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Seymour – Product of Discrimination
Half Guado, half Human; also an Ebon rōshi and later an Unsent.
Cast out as a child. Though he returns to be a respected Guado leader, he only seeks his own power and immortality through control of Shin.
Asks Yuna to marry him as a gesture of unification of Guados and Humans.
Is his corruption the result of his mixed blood or the Guado's discrimination?
Notes:
While Yuna is an accepted member of society despite her mixed heritage, Seymour, the main villain, takes a different path. Born of a Guado father and a human mother, he was cast out from the Guado village with his mother at a young age, and grew up apart from society. Later, he returns to become a spiritual leader, but he becomes corrupted and begins to think that Spira's suffering would best be ended through Shin destroying everyone. The Guado seem to blame this corruption on his mixed heritage, “Following a half-human was our fatal mistake” (Final Fantasy X). However, the game implies that the real cause of his corruption is his childhood rejected from society. Either way, the game's attempts to look at mixed heritage and discrimination as one of the central themes of this fictional setting reveal that these issues are important to Japanese people today.