She says, “Yes. You’re just like him.”
I am nothing like him, he thinks.

Her daemon dies first.

There is Yevon, then there is Braska, and then there is nobody.

He found himself [spoiler] and aged, at the same time.

A quiet night on the pilgrimage.

Jecht’s openness about his activities in the bedroom touches a nerve in Auron.

The shoopuf doesn’t always pay for itself.

It will be good to have a guardian who is less invested, Braska thinks. Auron disagrees.

No amount of love can convince Braska to change his course.

It will be simpler if they believe him alive.

Find out if you’re Braska, Auron, or Jecht by ticking the boxes that resonate most with you.

This is intended as an index to the recorded voice lines of Final Fantasy X. The audio files themselves are not stored here, but can be downloaded in WAV format from The Sounds Resource.

Using the Sphere Grid

On the difference between fiends and the unsent:

“The dead need guidance. Filled with grief over their own death, they refuse to face their fate. They yearn to live on, and resent those still alive. You see, they envy the living. And in time, that envy turns to anger, even hate. Should these souls remain in Spira, they become fiends that prey on the living.”

Fic writers often depict Braska as a white mage, perhaps because Yuna is as well and perhaps also because summoning seems to be the preserve of white mages in FF9. In the mobile games where Braska is playable, though, he’s more of a black mage: in FFRK, iirc, he was a black mage with fire affinities, and the same is (was? ☹️) true in DFFOO, where he has a couple of white spells (Curaga for one) but these are outnumbered by black ones. In FFBE, he appears to be some kind of support unit? It looks like most of his abilities just apply buffs, but I also never play this game and don’t really know what’s going on.

Tidus’ mother is dead, therefore she appears on the Farplane. However, Tidus’ mother is also not a real person. So dead dreams appear to be just as able to manifest themselves on the Farplane as actual people.

I watched the FFX kabuki. It was very cool! I definitely felt as if I was missing out on a lot by just watching it in our wee gaming room while also attempting to grapple with certain overly ambitious handicrafts, because it was clearly meant as an Experience: go to the theatre, spend the whole day there (the full performance lasts about six hours), have some tenuously FFX-themed food, buy some official merch (I’m still disappointed that I never managed to get hold of the Braska standee they were selling at the performances).

Back in November the young Auron costume was announced for DFFOO and this obviously made me unreasonably excited. At the time, the delay between JP and GL was consistent enough to make it possible to predict the exact day the content would be released in the latter. Young Auron was supposed to be arriving early last month; I had been hoarding materials since he was first announced so I could obtain and max his new weapons and boards, pretty standard stuff.

Some very dedicated trawling of the internet a few months ago led me to MintArisu’s collection of FFX character models, which includes various excellently obscure entries such as the shoopuf and several varieties of fiend. Today, the need to know the answers to such burning questions as “does Braska wear a wedding ring?” and “what is the exact configuration of beads hanging from Auron’s belt?” finally got the better of me, so I downloaded the Auron and Braska models and XNALara and had a look at them.

Today in “questions only I would ask”: how tall, exactly, is Braska? The FFX Ultimania apparently tells us that Auron and Jecht are 182cm and 190cm respectively. But there’s presumably no information on Braska, although fortunately in the spheres from his pilgrimage we do get a couple of shots where he stands beside one of his guardians. Based on these, we can measure Braska against Auron, or against Jecht, or indeed both. We have to make sure both characters’ feet are in shot, firstly so we can be sure they’re an equal distance from the camera and that there aren’t any proportion issues; secondly, to calculate the relative difference in heights.