Originally Posted by
Me Gustith
well I've got a lot of points to address here. I like to think myself a FFX/-2 (especially X-2) guru. I've played the games several times over, second favs to VII for me, wiki'd them, researched them, done a lot over the years.
Tidus isn't real. He never was real, never could be real, never intended to be real. He was a dream of the fayth, that's explained simple enough in the game, but presumably a person from Zanarkand 1000 year's past. Because of Shuyin, and Tidus' lack of realness, it is very easy and safe to assume that Tidus is the dream of Shuyin.
Dream Zanarkand: Dream Zanarkand is a place, preserved in time at the peak of it's perfection. It doesn't enter an endless loop of the fayth reliving their lives, it's in a constant state of how it was before Sin attacked. That's why Tidus has memories of his mother, of himself as a child, of his father. At one point he was 'born' and 'lived' in Dream Zanarkand, like any normal person would. This can also be assumed that he lived Shuyin's life, however there isn't any direct tie to Shuyin, Jecht and Tidus' mother. (However, when you DO battle Shuyin on Vegnagun and voices of the past speak to you, Jecht mentions Shuyin being a crybaby, which instigates that maybe he was his father, or, a dream of who his father was.)
While Dream Zanarkand's people aren't real themselves, it IS a very real location. Yu Yevon surrounded the city with walls of water, an illusion so that people in the ocean wouldn't see the city there. That's why Tidus appears out of nowhere when Rikku finds him. The City is located/hidden near Baaj Temple. And because they don't see the city there, Rikku and them assume that Tidus had traveled from Zanarkand back in time, when REALITY he hadn't traveled through time at all, he just broke through the barriers, broken by Sin when it attacked.
Sin was crafted by Yu Yevon to protect Dream Zanarkand, to protect his dream city. 10 years prior, Jecht wanders too far out to sea and Sin and he encounter. This is the link that allows Sin to enter Dream Zanarkand later. Dream Zanarkand could have lived many years peacefully, never being interrupted. But because Jecht was the new Sin, he knew it's location, and with Auron's help, a fellow fayth, they brought Sin back to Dream Zanarkand, and pulled Tidus from it.
Shuyin and Lenne were very real people and a part of the fray when Sin was born between the battle of Bevelle and Zanarkand. Shuyin's just a poor shmuck who loved his girl and didn't want to see her die, so he did whatever he could to save her. However, because he was an unsent through his anger and his sorrow, he was very close to becoming a fiend. That's what the fiends in FFX are anyway, unsent who don't accept their death. Shuyin, unaccepting it, to prevent from becoming a fiend, stilled his soul in a cavern and possessed people who came through. This preserved his soul.
Lenne's soul was preserved in a sphere, her dresssphere. This is obvious, and easily explained in the game. But why weren't they recreated in Dream Zanarkand? Because their souls remained in two different places.. Shuyin's in the Den of Woe, and Lenne's in a dresssphere. If they were released or accepted death, they could have been recreated. However, they weren't.
Because Tidus was nothing more than a dream of a person from long ago, irrelevant to his place in the timeline of Dream Zanarkand, it's 99% likely he is the Dream Version of Shuyin, who once was, a real person. However he's not a direct immitation, he is merely a shadow of Shuyin, not a direct carbon-copy.
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