Nightfade
Remnants of the Mist
FFX is amazing, up until the final boss comes into play. I'm actually curious as to why the "tick" concept was chosen. What does it symbolize? I've yet to figure out. 
Anyone else?
Anyone else?
Tick Ye... I mean, Yu Yevon.
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Well....
Lets think of what ticks are and their properties.
Ticks: Stick around for a long time.
Are annoying to kill
Painful
always come back
Deadly(in some cases)
Clingy
Now lets look at what Sin/Yu yevon does does.
Sin: Sticks around for along time(give or take how long it takes for a summoner to complete the journey.)
Extremely freaking hard to kill.
Painful
It always. Comes. Back. There is no stopping it. (bar the ending of FFX but this is about symbolism)
IT's very deadly.
And hell is it Clingy.
Real life Ticks and Yu yevon have a lot in common. He is a small bug in society that creates a Horrifying painful and deadly problem that is hard to get rid of and stays around because of how hard it is to kill. And even when you DO kill it, It always comes back!
The Tick = Yu Yevon concept represents how something so small can swarm and become the one thing we all hate. But once you break past all it's defenses it has nothing left. I mean, how hard is it to squish a tick if you can find one?
I assume the entire fight is supposed to be the final stages of a Tick. the fact it can cure itself represents the only reason it's still alive.
*ahem* this is just my opinion as someone who likes to read into stuff when asked.
In reality, Yu yevon is more compareable to fleas. But for a singular entity the Tick symbolism works well.
Lets think of what ticks are and their properties.
Ticks: Stick around for a long time.
Are annoying to kill
Painful
always come back
Deadly(in some cases)
Clingy
Now lets look at what Sin/Yu yevon does does.
Sin: Sticks around for along time(give or take how long it takes for a summoner to complete the journey.)
Extremely freaking hard to kill.
Painful
It always. Comes. Back. There is no stopping it. (bar the ending of FFX but this is about symbolism)
IT's very deadly.
And hell is it Clingy.
Real life Ticks and Yu yevon have a lot in common. He is a small bug in society that creates a Horrifying painful and deadly problem that is hard to get rid of and stays around because of how hard it is to kill. And even when you DO kill it, It always comes back!
The Tick = Yu Yevon concept represents how something so small can swarm and become the one thing we all hate. But once you break past all it's defenses it has nothing left. I mean, how hard is it to squish a tick if you can find one?
I assume the entire fight is supposed to be the final stages of a Tick. the fact it can cure itself represents the only reason it's still alive.
*ahem* this is just my opinion as someone who likes to read into stuff when asked.
In reality, Yu yevon is more compareable to fleas. But for a singular entity the Tick symbolism works well.
I have no idea why he was chosen to be a tick....but most unsent turn into fiends, right? That's my guess as to what happened to Yu Yevon. He eventually died, became and unsent, and still controlled Sin. But when his mind started to go, and he started hating the world more and more it consumed him. And he became a fiend just like other unsent might become.
Why a tick though? Someone brought up the idea that a tick was chosen because Yu Yevon, and his religion, became like a parasite to the world of Spira. He sucked the life out of Spira and it's civilians by bringing a spiral of death in the way that a tick sucks the blood out of a human......or something like that.
Honestly, I would have preferred something more badass than a tick. I was disappointed when I got to Yu Yevon. They could have done so much more with his character considering how crucial he was to Spira and it's history.
Why a tick though? Someone brought up the idea that a tick was chosen because Yu Yevon, and his religion, became like a parasite to the world of Spira. He sucked the life out of Spira and it's civilians by bringing a spiral of death in the way that a tick sucks the blood out of a human......or something like that.
Honestly, I would have preferred something more badass than a tick. I was disappointed when I got to Yu Yevon. They could have done so much more with his character considering how crucial he was to Spira and it's history.
I guess maybe it was just a cheap guide to creating a villain? That's my guess. I don't think it necessarily symbolizes anything, it seems to me like ticks were used as an idea and people just brainstormed from there.
I was pretty darn disappointed to see that Yu Yevon's "true form" was a mere spider-looking creature. Now I know it looks more like a "tick," but still. -.- You spend all of that time buffing up your characters and stats for something Yuna could simply crush with the bottom of her staff. Or Tidus could throw a blitzball and squish it. >D;
With that said, I never saw the symbolism in it, but I like the theories proposed in the previous posts!
With that said, I never saw the symbolism in it, but I like the theories proposed in the previous posts!
Let us not forget that ticks are often considered insignificant, or minor inconveniences for much larger creatures, who often do not even notice their presence until they're being bitten in a very painful place. Considering the presence of Seymour, who faced the party four times and was a far more visible antagonist than even Sin, who was just an omnipresent giant whale in the background that was more of a tool of mass destruction than an actual antagonist, I would that a tick is the perfect symbolism for Yu Yevon: nobody really noticed him until he was staring them in the face, and he was little more than a minor inconvenience, designed to provide some sense of closure; not really a proper antagonist per say.
Yu Yevon was very anticlimactic. Really, Seymour should have killed him and taken control of Sin. Now, THAT would have been a good ending to the game. I mean, did Yu Yevon really strike a chord with anyone? Did anyone think "Oh, it all makes sense now! Damn you, Yu Yevon!" and relish killing him, thinking "Best final boss battle EVER!" or anything even remotely similar? Yu Yevon was a show stealer, like Necron was in FFIX, drawing attention away from the antagonist that people either loved or hated - or both - for the entire game. If there IS any symbolism to be derived from him, it's a personal interpretation designed to give him more significance than he actually has from a player's perspective, and not intentional on behalf of the developers, I think.
Yu Yevon was very anticlimactic. Really, Seymour should have killed him and taken control of Sin. Now, THAT would have been a good ending to the game. I mean, did Yu Yevon really strike a chord with anyone? Did anyone think "Oh, it all makes sense now! Damn you, Yu Yevon!" and relish killing him, thinking "Best final boss battle EVER!" or anything even remotely similar? Yu Yevon was a show stealer, like Necron was in FFIX, drawing attention away from the antagonist that people either loved or hated - or both - for the entire game. If there IS any symbolism to be derived from him, it's a personal interpretation designed to give him more significance than he actually has from a player's perspective, and not intentional on behalf of the developers, I think.
Omegadruid
White Mage
@Princess Happy
Well.. He may look ridiculous as a Tick but I think it makes sense that he is the final boss. He is afterall the creator of Sin, he is taking revenge on mankind for having destroyed his hometown. He is afterall the cause of Spira's Spiral of Death. Seymour is just another casualty, result of this fake religion and Sin's existence.
Yu Yevon is the one that has been tormenting mankind for hundreds of years, he too was just a man who lost everything he loved and succumbed to his inner anger to take on the world with his own hands. He won the war with the help of his people by summoning and creating Sin.
I wouldnt have it other way, Seymour is not that good of a Villain, he is a "creation" of Yu Yevon's actions so indirectly it is all Yu Yevon's fault. Yunalesca is better than Seymour even imo because she was in on this since the beggining and she is aware of what she is doing unlike Yu Yevon that ended up completely losing his humanity to keep the eternal summoning thingy going.
Well.. He may look ridiculous as a Tick but I think it makes sense that he is the final boss. He is afterall the creator of Sin, he is taking revenge on mankind for having destroyed his hometown. He is afterall the cause of Spira's Spiral of Death. Seymour is just another casualty, result of this fake religion and Sin's existence.
Yu Yevon is the one that has been tormenting mankind for hundreds of years, he too was just a man who lost everything he loved and succumbed to his inner anger to take on the world with his own hands. He won the war with the help of his people by summoning and creating Sin.
I wouldnt have it other way, Seymour is not that good of a Villain, he is a "creation" of Yu Yevon's actions so indirectly it is all Yu Yevon's fault. Yunalesca is better than Seymour even imo because she was in on this since the beggining and she is aware of what she is doing unlike Yu Yevon that ended up completely losing his humanity to keep the eternal summoning thingy going.