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Gullwings
Buddy
"The Gullwings are on the job. We'll even give you our special bargain price."
Voiced by Ken Taira (Japanese).
Voiced by Ogie Banks III (English)
The navigator of the Gullwings and friend of Brother's.
- Combat Pragmatist: One of his attacks in the HD Remaster edition involves running behind the enemy and then attacking.
- Improbable Weapon User: If you recruit him using the Creature Creator feature in the HD Remaster edition, he uses a large, exotic-looking wrench as his weapon.
- Only Sane Man: In contrast to the quirky genius Shinra and the clownish Brother, Buddy is the level-headed member of the male Gullwings. He negotiates fees on behalf of the Gullwings, and slaps some sense into Brother whenever he acts up.
- Promoted to Playable: Like the other male Gullwings, he can be recruited through the Creature Creator system.
- Remember the New Guy?: Dialogue implies he was good friends with Rikku during the events of the first game, and also knows Gippal. He was also apparently on the Fahrenheit during the previous game, and is disappointed that Yuna doesn't remember him.
- The Smart Guy: He's the navigator on the Celsius.
- Shirtless Scene: In blitzball, his top is removed.
Shinra
Shinra
"I'm just a kid."
Voiced by Akeno Watanabe (Japanese).
Voiced by Pamela Adlon (English).
An Al Bhed prodigy and member of the Gullwings. In the International and HD versions, the Celsius also contains a Fiend Arena with which Shinra captures and tames fiends.
- Body Horror: Take a closer look at Almighty Shinra. Those dreadlock-like appendages on either side of his head? Those are actually regular Shinra's arms. Shinra's head is also faintly visible merged on top of Almighty Shinra's own.
- Brief Accent Imitation: After Tobli sends his Hypello army to advertise Yuna's concert in Chapter 4, one Hypello can be seen through the Kilika Port CommSphere selling the news to Dona. Later, while accidentally eavesdropping on Dona rehearsing on what to say to Barthello, Shinra imitates a Hypello accent when he thought Dona realized he was there.
- Character Catchphrase: Whenever someone asks him a question that he can't answer he'll say "I'm only a kid."
- Child Prodigy: Shinra is just a child but quite likely the smartest person in the setting.
- Cool, but Inefficient: In Chapter 4, he can teleport Chocobos onto the ship using a CommSphere, with what he calls the Chocoporter. Unfortunately, it shorts out the CommSphere after the second use.
- Deadpan Snarker: Pretty much his defining characteristic.
- Evil Is Not a Toy: Shinra later tries to convert the energy from the Farplane into fuel, which causes him to be overwhelmed by pyreflies and transform into the Super Boss Almighty Shinra, who is fought in the Arena.
- Friend to All Living Things: The Creature Creator sidequest portrays Shinra as this - he befriends all the fiends that you catch for his fiend arena and is responsible for their finding peace with their state of being, whether that means moving on to the Farplane or remaining as they are on Spira.
- Fusion Dance: An interpretation to Shinra unwittingly absorbing Omega's pyreflies to become Almighty Shinra.
- Gameplay and Story Segregation
- If he wins the Lady Luck dressphere, he will not share it with the rest of the Gullwings. The group call him out on this. Furthermore, this bout of selfishness is never brought up again and Shinra is still part of the team.
- Regular and Almighty Shinra can apparently coexist. Regular is still on Mission Control even while Almighty is in your party.
- Insufferable Genius: He is a useful but tricky ally: He's the final opponent in the Sphere Break tournament, and if you lose to him, he refuses to turn over the grand prize (the Gambler Dressphere) even though he can't conceivably use it.
- Just a Kid: Shinra's boilerplate excuse whenever he's unable to come up with the answer to a problem.
- Mission Control: His on-board computer offers a Monster Compendium, an Encyclopedia Exposita, a failed "Choco-porter", and later a commsphere network which lets you FaceTime with other residents of Spira.
- Monster Compendium: Shinra has an online bestiary of every NPC and fiend you've met.
- Through him YRP can access a virtual dictionary detailing the basic stats and Flavor Text of various Fiends. It also functions as a checklist, highlighting enemies' names in pink text if they have been defeated in Oversoul form.
- A second compendium is available in the International versions; however, this one instead summarizes the Fiend Tales of Fiends that the Gullwings have recruited.
- Promoted to Playable: A different take compared to Brother and Buddy. Shinra can transform into a powerful Super Boss, Almighty Shinra, which can be recruited after besting it in battle.
- Shout-Out: Shinra should ring a few bells.
- Might be more than a Shout-Out: the
Ultimania states that Shinra researched how to extract life energy from the Farplane as a power source, and after generations this would become the process of extracting Mako energy as seen in Final Fantasy VII. This has led to no small number of theories about how the worlds of VII and X are connected. It's hinted that his family line will journey into space and populate Gaia in Final Fantasy VII.- And later the remake would show an "our founders" style portrait of a familiar style of helmet. That is to say now 7 is heavily the connection itself.
- Might be more than a Shout-Out: the
- Token Evil Teammate: Shinra is a staunch ally of the Gullwings, but has other agendas that sometimes conflict with yours. He refuses to cough up the Lady Luck Dressphere unless you best him at Sphere Break. In Last Mission, Rikku mentions that he is assisting Rin with his machina upgrades, and Ultimania confirms that Rin provides financial backing for Shinra's experiments on mining energy from the Farplane. (This is ominous if you implicated Rin in the Mi'ihen Mystery or are familiar at all with Final Fantasy VII's plot.) In the remaster, Shinra's meddling in the Farplane causes him to become possessed by pyreflies that emerge from Omega Weapon, which temporarily transforms him into a boss.
Barkeep
Barkeep
The hypello barkeep for the Gullwings, who runs the Gullstore and serves them drinks in the cabin aboard the Celsius.
- The Bartender: He is the barkeep aboard the Celsius, and at one point listens to a drunken Brother's woes.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": He is the Trope Namer. No one knows his actual name, and he never provides it.
- Lookalike Lovers: Both Barkeep and his lover Darling have generic hypello models, resulting in the fact that they both look completely identical.
- Sickeningly Sweethearts: When Brother drunkenly shares his woes about Yuna, Barkeep brings his sweetheart "Darling" on board, and she stays behind the bar with him from then on.
Leblanc Syndicate
Leblanc
LeBlanc
"Errr, LeBlanc. Remember that name well, loves."
Voiced by: Satomi Yasuhara (Japanese), Masasa Moyo (English)
Your initial antagonist in X-2, leader of a rival group of sphere hunters. LeBlanc has a history with Nooj and founded the Syndicate to find spheres that would assist him.
- Anti-Villain: She's antagonistic and disrespectful to Yuna, she's selfish, and she forces all of her employees into those horrible uniforms. But most of the crap that she does is all for her Noojie-Woojie. During the brief period where she thinks Nooj is gone forever, she's deeply depressed and really doesn't care about the things that made her a "villain" in the first place.
- Blow You Away: Courtesy of her fan.
- Break the Haughty: In Chapter 3. She bounces back in the next episode.
- Combat Hand Fan: Her main weapon is a rather menacing hand fan covered in razors.
- Combat Stiletto: Her goons live in fear of "getting the heel" if they fail her.
- Combination Attack: "No Love Lost". Leblanc summons a tornado to send the Gullwings flying before Logos pumps lead into them while they're still in the cyclone. When the tornado starts to cease, Ormi finishes it off with a body slam that hits all three girls.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: About the time she realizes that Spira is in deep, deep shit again, she starts to soften up and ends up helping Yuna.
- Dark Action Girl: She's actually not the slacker when it comes to fighting.
- Disc-One Final Boss: Sort of. When you last fight her, you receive the sphere that starts the real plot of the game. Up until that point, you were just hunting for spheres and beating up her henchmen.
- Enemy Mine: Willing to team up with Yuna to take down Vegnagun. Although she does make a point of stating that she does not take orders from Yuna.
- Girly Bruiser: Her default outfit is pink, she has a Navel-Deep Neckline and her weapon of choice is a fan. One of the attacks is even called "Love Tap". Despite all of this, she's deceptively strong; in the starter dungeon, she can be seen holding herself, Ormi and Logos from a ledge with one hand and during their boss fight in chapter 3 she uses powerful magic to support Ormi and Logos and their combo attack can wreck an unprepared party.
- The Goomba: "Yuna" and her backup dancers in the intro. Leblanc is powerless to do much in Songstress form, apart from tossing party-drugs at her minions and plinking away at you with Thunder castings.
- Harmless Villain: Leblanc. ("Remember that name well, loves!") She shows up again immediately after the intro, and already the Gullwings are tired of dealing with her.
- Heel–Face Turn: Once she realizes the fate of the world is at stake, she drops the animosity and rivalry towards the Gullwings and helps them take out Vegnagun. That doesn't mean that Leblanc will take orders, though.
- Hidden Depths: Though outwardly greedy and mean-spirited, she is actually a den mother to her employees.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Who would have thought she was taking in war victims and political refugees and letting them live with her in her Big Fancy House?
- Leeroy Jenkins: It's funny that Logos to punch his own weight regarding weapons of mass destruction, but not his boss. Logos asks the Gullwings to keep Nooj's whereabouts in Bevelle a secret, because he knows there will be no stopping Leblanc if she finds out. And undoubtedly she'll then drag him and Ormi along on a suicide mission.
- Legion of Lost Souls: Among her ranks are Logos and Ormi (two survivors from the Den of Woe catastrophe), a few stragglers from Operation Mi'ihen, and some Al Bhed who were declared dead after Home was destroyed in X.
- Love Makes You Crazy: She'll do anything for her "Noojie-woojie." Too bad Nooj was at that point possessed by a vengeful spirit.
- Making a Splash: Knows the Watera spell.
- Malevolent Masked Men: Apart from Logos and Ormi, the Leblanc Syndicate consists of ninja-like "Goons" wearing face masks.
- Mana Drain: Can cast Osmose to drain the player's MP.
- Mobile Menace: It's unclear how the Leblanc Syndicate have such a global presence or can beat you in a race to Gagazet, despite having no airship of their own.
- Navel-Deep Neckline: Her neckline is plunging so low, that it goes to her crotch. One wonders how she manages to keep it on.
- Not So Above It All: After her Teeth-Clenched Teamwork with Yuna begins, she admits that she's always wanted to ride on their airship.
- Punch-Clock Villain: The Leblanc Syndicate. The Scan ability will constantly point out that her Goons are underpaid.
- Quirky Miniboss Squad: Ormi and Logos along with the lesser henchmen are this whenever Leblanc's not joining the boss fights.
- The Rival: To the Gullwings.
- Shock and Awe: Knows the Thunder and Thundara spells.
- Shout-Out: Almost assuredly to Doronjo, Boyacky, and Tonzra of Yatterman.
- Her design/appearance, more specifically her face, somewhat resembles Tina Armstrong.
- Sigil Spam: She adorns her Syndicate's logo everywhere she goes. Which begs the question of how Seymour would react about what LeBlanc has done to his home...
- Small Name, Big Ego: Her prowess as a sphere hunter doesn't quite live up to the hype. And Leblanc is clearly used to being in charge: she invites herself on the airship, speaks for Brother and Yuna by giving orders and, later, even shoves Shinra out of way so she can smack his console to get a clearer image of Nooj.
- Smoke Out: Logos accidentally lets slip that Leblanc has been shadowing you since she can't find treasure on her own, and an embarrassed Leblanc flees with the help of a smoke bomb.
- Steel Fan Of Doom: Her weapon of choice is her fan. She not only strikes with it, but focuses on it to cast her magic spells.
- Status Buff: Can use "Love Tap" to cast Haste on her allies.
- Stripperiffic: In addition to showing off one of her thighs, her outfit has an impossibly low neckline.
- Sycophantic Servant: Even though their boss is a bad-tempered harridan, Leblanc's Goons are amazingly subservient. They treat her like some of queen and resent her kittenish behavior around Nooj. (Which are the only times she becomes slightly-bearable).
- Terrible Trio: With her henchmen Logos and Ormi.
- Team Rocket Wins: They actually get the jump on the Gullwings in Chapter 2 by sneaking into the Celsius and stealing the Zanarkand half-sphere (the reason they even want it is that they have the other half).
- Took a Level in Badass: She and her henchmen truly step up their game in Chapter 2, going from breaking into the Celsius to steal the Zanarkand half-sphere, sending out Elite Mooks in boss fights, and unleashing new, damaging attacks. In fact, the trio even comes up with a new Combination Attack of their own when you fight them for the final time.
- Trick Bomb: She can throw "Flash Bombs" and "Hush Grenades" to inflict Blindness and Silence respectively.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Out of devotion to Nooj, she spends all of Chapter 1 looking for a sphere he's seeking. When she finds it and hands it over to him, it is what ultimately gives Shuyin the knowledge of where to find and use Vegnagun, kicking off the plot of the rest of the game.
- Vapor Wear: Leblanc's outfit in particular.
- The Walls Are Closing In: One of the traps in Leblanc's vault triggers a wall lined with spikes.
- White Magic: Can cast "White Wind", which can heal a bit of her party's health and cures all negative status effects.
Logos
Logos
"Parting is such sweet sorrow."
Voiced by Nobuo Tobita (Japanese).
Voiced by S. Scott Bullock (English).
Described as the brains of the Leblanc Syndicate, he is one of her most devoted accomplices and enforcers.
- Covert Pervert: At one point, when showing the party a video of the group's expedition beneath Bevelle, the camera focuses on Yuna's backside. He tries to blame it on Ormi, but then Ormi walks into the frame...
- Dark and Troubled Past: He and Ormi used to work for Maester Wen Kinoc and recorded a lot of the events related to the Den of Woe, something which is hinted to still haunt them.
- Dual Wielding: A pair of revolvers.
- Enemy Mine: Like Leblanc, he joins forces with the party to take down Vegnagun.
- Evil Genius: Among the Leblanc Syndicate.
- Fat and Skinny: The Skinny to Ormi's Fat.
- The Gunslinger: He utilizes a pair of guns in battle.
- Heel–Face Turn: Similar to Leblanc.
- Lean and Mean: Quite skinny, and an antagonistic character at first.
- Meaningful Name: "Logos" is Greek for "logic," fitting as the brains of the operation, as his Scan information indicates.
- More Dakka: One of his moves, Hail of Bullets.
- Recurring Boss: He's fought six times, sometimes with his Goons, sometimes in a duo with Ormi, and eventually with Ormi and Leblanc.
- Signature Move: Russian Roulette.
- Those Two Guys: With Ormi.
Ormi
Ormi
"Feel like taking a spin?"
Voiced by Kiyotaka Furushima (Japanese).
Voiced by SARGE (English).
Another leading member of the Leblanc Syndicate and one of her most loyal underlings who rounds out their Terrible Trio.
- Big Fun: After his Heel–Face Turn, he's pretty friendly and outgoing with the party.
- Boisterous Bruiser: Fond of taunting and hamming up his own strength in battles.
- The Brute: Within the Leblanc Syndicate.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Like Logos, he used to work for Maester Kinoc and was one of the sphere recorders who was present for the Den of Woe massacre.
- Fat and Skinny: The Fat to Logos's Skinny.
- Fat Bastard: At first. He becomes Big Fun after teaming up with the party.
- The Glomp: One of his attacks is named Huggles.
- Heel–Face Turn: Just like Leblanc and Logos, he becomes an ally to the party when they all decide to stop Vegnagun.
- Large Ham: He's clearly having a rip-roaring good time in battle and has a lot of over the top battle quotes.
- Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: His weapon of choice is a shield.
- Recurring Boss: He's fought seven times, originally giving him the honor of the most frequent case of this trope in the entire Final Fantasy series, only being beaten by Caius Ballad in Final Fantasy XIII-2.
- Shield Bash: His main method of attacking.
- Signature Move: Pirouette Pitch, where he spins in circles before throwing his shield at the party. This later gets replaced by an even more devastating attack, Supercollider.
- Spectacular Spinning: As shown in his quote, he spins around in circles before launching his shield in a devastating attack.
- Stout Strength: Despite his heftiness, he's also got some muscle on him.
- Those Two Guys: Along with Logos.
- Throwing Your Shield Always Works: One of his favored attacks, Pirouette Pitch, involves throwing his shield.
Faction leaders
Baralai
Baralai
"The world is changing, and there are many who are finding it difficult to keep up. New Yevon wishes to help those who feel lost in the winds of change."
Voiced by Kenji Sobu (Japanese).
Voiced by Josh Gomez (English).
The younger, handsomer face of New Yevon, Baralai works as Praetor to reform the image of Yevon in the eyes of the people. But he might not be able to bear the weight of the secrets that Yevon buried long ago on top of the demons he already carries. Like the other Crimson Squad members, a shade of Baralai created by pyreflies can be fought in the Den of Woe; him and the others can also be recruited in the Creature Creator.
- Arranged Marriage: Subverted. Through a case of mistaken identity, Yuna assumes that New Yevon's current praetor is the one that proposed marriage to her, but Baralai clarifies that he's the replacement praetor.
- The Atoner: Sort of. He formed New Yevon in the hopes of atoning for the previous church's mistake.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Paine says as much. Leblanc's goons expect he'll be useless without an escort to do the fighting for him. Needless to say, in the boss battle he doesn't need them.
- Break the Cutie: See Despair Event Horizon.
- Carry a Big Stick: He has a staff-spinning attack which only hits targets close to him.
- Chromatic Arrangement: The green to Nooj's red and Gippal's blue.
- Despair Event Horizon: The subject of Nooj's betrayal is clearly this for him. The tone Baralai's voice takes during his talk with Seymour after the Crimson Squad massacre as well as the fact that Shuyin possesses Baralai almost immediately after he confronts Nooj in the Bevelle Underground makes it clear that any thought of that incident and the events leading up to it is the point at which he is mentally and emotionally weakest.
- Distressed Dude: In the second half of the game, Baralai confronts the other Crimson Squad survivors in Vegnagun's Cradle; his body is taken over by Shuyin and dragged to the Farplane to recover Vegnagun. Nooj and Gippal give chase out of a sense of camaraderie.
- Freudian Trio: The Id in the trio consisting of him, Nooj, and Gippal.
- Grand Theft Me: By Shuyin, after he hops from Nooj.
- Heartfelt Apology: At the end of X-2, he, Nooj and Gippal apologize to the people of Spira for almost dragging them into a war over their own hang-ups.
- Not So Stoic: A recurring character trait. He's pleasant and sociable in regular conversation. Once in battle or sufficiently angered, the dude's a regular berserker for all the yelling he does. For all the stoicism that he exudes whenever the Gullwings encounters him, he freaks out when he and Gippal meet with Nooj in the Bevelle Underground.
- Peace Conference: No matter which ending you receive, Baralai will bury the hatchet with the Youth League in public.
- Screaming Warrior: During the battles with him, he has no actual battle quotes, only furious yelling.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: was originally a member of the ill-fated Crimson Squad, and later sought refuge with Seymour Guado, thus explaining his inexorable rise. Seymour expunged his record so that nobody could tie him to the Youth League leader.
- Ship Tease: He has this with Paine, as seen in the Crimson Spheres.
- Significant White Hair, Dark Skin: He has dark skin with silver hair despite being a fairly young human man. He turns out to lead one of the major political factions in Spira, and the game vaguely suggests his appearance is a sign of White Hair, Black Heart, but it ultimately turns out to be Nooj, who's possessed by the vengeful spirit of Shuyin.
- Telescoping Staff: When you fight him, his main weapon is a battle staff that can extend for attacks.
- The Stoic: He's the most softspoken of the three leaders in Spira during FFX-2.
- Wake-Up Call Boss: Baralai has a few nasty tricks if you aren't prepared. Demi pierces Reflect, and Drill Shot lops off 75% of the target's max HP. It's a Blue Bullet attack which you can only learn from him.
- We Used to Be Friends: With Nooj, Gippal, and Paine. From the scene in the Bevelle Underground, it's easy to see that though Gippal, Paine, and Nooj seem to have moved on from the Crimson Massacre incident, Baralai definitely hasn't. Almost screamed word for word:Baralai: WHY DID YOU SHOOT?! WHY DID YOU SHOOT GIPPAL AND ME?! WE WERE FRIENDS, AND YOU SHOT US IN THE BACK!! ANSWER ME!
- White Hair, Black Heart: Subverted. He comes off as a rather suspicious figure with implications of the victorious Starscream kind when first introduced, and there's plenty of reason to think he's evil, given that he fights the party in order to protect yet another one of Bevelle's dark secrets, and his sphere also reveals that after the Crimson Squad fiasco, he sought help from Seymour of all people. However, later on, it becomes clear that Shuyin-possessed Nooj is the actual villain, and Baralai doesn't get around to his Face–Heel Turn until after Shuyin swipes his body. The ending makes it pretty clear that he's one of the good guys, working for the betterment of Spira.
- In essence, he's basically a character inversion of Seymour. In the backstory, he mysteriously rises to leadership of a reformed New Yevon despite never even appearing in the first game, and there's a couple hints that an Arranged Marriage was attempted between himself and Yuna. The developers clearly tried to paint an image of a Seymour expy early on, only to subvert it as he was Good All Along. Then double-subverted when Shuyin body hops over from Nooj, meaning that Shuyin is using Baralai's body to control Vegnagun.
Nooj
Nooj
"My friends, stand with me, and together we will bring the truth back to the people."
Voiced by Nobutoshi Canna (Japanese).
Voiced by George Newbern (English).
The leader of the Youth League faction who leads Spira's foolhardy and inexperienced youth in collecting spheres for the sake of documenting Spira's true history.
- Artificial Limbs: Two of them.
- Big Brother Instinct: Once he is free of Shuyin's influence, Nooj wastes no time telling Paine to stay away before Shuyin, now in Baralai's body, ever has the chance to attack her. And then he spends the rest of the game with Gippal trying to save Baralai from Shuyin.
- Chromatic Arrangement: Wears a lot of red to contrast with Gippal's blue and Baralai's green.
- Deadpan Snarker:Paine: You were ready to give up back there. Ready to die.
Nooj: Very perceptive. You'll be a legend among recorders. - Death Seeker: As Shuyin explains, this made him an easy target for possession at the time of the Crimson Massacre. Nooj's sphere alludes this to being part man and part machine and just being depressed over the loss of his own limbs.
- Easily Forgiven: By Gippal, who doesn't seem to hold any grudge towards Nooj for the shot taken at him (and Gippal had a clear view that Nooj was the one that did it), and Paine, who explains to Yuna and Rikku that she saw Nooj's actions as an accident resulting from the strange pyreflies from the Den of Woe (admittedly, it turns out that it wasn't of his own free will, but neither of them knew that). Baralai, however, averts this full-stop.
- Fixed Damage Attack: His Signature Move in the Fiend Arena, Lightfall, deals 5,000 damage to the entire party.
- Freudian Trio: The Superego of the trio consisting of him, Baralai, and Gippal.
- Gollum Made Me Do It: He is one of four survivors of the Den of Woe incident: Unbeknownst to him, he is still carrying the malevolent entity known as Shuyin, who promptly hijacks Baralai when the pair meet again beneath Bevelle.
- Grand Theft Me: It's hard to tell how much of Nooj's actions were subconsciously driven by Shuyin following his possession in the Den of Woe two years prior, but it's clear that Shuyin is the one that shot Baralai, Gippal, and Paine and was also the one that surfaced in the Bevelle Underground.
- Handicapped Badass: Presumably, he can fight well enough to support the Gullwings in the final battle.
- Heartfelt Apology: At the end of X-2, he, Baralai and Gippal apologize to the people of Spira for almost dragging them into a war over their own hang-ups.
- Improbable Hairstyle: What is it with this series and antigravity hair?
- No Guy Wants to Be Chased: He is deeply indebted to the LeBlanc Syndicate, but he doesn't return their leader's romantic affections.
- Optional Boss: If the player enters the Den of Woe, he can be battled.
- Rebel Leader: As captain of the Youth League, which is essentially filled with the younger generation of Spira that, on top of being relatively inexperienced, does not understand that not everything can be solved with violence.
- Red Baron: Nooj the Undying.
- Rummage Sale Reject: His outfit is nothing short of ridiculous.
- Supporting Leader: He is later spotted in the Bevelle Underground, where he witnesses Shyuin possessing Baralai. When Yuna gets knocked into one of the holes linking Spira with the Farplane, she momentarily spots Nooj and Gippal, who tell her to "take care of things topside." We later find out that Nooj and Gippal (along with the LeBlanc Syndicate) have chased Shuyin into the Farplane to rescue their friend. When their combined efforts fail to faze Vegnagun, the Gullwings join the fight.
- Survivor's Guilt: Nooj lost a quarter of his body in a battle with Sin and replaced his lost limbs with machina, which left him feeling fatalistic.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: We learn he is famous enough to be notorious, and in Bevelle we start to get the first signs of his self-destructive tendencies. After his brush with Sin (i.e. death) he is unable to rest until he meets a warrior's end. There's echoes of Auron in there. They both wear red, as well.
- Tall, Dark, and Handsome: LeBlanc certainly thinks so.
- Taking You with Me: At the end of the game, Nooj journeys ahead of the party and straps a bomb to himself so he can be re-possessed by Shuyin and kill them both. Yuna is appalled by his plan and manages to talk him out of it.
- Throwing Off the Disability: Nooj discards the cane when he's under Shuyin's influence. Although Nooj has his artificial leg and limps slightly in flashbacks, he's seen without his cane at the Den of Woe. When Baralai draws a pistol on him beneath Bevelle, Nooj's body shimmers green for a moment and he drops his cane.
- Too Many Belts: As usual for Nomura character designs. Nooj in particular is probably the worst offender by a long shot, even by Nomura's standards.
- We Used to Be Friends: With Baralai, Gippal, and Paine.
Gippal
Gippal
"Never been this close to a celebrity before..."
Voiced by Kenichi Suzumura (Japanese).
Voiced by Rick Gomez (English).
An Al Bhed punk who leads the Machine Faction from their base in Djose Temple.
- BFG: Here's a weird one: Gippal has an eight-barreled blunderbuss with a rotary saw mounted on it for close-quarters attacks. He's the only person a Gun Mage can learn the Mortar skill from.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He might not seem like The Smart Guy but he's a genius when it comes to machines.
- The Charmer: Cocky and and cool enough to make even Rikku blush.
- Everyone Loves Blondes: A male version. He's well-liked, the leader of an organization and Yuna definitely takes notice when he walks past. And his theme music is a guitar riff that basically tells us "this guy is cool".
- Eyepatch of Power: He sported it two years ago, so it's unknown how he lost his eye. Unless it's just a fashion statement.
- Freudian Trio: The Ego in the trio consisting of him, Nooj and Baralai.
- Genki Guy: He tones it down when things get serious but he's quite the ray of sunshine.
- Heartfelt Apology: At the end of X-2, he, Nooj and Baralai apologize to the people of Spira for almost dragging them into a war over their own hang-ups.
- Implied Love Interest: For Rikku, by way of saying "we made quite the couple". Rikku frequently denies that anything ever happened, but it's made clear across the game that she feels something for him.
- Improbable Age: He's the leader of the Machine Faction at only eighteen! Presumably his experience in the Crimson Squad helped give him some clout.
- Like Brother and Sister: With Paine. It's subtle, but definitely there: Gippal is the only one that Paine bothers willingly showing her face in front of when YRP meets the various leaders of Spira for the first time.
- Maybe Ever After: Rikku definitely shows some concern for him when Djose Temple is attacked. They're seen leaving the Farplane together, though both end the game with their respective friends rather than each other.
- Optional Boss: If you go into the Den of Woe, he can be battled like Nooj.
- Remember the New Guy?: He hated Sin and wanted to become a Crusader, but the Al Bhed weren't eligible; when he heard that the Crimson Squad were less discriminatory, Gippal leapt at the chance. He decided to lay low after Yevon tried to cover up the incident, and Paine plays it off as though they have never met. He is briefly seen conversing with Auron in a recording taken shortly before Home was destroyed in X.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Not only is he the head of the only faction that's not at odds with anyone else, but he's also the only leader who realizes that Yuna's done enough for Spira and that people need to learn to solve their own problems instead of running to the High Summoner every time there's trouble.
- Ship Tease: He's got it with both Yuna and Rikku (more so with the latter, especially considering he seems to come on a bit too strong for Yuna's taste).
- Spiky Hair: He's unique in the series that his hairstyle is actually possible to pull off in real life.
- Strange Minds Think Alike: One of the Crimson Spheres shows that he called Paine "Dr P" as well; it's one of Rikku's nicknames for her.
- [Verb] This!: Gippal says "Dodge this!" when using Bullseye.
- War for Fun and Profit: The Machine Faction seem to imply that they are supplying weapons to both sides of the political conflict.
- We Used to Be Friends: With Baralai, Nooj and Paine.
Other
Lenne
Lenne
"This moment's enough. I don't need anything else. Just knowing how you feel is enough."
Voiced by: Koda Kumi (Japanese).
Voiced by: Cree Summer (English, speaking voice), Jade Villalon (English, singing voice).
A popular Songstress and summoner from the original Zanarkand. A sphere of her imprinted with her consciousness is later acquired by Yuna.
- The Anti-Nihilist: She considers her life to have been a good one, although by objective standards it was tragically cut short.
- Anguished Declaration of Love: Sadly, Shuyin didn't hear it. Yuna's goal in the end is to help Lenne express her feelings to him.
- Contrived Coincidence: She's a summoner who has a Zanarkand blitz player for a lover. The official stance on their connection to Tidus and Yuna are supposedly coincidental.
- Ghost in the Machine: Lenne's spirit still clings to Yuna's dressphere.
- Go Out with a Smile: Before guards shot them dead, Lenne used her last moments to smile at Shuyin.
- Grand Theft Me: She does not ask for permission when possessing Yuna's body. Yeah, she has good intentions most of the time, but...
- The Ingenue: Skilled in performing arts as well as the summoning arts of Zanarkand.
- I Should Have Been Better: She doesn't blame herself for Shuyin's crimes, but she wonders if things would have been different had she been honest about her feelings.
- I Wrote Our Story: Her songs are very heavily based on her experiences in real life.
- The Lost Lenore: She is this for Shuyin. Although he's dead as well, he's still lingering as an unsent.
- Manic Pixie Dream Girl: A non-romantic example. The first indication of her existence is when she possesses Yuna to help the girl relax and have fun.
- Nothing Personal: She doesn't hate the people of Bevelle (and actually becomes...friends? with Yuna, who was born there). She will rip them to bits with her aeons, but that's not the same thing.
- Patriotic Fervor: It's unclear whether Zanarkand was fighting back in self-defense, but either way, Lenne was entirely willing to fight on her hometown's behalf.
- Pimped-Out Dress: Her dressphere outfit.
- Silent Treatment: When Lenne and Shuyin had a bad fight over her role in the war, she refused to speak to him even as he stormed out. She deeply regrets this, not least because it meant she Never Got to Say Goodbye.
- Silk Hiding Steel: Though she looks frail and harmless, she was a summoner, which has been shown to be extremely difficult. What's more is that she fought on the front lines during the war between Zanarkand and Bevelle.
- Soul Jar: The Songstress Dressphere is one of hers, though she's using it willingly and appears to be able to leave whenever she wants.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: With Shuyin.
- True Blue Femininity: Lenne's dress and Yuna's Songstress outfit is blue. Notable because it's the only Dressphere with plot significance.
Garik Ronso
Garik Ronso
- Voiced by Masatoyo Tetsuno (Japanese)Voiced by Jack Fletcher (English)
A young Ronso warrior who feuds with Kimahri over what path the Ronso should take.
- Anti-Villain: Wants to avenge the death of his Ronso comrades because of Seymour's actions two years earlier, even though the Guado people had nothing to do with that massacre.
- Blood Knight: Wants to wipe out the Guado for Seymour's crimes. Even after Yuna determinately stops him, he will show rage at being unable to use his Ronso powers in battle.
- Fantastic Racism: He blindly hates the Guado for Seymour killing Maester Kelk, Biran, Yenke and other Ronso.
- Gameplay and Story Segregation: Garik can be recruited through the Creature Creator, even if the Chapter 5 events in Gagazet have yet to be played.
- Graceful Loser: After besting him in Chapter 3, if Yuna had spoken to the Ronso previously, and told Garik that the Ronso tribe shouldn't attack just for revenge, Garik will come to terms that his plan to kill the Guado was wrong. Otherwise, Garik still respectfully accepts Yuna's terms, but instead believing that he isn't strong enough to take the Guado down yet.
- Guilt-Free Extermination War: Garik and his followers want to kill every last Guado in retribution for Seymour's massacre of the Ronso two years ago. If YRP don't convince him to let go of his hatred, he will slaughter every Guado man, woman and child in the Macalania Forest, extinguishing the Guado race for good.
- Religious Bruiser: He asks the spirit of Mount Gagazet for advice before embarking on his quest for revenge. What (he thinks?) the mountain says varies depending on whether Yuna has pacified the Ronso tribe, although he decides to attack regardless. In the optimal route, he admits that he knew Gagazet's silence was a rejection of his desire, and that he was foolish to defy its will.
- Shut Up, Hannibal!: Kimahri delivers one of these to him.
- Underestimating Badassery: He underestimates both Yuna and Kimahri, mistaking their desire not to go to war as a weakness.
- Vengeance Feels Empty: If YRP don't convince him and he exterminates ths Guado, Garik will continue to feel unsatisfied despite the Guado being extinct.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Garik pretty much disappears after the Mount Gagazet story ends. He does end up as a playable character with Creature Creator in Chapter 5, but beyond that he is nowhere to be found.
- Worthy Opponent: When Yuna defeats him in battle he agrees to swear off his revenge and follow Yuna's lead.
Beclem
Beclem
A former Crusader and member of the Youth League stationed in Besaid to train the Besaid Aurochs. He is a strict, no-nonsense man and old friend of Wakka's brother Chappu, who had been looking forward to meeting Wakka after everything he had heard about him. He is outspoken about his dislike of Yevon and everything to do with them, including Summoners, to which Yuna takes offense. He also administers the "Gunner's Gauntlet" minigame.
- Broken Pedestal: After all the good Chappu spoke about Wakka, Beclem had been looking forward to meeting him for quite some time. Upon finally doing so, he is disappointed in how soft and weak he thinks the other man is, but eventually comes around.
- Consummate Professional: Despite his bad attitude and how he rubs Yuna and the others the wrong way, he is very good at his job and does everything he can to whip the Aurochs into shape.
- Defrosting Ice King: He eventually warms up to Wakka and the Aurochs, and before leaving the island he gives Yuna a sphere of Chappu to give to Wakka.
- Hidden Depths: Beclem turns out to be a very talented blitzball player himself, and shows off his skills before departing the island. Additionally, when the Gullwings play against the Aurochs in a blitzball match he is on their team.
- Nay-Theist: He is very outspoken of his hatred for Yevon, and New Yevon by extension. But when he speaks against the Summoners, Yuna thinks he's taking it too far.
- What the Hell, Hero?: When fiends start pouring out of the temple, his first reaction is to burn the whole thing down, prompting this reaction from Wakka and Yuna and the others. In return, Beclem gives one to Wakka when the latter suggests fighting all the fiends, and says that Wakka shouldn't be so reckless when he is about to become a father.
Nhadala
Nhadala
- Voiced by: Sayaka Ohara (Japanese)Voiced by: Daisy Torme (English)
The leader of the excavation crew in the Sanubia Sands on Bikanel Island, a no-nonsense Al Bhed businesswoman who directs Yuna and the others to dig in the desert. She also directs YRP to Benzo to begin the Cactuar Nation storyline, where they eventually face Angra Mainyu.
- Adventurer Archaeologist: Nhadala is a no-nonsense digger who leads the excavation efforts in the Sanubia Sands.
Tobli
Tobli
- Voiced by: Hideo Ishikawa (Japanese)Voiced by: Rob Paulsen (English)
An excitable stage producer and member of the rare Pelupelu race, a diminutive group of Spirans. A fast talker who doesn't take "no" for an answer, he gets Yuna to help him with his various shows. She later asks for his help in putting on a concert in the Thunder Plains, and then later after its success he asks her to do it again in the Moonflow.
- Drives Like Crazy: At one point when escaping from debt collectors, he hijacks their hover and crashes it into the trees to get away.
- Keet: Tobli is a highly excitable constant bundle of energy.
- Motor Mouth: Constantly chattering, even if Yuna actually wanted to refuse his requests, it'd be difficult to get a word in edgewise.
- Record Producer: Tobli essentially acts as this for the Macalania Forest musicians, and later for Yuna herself.
- Verbal Tic: He often says "Yup-yup!" at the end of his sentences.
Trema
Trema
"Now, show me. Show me the strength that you have gained!"
"Only one...who renounces everything...possesses the strength...to transcend anything. Lady Yuna, you are the paragon of pastlessness!"
Voiced by: Akio Suyama (Japanese)
Voiced by: David Rasner (English)
The founder of New Yevon who inspired many Spirans to pursue the career of a Sphere Hunter. After hoarding many spheres he collected for himself, he mysteriously vanished into the Vio Infinito. In reality, he's still lying in wait in Bevelle, at the very bottom of the Bonus Dungeon.
- Badass Normal: He is an extremely strong-willed man who resists becoming a fiend and can take on and tame the strongest of the Weapon species with his bare hands—and win. He's a pretty fast opponent, made even speedier in the Creature Creator where you can recruit him.
- Dead All Along: According to Word of God, he was an unsent to begin with, but he posed as a priest to infiltrate the heart of Yevon.
- Ice-Cream Koan: The apparent Theme Naming of his basic attacks.
- The Man Behind the Monsters: An Unsent, that is, yet he remains in human form. All the bosses in Via Infinito answer to him.
- Principles Zealot: He admits to the Gullwings that he destroyed his entire sphere collection, his rationale being that people must discard the past to face the future.
- Promoted to Playable: After defeating him in Via Infinito, he can be captured through the Creature Creator.
- Sequential Boss: Even though there's a lengthy cutscene between them, the Gullwings fight Trema right after Paragon, with the party's condition carrying over between the two battles.
- Super Boss: The most powerful enemy in vanilla X-2. (In the International versions, while still powerful, he's lost the spot of "ultimate challenge" to Major Numerus and Almighty Shinra).
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Trema remarks that without Sin, there was no unified enemy for the people of Spira, and so in turn they would turn their swords on each other. This pretty much is the Youth League as Lucil said in her speech at the end of Chapter 5.
- You ALL Look Familiar: He uses the same model as the raggedy priest who introduces you to Yunalesca in the previous game, but they're probably not the same person.
- You Have Failed Me: Once Paragon tires, he looks over his shoulder and sees Trema, who takes a giant leap and punches him across the room. Paragon explodes under the fury of the old man's Repeating Fist.
Angra Mainyu
An ancient Fiend resting deep underneath Bikanel Desert. Sealed away by the denizens of the Cactuar Nation, they sense Angra Mainyu is growing restless, so they seek out assistance from the Machine Faction, who then enlist the Gullwings into helping contain the threat.
- Arc Villain: For the Bikanel storyline.
- Cognizant Limbs: Its two arms, Tawrich (right) and Zarich (left), are treated as separate targets. If the player takes care of them first, Angra Mainyu will just cast Full-Life on them.
- Dug Too Deep: The Machine Faction accidentally broke the seal on Angra Mainyu during their desert excavations. It starts running amuck on Bikanel Island until it attacks the Cactuar Nation and then attacks the Machine Faction's camp.
- Final Boss Preview: If unlucky, the Gullwings can prematurely meet this monstrosity as early as Chapter 1. However, after enough time in battle it will just Eject the party.
- Gameplay and Story Segregation: The fact that it commands snakes to assault the Cactuar Nation makes it seem like it is related to them, like a King Mook (and Angra Mainyu's outline does loosely evoke the design of X's snake Fiends). However, it is still a Unique Enemy, and it cannot be Oversouled by them.
- Mythology Gag: The option to whittle down its HP in earlier encounters prior to the actual fight in Chapter 5. This is reminiscent of the battles of both Deathguise of Final Fantasy VI and Ultima Weapon of Final Fantasy VII.
- Optional Boss: A properly-prepared party will have no problems with facing it, however.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: A horrifying fiend that the cactuars managed to imprison centuries ago. The Machine Faction unwittingly freed it during their salvage excavations.
- Unique Enemy: In a game that lavishes in Underground Monkey (that's why the Oversoul mechanic exists), Angra Mainyu is truly one of its kind.
- Zerg Rush: It sics a horde of basilisk-type enemies at the Cactuar Nation. They are held at bay by Marnela until the Gullwings reunite all ten of her children. Those children then unite their powers in a magical ritual that destroys the basilisks and blocks Angra Mainyu from attacking the cactuars. It angrily turns on the Machine Faction instead.
