Hey look at me, a second post in the same week? Who would have thought? Alright, back to our regularly scheduled programming. Back on the 19th, Final Fantasy X had its twentieth anniversary. 2OTH ANNIVERSARY! I FEEL ANCIENT. I feel like most people my age or a little older remember the franchise, but if you don't it was a role playing video game set in the fictional world of Spira where you had to battle Sin and all his various spawn with a rag tag cast of characters. It was visually stunning (especially the cut scenes which for the time were AMAZING), the story line was good (I'm currently watching an ELEVEN HOUR YouTube video just for the story LOL), and you know...there's a love story. Love stories are my thing. I rented it a bunch when it was initially released, my cousin and I were obsessed with the sequel and wanted to be Rikku and Yuna. I've beaten the game twice (Once in college and once two or three years ago). It is the first video game that made me cry emotional tears (the other being Zelda: Twilight Princess). So now that I've giving you that background and shouted things in capital letters, your probably dying to know what this has to do with writing. I realized the other day (while listening to FFX Lo Fi because I LOVE Lo Fi, it's like my favorite of genre at the moment. Does that make me a hipster?) that this game has had a huge influence on me. I haven't talked about my Apocalypse Heart Saga lately or even really worked on it because I was trying to get Squad Treble finished and now Eminence has risen from the dead, but I see so many similarities between Yuna and Riya's journey. Yuna's father was High Summoner so when she too becomes a summoner, there are many expectations on her. The future of Spira rests on her shoulders, they compare her to lady Yunalesca, the first summoner to defeat sin and she has these moments especially as she falls in love with Tidus (sorry for the spoilers, but it has been 20 years...) where she's not sure if she can do it, but in the end she realizes her destiny. It's not a perfect parallel, but Riya was discovered at age three to be the most psychic and telekinetically sensitive being on her planet. Not since the Goddess herself (still in the planning stages with this backstory but she's like a protector of Sahana) has someone been so gifted. Riya has been groomed her whole life to be an Oracle and spearhead of her people. She is expected to marry another "spiritually" gifted member of their society (Who is thirteen years older than her...blech) and when she falls in love with her childhood friend and the expectations and rules prevent her from being with him, she's not sure if she wants the title any longer. Cole and Tidus are more of a stretch, but both had to watch the loves of their life make sacrifices and potentially be with terrible people for the better of "the people". Both also did their best to stand beside their girl when they needed them. Even in Eminence, Sage's drive to search for Jonty gives me major Yuna in X-2 vibes.
So to wrap this up, I'm so glad that Final Fantasy X exists. Thanks for being a muse of sorts for this sci-fi writer girl. <3 Kay
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