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Yes, that includes Seymour. Even with Yunalesca's help, the summoner must put their effort into carving meaning into every detail of the fayth, which says who the fayth is, who the summoner is, and the defining personal connection, feelings, and attributes that guide the design and power of the final aeon. Part the connection between the summoner and the aeon is strengthened by the summoner having to know beyond words who [[spoiler: their gardian]] is, and be able to express it, and not ''just'' the emption behind their connection and the sacrifice. The process is probably guided by the ritual so that the summoner doesn't need to actually have much carving/sculpting skill, in a way similar to how [[StarWarsExpandedUniverse Jedi don't need to know the exact mechanics and formulae of how to find a crystal and make their first lightsaber because the Force guides them]], but even when guided by the mystical intuition provided by the ritual (and probably Yunalesca), the summoner stilll needs to have the feelings and knowledge to guide the ritual.

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Yes, that includes Seymour. Even with Yunalesca's help, the summoner must put their effort into carving meaning into every detail of the fayth, which says who the fayth is, who the summoner is, and the defining personal connection, feelings, and attributes that guide the design and power of the final aeon. Part the connection between the summoner and the aeon is strengthened by the summoner having to know beyond words who [[spoiler: their gardian]] is, and be able to express it, and not ''just'' the emption behind their connection and the sacrifice. The process is probably guided by the ritual so that the summoner doesn't need to actually have much carving/sculpting skill, in a way similar to how [[StarWarsExpandedUniverse Jedi don't need to know the exact mechanics and formulae of how to find a crystal and make their first lightsaber because the Force guides them]], but even when guided by the mystical intuition provided by the ritual (and probably Yunalesca), the summoner stilll still needs to have the feelings and knowledge to guide the ritual.
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[[WMG: Bahamut stayed behind to give Tidus his chance at a happy ending.]]
When [[spoiler: all of the other fayth woke up]], one must have stayed behind to give Tidus and Yuna their chance. There's no reason for Tidus to [[spoiler: have spontaneously become real]], and I like to think that Bahamut felt a favor to a couple of friends was worth adding a few small years to the thousand he had already given.

[[WMG: Tidus was able to stick around because of Yuna, and because of everyone else who loved him and needed him to stay.]]
I'm not sure how that would work, other than Yuna's [[spoiler: defunct]] summoner ability acting as the catalyst, but it seems [[EpilepticTrees remotely]] plausible.
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[[WMG: Part of making the final aeon is that the summoner has to personally, physically carve the fayth themselves.]]
Yes, that includes Seymour. Even with Yunalesca's help, the summoner must put their effort into carving meaning into every detail of the fayth, which says who the fayth is, who the summoner is, and the defining personal connection, feelings, and attributes that guide the design and power of the final aeon. Part the connection between the summoner and the aeon is strengthened by the summoner having to know beyond words who [[spoiler: their gardian]] is, and be able to express it, and not ''just'' the emption behind their connection and the sacrifice. The process is probably guided by the ritual so that the summoner doesn't need to actually have much carving/sculpting skill, in a way similar to how [[StarWarsExpandedUniverse Jedi don't need to know the exact mechanics and formulae of how to find a crystal and make their first lightsaber because the Force guides them]], but even when guided by the mystical intuition provided by the ritual (and probably Yunalesca), the summoner stilll needs to have the feelings and knowledge to guide the ritual.
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*** Yes, but shouldn't Seymour's Anima have been much more powerful than Yuna's? Seymour's Anima was pretty easy to beat when we fought her. Or perhaps GameplayAndStorySegregation?
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* They are probably also descended from the people who rejected Yu Yevon's call to become fayth to summon Dream Zanarkand. Thus, Yevon villified them even further, considering them traitors.

[[WMG: Issaru is gay and Maroda isn't his brother...]]
They're a couple. That's just a cover the two are using to make things easier for them. We don't know Yevon's view of homosexuality, so it's hard to say if they needed to hide their relationship. Pacce may be Isaaru's biological brother and it's common to view the lovers of siblings in committed relationships as siblings themselves. I'm basing this on the fact that Isaaru and Maroda share no physical similarities to show their biologically related. Of course, what's canon is plausible too as people who look nothing alike are confirmed to be biologically related (Jecht and Tidus). Or Maroda could be adopted.
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* There's one [[{{Understatement}} little]] problem with that: Kefka is [[OmnicidalManiac fr]][[MonsterClown ea]][[AGodAmI kin']] [[AxCrazy evil]]!

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* There's one [[{{Understatement}} little]] ''little'' problem with that: Kefka is [[OmnicidalManiac fr]][[MonsterClown ea]][[AGodAmI kin']] [[AxCrazy evil]]!
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* There's one [[{{Understatement}} little]] problem with that: Kefka is [[OmnicidalManiac fr]][[MonsterClown ea]][[AGodAmI kin']] [[AxCrazy evil]]!
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** Isn't it canon that Final Summons are much stronger (for their Summoner) because of the emotional link that affects how the aeon works?
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* This also explains why the grammatical structures of Al Bhed differ from normal English.
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** Instead of being transgender he had a seahorse pregnancy which would match up to the idea of Blitz players being able to breathe underwater. Everybody is a fish.
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* Possibly confirmed by my own WMG: Anima (Mommy Dearest) appears to be Seymour's Final Aeon, which he chose to keep on a leash instead of fulfilling his destiny as sacrificial lamb. Making Anima's mother rather Lucrecia Crescent, and the aeon itself a bit Jenova-ish. But anyway, Anima's power is strong because she's an FA, but she did NOT defeat Sin. Nor could she. Try summoning Anima as Yuna during the final Sin Boss Battles. She's too slow, and Sin would probably munch the airship long before Anima won, unless you'd overleveled her greatly. -- auronlu

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* Possibly confirmed by my own WMG: Anima (Mommy Dearest) appears to be Seymour's Final Aeon, which he chose to keep on a leash instead of fulfilling his destiny as sacrificial lamb. Making Anima's Seymour's mother rather Lucrecia Crescent, and the aeon itself a bit Jenova-ish. But anyway, Anima's power is strong because she's an FA, but she did NOT defeat Sin. Nor could she. Try summoning Anima as Yuna during the final Sin Boss Battles. She's too slow, and Sin would probably munch the airship long before Anima won, unless you'd overleveled her greatly. -- auronlu
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* Possibly confirmed by my own WMG: Anima (Mommy Dearest) appears to be Seymour's Final Aeon, which he chose to keep on a leash instead of fulfilling his destiny as sacrificial lamb. Making Anima's mother rather Lucrecia Crescent, and the aeon itself a bit Jenova-ish. But anyway, Anima's power is strong because she's an FA, but she did NOT defeat Sin. Nor could she. Try summoning Anima as Yuna during the final Sin Boss Battles. She's too slow, and Sin would probably munch the airship long before Anima won, unless you'd overleveled her greatly. -- auronlu
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[[WMG: The Al Bhed are actually descendants of the people of Zanarkand]]
Knowing Square, it is no coincidence that the Blitzball team playing against the Zanarkand Apes in the beginning of the game, look suspiciously much like the Al Bhed Phyches, based on their outfits. The people who survived the destruction of Zanarkand simply chose to defy the teachings of Yevon (even more than they already did) and outright started mass-producing machina, but were attacked by Bevelle, and eventually settled in the Bikanel Desert, where they built their Home, and used that as a base of operations.
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[[WMG: Sendings don't actually send a person's soul to the Farplayne]]
It's just another false belief, like Yevon's teachings. Rikku was right when she said you go to the Farplayne to see memories rather than people. You see, Pyreflies carry the memories of dead people, as evidenced in Zanarkand and [[spoiler:the Den of Woe]], but only memories. The people of Spira cling to these memories, so the Pyreflies eventually become fiends because the living cannot let go. A sending merely sends these Pyreflies to the Farplayne. When the sending is performed, people truly believe their loved ones souls have been sent to the afterlife, so they accept that and no longer cling to the memories. Their belief that their loved ones have safely entered the afterlife keeps the Pyreflies from becoming fiends. This is also why Tidus' mom was seen at the Farplayne, despite not having been sent. The people of his Zanarkand do not know nor believe in sendings, so when a person dies, the living have already accepted the departure of their loved ones, keeping the Pyreflies from becoming fiends ([[spoiler:there's also the fact that the people of Tidus' Zanarkand are dreams, so they don't really die anyway]]). Tidus saw his mom in the Farplayne ([[spoiler:despite the fact that she was never a real person anyway]]) because of his memories of her; the person he saw there wasn't his mother, just his memory of her. As for Wakka not having accepted his brother's death, even though Chappu was never sent yet was at the Farplayne, Chappu DID become a fiend; when fiends are destroyed, the Pyreflies of the original person are still there. Destroying the fiend destroys their vessel (the bodies of fiends seem to truly disintegrate when destroyed, unlike the bodies of humans), and the end up at the Farplayne. They end up at the Farplayne because people believed they would only after the fiend was destroyed. What the Pyreflies did all depended on the beliefs of Spira's people. This is also why summoners are no longer necessary in X-2. After Yevon's false teachings were outed, the people of Spira no longer believe that sendings work, so Pyreflies just become fiends anyway due to having no "command", so to speak, to follow. That, or the people of New Yevon still believe in sendings, but lack summoners, so their beliefs keep the Pyreflies transformation into fiends in motion. Or the Farplayne is now out of whack and Pyreflies are unable to go there properly, so they have to linger in Spira, becoming fiends. [[spoiler:Or maybe not, who knows. And that, as they say, is that.]]
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*** Actually, the reason is simpler than that: Tidus is the only character in the game whose name you can change. Unlike earlier Final Fantasies, X uses voice acting. As such, his name is never spoken, not even by himself. Reason being, obviously, that it is impossible for the voice actors to predict every single name anyone will ever come up with for the main character, so they just address "Tidus" as "him" or "he." As to the "Watch your step, Tidus!" it is, as you said, a text box. As we've seen with every other game ever, it's simple to script the text to change in accordance with the name entered when asked(So if you called him, say, Leo, the text box would have said "Watch you step, Leo!"). You can change the names of the Aeons as well, and you'll notice they never speak *their* names, either.

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* Actually, it would explain a ''lot'' about [[WallBanger Blitzball]] if it was actually being played in LCL. The ability to breathe normally, the way solid objects move and pass through it as if it were air...

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* Actually, it would explain a ''lot'' about [[WallBanger Blitzball]] Blitzball if it was actually being played in LCL. The ability to breathe normally, the way solid objects move and pass through it as if it were air...
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*** There are oxygen rich liquids that can actually be 'breathed'. I believe theyre usually used for deep sea diving, to help equalize pressures.
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** [[Tropers/Kazmahu I]] figured that ''all'' water in Spira was oxygen-soaked and breathable, but because Humans are still land-based, even trying makes most people panic, gaga and try for the surface. "Holding one's breath" is a carryover colloquialism for the psychological training needed to breathe liquid for periods of time without having a panic attack.
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*Actually, when you get the first Jecht Sphere it is mentioned that spheres ar formed from the weird water there, rather similar to how materia grow from crystal pools. One can assume then that, for instance, a Fire materia is a black mage's memories of using fire magic. Presumably they were created as a quick method to teach magic to people with no aptitude. Over time, people got too reliant on this method and lost the ability to remember the spells themself.
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[[WMG: Auron is from the [[{{Naruto}} Aburame Clan]]

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[[WMG: Auron is from the [[{{Naruto}} Aburame Clan]]Clan]] ]]
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[[WMG: Auron is from the [[{{Naruto}} Aburame Clan]]
* Let's see, both him and Shino wear sunglasses, high collars, and have stoic personalities. His father is an even bigger {{Expy}} (depending on who came first). The reason he left the clan was because, like Lee, wasn't able to use Nin or Genjutsu, so he went on to be a swordsman.
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* Too bad you have [[WordOfGodWord Of God]] against that argument.

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* Too bad you have [[WordOfGodWord [[WordOfGod Word Of God]] against that argument.
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*Too bad you have [[WordOfGodWord Of God]] against that argument.
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[[WMG: [[{{Firefly}} The Reavers]] will eventually show up.]]
X-2 was too soon, but this is now, after all, [[IncrediblyLamePun a world without Sin...]]
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[[WMG: Tidus is pronounced Tie-dus not Tee-dus]]
Because he keeps washing up on the tides
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*** Actually, the reason is simpler than that: Tidus is the only character in the game whose name you can change. Unlike earlier Final Fantasies, X uses voice acting. As such, his name is never spoken, not even by himself. As to the "Watch your step, Tidus!" it is, as you said, a text box. As we've seen with every other game ever, the name is directly related to what you name your character and will change accordingly (So if you called him, say, Leo, the text box would have said "Watch you step, Leo!").

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*** Actually, the reason is simpler than that: Tidus is the only character in the game whose name you can change. Unlike earlier Final Fantasies, X uses voice acting. As such, his name is never spoken, not even by himself. Reason being, obviously, that it is impossible for the voice actors to predict every single name anyone will ever come up with for the main character, so they just address "Tidus" as "him" or "he." As to the "Watch your step, Tidus!" it is, as you said, a text box. As we've seen with every other game ever, it's simple to script the text to change in accordance with the name is directly related to what you name your character and will change accordingly (So entered when asked(So if you called him, say, Leo, the text box would have said "Watch you step, Leo!").Leo!"). You can change the names of the Aeons as well, and you'll notice they never speak *their* names, either.
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***Actually, the reason is simpler than that: Tidus is the only character in the game whose name you can change. Unlike earlier Final Fantasies, X uses voice acting. As such, his name is never spoken, not even by himself. As to the "Watch your step, Tidus!" it is, as you said, a text box. As we've seen with every other game ever, the name is directly related to what you name your character and will change accordingly (So if you called him, say, Leo, the text box would have said "Watch you step, Leo!").
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[[WMG: Lulu didn't show signs of being pregnant because she wasn't]]
[[{{Transgender}} Wakka was.]] However, he'd be passing successfully for so long, so Lulu pretended the baby was hers while Wakka took a break. A very long break.
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[[WMG: Yevon/Yu Yevon is a TimeLord, and Sin is his TARDIS.]]
Think about it, everytime Sin is defeated, Yevon reconstructs it, likely proving himself to have vast technical knowhow, of course Time Lords rountinely maintain their own [[TARDIS TARDISes]]. In addition, it is probable that Yevon suffered injuries everytime Sin was defeated, causing him to regenerate each time. Each Calm was the period where Yevon would properly recover and rebuild Sin. Yevon's physical appearance just happens to be the result of several faulty regenerations. By the time Yuna defeated him, Yevon was already on his 13th incarnation, dying permanently because he had no further regenerations. Or if he still had further incarnations, he could have regenerated again and fled Spira for another world (maybe Gallifrey), giving up his purpose on Spira and explaining the Eternal Calm. That absence may be him remobilizing his resources to try his goals on Spira again in future, preferably after Yuna and her guardians are dead. An alternative theory holds that Yevon was already on the end of his regenerative cycle when he first crafted Sin, and took [[DemonicPossession possession]] of it to keep on living (the Master did that to others as well when he was in that state). Any Final Aeon that defeated Sin was taken by Yevon to serve as a new host. Since Yuna didn't use a Final Aeon, Yevon had nothing to possess, and permanently died as a result.
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According to someone over at the [[WMG/FinalFantasy general series WMG page,]] it's been confirmed that Shinra's little bit about using the Farplane for power wasn't just a shout out: FFX and FFVII take place in the same universe, on different planets, and Shinra's an ancestor of the humans on Gaia.

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According to someone over at the [[WMG/FinalFantasy general series WMG page,]] it's been confirmed that Shinra's little bit about using the Farplane for power wasn't just a shout out: out (although I'd like a link to this WordOfGod, myself:) FFX and FFVII take place in the same universe, on different planets, and Shinra's an ancestor of the humans on Gaia.

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*** ... which still wouldn't work, if only because ''cells need oxygen.'' I vote a combination of slightly-different-physiology and training.


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[[WMG:Gaia was colonized by Spirans at some point.]]
According to someone over at the [[WMG/FinalFantasy general series WMG page,]] it's been confirmed that Shinra's little bit about using the Farplane for power wasn't just a shout out: FFX and FFVII take place in the same universe, on different planets, and Shinra's an ancestor of the humans on Gaia.

So, some time after FFX-2, Spira invents (or reinvents, depending on if old Zanarkand/Bevelle had gotten that far) space travel. Possibly they start from existing airship technology. They discover another life-bearing planet- Gaia- and a party, including Shinra or possibly his children or grandchildren, heads out to settle it.

The Shinra Company is founded by Shinra/his direct descendants, and eventually they do something with his ideas regarding tapping the afterlife for fuel.


... Does that make Aeons the Spiran equivalent of Materia?

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