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rionaleonhart) wrote2022-02-09 07:21 pm
rionaleonhart) wrote2022-02-09 07:21 pm
Never Forget Them.
I picked up my neglected Final Fantasy X replay and finished it at last!
Even though I never actually played it at her house, I associate this game so strongly with visiting my grandmother when I was a teenager. I remember daydreaming about it in her garden.
I feel there's scope for fanfiction about Tidus in Zanarkand before the game, dealing with the fact that he's literally living in someone else's dream. Is his life weird in ways he's never thought to question? When Auron travels to Zanarkand, does he suddenly find himself dealing with a world that runs on dream logic? (Maybe the fayth are just dreaming a perfect non-dreamlike replica of Zanarkand, but that's less fun.)
What is Auron's goal? What does he want? How does he envision Yuna's journey ending? Has he resigned himself to taking Braska's daughter to her death, or does he think there's a chance she'll overturn the current system? (By killing Sin, or just by killing Yunalesca, preventing summoners from sacrificing themselves but dooming the world to eternal Sin?) Does he conceal things from her in the hope that her determination will be greater if she discovers 'one of your guardians will have to sacrifice themselves' on the threshold of completing her pilgrimage? Who are you, Auron?
I would love to know what's going on inside Auron as he watches Yunalesca tell Yuna she'll have to choose a guardian to kill her. Absolute agony, probably. He's been here for this speech before, and it cost him everything.
I'd forgotten Auron tries to attack the illusion of his younger self. It's the most emotion we ever see the older Auron openly display.
Yuna increasingly falling apart as she has to kill her aeons one by one is heartrending.
Also heartrending: Yuna standing on the dock and whistling for Tidus after he's gone. Poor girl.
It never really hit me before, but Tidus doesn't tell the others he's going to disappear until right before the final battle, and the first Yuna knows of Auron being dead is when she realises she's sending him. Yuna was braced to lose her aeons, but she didn't know she was about to lose those two. I can see her struggling with a lot of survivor's guilt, particularly as she always thought she would be the one to die in Sin's defeat.
I'd really like to see more interaction between Yuna and Auron. I'm so curious to know Auron's thoughts and feelings about her, both as a person and as Braska's daughter.
Looking back over this entry, I realise I have a lot of questions about Auron's thoughts and feelings in general. He's so guarded!
I always spend hours getting Auron, Yuna and Rikku's ultimate weapons and training them up to do comical amounts of damage, complaining all the time about how tedious it is, and then I go all surprised-Pikachu when I kill all the final bosses in two hits. 'Grinding is a pain' and 'there's no challenge in the final fights' have exactly the same solution, but will I ever learn? Absolutely not.
Even though I never actually played it at her house, I associate this game so strongly with visiting my grandmother when I was a teenager. I remember daydreaming about it in her garden.
I feel there's scope for fanfiction about Tidus in Zanarkand before the game, dealing with the fact that he's literally living in someone else's dream. Is his life weird in ways he's never thought to question? When Auron travels to Zanarkand, does he suddenly find himself dealing with a world that runs on dream logic? (Maybe the fayth are just dreaming a perfect non-dreamlike replica of Zanarkand, but that's less fun.)
What is Auron's goal? What does he want? How does he envision Yuna's journey ending? Has he resigned himself to taking Braska's daughter to her death, or does he think there's a chance she'll overturn the current system? (By killing Sin, or just by killing Yunalesca, preventing summoners from sacrificing themselves but dooming the world to eternal Sin?) Does he conceal things from her in the hope that her determination will be greater if she discovers 'one of your guardians will have to sacrifice themselves' on the threshold of completing her pilgrimage? Who are you, Auron?
I would love to know what's going on inside Auron as he watches Yunalesca tell Yuna she'll have to choose a guardian to kill her. Absolute agony, probably. He's been here for this speech before, and it cost him everything.
I'd forgotten Auron tries to attack the illusion of his younger self. It's the most emotion we ever see the older Auron openly display.
Yuna increasingly falling apart as she has to kill her aeons one by one is heartrending.
Also heartrending: Yuna standing on the dock and whistling for Tidus after he's gone. Poor girl.
It never really hit me before, but Tidus doesn't tell the others he's going to disappear until right before the final battle, and the first Yuna knows of Auron being dead is when she realises she's sending him. Yuna was braced to lose her aeons, but she didn't know she was about to lose those two. I can see her struggling with a lot of survivor's guilt, particularly as she always thought she would be the one to die in Sin's defeat.
I'd really like to see more interaction between Yuna and Auron. I'm so curious to know Auron's thoughts and feelings about her, both as a person and as Braska's daughter.
Looking back over this entry, I realise I have a lot of questions about Auron's thoughts and feelings in general. He's so guarded!
I always spend hours getting Auron, Yuna and Rikku's ultimate weapons and training them up to do comical amounts of damage, complaining all the time about how tedious it is, and then I go all surprised-Pikachu when I kill all the final bosses in two hits. 'Grinding is a pain' and 'there's no challenge in the final fights' have exactly the same solution, but will I ever learn? Absolutely not.