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 Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 10:39 pm
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Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 11:22 pm
About Tidus Tidus is the son of a famous Blitzball player named Jecht. Though growing up, Tidus was too young to understand Jecht's lion like actions and words and took it as teasing and only saw it at face value. But when Jecht Disappeared, Tidus' mother died shortly after, leaving him with just Auron and an even deeper hatred for Jecht. Though unlike Jecht, Tidus' mother made Jecht to be more important than Tidus, defending Jecht at every corner. In fact, it's on debate if Jecht really cared more about Tidus than his mother did. Due to limited knowledge of his mother and the few cutscenes, this cannot be proven or disproven.
Tidus awakens to find himself in the world of Spira, 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 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, 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.
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. 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 togeter. 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 seperated and she'll come running. After Tidus promised her, they realized that the group have been staring at 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 pretending to be Mika, causing her to laugh. Tidus then told her to not worry about the future until they beat Sin. But he wondered 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 surprised 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, and 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 supposely 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 won't stop until Sin is gone. He meets up with Auron and is told 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.
The next day, the group travels to the Moonflow, riding on a Shoopuf, where Tidus discovers a sunken city and learns more about Spira's history and the machina war from 1000 years ago. Yuna is then blindly kidnapped by the Al Bhed while Tidus and Wakka swim after them. Tidus and Wakka successfully defeated the underwater machina and saved Yuna. Tidus meets with Rikku again, relieved that his first friend in Spira is still alive and 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, 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, 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.
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Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 11:32 pm
Theories regarding Tidus Shuyin and Tidus- This is a question that surprisingly is asked a lot. Shuyin is Tidus, and Tidus isn't Shuyin. Make sense? Of course not. Tidus is part of a replica of Zanarkand in the Fayth dreams. Everyone that existed in Zanarkand when it existed, is inside the dreams as themselves or not themselves. Tidus is the dream version of Shuyin, when Shuyin is the real tidus. There is a good possibility that a Jecht existed in Zanarkand as well. Though personailty wise, I see the two as oppisites, Shuyin the yang while Tidus the yin. In short, they are parallel versions of each other.
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Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 11:53 pm
Trivia Tidus or an apparent prototype of him can be seen in early concept art for Final Fantasy X.
In early footage of Final Fantasy X (when online elements were still being implemented in the game) and in-game flashbacks, Tidus had brown hair rather than blonde.
Tidus's name is never actually spoken in Final Fantasy X. This is due to the fact that the player has the possibility to change his name in the beginning. Seeing as the game features spoken dialogue, it would present a big problem for the developers if any of the characters were to call Tidus by name. Incidentally, in Final Fantasy X-2, Tidus is referred to as merely he, him, or you-know-who. Following this, later games and remakes removed the feature to (re)name characters to make way for the voice acting, the most notable case being the inability of Namingway to change names in the Nintendo DS remake of Final Fantasy IV, thus changing his purpose in-game. However, in Dissidia, Cloud, Firion, Zidane, Bartz and Cecil actually said Tidus' name.
Speaking of names, Tidus' name has been pronounced differently several times. In Kingdom Hearts, Wakka pronounces it as "Tee-dus". However in Kingdom Hearts II, Selphie refers to him as "Tai-dus". In Dissidia Final Fantasy, however, Tidus' name is pronunced "Tee-Dus", which may appear to be the actual pronunciation.
Tidus and Yuna won 1st place in Game Informer Magazine's "Best Couple of the Year".
The elemental theme of Tidus is water. This is represented by many factors seen in the game, such as the Brotherhood (his sword), his swimming abilities, and his sphere grid color, which is aqua.
Although it is made clear that Yuna and Tidus become romantically involved, other love interests are hinted at throughout Final Fantasy X. In a dream sequence early in the game, Tidus is confronted by Yuna and Rikku, arguing over which will go to Zanarkand with him. Later, in Guadosalam, if the player talks to Rikku for a third time when waiting for Yuna, and chooses the option "I'd rather have you, Rikku", Rikku will giggle, hit Tidus, and say, in Al Bhed, "Maybe someday!". A similar option is available with Lulu, with Lulu replying, "Interesting. I suppose I could add you to my list. I wish you good luck, little boy, you're going to need it.".
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