From: Lopen | #494
But any time she's doing stuff that feels like it's driven by herself it's to resist change, not to initiate it. Which does matter. You claim that sticking to your beliefs in the face of adversity is a difficult thing... I actually think it's oftentimes the easier way out, personally. Making changes in yourself can be difficult, even if said changes are things that would make your life easier. That's why archaic worthless traditions like Yuna's pilgrimage are so enduring.
The entire goal of the pilgrimage is to bring change, at least in the mind of the summoner (The actual truth of the pilgrimage is irrelevant in this regard). When she finds out the truth in Zanarkand, she certainly goes about trying to initiate change (and she IS the one who initiates it, though Tidus's influence shines through in that decision, because she could've just said 'eh forget it let's just keep the cycle going' which certainly would have been the easy thing to do in that case, and she didn't take the easy way out there). Yuna does make plenty of changes in herself because she's clearly a different person at the end of the game. Yeah, it took Tidus's "outsider" perspective to make her rethink things, but Yuna is a pensive person, and the conclusions she arrives at are her own after she's weighed out the facts (and that's not really different from anyone else. Virtually everyone's beliefs are shaped by the influences of others around them). And those changes weren't easy to make because she basically ends up the enemy of the state for it. She publicly resists the status quo of Yevon before the maesters when it's presented to her at the trial in Bevelle, when she could've easily said 'yeah that sounds about right to me' and gotten acquitted. So I'm definitely not seeing your point on this one.
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