Shelinda
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- "But it's not about defeating Sin! The teachings of Yevon must be upheld."
- —Shelinda on use of Machina in Operation Mi'ihen
Shelinda (シェリンダ, Sherinda?) is a non-player character in Final Fantasy X, who is a devout but naive follower of Yevon.
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Appearance and Personality
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- "Yes, the chaos in the temples is worse than I'd imagined. It's horrible! And all the priests do is blame each other. I worry what will become of Yevon. But no! I must be the rock that stands against the swirling tides, right? Lady Yuna, I must tell you, your courage has been a great inspiration to me."
- —Shelinda speaking to Yuna upon party second visit to Bevelle.
Shelinda has brown hair with green hat adorned with white cones at each ear-side ending with gold spheres and white-and-light blue strings overhanging from them. She wears a white blouse with yellow-and-red cuffs, and on it, a green outfit. Dark blue-and-orange belt-like material is worn around her waist, from under the breast down to her knees; the dark blue part is adorned with yellow ornaments. A white-and-back strip adorned with varied designs overhangs from her breasts. She also wears brown shoes.
When Yuna first encounters Shelinda, she is a young acolyte entirely devoted to Yevon and its teaching. Like the religion she professes, she is against usage of mechanical weapons saying that "teachings must be upheld". She sees herself as weak and unnoticeable person, but the words she hears from the young summoner changes her attitude and she decides to help the Crusaders despite their actions. When Yevon begins to tear itself apart, Shelinda sees her as the "rock that stands against the swirling tides" and decides to help prevent Yevon from falling.
After Yevon's disbandment, and its refounding as New Yevon, she decided to help the organization by keeping her duties to the temples, but being ordered all around, she quit. She then decided to become a journalist of which she was quite happy as it gave her freedom, which Yevon took from her.
She can be seen as parallel of Yuna as in the beginning she is devoted to Yevon, but as time passes, she notices that it only limited her.
StoryEdit
Final Fantasy XEdit
When the party first meets Shelinda on the Mi'ihen Highroad, she is trying to convince the Crusaders to stop their operation to defeat Sin, but nobody listens to her. Yuna encourages her to continue what she is doing, for the benefit of the people of Yevon. The party can further interact with her in Rin's Travel Agency and on the New High Road. Later, Shelinda appears on the Mushroom Rock Road feeling crestfallen for not stopping the operation, but offers to heal the party and use what little White Magic skills she has to help the troops. After the devastating Operation Mi'ihen, she is seen twice aiding soldiers and is relieved the party is safe, but basically writes off the Crusaders' deaths, claiming it's what they get for disobeying Yevon.
Shelinda later appears in Guadosalam, where she informs the party that Maester Seymour has left for the Macalania Temple. Just after Guadosalam on the Thunder Plains, she says she has heard rumors that Yuna and Seymour are to be married, and depending on the player's actions, this rumor could be confirmed or reported as false. Shelinda makes it to the Macalania Temple, and can respond to the player's earlier choices of whether the rumors of the supposed betrothal, but appears to have left by the time the party confronts Seymour.
After the party defeats Yunalesca, and Sin crashes down on Bevelle, Yevon is in turmoil. Shelinda has seemingly come from nowhere to be promoted to captain of the guard. The party demands to see Grand Master Mika. After the meeting, where the unsent Mika leaves Spira in its time of need, she seems unaware they have actually met him, and they tell her he never showed up. They also tell her to spread the word to people to sing the Hymn of the Fayth, and she is seen in the ending credits.
Final Fantasy X-2Edit
Added by KeltainentoukokuuAfter the defeat of Sin and the coming of the Eternal Calm, Shelinda has become a reporter for a local Sphere broadcast station in Luca. She interviews Yuna and the Gullwings while announcing the upcoming Sphere Break tournament.
Strangely, she has not changed her outfit since she decided to leave Yevon. She explains that she originally tried to help the temples once the Eternal Calm came, but everyone kept ordering her around and she got bored of it. She came to Luca, where she ended up in another job she was "asked to do". In Chapter 4, she can be seen on the CommSphere in Luca interviewing various citizens.
