Beckoning (Final Fantasy X)

Beckoning is a term used in Final Fantasy X-2.5 ~Eien no Daishō~ and Final Fantasy X -Will-. It refers to a person thinking of someone they used to know who has since passed, conjuring an illusion from the Farplane.
==Story==
===Final Fantasy X-2===
In the Fiend Tales endings, there is a minor case of a fiend using beckoning. An Assassin Bee whose desire to find her parents brings her to the Farplane, causing them to temporarily manifest while lamenting that they abandoned her before all three fade away.
===Final Fantasy X-2.5 ~Eien no Daishō~===
Tidus and Yuna end up shipwrecked on an unknown island that resembles Besaid and Tidus theorizes they have traveled back in time a thousand years. Tidus is killed in a freak accident when he mistakes an ancient bomb of Bevelle make for a blitzball. Yuna faints from the shock, and unknowingly beckons Tidus back into the world with him none the wiser of what happened.
The two learn more about the island and meet more beckoned spirits and how the entire island is but a summoning. It is revealed that if a beckoned realizes their true nature they will soon disappear, Yuna realizing this is the case with Tidus as well.
===Final Fantasy X -Will-===
Yuna has joined a group called Yevoners with their main temple on Besaid. She acts as the group's priestess, spending her days praying to the bygone fayth while prohibiting Yevoners from performing beckonings. In time, the Farplane is revealed to have become unstable to the point that the dead are beginning to be revived across Spira.
Someone's thoughts about a shoopuf killed thirty years ago brought it to the Moonflow. Chancellor Baralai acquired a recording of the shoopuf and sent Kurgum and Chuami to Besaid to show it to Yuna and bring her to Bevelle so he could discuss the matter with her.
Once Yuna and the others visit the Moonflow they find a crowd of illusory people. While observing a living father and daughter with her illusory mother, it is revealed these are not normal beckoned people since they can speak and be heard by everyone. The Eternal Calm was not to be after all, as it is eventually revealed that Sin has also been brought back.
==Behind the scenes==
In Japanese spirituality and etiquette for the dead, it is taboo to openly speak the name of one who has passed, as if they were still alive, as their spirits could be beckoned back into the living world. Such actions are considered kegare, as it is considered disturbing the deceased's rest and not letting them move on. Holidays like Obon are considered times where these vows are not broken, allowing people to express themselves in regards to the deceased. 
The Beckoning as a phenomenon in Spira is reminiscent of various real world nighttime ghostly occurrences of legend, being a grand procession of spirits marching in the dead of night. Around the globe, examples of such phenomena include the Nightmarchers of Hawaii, where the spirits of warriors march upon the beach; the Wild Hunt of Europe, where the Fair Folk are said to rally about in the night sky; the Hyakki Yagyo and Obon of Japan, where in the former, yokai and demons parade during summer, while in the latter, it is custom to create floating lanterns to ship out at sea or on rivers to let the visiting spirits of the deceased return to the afterlife. Excluding Obon, the processions are only to look at with caution, as it is believed that joining such processions will have the person be spirited away into the netherworld.
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