Opuntia, commonly called the prickly pear cactus, is a genus of flowering plants in the cactus family Cactaceae, many known for their flavorful fruit and showy flowers. Cacti are native to the Americas, and are well adapted to arid climates; however, they are still vulnerable to alterations in precipitation and temperature driven by climate change. The plant has been introduced to parts of Australia, southern Europe, the Middle East, and northern Africa.
Prickly pear alone is more commonly used to refer exclusively to the fruit, but may also be used for the plant itself; in addition, other names given to the plant and its specific parts include tuna (fruit), sabra, sabbar, nopal (pads, plural nopales) from the Nahuatl word nลpalli, nostle (fruit) from the Nahuatl word nลchtli, and paddle cactus. The genus is named for the Ancient Greek city of Opus. The fruit and leaves are edible. The most common culinary species is the "Barbary fig"
Opuntia is regarded as an aggressive invasive species.
Distribution
Like most true cactus species, prickly pears are native only to the Americas. Through human action, they have since been introduced to many other areas of the world. Prickly pear species are found in abundance in Mexico, especially in the central and western regions, and in the Caribbean islands (West Indies). In the United States, prickly pears are native to many areas of the arid, semi-arid, and drought-prone Western and South Central United States, including the lower elevations of the Rocky Mountains and southern Great Plains
Opuntia species are the most cold-tolerant of the lowland cacti, extending into western and southern Canada.
Prickly pears produce a fruit known as tuna, commonly eaten in Mexico and in the Mediterranean region, which is also used to make aguas frescas.
Prickly pear fruit for sale at a market, Zacatecas, Mexico
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Been thinking about Final Fantasy X. There's something thematically interesting that the game's writing doesn't do justice with the fact that Tidus doesn't really exist but Yuna falls in love with him anyway. Like the world he comes from represents a utopian vision of the past, but a progressive rather than regressive one, where people don't worry about Sin and their technological progress allows them to spend all or nearly all of their time pursuing leisure. By comparison Yuna has spent all her life serving others and society at large, preparing for her destiny of being a human sacrifice for Godzilla.
She's been told her whole life by the church that the utopia enjoyed by pre-Sin Spira was decadent and fell because of that - but it turns out by the end of the game that all of that is completely bunk. The people of Spira didn't destroy their world with machina, they got invaded by an alien that devours life by the cityload and has the ability to turn any force capable of defeating it into the very energy it will use to regenerate itself. The church of Yevon are essentially Spira's collaborators with the invading entity, creating a society that serves the colonizing force that places themselves on top at the cost of everyone else.
Anyway I guess if I was remaking it I would really focus on this stuff instead of doing what they did and just making it a kinda generic tragic love story.