Final Fantasy X's Tidus Was Originally A Plumber - Kotaku
Character designer Tetsuya Nomura even drew illustrations of Tidus, the plumber, but during the course of development, the character was changed to a Blitzball player.Blitzball is an aquatic sport played in FFX, so this was a way to get Tidus in the water without having him fix pipes.Famitsu asked Nomura if there were any traces of the character previously being a plumber.