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Death

Death is a reoccuring theme in Final Fantasy X. The whole game revolves around "the cycle of life and death" -- Sin destroys and kills hundreds of people, summoners and guardians journey to battle Sin, summoner and guardians die, Sin dies, Sin comes back alive and the cycle repeats. Sin reincarnates, using the Final Aeon as a sort of life support. Because nobody can think of a better method for defeating Sin, this cycle continued on for countless years.

Tidus knows about Sin killing ever since he arrived in Spira; however, he does not fully understand the cycle of life and death until he discovered that the sweet, shy summoner he was traveling with the whole time, will have to give her life to defeat Sin. Even worse -- she knows about it, and yet, she continues with the journey.

Besides being angry over the fact that they have traveled together for so long and she has not said a single word about her inevitable death, he realized that he loves Yuna and cannot, and will not, let her die. She was the only one who trusted him and believed his stories about Zanarkand. He promised he will take her to Zanarkand, and thinking back to it, he realizes what a stupid thing he said.

To Tidus, giving up your life to defeat Sin when it's inevitable that it will come back in a couple months, is fruitless effort. He had always found it odd that even though Yuna's father, High Summoner Braska, already defeated Sin, Yuna was on a pilgrimmage to defeat Sin again. He felt frustrated and enraged. In some ways, he felt betrayed. He trusted Yuna with so many of his own thoughts, yet she didn't tell him something as big as this? He thought he fit into the party and then suddenly, he discovers a secret everybody had kept within themselves -- although as the other guardians said, they weren't keeping it a secret, there was just no good time to tell him (and true to that; imagine how odd to suddenly tell him in mid-conversation, "Oh, by the way, Yuna will die at the end of this pilgrimmage.")

Tidus clearly thought the whole system was ridiculous. Not only have they uncovered that the Yevon faith had under-the-table deals and secrets, now it turns out that "defeating Sin" didn't literally mean destroying it forever. Was life really this fragile and meaningless? To be used so easily by the higher-ups and for a cause that's not worthwhile at all (at least in Tidus' eyes)? The cycle of life and death was frustrating, and Tidus set out to find a way to break it once and for all.