Character meme: Yuna, Final Fantasy X/X-2
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dagas_isaFor pseudo_tsuga who asked for Yuna.
Yuna is a humanitarian (light side)
If you can't tell by the fact that I had to split this, I find Yuna's humanitarian outlook to be the key to her character. Put simply, Yuna's passion is helping people on the grand scale. It's why she was so resolved as a summoner, and why Yuna's journey in FFX-2 started out as hunting spheres for her own ends and ended with her basically having done good deeds for everyone. She might grumble, but deep down she loves it. After X-2, I give her 3 years tops living peacefully on Besaid before she gets antsy and needs to figure out yet another way of helping Spira be happy.
Yuna is a humanitarian (dark side)
The less-positive side to this is that Yuna's focus with making others happy is so on the big picture, that she very easily misses the things that are closer to her. It's not a stretch to say that the individual happiness of her friends and family are overall a lower priority than the total level of Spira happiness. It's not that she doesn't love Lulu and Wakka (who didn't want Yuna to journey), it's that a permanent end to Sin is more important. And obviously, this applies to herself. Yuna's been willing to go through a fake marriage and death if that's what the people of Spira really want. I think towards the end of X-2, she starts getting over the self-sacrificial aspect of her character, but the lack of self-care is still going to be there, just on a smaller scale.
Yuna is still tied very much to her summoning, even after the Calm
Well, first she has the legacy of being Braska's daughter before she even becomes a summoner. Then she becomes a summoner, with all that it entails, also knowing that about her father's legacy. Then she's the one who learns the truth of summoning, and by eliminating that tradition for good, finally achieves what everyone thought the original purpose of the Aeon's were. And even after the calm, Aeons or no, she will always be High Summoner Yuna, no matter what else she accomplishes.
Yuna is Spira's most influential person, full-stop, and her reaction has been to remain as neutral as possible.
She was already well-known (Braska's daughter and a summoner) before the end of X, and the ending of X basically puts her not just at a celebrity level but a historical figure level. Her name will be part of every Spiran's history education. People will come from all over Spira to see her, even if she's in the Thunder Plains. Putting her favor with any one faction would raise its influence considerably, and even if she's not the most important person to all people in all factions, she's influential across all groups. If she wanted to become the ruler of Spira, she could easily.
Yuna has basically dedicated herself to political neutrality as far as she's able to. Her interest is in making life better for everyone in Spira, and politics would obscure that point. We don't see any ambition for power whatsoever, and probably won't unless there's some indication that large groups of people are actively pushing for her to vie for leadership.
Since I really cant think of another point on adult Yuna, thoughts on writing Little Yuna.
I've actually written more of her than I have of adult Yuna I think. So just a few brief things I keep in mind for her. First, while she is well-behaved and future savior of the world, seven-year-old Yuna is often bratty around the people she's close to, especially Kimahri (shoopuf incident). Second, She also had quite the imagination, latching on to the stories of Zanarkand that Jecht had time to tell before they left on the pilgrimage. Third, it definitely surfaced later rather than at the moment, but I'm sure Spira's reaction to Braska's Calm (and therefore death) influenced Yuna's later path in life.
Original meme is here.
pseudo_tsuga who asked for Yuna.Yuna is a humanitarian (light side)
If you can't tell by the fact that I had to split this, I find Yuna's humanitarian outlook to be the key to her character. Put simply, Yuna's passion is helping people on the grand scale. It's why she was so resolved as a summoner, and why Yuna's journey in FFX-2 started out as hunting spheres for her own ends and ended with her basically having done good deeds for everyone. She might grumble, but deep down she loves it. After X-2, I give her 3 years tops living peacefully on Besaid before she gets antsy and needs to figure out yet another way of helping Spira be happy.
Yuna is a humanitarian (dark side)
The less-positive side to this is that Yuna's focus with making others happy is so on the big picture, that she very easily misses the things that are closer to her. It's not a stretch to say that the individual happiness of her friends and family are overall a lower priority than the total level of Spira happiness. It's not that she doesn't love Lulu and Wakka (who didn't want Yuna to journey), it's that a permanent end to Sin is more important. And obviously, this applies to herself. Yuna's been willing to go through a fake marriage and death if that's what the people of Spira really want. I think towards the end of X-2, she starts getting over the self-sacrificial aspect of her character, but the lack of self-care is still going to be there, just on a smaller scale.
Yuna is still tied very much to her summoning, even after the Calm
Well, first she has the legacy of being Braska's daughter before she even becomes a summoner. Then she becomes a summoner, with all that it entails, also knowing that about her father's legacy. Then she's the one who learns the truth of summoning, and by eliminating that tradition for good, finally achieves what everyone thought the original purpose of the Aeon's were. And even after the calm, Aeons or no, she will always be High Summoner Yuna, no matter what else she accomplishes.
Yuna is Spira's most influential person, full-stop, and her reaction has been to remain as neutral as possible.
She was already well-known (Braska's daughter and a summoner) before the end of X, and the ending of X basically puts her not just at a celebrity level but a historical figure level. Her name will be part of every Spiran's history education. People will come from all over Spira to see her, even if she's in the Thunder Plains. Putting her favor with any one faction would raise its influence considerably, and even if she's not the most important person to all people in all factions, she's influential across all groups. If she wanted to become the ruler of Spira, she could easily.
Yuna has basically dedicated herself to political neutrality as far as she's able to. Her interest is in making life better for everyone in Spira, and politics would obscure that point. We don't see any ambition for power whatsoever, and probably won't unless there's some indication that large groups of people are actively pushing for her to vie for leadership.
Since I really cant think of another point on adult Yuna, thoughts on writing Little Yuna.
I've actually written more of her than I have of adult Yuna I think. So just a few brief things I keep in mind for her. First, while she is well-behaved and future savior of the world, seven-year-old Yuna is often bratty around the people she's close to, especially Kimahri (shoopuf incident). Second, She also had quite the imagination, latching on to the stories of Zanarkand that Jecht had time to tell before they left on the pilgrimage. Third, it definitely surfaced later rather than at the moment, but I'm sure Spira's reaction to Braska's Calm (and therefore death) influenced Yuna's later path in life.
Original meme is here.
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