing the truth behind the Final Summoning, apologizes for his eagerness to defeat Sin and filling her with hopes that they would be able to see his Zanarkand, believing that he had only stressed her out by doing so. However, Yuna assures him that he had in fact made her happy. Tidus attempts to convince her to quit her pilgrimage and stay with him, even toying with the idea of taking the whole group to his own Zanarkand. While Yuna considers it at first, her sense of duty to the rest of Spira is too great, and she resolves to go on; at that moment, Yuna, overwhelmed by the recent occurrences, lets down her emotional walls and breaks down crying. Tidus comforts her, and they kiss and share a moonlit tryst in the spring, and Tidus assures her that he will always remain by her side no matter what.
Yuna then travels to Zanarkand, where she defies what the other summoners have done and kills Yunalesca, so as not to sacrifice one of her guardians to be the Final Aeon for her. Intrigued by Yunalesca's cryptic parting words, Yuna seeks out Grand Maester Mika in order to find out the truth about Sin. Having learned the truth of Sin's rebirth, the group then hatch a plan to engage Sin head-on and venture inside to defeat the monstrous summoner at its core, Yu Yevon. Yuna uses all the Aeons she has obtained and manages to break the cycle and defeat Sin once and for all, becoming the High Summoner of the Eternal Calm.
However, the destruction of Sin and Yu Yevon comes at a heavy price: the death of Tidus, a product of the Dream Zanarkand created by Yu Yevon. After a tearful farewell, Yuna tells Tidus that she loves him (but simply thanks him in the Japanese version) and, after embracing Yuna, Tidus jumps off the deck of the airship and enters the Farplane.
Though deeply saddened by Tidus's death, Yuna informs the rest of Spira that she will aid in the reconstruction of the planet now that Sin is no more. She gave in one last speech saying, "The people and the friends that we have lost... or the dreams that faded... never forget them." 
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Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 10:10 pm
WakkaA skilled Guardian, Fighter and Blitzball player. Wakka is 23 years old (in Final Fantasy X) and grew up on Besaid Island along with Yuna, Lulu and his brother Chappu. He is characterized by a long reddish-orange coif and a Besaid Island accent. As such, he uses such speech-mannerisms as saying "brudda" for "brother" and finishing sentences with "ya?", which could be his way of saying "right" or "okay". He hates the Al Bhed simply because they don't follow Yevon, and depends very much on Yevon's religion and guidance for his decisions, making him appear fairly socially conservative; as a result, he has been intentionally kept in the dark about Yuna's half-Al Bhed heritage. Even though he is old-fashioned, used to living on an island, he has a big heart and tries to cheer the party up, though it does not always work.
Wakka became like an adopted brother to Yuna, together with Lulu, and they grew up on Besaid. He lost his parents to Sin, and tried to be like a parent to his brother Chappu. Chappu and Lulu were in love, but Chappu was killed by Sin. It is because of Chappu's death, as well as the fact that he chose to fight with an Al Bhed Machina weapon, that Wakka's hatred for the Al Bhed was shifted from religious prejudice to a more personal grudge. When Yuna decides to become a Summoner, Wakka becomes one of her Guardians, in order to avenge Chappu, together with Lulu and Kimahri.
He meets Tidus when Tidus first appears on Besaid, and due to Tidus looking a lot like Chappu, Wakka quickly bonds with him, and they quickly form a close brotherly friendship. He shows the confused Tidus the ropes of Spira. During his travels, he gets more and more resentful of the Al Bhed, and generally needs Lulu to cool him down. He was equally resentful of the Al Bhed when towards their journey to Macalania Temple, he finds out that Yuna's newest guardian, Rikku, is an Al Bhed, and begins to mistreat her, much to Tidus's anger and frustration. However, he begins to soften his attitude towards the Al Bhed when he discovers that their kidnapping of Summoners was meant to save them from their inevitable deaths, going so far as to lash out in rage at the Guado during their attack on the Al Bhed city and attempt to comfort Rikku when she mourns the senseless destruction that the Guado are causing. When he finds out that Yuna is part Al Bhed, he gets confused and slowly realizes that his hatred of the Al Bhed is unjustified. He is horrified and disbelieving when they find out the truth about Yevon and Seymour's betrayal and begins doubting if the teachings are true. Just before the final battle, he makes peace with Rikku and the other Al Bhed. Like the rest of the party, he is also saddened at Tidus' fate, having made a close brotherly bond with him.
After Sin is defeated and Yevon is disbanded, he settles down on Besaid with Lulu.
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Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 10:16 pm
LuluLulu is often stern and scathing (particularly to Wakka), and doesn't smile very often. However, she is nonetheless kind-hearted and caring toward others. She is also highly intelligent, and is one of the few Yevonites who easily questions the Yevon religion on objective terms.
She was raised in Besaid as an orphan alongside Wakka, Chappu and later Yuna, after her parents, who she remembers just a little, were killed by Sin when she was five years old. At some point in her past, she became romantically involved with Chappu, Wakka's younger brother, and he even considered proposing to her. However, he became involved with the Crusaders, to make the world safer for Lulu and died in an operation against Sin somewhere near Djose, before he could propose to her. Later, she would find out that Luzzu, a crusader and friend of Chappu, was the one that convinced him to enlist in the Crusaders. Unlike Wakka, she is more accepting of Chappu's death and she doesn’t place blame for it. Nevertheless, she still brings him up often and says how Tidus or anyone else will never replace him.
Before becoming a guardian to Yuna, Lulu guarded two previous summoners whose pilgrimages abruptly ended before reaching the Zanarkand Ruins. The first summoner Lulu guarded was Lady Ginnem, she was her sole guardian. However, as a young and inexperienced guardian, Lulu was unable to prevent Ginnem's death in the Cavern of the Stolen Fayth, during an attempt to acquire the Aeon Yojimbo. Lulu would harbor intense guilt over her summoner’s death, and Lady Ginnem's soul remained unsent, until later during Yuna’s pilgrimage. The second summoner she serves as guardian to, alongside Wakka, was Father Zuke. His pilgrimage ended at the Calm Lands, as he chose not to continue, a decision many summoners make when they reach those plains.
When Yuna (who she cares as a little sister) decided to became a summoner, Lulu protested at first, but eventually agreed to become her guardian, as well as Wakka and Kimahri. Lulu is very protective of Yuna and also respectful of the decisions she makes. She knows that Yuna made her own choice to become a summoner, knowing what it would mean. She trips to Kilika with Yuna, Wakka, Kimahri and Tidus, a young man who claims to come from Zanarkand and looks a lot like Chappu. Although, Lulu doesn’t believe that he is from Zanarkand, she is the one that offers Tidus patient and uncomplicated explanations about Spira.
After Yuna obtains the Aeon Ifrit at Kilika, the group leaves to Luca, where the Blitzball match take place. Yuna is kidnapped by the Al Bhed in hopes of making the Besaid Aurochs lose to them. However, Lulu with the help of Tidus and Kimahri manage to rescue Yuna, while the Besaid Aurochs win their first match in ten years. And Auron joins the group, as another guardian.
They travel through Mi'ihen Highroad and Mushroom Rock Road, where they get involved in Operation Mi'ihen, to get to Djose Temple. In Djose Yuna receives Ixion and they continue to Guadosalam. Once there, Seymour Guado proposes marriage to Yuna, Lulu is supportive of the union, as it will give the people of Spira some happiness as well as furthering relations with humans and the Guado. While Tidus is against any marriage, Lulu cryptically responds that she would like for Yuna to marry for love, but not for her to marry the one she loves, knowing full well who he is. The group travels to Macalania, where they confront and defeat Seymour, after discovering he murdered his own father. They manage to escape, only to be trapped under the ice. Yuna is kidnapped by the Al Bhed and later taken by the Guado. Lulu and the other guardians go to Bevelle to save her, but they are caught and tried for treason. Eventually they manage to escape and save Yuna.
The group continues the pilgrimage to Zanarkand and in the way there they visit the Cavern of the Stolen Fayth, where Lulu decides to face her painful memories. At the back of the cave, the group meets the unsent form of Lady Ginnem, the human personality she once held all but completely buried in enmity for the living. Lulu felt that she must fulfill a last duty to Ginnem as a guardian in ensuring that her spirit would depart to rest peacefully on the Farplane. After fighting and defeating Yojimbo — the aeon having been summoned by Ginnem — Ginnem's spirit departs for the Farplane. Finally at the ruins of the Zanarkand, they discover the truth about Yevon and kill Yunalesca. Lulu adjusts to this reality faster than some of the other former believers in her party.
The group then hatches a plan to engage Sin head-on and venture inside to defeat the monster at its core, Yu Yevon. Lulu fights along her comrades and protects Yuna till the end. After the destruction of Sin, she attends Yuna’s speech at the Luca Stadium, falls in love with Wakka and six months later they are wed to one another. (note: OMFG SHE HAS A BABY WITH WAKKA EWWWWWWWWWWWWW)
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Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 10:22 pm
Rikkuikku's father, Cid, is the leader of the Al Bhed, and she has a brother who is aptly named Brother. Her mother died before the events of Final Fantasy X, having been killed by a faulty machina. Cid's sister married High Summoner Braska, Yuna's father, and so Rikku and Brother are Yuna's biological maternal cousins.
Because of their bond being cousins, Rikku is completely loyal to Yuna – whom she affectionately calls 'Yunie' – and the most vocal opponent to her ongoing pilgrimage that will eventually claim her life. Over the course of the game, she also forms a close bond with Tidus and looks up to him as a brother (and treats him rather better than her own), perhaps because of their similar personalities and devotion to Yuna; their friendship is so close that Tidus is the first one of Yuna's guardians to whom Rikku reveals that she and Yuna are biologically related. She also turns to him for comfort, as seen in the Thunder Plains, when she collapses on the ground with fright, crawls directly towards him, and grabs him by the leg.
Personality-wise, Rikku is kind-hearted, very spirited and energetic, which sometimes clashes with the more stoic group members. She looks up to Lulu as something of a role model, being impressed with her calm levelheaded-ness – Tidus and Kimahri would share their views on this, the former saying that Rikku should work hard to become like Lulu, and the latter saying that "Rikku should stay Rikku". Child-like and playful in many ways, Rikku tries to maintain a positive outlook and often refers to gloomy or annoying people as "big meanies". Her cheerful outlook often makes a stark contrast when she is sad or upset. She also suffers from astraphobia after a mishap involving Brother and a Thunder-spell in her youth, although she starts to deal with this in the first game, and has overcome it in the second game, explained in the first visit to the Thunder Plains when Yuna narrates that Rikku overcame her fear by camping out in the Thunder Plains for a week; however, she also reveals a fear of snakes in Final Fantasy X-2, completely freaking out when confronting snake-like enemies, and sometimes shouting "Snake! Snake! Snaaake!" when entering battle against a snake like enemy such as a Recoil. By the game's end, she wonders about her own life, but is reassured by Yuna that her own adventure will arrive one day. StoryEarly in the game, after Tidus gets trapped in the Underwater Ruins, he is 'rescued' by a group of Al Bhed. Rikku, as the only member who can speak both Al Bhed and English, objects when her fellows think Tidus is a fiend in human disguise and wanted to kill him. Rikku stops them but knocks Tidus unconscious with a punch to the gut to stop his protesting.
She then enlists Tidus to help reactivate a underwater power plant – doing a much better job than her brother's rather comical pantomiming – in which the Al Bhed then find a sunken airship and salvage it. Striking up a friendship with Tidus (although rather surprised by his claims of hailing from Zanarkand) she promises to take him to Luca so that he can try and find someone he knows. However, the two are separated when Tidus is washed overboard by a surprise encounter with Sin.
In Luca, Tidus tries to ask the Al Bhed Psyches blitzball team about Rikku, but because of the language barrier – Tidus can't speak Al Bhed and the Psyches can't speak English – he receives no answer. When the Psyches kidnap Yuna and hold her for ransom, Tidus initially suspects their ship, on which Yuna is being held, is the same as the one which rescued him, but it turns out that it wasn't.
Rikku herself is later encountered when the group is crossing the Moonflow, piloting an underwater machina in hopes of kidnapping Yuna and stopping her pilgrimage. However, her machina is beaten by Tidus and Wakka, and she is washed ashore. Tidus finds her collapsed on the beach, and is happy to see her alive and well after Sin's attack. When the others come along, Tidus almost lets slip that she's an Al Bhed, but stops himself because of Wakka's strong hatred towards them. She then asks to become Yuna's guardian so she can continue to defend her cousin (although she doesn't reveal this at the time). Auron forces her to look him in the eye, revealing herself to be an Al Bhed to him, but he, like everyone else, keeps it secret from Wakka.
At Guadosalam, she then teaches Tidus about creating better weapons by fusing them with items. She then spends time enjoying the Guado's hospitality until the group reaches the Farplane, where she stays outside with Auron, saying that she prefers to keep her memories inside, quoting an Al Bhed saying, "memories are nice, but that's all they are". It's suspected by fans that since the Al Bhed are considered heathens, there would be few Summoners willing to send them when they die, and so she would have no one to see there.
Depending on the number of Affection Points Rikku has accumulated with Tidus, Rikku follows Tidus to the ledge overlooking Guadosalam's plaza and strikes up a conversation. She asks Tidus if Yuna will be getting married, and when he replies no, gives him a playful elbowing and points out that this could be his big chance at a relationship with Yuna. The player can either deny or confirm Tidus' feelings for Yuna, in which case Rikku will either repremand Tidus for being cruel, or encourage him to run away and live a quiet life with Yuna. The conversation will end the same way in either case. However, if the player chooses the third option "I'd rather have you, Rikku." Rikku will ask if he's serious, then giggle and hit Tidus several times before jumping down to the lower ledge and saying in Al Bhed: "Maybe someday!" If the player pursues Rikku, she will reveal that people get married as early as fifteen to seventeen in Spira, due to the threat of fiends and Sin. Furthermore, Rikku reveals how her mother was killed, and that she has an older brother. If the player speaks to Rikku a third time, she expresses a wish to have lots of children due to her not having any younger brothers or sisters.
Rikku starts to panic when the group reaches the Thunder Plains. It turns out she has severe astraphobia – or fear of thunderstorms – left over from a mishap in the past when Brother aimed a thunder spell at an attacking fiend, only to miss and hit Rikku instead. She is left in near-hysterics over most of the journey across the plains. She becomes so frightened that she collapses and seizes Tidus by the leg, and pleads for the group to stay longer at one of Rin's Travel Agencies. She only calms down and brightens up once the group reaches Macalania.
She is then discovered by Wakka to be Al Bhed (the rest of the group already knew) when Brother and a group of Al Bhed again try to kidnap Yuna using a tank-like machina. Tidus would then either ride with her, Lulu or Kimahri to Macalania Temple. If Tidus rides with Rikku, she reveals that she is Yuna's cousin and articulates in a roundabout way that Yuna will die if she continues her pilgrimage, but Tidus doesn't realize.
She doesn't make much of an appearance again until Bikanel Island, where she reluctantly leads the party to Home, only to find that it has been attacked by the Guado, and that many of her friends have been killed. She then helps the group reach her father Cid, and they escape on the airship she helped salvage earlier. She also reveals to Tidus that Yuna is going to die if she goes ahead with the Final Summoning, which causes him to suffer an emotional meltdown. She is saddened by the destruction of Home over the course of the trip to Bevelle, although Wakka – who was deeply disturbed by the Guado's attack, and moved when he learned of the Al Bhed's motives for kidnapping Summoners – tries to cheer her up.
At Bevelle, she helps in Yuna's rescue by unleashing a flash bomb to blind Seymour, so the group can retreat into Bevelle Temple. There she shows little surprise that the Yevon clergy is ignoring its own teachings regarding machina. After Kinoc holds them up, Rikku tries to warn Tidus not to leave the Chamber of the Fayth with Yuna and Auron, but he doesn't listen and is captured.
She is then thrown into Via Purifico with Tidus and Wakka and helps them escape from Bevelle. As they hid in the Macalania Woods, she was hoping that Yuna would give up her pilgrimage now that they knew the truth about Yevon and its corruption. She felt like she shouldn't stop her since it means so much to Yuna and convinces Tidus to go talk to her. After coming back from the spring, Tidus couldn't convince her to quit. When arriving in the Calm Lands, she and Tidus desperately try coming up with a plan on how to save Yuna from being killed but can't think of anything. During the groups decent to the Zanarkand Ruins, she becomes increasingly distraught over Yuna's fate and argues repeatedly with Tidus over other possible courses of action. She is then overjoyed when Yuna decides to decline the Final Summoning and put a permanent end to Sin.
After this she doesn't play a great role in the story, although she does argue with Mika over the identity of Yu Yevon, tells Shelinda to spread word of the plan to pacify Sin using the Hymn of the Fayth and makes peace with Wakka before the final confrontation with Sin.
After Sin's defeat, Tidus began to fade away and says goodbye to everyone. Rikku however doesn't accept any goodbyes and says that they'll meet again. 
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Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 10:28 pm
AuronAs a young man of twenty-five years, Auron was a devoted warrior monk of Bevelle, well-regarded by Yevon's upper echelons, and being groomed for a high-ranking position within the clergy. His personal convictions ultimately put a stop to any career ambitions he might have had when he refused to marry the daughter of a high priest. Auron fell quickly out of favor with the top brass, and the promotion instead went to his friend Wen Kinoc, who would eventually become a maester of Yevon.
Shortly afterward, Auron was enlisted by Braska to serve as a guardian on Braska's upcoming pilgrimage to fight Sin. It is likely the two men found common ground over being outcasts of Yevon, as Braska had already disgraced himself in the eyes of the church by marrying a "heathen" Al Bhed woman and having a half-Al Bhed child (Yuna). Auron further found himself drawn to Braska due to his noble character and honest intentions to vanquish Sin for the sake of Spira's people, developing a fierce devotion to Braska and his cause, consistently addressing him with honor, and defending him to any detractors.
Prior to departing for the pilgrimage, Auron and Braska paid a visit to a holding cell in Bevelle, where Jecht (Tidus' father) was being held, having heard that a man claiming to be from Zanarkand was interred within. The other monks appear to have dismissed Jecht's proclamations of hailing from Zanarkand as the ramblings of a drunkard, but Braska takes him seriously, telling Jecht that if he joins the pilgrimage, Braska should be able to find him a way home. Auron protests, declaring that a drunkard such as Jecht is unfit for guardianship, but Braska insists that the three of them defy the low expectations the Yevon church has of all of them (because Auron is a disgraced monk, Jecht is a drunk, and Braska is married to a "heathen" with a "half-breed" daughter), saying that it would be "delightful irony" if they should be the ones to defeat Sin. Auron relents, and the three set out on their journey to save the world.
Auron's role throughout the pilgrimage is that of a straightforward man, contrasting sharply with the patient Braska and the laid-back Jecht. His mind is always on his duty, insisting that the trip "is no pleasure cruise" when Jecht attempts to record a travelogue to one day show to his family, and he constantly reprimands Jecht for his reckless behavior, which often follows as a result of him being drunk. Over the course of the pilgrimage, however, Auron grows to trust Jecht in spite of his perceived flaws.
After finally arriving at the ruins of Zanarkand, the three men are debriefed by Lady Yunalesca, the ancient unsent summoner from whom all summoners must obtain the Final Aeon to defeat Sin. For the first time, however, they learn of the "catch" involved: one of the guardians must be sacrificed to produce the Final Aeon. Jecht volunteers, saying that he has accepted he will never be able to go home, but asks Auron to promise that he will find a way to his own Zanarkand so that he might look after Tidus in Jecht's stead. Auron agrees to this promise, and it becomes evident at this point that Auron now considers Jecht as much of a friend as Braska; Auron earlier made a similar promise to Braska: that he would take Yuna to Besaid once Sin had been banished.
Both Jecht and Braska are then sacrificed to defeat Sin, after which Auron learns the truth of Sin's nature: it is eternal, reborn from each Final Aeon, and no summoner can hope to banish it permanently. Thus, realizing Jecht and Braska to have died in vain, and that Jecht's soul has subsequently become trapped within Sin, Auron's youthful religious idealism — the very foundation upon which he has built his life — is shattered. Enraged, he takes up his blade against Yunalesca, who casually strikes him down, leaving him one-eyed and mortally wounded.
Clinging to life by little other than devotion to his lost comrades, Auron literally drags himself down Mt. Gagazet to the Calm Lands, where he's discovered by Rin, who takes him to his travel agency for the evening. During the night, however, Auron leaves, despite his wounds, continuing his way to Bevelle. Just outside the capital city of the Church of Yevon, Auron's strength abandons him and he's discovered by a young Kimahri Ronso. Auron asks for Kimahri to fulfill his promise to Braska (that Yuna be taken to Besaid and have a peaceful childhood), and Kimahri honors his request and does so. He then dies, beginning a new sort of "life" as an unsent. Because he is no longer a living human, but composed of pyreflies, he is able to ride Sin and travel to Jecht's Zanarkand, determined to honor his promise to Jecht and watch over Tidus.
From this day forward, Auron is filled with enmity for the Church of Yevon, and for himself, loathing the title of "legendary guardian" that the people have bestowed upon him. He is consumed with self-reproach for his self-perceived failure of Jecht and Braska, as he didn't stop them from sacrificing themselves, despite being unaware at the time of how needless their noble actions would prove. Auron spends the next decade keeping an eye on Tidus in Dream Zanarkand, though he does not directly raise Tidus after the death of his mother, watching over him from afar instead, serving as a mentor of sorts.
Eventually, Jecht exerts some measure of control from within Sin and approaches Dream Zanarkand, communicating to Auron that he wants Tidus taken to the Spiran mainland, so that — in that harsher land of uneasy choices — he may have a shot at understanding what life's really all about, as well as stand a chance at defeating Sin for good. Thus, Auron and Tidus make a journey — with Sin as their transportation — to the Spiran mainland, where they will serve as guardians to Braska's daughter, Yuna, on yet another pilgrimage. During this journey, Auron is the seasoned veteran of the group, albeit the one who knows far more than he reveals. He refrains from telling the others the truth about Yevon, knowing they will have to discover it for themselves. No longer an uptight monk, he takes a deeply cynical stance toward the religion and its figureheads. Auron also plays the role of a storyteller, offering Tidus relevant bits of information about his father, Spira, and Yuna's father at key points throughout the game, and it is through Auron that Tidus is finally able to come to terms with his hatred of his father before their reunion.
His experience and expertise is also something that is remarked upon by many followers of Yevon, and old friends alike. He is addressed with deference by virtually everyone in Spira as "Sir Auron," due to his status as the surviving guardian of a high summoner; even Yuna and her guardians (sans Tidus) address him as such. Barthello, the guardian and lover of Yuna's rival, Dona, even tells Auron that he was his inspiration to become a guardian.
During Yuna's pilgrimage, Auron and Rikku are constantly at odds; for example, in the Thunder Plains, Auron acts cold towards her despite her escalating hysteria, agrees to rest at Rin's Travel Agency after Rikku's constant whining irritates him to the point where he states that she is "worse than the storm", and coldly tells her to stay at the hotel, which leads an irate Rikku to shout, "You could be more comforting, or something! You know, try to cheer me up?"
At the game's finale, Yuna sends her aeons and Yu Yevon, but Auron, standing nearby, is inadvertently caught in the ritual. She hesitates to continue, but the guardian tells her it's alright, having previously told Tidus that he planned to leave when things were settled, that he had "played at life for too long." He is sent to the Farplane to rest at last, his mission to free Spira from its cycle of lies and death complete, and his promises to his departed friends fulfilled.
An interesting fact to note is that Auron was young and at a ripe age of 25 when Braska defeated Sin. Yet, even after his death by Yunalesca, he continued to age, all the way up to 35. He even has gray streaks now and appears to be much much older. How this happened is a mystery as it makes no logical sense for a man to age in undeath, unless if an unsent spirit can still age like everyone else. However it can be theorized that since he was an unsent and did travel to the 'Dream Zanarkand' that his body may have undergone a change that reverted him back to a sense of living, as Dream Zanarkand was a city dreamed up by the Fayth for the remaining souls of the real Zanarkand. As Tidus aged, so too did Auron.
Auron appears one last time post-mortem; when Tidus enters the Farplane, the spirits of Jecht, Braska, and Auron welcome him with open arms
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Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 10:32 pm
KimahriKimahri's guardianship of Yuna began long before she officially decided to become a summoner. After departing from Mt. Gagazet in shame ten years before Final Fantasy X began, Kimahri discovered a dying Auron — who had managed to literally crawl all the way from the Zanarkand Ruins while wounded — outside Bevelle. Auron told Kimahri about the daughter of High Summoner Braska, Yuna, and asked him to fulfill a promise Auron had made to Braska in his stead: to remove Yuna from Bevelle and transport her to the island of Besaid, where she may grow up peacefully.
Kimahri honored Auron's request and made sure that Yuna arrived at Besaid safely. When his task was completed, he prepared to depart, yet Yuna pleaded with him to remain with her, and he complied. After Yuna's forced wedding to Seymour — a powerful unsent Guado with the belief that peace can only be achieved in death — and subsequent escape to the temple, Kimahri willingly helps Tidus break into the Chamber of the Fayth despite the taboos in order to ensure Yuna's safety. Kimahri's main character growth occurs when he finally returns to Mount Gagazet and is confronted by Biran and Yenke Ronso in a two-on-one match to test whether or not he is worthy to climb Mt. Gagazet. He proves his worth as a Ronso in defeating the two, and Biran is proud to see that Kimahri surpassed him. Further, the Ronso then make a vow to stop anyone from the temples who pursued Yuna and her companions. Unfortunately, Seymour is the one who follows, and in trying to stop him, nearly the entire Ronso tribe is slaughtered
After the defeat of Sin, Yuna's Eternal Calm began, and a year later, Kimahri became the new Elder of the Ronso tribe. He also discovered a sphere on the mountain that sparks Yuna's new journey depicted in Final Fantasy X-2. For Kimahri's own part, during Final Fantasy X-2, he had to face various issues as the new elder of the Ronso tribe, most notably the rebellion of a young Ronso named "Garik" who desired to seek vengeance upon the Guado for the grievances they caused two years prior under Seymour's command. Kimahri, however, wanted to make peace with the Guado and sought to abate Garik's anger. Another notable issue Kimahri faced was the disappearance of two Ronso pups (children), Lian and Ayde, who had left the mountain in search of adventure and a way to fix Kimahri's broken horn. Kimahri couldn't search for them himself because, as Elder, he could not leave Gagazet while dealing with Garik's rage and urge for revenge. Simultaneously, Kimahri was faced with the plight of deciding a new path for the Ronso's future, as their way of life changed once the mountain was no longer considered sacred Yevon ground and summoners were no longer passing through on pilgrimages to the Zanarkand Ruins. The Ronso were left without the purpose of guarding the mountain for the sake of Yevon as they long had in the past. Furthermore, Garik's unwillingness to consent to Kimahri's wishes that peace be made with the Guado were due in large part to Kimahri's inability to decide a new path for the future of the Ronso. With Kimahri unable to do this, Garik felt that he was unworthy to be the Ronso elder.
Eventually, Lian and Ayde return and — based on their descriptions of their experiences in the outside world — Kimhari realizes the answer to the plights he was facing concerning both Garik's discontent and the Ronso's. Kimahri realizes that all Ronso should follow the example of Lian and Ayde in trying to find their own individual paths while working together to forge a better future for one another, and that he alone can not provide a single answer to what the future of the entire group should be. As a result, Garik and Kimahri reconcile and the Ronso craft a statue in Kimahri's image, representing his status as the hero of the tribe.
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Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 10:39 pm
Seymour GuadoSeymour was born from the leader of the Guado, Jyscal Guado, and a human woman in an attempt to foster friendship between the Guado and human races. However, unlike Yuna, who was deeply loved and respected despite being half-Al Bhed, Seymour was viewed as an abomination by the humans, and Jyscal's decision to wed a human led to disunity in the Guado tribe. In order to avoid further strife amongst the Guado nation, Jyscal had his wife and son exiled to the island of Baaj. Afterwards, Seymour's mother — suffering from a terminal illness — gave her life to Yunalesca to become the fayth of the aeon Anima, believing that only in sacrificing herself for Spira's temporary peace (known as "the Calm") against the malevolent creature Sin would her son be accepted by the people. Horrified, Seymour refused the Aeon and returned to Baaj Temple, where he dwelt alone for years, becoming increasingly morose and cynical. In time, he became twisted, believing that death was the only freedom from the suffering of life, and that it would be in everyone's best interests to die and thus developed a Messiah complex. But to achieve his aims, he had to have a power greater than Anima, whose power he eventually accepted, over even all of the aeons combined.
At eighteen years of age, during High Summoner Braska's Calm, Seymour's exile was revoked and he was summoned back to Guadosalam, the capital of the Guado nation, where he was then ordained as a priest of Macalania Temple. Seven years later, he returned to Zanarkand to accept Anima's power, and then had its fayth statue transported to Baaj Temple, which he revisited several times while deciding if he should carry out a plan he had devised, ascending the hierarchy of Yevon with his ultimate goal being to become the next Sin, so that he may kill everyone in Spira. It was only a few days prior to Tidus' arrival that Seymour murdered his father in secret and succeeded him. StorySeymour first appears in the game in Luca, when Grand Maester Mika arrives to announce Seymour's new position as a Maester. Tidus senses right from the beginning that Seymour means trouble. When fiends attack the Blitzball Stadium, he summons Anima, to destroy the fiends he himself set loose on the bustling city, thus gaining the Spiran people's trust.
When the Crusaders and Al Bhed try to defeat Sin in Operation Mi'ihen, he serves as a morale booster, together with Wen Kinoc, even though their use of forbidden Machina is against the teachings of Yevon. During the second fight with a Sinspawn, he becomes a temporary playable character.
Later on, in Guadosalam, Yuna and her guardians are summoned to Seymour's manor, where he shows them a sphere recording of the ancient city Zanarkand. He then asks Yuna to marry him, not as much for the sake of love as something for the terrified citizens of Spira to look forward and to keep their thoughts away from Sin, if only for a little while. However, when they visit the Farplane, Jyscal, seemingly unsent, leaves a sphere for Yuna. It is later revealed that the sphere showed Jyscal, who knew he was going to be killed by his own son, urging whomever later watched the sphere to stop his son from fulfilling his evil ambitions.
Yuna is struggling with the idea of marriage to Seymour, but after viewing the sphere, she decides to go to Macalania to stop him herself. Yuna rides ahead to the temple with Tromell, Seymour's personal servant. While waiting for her in the Macalania Temple, a servant finds Jyscal's sphere in Yuna's belongings. Yuna's guardians sense danger, and enter the Cloister of Trials to help Yuna. They meet up with Yuna, and fight Seymour. Halfway through the fight, he summons Anima, but it is defeated. After his loss, he dies, and when Auron tells Yuna to send him, Tromell refuses to let her send Seymour, and breaks Jyscal's sphere, ignoring the truth about his murder. He orders Guado guardians after them, and they escape from the Guado pursuit, branded traitors of Yevon.
Later, aboard the Airship Fahrenheit, Cid uses a "sphere oscillo-finder" to locate Yuna. She is seen together with Seymour in marriage attire. Though Seymour was killed, his soul remains in Spira since he was never sent. Yuna had reluctantly agreed to marry Seymour to repent for killing him and to make peace with Yevon, though she really just wanted to get close enough to Seymour to send him. Tidus and the rest of Yuna's guardians charge to Bevelle to stop the wedding. They break through Yevon's defenses, and reach the place where the wedding is to be held, but they are captured by the Warrior Monks of Bevelle. Yuna threatens to jump if they are not released, and Seymour hesitates to kill her friends. She jumps, but summons Valefor and flies to safety while Rikku uses a flashbomb. The guardians escape to Bevelle Temple, to meet up with Yuna, but are captured and imprisoned.
In the headquarters of Yevon, Yuna is on trial for treason. As her defense, she brings up Seymour's patricide, and explains his treachery. Though Maester Kelk Ronso is deeply disturbed by this news, the sentence is passed, and Yuna and guardians are thrown into the Via Purifico. Kelk Ronso deserts Yevon out of fear of Seymour's evil. Grand Maester Mika is doubtful of whether they can safely be stowed away in the dungeons, and Seymour volunteers to guard the exit, should any condemned escape. Maester Wen Kinoc does not trust him, however, and goes with him. After surviving the ordeals of the dungeon, Yuna and her guardians meet Seymour at the exit, where he reveals that he has killed Maester Kinoc. Here, Kimahri fends him off, and orders the others to escape, but they go back to him to fight Seymour. Seymour reveals his evil plan here: Since becoming an unsent, he has discovered that all worries of death, and fear of Sin, have disappeared, and now he plans to destroy all living beings on Spira, thus freeing them of their worries. He justifies killing Maester Kinoc, by telling himself that he "saved" him. After this, he absorbs the life force of Kinoc and his Guado guardians, becoming a monstrous form of himself called Seymour Natus. After his defeat, he disappears.
"I have saved him. He was a man who craved power. And great power he had, but he feared losing it. Trembling at unseen enemies, he spent his days scheming petty schemes. Chased by his fears, never knowing rest. You see... Now he has no worries. He has been granted sleep eternal. Death is a sweet slumber. All the pain of life is gently swept away... Ah, yes. Don't you see...if all life were to end in Spira, all suffering would end. Don't you see? Do you not agree?"
—Seymour Guado
Seymour appears again on Mt. Gagazet, having killed all the Ronso that barred his path. He has discovered the truth about Jecht, Tidus' father, being Sin. When the party stands against him again, he reveals how he shall execute his plan. He plans to become Sin, and thus, destroy all of Spira. After a long, hard-fought battle with his third form, called Seymour Flux, he disappears into the skies.
Later, when the party attack Sin, wounding it to break into it with the airship, they sense the presence of Seymour, and his eye appears as they enter Sin. He appears in the Garden of Pain. Having been absorbed by Sin, he now intends to control it from inside while protecting Sin from all those that dare harm it. He is fought one last time, this time known as Seymour Omnis, a great shimmering being, with elemental circles of magic around him. However, he is still defeated. As Yuna prepares to send him, he is surprised to see that Yuna is able to, since he didn't realize the extent of his injuries. But before he dies he assures her that Spira's suffering will still continue even after he and Sin are gone. He is then finally sent to the Farplane, and dissolves into pyreflies. Seymour's words would become reality during the events of FFX-2, due to the threat of Shuyin and Vegnagun. 
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Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 7:00 pm
JechtZanarkandJecht came to Spira from a magically-summoned replica of Zanarkand, created from the memories of those who lived in the original and maintained by Yu Yevon, the Summoner who was the leader of Zanarkand a thousand years before the events of Final Fantasy X.
In the present, Jecht's son, Tidus, claims that he hates his father for putting him and his mother through hard times, and because he was left under a lot of pressure to live up to Jecht's fame. Whenever Jecht was around, Tidus's mother, according to Tidus, constantly ignored her son. Furthermore, Jecht constantly criticized his son and called him a "crybaby." Truthfully, Jecht loved Tidus with all his heart, but was unable to express it in a gentle way. What he desired most was to make his son strong and thought that his criticisms would do this. Tidus, however, took Jecht's insults at face value, not seeing the intentions behind them, and grew to hate him. Going to SpiraJecht disappeared one day while training out at sea, where he came in contact with Sin resting in the waters. Sin pulled Jecht out of the dream and transported him into present-day Spira, where he was taken as a crazy drunkard and locked up in Bevelle.
Soon after his imprisonment, Braska visited Jecht and requested he become one of two Guardians, the other being Auron - a Bevelle monk who had fallen from grace. Auron objected to Jecht being a Guardian but Braska thought it the perfect irony: three of the most unlikely people defeating Sin; a drunken blitzball player, a high summoner with a "heathen" Al Bhed wife and a "half-breed" daughter (namely Yuna), and a disgraced monk. Before they departed, Jecht told Yuna numerous stories about his Zanarkand; because of this, she is the only one of the playable characters (aside from Rikku and Auron himself) who is not skeptical of the idea that Tidus comes from Zanarkand ten years later.
During the earlier parts of their journey, Jecht's tendency to drink sometimes got him into trouble, most notably when on the Moonflow when he once thought that a shoopuf was a giant Fiend and wounded it, forcing Braska to pay for the damage with all of his travel money. After this incident, however, Jecht gives up drinking anything stronger than shoopuf milk for fear that his family would be ashamed of him, and out of embarrassment for what he had forced Braska to do.
Over the course of Braska's pilgrimage, Jecht matured as he learned about Spira and what became of Zanarkand, his own personal journey mirroring what Tidus would go through 10 years later. According to Auron, Jecht would often suggest that they help people along the way because it was "the right thing to do", which always led to trouble for the three Braska's final AeonBy the time they reached Zanarkand, Jecht, Auron and Braska had bonded and became close friends, and it was Jecht who offered to give up his life to become Braska's Final Aeon, knowing that he could never return home and fufill his dream of turning his son into a star blitz player. As one last favour, Jecht asked Auron to look after Tidus, believing that Auron couAs the Final Aeon, Jecht defeated Sin, but the "spiral of death" surrounding Sin continued. Yu Yevon's spirit possessed the Final Aeon and transformed him into the core of the new Sin, leaving Jecht's soul trapped within the creature for ten years, unable to completely fight back against the powerful instincts Yu Yevon had instilled within Sin. The only times Jecht could operate of his own free will was for brief moments when he heard the Hymn of the Fayth. However, Jecht eventually managed to assert some control and make his way to Dream Zanarkand, where he communicates with the now-undead Auron and transports him and his son to Spira, hoping that, by doing so, Tidus would be able to learn what life was all about and find a way to destroy Sin for good.
Utilizing this weakness of Jecht's to briefly immobilize Sin; Tidus, Yuna and their companions fought their way through the armor and confronted Jecht. There they fought and defeated him, Tidus finally making peace with his father. After Jecht's spirit was finally laid to rest, Yuna and her guardians used her aeons to weaken the spirit of Yu Yevon, making him vulnerable for the first time in a thousand years. They then unleashed an assault on him directly, destroying him and ending Spira's spiral of death.
Jecht's Fayth.In the Farplane, Tidus and Jecht slap hands, indicating that Tidus has forgiven his father.
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Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 7:06 pm
YunalescaYunalesca used her husband, Lord Zaon, as a fayth to summon her Final Aeon. After that, as an unsent, she greets the summoners who make it to Zanarkand and explains that they must sacrifice one of their guardians to become the fayth for the Final Summoning.
For a millennium this tradition went unchallenged, until the arrival of Lord Braska and his guardians, Jecht and Auron. Though Auron had a change of heart and was no longer willing to see his friend's self-sacrifice, Lord Braska nonetheless chose Jecht to become his aeon. The rest of Spira celebrated the Calm but Auron was devastated by the senseless loss of his two friends. Returning to Zanarkand, he confronted Yunalesca, learned of the inevitable return of Sin after the Final Summoning, and attacked her in an uncharacteristic fit of rage. Auron was struck down easily, sustaining a massive head wound in the process. Remembering his promise to protect Braska's young daughter, Auron then crawled down Mt. Gagazet but died on the outskirts of Bevelle.
Ten years later, Lord Braska's daughter Yuna (who was, coincidentally, named after Yunalesca herself) decided to follow in her father's footsteps and become a summoner. Sir Auron, now an unsent, joined Yuna's retinue at Luca and accompanied her to Yunalesca's chamber in Zanarkand. Upon learning of the futility of the pilgrimage, Yuna refused to support Yevon's false traditions in spite of Yunalesca's remonstrances that it would bring hope to the people of Spira. Yunalesca then decided to save Yuna from her own sorrow by granting her the peace of death, the guardians fought back, and Yunalesca was seemingly killed.
Broken by her defeat (followed shortly by that of her father), Yunalesca's soul traveled to join that of her husband in the Via Infinito under Bevelle. Over the next two years, a now "purposeless" Yunalesca became a giant basilisk-type Fiend Chac, finally put to rest 
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