FFX-3 Chat

Yes, Tidus and Yuna actually did do the nudge nudge on the boat. But then, that's how the boat even crashed in the first place (seriously, Tidus, dude. You know that 'storm + no helmsman = bad.' I guess all those years of living on a boat in Zanarkand did nothing for him. .-.) so maybe Yuna holds a bit of a grudge against him? Other sources say that she's unsure of her feelings for him, hence the rejected kiss. (but then why did they rock the boat all night long?) If you think about the rejected kiss now, with all the info we got from chapter 1, it's actually quite depressing.

They are setting up a bonfire party to celebrate the defeat of Vegnagun I guess. The weird thing is that Lulu commands Tidus to help with the organisation. Which I guess isn't too bad, since he agrees to do it, but for Yevon's sake, lady! The guy just returned and already he's being forced to do work. That's like if Yuna returned to Besaid for a break, and then she's ordered to vanquish some fiends around the forest. At least let him get eased into his new home!

Yeah, I guess I get what Nojima is going for here: that even though Tidus has returned to his friends and finally has a home, from his view, he's still an alien. He's still the outsider that appeared out of nowhere and accidentally turned the whole island against himself for doing something fairly innocent in his eyes. Everybody has moved on and made new lives for themselves, while Tidus was stuck in purgatory for two years, and hence his death has only seemed like yesterday. However, Nojima could have gone about it in a more subtle and... kinder way. Instead, Tidus is stuck with the thought that nobody wants anything to do with him, hence his loneliness and neglect. It almost seems like... he still doesn't exist in anybody's eyes. It's Jecht and his wife all over again.

Man, I feel so bad for Tidus. I just wanna give him a hug right now. D:

We gotta remember though: Japanese people have full access to the contents of the novel. Since it's a rather short book (~250 pages. Also consider the size of the writing.) people will have finished it by now. One of the main gripes people have with the novel according to Amazon reviews is that they dislike Yuna in the novel; maybe even hate her, and they feel really bad for Tidus. So who knows? Maybe Yuna gets more cold later on in the novel. (And apparently there's something really bad that happens later on that we haven't discovered yet; so bad that it shook our former translators. Might have to ask for more info on that.) Until we find a Japanese review that goes over the full contents of the novel, we really have no leads except for the translators.

The thing is, Nojima's stories are actually quite dark in general. It certainly was odd seeing him work in X-2. From what I've heard, Nojima wanted to make the story of FFX darker, but producers and the company decided against it. After all, it was Nojima's idea to originally make Tidus the unsent instead of Auron. Since this is a novel that Nojima wrote without any restrictions from QA or Square, this could be sort of a 'revenge' thing against the company, by twisting X-2 into a creepy tale of selfishness and loneliness starring Tidus the Headless, throwing in reproduction and swimsuits for the lulz, and decapitation by bomb. Nojima solo-wrote the novel and the audio drama, and they're pretty damn dark. He must be in a bad mood these days. :S