Quote Originally Posted by J.C.M.F.
Technically Tidus is a dream of the Fayth, but his character still followed the same rules as an Unsent, much like Auron.
(SPOILER)But he still isn't an Unsent, despite whatever similarities there may have been. For that matter, the largest similarity -- that being having died and remained bound to the world -- wasn't in play. Also, he couldn't have been Sent by a Summoner until after death. He wasn't any less alive than anyone else. He was just bound to life in a different manner (the Fayth's dreaming).


Quote Originally Posted by J.C.M.F.
For instance, to travel in the past to meet Tidus, Auron had to be an unsent to travel on Sin. This being the same concept for Tidus traveling 1000 years to the future on Sin.
(SPOILER)Your point in regard to similarities stands in this regard, but I just want to clarify that it wasn't a case of traveling through time. Rather, it was a case of traveling through dimensions. Dream Zanarkand and Spira both followed the same flow of time. Dream Zanarkand was a recreation of Zanarkand as the Fayth had known it. Through their dreams, their memories were made manifest by Yu Yevon, who channeled them into Dream Zanarkand, which I can only conclude was in some pocket dimension all to itself, as it wasn't implied that a recreation of all of Spira itself was the case.

We know that Dream Zanarkand and Spira followed the same flow of time because it had been 10 years since Jecht disappeared from Dream Zanarkand and 10 years since he arrived in Spira. Further still, Auron traveled to Dream Zanarkand on various occasions after dying and visited Tidus occasionally as he grew from a child into a young adult.


Quote Originally Posted by J.C.M.F.
Although, this does bring the idea of the unsents being Dreams of the Fayth, considering the Fayth seemed to follow similar rules of the unsents.
(SPOILER)That's not a possibility at all, however. We're told that the Unsent are those who remain bound to the world by a powerful emotion, with it never being contested:

(SPOILER)Yuna
"I don't understand how a man like Lord Jyscal could die and not be sent."

Lulu
"I would think that he was sent once..."
"but he stayed on Spira."
"Something, a powerful emotion could have bound him to this world. Such things happen."
(SPOILER)In Jyscal's case, it was the desire for his son to be stopped. In Auron's case, it was the desire to fulfill his promises to Jecht and Braska. In Seymour's case, it was the desire to fulfill the liberation of Spira from sorrow.

(Final Fantasy X-2 Spoilers.)
(SPOILER)For that matter, Shuyin died before the war between Bevelle and Zanarkand ended, yet he had been Unsent from the time of his death until the present day of Final Fantasy X-2. Also, the fact that Unsent remained in the world even after the Fayth on Mt. Gagazet stopped dreaming would be the greatest point toward the Fayth having nothing to do with the Unsent.


Anyway, I also enjoy X for the thought-provoking aspects. It's an excellent game in that regard, as are most of the works in the series, I would say.