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Shrine
Poltergeist is my fifth character shrine, my third to a Final Fantasy character, and my first to a main character. Construction began in late August of 2007 and was uploaded the same year mid-October (the 12th to be exact). I created this shrine not only because Tidus is probably my favorite character in any game ever, but because I honestly feel like I can identify with aspects of his story and personality. If you visit my other shrines you’ll notice this one has a lot more of a personal approach to it. I understand Tidus because he’s a lot like me, and I’ve recently begun to understand myself.
I really would be cheating Aeryvae and Europa if I didn’t thank them here. They were actually excited I was doing this project and inspired and encouraged me to finish it. Aeryvae also deserves thanks for helping me name this thing. Poltergeist was actually one of her suggestions and completely rocked over my ideas, Opus and Reverie. In her words, “I've always thought of Tidus as an unruly ghost who causes massive chaos in a world not his own.” The word Poltergeist fits the part of Tidus I wrote about on most of the shrine, and after thinking about it no other name was good enough.
A little on the layout: The second layout of Poltergeist features the song Clocks by Coldplay. Listening to it, I was reminded of Tidus and knew it’d be perfect for this layout. I tried to create a sense of urgency in it, using a picture of Tidus running and brushes of clocks; Tidus’ life after all was ending in the game. Did I succeed? Let me know! Brushes used in this layout are from Pootato.org and Aethereality.net.
Finally, while the Final Fantasy franchise would be awesome to own, I can’t say I do. The geniuses known as Square-Enix created Tidus and Final Fantasy X, and both are property of them, not me. Poltergeist is my (Todd) creation, though, and is part of the Sinspawn collective.