 Nojima said that he cried during the game's ending, when Tidus and Yuna separate and Tidus vanishes.Designer Nomura said that he wanted Tidus' clothing and accessories to suggest a relationship with the sea.Tidus' clothing has a distinctive blue motif; his blitzball team logo, based on a fish hook, is an amalgam of the letters "J" and "T" (the first letters of Tidus' name and that of his father, Jecht).