Jecht
Jecht is a male video game character who features in Final Fantasy.
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Biography
Jecht (Japanese: ジェクト, Hepburn: Jekuto) was a male human who was actually a memory created and maintained by Yu Yevon who was a Summoner that ruled the city of Zanarkand thousands of years ago. After the destruction of the city, the Summoner came to create a magically created replica that was a dream containing all its inhabitants. It was in this world that Jecht lived where he was unaware of his true nature and lived an ordinary life. At some point, he met a woman and the pair fell in love where she came to be pregnant with his son who was named Tidus. Around this time, Jecht was a famous blitzball player but his career suffered due to his alcoholism with rumours claiming that he planned to retire though he denied them. In an effort to regain his former glory, he came to train by the sea but came to vanish during this time where this disappearance made him a famous figure in Zanarkand with billboards featuring him along with a tournament named after Jecht. After vanishing, his partner fell into depression and died leaving Tidus alone where he came to resent his father for abandoning their family.
At that time, there had been a war between Zanarkand and the city of Bevelle, a war which Zanarkand could not hope to win. As a result, Yu Yevon (then called only "Yevon") sought to preserve his city's memory, even if he could not save the original. Thus, he had his city's surviving people become fayth on nearby Mt. Gagazet, and he then used their memories of Zanarkand to create a new city in its image, far removed from the Spiran mainland and war. Additionally, he created a malevolent force that would terrorize Spira for a thousand years—a creature called "Sin"—by drawing on millions of pyreflies and coalescing them around his body.[2][2] His intention was that Sin would serve to protect him and the fayth while he summoned Dream Zanarkand, and that it would also provide a means to destroy machina (machines) and prevent anyone on the mainland from discovering Dream Zanarkand. While Sin performed this function—and its instruction to attack any large settlements of people, in the further hopes that the populace of the mainland would be too preoccupied with Sin to consider journeying far out to sea—as instructed, Yevon, for his part, would become known as "Yu Yevon" ("the Curse of Yevon") and lose his own humanity, becoming nothing more than a disembodied spirit that existed with only the desire to maintain Dream Zanarkand's existence.[3] As a consequence of all this, both Jecht, his son, Tidus, and their city are dreams of the fayth[4] (as are the aeons that figure prominently into Final Fantasy X’s story), their city and a thousand year cycle of chaos having been created to preserve Yevon's beloved city that he was unwilling to let go.
In the present, Jecht's son, Tidus, claims that he hates his father for putting him and his mother through hard times, and because he was left under a lot of pressure to live up to Jecht's fame.[5] Whenever Jecht was around, Tidus's mother didn't pay her son any attention (so Tidus claims).[6] Furthermore, Jecht constantly criticized his son and called him a "crybaby." In actuality, Jecht loved Tidus with all his heart, but was unable to express it in a gentle way. What he desired most was to make his son strong and thought that his criticisms would do this. Tidus, however, took Jecht's insults at face value, not seeing the intentions behind them, and grew to hate him.[9][10] Jecht then disappeared one day while training out at sea, and it would be ten years before he was seen again in Dream Zanarkand, leaving Tidus with feelings of animosity toward his father. It was during those ten years of absence that Jecht was in the mainland of Spira, having been taken there unintentionally by Sin after Jecht touched it while it was resting in the waters near Dream Zanarkand. To the people of Spira, Jecht is known as "Sir Jecht," a man who, along with Auron, accompanied Lord Braska (Yuna's father) as guardians on his journey to defeat Sin. During the earlier parts of that journey, Jecht's tendency to drink sometimes got him into trouble, most notably when on the Moonflow when he once thought that a shoopuf was a giant fiend and wounded it, forcing Braska to pay for the damage with all of his travel money. After this incident, however, Jecht gives up drinking for fear that his family would be ashamed of him.
Maturing over the course of his journey in much the same way that Tidus later would during Yuna's pilgrimage, when Jecht, Auron and Braska arrived at Zanarkand, Jecht was the one who gave up his life to become Braska's Final Aeon, and as the Final Aeon, he defeated Sin, but the "spiral of death" continued. He and Braska died, but as a consequence of being the Final Aeon, Yu Yevon's spirit possessed him and transformed the aeon he had become into the new Sin, leaving Jecht's soul trapped within the creature for ten years, unable to completely fight back against the powerful instincts Yu Yevon had instilled within Sin. The only times Jecht could operate of his own free will was for brief moments when he heard the Hymn of the Fayth. Utilizing this weakness in Sin to briefly immobilize him, Tidus, Yuna and their companions confronted Jecht inside Sin and—with heavy hearts—fought and defeated him, Tidus finally making peace with his father. After Jecht's spirit was finally laid to rest, Yuna and her guardians utilized her aeons to weaken the spirit of Yu Yevon, making him vulnerable for the first time in a thousand years. They then unleashed an assault on him directly, destroying him and ending Spira's spiral of death. In the Farplane, Tidus and Jecht slap hands, indicating that Tidus has forgiven his father.
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Jecht was a dark-skinned, tall, and muscular man with long unruly black hair along with red eyes.
He tended to be a surly who had a tendency to drink.
In Zanarkand, he came to be involved with a woman where she became pregnant with his child and had a son named Tidus.
Powers and abilities
Jecht had a powerful blitzball move called the "Sublimely Magnificent Jecht Shot Mark III," in which he kicks the ball into one opponent, it rebounds, hits another opponent, rebounds again, and is then kicked into the goal by him.
Notes
- Jecht was created by Kazushige Nojima where he featured in the setting of Final Fantasy X.
Appearances
- Final Fantasy X:
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