Thread:MMYP999/@comment-27109830-20170118233609/@comment-27416494-20170120031218

So as long we are on the topic, I'd like your opinion on the connections between Tidus and Luke:

Main protagonists of two highly acclaimed JRPGs on the PS2. When they were introduced, they were portrayed as naive and haughty teenagers who have spent their entire lives in the safety of their respective homelands. But of course, their lives were changed forever when an unforeseen calamity stripped them away from their homes. With nothing but the clothes on their backs and a single blade, they would then be forced to meet a strange, new, and unfamiliar world head on in an excruciating journey to return home.

At first, their relative naivete came off as an annoyance to those around them, to the point that they were completely ignorant to many aspects of the world that were supposed to be common knowledge.

They would slowly move past their immaturity as they continued to progress through their journey and witness a number of tragic events along the way. Said tragedies reached a boiling point when Luke inadvertently murdered the entire population of a sickened mining town and when Tidus learned the of tragic truth surrounding Yuna's pilgrimage. This eventually lead both of them to openly rebel against the overbearing religion that dominated their worlds and forever break the tragic cycle of destiny that was enforced by said religions.

In a loose sense of the world, both of them can also be classified as artificial humans, as Luke is revealed to be a Replica of Asch the Bloody (it's a very long story) and Tidus finds out that he was a Dream created by the Fayth.

Both of their stories came to a bittersweet end when they ultimately sacrificed themselves in order to save the world. (Though they would supposedly come back to life several years after the epilogs of their stories)