Games - Tidus

	Games - Tidus

Tidus (ティーダ Tida in the Japanese version) is the protagonist in the video game Final Fantasy X. As the leading character, the player controls Tidus through the world based in the game, manipulating his actions through the unfolding storyline in true traditional Final Fantasy
style. Final Fantasy X was the first title of the Final Fantasy series to feature on the Sony PlayStation 2.

The storyline of Final Fantasy X revolves around Tidus, a rising blitzball star player from Zanarkand. After a mysterious creature attacked his hometown, Tidus was transported to the world of Spira. Lost, confused, and seemingly out of place, Tidus meets a newly-fledged summoner, Yuna, and her guardians. The summoner is soon to set out on a pilgrimage in an attempt to put an end to the very creature that destroyed Zanarkand, so by joining them Tidus hopes he will find his way home.

Like the other characters in Final Fantasy X, Tidus' abilities are built around a classic Final Fantasy job class, in his case that of the "Fighter" class; normally considered a balanced melee fighter. However, Tidus also features many abilities from the Time Mage class, particularly in the form of enhancements for himself or his group.

Background

Beginning

At the beginning of the game, 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 unmatched, which left behind 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 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 mentor to Tidus. Auron claims he has been waiting for Tidus, and claims the creature is called "Sin". Auron and Tidus fight their way towards Sin, to much confusion on Tidus' part. Once there, Auron drags Tidus into the depths of Sin, claiming his story begins here.

I thought about a lot of things... like where I was, what I'd got myself into. I started to feel light-headed... and then, sleepy. I think I had a dream. A dream of being alone. I wanted someone - anyone, beside me... so I didn't have to feel alone anymore.
—Tidus' narration

Tidus awakens to find himself in the world of Spira, where he quickly runs into the eccentric salvager race, the Al Bhed, and learns from a young Al Bhed girl named Rikku that 1000 years have passed since the destruction of Zanarkand. After another attack by the monstrous Sin (who Rikku says has been a plague on humanity ever since Zanarkand fell), Tidus arrives at Besaid Island. It is here he meets Yuna - a summoner who plans to embark on a pilgrimage to bring about the destruction of Sin. Along with her guardians Lulu, Wakka and Kimahri, Tidus navigates his way throughout Spira in hope of finding his way home. Along the way, Tidus reunites with Auron, who does little to help ease Tidus' confusion. Even Rikku, the Al Bhed who met Tidus previously, also joins the party as a guardian.

Throughout the game, it is very noticeable that Tidus eventually matures, changing from a somewhat self-centered, outspoken athlete to a selfless hero. This theme is also hinted in the flashbacks of when Jecht helped defeat Sin in his own adventure, as well as in a conversation between Yuna and Tidus, where Yuna states that defeating Sin and bringing happiness to Spira makes any price worthwhile. At the game's conclusion, Tidus has obviously come around to her way of thinking. (Ironically, during the events of Final Fantasy X-2, Yuna expresses a clear opposition to sacrificing lives, indicating that she had taken up Tidus' way of thinking.)

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Games - Tidus

Background

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