Tidus and Shuyin: An Analysis

[Flare_Cross]

maybee Shuyin is in fact the person that lived in the real zanarkand.... the Zanarkand at the begining of FFX is a dream so maybee the ones who "dreamed" Zanarkand started with similar elements.






Or we can get into a... let's call that a.... a FUTURo-ESTHARionic conclusion and say.... that Tidus was the one send to the Spira world so that when they save the world from sin, the "dreamers" knew shuyin would come so they make him look similar to Tidus so that Yuna can save the world by pursueng him....

To add to your wordbank : Futuro-Estharionic

[Celestial Chimera]

It is truly remarkable for I too thought a similar aspect to your analysis. Despite my confusions concerning in thinking Tidus in actuality traveling 1000 years to the time of future. Yet when I knew of him later as a dream I knew him as a illusive apparition of Shuyin who is an actual individual of another time. Though Tidus is more real, denouncing his nature as a dream, I knew that his character possessed more as his behaviorisms and actions are realistic and even after the revealation of him as a dream, his determination did not fade. So I believe you when you say that Tidus is a "template" of Shuyin. Could it be the reason to why Shuyin was chosen for the modeling of Tidus for such a similarity? Tidus possessed determination to protect Spira whilst Shuyin felt the idea of its destruction more suitable. I believe it is for their determinations their likeness in both countenance and persona exists. As for the Lenne and Yuna theory of both being connected to the other as a possibility of reincarnation I might not be entirely agreeing there. Yuna is connected through Lenne by the "Songtress" dresssphere, as many have noticed that Rikku and Paine "Songtress" spheres are different in comparison to Yuna's. Though it is in the interest of the developers for uniqueness it allows me to insert my ideology of the circumstances - both Yuna and Lenne ache for a love lost: one aches as she knows her lover is misguided by fury whilst the other aches as she feels it that her lover is unfairly stripped out of her's and his own existence. X-2 shows this attribute in the song "1000 words" as Lenne asserts a materialization with Yuna and their feelings are in symbiosis with each other's characters. Both express their clandestine emotions which in many directions is forcibly hidden. So, I may not agree with the point of either characters being reincarnations of each others even with there likenesses. Their feelings may be similar thus they are connected.

Masamune, I truly appreciate your analysis and your efforts in portraying a very effeciently developed thesis in which the relation of Shuyin and Tidus exist. It is truly awesome in its prospects and structure