Okay, it definitely helps to think of Shuyin as a Fiend instead of a Shadow.

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Tidus being his own person that was "based" off Shuyin is somewhat plausible, but I've heard people say that he was the Fayth's interpretation of the real Shuyin, which is false, because there was a dream-Shuyin that was created 1000 years ago and dream-died in DZ.
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