History Characters / FinalFantasyXHeroes

* BarelyThereSwimwear: As part of her attire in ''X-2''.

* BlackMage: She's the only character who doesn't have a hybrid class.
* CoolBigSis: Yuna sees her as an older sister, and later, Rikku does as well, so much that she wishes to learn magic. Rikku herself seems to fantasize about one day possessing Lulu's, ahem, [[UnusualEuphemism talent]]. She also develops this relationship with Tidus over time, offering him pieces of advice regarding the world in a firm but caring way. On his part, Tidus feels comfortable enough with her to give her some dating advice in return, suggesting she move on from Chappu with Wakka.

** In the sequel, Her VA is noticably less gruff. She is no longer haunted by the deaths of her summoner or Wakka's brother.

* FailureKnight: She has been a guardian to two summoners before Yuna, and one of them did not survive the journey to Zanarkand.

* {{Goth}}: While there's no evidence of a goth subculture in Spira outside of her, it's obvious where the real-world inspiration for her character design came from.
** Real world Goth culture owes a lot to the influence of ''memento mori'', a Romantic-era art movement that emphasized the inevitability of death. It's not inconceivable that in a world like Spira, locked as it is in a spiral of death, there would be people who embraced that philosophy wholeheartedly.

* HeartbrokenBadass: She was dating Chappu before he died fighting Sin.

* HiddenDepths: [[WordOfGod Word of god]] has stated that her usage of dolls for combat is meant to show a hidden cuter side of her mature womanly character, which is hard to see on the surface.

* ImpossiblyCoolClothes: This is the outfit she wears for the ''entirety'' of the duology. Not exactly designed for all-terrain or all-weather, is it? Even her hairdo is irresponsibly cool: a combination of beaded braids, cornrows, and decorative Kanzashi.
* ImpossiblyLowNeckline: How does that thing not slip?

* ParentalSubstitute: A mother figure for Yuna.
* PromotionToParent: For Yuna, after she came to Besaid.

-->(first time casting Flare) "Know pain!"\\
(first time casting Ultima) "Know pain...but not for long."

* SquishyWizard: Averted. Her HP isn't particularly good, but her Evasion and Magic Defense are ''godly'' (so much that most monsters will miss her most of the time). On top of that, she has above average defense.
* TheStoic: Due in large part to being a BrokenBird.

** The reason he tends to be seen as the worst playable character. His Sphere Grid is small, with the intent being that the player moves him into the other characters Sphere Grids and shape him to be more to their liking. However, while dipping into the other characters Sphere Grids is recommended in general, Kimahri takes more work do this since the resources to move into other characters make it hard to justifying doing so, meaning that when the player finally does have the ability to invest heavily in him, the other characters have outpaced him so much that he simply is not worth investing into.
** Thankfully, all of the above gets averted by the Expert Sphere Grid in the International and HD versions of the game, which has many more intersecting paths - this allows Kimahri to flawlessly become a RedMage that's an effective attacker, a competent spellcaster, and a utilitarian for any other skills in between. With the right setup, he can even have a Magic stat that's on par with Lulu (who's the second best mage in the party after Yuna) and an attack stat near Tidus's (who comes close to the heavy-hitters, Wakka and Auron).

* TakingYouWithMe: he has a Self-Destruct overdrive.

--> '''Auron''': Although he was not the man I once knew, Kinoc was still my friend, Seymour! '''YOU WILL PAY FOR HIS DEATH!'''

-->'''Auron:''' ''(chuckling)'' The red carpet has teeth.

* PermaStubble: Auron always sports stubble which looks as if he hasn't shaved in at least a few days to a week. It also forms an interesting contrast to his younger self, who looked almost painfully clean shaven.

* RevenantZombie: The [=FFX=] version of this as an Unsent.

* SilverFox: The gray hairs certainly don't stop his fans.

* YoungerThanTheyLook: Few would guess he's supposed to be thirty-five. Especially given that he died a decade earlier and thus looks the same as he did at ''twenty-five''! He's shown to look [[http://www.creativeuncut.com/gallery-01/ff10-auron-young-sketch.html a lot younger]] at the time of his death; it seems being Unsent doesn't stop the process of aging- and given how old he ends up looking, it may accelerate it... Alternatively, since Yunalesca is over a thousand and definitely doesn't look her age, it may just be his personal (and extremely stressful) circumstances.
** Given that pyreflies seem to work on ones image (or image of their loved ones) it could be that Auron simply sees himself as a grizzled old warrior after everything he had been through regardless of what he could have actually aged into. It's also possible that he's only 35 according to his timeline in Spira. Given that he supposedly spent significant time in Dream Zanarkand he could be a fair bit older than that.

--> '''Rikku''': ''(gesturing at herself)'' Well, just give me five or six more years.

* ColorCodedEyes: On seeing that Rikku has green eyes, Auron demands a closer look, on which he discovers she's an Al Bhed by her spiral shaped pupils. While it seems that all Al Bhed have green eyes, other Spirans are shown with green eyes but regular pupils.

* WalkingShirtlessScene: Partially justified by the fact he lives in a hot climate, but even among the ice and snow, he never puts a shirt on.

* MaleGaze: Her introductory FMV is a slow pan up her body, and further [=FMVs=] focus on her upper body (both because of fanservice and because the belts were difficult and expensive to render properly). There's also the bit on the ''S.S. Liki'' where the camera looks through Tidus' binoculars and he's staring straight at her chest. Her victory pose is also another very unsubtle chest focus.

* MaleGaze: The camera is practically glued to her butt whenever she's around in the early game, which is made even more obvious by her skintight diving suit, to the point that even her introduction scene starts with a blatant butt shot. It's toned down after she ditches the diving suit for her main attire, but even then the camera continues to focus on her butt semi-frequently, far more often than any other character's.

** Towards Tidus as she gets to know him and sees that he's an asset to their pilgrimage and not a liability. Her first sign of defrosting is when she drops her icy persona and shows genuine concern for Tidus' well-being after the aftermath of Operation Mi'ihen.

** RagtagBunchOfMisfits: A fish out of water jock, the daughter of a legendary hero, their ParentalSubstitute with a dark past, a religious jock, an unfriendly goth woman, a cast-off Ronso, and an Al Bhed pirate - all of whom save the world.

In ''Kingdom Hearts'', Auron is sent to the Underworld instead of the Farplane. He is probably the most-faithful of the ''X'' characters seen here--although he is even more self-flagellating. Frustrated by his botched attempts to kill Hercules, Hades decides on a whim to enlist an undead warrior (Auron) for the task. With Sora's help, he regains his will and breaks free of the Underworld, whereupon he turns into pyreflies and vanishes again.

* MaleGaze: Her introductory FMV is a slow pan up her body, and further FMVs focus on her upper body (both because of fanservice and because the belts were difficult and expensive to render properly). There's also the bit on the ''S.S. Liki'' where the camera looks through Tidus' binoculars and he's staring straight at her chest. Her victory pose is also another very unsubtle chest focus.

* LimitBreak: The [[BettingMiniGame Slot]] skills, which are divided into [[ElementalPowers Element Reels]], [[MoreDakka Attack Reels]], [[StatusEffects Status Reels]], and [[StuffBlowingUp Auroch Reels]].

* PowerupLetdown: Two of the three unlockable Reels, Status and Auroch (the latter of which is supposed to be Wakka's ultimate), really pale in comparison to Attack Reels, which far surpasses ''Tidus''' Blitz Ace and just behind Anima's Oblivion and Mindy's Passado as one of the most devastating attacks in terms of raw damage in the game.

* FantasticRacism: His younger brother Chappu was killed during a Crusader operation while using an Al Bhed machina weapon; Wakka is quietly nursing a hatred of all three (the Crusaders, Al Bhed and machinery). He's forced to overcome his prejudices over the course of the game with Rikku's help. The fact that his son's name (Vidina) is Al Bhed for "future" shows that his emotional wounds have begun to heal.
** Interestingly enough, he's angry with Rikku when it turns out she's Al Bhed after the fight with her brother's machina, but when it turns out Yuna's half-Al Bhed, he asks himself "Yuna's Yuna, right?" This would suggest that after realizing that one of his closest friends is partially a member of a race he hates most, he's rethinking his attitude. Exaggerated after he sees the Guado ransack the only Al Bhed settlement in Spira just because Yuna happened to be there.
* GentleGiant: Like Kimahri he's one of the most physically imposing of the heroes, yet he's mostly a laid-back character.

* TheLancer: He strikes a contrast with Tidus because they are both blizball-playing guardians but stand on opposite sides of Yevon (devotion and disrespect) and use opposite sides of attacks (ball and sword).

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: He starts off hating the Al Bhed. Then he sees that they are good, hard-working people who end up being murdered left and right by Yevon. Then to make matters worse, he realizes that the girl he considers a little sister is part of the people he's treated so horribly. He ends up apologizing, but that is AFTER he takes some time to (justifiably) let the shock set in.

* OpenMouthInsertFoot: His blind religious devotion often puts him at odds with the events happening around him, and his attempts to cheer up Rikku and her family after the destruction of Home earn him nothing but mean looks and [[WhatTheHellHero a nasty scolding]].

* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: He's very overtly racist towards Al Bhed for a good portion for the story despite otherwise being a jovial and friendly GentleGiant. He later learns to overcome his prejudice.

* RealMenLoveJesus: He's so passionately devoted to his faith that it causes problems later in the game. In the beginning, he is easily the most devout of all eight playable characters, ''including Seymour, who is one of the leaders of the religion in question''. It takes the revelation of Rikku and Yuna's Al Bhed heritage, a collective telling off of him by her and the others, the destruction of Home, the revelation of Yevon's deep corruption, multiple assassination attempts on the party, and finally, the truth that Sin can never be destroyed by the Final Aeon for him to ''finally'' wise up for good.

* TragicBigot: His FantasticRacism towards the Al Bhed stem largely from Chappu dying in combat against Sin while using forbidden Al Bhed machina weapons.

* LastDiscMagic: His most powerful LimitBreak, Nova, is obtained from ''[[BonusBoss Omega]]''.

* NotSoStoic: It's revealed that Paine is the reason why YRP have a reunion, where she wants the three of them to catch up on things so they wouldn't grow apart.

* LadyOfBlackMagic: Elegant and more mature than the hero? Check. DefrostingIceQueen CoolBigSis? Check and check. Mastery of Black Magic? And check.

* MixAndMatch: Like the other characters, he is a mix between two classic ''Final Fantasy'' jobs. In his case, it's {{Samurai}} and [[TakingTheBullet Knight]].

* MixAndMatch: Again like the others. In ''X'', she combines the Thief and Alchemist jobs.

* MixAndMatch: Of the Dragoon and [[PowerCopying Blue Mage]] classes.