[Here's a contemplative-looking Tidus. He doesn't answer right away, he's taken a few moments to consider the message, but he clicks the button when he's ready.]

Of course I'd tip! If you feel like it, that is, no pressure. I hope you don't mind if this is a little long. I've been told I need to condense it.

I used to have a dream life. I was a star blitzball player, everything taken care of, in an amazing city that never slept. Sure, I hated my old man for disappearing on us, and my guardian was a total stick in the mud, but all in all, life was pretty good.

Then this giant floating creature called Sin invaded and destroyed the city, sucking me up and dropping me in another world called Spira. It was cold, uncomfortable, and they didn't have any good food! All I wanted was to go home.

But it all started to change when I met a girl, Yuna. The first time I saw her, I knew she was special. She was caring, kind, willing to believe my crazy stories...and she was beautiful too.

Then I learned that she was a summoner, someone who learned to summon aeons and use their power to beat Sin. Sin had been attacking Spira for a thousand years, destroying cities whenever they got too big. Summoners and their guardians went on pilgrimages to get stronger and defeat Sin, but it always came back after a little while.

It got really weird when I learned that my dad, the one who'd disappeared? He'd come to Spira before me and become Sin, somehow. He was frozen in that giant thing flying around killing people, and Yuna was going to have to stop him. So I joined Yuna and her friends as another guardian, just trying to figure out what was going on.

And...eventually, I fell in love with her. She showed me another way to live: that peace was worth fighting for, that everyone deserved a chance at a good life even if they'd been cruel to us. No one deserved the constant fear of death that Sin brought.

Then I learned that finishing the pilgrimage and beating Sin the old way would kill her, and it broke my heart. At that point, I'd given up on going home---she was all that mattered to me. So I swore I'd find another way to defeat Sin. Yuna deserved to see the peace she'd journeyed for, and eventually I had my answer.

It turned out that Sin always came back because it was powered by an ancient summoner, and he was the one who'd corrupted my dad, and what he was summoning was the city I'd come from. That city and everyone in it, including me and Dad? We were all just dreams. We could kill the summoner at Sin's core and end that suffering forever, but it meant the summoning would end. It meant my life would end too.

But it had to be done. We led the charge, saved the world...and I disappeared. I don't regret making that choice. I just regret that I left everyone behind and made her cry.