Dr. Sid

Dr. Sid is one of the main characters in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. He continues the Final Fantasy series tradition of having a character named Cid appear in most Final Fantasy games, despite the Doctor's named spelled with an untraditional "S". Dr. Sid's voice was provided by Donald Sutherland.

Story
He is a scientist who has discovered spiritual energy within all living things. Born in Toronto in 1995, Dr. Sid is a biochemistry graduate of the University of Scientific Research. He spent long hours researching the physical properties of living things. After discovering a strange energy during a gravitational field extraction experiment, Dr. Sid began his research upon spirit energy. He along with his wife created the "Gaia Theory", a theory where each life is born of Gaia and each life returns to Gaia upon death. Each life holds a spirit and each spirit brings its experience back to Gaia, enabling it to live and grow. This theory, however, was not widely accepted by fellow scientists, and Dr. Sid and his wife kept it to themselves.

On 2031, when a meteorite from the annual Leonid Meteor shower fell on the Middle East, a series of strange sudden deaths to all living things occurred in the region where the meteorite fell and began to spread across the world. Eight years later, Dr. Sid and his colleagues uncovered evidence of Phantoms who are responsible for the attack. Dr. Sid lost his wife in a Phantom attack over Toronto, and since then dedicated his life to solve the Phantom problem. He discovered bio-etheric energy, as well as a unique wave pattern within the Phantoms. With this discovery, he advocated the use of bio-etheric energy and invented spiritual scanners, ovo-pacs as well as the weapons used to fight the Phantoms.

His greatest invention, however, was the Barrier Cities which provided protection against Phantoms. With this achievement, he became the director of the Bio-Etheric Center in New York Barrier City, and dedicated himself to research on the wave theory. He has been working on gaining eight spirits of life to make an "anti-wave" against Phantoms, which could save the people and the planet itself. With Aki Ross as his protege, Dr. Sid continued to search for the remaining spirits to complete the wave pattern against the Phantoms.

Dr. Sid

Trivia

 * He is the first Cid to hve an "S" instead of a "C" in his name as mentioned above
 * Donald Suntherland, Dr. Sid's voice actor, share the same initials, D and S. Although Dr. Sid's full name is unknown, Sid is his first name, but he has a Doctor status, making him Dr. Sid.