"The people and the friends that we have lost, and the dreams that have faded... never forget them."
—Yuna's speech after defeating Sin
Yuna is the female protagonist of Final Fantasy X and the main protagonist of Final Fantasy X-2. She is the daughter of High SummonerBraska and an unnamed Al Bhed woman, who died when Sin attacked her ship at sea. Yuna's mother was the sister of the Al Bhed leader Cid, who is Yuna's uncle and the father of Rikku and Brother, Yuna's cousins.
In Final Fantasy X, Yuna becomes a summoner like her father before her, and embarks on her pilgrimage to expel Sin; meeting Tidus, who teaches her there is more to life than sacrifice. In Final Fantasy X-2, Yuna embarks on a personal quest to uncover the mystery behind a movie sphere containing the image of a man resembling her lost love.
Yuna wears an ensemble similar to, but widely varied from, those worn by Yevonites: a purple pleated, flower-patterned dress; black boots; a black spaghetti-string camisole under a white sash that wraps around her neck and over her chest; and a yellow patterned Obi with a Chōchō musubi knot and a decorative Obidome to clinch the cords. Two separate, kimono-like sleeves complete the outfit.
Yuna has shoulder-length brunette hair. Through both Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2, she wears a small, blue-beaded earring on her right ear, hidden by a lock of her hair, woven into blue beads with gold rings around the larger, middle bead. She wears a silver pendant around her neck. Yuna has heterochromia; her left eye is blue, while the right is green to represent her half-Al Bhed heritage, though without the characteristic spiral.
Yuna is a kind-hearted, loyal, honest, and polite humanitarian who strives to see the best in others and has a strong conviction to complete whatever task she feels is her duty. She is naive, always believing the best of people, and often places the needs of others above her own.
Like most summoners, Yuna is a follower of Yevon's teachings. Described by Auron as "serious to a fault", she hides her feelings of fear and sadness while encouraging others to express themselves in her place. She is willing to carry others' burdens and to sacrifice her life to destroy Sin and give up chances for her own happiness if it means helping others.
Her contact with Tidus makes her question Yevon's teachings, and she becomes more direct and open. When she learns of the hypocrisy in Yevon's upper levels, her faith is shaken, but she resolves to continue her pilgrimage despite Tidus and Rikku's protests.
Two years after the end of Final Fantasy X, Yuna has undergone a transformation with a new revealing dress style and more adventurous personality. Yuna's hair is cropped shorter, resembling Tidus's hairstyle, with a red braid that stretches down to her ankles. Freed from her responsibilities as a summoner, Yuna has a new lease on life and a chance to live on the wild side. Though still unflinchingly polite, soft-spoken, and driven, she is now athletic, more worldly-wise, outspoken, playful, and has learned to think and desire for herself.
During her time with the Gullwings, Rikku serves as a role model for her, as Yuna displays some of Rikku's eccentric behavior and uses some of Rikku's expressions, such as "Disasteriffic" and "Oh, poopie!" Yuna has been getting in touch with her half-Al Bhed heritage, learning the Al Bhed language and occasionally using it. Though her friends tease her for being a pushover as she cannot refuse a call for help, she can be stern and even intimidating if angered. Yuna has developed a distaste of sacrifice in the name of victory, a trait Tidus instilled in her, along with a desire to no longer let herself be used by anyone. A number of changes in her personality have her bearing a resemblance to Tidus, in both her looks, attitude, and combat style in certain dresspheres.
Yuna's attire changes for each of the dresspheres, with details that distinguish her from Rikku and Paine. Yuna's default appearance is the Gunner dressphere, an outfit given to her by Rikku in Eternal Calm. She dons a modified halter-neck top with the symbol of the Zanarkand Abes across the chest and a pink hood. She wears yellow armbands over her biceps, a black bracelet on her left wrist, and denim boyshorts. She carries a pouch on her left hip over an ankle-length blue and white sash and wears laced knee-high boots. Wearing the Gunner dressphere in combat, she wields her signature Tiny Bee pistols.
In the other dresspheres, Yuna wields her original summoning staves, the Nirvana, Tidus's Brotherhood and Caladbolg swords, a blue variant of Rikku's dagger blades, and Auron's Blurry Moon katana. Her deck theme for the Lady Luck dressphere is spades and her Mascot dressphere is a moogle. Her special dressphere is Floral Fallal whose appearance is designed after the hibiscus flower; 'Yuna' is the Japanese name of the Sea Hibiscus, the flower on her obi and her skirts.
In a bonus cutscene where the girls spend some time in a hot spring in Mt. Gagazet, Yuna wears a pink and cream halter bikini swimsuit.
Yuna was born in Bevelle to a Yevonite father, Braska, and an unnamed Al Bhed mother. When Yuna was four, her mother was traveling on a ship to the Al Bhed Home to repair her relationship with Cid when she perished during an attack from Sin, and Braska resolved to become a summoner to defeat the monster. Leaving behind a seven-year-old Yuna in Bevelle, Braska and his two guardians, Auron and Jecht, travel to Zanarkand, obtain the Final Aeon from Yunalesca, and defeat Sin with the Final Summoning, but Braska and Jecht sacrifice their lives in doing so.
Earlier in their travels, Braska requested Auron to bring Yuna to Besaid Island following Sin's defeat, to ensure she'd live a peaceful life. But Auron, who was mortally wounded by Yunalesca, only made it as far as to the outskirts of Bevelle before passing on this request to Kimahri Ronso. When Yuna was on the bridge in Bevelle, she heard her father had defeated Sin. She met Kimahri, who took Yuna to Besaid, placed her in the care of the temple, and stayed with her at her request. In Besaid, Yuna grew up with Wakka, Lulu, and Wakka's brother Chappu.
Ten years later, Braska's Calm has ended and a seventeen-year-old Yuna decides to follow in his footsteps and become a summoner, despite her friends' objections. After heading into Besaid Temple's Cloister of Trials with Lulu and Kimahri, the villagers worry when Yuna does not return after almost a day of prayer to the fayth. When Wakka and a young man named Tidus arrive to check on her, Yuna emerges as a full-fledged summoner. After summoning her first aeon, Valefor, the villagers celebrate Yuna's achievement and she introduces herself to Tidus. The next morning, Yuna, Wakka, Lulu, Kimahri, and Tidus depart Besaid on a ship for Kilika.
En route, Yuna converses with Tidus and figures through his mention of Jecht being his father that he must have come from Zanarkand as he claims. Their boat is attacked by Sin but the group stops it from sinking them. Sin destroys most of Kilika Village, killing many of its residents, and Yuna performs her first sending to send the souls of the deceased to the Farplane. On the way to Kilika Temple, Yuna asks Tidus to become her guardian.
Despite Wakka's objections, Yuna wishes for Tidus to come along, whether or not he is a guardian. After obtaining Kilika's aeon, Ifrit, and meeting a rival summoner, Dona, the group travels to Luca for the Besaid Aurochs' blitzball tournament. When the party splits Yuna, Tidus, and Kimahri search the city after hearing rumors of Auron being around. When Yuna worries about being separated, Tidus suggests on using a whistle signal to ensure they will find each other.
Yuna is kidnapped by the Al Bhed Psyches in hopes of forcing the Aurochs to lose their blitzball game. She is saved by Tidus, Lulu, and Kimahri before the Aurochs are about to play against the Luca Goers. Hearing that Tidus was saved by an Al Bhed ship when he arrived in Spira, Yuna asks if Cid was on the ship, but Tidus answers no. Yuna reveals to him her half-Al Bhed heritage, and how her mother told her to seek out Cid if she ever needed help.
Fiends attack the blitzball stadium and Auron appears to help dispatch them. The newest Maester of Yevon, Seymour Guado, summons his aeon, Anima, to destroy the fiends and awe the spectators with its power. Auron and Tidus join Yuna's party as guardians. Yuna shows Tidus she has learned how to whistle as he had taught her. She admits she laughs and smiles to hide her sadness and tries to help him do it too.
The party arrives at the Djose shore to witness the untimely Operation Mi'ihen, which ends in disaster. Yuna is assisted by Seymour and Auron to defeat Sinspawn Gui, and Seymour asks if he could be Yuna's "pillar of strength". When the party arrives at Djose Temple, they meet another fellow summoner, Isaaru, and after receiving the aeon Ixion, they set off for the Moonflow. While crossing the banks via shoopuf, Yuna is again kidnapped by the Al Bhed and is put into the Extractor, but is saved by Tidus and Wakka.
After arriving at the other side of the river, Tidus learns it was Rikku, Yuna's cousin, who piloted the Extractor. After talking with Rikku in private, Yuna decides to make Rikku her final guardian, and the assembled party heads for Guadosalam. Welcomed by Seymour, he shows Yuna and her guardians a sphere with images of Zanarkand, Yunalesca, and her husband, Zaon. Seymour proposes to Yuna, for the union would bring hope to Spira. To help make her decision, Yuna visits the spirits of her parents in the Farplane, but when they leave, the spirit of Seymour's deceased father, Jyscal Guado, drops a sphere as Yuna sends him. The party heads through the Thunder Plains towards Macalania to find Seymour again.
Yuna watches Jyscal's sphere as Tidus stumbles into her room.
When they rest at the travel agency, Yuna views Jyscal's sphere where he confesses Seymour murdered him - she does not reveal its contents to anyone. Almost out of the Thunder Plains, Yuna announces she has decided to marry but still continue her pilgrimage. Since Yuna is escorted to Macalania Temple ahead of her guardians, she has already received Macalania's aeon, Shiva, when her guardians have learned the truth about Seymour.
Yuna decides to fight Seymour alongside her guardians, and the party is victorious and Seymour is killed. Before Yuna can send him, the Guado retaliate and force the party to escape the temple and the lake, but they end up trapped underneath the ice. They soon realize the ground they're standing upon is actually Sin, before it teleports and separates the party. While the guardians awaken and reunite in the Bikanel Desert, Yuna is nowhere to be found, for she was found by the Al Bhed and taken to Home, where she found Dona and Isaaru, before the Guado attacked and took her to Bevelle to marry a now-unsent Seymour.
Plummeting to the earth below, Yuna summons Valefor just in time to break her fall.
With help from the Al Bhed, Tidus and the other guardians crash the wedding on Cid's airship, but are ambushed once they reach the great staircase. Seymour deduces Yuna's plan to play at marriage in order to send him, and Grand Maester Yo Mika threatens her guardians with death. Yuna complies and the guardians are forced to watch the ceremony resume. When Seymour orders her guardians to be killed, Yuna threatens to commit suicide. She tells her friends to "believe" and lets herself fall off the temple rooftop; midfall, she summons Valefor, who flies her away to Bevelle's temple.
With Rikku's help, the guardians escape to the Bevelle Temple, where Kimahri follows Tidus's example in putting Yuna's safety before tradition to break into the Chamber of the Fayth. Yuna receives Bahamut, but the party is arrested once Tidus carries her out of the chamber. Yuna is put on trial by the Maesters of Yevon for treason, and she and her guardians are branded traitors of Yevon and imprisoned in the Via Purifico. Yuna, Lulu, Kimahri, and Auron escape the underground dungeon after Yuna bests Isaaru in an aeon duel. When the party reunites on the Highbridge, they defeat Seymour's new form and escape back to Macalania Woods.
Her faith in Yevon shaken, Yuna goes off to the spring to be alone with Kimahri keeping watch. Tidus goes after her and having found out the truth behind the Final Summoning, he apologizes for his eagerness to defeat Sin and filling her with hopes that they would be able to see his Zanarkand, believing he had only depressed her.
Yuna assures him he had made her happy. Tidus attempts to convince her to quit the pilgrimage and stay with him, even toying with the idea of taking the whole group to his Zanarkand. While Yuna considers it at first, her sense of duty to the rest of Spira is too great. Yuna lets down her emotional walls and breaks down in tears. Tidus comforts her and they share a passionate kiss in the spring. She resolves to go on, with Tidus assuring he will always remain by her side.
Despite being branded traitors of Yevon, the party intends to continue onward to Zanarkand. At Mt. Gagazet, despite the Ronso forbidding their progress, Yuna explains her sincere resolve to save Spira. Kelk Ronso, who had brought the charges against Yuna and her guardians in the Bevelle court, became disenchanted with Yevon after the trial's revelations, and left his post; Yuna's appeal moves him to let them pass. A sphere left by Braska is found on the slopes, in which he lets Yuna know whatever path she chose for her life, whether it be to duty or to herself, he would be proud. They are attacked by Seymour Flux, whom they defeat, but Yuna reels from a revelation concerning her goal: Sin is Jecht.
Ascending Gagazet, the party finds a mass number of fayth performing a summoning and Bahamut's fayth reveals to Tidus 'his Zanarkand' is a dream of the fayth and he is a dream as well, but he keeps this a secret from the others. At the summit of Gagazet, with the ruins of Zanarkand in view, Rikku despairs about Yuna's impending fate. Yuna thanks Rikku for all she has done and comforts her. Unbeknown to Yuna, she drops a sphere and Tidus views it. Having been recorded at the Mi'ihen Highroad, it contains Yuna's reflections and farewells for her guardians at the time; subtly revealing she had already fallen in love with Tidus at that point. The party arrives at Zanarkand and are met by Yunalesca, the summoner who would transform one of Yuna's guardians into the Final Aeon and defeat Sin.
Yuna decides the Final Summoning is a "false tradition" to continue Spira's cycle of death. Resolving to save Spira without the falsity of Yevon's teachings, the party fells Yunalesca for good, ending the tradition of Final Summoning. After being picked up by Cid's airship, the party heads back to Bevelle where they learn of Sin's cyclical existence from Maester Mika. Tidus and Yuna are coaxed by Bahamut's fayth the means to approach Sin is the "Hymn of the Fayth", and the key to truly defeating Sin is its core power, Yu Yevon.
Yuna, Lulu, and Kimahri before the final battle against Braska's Final Aeon.
With the airship, the party launches a head-on attack on Sin that allows them to travel inside it. The party encounters and defeats Seymour for good in his final form, enabling Yuna to finally send him. At Dream's End, they find Jecht, who transforms into Braska's Final Aeon. They defeat him and all of Yuna's aeons when they become possessed by Yu Yevon, and finally Yu Yevon itself.
Spira's cycle of conflict is put to an end, but for Yuna, it is a bittersweet victory, for the defeat of Sin signals the disappearance of those from Dream Zanarkand - including Tidus. Refusing to accept this, Yuna attempts to stop Tidus from leaving, but passes right through him. Yuna proclaims her love for Tidus, and watches him jumps off the airship into the Farplane.
Back at Luca, Yuna, now High Summoner of the Eternal Calm, whistles by the ocean in the hopes Tidus will answer, until Lulu sends for her. In the stadium, Yuna addresses the people of the need to stay strong, welcome Spira's long-awaited peace, and rebuild their home. She concludes that the people lost are to never be forgotten.
Two years after defeating Sin, Yuna has led a quiet life back in Besaid, frequently visited by Rikku along with people from all over Spira. She is often visited by members of the Youth League and New Yevon, two factions that have risen to support the people of Spira after Yevon's collapse, lead by Nooj and Baralai respectively.
The members of both groups wish to persuade Yuna to join their causes. She is also being pressured by people who wish for her to marry and settle down. When Wakka tells her about an arrangement being made between her and the son of New Yevon's chairman, Yuna promptly turns it down, as New Yevon would only use her.
One day, Rikku arrives and presents a sphere discovered by Kimahri. The footage shows a man resembling Tidus caged in prison demanding to "see the summoner". This intrigues Yuna and motivates her to believe Tidus might still be alive. Despite Wakka's objections, she joins Rikku as a sphere hunter in the hopes of learning more about the sphere. Yuna leaves Besaid with Rikku and joins the Gullwings, an Al Bhed sphere hunting group led by Brother and his two friends, Buddy and Shinra. The group includes Paine, a mysterious young woman who mostly keeps to herself, and joined the Gullwings shortly before Yuna did.
Yuna, Rikku, and Paine, use their airship base, the Celsius, to travel throughout Spira in search of treasure spheres, gaining a rivalry with the Leblanc Syndicate in the heat of competition - to the extent that its leader, Leblanc, steals Yuna's Garment Grid to perform a concert in her likeness to tarnish her reputation. Rikku and Paine crash the concert in Luca while Yuna dons a moogle costume to disguise herself and keeps a low profile.
Before the concert, Yuna hands out balloons and hastily hides nearby when Rikku and Paine chase Leblanc. When Leblanc and her two henchmen, Logos and Ormi, confront Rikku and Paine, Yuna joins the battle and takes back her Garment Grid. Afterward, Yuna finds herself dancing uncontrollably, and overcome by someone else's excitement. The Gullwings explore the recently discovered floating ruins at the peak of Mt. Gagazet and run into Leblanc, Logos, and Ormi again, and race them to the top of the ruins. Leblanc and her goons get stuck and the girls reach the structure at the top first. They confront Boris and claim the treasure sphere. Back on the Celsius, it is revealed the sphere contains images of Zanarkand and an unseen man's voice can be heard.
News spreads about an "awesome sphere" found in Kilika, which draws the attention of both the Youth League and New Yevon. Yuna believes if the two sides cannot decide who should have the sphere, the Gullwings should take it. They seize the sphere in which the footage shows the mysterious man standing before a large weapon, mentioning someone named Lenne. Yuna doubts the man in the sphere is Tidus and is just someone who looks like him, wondering who Lenne is. Having seen the sphere, Yuna decides to give it back.
During her mini-concert on the deck of the Celsius that night, Yuna gets angry from the awesome sphere's footage and shouts, "Who the heck is Lenne!", and storms off to bed. The next morning, Yuna has a dream where she and Tidus are gunned down by Bevelle's soldiers, though Rikku tells Yuna to "blame it on her new jammies", since she was sleeping while wearing the Songstress dressphere.
The awesome sphere is returned to either the Youth League or New Yevon, and it is learned from Nooj or Baralai the colossal weapon called Vegnagun resides underneath Bevelle. The Gullwings learn that Leblanc, Logos, and Ormi broke into the airship and stole their broken sphere from the Zanarkand Ruins. Yuna suggests that she, Rikku, and Paine steal uniforms from members of Leblanc's gang to sneak into Chateau Leblanc in Guadosalam. In Leblanc's headquarters, the girls find a new sphere that depicts two men counting the fallen candidates of a "Crimson Squad" and realize four are missing, though Paine dismisses it as a dud. Their cover is blown when Logos and Ormi find them. YRP find out Leblanc already had the other half of their broken sphere, and stole their half to make it whole.
After fighting Leblanc and watching the now restored sphere, it is learned Vegnagun hides underneath Bevelle. Forming a truce with their rivals, the sphere hunters travel to Bevelle and enter the underground passage formed after the fayth's disappearance. They find themselves in the Bevelle Underground, a secret complex filled with machina. When YRP reach Vegnagun's lair, they are faced with an antagonistic Bahamut. Distraught, Yuna places herself between it and her friends and begs it to stop, but the girls are forced to fight it. The sphere hunters find Vegnagun is gone and a large hole is left in its place.
Fiends begin pouring out of the temples, and Spirans are worried over the disappearances of Nooj, Baralai, and later Gippal. Following the battles with aeons in their respective temples, deep holes are left behind in the Chambers of the Fayth, where Shinra says the fiends are coming from. After defeating Ixion in Djose Temple, its surprise death blow attack sends Yuna falling into the chamber's hole and she lands in the Farplane. Yuna is suddenly wearing the Songstress dressphere and it emits pyreflies. She has an encounter with the mysterious man from the spheres and asks him if he is Tidus, but he reveals himself to be an unsent named Shuyin. Calling her Lenne, Shuyin tells Yuna about how he plans to use Vegnagun and destroy Spira to avenge Lenne's death. As Shuyin embraces Yuna, she feels emotions that aren't hers and wonders if they belong to Lenne.
Shuyin's spirit has possessed Baralai to travel to the heart of the Farplane, and Nooj and Gippal have been following their friend to save him. Nooj and Gippal give Yuna spheres for Paine, and follow Baralai farther into the Farplane.
Yuna, now frustrated with only getting more questions than answers, tries to escape the Farplane. As Yuna is ready to give up hope, she hears a familiar whistle, and sees an image of Tidus. She follows him and emerges in the Bevelle Underground. Back on the Celsius, Yuna tells everyone what happened and learns that Lenne wore the Songstress dressphere over a thousand years ago. Throughout Spira, tension rises between the Youth League and New Yevon, so Yuna performs a concert on the Thunder Plains as a means to unite everyone. During the concert, Lenne's spirit appears, and it is revealed Shuyin and Lenne were gunned down by Bevelle soldiers after she stopped him from activating Vegnagun.
Lenne was a famous songstress and summoner from Zanarkand, who was called to the front lines during the Machina War and Shuyin tried to use Vegnagun to save her. YRP are visited by Leblanc, who has found another Crimson Sphere. Leblanc connects to the CommSphere that was thrown into the hole in Djose Temple after Yuna fell, which shows Gippal and Nooj discussing the latter's plan to stop Vegnagun. Now knowing the holes in the temples lead to the Farplane, Yuna plans to try talking to Shuyin and tell him how Lenne felt.
YRP travel down in search of Shuyin and Vegnagun and Bahamut's fayth explains to Yuna the antagonistic aeons were possessed by Shuyin. When Yuna learns of Nooj's plan to draw Shuyin back to himself and then take his own life, she objects, her plan being to convince Shuyin to yield for Lenne's sake. After destroying Vegnagun and besting Shuyin, Lenne's spirit steps out of Yuna's dressphere to console Shuyin. Lenne puts Shuyin's hatred to rest and they return to the Farplane together.
Should the player achieve certain game criteria, Bahamut's fayth will ask Yuna if she wants to be with Tidus again. If she accepts, Tidus will surface in Besaid and a joyous reunion is celebrated. If the player gets a 100% completion rate, a post-credits scene will show Yuna and Tidus in the Zanarkand Ruins. He tells her about his theory of the fayth gathering his thoughts and putting them back together.
Upon hearing Tidus may still be a dream of the fayth, Yuna worriedly asks him if he will disappear again but Tidus says they should just cherish each other. Yuna embraces Tidus and asks if the fayth told him that, but Tidus jokes about making it up himself. Yuna playfully pushes Tidus into the water and sees he did not disappear. She stands in the same place Tidus did two years ago when he told his story to the others, bringing the story full circle to its conclusion.
"Those times when he was gone, my life was so mixed up and lonely. But it all changed in that moment when we came flying back to the island...Now, I'm so preoccupied with him, I wouldn't leave for the world! We've been so happy and peaceful, I feel as though I want time to stand still for us."
—Yuna
In the three months after defeating Shuyin, the Gullwings have gone their separate ways: Yuna and Tidus are happily living together in Besaid, Rikku continues working mission after mission, and Paine is wandering Spira by herself. Each receives a letter that calls the trio back together at Luca to explore the newly discovered Yadonoki Tower. As the trio explores the ruins, they converse with each other over what they had been doing since they had separated and why they had not stayed in contact.
Rikku tells Yuna and Paine how she continued to go on missions, and the status of their other friends. Paine speaks of how Nooj dissolved the Youth League, how Baralai is having trouble getting New Yevon to follow suit, and how Gippal is trying to help them. Paine says it was long ago and they are all busy doing their own things, so the four of them becoming a team again will not be possible. She says there is something she needs to say to them but won't reveal what. Yuna and Rikku don't pry about it as they understand Paine will tell them when she's ready.
Admiring the sunset, Yuna talks about her peaceful life with Tidus in Besaid. She tells Rikku and Paine about how her life without him was uneventful and complicated, and how it hurts to be away from him now that he is back. When Rikku says Yuna will get bored with her hassle-free life and return to the Gullwings, Yuna says it is not going to happen, and though she has found what she was searching for, she still has not done everything yet.
Then the girls discuss why they had not stayed in contact. The conversations escalate as Rikku cannot say what she wants to do with her life and expresses her jealousy towards Yuna, who had reached her goal in life and settled down, something Rikku believes she is unable to do herself. Yuna tells Rikku she was the one who decided to travel everywhere and be busy all the time. Rikku accuses Yuna of spending her life in a "lazy blur" not going anywhere or doing much and shutting her out now that she has Tidus back. The bickering between the cousins causes Paine to raise her voice against them.
Eventually, Paine reveals she had sent the letters, citing it was her wish to not lose the friendship they shared three months ago and to show them that even though they have gone their separate ways, they shall always be together; having learned from both her previous friendship with Nooj, Gippal, and Baralai, and from her lonely travels. When Rikku talks about holding on to her memory of that day in Zanarkand two years ago, Yuna says she chose to continue on her pilgrimage because it was her sacred duty as a summoner. Yuna says even though she did not know everything about what the pilgrimage involved, she was glad to have her friends with her along with their support. Realizing they all felt lonely and wanted to come back together after splitting up, the girls agree to stay in contact.
The trio travels to the top of the tower where they find a broken machina and not much else. Paine tells Rikku and Yuna to look around but Rikku says that aside from the machina, she only sees them. Due to their conversations, they realize the machina is a bit like their group: broken and separated. As they vow to be more than just strangers who met by chance and become friends again, the machina springs to life, and their adventures continue...
"Yuna was taken to Besaid after losing her father ten years ago. There she grew up with Wakka and Lulu, choosing to follow in her father's footsteps and become a summoner. Being very honest and open, she can't keep a secret for long."
—Scan description
In Final Fantasy X, Yuna is a Summoner and White Mage, and uses various rods to cast magic and wears protective rings on her left hand for armor. Her Strength and Defense are low, but she has high Magic, Magic Defense, and Evasion. Her Agility is also one of the highest in the game. When using a Counter attack, Yuna performs a regular attack on a ground based fiend, and a forceful upper-left swing on flying fiends.
In Final Fantasy X Yuna is the only party member who can summon aeons, and the only one with abilities outside the Sphere Grid. When summoned, an aeon replaces the current party in battle and can be controlled, having special attacks and an Overdrive of its own. With the Summoner's Soul and Aeon's Soul key items, the player can teach aeons new abilities and raise their stat attributes at the expense of various items.
Yuna's default position on the Sphere Grid runs near Rikku's and Tidus's, and her representing color is white. Yuna has no Skill nodes and one Special Ability node. The "Nul" spells and Pray are both quick to cast, and act on the whole party, as Specials do. Within the Lv. Locks of Yuna's grid area are the following Wht Magic nodes:
Yuna's Overdrive is Grand Summon, which summons an aeon with a full Overdrive gauge. After the Overdrive is executed, the gauge will return to its previous state.
In Chapter 5 of Final Fantasy X-2, the Besaid Aurochs are babysitting Wakka and Lulu's baby, Vidina, and allow the Gullwings to take their place in the tournament. Blitzball is available to play thereafter. Choosing 'Luca' from the airship's location menu drops Yuna off less than 10 yards from the booth at the Luca - Stadium Entrance at which the player can select the option to play the game. Team improvement points, capped at 100, are acquired over time.
In early development, character designer Tetsuya Nomura designed Yuna in a different outfit, but after learning Yuna would dance during the sending he changed it to a furisode to have something that would "flow" as Yuna danced.[1]
When asked about Yuna's drastic wardrobe change in Final Fantasy X-2, Tetsu Tsukamoto, the game's alternate costume designer, replied, "From a planning standpoint, I would say that the differences are due to the changes in Spira between FFX and FFX-2. FFX had more of a darker, religious feel, whereas in FFX-2, there is a huge cultural change. I think those changes are reflected in the character designs."[2]
Yuna has two themes attributed to her named "Yuna's Theme". The one from Final Fantasy X is a remix of "Suteki da ne", the theme of her romance with Tidus. The one from Final Fantasy X-2 is an entirely new composition and an upbeat, pop tune.
Another theme associated with Yuna in Final Fantasy X-2 is "Yuna's Ballad". An album dedicated to Yuna and Tidus is Feel/Go Dream: Yuna & Tidus.
Yuna appears in Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy as a playable character. She is one of the more seasoned Warriors of Cosmos, having fought in several cycles and recovered almost all her memories of home. Traveling alongside Jecht, Yuna runs across Tidus, who has lost his memories and been summoned as a Warrior of Chaos by the Emperor to defeat Jecht.
Yuna pursues Tidus to try and awaken his memories of them, but the Emperor attacks her. Tidus intercepts the blow, and Yuna battles the Emperor. In the aftermath the two find Jecht and Tidus collapsed, and the Emperor spirits Jecht's body away while Tidus is taken to safety. Yuna later accompanies the surviving Warriors of Cosmos to the Lands of Discord, where they sacrifice themselves sealing the portal the manikins are emerging from.
Yuna's first alternate outfit is based on Yoshitaka Amano's artwork of her, removing the floral pattern from her skirt and giving her a lighter color scheme. Her second alternate outfit is her bridal gown from her wedding to Seymour. Yuna's outfit available as downloadable content is her Gunner appearance from Final Fantasy X-2.
Yuna appears as a sub-character in Theatrhythm Final Fantasy, and is unlocked by obtaining Turquoise crystal fragment Shards from collecting Rythmia or defeating Dark Note Bosses.
Yuna has the second highest natural Magic of all characters, after the equal Vivi and Shantotto. However, her supportive spell pool, average Agility, Luck and HP, rounded off by her low Strength, make her a more suitable support character than the two aforementioned Black Mages.
"Daughter of High Summoner Braska who defeated Sin ten years earlier, she became a summoner with full knowledge of all it would entail. Though burdened with her mission and the serious expectations that go with it, she puts on a brave and cheerful face."
—Character Description
Yuna appears as an ally and a summonable Legend in Final Fantasy Airborne Brigade. She is depicted in both her default Final Fantasy X and default Final Fantasy X-2 outfits. Her ability is Heavenly Strike. She is first introduced as an event ally during the coinciding events, Final Fantasy Special Event Parts 1 & 2 - Shattered World and Final Fantasy Special Event Parts 1 & 2 - Showdown, in which she was unlocked automatically as a bonus character. Leveling her up to 99 in these events and claiming an SSR ticket yielded her individualized SSR weapon, Yuna's Staff. In battle, Yuna is armed with her staff and uses the ability Heavenly Strike.
There is a card of Yuna in the Final Fantasy Trading Card Game. It is a Shine card and it depicts her Dissidia Fantasy Fantasy art. Another trading card depicts her performing the sending.
Yuna appears in Kingdom Hearts II along with Paine and Rikku wearing her costume from Final Fantasy X-2. The Gullwings are diminutive in stature and depicted as pixies. They are allied with Maleficent and spy on Sora, but are not loyal to her; Rikku calls her "pret-ty lame", and the Gullwings as a whole seem out of the loop and never know where Maleficent is.
After Donald mentions Leon has treasure, the Gullwings agree to change sides and help Leon defend Hollow Bastion. They later confront Sora, Donald, and Goofy in their lie, but having been told of his battle with Organization XIII, they let it slide and give him the Gullwing Keychain for his Keyblade. During the ending, Yuna, Paine, and Rikku are seen at the Hollow Bastion hideout stealing Yuffie's sea salt ice cream and being chased around.
Yuna appears as a playable character in this special edition of the Monopoly-like video game available only in Japan in a chibi version of her Final Fantasy X appearance, alongside Tidus and Auron, and a chibi version of her Final Fantasy X-2 appearance, alongside Rikku and Paine.
A parody of Yuna appears in this Square Enix game from the Hanjuku Hero series. She is identical to Yuna's Gunner design but has blonde hair, brown eyes, and white paint below her eyes.
Yuna is a primary character in the fan-made Dead Fantasy series, being the first character to appear. She fights alongside Rikku, Tifa, Rinoa, Kairi, and Cloud against certain characters from Dead or Alive; her main opponent is Kasumi. While originally utilizing her Gunner dressphere in Dead Fantasy I and Dead Fantasy II, she later changes to her summoner outfit in Dead Fantasy IV, before being forced back into the Gunner dressphere after her aeons were defeated by Kasumi's clones.
Promotional Artwork of Yuna as a summoner with her aeons from Dead Fantasy IV.
Yuna does not have her long ponytail and her sash when she is in her Gunner dressphere, and she has wristbands on both wrists opposed to just her left one. As of Dead Fantasy V, she is currently with Cloud, after he saved her from Kasumi's clones, as he is apparently looking for their ally, Tifa. Yuna has also appeared in the Dead Fantasy - Gee music video in her Songstress dressphere.
Yuna's name is the Okinawan word for "moon". It has also been said to mean "bringer of peace". Yuna is the Japanese name of the Sea Hibiscus, the flower on her obi and her skirt. In Final Fantasy X-2, her special dressphere Floral Fallal represents a hibiscus as well.
Since Yuna's name means "moon", there is a contrast between her and Tidus's name, which means "sun" in the same language. The contrast is shown in-game as the Sun and Moon Sigil and Crest are items that upgrade Tidus and Yuna's Celestial Weapons: Caladbolg and Nirvana.
Tidus and Yuna won first place in Game Informer magazine's "Best Couple of the Year" feature in its February 2009 issue.
Yuna's character model was used in the development of Final Fantasy XIII before the actual characters were finished.
During the opening mission in Final Fantasy X-2, the player can find an oversized moogle hiding among the crates in Luca's docks, who is Yuna in disguise. Approaching her is necessary for 100% completion.
As demonstrated by her ability to play blitzball, Yuna can hold her breath for at least five minutes. However, in the Eternal Calm scene, she claims her record is 2 minutes and 41 seconds.
While Yuna professes her love for Tidus just before he disappears in the English version of Final Fantasy X, she only formally thanks him in the Japanese version. This is due to cultural differences.
Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy is the only game in which Yuna says the names of Tidus and her aeons, due to the option to change their names in Final Fantasy X.
It is never specified if Yuna had singing talent in Final Fantasy X-2, as she always sang while wearing the Songstress dressphere, implying she could have gotten it from Lenne.
After the battle with Biran and Yenke on Mt. Gagazet, they say they will make a statue of Yuna with a 'grand horn on its head', possibly a reference to summoners in past Final Fantasy games who are often seen with horns on their heads.
In the background of Yuna's Final Fantasy X-2 promotional poster, the words "Yuna Live" are written in Spiran script.
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Yuna's icon.
Yuna I (SR) summon stone.
Trading card of Yuna's Final Fantasy X-2 render.
Trading card of Yuna's Final Fantasy X-2 artwork.
Trading card of Yuna's Dissidia art.
Trading card of Yuna's sending performance.
Summoner Yuna render.
Gunner Yuna render.
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Concept artwork of Yuna by Yoshitaka Amano.
Concept artwork of Yuna, Yoshitaka Amano.
Concept art of Yuna's sending.
Artwork, Yoshitaka Amano.
Early concept of Yuna's wedding scene.
Artwork, Yoshitaka Amano.
Diagram of Yuna's Summoner attire.
Concept art of Yuna's wedding dress by Tetsuya Nomura.
Promotional poster of Yuna.
Promotional poster of Seymour and Yuna.
Promotional artwork by Tetsuya Nomura of Yuna and Tidus.
Yuna in Besaid Temple.
Yuna leaving Besaid for her pilgrimage.
Yuna walks on water.
Yuna performing the sending in Kilika.
Yuna learning the whistle from Tidus.
Tidus and Yuna in Luca.
Yuna in Mi'ihen Highroad.
Yuna and Tidus in Mi'ihen Highroad.
Yuna's parents: her unnamed Al Bhed mother, and her father, High Summoner Braska.
Yuna in Macalania.
Yuna decides to fight Seymour at Macalania Temple.
Yuna in a wedding dress.
Yuna's fall in Bevelle.
Yuna's fall in Bevelle.
Tidus and Yuna in Bevelle Temple.
Yuna in Bevelle.
Yuna with Tidus in Macalania.
Yuna floats in the pond in Macalania.
Yuna crying in Macalania Spring.
Yuna and Tidus after their romance scene.
Rikku and Yuna.
Yuna during the final battle.
Yuna in the ending FMV.
Artwork by Tetsuya Nomura of Tidus and Yuna's reunion.
Diagram of Yuna's Gunner attire.
Artwork by Tetsuya Nomura.
Promotional artwork by Tetsuya Nomura.
Promotional artwork of Lenne and Yuna.
Yuna's swimsuit.
Nude model used during dressphere transformations.
Yuna?'s introduction in the opening FMV.
Yuna? in the opening FMV.
Yuna? in the opening FMV.
Yuna in a FMV at the start of the game.
Yuna in Luca.
Yuna in Luca.
Yuna on board the Celsius.
Yuna on board the Celsius in Final Fantasy X-2 HD Remaster.
Yuna on board the Celsius.
Yuna in the engine room.
Yuna.
Yuna in Floating Ruins.
Yuna in Besaid.
Yuna in her songstress outfit.
Yuna and Rikku singing on the Celsius.
Yuna singing with Lenne at the Thunder Plains concert.
Yuna's "death".
Yuna and Rikku in Mt. Gagazet Hot Spring.
Yuna in the ending.
Yuna and Tidus in the good ending.
Yuna and Tidus in the good ending.
Yuna in the good ending.
Comparison between Yuna's field model and cutscene model in Final Fantasy X.
Yoshitaka Amano's Yuna render from Dissidia 012.
Render of Yuna in her wedding dress from Dissidia 012.
Render of Yuna's Gunner Dressphere from Dissidia 012.
Kingdom Hearts II.
Kingdom Hearts Mobile.
Chibi in Itadaki Street Special.
Hanjuku Hero referencing the Gunner design.
Yuna in the 25th Anniversary Poster of Final Fantasy.
Yuna in-game in Dissidia 012.
Yuna's portrait in Itadaki.
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