Disclaimer: I don't own Final Fantasy
Dear Rikku,
I'm not usually one for writing letters, but I can't tell you face to face and I don't have a sphererecorder handy.
I did it. I killed him.
He was cheating on you, Rikku. I know this because I was the other woman.
Not intentionally. I haven't exactly been keeping up with current events since Yuna died. So when he came, we started talking, and started drinking, and... well, I won't go into detail.
It wasn't until later I found out that you two were a couple.
Still, I might just have let it be if he hadn't come back...
Tidus grieved more than anyone after Yuna died. I could see that much before I left.
I'm sorry for that, by the way. If I had stayed, perhaps this wouldn't have happened.
But I needed to be alone. I pushed everyone away again.
Grief or no grief, he had come back. To cheat once more.
I told him that I knew. He told me that I was the only one who really understood what it was like to have the world turned upside down, to lose everything.
I don't think he was completely sane. From what Yuna told me, I know Tidus is a dream of the fayth, held here by her love... but I think that after her death, he started to fade. Not his body, but his mind.
If so, perhaps it was an act of mercy. I made it quick.
You deserve better, you know. Now that Yuna's gone, you're the only real friend I have.
So find someone else. Be happy.
I don't think that we'll meet again, unless I'm caught. And I don't plan to be.
Goodbye.
--Paine