Yuna
| Yuna | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Age | 17 |
| Species | Human |
| Sex | Female |
| Height | 161 cm (5'3") |
| Weight | Undefined |
| Background | |
| Series | Final Fantasy 10 |
| Combat Styles | Summoner Supreme |
| Hometown | The Isle of Besaid |
| Group | Unaffiliated |
| Occupation/Job | Summoner |
| Force: | Wandering Force |
| Theme Song | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlwSPMwAqbM |
| Quote | |
| "My father... I loved him. So I will live with my sorrow. I will live my own life! I will defeat sorrow, in his place. I will stand my ground and be strong. I don't know when it will be, but someday, I will conquer it. And I will do it without false hope." | |
| Recent Events | |
| Yuna searches for her Guardians, and for Sin... | |
The daughter of High Summoner Braska thought she'd come to the end of her journey, and thus to the end of her life. She'd chosen to walk her father's path, though it took her to stranger places than she might have dreamed: across the length and breadth of Spira to every aeon's shrine, to be sure, but also to the sites of massacres, multiple kidnappings, a false wedding, a death sentence for heresy, and the revelation of a dark conspiracy spanning a thousand years. Through it all, Yuna was determined to serve the people with all of her strength, and in a world as shattered as her faith in Yevon, her Guardians scattered and the fayth threatened by a strange new force, that's the one thing that hasn't changed. Yuna's journey continues...
Skills: Badass Adorable, Chronic Hero Syndrome, Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?, Did You Then Proceed To Punch Out Cthulhu?, Gosh Dang It to Heck!, Half-Breed, Heretic, Lady of War, Messianic Archetype, The Miko, Silk Hiding Steel, Stepford Smiler, Take a Third Option, Walk On Water, White Magicial Girl, HA HA HA HA HA HA, Hero, Summoner, Doormat
Character History:
(FROM SOME ALTERNATE FUTURE IN WHICH FFX-2 TAKES PLACE, BUT APPLICABLE:)
Nhadala: "We've got a prickly situation. Fiends are attacking the Cactuar Nation!"
Yuna: "We'll take care of it! Benzo, let's go!"
Paine: "I was wrong. She doesn't get dragged into trouble."
Rikku: "She jumps in headfirst."
Yuna is the daughter of a Yevonite priest, Braska, who made himself a virtual outcast for forbidden love, by marrying an Al Bhed. (He was no less pious, however, and convinced his wife to name his daughter after the first High Summoner, Yunalesca, thus mentally putting their daughter on the first steps to the highest calling in Spira...) They were a happy family nonetheless, until Sin took her mother's life at sea, and her father decided that the best response was to abandon his child on a quest for revenge.
Okay, that's not quite fair: his motives were of the highest calibur -- he wanted no one else to ever have to share his pain again, at least not until the end of his Calm. And Yuna came to know this and embrace it, and was as content as a little girl could be, under the circumstances.
Yuna was actually around for part of his journey, since she managed to meet Jecht and Auron. She accepted the sacrifice of her father with a certain stoic martyrdom that would become something of a habit later on, and was both honored and awed by his Guardians and their collective mission. She was especially fond of Jecht and his wild tales of Zanarkand, and perhaps naively, she believed him. How could anyone whom her father trusted ever lie to her?
But eventually that journey ended, in the glorious way it was meant to (as far as she knew). She could not help but weep when the news reached Bevelle, but there she met the surrogate enactor of her father's final wish, and Kimahri Ronso brought her to the peaceful island of Besaid.
There, she was officially in the care of the temple but functionally raised by the ronso and other villagers, especially Wakka, Lulu, and Chappu, who became virtual older siblings to her. She enjoyed something of an celebrity status, as the orphaned child of the latest High Summoner, and was spared most of the racism she might have expected as a half-Al Bhed. In fact, she remembered her mother, and tales of her mother's people, very fondly, and given the lack of downside to her heritage, resented them not at all. It opened her mind to the possibility of machina a bit more than it might have otherwise been, one of the rare cracks in what otherwise became a nigh-impenetrable indoctrination into the Yevon faith.
Given her father's choice to leave her, what emotional choice did she have? She had to believe in him and the teachings that had guided him, with all her heart. And so, naturally, as she came of age, she chose to walk his path. Doing so as a youth, before she'd had the chance to experience much of life, much less love, was seen as a tragedy by some, but none would naysay a girl with such potential to bring about another Calm, not with Sin on the rise and her so terribly eager to perform the ultimate sacrifice.
Her pilgrimage began with an extraordinarily long Trial of the Fayth, in which she communed deeply with Valefor, who ultimately became one of her closest aeons, summonable at the drop of a hat, without great ritual. This was seen as inauspicious by some, but the near-interruption by the supposedly amnesiac Tidus could have been disastrous, and certainly was scandalous. Yuna, however, was more intrigued by this know-nothing Zanarkanite than anything. He looked rather like Jecht, and his story lined up... and she believed him. She couldn't help herself. When Auron joined her party as well, she knew her journey was to be truly blessed, like her father's had been.
There was a fair bit of chaos along the way -- being kidnapped to try to throw a blitzball match, of all things; witnessing the tragic Operation Mi'hien; being kidnapped by Rikku, and in so doing discovering a cousin and dear friend, and then /again/ by the Al Bhed at Home, which saw her introduced to her uncle Cid; and fighting Sinspawn and fiends and Heartless-corrupted versions of both, many, many times, to say nothing of guado and ronso and Yevonite /machina/, of all things.
The tragedies affected her most deeply, however, the mass Sendings at Kilika and Mi'hien. They strengthened her resolve to go through with her pilgrimage, to ease the world's suffering.
Meanwhile, Tidus did his very best to weaken it. His complete ignorance could have been offensive, but instead she found it rather endearing, and certainly enlightening -- to try to view the world through a complete outsider's eyes. And certainly she discovered, for the first time in her life, a reason to consider living on... but she faced that temptation and mastered it, and it tempered her spirit, making her all the stronger.
There were of course also the affections of Seymour Guado to consider, but those she had never taken too seriously, except in the context of other things -- bringing hope to Spira, and bringing a murderous maester to justice, when his crimes were revealed to her. When he attacked them to keep his secret, she joined her Guardians in striking him down, and in so doing became a traitor to Yevon. She used his continued -- undead -- interest in her to try to get close enough to Send him, but there at the altar, discovered that there was one thing that would give her determination to serve Spira pause: the lives of her friends.
With them in the balance, she swapped to plan B, faking suicide to buy them a distraction that would help them escape, and help her to reach Bahamut. Afterwards, when everyone was arrested, found to be traitors, and sentenced to death in the Via Purifico, her faith in Yevon was shaken for the first time.
But even then, with clear evidence of an Unsent conspiracy in the highest ranks of the theocracy, her passion to serve Spira shone on. It wasn't the /peoples'/ fault that their leaders -- none of them High Summoners by definition, of course -- had fallen to self-serving corruption. Seymour dealt another blow, when he revealed that Sin was Jecht... dire implications indeed.
Witnessing the final hours of her father's summoner party, and finally getting the full truth from Yunalesca, convinced her utterly: the endless massacres of an infinitely regenerative Sin, born from the joint sacrifice of a Summoner and Guardian, while the people were pacified with a false hope of redemption that would never come... that was the true evil in her world. And so she rejected it, on every level: spiritually, intellectually, and when Yunalesca attacked, physically.
And then the world shattered.
She briefly met Hades, who taunted her, her and everyone, about the fates of Spira's many, many dead, while holding them helpless, completely helpless, in the thrall of his dark power. As a Sender, she considered their sanctity as sacred a duty as that to the living. As a strong summoner, she was humbled. And as a woman whose strength once lay in her convictions, she was stunned.
When the darkness lifted, she was separated from everyone and everything she once knew. It quickly became clear that multiple worlds had merged. What that meant for Sin, she knew not, but it was her duty to free Jecht from his endless torment, at the very least. The thought of not only her world, but all worlds, sucked into the abyssal spiral of death, could not be countenanced.
And if Sin is somehow gone, truly gone...
...what will she do with herself?
Music:
Suteki da ne - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlwSPMwAqbM
1000 Words - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA4lfktT9BQ
Yuna's Ballad - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWeD-m6orOc
