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writerbythewater-blog · 23 days

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Spoilers for FFX

So I'm playing FFX because it's one of my husbands favorite games and he thought I would like it. I went in knowing how it starts and ends but nothing in the middle, because when I starting watching him he was just farming for post game stuff. Now I just got to the part where Yuna gets married and her dress is super cute. But its the same style dress as Lulu's. Of course there are plenty of differences, but at the base they are the same style.

Is the because Yuna looks up to Lulu maybe they are almost like sisters after all. But I don't the person she was marrying let her choose the dress. After all the whole thing was very rushed so that style is like the most popular wedding dress style in Spira.

If thats the case why is Lulu walking around in what looks like a wedding dress? What if it doesn't just look like a wedding dress what if it is one? We know she was engaged to Wakka's brother. What if she had already picked out the dress and ordered it before he left planning to show him when he got back? What if when she heard he was dead in her grief she dyed the dress black? No one else would know what the dress was but it could be her way of keeping him close. turning what would have been her wedding dress into what she wore while walking someone else she loves to their death.

A wedding dress turned mourning dress.

Anyway I saw the dress and made myself sad.

#ffx #ffx spoilers #spoiler alert #headcanon #sad thoughts #sad headcanon

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phoenix-downer · 8 months

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With the Dawn

~1155 words. Tidus/Yuna. Post-FFX. Yuna POV. Grief/Mourning, Angst, Romance, Coping with Loss.

Summary: Yuna reflects on how Tidus has impacted her life. Though she misses him terribly, her memories of him give her the strength to move forward one day, one hour, one moment at a time.

Yuna can’t go anywhere that doesn’t remind her of him. They went everywhere around Spira together. Kilika, Luca, the Mi’ihen Highroad, Djose, Moonflow, Guadosalam, the Thunder Plains, the Macalania Woods, Bevelle. The Calm Lands, Mt. Gagazet, Zanarkand, they saw it all together. Places that once brought her comfort and happy memories now reopen the wounds of grief. Not even her beloved Besaid is safe. His face and voice are everywhere and yet nowhere. He’s gone from this world, and his absence hangs over everything like a giant canopy cloaking the sun.

Fittingly for a day like today, the sky is overcast as she walks along, casting a pall on this beautiful tropical paradise like his loss casts a shadow over her life. She knew him for only a small portion of it, and yet, he had such an impact on her that his influence is undeniable. The two of them spent their short time together better than most people spend decades together. That was just how Tidus was. Always making the most of every moment. Always living life to the fullest. He showed her there was another way to live, another way to love. That if she was going to sacrifice herself, it had better be for something she believed in with all her heart.

She can no longer believe in Yu Yevon anymore. That is perhaps Tidus’s greatest gift to her: truth and freedom from an oppressive belief system that held her and so many other people captive. Being called a heretic and an apostate is oddly freeing once you’ve found the truth. Like a badge she wears proudly because she cared enough to keep searching for answers.

If only she could search for him. But how do you search for someone who is not dead because he was never really alive? Tidus only existed because of the Dream of the Fayth. His life was never like hers. And yet he was the realest person she’s ever met.

She stares at Besaid Falls, the churning white water ever crashing against the rock. This place has been here since she first set foot on Besaid, and it’s tempting to think it always will be. And yet she knows that even this is temporary, that someday these falls will be no more. That is the only guarantee in this life, that someday everything will end. Best to appreciate the good things while they last.

She wanted to have so much more time with him. Imagine what they could’ve done with even a few more days, a few more hours, a few more minutes. But she recognizes some people are meant to be in her life for only a season. The spray from the falls mixes with the tears on her face as she thinks about what a wonderful season it was. Tidus taught her so much. And she knows he would say the same about her—that she helped him appreciate the value of love and sacrifice. Of having a purpose you believe in with all your heart. She’s glad he was able to reconcile with his father too. Sir Jecht certainly had his flaws, but he truly loved his son.

She wipes her eyes and turns away from the falls. Life is far too short and far too precious to hold grudges. It’s best spent loving the people you hold dear and letting them know how much they mean to you while you still can. Making treasured memories that will last until your own time runs out. Death always comes in the end, sometimes when you least expect it. All the Sendings she’s performed, all too often for those far too young, are proof enough of that.

Her mother, her father, and now Tidus. Her life is a series of one loss after the other. But for the sake of the people who remain, she must carry on. To honor the memory of the people she loves and has lost, she must live the rest of her life to the fullest. Must make the most of the remaining time she has and help Spira rebuild.

She walks along the well-worn path. Some moments she desperately wishes she could be reunited with her parents and Tidus again now, even if it means the end of her own life. But then she thinks about how they all want her to live. It would not honor them to end her own life prematurely, especially when her living loved ones need her. She still has work to do in this life. Then, when her time comes and she is reunited with her deceased loved ones in the Farplane at long last, she can do so with the knowledge she has made them proud and has lived her life well. She wants to leave a legacy as impactful as their legacies.

She is on the beach now where Tidus initially appeared, where he first erupted into her life and left a wave of bliss in his wake. The water laps at the hem of her dress and the wet sand rubs against her feet as the sunset streaks the sky with a symphony of colors. She is alive, and every sense celebrates this fact. Out of habit she performs his whistle, flooding the air with the familiar sound. Not so much to try to summon him as to let him know she’s thinking of him. That she remembers him. A promise that he is on her heart and mind until the day she dies.

That’s all anyone really wants, isn’t it? To be remembered even after they’re gone. For their loved ones to treasure the memories of their precious time together in their hearts. That matters far more than fame and riches.

Yuna clasps her hands and clears her throat, then recounts one of her favorite memories of Tidus, the moment he smiled at her after their first kiss. It’s a little moment in a sea of big ones, but it means so much to her. The tears come and she doesn’t try to restrain them this time. They’re precious reminders of her love for him and soon join the swell of the ocean to carry her grief far away. She’s honest about how much she misses him and how much she wants to see him again. All the specific ways his loss is felt in her heart and her life.

Her only answer is the steady tide lapping against the shore. No one can hear her, no one visible anyway, and yet she feels calmer afterwards. At peace.

She sighs deeply. The sun has set and a cool evening breeze has picked up. The moon casts its gentle warm glow on the sea, and the stars are twinkling in the heavens above. She’s made it through another day without him. Night has come, and this too shall pass.

This will all pass in the end, and hope will come with the dawn.

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A/N: FFX holds a very dear place in my heart, as it was the first Final Fantasy game I ever played. I have fond memories from enjoying it with one of my closest friends, and then later sharing it with a family member. During difficult times in my life, it's been a comfort to return to, so it was very cathartic to write this story and explore Yuna's thoughts and feelings post-FFX.

Thank you for reading!

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randomkposts · 2 years

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While I am thinking about final fantasy X

How long does a calm last?

Every fanfiction has their own take on it. And while the game does indicate Calms are varients, I think numbers like a year or two (or shorter), are unrealistic.

Lady Yunalesca defeated the first Sin 1000 years before Yunas in game journey.

Gandof, the first Summoner after Yunalesca came 600 years after her. Gandof also accomplished other great deeds, like Qactuars entrapment apparantly. So 400 years pre- game. I have to wonder what Sin was up to? Did he have Annual attacks? Are all other parts of the world destroyed besides Spirian Islands? Hard what at that official history. So while probably Sin has probably done a hell of a number on the Spiran poupluation, I don't know that how Spira is still standing if Sin is half as destructive as it was in game. FFX your world is sad and beautiful, but your lore makes me want to kick things sometimes. And this is one of them. Probably not what I should do at 2am, but yolo.

Possible theories include but are not limited to- Sin has gotten faster over the years in travel time to sow more destruction.

-Sin has recovered from the calm faster over time, like a virus learning resistance to antibody.

-Sin conqured other worlds occasionally coming back to cause Havoc on Spira.

-Naps?

-Summoners with the strength to seal Sin have had their leinages die out.

-Jecht personally got into a pissing match with his son, and the destruction seen in game was an unusually high ammount?

In order for Spira to still be standing, the poupluation has to have time to recover. And it takes 15 years for someone to be somewhat of an adult. Sort of. And we have to assume that summoners are not grown on trees, and that it takes more then just changing your job class to be an effective one. At least 2-3 years. In other words, training. Apparantly his Calm was short lived, in whatever the hell that Means in Calm timelines.

High summoner Ohalland came 230 years before Yuna. The blitzball playing priest. It doesn't specify the length of his calm, but apparantly he was only the third.

The numbers make me baffled, ok. Theres 170 years between them, assuming the numbers are accurate. 170 years between High summoners second and third. 600 between the first and second.

This does not make a lot of sense of the Calm is two years. Two years is not a lot of time to recover the poupluation after being struck by the uncaring fists of death and destruction.

Yocun was 100 years before game. She was the Crusader High summoner. She had a sword, and is apparantly the first female summoner since the original. Her Guardian is a warrior Monk!

Then 13 years before the game, Sin killed Braskas wife, and So Braska went back to the temples to get summoner training after all his priest training. So now theres a 90 year gap.

But I'm still in disbelif over the only five High Summoners Over 1000 years period, and the intensity of the gaps. Like Sir, I'm no mathmatician, but your numbers are insane. Absoloute hard what. If any Sin is capable of disintigration like at Mushroom rock, and even without that drownings seem to be frequent given its tropics, what has the rate of death been over those thousand years? Not just direct death from monster attack, but death from messing up the landscape, or killing the people needed to bring in harvest and support the poupluations. The property it destorys, people crused in homes, breathless in the merciless ocean?

Summomers do not have a high sucess rate, with both dead summoners, and ones who give up encountered on the journey. Lulu has been a guardian to both an ex-summoner, and a Dead one.

So I think that, while high summoner is not a roll anyone should be able to fulfill, I think that its sensible for there to be more then five High Summoners before Yuna. Let Takumi and Kaya, Katara and Sakura, Dimitri and Lambert have been summoners in the time before Yuna. Make some OC High summoners. I've just expanded the summoner count to nine, and even with those numbers it still feels pretty unbelivable.

Like, lets give the Years of Calm an unlikly number of 20 years. 9x20 =180. Lets give Gandof 10, beacuse actually his was apparantly short. 170. And give Braska 7, as thats when Yuna joined training (3 years before start). 163. Thats 837 years of Sin rampaging. Or 900 with the original at 20 years.

And thats paced throughout the 1000 years.

Lets go to 10 years for 3, 5 for Gan, 7 for Braska. Thats 42 years of Calm. 17 within a 100 year time period.

If Sin is something that builds up the longer it is active, then that period of 600 years before Gandof became a summoner is boggling. What is Sin doing? Spawning Jenova?

Even if we give Yunalesca and Ohalland 25 years of Calm, for ridiclously long, Braska 7, Yocun 15, and Gandof 10 thats still less then 100 years for recovery, paced out over 1000 years. Just what in the world is missing in the history between what was covered up in the church, and what is lost to time known only to the fadeing ruins? Other summoners, so my bet goes. Swallowed by church propaganda and time.

#final fantasy x #the Calm #random k #plot bunnies #a conversation with my friend #worldbuilding #ffx #theories #more summoners #ffx worldbuilding #ffx sin #spoilers #ffx spoilers

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cunked · 2 years

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also auron looks like 20 in the jecht sphere but he looks 50 during the game. unsent or no, that was a rough ten years

#ffx #final fantasy #ffx spoilers

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lesbiankoby · 2 years

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ffx spoilers but honestly tidus wasn’t real until he was touched by sin if less literally then jecht was. i think it’s probable tidus (and to a lesser extent his mother…?) began gaining… substance towards the end of braska’s pilgrimage and it intensified when jecht became sin himself. he loved his son.

#the dubious extent to which anyone in the city that never slept was a ‘person’#i have thoughts about this #ffx tag #ffx spoilers

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jieanette · 7 months

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...I finished Final Fantasy X.

and all I gotta say is... I love it.

#ffx spoilers

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katarh-mest · 11 months

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so I finished FFXVI and

in this essay I will weigh a point and counterpoint about the ending.

below the cut due to spoilers - not just for XVI but for VIII, X, XIII, XV, and XIV through Endwalker.

So the ambiguous ending that has everyone in a tizzy is being hotly debated. We've got Schrodinger's protagonist - did he survive? or is he dead on the beach?

Let's look at historical FF games and other media to see how they might reflect upon it.

(Spoilers for MANY final fantasy games follow)

Point: Clive is dead

Lighting is dead (or at least turned to stone) at the end of FF-2. but, you know, not dead dead. Just mostly dead. It takes a god to revive her.

Noctis is dead at the end of XV. He survives in the novel but it doesn't count since it was cancelled DLC.

Tidus is dead at the end of FFX. But was he truly alive to begin with? He only got to come back in X-2 because the last of the fayth took pity on Yuna.

Squall is dead. Seriously, there's a great crack theory that Squall died halfway through VIII and was just having a potential future flash before his eyes. https://squallsdead.com/

Spock died at the end of Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan to save the Enterprise. He got magically reincarnated by the next movie though.

Ysayle died at the end of Heavensward. It was her way of atoning for taking the lives of so many people. She's basically XIV's version of a Dominant, one of the few humans that can morph into a primal (eikon.) Her death is probably the most directly relevant to XVI plot wise, in that respect.

Counterpoint: Clive Survived

Thancred survived the end of ARR and Shadowbringers. We were pretty sure he was going just stay dead at the end of the Battle of the Dads with Ranjit, but somehow he eked it through.

The cost: of surviving ARR He lost all his magic. His is the strongest direct parallel out of the "they lived" crew.

2. The Warrior of Light survived Endwalker. Dragged to the edge of the universe to have one final fight with Zenos, they won after throwing everything they had at each other. And the WoL getting to land a punch at the end got repeated in XVI, which pleased me.

Here's my WoL. Zenos is probably still a corpse there. Good riddance.

The cost: Nothing, really, the WoL is covered in plot armor.

3. Naruto and Sasuke both survived. Even though Sasuke didn't deserve it.

The Cost: Both their arms.

In Conclusion

I think Clive survived. Jill cried out because she lost her Dominant connection to him, but that was because all the magic was gone. Meteia (the XVI moon, not the depressed birb from XIV) disappeared because the magic was gone. Ifrit was gone. But Clive survived.

The cost: Curse finally hit our boy Clive and he will no longer have the usage of his left hand.

He's also on an unknown beach, but if one of his primary parallels is Thancred, he'll be fine. He's resourceful.

Maybe we'll even get a nutkin scene in a sequel game.

#ffxiv spoilers #ffxvi spoilers #ffxv spoilers #ffxiii spoilers #ffx spoilers

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droshawoluv · 2 months

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Death is in the Air.

>>FINAL FANTASY: PARTY MEMBER DEATH SCENES COMPILATION<<

Video of each scene ↑ & more including FF2 and FF4 (well, FF13 had copyright issues so maybe not that)

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littledevil12 · 1 month

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Koibito tsunagi/lovers tie

#ffvii rebirth #ffx #spoilers #tiduna #cloud #aerith #parallels #clerith #tidus #yuna

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starrysnowdrop · 6 months

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Shared Soul: Hali’s Shards

So I’ve been thinking about this topic a lot, and I really want to eventually have a list of all the shards of Hali’s soul… ahh well, it would be the shards of Urania’s soul technically speaking. I don’t have a full list yet, but I have some that I’ve decided on already, and I wanted to share those with you now.

Note: Because of Hali’s canon story having multiple Warriors of Light, my headcanons for Hali’s shards greatly differ from those in the MSQ with the default WoL. Also, due to the ongoing storyline, these might change in the future with new developments.

Unsundered: Urania, Seat of Azem

Urania was Hali’s past self at the time of the Sundering; therefore, Hali and all of the other shards are pieces of Urania’s sundered soul.

Source: Hali Aloke, Warrior of Light, 8 times rejoined

Hali being the sundered soul of the Source, is the one that most closely resembles Urania, though she differs from her in several fundamental ways, most notably she will not deny herself the happiness that she desires in her life for the sake of duty like Urania as Azem had done. Unlike Urania, Hali has found her happiness in adventuring, helping others, and building a life together with Aymeric.

First: Lamitt, rejoined during ShB 5.0

Unlike the default WoL’s shard of the First being Ardbert, Hali’s shard is Lamitt, the healer of Ardbert’s group. Lamitt and Hali actually have a lot in common, with both being outsiders from their homelands, having a desire to help others through the healing arts, and they both are in love with men who have no idea what their true feelings are, well until Hali confesses to Aymeric that is. Lamitt never gets the chance to tell Ardbert. She does get to live on through rejoining with Hali at the end of 5.0, and Lamitt is thrilled that Hali gets to have her happiness with her lover.

Seventh: Aerith Gainsborough, rejoined in 7th Umbral Calamity (Bahamut)

Though Hali herself is unaware of any of her other shards that rejoined with her during each calamity, the most recent shard to rejoin with her before Lamitt was a young woman named Aerith who had lived on the Seventh and was rejoined during the Seventh Umbral Calamity. Aerith was a healer who brought joy to all who knew her. She was kind, caring, and sweet, yet feisty, passionate, brave, and strong-willed, all traits that her Source counterpart shares.

Tenth: Tidus, rejoined in 6th Umbral Calamity (Water)

The shard that rejoined back during the Sixth Umbral Calamity, centuries before Hali would be born, held the soul of a young man named Tidus who had lived on the Tenth. He was a famous Blitzball star, but most notably he was a guardian to Summoner Yuna who he had fallen in love with and was willing to give his life for. Same as his Source counterpart, he was kind, brave, outspoken, outgoing, and a bright ray of sunshine in a world in desperate need of joy and laughter.

Thirteenth: Durante, AKA: Golbez, alive

Durante is the shard of Urania’s soul on the Thirteenth who took on the name and armor of his dear friend Golbez after the original Golbez was corrupted by the darkness. Durante was a knight from Baron who tried to save the world during the Contramemoria along with Golbez, but he brought ruin to the world he tried to save instead. His unflinching resolve to save his world no matter the cost, but doubting himself that he could never be the hero that his friend was, are traits that Hali shares, and Durante is a reflection of what Hali could become if she went down a dark path.

That’s all I have for now! I’ll add to this list in the future when I decide to add more! Subject to change if we get more information on the other shards.

Published: 11/30/2023

#ffxiv headcanons #endwalker spoilers #shadowbringers spoilers #unsundered hali: urania #hali aloke #oc: drops of jupiter #hali’s shards #lamitt #ffvii aerith #ffx tidus #ffxiv golbez #durante

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abyssalmermaiden · 4 months

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MACALANIA WOODS DAWNTRAIL

WOLCRED SUTEKI DA NE

#sits bolt upright as the brain cells snap into place #I didn't watch most of the stream but I did listen in as my friends watched it and THERE IS SO MUCH FFX AREAS APPARENTLY #I AM SO EXCITED I AM LOOSING MY MIND #the mermaiden speaks #dawntrail #ffxiv 7.0 #dawntrail spoilers #7.0 spoilers #just in case #fanfest 2024

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oveliagirlhaditright · 8 months

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Parallels between Final Fantasy XVI and Final Fantasy X: in that Jill and Yuna both had shitty fates because of the systems of the worlds that they live in--and would have died because of them (and both girls are willing to go on journeys to change the status-quo, even at the cost of their own lives)--but at the end of the games, it's the guys who die instead. But not, like, completely in a "I want to die instead of you or bear your burden" kind of way. But because they find new ways to completely break the systems and change the worlds for the better, but the cost is Clive and Tidus have to die for it, as no good deed goes unpunished.

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rankaroid · 1 year

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first time playing thru ffx

#last left off on the blitzball tournament.. no spoilers hehe..#ffx #final fantasy x #yuna #drawings

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disciple-of-frost · 10 months

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Back on my FF Headcanon Train, let's gooooooo!

Anyway yeah, Gav and Gippal are Riol's counterparts on the 7th and 10th. Good day.

#headcanons #ffxiv headcanons #spoilers #ffxiv spoilers #ff14 spoilers #final fantasy xiv spoilers #final fantasy 14 spoilers #ffx #ffxvi #FFXIV Riol #FFXVI Gav #FFX Gippal #Sundered Soul #Ishiverse #10th Shard #7th Shard

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cunked · 2 years

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ok this is being really nitpicky at this point, but if dream-zanarkand was the only city conjoured by yu yevon, who do the dream-zanarkand abes play against? i like the idea of yu yevon having to make up some more teams to keep water football alive

#ffx #final fantasy #ffx spoilers

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kazeofthemagun · 5 months

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[Kaze, the Final Fantasy series' first Dominant of Bahamut...? Maybe so, maybe no.]

#got mooties who haven't played/finished the game so #ffxvi spoilers #just in case #but yes #it's a term specific to xvi but I don't think other FFs have done the transform into the summon thing unless we maybe count FFX #but more specifically I mean the living vessel of a summon/Esper

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