Rikku - Wildcard of the Gullwings | FFX2

Rikku is the 18 year old member of the Gullwings, a young girl of Al Bhed blood and ex-guardian of her leader, Yuna.

Rikku wears her longe blonde hair loose and braided, tied atop her head, adorned with colorful beads, and held by a blue bandana. In her default look, the Thief dressphere, she wears a yellow g-string bikini and an olive green mini-skirt, carrying two pouches at her waist and wearing ruffle sleeves. A long yellow and red scarf hangs loosely around her neck. Wearing the Thief dressphere in combat, she wields two red dagger-like blades designed for rapid attacks. She also wears earrings with the top halves pink and the lower halves white. Rikkus body is very petite, and her eyes are Al Bhed green, just like all other of her kind. All the Gullwings use dresspheres to change outfits and weapons, but Rikku usually uses the Thief dressphere which gives her twin daggers to fight.

Rikku is kind-hearted, free-spirited, happy-go-lucky, and energetic, which sometimes clashes with the more stoic group members, especially Paine. She has astraphobia (fear of lightning) after a mishap involving Brother and a stray Thunder spell in her youth. Even after Sins defeat and the forming of the Gullwings, Rikku remains energetic, upbeat yet somewhat reckless. Rikku also tends to act childish at times and even sometimes uses light flirting or crying to get what she wants.

Rikku grew up as an Al Bhed, a race of people with their own language and culture, primarily focused on the use of machines, or "machinas" to fight sin and further their people. Al Bhed were also the ones to build the Gullwings airship. Al Bhed used to be looked down upon by Yevons followers, as Machinas were seen as a sin and forbidden by god, yet after Sins defeat the tension started to lift a bit. Rikkus father, Cid, was always rather distant to her and is currently working on rebuilding the Al Bhed base which was destroyed during the last appearance of Sin. The leader of the Gullwings, Yuna, used to be a Summoner, a chosen one by the god yevon to travel the land of Spira to collect aeons to eventually face the grand monster Sin and defeat him, though die by the process, yet this act always caused Sin to return ten years later, giving Spiras people only little time to prepare for the eventual return once again. Rikku eventually joined up with Yuna and worked with her as her guardian, someone that defends and protects the summoner during their pilgrimage, though she was vocal about stopping their journey, as Rikku didn't want Yuna to die by summoning the final aeon. With the aid of her friends, Yuna defeated Sin once and for all, but by doing that also dissolved Tidus, Yunas boyfriend and an important helper in the fight against Sin, vanished into the afterlife after Sins defeat. Now, Spira is returned to an eternal life without Sin and war, called the "Eternal Calm". After the Eternal Calm began, Rikku joined the newly formed Gullwings, a team of her and two friends, the now ex-summoner and polite Yuna and the edgy and serious Paine, that work as Spherehunters in Spira with the use of their crew on their Airship, the Celsius. Spherehunters collect various magical spheres in Spira and analyze them. Rikku and Yuna are also still close friends with the party that joined her during her pilgrimage, like Lulu and Wakka, who are now married with a child on the way, the other Al Bhed people and Kimahri, a Ronso that traveled with them as well.