Name: Tidus Gender: Male Age: Vanishes at 17, presummably 19 at reappearance Weapon: Sword Sphere Group: None (was a guardian for Yuna's pilgramige) Occupation: Blitzballer for the Zanarkand Abes

Tidus, star of the blitzball team Zanarkand Abes, has his world turned upside down when his perfect world comes crashing down around him. Sin attacks his beloeved city, and he wakes up a thousand years elsewhere, in a place called Spira.

There he meets Wakka, Lulu, and Yuna, and he winds up traveling with them, serving as Yuna's guardian on her pilgramige.

But as time goes on, Tidus learns many disturbing things. The pilramige will ultimately lead to Yuna's death. His father has become Sin, the very reason for Yuna's training and mission. His home, his entire life in Zandarkand, was all a dream made up by the fayth.

But this doesn't stop our hero of Final Fantasy X. Tidus goes on, falling in love with Yuna. Their group of Wakka, Lulu, Yuna, Kimarhi, Rikku and Yuna defeat Sin once and for all.

With Sin's death and Yuna's continuation of living comes the release of the fayth, and they, the aeons and everything with them dissappears. But that means Tidus must suffer the same fate, and he vanishes, leaving everybody behind.

Two Years Later . . .

Yuna sees a sphere recording that shows a young man who appears to be Tidus, restrained and demanding to be freed to let him "talk to the summoner". It is this sphere that compels Yuna to join the Gullwings, a sphere hunting group, and travel all around Spira in the hope that she could discover what really happened to the man she loves. He's the motovation behind Yuna during the entire game (see YUna's page for more about that).

Because at the beginning of Final Fantasy X the user can choose to name Tidus whatever they want, Tidus is exclusively referred to with personal pronouns in Final Fantasy X-2. For example, instead of someone saying, "What happened to Tidus?" they would always ask "What happened to him?" In the original Japanese language, Yuna refers to him with the friendly terminology for 'you', kimi.

Despite the fact that the person seen in the sphere turns out not to be Tidus, but Shuyin from the Bevelle-Zanarkand war, and that Yuna's quest to find some clue to Tidus' whereabouts is put on hold, when all is completed, the Fayth revealed just how Yuna can find Tidus. Towards the end of the game the player (as Yuna) gets the opportunity to change the ending of the storyline, reuniting the two.

The story of Final Fantasy X-2 seems to suggest that Tidus' likeness and abilities are the Fayth's way of having another Shuyin (a blitzball ace in his own right during Zanarkand's golden age). If the story of Shuyin and Lenne was known to residents of Zanarkand, Shuyin must have appeared as a romantic hero (going to great lengths to save his lady), thus prompting his recreation.

Once a certain percentage is completed in Final Fantasy X-2, as well as fulfilling other conditions, the player will be rewarded with an extra scene in the ending of the game which shows Tidus being revived by the Fayth. He makes his entrance to Spira in the same way he did in Final Fantasy X, appearing in the sea just off the coast of Besaid Island (At the end of Final Fantasy X, the portion of the scene where Tidus is swimming up towards the surface is shown. This is obviously the same scene and it suggests that there was some truth the Fayth's statement that "he was more than dreams."), to be greeted by Yuna and a crowd of people on the beach, including Wakka and Lulu. If the player achieves a perfect completion score of 100%, this is followed (after the game credits) by a scene at Zanarkand, in the same location as the beginning of Final Fantasy X, thus bringing the story full-circle to its final conclusion.

Numerous tributes to Tidus have been made by Yuna during the story. The most notable of which is the Zanarkand Abes symbol on her chest while donning the Gunner Dressphere. Her hair has been cut into a similar style to his (Excluding her long ponytail), and her battle stance while using the Warrior Dressphere is the same as his as well as her victory dance. Furthermore, while using the Warrior Dressphere, she uses the Brotherhood sword, while with the Dark Knight, she wields the Caladbolg, Tidus' Celestial Weapon.