Quote Originally Posted by Shayo
hey ok i was reading and i read that she wanted to clear up the whole shuyin tidus thing, so if im saying stuff thats been said, sorry


shuyin was real, tidus was not, shuyin died a thousand years ago, the fayth recreated shuyin as tidus in the dream world, they just named him different cus they realised that shuyin didnt sound as cool as tidus, or at leats thats what i liek to think. so shuyin and tidus are the same but different...does that clear it up?
I doubt they made a conscious decision for Tidus to be similar to Shuyin. They look quite similar, but different; they have different personalities and interests. After the Fayth created the 'dream city', it basically operated on its own - dream people were born, lived, loved, had kids, and died without the Fayth needing to consciously will it into happening.

There's a connection between the dreal world and dream world, but one isn't a blatant re-creation of the other...