Can anyone explain this (Final Fantasy X)?

Question

It's been a couple of years already since I finished this awesome game and back then my english wasn't as good as to understand everything but I remember, that there was something that seems weird to me:

Lets assume that the time when Tidus met Yuna, Rikku, Wakka and the others is the year 0. Now, according to the story he was transported by Sin to the year 0 from zanarakand in year 1000bc. Back then he already knew Auron that with Jecht defeated Sin ten years earlier (which would make it year 1010bc). So my question is: How could Tidus have met Yuna, daughter of the summoner (can't remember the name now) that defeated Sin together with Jecht and Auron in the year 1010bc - that would make her over 1000 years old.

There probably is some answer to that, maybe it was just me that forgot something, or misunderstood something in the plot. Anyways that is how I remember it, and if anyone can, pls explain it to me as this was bugging me for quite some time already :)

Answer 1

umm actually Cynical_... isn't right lol. but i actually like his version better than the real version.

the real version:

1000 years ago, there was a huge war between Bevelle and Zanarkand. Bevelle was winning and Zanarkand's destruction was inevitable. So Yu Yevon, the leader of Zanarkand at the time, brought the remaining people from Zanarkand to Mount Gagazet and turned them all and himself into fayth. These fayth together would use their memories and create a "dream zanarkand", and put all of their dreams and memories inside of the "dream zanarkand". This would preserve the memory of the real zanarkand.



Sin was built around dream zanarkand for protection. So dream zanarkand is actually physically inside of Sin. This is why in the end of the game when you have to go inside of sin to fight jecht, you eventually end up back in dream zanarkand.



Tidus was one of these dreams. The Zanarkand that you see in the beginning of the game isn't the real zanarkand prior to destruction. It is actually the dream zanarkand, which is different place alltogether. Tidus is a citizen of dream zanarkand, which means he too is a dream. the entire game, everyone thinks that tidus is from zanarkand 1000 years ago when in reality, he is from a completely different world. In the beginning of the game he isnt being pulled 1000 years into the future, he is being pulled from dream zanarkand into spira (which has the real zanarkand in it).



i mean think about it. Bevelle has existed for as long as zanarkand, so why does tidus not recognize the name "bevelle"? if he were actually from the 1000 year old zanarkand, he would recognize bevelle because it existed 1000 years ago too. The reason he doesnt recognize it is because he isnt from zanarkand. He is from "dream zanarkand". At the end of the game, Yu Yevon is destroyed. This means the faith can stop dreaming because Yu Yevon, the person who has been forcing them to dream all this time, is gone. But because they arent dreaming anymore, Tidus dissapears because all he ever was was a dream. Dream zanarkand (the one from the beginning of the game) dissapears too.

Answer 2

Auron comes from the year 0 - he was one of Yuna's father's guardians along with Jecht.



Jecht somehow got to Spira (we can only guess that it happened during the storm, when Jecht went out to sea to train). Jecht became the sacrifice so Yuna's father could summon the Final Aeon. The'fayth' of the Final Aeon becomes the next Sin - which is why Sin is Jecht. Auron, after witnessing the death of his two friends, and learning of Jecht's fate - went to confront Yunalesca (the very first summoner to defeat Sin, and the only one who can create the Final Aeon) about what happened and learnt about the endless cycle. Auron attacks her, and she kills Auron.



So Auron is basically a ghost (which is why he refused to go out into the Farplane) and therefore time and space has little meaning for him - allowing him to go pretty much whereever he wants. It also, I imagine, allows him to - in a way - communicate with Jecht - who is Sin, but doesn't want to cause any of the destruction. Jecht knows that Sin attacks in the year 1000 bc, knows his wife is dead and wants Auron to save his son.



Auron goes to the past, before the tear 1000bc and takes care of Tidus after his mother's death - so he has a father like figure, and when Sin attacks - Auron does what Jecht asks - he takes Tidus to safety in the future - where Auron hopes to stop the cycle.



Of course, Tidus was never meant to exist in the future, so he becomes part of the Fayth's dreams - therefore doesn't really exist himself... We can assume that he was probably MEANT to die in Sin's first attack.



If Yuna defeated Sin in the year 0, then Yuna's father defeated Sin 10 years previously, in the year 10bc (assuming we're counting backwards to the year 0). Sin appeared in the year 1000bc - so Yuna is not 1000 years old.

Answer 3

to be honest when i played the second game i never got the bit where it shows tidus in a spere saying to someone who i think is a judge that he wanted to save his love or someone but in the first game i never hear anything anything about tidus past apart from the flashbacks, but nobody treats him like a criminal and he is like a hero to the people of zanerkand

Answer 4

cynical is wrong, the other guy is right, mhrx7 or whatever his name is