tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75326665607717403672024-03-12T23:49:37.767-04:00Let's Play Final Fantasy XMintywolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03450557499971082731noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7532666560771740367.post-27298320610623082262015-01-18T18:17:00.000-05:002015-01-18T18:17:04.345-05:00Part 16: Losing My Religion<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Welcome
back! <a href="http://mintywolfplaysffx.blogspot.com/2014/09/part-15-nobody-expects-yevon-inquisition.html">Last
time</a> Yuna and Seymour’s wedding ended with everybody getting arrested and I
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We rejoin
Yuna spending her honeymoon alone in the Bevelle dungeons, which is probably
still preferable to anything that Seymour was planning.<br />
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Sometimes I wonder if they were all thrown in the water and some of them managed to climb out, or if they were separated and the two parts of the dungeon just connect.</div>
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The music
here is one of the most beautiful pieces in the game. I love the solo piano,
emphasizing Yuna’s sorrow and loneliness.</div>
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Aww, I wanted
go play blitzball!</div>
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You can
spend some time here to level up Yuna and get her up to speed for the time
she was gone, but the monsters here aren’t really great for level grinding and
there’s a much better spot for it up ahead, so it’s really best to just round
up everybody and get out. It’s a good idea to charge up all the aeon overdrives
you’ll want for the upcoming battle with Isaaru, though.</div>
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These few
lines of dialogue as Yuna and Lulu are reunited always hit me right in the heart. I wish we knew what Yuna
was going to say. Most likely an apology for all the grief and worry she’s caused
everyone, but she’s so choked with emotion that she can’t say it. People
sometimes criticize Yuna’s voice actress for her occasionally weird delivery,
but just listen to the amount of emotion in these two tiny words sometime. And
Lulu is so understanding and forgiving and just happy to have her back. It
doesn’t matter that they’ve been betrayed by Yevon, branded as traitors to
their country, and sentenced to die in this dark, fiend-infested hellhole
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*paws over
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Okay I’m
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The
personification of Bahamut as a dragon dates back to the ancient mythology of .
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appears as the deity-like Platinum Dragon, the King of the Good Dragons. In
pre-Islam Arabian mythology, he is depicted as a giant fish or whale holding up
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I love the
way he looks down at Yuna for approval during his victory dance like “Did you
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There is not
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point while you’re running around trying to solve the transporter puzzle, you
can hear Auron comment “I hate this place.” Does this imply that he’s been here
before, or is he just offering commentary? Mika said that no one had ever come
out alive, and we don’t know of him committing any punishable-by-death crimes
ten years ago, but he seems to be suggesting some kind of familiarity with the
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At the exit
we find Isaaru posted here by Kinoc, who did not trust Seymour to kill Yuna as
he was instructed. He’s very reluctant to discover that the traitor he was
ordered to deal with is her, being an admirer of both Yuna and her father, but
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It must be
hard for Yuna to have to fight Valefor, even as someone else’s aeon. :( And
hard for Valefor to fight her too, because even though it is a different aeon,
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summoner, but since it’s Auron you can bet Isaaru is going to obey. The way he
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Oh look it’s
Evrae, back and newly gothed out. I just threw a couple of phoenix downs at her
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“Good to see
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“Oh, crap!
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This just
sounds like the ravings of a maniac monologuer at this point in the game, but
he is accurately describing what’s going to happen in Zanarkand. He knows that
someone must become the Final Aeon, which will then kill Yuna and become Sin,
and he wants to be chosen so he can wield that godly power to destroy all of
Spira. The major flaw in his plan is that in order for the aeon to be powerful
enough to defeat Sin, Yuna has to love him, and he’s been doing a rather poor
job of winning her affections so far, what with all the kidnapping and
repeatedly trying to kill her friends. Sure, it would eliminate the competition
for the position if they were all dead, but then Yuna would be facing Sin armed
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Unsure of
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What?
Seymour is evolving!</div>
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And while
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But Yuna
can’t abandon her oldest and most loyal friend. As a summoner, she’s come to
terms with accepting her own death, but she can’t bring herself to value her
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Then Lulu
too, seeing Pilgrimage #3 about to go down in flames, decides to hell with
being responsible and flashes Auron a little smile of apology before she dashes
off into the fray. This is one of the few times we ever see her smile, and
she’s staring death in the face. She can’t go back to Besaid without Yuna, so
if this is the end, then so be it. She’d rather die with her than live without
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There is a
kind of relief, and even exhilaration, that comes with having a situation taken
entirely out of your hands. Back in the beginning she was planning every detail
of the pilgrimage, stressing about things like Yuna’s extra luggage and what to
do with Waffles, and then getting agitated when Seymour turned up and started
introducing complications she couldn’t control. Now that it’s gone completely
off the rails, there’s nothing she can do except follow Yuna.<br />
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This is the
good level grinding spot I was talking about. You have most of your party, the
enemies yield a fair amount of AP, and you’re near a save sphere, so you can
run around on the Highbridge for as long as you want getting ready for the
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Kimahri
looks around and shakes his head in dismay when they all jump into battle
beside him. He swore to protect this child with his life and was prepared to do
exactly that and now here she is in the line of fire, not letting him do his
job as a guardian. Fortunately, everyone’s packing some serious heat after that
last level grinding spree on the bridge and in the ensuing struggle, Seymour is
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This is an
interesting turn of phrase, considering that so far the focus has been on how
Yuna has become a traitor to Yevon. Tidus, who sees the situation from the
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And Yuna
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becoming a rogue summoner, but she doesn’t give up her <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">faith</i>, which is an important distinction to make. She still remains
steadfast to her pilgrimage, her aeons, and her conviction as a summoner, and
the belief that Sin can be defeated and the world will be a better place
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Everybody
got as far as just outside of Bevelle before calling it quits and flopping down
on the side of the road. (I assume there’s a greater distance between the city
and the woods than we’re actually shown in the game.) Yuna, still shell-shocked
from the day’s events, wanders off on her own. This scene literally takes place
at a crossroads – in the next screen the path goes ahead to the Calm Lands or
back into the woods and towards Bevelle. Everyone is waiting for Yuna to decide
whether she will continue as a summoner even without the blessing of Yevon, or
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And Lulu, at
last, boards the S.S Tuna, being the last guardian to do so. Maybe she’s finally
come to trust Waffles, maybe she’s seen how happy he makes Yuna, maybe the
Seymour Incident has made her realize that there are much worse boyfriend
options out there than the human-shaped dog in yellow boots. It’s a significant
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Kimahri’s
giving her some space but also possibly doesn’t want to go in the water,
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By
“everyone” she means the people of Spira, not just her friends, whom she
trusted to be with her. At the beginning she (rather naively) believed that her
natural goodwill towards everyone would be returned, and that the kindness of
strangers and the benevolence of Yevon would help her along to the end of her
journey. She has come a long way from the sheltered, close-knit community of Besaid, and
discovered cruelty, and corruption, and deceit out in the wider world. And yet
she still believes that there’s enough goodness in the world to be worth
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At last he
does get to tell her he’s sorry for all the thoughtless things he said about
going to Zanarkand, defeating Sin, and generally planning for a future she
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“I wasn’t
sad. I was happy,” she reassures him, and she was, because it let her indulge
in a little fantasy of an AU for herself where she got to save Spira <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and</i> live to see it. Every other person
she has crossed paths with, both her friends and random people on the street,
knew she’s going to die and treated her as such, as fragile, noble,
precious, brave, saintly, and above all, doomed, whereas Tidus was just able to treat her like a normal person, and she’s enjoyed that. His affection
wasn’t shadowed with sadness for her like Lulu’s or Wakka’s or Kimahri’s; she
could look into his eyes without seeing the knowledge of her impermanence in
his love for her that she saw in theirs, and she was happy being able to help
him move through <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">his</i> sadness and his
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If she
really did give up her pilgrimage and decide to live. She knows that Tidus and
Rikku already want her to quit, Wakka and Lulu never wanted her to become a
summoner in the first place and are only supporting her because it’s what <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">she</i> wanted, and Kimahri will follow her
anywhere, but she is worried about disappointing Auron.<br />
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She doesn’t know about
Jecht yet, so as far as she knows the reason he’s been hurrying her along and
impressing on her the importance of defeating Sin is because of his duty to the pilgrimage
itself. She doesn’t want to let him down by flaking out on it. He’s also
her last link to her father, so by dishonoring Auron, she feels she’d be
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it. They talk about blitzball and seeing the sunrise together in Zanarkand,
knowing that it’s really an impossible dream. They’re both smiling for
each other to hide their sadness now, just a little bit too brightly and
cheerfully to be sincere, and each of them going along with the fanciful idea of running away
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Waffles, bless his doggy soul, clearly does not have much experience in comforting a crying person (which
was, if you remember, the entire reason he was sent out here). His utter
lack of tact always bothered me a little, especially since Yuna <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">very recently</i> was violated by someone
forcing an unwanted kiss on her. The blocking is even similar – he puts his
hands on her shoulders and then moves in closer to her before kissing her.
Obviously, he’s a lot more gentle with her than Seymour was, Yuna returns the
kiss rather than just enduring it (although it takes a few moments), and we
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Anyway, this
is one of the most beautiful (if doofy) and rightfully iconic moments in the
game so I’m not going to ruin it with my complaining. Here’s a really lovely
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most part, reflect Yuna’s thoughts during this scene about how it would be nice
if she could go see Zanarkand with him, but there’s also some very sneaky
foreshadowing about the nature of fading dreams that all of us Japanese-language-impaired
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(I do have
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for 2 minutes and 12 seconds. I guess we’re meant to assume that his superior
breath-holding skills can support both of them for that long, or the unusually pyrefly-dense
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You did it,
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A <a href="http://mintywolfplaysffx.blogspot.com/2014/01/part-8-random-encounter-gauntlet_3722.html">really
long time ago</a> after the Mi’ihen Highroad sunset scene we saw Yuna shyly fluttering
along after him, wanting to slip her hand into his, and now she finally does.
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Rikku’s been
waiting anxiously to hear the outcome, and Waffles pats her consolingly on the
shoulder as he passes, knowing that it’s not the one she wanted.<br />
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This is the
kindest thing we ever hear Auron say to Yuna in the entire game, and one of the
few times we hear him speak gently to her (or anyone). He <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">does</i> care about her . . . he just really needs her to die.</div>
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Next time:
We’ll see if all that level grinding paid off as I enter the land of Marlboros,
chimeras, and a grudgematch with Belgemine.</div>
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And we’re
back! <a href="http://mintywolfplaysffx.blogspot.com/2014/06/part-14-grand-theft-yuna.html">Last
time</a> we saw our friends they were en route to Bevelle to crash a wedding in
the most literal sense.</div>
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It’s a good
thing they got this cleared up before their own wedding.<br />
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Rikku is puzzling
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(Rikku, I
have some bad news for you . . .)</div>
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Remember <a href="http://mintywolfplaysffx.blogspot.com/2014/04/part-11-rides-ze-shoopuf.html">earlier</a>,
during the Moonflow crossing, when Wakka gave an example of how the city built
over water was in defiance of the laws of nature? Evidently it’s okay if <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bevelle</i> does it.</div>
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I like the
idea of Lulu giving Rikku private black magic lessons during their downtime. At this
point in the game, if you’re following the sphere grid correctly, (which I’m
not) I think you should be about in the right place to break Rikku into Lulu’s
grid and Tidus into Yuna’s with some level 2 key spheres, but I’ve never
bothered to do this. I actually did end up with my black and white mages in the
underwater part of the Via Purifico, but that part of the game is so short it
doesn’t really make a difference. (Having nothing but fighters and a thief on
the flan-infested maze side, however . . .)</div>
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Last time
some people commented that they thought Yuna had never made it to Home, where I
had always interpreted this as meaning that she was taken during the attack,
and by “back in desert” he is just referring to the region that they left. One
of the crimes leveled against Yuna when she’s on trial is “joining in the Al
Bhed insurrection,” that is, their defense of Home, which makes it sound like
she was not only there, but active in the fighting. However, we never get to
see exactly what happened, so I suppose it could be interpreted either way.</div>
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After a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Snakes on a Plane</i>-style fiend invasion,
the gang realizes they’re getting close to Bevelle when somebody’s eighth grade
fursona shows up outside the window.</div>
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Evrae is
probably part of Bevelle’s defense against Sin, although it seems like Sin
would be able to defeat her fairly easily since Waffles and Co. are able to
only halfway through the story. It’s also possible that she has been around
since even before Sin and was used to fight airships in the war against
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Interestingly,
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On the
subject of prewar Spiran history, after my last post Livvy of <a href="http://livvyplaysfinalfantasy.tumblr.com/">livvyplaysfinalfantasy</a>
asked about the “St. Bevelle” the city is named for, and if there are any other
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As a matter
of fact, there aren’t! Whoever St. Bevelle was, he or she was around long before
the Zanarkand-Bevelle Machina War, Yevon, Sin, and High Summoners (all of which
began after the war) and we never learn any Spiran history from before that
time, even from Maechen. (Although the guy’s only 1,000 years old, after all.)
But since Yevon only dates back to Yu Yevon, there must have been a different
religion predominant in Spira before him that had saints and possibly a
different hierarchy. The fact that there’s a palace remaining, when the current
seat of leadership is the temple, suggests that Spira could have been some kind
of monarchy or an empire back in the day. Bevelle is one of the few cities in
Spira – possibly the only one, depending on how new Luca is – that hasn’t been
destroyed and rebuilt in recent history, so it maintains some of the last
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Soooo back
in the day I was really, really into <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Phantom of the Opera</i>, and still retain a deep love for it, although it is
no longer my home fandom. And so, even though I know it’s wrong, I can’t help
being drawn to the story here of the tortured genius (now an authentic ghost!) obsessively
in love with the girl who is going to save him from his despair, etc. etc. Yuna wears the white gown of the gothic heroine very well, and
Seymour certainly has a flair for the theatrical. (In my completely biased opinion,
X would have made a better musical <a href="http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/06/13/e3-2013-final-fantasy-xv-was-almost-a-musical">than
XV</a>.)</div>
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But the main
difference between FFX and Erik and Christine (and also Beauty and the Beast,
which I brought up earlier) is the lack of a redemption-through-love arc. Instead
of becoming a better person by being loved and learning to love someone else as
in those two stories, Seymour just gets progressively worse. “I’m going to use
your love to destroy the entire world” worse.</div>
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I’m bringing
this up now because one of the most iconic scenes in the musical and the novel
is near the end when the Phantom drags Christine down to his lair to be his
bride. (Then her boyfriend, in a true Waffles moment, makes everything worse by
charging in to rescue her and getting imprisoned himself, leaving the rescuing
up to her.) So when I realized what was happening here, I got UNREASONABLY
EXCITED. I fully acknowledge that the trope and their relationship is very
messed up and problematic, but that doesn’t stop me from getting stars in my
eyes over it. I also really love situations where the heroine's courage shines through when she's put into a position of powerlessness, transforming her from victim to hero.</div>
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(If you’ve
never seen the musical, I highly recommend checking out the 25<sup>th</sup>
anniversary concert version and not the 2004 movie; the performances are a
billion times better and the movie omits some scenes that underline the
strength of Christine’s character, resulting in a really bland and mushy
personification of her. Also Gerard Butler . . . cannot sing very well.)</div>
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I like the
arrangement of the wedding procession here with the bride and groom approaching
from different aisles and meeting in the middle. I enjoy Seymour’s priestly
wedding ensemble too including the detail that there is a hole in the back of
his hat to accommodate his hair antlers. Even with the cute little ribbon, it
makes him look a lot less silly than usual. (The cravat also helps. And for all
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I absolutely
love Yuna’s wedding dress except for that it’s open in the front. (But then,
Seymour probably picked it out, and he has been known to make some questionable
fashion decisions.) If it were floor-length all around we could also believe
that okay <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">maybe</i> she had her staff
stored in there somewhere, but as it is that really strains credulity. Also the
extra bouquet in the back is . . . kind of weird. I love love love the veil and
the Wings of Symbolic Intent + 5 though.</div>
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in advance: this whole sequence is my favorite part of the game, so much so
that I don’t even have many coherent things to say about it except “Aaaaah this
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“WE’RE
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By pure luck
I happened to get a shot of Kimahri and Lulu. It’s blurry so it’s kind of hard
to tell, but even in the FMV cutscenes she still does not appear to have
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Waffles’s
rubber boot soles are somehow raising sparks on the metal cable. But Kimahri is
sliding on this with his bare paws! Ronso pawpads must be really tough,
considering they live in the mountains, but still, ouch.</div>
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Waffles in
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Kinoc,
remember, is head of the Yevon military and used to be a warrior monk. He knows
how to use that. Because yes, as it turns out, Yevon itself is using machina
weapons. Wakka has spent a year outraged at the machina-using Al Bhed because
the Crusaders put a gun in his brother’s hands, and here the warrior monks have
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As Kinoc
threatens to give Tidus a new nose piercing to match his ears, Yuna pulls out
her staff (from her inventory, of course) and brandishes it defiantly at
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Her plan all
along was to get close enough to Seymour to be able to send him, and for this
she’s gone as far as participating in the charade of a marriage before Yevon
and the rest of Spira. Ironically, if her guardians <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">hadn’t</i> come charging to the rescue, she actually may have
succeeded. After her previous encounter with him at Macalania Temple she’d know
that she would have to find the opportunity to be alone with him, without his
retinue around. She had probably been counting on them being alone together at
least for their wedding night, and for this she had to convince him that she’s
marrying him willingly, for the love of Spira if nothing else, and then would have
had to put herself in the dangerously vulnerable position of their marriage bed,
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But now that
her friends’ lives are at stake, she has to take the desperate chance to send
him now, even though the circumstances – surrounded by armed guards and two
other maesters – are less than ideal. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even
so, she does catch Seymour off guard – he seems genuinely surprised and
betrayed when she turns on him, although he covers it up with his usual
suaveness. I think he believed that she was starting to return his twisted
affections. Realizing it was all an intricate ploy, he stands still and yields
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At
first glance it looks like he’s just acting to save Seymour, but he’s actually
trying to save <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">himself</i> as well.
Yuna’s sending may well have taken out him along with Seymour and possibly even
Auron too. And who knows who else. The population of Spira is probably approximately
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This brings
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Yuna was
prepared for this, but now that the moment has arrived she can’t help feeling
powerless and frightened. The framing of this shot from his point of view makes
her appear very young and vulnerable. And then he lords his victory over her by
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She can't bear to look at her friends after what just happened, and she kind of slumps against him for a few seconds, still wobbly from the shock. Hoping it was worth it.<br />
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"That doesn't seem to have stopped <i>you</i>."<br />
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Her plan gone awry, the only thing she has left to bargain with is her
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The first
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right after she said “Don’t worry.” When she followed that up with “I can fly,”
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<span class="k">Bevelle is awful but it’s so pretty. I love the arched walkways and
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<span class="k">Inside the temple itself, more “forbidden” machina.</span></div>
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<span class="k">The whole party collapses into Tidus when you’re outside of cutscenes
but I have to wonder how it’s implied they all fit on that elevator platform.
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<span class="k">The last barrier between them and Yuna is the sanctity of the Chamber
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<span class="k">The fayth of Bahamut, the most powerful and probably the oldest of the temple
aeons, appears as a small child, with the voice of an angelic boy soprano.
However, his aeon takes the form of a honking enormous dragon, and his statue
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<span class="k">There’s an interesting disconnect here. Was he perhaps was an old soul
in a young body, wise beyond his years? Was he actually an adult at the time he
became a fayth, but his spirit manifests as a child because that’s his essential
self? Is he merely <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">presenting</i> himself
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<span class="k">His wording when explaining this phenomenon is very similar to Lulu’s,
when she said that the fayth “live forever, trapped in statues.” Even
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<span class="k">I also find it interesting that Auron is the one who came in to check
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<span class="k">But when Tidus follows him he finds that the fuzz has caught up with
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If I were a summoner not only would I give them all cute names, I'd be summoning them for completely frivolous reasons like to go to the dog park. Forget Sin, my ten foot dragon and I are going to go play fetch.<br />
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By “Al Bhed
insurrection” they mean the Al Bhed’s defense of their own Home against the
invading forces sent by Seymour. As I mentioned above, this implies that Yuna
was there and assisted the Al Bhed defenders. Even though she is the High
Summoner’s daughter and a summoner herself, there may be some lingering racial
prejudice against Yuna in Bevelle from her childhood when she was not known as
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<span class="y">Kelk is surprised to hear this, but none of the other maesters are.
(Nor do they seem to particularly care. Being a high-ranking priest and a
powerful summoner, Seymour makes a much more desirable maester anyway. Little
do they know that Seymour has plans of his own.) Kelk is frequently left out of
the loop by the other three, who snub him for being a Ronso. It’s likely that
he was appointed to his office to make it appear that all the Yevonite races
are receiving equal representation in the government, while the Ronso maester
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Lulu is just allowed to throw her two gil’s worth in here from the peanut
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All her life
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cared about the people of Spira as much as she does. Now that she is uncovering
the deceit beneath the façade of faith and hope, it’s like being suddenly
snapped at by a familiar dog. (On a side note, how does she hope for Mika to do this? Is he a summoner, too? I was under the impression that Seymour was the only one. Maybe she just assumes he'd be able to command one to do it, but good luck with <i>that</i>!)</div>
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I’ve babbled
enough before about how the cycle of Sin keeps Yevon in power, but this is the
first time it has even occurred to Yuna that everything they’re fighting for,
her death and the deaths of all the summoners, guardians, and Crusaders before
her, might be meaningless. Hearing it from the Lord Mika himself makes it even
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things. I was curious about the graffiti on the floor so I found a clearer view
of it from the remaster, but oddly, the script doesn’t appear to be Spiran or
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The meaning
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ahead to his next question, but this implies that sweet, patient Yuna has been
taken away to be tortured for the confession she did not give while on trial.
They aren’t talking about her sentence to the Via Purifico, because that hasn’t
been decided yet, and at any rate he wouldn’t be surprised to hear that she
might die from what is supposed to be a form of execution. It’s possible that
Seymour could use his influence to protect her from the Yevon Inquisitorial
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“<span class="g">Summoners challenge the bringer of death, Sin, and die doing so.
Guardians give their lives to protect their summoner. The fayth are the souls of
the dead. Even the maesters of Yevon are unsent. Spira is full of death. Only
Sin is reborn, and then only to bring more death. It is a cycle of death,
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<span class="g">“Thanks man. I think I get it.”</span></div>
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<span class="g">Waffles is unceremoniously jabbed in the tail by a monk with a rifle
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<span class="g">This actually makes sense as a punishment if considered by rules of the
medieval practice of trial by ordeal. If they manage to survive, they’d be
considered innocent; if they die, then they weren’t worthy enough. And since
nobody has ever survived the Via Purifico, Yevon can say with authority that
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sure, Mika orders that anyone who does manage to get out alive be killed. Seymour,
who still needs (and, after a fashion, loves) Yuna, offers to attend to this
himself, taking advantage of a new opportunity to reclaim her and do away with
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Mika doesn’t catch on to
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<a href="http://mintywolfplaysffx.blogspot.com/2015/01/part-16-losing-my-religion.html" target="_blank">Next time</a>: Yuna
attempts to annul her own marriage.</div>
Mintywolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03450557499971082731noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7532666560771740367.post-62071161110455833302014-06-07T00:25:00.000-04:002014-06-07T00:25:04.978-04:00Part 14: Grand Theft Yuna<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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We <a href="http://mintywolfplaysffx.blogspot.com/2014/05/part-13-traitors.html" target="_blank">last left</a>
our heroes on the run from the law after Yuna’s little talk with Seymour ended
a bit more fatally than either of them was expecting. Now that they’ve become
public enemies #1-7, Yuna is worried about the feasibility of completing her
pilgrimage, but Auron points out that summoners only need approval from the fayth,
not the temples, Yevon be damned. Unfortunately, the fayth happen to be housed
in temples of Yevon, so how they are planning to infiltrate Bevelle to get
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Sin, in a
rare moment of tranquility from the fayth’s singing (apparently part of the
process of becoming a fayth is classical opera training?) helpfully picks up
his son and friends and deposits them gently out of harm’s way, in the oasis on Bikanel
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Or at least
he gently deposits Tidus; the rest of them seem to have just been dropped in
the desert for all I can tell. I have wondered how much control and intention
Jecht had over this. Did he know that the Al Bhed are trying to protect
summoners, and he was trying to put them close to a place where they would be
safe? Was he trying to move them as far away from Yevon as he could? Did he
know they were in trouble? He notably does not leave them on the shore of the
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This scene of him waking up in the oasis echoes Tidus’s arrival on Besaid Island exactly. Also, his reminding his father
to “be good” is a callback to Jecht’s words to Tidus on the sphere he left for
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Saving here
and seeing the number of character portraits suddenly reduced to one always
makes me feel so lonely. Fortunately, they’re not apart for long. (Well, most
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Setting out
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A short
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down. (Kimahri, can’t you see that that’s the edge of the map? Of course you
can’t go that way.) His persistence makes me wonder if he saw her be taken and
knows she’s this way. Or maybe he’s just in a mild state of shock from losing
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Lulu’s
previous two pilgrimages ended in failure. Her first summoner died because she
was unable to protect her, and her second summoner gave up halfway through and
turned back. If that low success rate wasn’t crushing enough, according to
Ultimania*, the reason she signed on as a guardian to both of those summoners
was a last-ditch attempt to prevent, or at least forestall, Yuna’s pilgrimage
by helping to defeat Sin herself before she would have to. Having failed twice
at this, the only thing left for her to do is protect Yuna herself. If she ends
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making them promise not to tell any Yevonites about it. (Although really at
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I don’t
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Their ancestral homeland was destroyed by Sin, but it’s likely that Yevon
prevented them from uniting or even finding somewhere stable to live before Cid
accomplished these things, which is why they are so secretive about the
location of Home. They’re not living out in the inhospitable desert by choice,
that’s for sure. They’ve probably just not been able to settle anywhere without
being found and pushed out. It could be that Yevon attempted to convert them in
the past, and struck back with military force when they resisted. And there is
an ever-growing list of horrible things that have been done to minority groups
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This part of
the game actually isn’t very long, but it feels like it was because of all of
the fayth-forsaken SAND WORMS. (It didn’t help that they slowed my emulator
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Eggo Waffles:
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Every so
often you’ll complete a battle with someone still inside the sand worm. The
other two will be doing their victory dance and the third person is presumably
still stuck in the sand worm gullet like “Hellooooo? You guys??”</div>
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I did notice
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hadn’t caught before the improved graphics I’m getting from the emulator. I
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After a long
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(Cid’s
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Here’s the
first appearance of Final Fantasy X’s Cid, whom we’ve known by name (which is
apparently on everything) and reputation for a long time. He steps in to say
that no – they’re being attacked by the Guado, who are after “the summoner,”
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<s>Dona, of
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For those
keeping score at home, this is the eighth time Yuna has changed hands. She was
kidnapped by the Al Bhed in Luca, then “rescued,” kidnapped by a repeat attempt
crossing the Moonflow, rescued by the guys, taken away to meet Seymour in
Macalania with a brief third kidnapping attempt along the way, reunited with
her guardians, kidnap/rescued by the Al Bhed in the desert, and now she’s being
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“ANNOYING, HUH??” over the intercom. I only recently found out <a href="http://mintywolf.tumblr.com/post/82696436871/auronlu-filialunaris-bondofflame-bless">what
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I got this
doll after defeating a cactuar out in the desert. In X-2 we learn that the
roaming cactuars are actually the juveniles of the species, so that means we
beat up a child and stole its toy. Who’s the real monster here, Lulu?</div>
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Seeing the
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hard as the rest of them to protect what they love and have suffered losses of
homes and families just like the people of Besaid have. And he finally accepts
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most annoying things is having someone patronizingly trying to explain you a
thing when you know you’re right and they aren’t. But he doesn’t know any
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I am really
curious about Yuna’s experiences while the game follows the rest of the party,
during the time she was picked up by the Al Bhed in the desert, brought to
Home, spent some time with the other summoners finding out what was going on,
and then witnessed the invasion of the Guado and the tremendous sacrifice made
by the Al Bhed on her behalf. She never mentions it again but surely it must
have had an impact with her. (And been a billion times more interesting than
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knew about the pilgrimage and Yuna’s eventual fate. She was hoping that he knew
more than he let on, because she did not want to have to be the one to break
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(Some
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There is
some debate over how exactly the summoner dies, since it is never explicitly
stated in the game. <a href="http://mintywolf.tumblr.com/post/81739883776/the-resent-discussion-about-the-fayths-gave-me-a">My
interpretation</a>, based on what Rikku says here, some things Yunalesca says
later, and Tidus and Yuna’s plan to defeat Yu Yevon in the end, is that the
after the Final Aeon defeats the fayth of previous Final Aeon that became the
core of Sin, Yu Yevon vacates the old aeon, possesses the new one, and turns it
against the summoner. At the fayth’s suggestion, Yuna gets around this by
summoning her smaller aeons after defeating Jecht so that Yu Yevon is forced to
jump to them instead. Ordinarily, a summoner wouldn’t be able to fight her own
Final Aeon because it’s necessarily stronger than <i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Sin</span></i>, (in addition to the devastating emotional blow of
having to fight someone she loved enough to create an aeon that strong,
especially someone who just willingly gave their soul up to do it) so she is
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There were
some other alternatives brought up, such as the final summoning requiring all
of the summoner’s strength and subsequently killing her, or the aeon itself destroying
everything in the vicinity upon being summoned, or even that the severing of
the link between the summoner and her aeon when it is possessed by Yu Yevon is
what kills her. It’s never actually concretely explained anywhere, so the exact
nuances of the summoner’s death are open to interpretation. (Although, for
reasons I explained in the conversation I linked to above, I believe that the
summoner has to be alive in order to command the Final Aeon in the battle with
Sin, and therefore dies after the fight, not directly after the summoning, but
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I wish I’d
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me by my spoilery friend. (I had my suspicions, anyway.) So in my experience,
yes Waffles. You were. For me it was more like the experience of one of the
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Nobody ever
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avoided telling him the truth. Maybe they saw how happy his unknowing
cheerfulness made Yuna, and didn’t want her to lose that. Maybe they thought it
was her own prerogative to tell him or shield him from the knowledge. Maybe
none of them wanted to expose themselves to the emotional vulnerability of
telling him what’s supposed to happen to Yuna, who is so beloved to all of
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In their
very first interaction, he barged into the Chamber of the Fayth and, without
knowing what he was talking about, insinuated that she wasn’t doing enough to
protect Yuna. He didn’t realize that being a guardian doesn’t mean protecting
the summoner from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">all</i> danger, but
protecting her from all <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">preventable</i>
danger, since the summoner is always subject to the unavoidable harm of her
calling, and as much as they want to, they can’t save her from that. As
she told him back in Kilika, all they can do is protect her along the way, so
that is what they’re doing. Now he’s implying that by being the one objecting,
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But they <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">are</i> family, and, as I have hopefully
adequately illustrated thus far, her focus has been on Yuna since the
beginning. She loves her enough to devote her life to her. (Literally, as we’ll
find out eventually.) Now he’s basically saying that by not stopping her from
becoming a summoner, she doesn’t love her <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">enough</i>.
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summoners have time to complete the sending. (Which is presumably is what they
were doing this entire time, and not watching Waffles have a meltdown. If not,
way to drop the ball there, guys.) Their anger and regret over their deaths
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fayth are implicit in the deaths of summoners too. This is particularly
horrible since Valefor is Yuna’s favorite aeon, and way back on Besaid I
mentioned how similar the two of them are. But her fayth understands his pain,
probably better than he does. How many summoners has she bonded with, traveled
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his and the Ifrit was Dona’s, but come to think of it, it’s not specified.) Back
in the comments of one of the earlier episodes when I was still hosting this on
Dreamwidth, I wondered if there was a taboo unknown to Tidus about touching a
summoner’s aeons, similar to the way there is a taboo about touching someone
else’s daemon in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">His Dark Materials</i>
universe. Aeons are created from the bond between the fayth and a summoner’s
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Cid orders Brother to use the ship’s torpedoes against Home, taking down it, the fiends,
and the Guado all together. Brother begins to sing the Hymn of the Fayth as a
kind of elegy. It might seem strange to hear the Al Bhed singing something so
closely associated with the temples, but if you remember <a href="http://mintywolfplaysffx.blogspot.com/2014/05/part-13-traitors.html">last
week’s episode</a>, the Hymn of the Fayth originally didn’t belong to Yevon at
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sentiment. Ronso are Yevonites, but he personally regards people on the basis
of their character, and his first concern, as ever, is Yuna. If the enemies of
Yevon and their forbidden machina can help him find her, he’s all for it. He
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Maroda was
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the whole thing. Pacce didn’t know what summoners being “sacrificed” meant, but
it could just be that he didn’t know the meaning of that exact word, because
he’d never heard summoners being spoken of in that context, even though he
already knew what was going to happen to his brother. (At any rate he must know
NOW, after witnessing Rikku and Tidus’s full-volume temper tantrum on the
subject. If you look up at the screenshot where she's saying "You know, don't you?" you can see that he's right next to her.) I think it would be very unlikely for a guardian, even a young one,
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Isaaru
viewed Yuna as a rival too, but in a more friendly way. I wonder if Yevon
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Like Rikku,
Cid is very protective of Yuna even though they’ve only just met. I wonder if
he tried to find her after Braska died, but couldn’t because she had been taken
away from Bevelle. As her mother’s closest relatives, he theoretically should
have gotten custody of her before the temple of Besaid did, but Spira’s child
welfare system does not seem to work very well. In an alternate universe, she
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better than Auron’s pushing her to stay on it. Everybody thinks they know
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always hated, but now he has to rethink all of the horrible things he’s ever
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Apparently
the sphere oscillo-finder can show the future, or this is some kind of wedding
rehearsal, because they’re already together up by the palace where Yuna takes
her flying lessons, in front of the Grand Maester and everything and when we
see the ceremony happening they go through the procession and do all that over
again. Not to mention that it takes some time to fly to Bevelle. (Maybe they
had to do it over to reset all of the stuff that Yuna seems to have knocked
over. It looks as though there’s been some kind of struggle and she is clearly
in a fighting mood there.) I’m not really sure when or what we’re looking at
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*I’m
reluctant to accept everything listed in the Ultimania guide as absolute canon;
it’s a third-party supplemental resource and not the game itself. Personally I
like to believe that Lulu had a strong relationship with her other two
summoners for themselves, not just because she wanted to protect Yuna,
especially with Lady Ginnem. But I do love the idea of her becoming a guardian
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<a href="http://mintywolfplaysffx.blogspot.com/2014/04/part-12-most-depressing-family-reunion.html" target="_blank">Last time</a> we
were on our way to rendezvous with Seymour at Old Meme Temple when Tromell
showed up to isolate Yuna from her guardians for reasons that were, I am sure,
perfectly scrupulous. However, Kidnapping Attempt A was immediately countered
by Kidnapping Attempt B from an Al Bhed motorcycle gang. Everybody jumps into
the fray like it’s Christmas 1983 and Yuna is the last Cabbage Patch doll.</div>
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(Incidentally,
Cabbage Patch Yuna would be the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">cutest
thing</i>.)</div>
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Eh, it’s an
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Tromell
tries to take advantage of the guardians distracting the Al Bhed to sneak out
of there, but Yuna wrenches away from him and runs to join her friends in the
fight.</div>
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I cannot
stand the cute of these two buddies standing so close together in solidarity. I
wonder if Tidus remembers Brother, and knows what’s at stake for Rikku here.</div>
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“I will tell
Father!”</div>
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“Yuna is
safe! We will guard her! She is safe!”</div>
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“You do this
alone, sister!”</div>
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This is how
much Rikku cares about Yuna. She’s already a member of a marginalized group,
but she’s willing to travel with a group of people to whom she is an outsider,
keeping her identity a secret to avoid trouble for them. Now she’s choosing to
side with those people against her own family and allies just to stay close to
Yuna.</div>
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Even if
declaring her intention to do this blows her cover.</div>
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These two
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Here we
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teachings without questioning them, and that is more likely the reason they
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(Remember,
as long as people follow the teachings and remain in fear of Sin, Yevon remains
in power, so it’s actually in Yevon’s best interest that things remain the same,
the cycle of summoner sacrifices goes on, and Sin remains eternal. So far we’ve
seen that anyone who hasn’t followed the teachings has ended up ostracized, as
the Al Bhed are, converted, as the Guado and Ronso were, or destroyed, as the
Crusaders were. It’s likely only because of the discretion of his friends and
his connection to a summoner, as well as his handy “Sin’s toxin” excuse that
Tidus hasn’t gotten into serious trouble for his taboo-breaking yet. If they’d
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which is more than Yevon is doing. Waiting until everyone atones could take
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doesn’t know much about the Al Bhed, considering he’s been spending time with
one for several days at least and never noticed. He storms off to walk to the
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Waffles he seems to be doing okay. I like how Lulu doesn’t even get out of the
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of a reward for befriending either of them, which is sad, considering that
story-wise they seem to be his closest friends. You’d think the game would
reward you for building a relationship with Yuna, at least.) You can also take
this opportunity to stack the deck in favor of several ships by arranging who
gets to ride with whom. ;) I <i>love </i>how disappointed Tidus looks if the two
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<a href="http://youtu.be/_qApPgSL-X0">With Lulu</a>. (I could only find this in
the remastered version for some reason. I guess it’s the one most people
usually end up with so nobody recorded it separately from their LP. Waffles is
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Touching on
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liar. He also says earlier of Biran and Yenke that “Ronso do not lie.” It would
seem that Ronso are able to detect honesty, which explains why he is so
distrustful of Seymour. He can already detect that his motives are shady!
Adding to the list of <a href="http://mintywolf.tumblr.com/post/83487712314/wow-i-need-to-reblog-the-hogweed-holy-moly-ms">Things
Kimahri Already Knows, But Isn’t Telling Anyone</a>. He’s even worse than Auron
about this. ;) I love how unusually gentle his voice is during this
conversation too. (He has to be pretty fond of Tidus for you to get this scene,
after all.) This is probably what he sounds like when he’s talking to Yuna. :)</div>
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Even though she's the one protecting her, Rikku looks up to Yuna. The way that she hopes others perceive her as being like her cousin is really endearing. (And a little bit sad.) She's fifteen and uncomfortable with herself, trying to find her place in her new band of friends, and looking to the other girls in the party for guidance. At different times she mentions a wish to emulate both Yuna, who is beloved, and Lulu, who is respected and mature. But several other people express the opinion that they like her the way she is, and that she should remain true to herself.<br />
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Rikku know that Tidus doesn’t know what happens to summoners? It sounds here
like she’s testing the waters to see how much he’s been told since she saw him
last. I think she realizes that he doesn’t, because she deliberately avoids
telling him when she has to clarify what she means by “sacrifice.” It hurts to
hear him ignorantly support the very thing she’s fighting so hard to prevent, and
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At the door
we are stopped by a monk, who, unlike Wakka, is able to recognize an Al Bhed on
sight. As we’ll see when I start picking up more of the Jecht Spheres, Auron
was frequently (and rightfully) critical of Braska’s other guardian, but in the
end Jecht, for all his faults, was sincere, and more importantly, he was the
one who volunteered to give his life for Braska to defeat Sin. The experience
has made him more willing to accept that guardians can come from unlikely
places. And, knowing what he does about Yevon, he might welcome the outside
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Facebook
relationship status: It’s complicated.</div>
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But look at
this setup. As far as Seymour knows, Yuna has not yet accepted his proposal,
but he’s got a wedding already in the works. There’s musicians and guests and a
party going on and everything, and this had to have already gotten started
before Tromell got back with Yuna. News of the engagement was spread all over
Spira before Yuna had made up her mind. And he made her come all the way out
here to deliver her response, so she’d have to run the gauntlet of all these
happy, expectant people with their hearts set on a wedding if she intended to
say no. When he said “I await your favorable reply,” he wasn’t leaving her with
a choice.</div>
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note, I never got to notice how cute Shelinda is before I started playing on an
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Okay well.
The Guado are kind of treelike so I can imagine him having a kind of woodsy or
floral natural scent, or maybe he’s just into fancy perfumes, but I had to
conjecture that on my own. It is not stated anywhere; all the game is telling
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this drunken reveler in the temple is the compendium of Seymour knowledge.
Somehow I can’t picture Tidus patiently sitting through all of this. But he gives
us an abbreviated, Disneyfied history of his life, telling of how his mixed
heritage caused him grief as a child but now he aspires to “bring the Guado and
humans together in friendship,” how he became a monk at the temple after Jyscal
was ordained a Maester at the beginning of Braska’s Calm, how he rose to his
high position on his own, and how, although he is a peerless summoner, he has
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It seems
there’s a tidied-up propaganda version of Seymour’s story being passed around
to the public, and this guy, who claims to have guarded Seymour since he was a
“wee lad,” is knowingly lying, because several of these details are false. He
omits the fact that Seymour spent his childhood in exile at Baaj Temple,
because his presence was a constant reminder of his father’s indiscretion and a
potential source of strife between humans and the Guado. The exile was not
revoked until after Jyscal had improved relations between the two races by
converting the Guado to Yevon, (although we never do find out if the Guado put
up resistance to having their old way of life subjugated by the church) and
Seymour was summoned back to Guadosalam to become a priest. He was eighteen
when this happened, so <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">nobody</i> was
protecting him for the remainder of his childhood after his mother became a
fayth, let alone this human guy. And, significantly, he does not mention that
Seymour actually did complete the pilgrimage. It could be that his followers
are keeping it a secret, but I think it’s more likely that most people, apart
from possibly the inner circle of Yevon (and anyone whom Seymour and his mother
may have met 18 years ago while they were on the pilgrimage, taking into
account that summoners tend to create a stir wherever they go) don’t know about
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why no one seems to question his scary, ultra-powerful aeon that no one has ever
seen before and clearly does not belong to any of the known temples, especially
since the other Maesters, who may know the secret behind the Final Summoning –
Mika almost certainly does, at least – must have figured out where she came
from and that she is a Final Aeon not being used for its intended purpose. It
seems strange that he’d be able to rise to the position of Maester having
obviously forsaken his most essential duty as a summoner, but, as I have
mentioned before, Yevon is deeply messed up and actually very interested in
keeping Sin alive, so they were probably not much bothered by his breaking
tradition, as long as people don’t know about his pilgrimage. They even might
have feared such a powerful summoner attempting to defeat Sin, just in case he
somehow managed to defeat it permanently. It’s even possible that his powerful
aeon, as proof of his strength as a summoner, was what made him an attractive
prospect as a Maester. Yevon has a history of assimilating its opponents, and
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atmosphere takes a nosedive when a nun who was apparently snooping through
Yuna’s stuff finds Jyscal’s sphere. (For something so imperatively secret she
really does not keep track of that thing very well. Maybe you’re not allowed to
take any extraneous spheres into the Cloister of Trials, I dunno. But if she
was intending to confront Seymour with it you’d think she might have brought it
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Maesters, or maybe the Guado, can intuit the thoughts and feelings of others?
Perhaps they are simply very good at reading people. (Seymour seems pretty
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Auron’s the one leading the “Let’s go save Yuna, again” charge this time. He
may be gruff with her (and pushing her towards an inevitable death), but he does care, and he seems to have a better sense
than the others do of the kind of danger she’s in. Auron, Tidus, and Kimahri
have all expressed distrust of Seymour, but of the three of them Auron has also
guessed with the most accuracy what Yuna plans to do, so he has an idea of how
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It’s a lot
easier for Lulu to say “Hell with Seymour!” than it is for Wakka. For her, it’s
simply a matter of choosing whether to side with Yevon or with Yuna, and she is
on Team Yuna until the very end of the world. I noted earlier that she is
faithful to the teachings, but she isn’t as devout as Wakka is. This doesn’t
mean that he doesn’t care about Yuna, just that he’s having a more difficult
crisis of faith here. For him, Yevon <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">is</i>
Spira, it is home and hope and security, and turning against a maester will
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Chamber of the Fayth while Yuna is trying to pray. You can’t see them in most
of these pictures, but Seymour’s two bodyguards are here the entire time, so
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Just give up now, Seymour.<br />
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Shiva was
apparently the most accommodating of the aeons because presently the door opens
and Yuna emerges, much steadier and less exhausted than usual. I like to think
that her fayth was aware that something was about to go down outside and was
quick to pledge her support. Yuna, however, is dismayed that her friends have
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You have to
love how honest Seymour is about all of his shadery. He doesn’t call attention
to it but he doesn’t try to hide it either, and when people accuse him of being
less than an exemplary <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/fansub">fugleman for
everyone</a> he is just like “So what?” Because he knows that Yevon is actually
a festering morass of treachery, corruption, and death, so he is behaving as a
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usual sarcasm. He still had a faint hope that she’d really take his side, in
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But when he
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Code of the Guardian. He only had one, and she made the ultimate guardian’s
sacrifice for him, from which he never really recovered. With the exception of
Auron, none of them know what is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">really</i>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Stop trying
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best insult to Seymour is frequently <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">his
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Actually
both characters in the main lineup who have standard, if somewhat uncommon,
English-language names both ended up with really goofy names unsuited to the
seriousness of their characters. (But well-suited to a four-year-old or
possibly a mop dog, and the nerdy guy from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Little
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If you try
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I have
really fond memories of this battle. I was stuck on it for a long time for some
reason (I think his multi-blizzara etc. spells were giving me trouble or
something) so a friend of mine who had played the game before had me bring over
my memory card and he talked me through it and everybody watched and cheered
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Shiva has
the prettiest summoning sequence. There’s some similarities in the way other
summoners call aeons but Yuna’s have these little flourishes. Probably just to
be economical with time and animation, but I like that the way she pets Valefor
and Yojimbo’s dog and sits on Ifrit’s shoulder suggests a more personal,
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And then
there’s Shiva. “Here, love, catch!”<br />
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“DO YOU WANT
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I like how
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Shouldn’t he
already have Shiva? Considering he’s already been on a complete pilgrimage and
is the high priest of this exact temple. Unless by that power he means Yuna,
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Amusingly,
the game doesn’t force you to summon another aeon if Shiva gets defeated (or
even summon her at all) so you can actually mop up the rest of the battle with
regular characters and he’ll still say this. I’m pretty sure that I’ve had the
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Seymour’s
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Okay so when
I made the Lord of the Dance comment earlier I was drawing from my memory of
having seen the Riverdance show on PBS as a kid (and, more importantly, the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW3T-7vaX4Q">MST3K parody</a>) and I had
no idea until I looked it up just recently that the song it’s based on is
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So I
mentioned a long time ago that Yuna’s not the only person carrying around
Messiah symbolism. The trope is spread out among three characters like a holy
trinity. Yuna heals others, walks on water, sends the dead to rest, and is
prepared to die for the sins of mankind. Seymour dies in a crucifix pose and
then later rises from the dead, believing he is going to be the savior of
Spira. But in the end, the one who sacrifices himself and takes away the sins
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liked if they had developed Seymour’s false messiah/antichrist plot arc a
little more and had him break away from Yevon and start gathering a cult
following preaching his perspective of Sin worship and redemption through
death, but after he resurrects himself he kind of just goes off alone with his
crazy. It would have been interesting to see more conflict between Yevon and
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“Our production of <i>Jesus Christ Superstar</i> kind of got out of hand <i>we're so sorry!!</i>”<br />
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Before Yuna
can send Seymour and solve a lot of future problems, Tromell’s attendants drag
him away. The Guado likely have their own pre-Yevon funeral rites that they
prefer to adhere to, especially since Seymour was their only summoner, but the
way they are so possessive of his dead body always came across to me as a
little sinister and disturbing. Like they had some plan for it. I really was
not surprised to see him still around later. (And that was even before I
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The enormity
of what she’s done, and its possible consequences, only just now sinks in. At
best, she’ll be excommunicated from Yevon and, as far as she knows, unable to
continue her pilgrimage. At worst, they’ll all be caught and executed for
treason, and she’ll hold herself responsible, because it was her idea to
confront Seymour in the first place.</div>
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Yeah we’ll
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The first
good idea anybody has had all day.</div>
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I wonder if
the version I’m playing now is different than the one I own for PS2 because I’m
used to getting a Black Magic Sphere here too. This is the first time I’ve
noticed a difference.</div>
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My friend
was still coaching me during my first playthrough and he told me to use that to
teach Fira to Yuna. We ran outside the temple and tried it out in the first
battle and I was like “!!!!!!” and he was like “Yeah, Yuna turns into a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">freaking cannon</i>.” To this day I remember
it as one of the best moments of my gaming career.</div>
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“Snow Queen”
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This is a
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You thought
you could get out of here without a sphere puzzle? Haha. Somehow the police
never catch up with us in the time it takes us to figure it out. Maybe they
thought we’d just get stuck in here forever.</div>
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Whatever you
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rebuilt the bridge. You will have to do it all over again and you will be sad.
(Not that I’m speaking from experience, or anything . . .)</div>
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Tromell and
the Guado guards are patiently waiting outside to take us into custody. Some of
the more optimistic members of our party are still holding on to the idea that
if we can just explain the truth to everyone, everything will be okay.</div>
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(Also haha
wow look at this Lingerie Model Yunalesca statue they have here. That’s one way
to get people to come to prayer.)</div>
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Everybody
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Some time
ago on tumblr I suggested that save spheres, the sphere grid, and other more
mechanical, esoteric aspects of the game might not actually exist in the real
world of Spira but it was pointed out to me that you do see other people
interacting with save spheres. And sure enough, here’s O’aka using one to
teleport. I assume they are some kind of Al Bhed invention, (since everything
that defies explanation in this game can usually be handwaved as either
“mysterious pyreflies” or “wacky Al Bhed science”) and therefore people are
reluctant to use them because you’d think if a civilization had something as
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During these
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ambient pyreflies to manifest. They may be new to Yevon, but this would suggest
that the Guado have some inherent skill at summoning or pyrefly manipulation,
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They look so
cold. :( (And one of the stages of hypothermia is confusion, haha.) I like the way their hair and clothes fly around in the wind in this
area though. It’s a nice touch.</div>
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The Guado
finally catch up with us, along with this grumpy guy. In Algonquian and
Canadian folklore, a wendigo is a human transformed into a perpetually-ravenous
monster after indulging in cannibalism. They are associated with winter,
hardship, famine, and starvation. In some versions of the myth they grow to be
giants, always hungry, which is the portrayal of them that often appears
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He’s a sore
loser, too. Deprived of the opportunity to eat the delicious-looking party, he
smashes the thick sheet of ice covering the lake and plunges them all into the
frigid water to drown horribly.</div>
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they’re all fine.</div>
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The
structure of this lake makes no sense. There’s a solid crust of ice up top,
then some kind of gigantic air bubble containing the ruins of a sunken city,
and then only like a foot of water at the bottom. But the reason this region is
frozen is said to be the temple fayth, so I suppose Shiva can do what she wants
with her ice sculptures.<br />
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ADDENDUM: It was pointed out to me by a sharp-eyed <a href="http://mintywolfplaysffx.blogspot.com/2014/05/part-13-traitors.html?showComment=1400881700485#c6000096526444332426" target="_blank">Anon in the comments</a> that they're actually all <i>on top of Sin</i>. I just assumed that the ruins were like the other sunken ruins we see throughout the game - off the Djose shore and underneath the Moonflow, etc - and didn't think much of there being old structures at the bottom of the lake. But I fiddled with the brightness settings on that screenshot and what I took for rocks and such actually appear to be Sin's fins and other bumpy bits. I'd never noticed this before!<br />
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Compare to this screenshot we saw of him earlier in the game:<br />
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It still doesn't explain why there's such a huge gap between the water and the top of the lake but it does explain why it's so shallow where they are. Whether by accident or design, Sin caught them when they fell. Thanks, giant whale dad!<br />
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This also explains the CONSTANT SNORING SOUND you hear throughout the scene. It's Sin, peacefully snoozing to the Hymn of the Fayth.<br />
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“I need to
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“What now?”
Auron wonders, which upsets Waffles, who has always looked to him as the party
leader even when he was reluctant to follow him. If Auron doesn’t know what to
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But Auron
doesn’t see himself as the leader. He has been letting Yuna make her own
decisions, as long as she remains committed to her pilgrimage, even when he
doesn’t approve. I don’t think he’s comfortable having everyone else defer to
his seniority.</div>
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“But you
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The person
he’d really like to say this to is Yuna, but he probably can’t do it without
upsetting her or making her closer guardians defensive. She tried to handle her
Seymour problems on her own, without the support of her friends, and now
they’re all at the bottom of a lake.</div>
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Wakka is
taking this the hardest because Yevon was such a major part of his identity. He
shakes his fist angrily at Rikku, lashing out at the nearest culpable target,
even though it’s not her fault. She’s just been along for the ride during the
whole bachelor party debacle, but, we’ve seen before, he’s looking for a way to
rationalize what happened, even if it doesn’t make sense. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Maybe if we hadn’t let an Al Bhed lead us astray from Yevon, this
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And then she
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she hopes to grow up to be like Lulu. (Although from this conversation and
other ones we can see that she admires Lulu’s maturity and self-possession as
well.) Waffles, realizing he has entered dangerous territory, tries to talk to
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Kimahri
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Something
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little hesitation in “He didn’t . . . <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">say</i>
anything.” What did he do, then? Smirk at her disconcertingly? Indulge in an
evil laugh? And then he accompanied her to the Chamber of the Fayth like it was
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caused by Yuna’s dealings with Seymour – which he did not support in the first
place, especially the fact that she insisted on keeping it to herself – is going to make her pilgrimage difficult to complete if they have become enemies
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Yuna’s
father was cast out of Yevon as a heretic for marrying an Al Bhed woman (and
possibly, for trying to further peace with the Al Bhed rather than simply
converting them.) Seymour was also an outcast when he made his pilgrimage. Lady
Yocun, the High Summoner before Braska, was a Crusader. Lady Yunalesca herself
was an enemy of Bevelle. History doesn’t remember them that way, but some of
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turn ourselves in. Yuna still naively wants to believe that the people in
charge must be reasonable and just, because otherwise her lifelong faith in
Yevon will be in vain. Auron isn’t happy with this, but he agrees to come with
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Lulu, Wakka,
and Kimahri all comment that they can feel something amiss, but Kimahri says
that he senses no danger. Sin is nearby, but this time it isn’t hostile or
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And then we
eavesdrop on Waffles’s memories, haha. There’s some slight fourth wall breaking
here since Auron and Tidus talk over this like they can see the memory we’re
looking at too. A little while ago somebody on tumblr asked me how I think
Jecht and Tidus are able to know the Hymn of the Fayth, since there are no
fayth in Dream Zanarkand. I replied with <a href="http://mintywolf.tumblr.com/post/82951008644/the-hymn-of-the-fayth-i-checked-out-the-meaning-of-the">this</a>:<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">“If you
find Maechen near the end of the game (he’s hanging around Mt. Gagazet before
you go to defeat Sin), he tells you a bit about the history of the Hymn:</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">“Let me tell you about the Hymn of the
Fayth. It was once a Zanarkand song, sung in defiance of Bevelle! Of course,
the Yevon clergy of Bevelle forbade it. Then, as these things often go, those
who disliked Yevon began to sing it. The Al Bhed, for instance. The Hymn of the
Fayth became the symbol of defiance against Yevon. Yevon could do nothing but capitulate.
They lifted the ban on the song, and spread a new story. They said the hymn was
a song sung to soothe the souls of the dead. And so saying, they took the song
and made it scripture. That’s why today, the hymn is sung all over Spira. You
could say that, though Zanarkand is gone from this world, it lives on in the
song.”</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">(Source: </span></i><a href="http://auronlu.istad.org/ffx-script/14.html"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">AuronLu’s Complete FFX
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">It’s
likely that the memory of it was preserved by the Zanarkand fayth in their dream
but stripped of its religious meaning, the way the prayer gesture became known
to Dream Zanarkanders as a blitzball gesture. They might just have known the
tune without knowing the words or their meaning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Since
Jecht and Tidus’s Zanarkand is a dream of many fayth, I would guess that the
hymn could also be ambient in Dream Zanarkand, the way it is inside a temple in
proximity to the fayth. Maybe not everywhere, but with so many fayth singing it
could be that there are places in Dream Zanarkand where they could hear it.”</span></div>
<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Some other people weighed in
with their own opinions in the comments too, suggesting that it was originally
secular but became imbued with religious meaning over the past millennium, or
that it was even the Zanarkand anthem.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><strike>I’m not
sure where Sin is supposed to be here, since the water isn’t very deep and I
wouldn’t think the lake would be big enough to contain him, anyway. Maybe the
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Mystery solved above. ;) He was there all along, but woke up when the singing stopped.</span><br />
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all assuming that Sin is somehow able to travel between even isolated bodies of
water – we’ve seen him in the ocean before, but he appears in the lake here and
drops Tidus off in the Bikanel Island oasis.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I love Wakka and Rikku gravitating towards each other for reassurance during what they assume is
going to be another Sin attack. He’s still antagonistic towards her, but over
the next plot arc we see major development in his character as their
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Everybody
gets hauled aboard Sin like the Magic School Bus and space-whaled off into the
unknown. Temporarily calmed by the Hymn of the Fayth, Jecht has enough control
of himself to try to communicate with Tidus through a hazy, dreamlike chain of
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child he remembers. I noticed that whenever we see Tidus from Jecht’s point of
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We <a href="http://mintywolfplaysffx.blogspot.com/2014/04/part-11-rides-ze-shoopuf.html" target="_blank">last </a><a href="http://mintywolfplaysffx.blogspot.com/2014/04/part-11-rides-ze-shoopuf.html" target="_blank">left</a>
our friends at the Guado ancestral manor where Seymour, with his characteristic
lack of romantic finesse, backed Yuna into a corner and proposed marriage. He’s
not even pretending to hide his extreme shadiness anymore. (Not that he was
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“It would
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Waffles of
course still doesn’t know how the pilgrimage is really going to end and just
doesn’t want Yuna to marry Seymour because he knows he’s bad news (and also
because he has a badly-concealed crush on her himself). Rikku, who does know
how it’s going to end, is still looking for a way to stop it, even if the
alternative is Seymour.</div>
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Rikku has
had limited experience with Seymour; she probably wasn’t in Luca during the
fiend attack or at Operation Mi’ihen – although we don’t know that for sure –
and she just joined the party. Right now she just knows him as “That important
Yevon guy with the cool house and nice fruit.” You’d think she’d be more alert
to how uncomfortable he is clearly making Yuna, but since he is offering a
scenario in which she might get to live, she is jumping at that idea.</div>
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But I’m
always bothered by the fact that Lulu, who is wiser, is less “OH HELL NO” about
this. I mean yes, Lulu generally has the whole “conceal, don’t feel, don’t let
it show” thing going on, (she is, as we’ll see in her next few scenes, actually
quite ruffled about everything happening right now), but she is being awfully neutral
towards the prospect of her darling being violated by a creeper.</div>
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Last time
when I played this game with a friend, we got to this part and I brought this
up when we started discussing Seymour’s intentions. She suggested that he might
view it strictly as a marriage of symbolism for the people and (doing an
excellent impression of him, I might add) after they were married just be like
“And here is your room. Good night, Lady Yuna.” And they go their separate ways
when not appearing in public.</div>
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However,
from what we’ve seen of Seymour, he has little respect for her personal
boundaries and in addition, needs to forge a bond with her, for which he
specifically used Yunalesca and Zaon as an example, in order to become her
Final Aeon. He must have some kind of attachment to her already, albeit an
unhealthy, twisted one, and he would take her agreeing to marry him as a sign
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But Yuna
doesn’t love him. She respects him as a summoner and a Maester, is intimidated
by him and in awe of how much more powerful he is than she, and has empathy for
him because of his tragic past and the similarity of his story to hers, but she
doesn’t love him. She’s never even considered the possibility of romantic
attachment for herself, because she’s spent her young adulthood planning to
give her life for Spira, which is the reason she’s so flustered and conflicted
to find herself falling for Tidus. If she consents to marry Seymour, she is
doing so because she feels it is her responsibility as a summoner to do what
she can to help the people of Spira, not because she wants to. Any physical contact
he initiates with her within the bounds of their marriage is going to be
unwanted even if she agrees to it, which means that there is a definite
possibility that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">he is going to rape her</i>.</div>
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BE MORE
CONCERNED ABOUT IT PLEASE.</div>
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Auron’s main
concern is that Yuna stick to her pilgrimage, as usual, but he distrusts
Seymour too, mainly because Seymour keeps trying to poke at his pyreflies.
Wakka still has too much faith in Yevon to question the motives of a Maester.
Kimahri already made it clear that he doesn’t trust Seymour. And Yuna of course
already knows that her life is not her own; she was already planning to give
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Actually he <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">does</i> belong there, and that’s the
problem. Rikku’s not going either, and stops to explain one of the conflicting
theories on the nature of the Farplane. Most people believe that the sent dead
reside there, and can be called up to communicate with privately. The Al Bhed,
however, believe that the shades of the dead are only an illusion created by
the pyreflies reacting to the memories of the visitors, and she says she
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Maechen about this, he mentions that only the dead have ever been seen there,
never the memory of a living person, and puts forth his own theory that “<span class="m">Maybe the dead leave a bit of themselves in the hearts of the living.
And that little bit borrows the pyreflies’ power for their paranormal
performance! (Or maybe not. Who knows?)” And there’s nobody there trying to
call up famous dead people they’ve never met like the High Summoners or
anything. (At least that we see. It could also be out of respect, but it seems
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<span class="m">I would like to add to this that the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">unsent</i> dead don’t appear there, either. It could still be true that
the shades are an illusion created by the reaction of pyreflies to the
visitors’ memories, but if that’s the case then the pyreflies that take the
shape of the dead person are that actual person’s pyreflies, because we see
someone trying to call a missing dead person and not succeeding. If the
pyreflies could take any shape, not just the shape of the person they used to
be, then other pyreflies could have reacted to her memories and created the
image of the person she was looking for whether or not she was actually in the
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<span class="m">He says of these two stone-faced people floating dismally in space. I
dunno, though. At the end we do (spoilers) see a dead guy interacting with
other dead guys in the Farplane so I would assume that they do have the ability
to be happy together there, and not just exist as a cloud of pyreflies. I
wonder if their pyreflies react to each other so that dead people can only meet
people they have memories of from when they were alive, otherwise it seems like
the Farplane would be really crowded. (Thanks, Sin.)</span></div>
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<span class="m">I read a book once called </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brief_History_of_the_Dead"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Brief History of the Dead</i></a><span class="m"> that had the premise of a kind of limbo in the afterlife where the
dead reside as long as they remain in living memory. All of the people there
were remembered by someone who was still alive, and when the last person who
remembered them died, they disappeared, presumably moving on. I have wondered
if the Farplane is a bit like that, since the souls of the dead being tied to
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<span class="m">It takes seeing Chappu in the Farplane for Wakka to really accept the
fact that his brother is dead, and didn’t ride a space whale through time or
get a bleach job, a new wardrobe, and amnesia and start calling himself the
Star Player of the Zanarkand Abes. The removal of the faint hope that Tidus
might actually be Chappu, or a link to him, doesn’t make him love Tidus any
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<span class="m">Over here Lulu is also coming to terms with the idea that it’s time to
let go of her grief and guilt over Chappu’s death and move on. I find it kind
of touching and kind of sad that she’s pouring out her concerns to Waffles, of
all people. (Part of this is obviously because he’s the player, and otherwise
we wouldn’t get to hear what she’s saying.) It’s nice that she trusts him
enough to open up to him but that probably also means that she doesn’t have
anyone else to talk to, now that she doesn’t want to burden Yuna with her
troubles because she knows she has enough of her own already.</span></div>
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<span class="m">Then Waffles tries to give romantic advice, which goes about as well as
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<span class="m">But she’s not just talking about herself here. (Probably wanting to deflect the conversation away from the subject of her love life.) Very slowly, Lulu is
starting to warm up to the idea of Tidus and Yuna, maybe because the alternative
of Seymour is making her realize how much more comfortable she’d be aboard the
S.S. Tuna. But she makes it clear that this is advice for the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">very far future</i>, and that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">if</i>, hypothetically, he were to date Yuna
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<span class="m">Unfortunately we don't get to see Kimarhi talking with any dead friends or relations he might have, so no extra backstory on him, so we move along to Yuna, who is </span><br />
<span class="m">thinking back her memories as a
seven-year-old at the beginning of her father’s Calm. (I also didn’t notice
what Lulu was doing back there until I started cropping my screencaps and
realized I too had forgotten something in Guadosalam, and I’d stopped playing
at the Macalania Travel Agency, so I trekked all the way back here to cap three
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<span class="m">What she wants is not necessarily “to get married” but “to live,” but
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He tells
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essentially dying of a broken heart. This concept was helpfully illustrated for
him by the icehearted old lady next door, who told him “<span class="tn">when a
lovebird dies, the one left behind . . . it just gives up living so it can join
its mate.” Little intense there, old lady. </span></div>
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<span class="tn">I get the impression from this that the next in line to inherit Mini
Waffles was (a very uncomfortable) Auron, but throughout the game it doesn’t seem
like the two of them really know each other well enough for Auron to have
raised him. He could have been sent to boarding school or a distant relative or
something while Auron watched over him from afar. Maybe paid for his school and
blitzball lessons depending on whether Jecht, being a celebrity athlete, had
left them money to spare or had drunk the family into oblivion and left them
with a bunch of debts when he disappeared.</span></div>
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Re-sending
the reluctant spirit is more exhausting for Yuna than sending even several
willing spirits. As he goes he leaves behind a sphere that he has somehow had
on his person since he had a body, because pyreflies. (I would say that he
somehow recorded it in the Farplane, but he specifically mentions that he was
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As Yuna goes
to talk to Seymour as planned, Auron warns her that this is the Guado’s
problem, not hers, but he should really know her better than that. Yuna is
never not trying to solve someone else’s problems. It’s the whole reason she’s
on a pilgrimage. (This is an aspect of her character that carries into X-2 as
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At this
point you get a conversation that changes depending on whether or not you’re
better friends with Lulu or Rikku. It’s actually pretty hard to get the Rikku
conversation, since she’s in the party for such a short amount of time and Lulu
is the Keeper of Exposition (a disciple of Maechen, no doubt) so the game
frequently places her near you so you won’t forget to talk to her. For
roleplaying purposes I like Tidus to be friends with Rikku, but I think the
Lulu conversation gives some valuable insight into her current frame of mind so
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have the opportunity to talk to people, since the first person you talk to
gives you friendship points, don’t have Tidus heal her in battle, and throw
healing items at Rikku as often as you can on the way to Guadosalam. If you
still feel the need to tip the scales in her favor, and you’re horrible, you
can have Tidus take a swing at Lulu a few times. (If you’ve been following the
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Waffles
never did develop the healthy fear of Lulu that Wakka has. He has no problem
following her around asking all these invasive questions. I have trouble writing
about this scene because Lulu is just distractingly beautiful. It’s like the
time I had this tea-scented wallflower plugin in my art room that smelled so
nice I had to move it because I wasn’t getting any work done.</div>
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I love “All
you need is determination” as an iconic line for her except that the rest of it
is “If you have that, you don’t need love.” Yikes. It's interesting that the context of this line is that she's talking about Yuna getting married, though. She already seems to know that navigating a relationship with Seymour is going to take endurance on Yuna's part.</div>
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Lulu knows
that Yuna doesn’t love Seymour, and she doesn’t want her to get married, but
since both of these things are out of her control, (and I’ve pointed out before
that she hates having things out of her control) she is trying to console
herself with the notion that even if Yuna gets married, she’ll be doing it out
of love for Spira rather than love for Seymour, and things won’t change. If the
pilgrimage continues, she will still be Yuna’s guardian. She objected to Yuna’s
becoming a summoner in the beginning, but if Yuna quits her pilgrimage now as a
result of getting married, she will have to surrender her to Seymour and will
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She’s
probably also pretty creeped out by the thought of Yuna returning Seymour’s
creepy affections and is reassuring herself that this is not the case. (Just
speculation: she might also be worried that if Yuna <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">does</i> grow to love Seymour, she will no longer need Lulu like she
used to. She had the same hesitation over Yuna’s blossoming attachment to Tidus
<a href="http://mintywolfplaysffx.blogspot.com/2014/01/part-5-dad-omg-youre-embarrassing-me_28.html">way
back in Kilika</a> – she still sees Yuna as her baby sister and an innocent. Yuna
is already starting to outgrow her dependence on Lulu as she makes an effort to
become stronger and more independent, and if she gains the emotional maturity
to fall in love and enter an adult relationship, Lulu will have to let her,
even if it means letting her go.)</div>
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It’s rare
that we see Lulu this flustered and at odds with herself. Usually she is the
model of composure, but her anxiety over Yuna and being unable to do anything
about it is causing her carefully-maintained decorum to fray, and it’s
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She realizes
she was being less than generous towards Yuna by hoping that she wasn’t really
in love with Seymour, because that would mean dooming her to being trapped in
the gilded birdcage of a loveless symbolic marriage. But she still doesn’t
want her to love Seymour. Or Tidus. Or anybody she can’t trust not to hurt her.</div>
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<b>A</b>: Bluntly
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<b>B</b>: Admit to
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<b>C</b>: Hit on
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(I am dying
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whose belts she has stolen</a>. I love his victorious fist-pump there too. "Woohoo I might have a chance!")</div>
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I usually
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I like to pick the second one because it’s in character for him. (Although
there is very little reward in terms of extra cutscenes for building up a
relationship with Yuna, sadly.)</div>
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I assume it
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around and the Guado have only been Yevonites for the past ten years. That is
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reason. (Maybe she just stepped out to check the weather. Nope, still raining.)
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Since
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mentioned earlier that they kind of have a holographic effect to them, so I
wonder if she’s actually expecting a pyrefly-powered response or if this is
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(This is the
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here for.) So if you go back to the Farplane observatory any time between now
and the next stage of this little plot arc in the Calm Lands, you find Lulu by
herself, attempting to call someone who isn’t responding. (And it’s clearly not
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Along the
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Crossing the Thunder Plains is an
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But in
response, she really starts slinging some barbs. I think this dialogue is
supposed to be funny and not especially hurtful, but it’s kind of terrible for
her to say considering that she knows Yuna actually <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">is</i> going to die young, and that <a href="http://mintywolf.tumblr.com/post/63483538714/lashieldmaiden-mintywolf-im-too-young-to">none
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“<span class="r">My brother tried to beat it back with a spell. But he missed and hit me
instead! It was a Thunder spell – “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bzzzzzzt!</i>”</span></blockquote>
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<span class="r">So it is possible for spells to miss, but Lulu never does. (Despite
only being able to see out of one eye.) I would guess that magic is guided more
by intuition than aim. Either that or she has had a lot of practice.</span></div>
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<span class="r">I like the implication here that Yuna is capable of moods as bad as
Lulu’s, and that Wakka knows this from experience. She isn’t mild-mannered and
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<span class="r">Yeah I kind of doubt Auron had to deal with Braska getting marriage
proposals from creepers and kidnapped every four feet but you never know.</span></div>
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You get
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I had <a href="http://mintywolf.tumblr.com/post/58270347058/i-have-some-ffx-chronology-questions">first
assumed</a> that Kimahri brought Auron to Rin’s Travel Agency after finding him
wounded outside Bevelle, and he died that night and walked away unsent, but
when we were trying to figure out how to fit together the series of events
surrounding Braska’s defeat of Sin, AuronLu <a href="http://auronlu.tumblr.com/post/58284310848/i-have-some-ffx-chronology-questions">also
suggested</a> that Rin could have found him in the Calm Lands and taken him
back either to the travel agency or Bevelle on his hovercraft. (Also the end
result of that endeavor was that you actually can’t fit together that series of
events in any way that makes chronological sense unless someone has a <a href="http://mintywolf.tumblr.com/post/58297585202/i-have-some-ffx-chronology-questions">jetpack-powered
chocobo</a>.)</div>
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Professional
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I’m not
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something like “Punch him in the nose” but Yuna, for some reason, gets
extremely upset about it. Enough to run off in distress and leave him alone
with the sphere she was just attempting to hide from him. What did he mean that
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Uh oh.
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“My hair!”</div>
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It’s sweet
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contrary, it’s Rikku who doesn’t get Auron here. She’s the only one of them who
didn’t know him, or know of him, prior to the pilgrimage. His status as the
Legendary Guardian and the respect it commands is completely lost on her. While
he might appreciate having someone around who just sees him as a normal guy, he
is not going to halt the pilgrimage to accommodate the whims of a
fifteen-year-old who just joined them the other day. And he's certainly not going to try to cheer her up. This is the pilgrimage, kiddo. We've got abominations to fight, mountains to climb, and children to sacrifice. Better get used to it.</div>
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to say, and she has to say it now, I guess because Macalania is Seymour’s
territory and she doesn’t want anyone who reports back to him to happen to
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Lulu sounds
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the pro-Seymour/no-Seymour sides of the engagement debate almost as much as
Yuna has, and, despite what she said to Tidus, she is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not</i> fine with her getting married, even if the pilgrimage does
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When I first
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to decide what angle to take on Lulu and Yuna’s relationship, and specifically
whether I wanted a (tragic, unrequited) romantic element. Ordinarily I am all
for girlslash, love triangles, and unrequited love angst, but in this case I prefer
to interpret them as having a securely loving relationship with their distress
coming from external sources rather than having one of them worrying about
whether the other one will ever return the affections she is unable to express.
But this exchange specifically and Lulu’s reaction (and her sad posture
throughout the scene) was what made me consider taking it in a different
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(Now, while
I don’t personally ship them romantically, I enjoy when other people do. But I
have found disappointingly few fics to that effect and even fewer that ship
them the way I do, in a non-romantic but very close and deeply loving kind of
way. Why are you letting me down, FFX fandom. I know it’s kind of a rarepair
but how come I have come across Tidus/Auron, Tidus/Seymour, Seymour/Auron, and eleventy
billion Auron/Rikku fics but so few Lulu/Yuna ones? *shakes paws at sky*)</div>
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Nancy Drew
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Again, it
must have been very difficult for Yuna to refuse a request from Auron,
especially with him staring her in the face.<br />
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She already
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from him that he cares about her more as a summoner than as a person because he
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His cynical tone,
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(Have I
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Yuna remains
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react until the end, and then she smiles and puts her hand over Rikku’s to
reassure her. Her sad-eyed smile tips us off that it’s all a performance to put her
friend at ease, and she will not, in fact, be fine.</div>
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His
assessment of Yuna here is one of my favorite Yuna-related quotes. (Although we’ve seen
that she’s not as serious as all that. But it’s only after Auron arrived that
she stopped fooling around with her friends. He never got to see her running up
the stairs in Kilika or learning to whistle with Waffles in Luca.)</div>
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Yuna is
agreeing to go along with the marriage, or at least as far as accepting
Seymour’s proposal, because she feels it’s going to be the only way she’s going
to get the opportunity to confront him about what she saw on Jyscal’s sphere
alone, without his guardians or hers nearby. She knows it’s going to be
dangerous for her to defy him – he is very powerful, physically, politically,
and summoner-ly, and she doesn’t want to endanger her friends to being arrested,
excommunicated, or even killed. But she is willing to take that risk for
herself, trusting only in her own skills and his apparent affections for her to
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Auron sounds
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endeared to the idea of the two of them together for their own sake, not just
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Barthello is
a hot mess without Dona. I really wonder how they were apart for long enough to
be separated, but the Al Bhed do move fast and are also apparently waiting
under every rock, bush, and shoopuf. Auron tells him to calm his bellowing self
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It must mean
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Noooooooooooooooo</div>
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*the Star
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I will take
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But then he hacks through that tree like it was made of Aunt Fussy's commemorative plates. Waffles and
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(I actually
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either side of a Level 2 Lock like Pyramus and Thisbe since almost the
beginning of the game, but I got overexcited and opened the gate between Auron
and Lulu instead. I have star-crossed lovers all over my Sphere Grid. Hopefully
nobody will be mistaken for eaten by a lion in the time it takes me to get to
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On the way
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for Tidus to keep reminding himself that he hates his father, both as an
abusive, absent parent and as a world-destroying space monster, because it’s
going to make the emotional hurdle of having to confront and kill him in the
end less difficult to jump. Because he doesn’t hate Jecht entirely; when he was
young he was desperate for his approval, followed in his footsteps as a blitzer
and now, without meaning to, as a guardian, and is still trying to get his
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I love the
interior of the Macalania Travel Agency. The polar bear rug, the wood stove,
the rocking chair, the ice skates and winter coats for sale, Yuna standing with
her face in the corner. It all looks so cozy.<br />
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I think <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Game of Thrones</i> fans might disagree, but
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Seymour
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but I’m not sure what his plans were from there since Yuna catches up to him
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This is of
course <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">exactly </i>what he wants. I
wonder if he was planning to just hitch himself to her pilgrimage as an extra
guardian or take her off on her own, to ensure she didn’t choose another fayth.
The eight of them journeying together would be the most spectacularly awkward
honeymoon.</div>
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“See you
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The
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After she
leaves Auron urges Tidus to say something to Yuna to express his solidarity.
(Specifically, “Sorry,” I guess for inconveniencing her in some way or allowing this to happen.
I think there is some cultural nuance here that I am missing.) He runs after
her and whistles, which I tried like four times to catch a screenshot of, but
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But
suddenly! As soon as Yuna is separated from her guardians, she and Tromell are
surrounded by snowmobiling Al Bhed, who were apparently waiting in a snowbank
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Next time: No
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<a href="http://mintywolfplaysffx.blogspot.com/2014/02/part-10-yuna-and-terrible-horrible-no.html">Last
time</a>, Seymour and Yuna’s first date ended in disaster when a space whale
slammed into the beach and murdered everyone. (Exactly as he was expecting.)</div>
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The adults
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I always
thought this was kind of a weirdly optimistic thing to say, especially coming
from her. Lulu is not usually the person to spout motivational poster quotes,
and that’s what this sounds like. It could be that she’s just speaking from
past experience after all the terrible things she’s lived through, but I
decided that she was repeating <a href="http://dippywerewolf.deviantart.com/art/Guardian-Page-18-409485656">something
she’d heard before</a>.</div>
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(Also way to
swing your arms right in the way there Wakka.)</div>
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Auron
meanwhile is trying to avoid the attention of one of the temple’s bouncing fox
monkeys. These are all over the place. I wonder if they’re considered sacred
and allowed to do whatever they please, or if the temple is just not able to
get rid of them. It’s kind of jarring though when people are having a serious
conversation about Sin-wrought atrocities and dead Crusaders while there are
squeaky little critters bouncing around in the foreground.</div>
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Waffles goes
inside and learns that while he was snoozing, Yuna was up until dawn helping to
heal the wounded soldiers and performing the sending for the dead ones. Isaaru
left yesterday and Dona doesn’t seem to be around anymore either, so she may
have done this on her own. I’d like to think that Isaaru at least would have
turned around and come back to the temple to help when he saw how bad things
were, but there’s no mention of either of them.</div>
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here don’t even know the full extent of how physically, emotionally, and
spiritually exhausted Yuna had to have been. To recap: yesterday, she fought a
chocobo eater, hiked up Mushroom Rock Road, fought Sinspawn, witnessed the
utter destruction of Operation Mi’ihen, performed the sending for the Crusaders
on the beach, walked to Djose Temple, communed with the fayth to receive a new
aeon, and then stayed up all night healing and sending the casualties of the
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Unfortunately,
an indoor voice is not one of Waffles’s virtues. After he wakes her up, he tells
her not to worry, but she realizes everyone must be waiting for her and starts
running around in a flustered panic trying to get ready. She’s actually
whimpering a little to herself in distress at the possibility of inconveniencing
her guardians, in particular, Auron. Even though she is the summoner, she
regards him as her superior and she is anxious not to disrespect him. Perhaps
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already committed to her pilgrimage, but the addition of Auron gives the
sincerity of it extra weight, for her. Now she feels she has to live up to the
honor of having the Legendary Guardian attending her, and a constant reminder
that she is also doing this to honor the memory of her father. The pressure on
her not to fail is even stronger now. She is also much less relaxed in his
presence than she was when her party just consisted of her and her friends.
Although it wasn’t exactly casual before (she is going on a holy journey to
save the world and then die, after all, not a family vacation) having Auron
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seagull noises in front of him for Tidus.)</div>
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Lulu tries
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is sticking up. She then compounds her embarrassment by letting everyone know
that apparently, Yuna snores. (Although sadly the snoring sound effect that you
get from Tidus when you sleep in this game is omitted for Yuna in X-2, so
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Everybody
laughs at Yuna’s expense while she makes some excellent faces.<br />
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But the thing I
love most about this is the camera pan from her point of view while they're all laughing so you really get
a sense of how short she is compared to everyone else. (I am 5’1” in a family
of mostly tall people with tall friends so I find this little detail very
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I hadn’t
noticed until AuronLu <a href="https://www.blogger.com/auronlu.tumblr.com/post/81232531316/ffx-hd-liveblog-gangs-all-here-reply-to-mintywolf">brought
it up in her liveblog</a> that Auron usually drops the traditional summoner’s
honorific from Yuna’s name. This is one of the few times that we hear him refer
to her as “Lady Yuna,” and he’s doing it to make fun of her. It could be that
it’s because he outranks her, but as she pointed out, he doesn’t refer to
Braska as “Lord Braska,” either, anymore, so it’s probably that he’s just
become disillusioned with Yevon and its ceremonial formalities and falseness.</div>
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was the only one whose laughter was genuine, and everyone else, like Yuna, was
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“I had two
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Well that’s
too bad, because that’s where I’m going! (Somewhat masochistically, since my
emulator has been running painfully slowly ever since I knocked over a glass of
water onto my computer like the total technical expert that I am, and now on
long screens Waffles starts running so slowly that I automatically hear the
“Chariots of Fire” theme start up in my head.)</div>
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This is, of
course, exactly the outcome that Kinoc was hoping for. The Crusaders have been
wiped out beyond recovery, most of the survivors have come back into the fold,
and now the remaining military forces in Spira belong to the Church. The only
thing the people of Spira have to protect them now from Sin is Yevon, so they
have nothing else in which to place their faith and loyalty. With the Crusaders
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Thanks for
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The npcs all
have quite a bit to say about Operation Mi’ihen, but I can’t easily backtrack
now with my slow computer and I have a feeling AuronLu is going to do it, so
keep an eye on her <a href="http://auronlu.tumblr.com/tagged/ffx-liveblog">liveblog</a>.
(Or you can check out her excellent complete script, <a href="http://auronlu.istad.org/ffx-script/index.html">here</a>.) I just wanted
to talk to the petsitter again for continuity’s sake.</div>
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Along the
road to the Moonflow you can get some cute battle start quotes. For the most
part everyone sounds really tired and whiny, which is understandable considering
the day they had yesterday, while Lulu is rather grumpily trying to keep them
focused. If you’re lucky (and have Yuna and Lulu in your starting lineup) you
can also hear Yuna doing a cheeky impression of Wakka, which sadly goes
unappreciated by her audience.</div>
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This stretch
of road is not very long but it is apparently the sprouting grounds for ochus
good grief. (If you made Kimahri a thief you can steal Remedies from them
though.) I suppose this would be a good time to share some headcanons about
status ailments.</div>
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In addition
to the usual afflictions of blindness, silence, poison (being modeled by this
trio here), petrification, and zombie, several games in the Final Fantasy
series also include disease, which does various detrimental things. It was
present in FFs IX, XI, and XII, but not X, but I don’t think that means there
is no disease in Spira, just that there is no easy cure. In FFXII, the rather
colorful explanation of, “the character’s body festers with disease, preventing
the healing of wounds,” suggests that it actually means a wound infection,
which in ye olden days before modern medicine had a very high chance of being
fatal. Disease status is removed by a Vaccine, which is . . . not how vaccines
work, but that is advanced medicine that would require science to produce. So
it’s possible that in Spira, where new technology is feared and most healers
are affiliated with the clergy (and practitioners of white magic, that is,
faith healing, only in this universe it is actually effective), they don’t have
remedies for serious diseases. But the scientifically curious Al Bhed might,
which also explains why their potions are so much more effective than standard
ones and cure a broader range of ailments.</div>
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narrative purposes, we just assume that our seven heroes got lucky and never
got an infected wound, which would reliably be a death sentence out in the
wilderness, so disease doesn’t appear on the roster of status ailments.</div>
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while to realize that this was a dig at the way Wantz is always following Yuna
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They say
that summoners are disappearing, and nobody knows why. We also heard this from
Isaaru, but it’s interesting that these two hung behind to taunt/warn Kimahri
about it. On one hand, maybe they just wanted to tease him some more. On the
other, the Ronso are Yevonites and their duty of guarding Mt. Gagazet and the
last lap of the pilgrimage is a sacred one, so they may feel honor-bound to try
to assist summoners, even Kimahri’s. (They don’t have to be polite about it,
though.) Incidentally, they don’t mention that Kimahri <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">already</i> lost his summoner once. I guess they can see that he got
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I love this.
Waffles has been on speaking terms with Kimahri for less than a day, but he
already considers himself his ally and is ready to jump in and fight for his
honor. (Much like he was willing to run into the Cloister of Trials to rescue
an unknown summoner, and fight the chocobo eater after having only heard a
rumor about it. Because it was the right thing to do.) But Kimahri and Wakka
tell him that Ronso have to deal with Ronso problems themselves and he’s not
allowed to interfere. I am intrigued that Wakka knows so much about Ronso
culture. Maybe he learned it from contact with the Ronso Fangs, or maybe he’s
actually better buddies with Kimahri than the sparse interaction we see between
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Lulu
meanwhile was apparently the only one who remembered that this conversation
started with the troubling insinuation that something bad could happen to Yuna
if they aren’t more careful. You know, like the last time she was grabbed in
broad daylight from a crowded place because everyone who was supposed to be
protecting her was more involved with their own personal problems. (By
coincidence, the distraction that time was also Biran and Yenke. The first time
I played this I thought something was going to come of that, but as it turns
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“moonflow” sounds like a word Marion Zimmer Bradley would use to describe a
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Auron, seen
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I always
thought this was pretty callous of him because he knows Yuna (possibly also
Tidus) is never going to get the chance to see this again, and she clearly
wants to, but she wouldn’t dare speak up against him. I mean, dude, I know
we’re in a hurry to get to Zanarkand and all because Jecht is running out of
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Then, inexplicably,
Yuna opens her hands and a flurry of white feathers goes swirling up into the
air. Everyone watches them drift away. I’m not sure what we’re supposed to make
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Waffles clings to Wakka while overcome with awe of the majestic shoopuf.</div>
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I was
playing this with a friend once and her teenage younger brother was passing by
and said, sarcastically, “Ohh, the shoopuf! Sounds ~<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">exciting</i>~!” And then the shoopuf came trundling by and he stopped
and was like “Oh! That is exciting.” I feel like this is the quintessential
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I enjoy
that the sign is shoopuf-shaped. :D Even if Yuna can’t see the moonlilies at
night, at least she gets to ride the shoopuf. She and Kimahri tell a story
about the last time they came this way, on the trip from Bevelle to Besaid when
she was seven:</div>
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Kimahri:
Shoopuf shook. Yuna fall in water. Shoopuf scoop up Yuna with long nose. Yuna
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Yuna:
(embarrassed) Whoops!</div>
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Kimahri:
Yuna had fun. Kimahri happy.</div>
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It sounds
like Bitty Yuna was kind of a handful, haha. The image of a tiny, soggy Yuna
being returned to the arms of a worried Kimahri via shoopuf trunk is the most
adorable thing ever. For a long time I had only seen a cropped version of
Kimahri’s poster art and couldn’t figure out why he looked so
uncharacteristically smiley. Then I found the whole thing and what do you know.<br />
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He’s with
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It’s
mentioned that this is the reason the Al Bhed wear goggles, although they are
fairly distinctive even without hiding their eyes. I don’t know if it’s ever
proven otherwise, but I think the Al Bhed may be the only people who have green
eyes at all, even without the spiral pupil, (at least, I haven’t noticed any
other characters with them) so that really makes Yuna’s right eye a tell.
Someone who doesn’t know much about the Al Bhed, or her background, might not
know what it means and just think it’s an oddity, but people in Bevelle who had
heard about the scandal caused by her parents’ marriage would know what it
meant.</div>
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“A history
lesson?” groans Waffles. Auron proceeds to tell the whole sordid story of how
one time Jecht got plastered and attacked the shoopuf. Mortified, they gave up
all their gil as an apology, and Jecht gave up drinking for good. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">This</i> is what finally caused Jecht to quit
alcohol, not the pleading of his neglected young son, but the shame he had
caused Braska. (And a poor injured shoopuf. You can see the scar on its
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place seems to resist change."</div>
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Spira is a
very tradition-bound place where people are, for better or for worse, set in
their ways. They adhere to religious doctrines, taboos, and laws that have been
in place for hundreds of years. Even Yuna remarks that she never thought to
question them, before Tidus starts asking. Summoners die and the cycle of Sin
goes on because that’s the way it’s always been.</div>
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And now here
comes Our Hero, blundering around the well-organized china shop of Yevon like a
behemoth on roller skates, breaking taboos he doesn’t know about and asking all
kinds of impertinent questions that nobody else would dare. Which is exactly
what Spira needs, and perhaps Auron knew that.</div>
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Over here
the last of the Chocobo Knights are trying to get their chocobo across the
river, to no avail. I noticed that Elma addresses Lucil as “sir.” Some
Crusaders address a female officer the same way in Kilika. I don’t know if that’s
just the proper form of address for a Crusader officer, male or female, or if Lucil
and Elma have a relationship like Peppermint Patty and Marcie and she just
calls her sir for some reason.</div>
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The wondrous
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The only
time anyone has ever said this to Lulu and lived. (And been right. Come on Lulu
you cannot be blasé about the shoopuf.)</div>
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Nobody wants
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During the
trip, Wakka points out the underwater ruins they’re swimming over. They’re the
remains of one of the ancient machina cities that used to span the river, until
its weight caused it to collapse. Wakka says it’s an object lesson for the dangers
of relying on machina, which causes Tidus to point out the inconsistency of the
machina they use, like the blitzball stadium and the shoopuf elevator. Lulu
replies that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">some</i> machina is
permitted, and Yevon decides which. She then uses this as a segue into another
history lesson for Waffles, who is having a very educational trip.</div>
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They talk
about the machina war of 1,000 years ago, saying that the people built stronger
and stronger engines of war until it was feared that the machina was powerful
enough to destroy the world. But the war didn’t end until Sin appeared and
destroyed the cities and their machina.</div>
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As is usual
with Yevon, the history they have been taught is only part of the truth, as we
will learn later. They speak of Sin as something that simply arose of its own
accord as a kind of divine retribution for the war, to punish mankind for their
evils. Although it's not exactly worshipped, Sin is the closest thing the
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“Guns don’t
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I was going
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bad people with bad machina are, but at that moment we are attacked by, um, the
Al Bhed. With machina. Who kidnap Yuna.</div>
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BEHIND YOU. </div>
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(Was he on
the roof? For how long? Did he hear the whole conversation? Or did he sneak
up from underwater and climb on top of the howdah without anyone noticing?)</div>
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He grabs
Yuna by her obi, illustrating the perils of wearing a giant bow like a
convenient handle, and drags her overboard.</div>
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Way to be, team of professional guardians.<br />
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It was very
thoughtful of her kidnappers to put her in this large bubble so she can breathe
during the fight scene, though. Our two waterdogs defeat the machina, which
emphatically explodes.</div>
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I like how
Yuna gets credit for witnessing the battle. (She doesn’t get any experience,
though.)</div>
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Back on
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by Dona’s comments, or the arrival of Auron, Lulu begins to recognize the need
to treat Yuna as an adult. She knows that the eyes of all Spira are on her, and
it won’t do to have a summoner appear weak and in need of comfort and support
from her guardians when she needs to be inspiring hope in the people. (Which
you may recognize as the exact opposite of what Seymour is doing with his whole
“pillar of strength” routine.) So, after a while, she no longer hugs or pets
Yuna like she used to and becomes a lot less demonstrative with her affections.
The bond between them is still as strong as ever, as we will find out much
later, but Lulu has to make herself step back and let Yuna be strong on her own.
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(All of
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Somehow I
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Wakka gets a
lot of hate for his blind devotion to Yevon and his racist attitude towards the
Al Bhed, but overcoming both of these is an important part of his character
arc. He blames the Al Bhed for the death of his brother and for kidnapping Yuna
when really, it was Sin who killed Chappu and is ultimately going to kill Yuna.
But he can’t hold Sin accountable, because he has been taught that Sin is
eternal, implacable, and will never go away until humanity atones for its sins.
The real enemy is the system perpetuating the cycle of Sin, and coming to terms
with that is a major turning point for his character that won’t come until
later. So until then, the only enemy he has to lash out against is the Al Bhed.
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At this
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For vowing
to protect her, standing up for her mother’s family, and putting an end to that
conversation without raising any more hackles. He can be a surprisingly good mediator.</div>
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“It’s okay,
Kimahri! I’m sure that’s the last time anyone’s going to try to abduct Yuna.”
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The music in this area is really nice. I particularly like the addition of the erhu in the hd remaster. (But then I really love erhu music. And violins in general.)<br />
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On the road
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What a
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He’s
extremely surprised when she gets up and shimmies out of her wetsuit in the
most inexcusably fanservicey manner possible. (And then it disappears forever.
You’d think she’d want to hang on to that for all of the swimming she’s going
to be doing later. But hey, if Tidus can swim in overalls, and Wakka can swim
in fishing pants, then swimming wearing streamers ought to be easy in
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He’s been
looking for Rikku ever since they got separated. She was the only person who
was nice to him after they picked him up in Baaj and they had such a great
friendship starting, speaking the same language and everything. Now he finds out he just tried to blow her up. Way to go, Waffles.</div>
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Lulu and
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ladies go off to have a serious conversation. Rikku knows that Yuna is the
summoner and the person she is trying to protect, but she automatically
includes Lulu in the discussion too. Perhaps, like Auron did, she takes her for
the party leader at a glance, but whatever the reason, Rikku gets attached to
Lulu right from the moment she meets her. I mentioned at the beginning that I
wanted to explore some of the relationships that are often overlooked in this
game, and the relationship between Lulu and Rikku is one of them. I’ll get more
into it when we see more of it, but I like the big sis/little sis dynamic that
they develop.</div>
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Who knows
what’s being said here during all the dogpaddling. I assume that Rikku explains
that she is actually Yuna’s cousin, and she’s really sorry about that whole
kidnapping thing but she was really trying to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">protect</i> her, you see, and it’s very complicated. Lulu would be
naturally sympathetic to this. And Yuna wants to bring her along, so, as is her
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Here it is,
the scene that launched one of the fandom’s most zealously crewed ships. Fifteen-year-old-girl-and-a-dead-guy.
I was really bewildered by the popularity of Auron/Rikku until someone pointed
out to me that a lot of teenage girls with a crush on Auron can use it as a
kind of Trojan horse to write Suefic, which hadn’t even occurred to me. Now it
makes a lot more sense from an external point of view, but within the story I
still think it’s a pretty awkward pairing. As I said when asked for my opinion
about it <a href="http://mintywolf.tumblr.com/post/63952710654/so-it-sounds-like-you-arent-necessarily-much-of-a">on
tumblr once</a>, I can see Rikku developing a giddy, adolescent crush on Auron,
because he’s so brooding and mysterious, but I doubt he would notice and if he
did, he’d be uncomfortable with it and distance himself from her further.
The idea of him reciprocating seems really out of character for him.</div>
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But these
are just my opinions. I’m not the Fandom Police and frankly, anybody can sail
whatever ship they want to. I have seen weirder ones. (And those are fine too.)</div>
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The first
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full splendor of the graphics until later and missed out on some details. I had missed the guy earlier mentioning the spiral pupils of
the Al Bhed, so I had no idea what Auron was doing here. I thought he was just
assessing the integrity of her character with the intensity of his scathing
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But he’s
just checking to confirm his suspicion that she is Al Bhed. (He probably also
deduced that she was one of Yuna’s erstwhile kidnappers. By the way . . . what
happened to the other guy?) He asks if she's sure, knowing that taking the Yevon-approved position of a guardian is not going to be easy for an Al Bhed.<br />
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“I meant
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This seems
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girl/boy” is the highest form of praise. ;)</div>
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Tidus
remarks on the irony of this. Wakka and Rikku get to be pals as long as he
doesn’t know to let his prejudices towards her race stand in the way. (For all
his hatred of the Al Bhed, he doesn’t seem to know enough about them to
identify one on sight. Somehow the yellow hair, swirly green eyes, goggles, and
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I imagine
that Rikku was probably keeping an eye on Yuna from a distance for some time,
so she’s happy to finally be with her.</div>
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I know I
said that I wasn’t going to let anyone have any skills or abilities that
weren’t in their new designated part of the sphere grid, but I could not resist
teaching Provoke to Lulu since she was right there. It’s usually a useless
ability for her since she has the lowest defenses, so there’s no reason to want
to draw enemy attacks to her, which is a shame because it’s the best. But I’m
reshaping her into a mighty warrior so it’s finally useful.</div>
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And then, by
the holy providence of Yevon, the first enemy that I ran into after teaching it
to her was A FLAN.</div>
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Lulu sasses
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I really
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Especially all those spirals.</div>
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The Guado
kind of fit in with the High Elf fantasy trope. They are secluded, vaguely
otherworldly, live in harmony with the forest, and think they’re better than
you.</div>
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As soon as
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Yuna off by the hand. Considering that the last attempt to kidnap her was less
than an hour ago, her guardians are less than receptive to this.</div>
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This is the
second time that Seymour has requested Yuna’s presence without asking her or
explaining himself. As he is a Maester, she is simply expected to obey.<br />
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I decide to
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I like this stained glass moon design.</div>
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“Well, you
guys have like six character models among you.”<br />
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Well good thing nobody asked you, then. Geez.<br />
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Maybe even .
. . as great as SIN???<br />
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Old Guado
speak Elizabethan.<br />
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His feelings
must have been really hurt by Yuna shushing him, because he actually doesn’t
talk for quite some time after this. If you try to talk to him, he just repeats
that he’ll say no more. That Yuna would hurt Kimahri, even unintentionally,
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Lulu starts
to explain to Waffles about how Guadosalam is not a popular summoner
destination. She has gotten so used to expositing to him (and us) that she
starts doing it automatically, which makes him laugh. “You’d prefer I say
nothing, then?” she snaps at him. I think she was actually concerned about Yuna
and looking for a distraction when she started talking to him. He points out
that maybe this means she finally believes he’s not from Spira.<br />
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I find it a
little heartwarming that she trusts Tidus enough by now to admit this. Her icy
exterior is very slowly starting to melt around him. She’s accepted that he’s a
permanent fixture of the pilgrimage and seen how happy he’s made Yuna.<br />
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She says,
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He finally
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Except for
Rikku, who has apparently not seen <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pan’s
Labyrinth</i>. (Although fresh fruit must be scarce in the desert, so I can’t
really blame her.) There is a very ominous, fairytale-like atmosphere about
this whole scene: the lavish dining hall, the mysterious absent host, the
indefinable sense that something here is not quite right.</div>
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Tidus has
expressed dislike for Seymour, mainly because of his attention towards Yuna,
with which Tidus knows he can’t compete, but it didn’t occur to him that he
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I am not
exactly sure what he means with this response. Presumably he means Tidus’s
Zanarkand, where there were no Maesters and no Yevon, so he had time to look
back on the mess Yevon made of his life. Or he could mean Spira’s Zanarkand,
the place where he lost his faith.<br />
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This echoes
Yuna’s comment about summoners being Spira’s ray of light. (Which is, of
course, very ironic considering Seymour’s actual plans for the people of
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Auron's probably back there rolling his eyes so hard he almost loses the other one, too.<br />
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Once again
we see Auron stressing the importance of Yuna completing her pilgrimage in a
hurry. But this time he has the extra motive of wanting to get everyone out of
there as soon as possible because he doesn’t trust Seymour.</div>
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Seymour and
Yuna’s story reminds me in ways of the Beauty and the Beast tale, especially
here the way he paints himself as the lonely lord all alone in his empty
palace, waiting for her. However, while the fairytale themes of seeking
redemption through love are present, they are horribly twisted and it’s all
backwards because he’s actually looking to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">become</i>
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I have to
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He says that
these spheres are reconstructed from the memories of the people who lived 1,000
years ago, so does this imply that the ancient Spirans had astronauts? Whose
memory of Spira’s home galaxy seen from space is this?</div>
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Tidus gets a
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“What is
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Auron makes
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Lenne? ;)</div>
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Yunalesca’s
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really understand the Cindy-Lou Who feather antennae but ancient Zanarkand
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*GAZE*</div>
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The specter
of Lord Zaon marches in, walking right through Yuna, who is understandably creeped
out by this. She looks away modestly as the two images start embracing,
probably very uneasy about where this conversation is going. The camera stays
on them so unfortunately, we don’t get to see everyone else’s reaction but they
are all apparently very engaged with the sphere recording because none of them
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Why does he
have this, anyway? Who recorded it? What historian came across this and said
“Ah! The Lord Zaon-Lady Yunalesca sex tape! Surely this is a thing that must be
preserved for posterity.” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Why is he
showing it to Yuna??</i> Seymour you are a huge creeper.</div>
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I feel like the
major flaw in Seymour’s plan is that it all hinges on Yuna loving him enough
for their bond to turn him into an aeon strong enough to defeat and then become
Sin, but he has <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">no idea</i> how to romance
a girl. He's just like “So I understand from this sphere that this is how this is done,” and she’s
like “Oh fayth, kill me now.” He did have almost no human contact growing up
apart from his mother, who then died, and then he was on his own until he
became a monk, so the heart of a teenage girl is an unknown mechanism to him.<br />
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I love how
far he has to lean down to talk to her. But look at how he does this. Rather
than speaking to her in front of everyone, he isolates her by leaning in very
close to her and talking directly into her ear. This is uncomfortably intimate,
since not only is Yuna shy and much younger than him, but their relationship so
far has been a completely respectful and professional one, with a certain
distance enforced by their difference in rank. Even though she admires him, she
is clearly distressed by his proposal.</div>
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His not
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awkward position of making the explanation to them herself.</div>
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“Hey!” yells
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But to
Seymour, Spira actually <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">is</i> one big
stage, and he certainly has a flair for the theatrical. He likes grand,
operatic gestures and elaborate spectacles. (Consider the first appearance of
Anima in Luca, where, from a stage-like balcony, he “saved” everyone from the
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His last
line here touches on one of the recurring themes throughout the game as well.
Several of our main characters are revealed to be acting; Yuna wears happiness
like a costume to hide her inner sorrow, Rikku is keeping her identity a
secret, there is a lot more to Auron than he is letting on, and even the whole
backdrop of Yevon, with its pageantry and ceremony, is a just façade hiding its
shady backstage workings.</div>
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Yuna is
completely robbed of her agency during this conversation. Auron steps in to
speak for her, and even when Seymour addresses her he does not leave room for
her to assert herself or contradict him.</div>
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Annoyed at
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his defenses in front of his companions.</div>
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Waffles,
curious about what the Farplane smells like, comes over to have a sniff,
because he is a dog. (The Farplane, apparently, smells like nog and
grumpiness.)</div>
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Next time:
Waffles sees dead people.</div>
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<a href="http://mintywolfplaysffx.blogspot.com/2014/01/part-9-fiend-fight-at-chocobo-corral.html">Last
time</a> we were on our way to Djose temple when we received an invitation from
Yuna’s blue-haired <s>creeper</s> admirer to come . . . watch a catastrophic
battle with him. Spirans are kind of bad at dating.</div>
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Before I start in this episode to get into the subtle
nuances of why Seymour and Yuna’s relationship is so disturbing, I want to
pause for a moment and examine Yuna’s character design in greater depth. (Which
is something I’ve been meaning to do for a while now but now is a good time for
it.)</div>
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Let’s have a look at this cutieface.</div>
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In addition to being Okinawan for “moon,” (in complement to
Tidus, whose name is derived from “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tida,</i>”
the word for “sun”) “Yuna” is also the Japanese name of the <a href="http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/heritage/ubin/stories/shcloseup.jpg">sea
hibiscus</a> plant, which appears as a motif throughout her outfit.<br />
<br />
Yuna’s outfit is based on a furisode, which is a style of
kimono characterized by its long, draping sleeves. Originally she was going to
wear <a href="http://static2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080302055361/finalfantasy/images/4/42/FFX-Yuna_sendingConcept.jpg">something
else</a>, but Nomura changed it to give her her characteristic flowy sleeves
for her sending dance. (Also I love the people in the background of this picture.
They look so uninterested. Like “Wow, look at what that girl over there is
doing.” “Eh. So, you won’t believe who I ran into in Luca the other day . . .”)<br />
<br />
In addition to being part kimono, Yuna’s outfit is inspired
by the garb of a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miko">miko</a>, with its
long pleated skirt and simple white top. Miko, or shrine maidens, are usually
young women who perform sacred tasks and ritual dances at Shinto shrines. In
video games and anime (which I will admit is how I first learned about them)
they are also often portrayed fighting demons with their holy powers. Although
Yuna is never specified as a miko, this definitely seems to be her line of
work. I also wonder if perhaps the red and white robes of the white mage class were
influenced by traditional miko attire. <br />
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Yuna is presented as a determined, mature, and strong-willed
young lady, but she still has an air of vulnerability about her. (Even when
towards the end of the game she starts hitting with roughly the same amount of
firepower as a tactical nuke.) We love her and want her to be protected, for
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Part of it comes from her innocent and earnest nature. But
let’s look at her face. Yuna is cute. Endearingly cute. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Deliberately</i> cute.</div>
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Since the first two chapters of my FFX comic <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://dippywerewolf.deviantart.com/gallery/38222634">Guardian</a></i>
take place when our heroes are children, I did a lot of studying to learn how
to draw them, and what visual cues are used to indicate a child. And I noticed
that even at 17, Yuna’s face still retains some childlike proportions. She has
a sweet round face with big eyes. The fullness of her cheeks produces dimples
at the corners of her mouth.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">The curves of her face –
the low point beneath her mouth where the curve of her cheek ends and the curve
of her chin begins, the upturned angle of her upper lip, and the
convex curve under her chin are all visual signifiers of a child’s face. You
can compare this with the more mature contours of Lulu’s profile (of her FACE,
geez you guys) and see the difference.</span><br />
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(<a href="http://www.electricblueskies.com/" target="_blank">Source</a> for images 1, 2, and 4. I actually think this is the source for a lot of images floating around tumblr, usually uncredited, which is a shame. Their gallery is amazing; I definitely recommend checking it out!)<br />
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The end result of all this is an adorability and
vulnerability that strikes us on an instinctive level. We do want her to be
protected, even though we know she is capable. And when Seymour’s behavior
towards her starts to shift from polite to possessive, it makes us very
uncomfortable.</div>
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(Unless you’re one of those people who for some reason hates
Yuna, in which case I don’t want to talk to you and what are you even doing
here.) </div>
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Yuna asks if Sin will come, and the guy in charge informs
her that they’re going to compel the captive sinspawn to call for it, but Auron
says, mysteriously, “You won’t have to. It’ll come.” Which I failed to get a
screencap of because some expert in a bunny hood spent half of this playthrough capping the
wrong window and had to do it all over again. (Spoiler: it was me.)</div>
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Hmmm . . .</div>
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think the “Salvage Dream” seal must just appear on things that the Al Bhed have
salvaged and restored. Which includes all of the equipment they’re using for
Operation Mi’ihen, all of it at least 1,000 years old and probably dredged up
from the bottom of the sea.</div>
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(This is made worse when you realize that Yevon <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">has</i> access to sophisticated military
technology, but won’t let anyone else use it.)</div>
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Yuna putting her fingers in her mouth/biting her nails when she’s
nervous is really endearing.<br />
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Things go wrong almost immediately when the cage bursts open
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Lulu remains at a sensible distance, from which she is
probably yelling at our three judgment-impaired party members to “Move! No, not
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“COME AT ME, BRO!”</div>
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I never figured out why this thing has insect feet on the
back of its neck. Unless they’re several sets of antennae, but its whole neck
looks like a backwards-bent centipede. We saw other sinspawn that only looked
like its head, though, which also has legs, so maybe when they were all in the
cage being shocked, several of them fused together to create this abomination?</div>
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Then we see dark, vein-like tendrils spreading insidiously
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Sin is, by the way, really really big. We rarely see shots
of it in full because it is just so immense. For reference, I think the
architecture-like structures it has on its head like a spiffy Zanarkand hat are
meant to be the size of actual buildings.</div>
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Captain Lucil leading the charge of the Chocobo Knights always
gives me chills. They saw that millennium-old eldritch horror rise out of the
sea and they’re going to plunge into battle with it, not because they know
they’re already doomed and they’re seeking a valiant death, but because they
still have hope that they can beat it. And, more than that, because this is
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Sin generates a kind of forcefield (which, like a lot of
horrible things in this game, is surprisingly pretty) which deflects the
missiles, then starts pushing it back towards the beach, where it explodes.</div>
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There’s no blood or gore, but the violence and suddenness of
this is very startling. The Crusaders are instantly vaporized, and the imagery
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Our friends are flung apart by the force of the explosion.
Yuna ends up near the now-demolished command center, sans guardians. Regaining
consciousness, she sees Seymour of the Intense Gaze protecting her from revived
Frankenspawn, holding it off with just his staff, because apparently being a prodigious summoner and multi-talented mage just isn't impressive enough.</div>
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Auron also turns up and they run to help him. (Auron would
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Well look at Mr. Casual here, too cool to even face the
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This is the only time in the game Seymour is a playable
party member. It’s also the only time you can see his overdrive, “Requiem” but
since he has Stoic as his overdrive mode, you have to wait around for him to
get pummeled enough for it to charge, which takes about a hundred years. I did
it once just to see it, but I didn’t feel like doing it again so <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzsk_3ypiHw">here’s a video</a>. For all
your patience, it’s not really anything special. It kind of looks like Ultima.</div>
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Curiously, despite having at least six aeons at his command,
he isn’t able to summon any of them in the battle. But his magic attacks (and
even his physical ones) are very powerful, indicating that he is a skilled
mage. You can see from the menu that he can even use both black and white
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He gains experience from the battle, too, which is
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Hooray my time has come! I made Kimahri into a thief, which
is probably what most people do since it’s so useful but I’d never actually
done it before. I also finally decided to let Auron start moving and picking up
stats instead of sitting there like a rock. But I’m not letting anyone learn
any abilities that aren’t in their new class, so all of the armor breaking
stuff is going to be exclusive to Lulu. (Because I am a maniac.)</div>
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She goes running to the edge of the cliff to try to catch a
glimpse of the rest of her friends and sees this.</div>
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These guys are staring a town-sized world-destroying whale
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Sin starts generating its static electricity ball shield
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Yuna begins praying fervently while Seymour stands way too
close to her. His actions in his scene have established that he’s there to
protect her, but the framing of the shot, with him looming over her like this
and his face hidden from us, makes him come across as overbearing and slightly
threatening. (Which is, I’m sure, all intentional.)</div>
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Despite everything I just said, I really like this shot of
them together. The two summoners taking in the inevitable catastrophe which
they were powerless to stop and knew it, side by side, their robes swaying in
the heat of the downdraft of the explosion.</div>
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<i>SO ROMANTIC.</i></div>
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Of course, he wanted her to see this, and to be beside her
when she did. I’m not saying that he orchestrated the downfall of Operation
Mi’ihen, but he knew it would end badly and wanted to be there when Yuna saw
it, to be there conveniently as a figure of strength and solace in her moment
of weakness and emotional vulnerability, and to remind her of her duty to her
pilgrimage. By showing her in person the devastation wrought by Sin, he is
subtly placing on her shoulders the guilt of having not defeated it herself
yet. (He may also know that she witnessed the destruction of Kilika firsthand
as well, so he’s adding to that stockpile of guilt and responsibility too.)</div>
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I don’t know why the fandom doesn’t get as much mileage out
of this image as they do of the one of Lightning waking up in Valhalla. This is
one expressive faceplant.</div>
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The beach is strewn with debris and the corpses of the
Crusaders and Al Bhed who weren’t lucky enough to be instantly obliterated by
Sin. Tidus begins the grim task of searching for survivors, without much hope.
Each of them has a different message.</div>
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If you decide to kill Luzzu instead, you find Gatta here in
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Meanwhile Sin is still hanging around just offshore in the
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He is very sharp with her when he says this. Before this,
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commanding. He doesn’t want her senselessly sacrificing herself now (and
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Yuna’s repertoire is Ifrit, Seymour has an actual Final Aeon, and could take on
Sin right now if he so chose. He could have stepped in and prevented the
Crusaders' defeat at any time, for that matter. But of course, he doesn’t so
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pursuit of his whale monster father. They are just offshore, so perhaps they were
built on a cliff that collapsed into the sea during an attack by Sin, or they
could have been near the shore in the distant past and the oceans have risen
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Tidus is brought aboard Sin, and arrives at this World Tree
looking thing inside that we will see again at the end of the game. It looks
like one of the iridescent trees of Macalania woods, with some kind of ancient
cityscape behind it. The spirits of the dead Crusaders killed in the battle are
running around, among them Gatta, and the child soldier we saw earlier. :(</div>
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Then he smacks us square in the face with a blitzball, that little
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I really like how the interior of Sin is this psychoactive
place with a landscape partly its own and partly built of the memories of the
imprisoned fayth. </div>
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<span class="j">Jecht: Let them talk. I’m still the best.</span>
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<span class="t">Waffles: They say you’re no good ‘cause you drink all the time.</span>
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<span class="j">Jecht: I can quit drinkin’ whenever I want!</span> <br />
<span class="t">Waffles: Then do it now.</span> <br />
<span class="j">Jecht: What did you say?</span> <br />
<span class="t">Waffles: You just said you can!</span> <br />
<span class="j">Jecht: Heh. Tomorrow, maybe.</span> <br />
<span class="t">Waffles: Why not today?</span> <br />
<span class="j">Jecht: Why do today what you can leave for tomorrow? </span></blockquote>
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There’s a heart-tugging little stumble in his voice when he
says “You just said you can!” He sounds both hopeful at the prospect of Jecht
giving up drinking and fearful of the retaliation to his suggesting it. He is
used to the violence of his father’s anger and the unpredictability of his
behavior brought about by his alcoholism, which makes it worse because Jecht’s
sober interludes give him the hope that things could be better if he just gave
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Jecht just belittles him dismissively for the suggestion.
Throughout the conversation, we see the figure of little Tidus slowly fading
until it disappears, emphasizing the powerlessness he feels confronting his
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She is performing the sending over the dead Al Bhed, as
well. Which is against their religious practices, but she can’t in good
conscience let them go unsent. (It’s also possible that the Al Bhed don’t
actually forbid sendings, but they just usually don’t receive them because no
other summoner would offer them.)<br />
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Seymour, even though he was with Yuna recently, is not around to help send the dead or heal the wounded, even though he's capable of both, and as a summoner it should be his duty. What a helpful guy.</div>
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This is Auron’s gruff way of saying “I’m glad to see you
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Lulu is concerned for him too, which is sweet to see. </div>
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Here we find out that Kinoc, on behalf of Yevon, had
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for it. Yevon’s detractors – the heathen Al Bhed and the heretic Crusaders –
were all but wiped out. The Crusaders will never regain the strength they had,
and many of the survivors express regret for turning away from the teachings
and are prompted by the defeat to return to the fold. Sin is still around, but
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Ten years ago Auron was a warrior monk, trained not to
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Over the course of their past few encounters, Seymour has
been gradually making Yuna doubt her own strength. He put her in a position of
emotional turmoil by bringing her to witness something awful she was powerless
to stop, but feels guilty for. He pointed out the inadequacy of her powers as a
summoner. Now, by remarking that she looks ill and scared, he is emphasizing
her physical fragility as well. But, immediately after making her perceive
herself as weak, he reminds her of the importance of a summoner being strong.</div>
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Now he has her in the right frame of mind to hear what he brought
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Yunalesca and Zaon is a bit of Spiran history that hasn’t
been revealed to us yet, but Yuna certainly understands the meaning the
reference. Yunalesca was the first summoner to defeat Sin, and Zaon was her
husband. Seymour is doing three things here. By offering himself as a “pillar
of strength,” he is implying that Yuna needs a pillar of strength to lean on,
and knows that she will trust his judgment on her strength and second-guess her
own enough to believe him. By comparing himself and her to Zaon and Yunalesca,
he is already proposing the idea of the two of them as a couple, facing Sin
together. But there’s one more angle that he knows and Yuna doesn’t yet. Zaon
was the fayth for Yunalesca’s Final Aeon, and Seymour’s plan is to become
Yuna’s fayth, so that upon her death he will become Sin.</div>
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Why did Seymour choose Yuna, of all summoners, for his passion
play? He needed someone dedicated to defeating Sin, naïve enough to manipulate,
and, presumably, eligible for marriage. This narrows down the field
considerably, since I can’t really picture Seymour trying to woo Dona or
Isaaru. But Seymour and Yuna have a lot in common, and I think that’s really
what drew him to her.</div>
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Like Yuna, Seymour is the product of a mixed-race marriage,
and was shunned by both humans and the Guado, as she was by Yevonites and Al
Bhed. Both of them were overshadowed by their famous fathers, but followed
their footsteps, Yuna as a summoner and Seymour as the leader of the Guado and
Maester of Yevon. Both of them showed outstanding magical talent at an early
age and became summoners while young. The difference is that Yuna was loved,
while Seymour was reviled. Braska gave Yuna a better life by defeating Sin and
earning her the love of Spira, but Jyscal sent Seymour and his mother into
exile in Baaj. He did this to protect him from the hatred of the
racially-insular Guado and the self-righteous Yevonites (the Guado had not yet
been converted at that time), but it meant that Seymour had a lonely childhood
and grew up believing that his own existence was something to be ashamed of and
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Seymour’s mother hoped that his pilgrimage would be a
journey of redemption for him, as Braska’s turned out to be, but in the end he
did not defeat Sin. Deciding not to die on behalf of the world that hated him,
he instead returned to Spira with his newfound power, and has, through various
means, some distinctly underhanded, risen all the way to the rank of Maester. Now
he has set his sights on becoming the most powerful entity known to Spira.</div>
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I have a lot more to say about Seymour, what he’s up to, and
how he got to be the way he is, but for now here’s this Within Temptation song,
“Hand of Sorrow,” which I think suits his story very well. I don’t know what
it’s actually supposed to be about, but ever since the first time I heard it,
it has made me think of Seymour. (It could be that I found this album right
near the end of my first playthrough of this game so <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">everything</i> was making me think of FFX, but you can decide for
yourself. Lyrics are <a href="http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/withintemptation/handofsorrow.html">here</a>.)<br />
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This is what Auron meant when he said that Sin would come
regardless of whether they tried to flag it down. By having Waffles around,
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Auron tells him that yes, Jecht wanted to show him the awful
destructive power of Sin up close, so that Tidus would be motivated to kill
him. This mirrors Seymour’s plans to show off Sin to Yuna just now in order
reinforce her dedication to her pilgrimage, but it’s the first time the
responsibility for killing Sin has been placed on Tidus. But Auron, too, has a
motive for wanting it to be Tidus specifically to kill Sin.<br />
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When asked how he knows all of this, anyway, Auron only
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This is the first time Waffles has gotten a word out of our
big blue kittyfriend. (And therefore, so have we.) In essence Kimahri reminds him
of Yuna told him in Luca – that she puts on a cheerful face for the sake of
Spira, even and especially when her heart is most aching for it.<br />
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No! Not like that! Um maybe you had better leave the smiling
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This is when Chappu was killed. </div>
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The wounded soldiers are making their way slowly down this
random encounter-fraught road to Djose temple, which is the nearest place for
them to find rest and healing. (Although exactly how far away it is has been <a href="http://mintywolf.tumblr.com/post/76437712767/do-you-think-the-land-of-spira-is-too-small-to-be-a" target="_blank">a subject</a> <a href="http://auronlu.tumblr.com/post/76445397944/map-of-spira-final-fantasy-x-and-distances-a" target="_blank">of recent</a> <a href="http://auronlu.tumblr.com/post/76570760250/spira-ffx-map-yet-more-dead-horse-beating" target="_blank">discussion</a>.) As the party nears the temple, Auron snags Waffles
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So why is Auron suddenly on board the S.S. Tuna? (S.S.
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He wants Tidus to become Yuna’s Final Aeon. He knows that
the bond between the summoner and the chosen fayth has to be strong in order
for the Final Aeon to be powerful enough to take on Sin. He isn’t just shipping
them because they’re his friends’ kids and that’s cute. He knows they have to
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Jecht brought Tidus to Spira to meet Yuna and defeat
Sin. Auron knows this, because at the beginning of the game, right before he
tells Tidus that this (“this” being the destiny about to be laid out for him by
his zombie space whale father as interpreted by a cantankerous ghost) is his
story, he asks Jecht “Are you sure?” I don’t know how much communication passed
between them in that moment, but before he died, Jecht vowed to come up with a
plan to break the cycle of Sin’s return, and Auron is trusting him that this is
it. After this, we see him start hurrying Yuna along on her pilgrimage, as
well, because he knows Jecht doesn’t have much time left before Sin takes him
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This isn’t to say that he doesn’t care about Tidus and Yuna;
he does, but he cared about Jecht and Braska more. His main focus is to free
Jecht and avenge Braska, even though it means sacrificing their own children.</div>
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Sorry, Waffles. No one cares about your feelings.</div>
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Look at that smug critter. He’s going to get all the gysahl
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I was honestly surprised that Lucil made it, because it looked
like they were setting her up for a noble death. She blames herself and her
lack of faith for the loss of her troops, which is of course just the reaction
Maester Kinoc and Yevon were hoping for from the surviving Crusaders. However,
Lucil doesn’t blindly rejoin Yevon like many of the defeated Crusaders and soon
sets about rebuilding the Chocobo Knights. In X-2, she is among the vanguard of
the Youth League, the opponents of New Yevon.</div>
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Elma where are your glasses that little fella is like 10
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“Get back on the other side of the counter! Just because
we’re in the middle of a crisis is no reason not to follow the rules!”<br />
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She gives you a hard time if you try to talk to her on the
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inn has been converted to a makeshift hospital, which is also already full. And
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This scene was hard to screencap because the camera operator
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Which of course, he does.</div>
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But Wakka can’t stay mad at Luzzu after he’s suffered such a
similar loss. He amiably tells him to go back home to Besaid, in a tone that
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This may be the first time Auron has set foot inside a
temple since Braska’s pilgrimage, and seen his statue. Back then, they were a
trio of misfits – a heretic summoner with a heathen wife, a disgraced warrior
monk, and a drunken lunatic claiming to be from a ruined holy city – none of
them regarded kindly by Yevon. But now Braska is High Summoner and has become
yet another thing appropriated by the Church for the glory of Yevon. His story
has been twisted to cast him as a hero fighting for Yevon rather than an
outcast fighting for a better Spira for everyone.<br />
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On the way to the Chamber of the Fayth we run into Summoner
Isaaru and his two brothers/guardians, Maroda and Pacce. Some people have
mentioned that these three don’t actually appear to be related, so it’s
possible that they are siblings in the same sense that Lulu and Wakka are
siblings to Yuna. Or they could be brothers as the result of adoption or a
blended family. Given the short life expectancy of the average Spiran, such
things are probably pretty common.</div>
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I’ve never really been able to figure out why summoners can
recognize each other on sight (or how other people are able to immediately
identify them as such, either). They don’t have a specific uniform or anything.<br />
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Okay so – I always assumed Isaaru to be around 30, but this
statement would seem to suggest otherwise, since nobody really knew (at least
favorably) who Braska was until ten years ago. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Unless</i> Isaaru is from Bevelle and was actually a fan of Braska
before he became High Summoner because he admired his work attempting to build
peace between Yevon and the Al Bhed. Which would be pretty cool.</div>
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Or it could be that he’s just in his early 20s since that is
apparently the pinnacle of maturity for a Final Fantasy character.</div>
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Yes! Let’s race to see who gets to die first!! See you in
Zanarkand, loser.</div>
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Of course, this is typical summoner gallows humor. Isaaru’s
smile probably isn’t any more genuine than some of Yuna’s are but they’re
trying to add some levity to this otherwise terrible day. </div>
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I wonder if Isaaru was in the Chamber of the Fayth with
Ixion the entire time and is about to get a horrible shock when he exits the
temple. :o</div>
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See Waffles this is why they didn’t want to let you in the Cloister
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Outside the Chamber of the Fayth, Dona and Barthello catch
up to us. She takes the opportunity to rag on Yuna’s choice of guardians again,
but this time Barthello isn’t there to back her up.<br />
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As it turns out, he’s president of the Sir Auron Fanclub.<br />
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I like how he flexes his Guardian Muscles to show how good
of one he’s become.<br />
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And how he wipes his hand off before taking Auron’s. (Also,
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Auron smiles even more rarely than Lulu, and when he does it
comes out as more of a grimace. But I think he’s amused.<br />
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While Barthello is busy clearly having the best day of his
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“And he’s standing right behind me! AAAAAAH!!”<br />
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Dona wants to get out of this conversation ASAP.<br />
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“Like that hole you punched in the temple wall with a
destruction sphere.”<br />
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The first time I played this I didn’t know how to progress
the scene so I did as I was told. (It didn’t help.)<br />
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Doggie Waffles is best Waffles. :D</div>
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I assume “pup” is the term for a young Ronso, which is
really cute.<br />
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Kimahri has to run to catch Yuna again when she comes
wobbling out of the Chamber of the Fayth exhausted, giving Dona an opening to
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“All these guardians . . . and Sir Auron, too? And I hear
Maester Seymour’s quite taken with you. The world must look different when you’re
the daughter of Lord Braska.”</blockquote>
Her comments echo the ones made by Isaaru just earlier, although he wasn't intentionally hurtful about it. He also implied that Yuna's skill and ability to defeat Sin was due to her father.<br />
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Dona, with her prima donna temperament, is clearly jealous
of all the attention Yuna is getting. Maybe she gained an exaggerated sense of
self-importance from being the only summoner in Kilika, maybe she’s used to effortlessly
getting attention and admiration for her looks, but whatever the reason she
definitely feels that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">she</i> should be
the one having legendary guardians and maesters flocking to her. On top of that
she’s annoyed that the one guy in the room she usually counts on to always be
on her side just about defected to Team Yuna to be near his hero.</div>
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She starts taking out her frustrations on Yuna personally,
rather than her guardians as she has before. Dona of course isn’t any more or
less qualified than Yuna to be a summoner. (I mean, like . . . Can you summon
an aeon? Yes? Congratulations! You’re a summoner. No? Then why are you on a pilgrimage,
go home.) But the pilgrimage is very frequently the last thing a summoner does,
so this is her last chance at fame and glory, and her summoner career is already
being overshadowed by Yuna’s. In order to reassure herself that she is more deserving
of recognition, she tries to convince Yuna that she hasn’t really <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">earned</i> all of her accomplishments, just
had them handed to her by merit of her famous father.</div>
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“On my own with five other people!”</div>
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With a nasty parting shot, she leaves. Yuna’s guardians
immediately reinforce the thing Dona was just criticizing her for by gathering
around to comfort her. This is the second time today someone has pointed out
Yuna’s weakness, and she takes Dona’s barbed remarks to heart. It’s after this
that she starts becoming more withdrawn and secretive, keeping things to
herself in an effort to be self-reliant rather than confiding her problems with
her friends. It ends up having some consequences.<br />
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Welcome to the team, Mr. Unicorn!</div>
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<a href="http://mintywolfplaysffx.blogspot.com/2014/04/part-11-rides-ze-shoopuf.html" target="_blank">Next time</a>: Yuna has a bad hair day.<br />
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Mintywolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03450557499971082731noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7532666560771740367.post-10031731231123360252014-01-30T01:23:00.001-05:002014-02-23T00:42:16.928-05:00Part 9: Fiend Fight at the Chocobo Corral<a href="http://mintywolfplaysffx.blogspot.com/2014/01/part-8-random-encounter-gauntlet_3722.html" target="_blank">Last time</a> we got pummeled by everything with a pulse along the Mi’ihen Highroad
(and by some things without one) but managed to make it to the Travel
Agency in one piece. There’s no rest for the weary, though, since a
giant . . . something . . . has just landed on the roof.<br />
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I finally managed to start some sphere grid swapping! With two Level 1
Key Spheres I managed to break Wakka out of his grid and into Lulu’s,
which was fortunately right next door. He’s going to be our black mage.
Lulu meanwhile is on her way up into Waffles’s grid where she’ll be
able to move into Auron’s once I get a Level 2 sphere, and on her way to
becoming a tank.<br />
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Lulu, pictured here hanging around coolly in the middle of a crisis.
"What? There's a two-tongued horror stomping around ten feet above my
head? Does it eat belts? Then I'm not worried."<br />
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Waffles and Yuna run outside to witness a scene of chocobo calamity. On
a minor note, I like how a lot of shots that are just Tidus observing
or reacting to something to set the scene also have Yuna in them, to
subtly show that it’s as much her story as it is his. (Also, that she
enjoys being with him.)<br />
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“That’s the second-biggest chocobo eater I’ve ever seen!”<br />
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The feathers in its teeth are a particularly horrible touch.<br />
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Not much is known about the Chocobo Eater except that it eats chocobos. That is its entire <i>raison d'être</i>.
Where does it come from? Where does it go? What kind of restless
unsent souls could have possibly created it?<br />
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It is a question for the
philosophers.<br />
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In case it wasn’t clear before, (it’s hinted at but not really revealed
until you start collecting Jecht spheres) Auron has made the
acquaintance of the Chocobo Eater already. And, judging by the location
of Auron’s Mars Crest and, I believe, one of the Jecht Spheres at the
bottom of the gorge, this is exactly what happened last time Auron and
Friends came this way.<br />
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If Lulu’s character model ever gets flipped over for whatever reason,
you can see her mysterious lack of feet. (Giving credence to the theory
that she travels by floating.)<br />
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Stop that victory dance this instant, you big booger! You just wait until I reload my save and get back up there.<br />
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If you lose, Auron takes it out on Waffles. He probably knows he’s out
of line, but he’s embarrassed by his failure and, like Lulu does,
lashing out at the nearest culpable target to cover it up. He’s
probably also remembering a similar incident with Jecht, and that
smarts.<br />
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Also, if you lose, you are forced to witness one of the saddest things
in the entire game. :( :( :( (Which is saying a lot, since the last hour
or so is one long heartstrings tug-of-war. Reportedly, Elma took care
of the fiend for you, but there is definitely an implied scene of
choco-carnage.)<br />
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For some reason there’s an old Travel Agency sign down here at the
bottom of the cliff. Maybe thrown down by a previous Chocobo Eater
incident.<br />
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All right, everyone. One more time, with feeling! <br />
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Today’s forecast: slightly hellfire with a chance of falling fiends.<br />
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The reaction if you manage to push the chocobo eater in the opposite
direction is well worth it. (So are the two Level 1 Key Spheres you
get, since I really need those.)<br />
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Dude, I think you owe me an entire chocobo for that. It only took me like eight tries.<br />
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Apparently chocobo knight training involves flapping around madly down
on the Oldroad. I am impressed though that they can get that far off
the ground carrying both armor and a rider.<br />
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There are a few secret spots indicated by a yellow feather on the ground where your clever chocobo can find hidden treasure.<br />
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Also the swing dance version of the chocobo theme you get to listen to in FFX is really catchy.<br />
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(Although for most/all of us the sound of this song probably conjures up
PTSD flashbacks of being pelted by freaking birds in the Calm Lands.
Alas. Our first chocobo ride along the Mi’ihen Highroad was a more
innocent time.)<br />
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Dona’s sense of summoner entitlement is a sharp contrast to Yuna’s
humbleness. But they both have expressed the vaguely foreboding
sentiment that Operation Mi’ihen will not succeed by the might of
Crusaders and machina alone, and that they will be forced again to rely
on summoners to defeat Sin.<br />
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Pffft. Yeah Dona’s sultry tone here makes it clear that that is not <i>exactly</i>
what she’s intending to do with Barthello. But you know, good for
them. Dona/Barthello is actually one of the most normal and functional
ships sailing around out there in the turbulent seas of FFX. (Although
this fandom, given its tendency to crew such vessels as
“fifteen-year-old girl/guy twenty years her senior and also dead” and
“savior/giant whale monster*,” does not set the bar very high. Heck
even the canon ones, “doomed girl/imaginary boy” and “dead brother’s
girlfriend/dead boyfriend’s brother” are pretty questionable.<br />
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* So far I’ve actually only seen one person shipping Yuna/Sin, but she is very persistent about it.)<br />
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Regardless
of her high school mean girl attitude towards Yuna (and also Tidus),
Dona is loyal to her pilgrimage. She doesn’t start to question the
pilgrimage until near the end, when the cracks in Yevon start to appear,
and even then, if you say the right thing to her, she still goes all
the way to Zanarkand. She is counting, like Yuna, on her death. Dona
and Barthello know this is the last time they’ll have together, so why
shouldn’t they enjoy each other’s company while they can?<br />
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Oh how cute and precocious. Surely they won’t <i>really</i> let child soldiers in the army? (Don’t get your hopes up.) <br />
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<i>"Oh no it's that mysteriously handsome blue-haired guy again he's
coming this way he's going to see me what do I do with my face??"</i><br />
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Yuna’s face when she sees Seymour just walking up the road is really
entertaining. She’s clearly still star-struck by him. And she bows so
low in respect that she’s actually kneeling.<br />
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Seymour, who is going this way to oversee the operation, pulls some
strings to let us through the closed gate. It’s unclear what his motive
is here. Is he trying to insinuate himself into her good graces?
Putting her into a position where she owes him a favor? Does he
actually want her to witness Operation Mi’ihen? Or is he really just
being courteous?<br />
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I’d also like to point out that they’ve never
actually “met” before; there were never any introductions or greetings
exchanged between them when they saw each other for the first time on
the Luca dock, when he singled her out with his gaze in the crowd. It’s
likely he knew her by reputation before he met her, but she’s never
personally given him her name, and she only learned who he was when he
was announced. Already knowing who she is (and presumably having access
to other information about her) gives him an extra advantage over her,
in addition to his status as a Maester.<br />
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I have some thoughts on
why he chose her specifically for his master plan, and what exactly he’s
doing, but I’ll go into that next time.<br />
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Yuna’s bow of thanks goes on for several seconds, long after Seymour has
walked away. Everybody else is clearly skeptical of Seymour’s
generosity.<br />
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And Lulu is getting a little tired of Yuna’s developing fan-crush on
him. She already had a problem with her transparent attraction to
Waffles, now she has to deal with this, too. (The little pat on the
back she gives her to nudge her along is really cute, though.)<br />
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On the other side of the gate, Seymour gives an inspiring speech to the
assembled Crusaders which may or may not actually be sincere. (A
recurring theme with Seymour is that it’s often hard to tell; a lot of
things he says are layered with twisted double meanings and ulterior
motives.)<br />
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He is a summoner, and moreover, one of the few who has
completed the pilgrimage. (Although he omitted the final, crucial step
of, you know, actually defeating Sin.) He is also, as it turns out, <i>very interested</i> in Sin, so he knows possibly even better than Yuna and Dona do that Sin can’t be destroyed by normal means.<br />
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However,
he is a summoner who chose his own path in the end, by turning away
from Sin and, via certain insidious machinations that will be revealed
to us later, eventually becoming a Maester. So the sentiment of
“believe in the path that you have chosen,” has a peculiar emphasis,
coming from him. He is encouraging them to stick to what they believe
in, even in defiance of Yevon.<br />
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But does he really mean it? I’m
not sure when exactly Seymour’s life plans change from “defeat Sin” to
“become Sin,” but it could be that he is encouraging them because he
knows they won’t succeed. He doesn’t want Sin to be destroyed. But if
the operation proceeds as planned, he will have the chance to observe it
and perhaps even come in contact with it.<br />
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Guado are, as he puts it, “keen to the scent of the Farplane.” He
already knows Auron is an unsent, and needles him about it whenever he
gets the chance, hoping to get him to reveal something in front of the
others. Auron, however, remains as tightly closed up as the Cloister of
Trials.<br />
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<a href="http://www.squidoo.com/fansub">"I Simon Chubby am here as an individual."</a> (AuronLu’s hilariously-translated FFX bootleg is also one of my favorite things.)<br />
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"That's even worse!" <br />
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At least he's being up-front about how
seriously shady that sounded. Having insider information, Seymour knows
that Yevon is a morass of treachery and corruption. The things he says
are actually <i>exactly</i> the kind of things a Maester of Yevon would
say. But seeing this slippery attitude coming from an authority figure
is a shock for some of our more trusting party members.<br />
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As we
attempt to continue on our way to Djose Temple, Clasko comes running up
and tells us that Seymour wants to see Yuna up at the command center,
for reasons that are never explained. (He never actually gets a chance
to talk to her once they’re there before the operation starts.) We put
on our hiking boots and get ready for a climb.<br />
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Presumably at some point, this happens, since we’re in the right
location. It could be after the battle, but Yuna isn’t looking nearly
harrowed enough yet. I like the idea of the moogle being sent to scout
ahead to make sure it’s safe. Which apparently it isn’t, since Lulu is
cautioning Yuna back. (I have this as a poster-sized wall hanging in my
room and people who come in are like “What the heck,” because they see
the severe-looking goth lady . . . and then the smiling teddy bear cat
thing. Or the people riding giant yellow birds in the background.
Final Fantasy!!!) <br />
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Along the way up Mushroom Rock Road we run into Shelinda, who is still
determinedly wibbling her way towards the site of the operation in the
face of repeated failure. She says she knows a little white magic, so
she’s planning to offer her services as a healer. I really admire her
attitude. We’re never given any indication that Yevon promotes charity
and generosity like many major religions (whose followers nevertheless
seem only to remember it when it is personally convenient) but Shelinda
herself embodies these values. She wants to help even if it contradicts
her own beliefs, because she knows it's the right thing to do.<br />
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(Come
to think of it, I’m not exactly sure what Yevon does promote, other
than atonement. We hear a lot about what the teachings say people
aren’t supposed to do, but there’s no “love thy neighbor” exhortations,
it’s all “thou shalt not.”)<br />
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I still get a kick out of seeing Waffles addressed as “my lady.”<br />
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Not “heal us if we are wounded,” but “send us if we die.” Lucil is
preparing for the worst, here. This is an easy line to pass over or
forget, considering everything that’s about to happen, but as it turns
out Yuna really takes it to heart.<br />
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Elma where are your glasses? That is clearly Waffles.<br />
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Wakka’s spellcasting animation involves scratching his head like he’s thinking about what to do. It’s cute.<br />
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I also noticed that when people cast spells, they appear to have
pyreflies circling them, which gives some insight into the nature of
magic in Spira. (Surprise! As with everything else, it has something
to do with pyreflies.) It would seem that they’re able to tap into and
manipulate the surrounding energies of the pyreflies, considering that
they’re everywhere. Lulu being able to conjure elements out of
seemingly thin air isn’t really that far from Yuna being able to walk on
water or blitzballers not needing to breathe. (I have a little
headcanon that summoners adapt the sending to the funereal practices of
wherever they are, but Yuna’s dance was on the surface of water because
that is how Kilikans bury their dead. Cultures that use a funeral pyre
might have summoners that dance in the flames without being burned to
draw the pyreflies out through the fire. Both would involve the
manipulation of elements.)<br />
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I don’t know how it got started but the first time I played this with a
friend we started saying “Auron disdains the flower” every time we got
this shot. Later I realized that it’s actually a mushroom. The
sentiment still stands. Actually you could say “Auron disdains the ___”
about pretty much anything. <br />
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When we get to the top, Luzzu and Gatta are having a cutscene over here
that it is possible to miss. Almost all of the scenes pertaining to
Lulu’s backstory are hidden in some way, which is, on a meta level, very
appropriate for her, but it means that a lot of people don’t know
they’re there.<br />
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Doubtless, this exchange is reminding Wakka of him and his brother. Speaking of whom . . .<br />
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This is one of the few times we see Lulu get upset about anything enough
to use exclamation points. And even though Luzzu is indirectly
responsible for Chappu’s death, she’s trying to protect him from Wakka’s
reaction. (Or it could be that she’s trying to protect Wakka from
knowing.) It’s implied that the bunch of them (Lulu, Wakka, Chappu, and
Luzzu, possibly also Yuna and Gatta although they are a few years
younger) were friends or at least well-acquainted in their small
community back on Besaid and she doesn’t want to ruin that, especially
since there’s a high likelihood that Luzzu is about to die. She’d have
preferred that he take the secret with him to his death rather than stir
up old pain and resentment now with his confession. <br />
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But he plows ahead anyway, and gets socked in the face for his trouble.<br />
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He realizes that Lulu knew, and didn’t tell him. She looks away.<br />
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(I love how you can't see anyone's faces in this shot, but all the necessary emotion is conveyed through body language.)<br />
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(Wellllll given the Aurochs’ track record, this could have been a way of
ensuring that he stayed single forever. But I think Chappu was
probably more of an optimist.) <br />
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I’m gonna rain on everybody’s
already-soggy parade and point out that this doesn’t necessarily mean
that they would have gotten married – as usual, we never get Lulu’s
opinion on this subject. We don’t know if she would have accepted. The
description of her as "his girl" kind of rubs me the wrong way. It's
such a belittling, dismissive, 1950's-type descriptor and doesn't suit
her. I really don't think Lulu would stand for being anybody's girl.<br />
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But we don’t actually know much about their relationship at all.<br />
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Maybe
they were a happy couple, and the dynamic contrast in their
personalities balanced each other out despite a probable gap in their
level of emotional maturity. (And possibly, actual ages. If we assume
that Wakka’s parents died at the same time that Lulu’s did, then Chappu
could have been anywhere from around 16 to 22 when he died.) Literally
the only thing we ever hear about his personality is that he always
thought that Lulu looked grumpy. But, given how strongly Tidus reminds
Wakka of his brother, it’s easy to assume that they had a similar
cheerful, impulsive temperament, meaning one that is the polar opposite
of Lulu’s.<br />
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Slightly darker alternate interpretation: Maybe
Chappu, being younger and starry-eyed, was a lot more in love with Lulu
than Lulu reciprocated. Joining the Crusaders gave him an opportunity
to prove himself as a man, in the hopes that she would take him more
seriously. Now she’s carrying not only sorrow but guilt over his death,
for which she feels responsible.<br />
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We get a slow zoom on Lulu, who is standing off by herself, isolated
from everyone else and looking down at the ground. Even if the scenario
I just described isn’t what happened, she <i>does</i> feel responsible in part for what happened to Chappu.<br />
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To
make things worse (for our feelings): Chappu became a Crusader to
fight Sin and protect Lulu when she put herself in danger by becoming a
guardian to her previous summoner(s). She, in turn, did this with the intention
of protecting Yuna when she decided to become a summoner, in the hopes
of getting to Sin and defeating it herself before Yuna even had to make
her pilgrimage. So Yuna’s decision to become a summoner set off a chain
reaction of TRAGEDY. (Hopefully, no one ever told Yuna this.)<br />
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Meaning that it was still on her mind when <a href="http://mintywolfplaysffx.blogspot.com/2014/01/part-3-its-good-thing-wakka-is-dog.html" target="_blank">Wakka gave Tidus Chappu’s sword.</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.squidoo.com/fansub">“Wendy has got a frightening fists too.”</a> Okay sorry I will stop with the badly-timed terrible translations. <strike>(Probably.)</strike><br />
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Captain Lucil comes by to round up the Crusaders and Luzzu prepares
to face his expected end. Even now, Wakka is still concerned for him as
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Yuna, who is determined to save everyone but herself, is too. But, as
Auron reminds her, he is prepared to give his life to fight Sin exactly
as she has. It would be hypocritical of her to stand in his way.<br />
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Up top, poor Wakka take out his frustrations by ill-advisedly kicking a
cannon with his sandal-clad foot. Waffles stops to wring some more
painful exposition out of a weary Lulu.<br />
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<a href="http://mintywolfplaysffx.blogspot.com/2014/01/part-6-memories-of-that-day-still-haunt.html" target="_blank">Back in Luca</a>, she started to explain why Wakka "never had much love for the Al Bhed," but Waffles interrupts to remind her that the fate of the blitzball match is hanging in the balance. It's likely that this is what she was going to tell him.<br />
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The Crusaders’ plan here is to cage all these Sinspawn they have
collected and then electrocute them, causing them to cry out for Sin,
which is rather charmingly overprotective of all the horrible bug things
that fall off of it. Once it has been lured in, the Crusaders will
engage it in combat until the Al Bhed get the 1,000-year-old machina
charged up and ready to fire.<br />
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There are about a billion ways that this can go wrong, but nobody wants to be the Debbie Downer who brings it up. <br />
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Yeah when those kids out front said “We’re Crusaders, too!” they
meant it.<br />
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There’s a whole story told here in just a few lines of
dialogue, and it’s one of the most chilling things you can find in this
game. This man is training his daughter to swing a sword she can barely
lift, in order to fight and avenge his other child who was killed by
Sin, so caught up in his grief over the dead child that he is willing to endanger the living one. It will end up costing him her, as well.<br />
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(At least, that is how I read it.) <br />
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O’aka you are a despicable human being and you aren’t getting any of my gil.<br />
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We
come upon Gatta glumly posted outside the command center, per Luzzu’s
orders. When asked what’s wrong, he says that he wants to be out on the
front lines and it’s not fair.<br />
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Auron is just full of sage life advice today.<br />
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He himself has
faced a similar situation. When Braska decided to go ahead with the
Final Summoning, Auron opposed the decision and wanted to find another
way, but he had to remain faithful to his duty as a guardian. He stayed
true to the last orders Braska gave him, even though it meant having to
watch his two best friends die without him.<br />
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You get to Chose Your Own Adventure here and decide whether or Luzzu or
Gatta gets to live. (But you can’t save both. Alas, their bromance is
not meant to be.) Story-wise, it’s probably more poetic if Luzzu goes
off and gets himself killed as a kind of atonement for Chappu, but the
scene you get with him later if he lives has more depth to it than
Gatta’s, so I’m going with that. Also, Gatta’s description of Luzzu’s
death is pretty horrific.<br />
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(Also, typing out this paragraph I realized that a LOT of Besaiders have
double letters in their names. Wakka, Chappu, Luzzu, Gatta, Letty,
Datto, Keepa, Jassu, Botta . . . that’s like almost everyone who’s
named. What is up with that? I guess it’s a regional linguistic quirk.
It makes Yuna -- and possibly Lulu, although she has a double syllable --
stand out as non-natives, too.)<br />
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If you want to kill Gatta, you have to encourage him to disobey twice, you murderer.<br />
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Upon our arrival at the command center, this happens. A pudgy Maester
waddles up and, living the dream of a legion of Auron fans, wraps him in
an unsolicited and unrequited bear hug. Everybody gapes in
astonishment.<br />
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Yes, that’s very informative, Lulu, but it fails to explain what gave
this man the compulsion to plant a non-sequitur hug on Grouchy
McPricklepants over there.<br />
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(This shot contains two things I like.
Ordinarily grumpy characters being specially patient with doofy ones,
and tall characters having to lean down to talk to shorter ones.)<br />
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Lulu
explains that Kinoc’s branch of command is the warrior monks and the
Crusaders, so he’s the one in charge of Operation Mi’ihen. Kinoc knows
Auron because ten years ago, they were warrior monks together. But
Auron got booted for refusing an arranged marriage with the daughter of a
high-ranking clergyman, and Kinoc got the attached promotion instead.
(Possibly, he also married the girl?) We can conjecture that Auron may
have ended up a Maester himself, although climbing that high on the
Yevon career ladder tends to involve some sketchy dealings, and I think Auron would have turned away in disgust when he found out how corrupt Yevon is, and the things that would be expected of him.<br />
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Even the man in charge of it, with a casual disregard for all the lives
at stake, knows the operation has the same odds of success as a Hypello
trying to learn to fly.<br />
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(Also, check out Yuna breaking out in a
nervous sweat back there because Seymour is standing like two feet
behind her. And Waffles doing whatever Waffles is doing.)<br />
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Auron still refuses to clearly explain his ten-year absence, even when noodged about it repeatedly.<br />
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This line is loaded with some kind of meaning, evidenced by the fact
that they aren’t facing each other, and that Auron just replies “Hmph”
and walks away.<br />
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Of course he’s seen Zanarkand. Everyone knows
he’s seen Zanarkand; he’s a legendary guardian, which means that his
summoner completed the pilgrimage and defeated Sin. But I wonder if
this is a clue that the Maesters know about Dream Zanarkand, and are
keeping it a secret.<br />
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It could also be an echo of the last conversation that Kinoc had with Auron, revealed in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIFBaarMrcI">one of the Jecht Spheres.</a> I discussed this with LureoftheSea <a href="http://mintywolf.tumblr.com/post/63784548820/ok-this-has-bugged-me-for-ages-when-we-see-kinocs-or">on tumblr</a>
once; the last thing that Kinoc says is “You will tell me about
Zanarkand when you return, won’t you?” But this conversation hints that
Kinoc does not expect Auron to return.<br />
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As I mentioned on tumblr,
I’m pretty sure that the Maesters of Yevon know about what summoners
find at the end of the pilgrimage in Zanarkand: Yunalesca’s true nature,
the guardian sacrifice necessary to obtain the Final Aeon, and that Sin
can never be truly defeated and will always be reborn. So Kinoc’s
deliberate tone here could imply that he knows one (or more) of several
things:<br />
- Dream Zanarkand exists, and that’s where Auron has been all along.<br />
- What Auron saw in Zanarkand, and that Braska’s other guardian had to have become Sin.<br />
- That Auron is unsent.<br />
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Waffles and Yuna are feeling out of place at the adults’ table.<br />
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Auron impresses the importance of guardianly duties on Waffles. (He has a motive for this, which I’ll get into later, but for now it's just cute.)<br />
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"A summoner . . . I shall report this later." </blockquote>
Yeah just implicate
yourself in the Great Summoner Heist right in front of a guardian. I'm
sure he's not learning to speak your language, or anything.<br />
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We’re about to learn the horribly irony behind this statement. But what Wakka says is true; Yevon <i>is</i> behind the operation. But not for the reasons he’s thinking.<br />
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<a href="http://mintywolfplaysffx.blogspot.com/2014/02/part-10-yuna-and-terrible-horrible-no.html">Next time</a>: This will not end well.Mintywolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03450557499971082731noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7532666560771740367.post-64014461418113754532014-01-29T23:15:00.001-05:002014-09-27T13:09:07.922-04:00Part 8: The Random Encounter Gauntlet<a href="http://won the Chappu Memorial Cup blitzball tournament, bringing victory to Besaid for the first time in 23 years, only to have our triumph overshadowed by a pointy-haired attention hoarder and his giant hellbeast. Afterwards we picked up a blade-toting ghost hitchhiker, because apparently creepypasta is not a thing in Spira." target="_blank">Last time</a> we won the Chappu Memorial Cup blitzball tournament, bringing victory to
Besaid for the first time in 23 years, only to have our triumph
overshadowed by a pointy-haired attention hoarder and his giant
hellbeast. Afterwards we picked up a blade-toting ghost hitchhiker,
because no one in Spira is creepypasta-savvy enough to be suspicious of something like that.<br />
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I haven’t moved anybody on the Sphere Grid yet. So far everyone has
still been using their starting stats and skills, which wasn’t
especially painful until I got to here. (Hoo boy.) We’ll get a bunch of
Level 1 Key Spheres after Operation Mi’ihen (and two around here) so I
just have to hold out until then and remember to stock up on phoenix
downs and potions, which I almost never do. <br />
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Once I got the
Level 1 Key Sphere from the guy on the road, I decided to advance
Waffles, who is going to be our white mage, towards Yuna’s sphere grid
and discovered that it’s blocked by a Level 2 Lock. I’ve never tried to
make Kimahri a white mage so I’d never realized that before. And I
don’t even remember when the first Level 2 Key Sphere comes our way (I
know I’m going to need one to get in and out of Auron’s sphere grid too)
so this could get interesting, haha.<br />
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Before we got going I went back to talk to this guy, because there is a
tiny ongoing plot arc concerning him and this dog and cat that goes <i>all the way into X-2</i>.
Also, talking to everyone from here until Operation Mi’ihen, you get
the distinctly foreboding sense that the Crusaders are doomed.<br />
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Waffles stops to admire some ancient Spiran architecture.<br />
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Along the way we run into Professor Exposition! He explains what the
deal is with the Crusaders – 800 years ago they were founded by Lord
Mi’ihen to combat Sin, possibly as an alternative to sacrificing
summoners. Back then, they were called the Crimson Blades. Even though
they were a squad of volunteers, there grew to be so many of them that
the Church of Yevon feared they could become too powerful and accused
them of rebellion. Mi’ihen went to Bevelle to fight that claim, and
managed to earn the trust of the Maesters, whereupon the Crimson Blades
were assimilated by Yevon and became a military branch of the clergy.
They were renamed the “Crusaders,” which is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusades">heavily weighted moniker</a>,
carrying connotations of, depending on how much history you know,
knights on a holy pilgrimage or knights carrying out horrible Catholic
Church-sanctioned atrocities.<br />
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Spira’s Crusaders, as far as I
know, haven’t done anything horrible, but their new name still bears
religious weight, and emphasizes the sense that there is a dark hidden
history to Yevon. The annexation of the former Crimson Blades is not
the only example we hear of Yevon taking over something it saw as a
threat. The Guado (and presumably the Ronso) were converted to the
Yevon religion while the Al Bhed, who have resisted Yevon, are treated
as outcasts. The use of certain machina is allowed when used to suit
the purposes of Yevon, but condemned when used by others. Even the Hymn
of the Fayth, it is revealed by our friend Machen near the end of the
game (if you track him down), originated as a song of protest against
Yevon but was hastily appropriated by the Church and presented as a song
of praise.<br />
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By now, however, the Crusaders have been cast out
from underneath the mantle of Yevon and excommunicated for their use of
machina. (Or at least, machina not approved by Yevon.) This is just a
theory, but I suspect it may also be because they seek to find a way to
defeat Sin without the use of summoners, which undermines the authority
of Yevon and its control over Spira.<br />
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Lord Mi’ihen is standing over a fallen Behemoth with a bunch of swords
stuck in the ground around the statue, probably put there as tribute by
other warriors. His pose resembles the warrior-saint iconography of the
archangel Michael slaying a dragon, but I’m probably reading too much
into that.<br />
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Almost immediately a fiend jumps out of a bush and Auron demonstrates the advantages of piercing weapons. Waffles is sulky. <br />
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“You wish.”<br />
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Professor Exposition shows up again to explain how all of these ruins are handiwork of centuries of Sin. <br />
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(This is one of my favorite things he says, haha. In case you were picturing a muddy dog, <a href="http://www.caudata.org/cc/species/Necturus/N_maculosus.shtml">this is a mudpuppy</a>. Also, <a href="http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/File:258Mudkip.png">this</a>.)<br />
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When they say “humans” I assume they actually mean “people,” including
the other sentient races of Spira (Guado, Ronso, Hypello, whatever those
little beaky guys, harp birds, saxophone cats, and drum turtles are)
but there seems to be a lot of human privilege exercised in Spira. I
wonder if there were any not fully human summoners before Seymour.<br />
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I
don’t know if they had planned for Maechen to be revealed as an unsent
before X-2 (probably not) but the way he refers to the people of Spira
as “they” and not “we” makes it sound like he’s excluding himself, which
is curious.<br />
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When they all ran in Waffles was like “Hey, I’m a guardian now, so watch
out!” and Lulu said something like, “You’re not lacking confidence, I
see,” sounding amused. (I’ve seen screencaps with in-battle dialogue
subtitled on them. Does anyone know how to do this?)<br />
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I brought Waffles back in to fling a phoenix down at her because I’m
aiming for the conversation with Lulu in Guadosalam. "This isn’t like
me," she tried to brush it off as she got back up, a statement that was
proven to be a flagrant lie about six times over before I even reached
the travel agency.<br />
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I enjoy that Ifrit has fluffy fur/flames on the back of his legs like <a href="http://pokebeach.com/news/0513/xy/14.jpg">Fennekin</a>. (Or rather, that Fennekin has them like Ifrit.)<br />
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Ifrit’s
summoning sequence is really cute – Yuna gets flung up in the air, and
he catches her on his shoulder and sets her gently down. (Something
which he seems to do only to Yuna, since we don’t see this happen with
either Belgemine or Isaaru.) But even so it’s not clear whether or not
he is a benevolent entity. The first time she summons him, Yuna asks
warily, “Will you . . . help us?” <br />
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Like a lot of recurring Final
Fantasy critters, I first came by Ifrit by way of Dungeons and Dragons,
but they are actually a type of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ifrit">fiery djinn</a>
originating in Arabic mythology, and generally depicted as evil in both
cases. In folklore there are stories of djinn being summoned and bound
and asked to grant wishes, but evil ones often find a way to twist the
wisher’s meaning into something tricky and horrible. (A party I was in
once encountered one in the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth, but fortunately
one of the players was a law student and managed to draw up a contract
that the DM, and therefore the djinn, couldn’t find a way around, so we
got our wishes.)<br />
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So it is an appropriate theme for a creature
bound to its summoner and made to do her bidding. Yuna’s aeons seem to
be tied to her out of affection, because her strength as a summoner and
therefore her bond with her aeons is often remarked upon, but I do
wonder if some aeons resent their summoners. Ifrit’s design doesn’t
incorporate chains like some of the others (his necklace appears to be
prayer beads, although Ifrit's fayth was a Crusader) but he has shackle-like cuffs on his wrists and ankles.<br />
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Along the way we run into Captain Lucil of the Djose Chocobo Knights,
along with Elma and Clasko. I appreciate that it’s a woman in the
position of leadership here.<br />
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Although Tidus doesn’t want to hear it, Auron seems to enjoy pointing
out that he’s more like his father than he thinks. (I also like how he
seems to be actually facing Yuna here when he says this, because she
enjoys hearing about her father’s pilgrimage.)<br />
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Lulu you are burning through my supply of phoenix downs like an actual phoenix.<br />
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I
suppose this would be a good time to share my little headcanon that
Lulu’s low HP, strength, and physical defense are indicators of a weak
constitution, although she wouldn’t admit it to anyone. I imagine that
as a result of frequent childhood illnesses she spent a lot of time
inside studying instead of outside playing like the other kids, which
led to her discovering her talent for magic at an early age. Poor
physical stats are a hallmark of the black mage class (even worse than
for white mages) throughout the series too, so it’s also possible that
casting black magic is physically taxing.<br />
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At any rate on a No Sphere Grid run, she's more or less a One Hit Point Wonder.<br />
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Oh no it's Belgemine. I am not ready for you.<br />
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I think it’s kind of weird that she feels the need to clarify this.
Because summoner battles are never fights to the death; the aeons just
fight each other until one gets knocked out and reverts to pyreflies.
They’re exactly like Pokémon battles. The aeons never attack the other
summoner, but I suppose they <i>could</i>, and I wonder if aeons (and for that matter, Pokémon) have ever been used this way in-universe.<br />
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This also brings up the question of whether more than one summoner is
able to call on one particular fayth at the same time. In Yuna’s
battles with Belgemine and Isaaru she is never allowed to summon the
same aeon as them at the same time. I don’t know if it’s because it
would be ineffective, or if the fayth is unable to respond to more than
one summoner at a time. (Or at least, unable to fight itself, because
in regular combat Yuna never seems to be unable to summon an aeon unless
it’s been recently knocked out.)<br />
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Thank you, slobbery doggie, for this overdrive.<br />
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But I still lost.<br />
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(~Spoilers~) Like a surprising number of people in this game, Belgemine
is dead. She is an unsent. The way she says this makes it sound like
she did actually get all the way to Zanarkand and obtained the Final
Aeon, but died in the battle with Sin itself. She has met Braska, but
I'm not sure whether she met him under the same circumstances as Yuna
(she seems to wander around testing summoners to see if they’re strong
enough to receive the aeons from Remiem Temple, which she is guarding by
herself) or whether she was alive when he was.<br />
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">
“As you wish."</blockquote>
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When this happened to me
the first time I was playing I blurted out, “That means he loves her!!”<br />
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“Hey, lady, are you going to die for our sins?”<br />
“Yes, very soon.”<br />
“Yaaay!”<br />
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Calli
(I hope, because otherwise this is pretty callous of her) does not know
what bringing the Calm entails, but surely her mother does. Both she
and Yuna seem very slightly embarrassed to be having this conversation,
but brush it off as a fact of Spiran life.<br />
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But check out that steely glare from Lulu back there.<br />
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Everybody else modestly accepts this woman’s good wishes while Lulu
continues to stand there beaming scathing disapproval in her direction.
Her arms-folded posture is defensive, too. We’ve seen before that she
doesn’t like having her feelings poked at and, without knowing it,
Calli’s mom is poking at them.<br />
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Then we have some exposition about what exactly the Calm is, basically
the time between Sins. There is some question about how long the Calm
lasts. Ultimania claims that it lasts only a year, which I don’t like
to accept as canon, because it makes the sacrifice of a summoner seem
really insignificant. Also, if they knew that their deaths would only
buy a year of Sin-free time, there would a lot fewer summoners
undertaking the pilgrimage so earnestly, and that their home temples
would find it more valuable to keep them at home to perform other
summoner duties like sendings. If the length of the Calm is
undetermined, summoners still have the hope that maybe theirs will be
the one that sticks. <br />
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Also you’d think that a society plagued by
constant rampaging monster attacks with only five disparate years of
peace in the past millennium and no technology to fend it off would have
been destroyed a long time ago. Even as it is they must have a lot of
children to keep their population stable with each generation.<br />
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At this point Waffles of course doesn’t know that the summoner has to
die in order to defeat Sin. But the conversation prompted by his
innocent question is forcing Yuna in this moment to think about her
father’s death and feel the weight of her own impending mortality.<br />
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(Although
. . . did it never occur to him to wonder what happened to Braska?
He’s holding on to the hope that Jecht might still be alive somewhere,
and Auron is still around, but he never asks what happened to Yuna’s
dad.)<br />
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Lulu looks really cute with her head tilted thoughtfully/patiently to the side like that.<br />
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This backs up what I posited earlier about the Crusaders being
excommunicated because they are seeking a way to defeat Sin without
sacrificing summoners. Without that knowledge, it looks like he’s just
being cocky and saying that he can have the glory of fighting Sin just
as well as any summoner, but they’re really trying to save lives.<br />
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This does not look good for Homestar Runner.<br />
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Like Yuna, these guys are prepared to die fighting Sin if necessary.
Backing out of the operation and going back to Besaid now for them would
be like a summoner abandoning the pilgrimage.<br />
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I really like fantasy-world ephemera, especially advertisements. (<a href="http://geektyrant.com/news/2011/4/25/geek-art-fable-3-fun-albion-products-propaganda-poster-art.html">The Fable series is great for this</a>.)
I wish we saw more ads for Spiran products but the Al Bhed seem to be
the only ones with enough business acumen to advertise. The Spiran
script says “Rin Travel Agency” but I can’t quite decipher the Al Bhed
script at the top. It might say the same thing.<br />
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Further down the road we run across Shelinda, whom I did not like the
first few times I played this but she kind of grew on me. (Although I
don’t think there’s anybody in the entire game that I have a raging
hatred for.) Her purpose in the story is to show that although not all devotees of Yevon are as corrupt and prejudiced as the religion they serve, they can be very naive.<br />
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She explains that she’s been trying to convince the
Crusaders to call off the operation not because it won’t work, but
because they’re using machina, which is (allegedly) forbidden by Yevon.
Unsurprisingly, none of them have listened to her.<br />
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She is so devoted to Yevon that she believes upholding the teachings is <i>more important</i> than defeating Sin. Wakka agrees with her, because he also has an intense distrust of machina, but for different reasons.<br />
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She claims this is because she’s “just a lowly acolyte” but I’m
prettttty sure it’s because they’ve put months of planning and
Sinspawn-capturing into this operation and aren’t likely to be deterred
by one lone fundamentalist yelling about Yevon on the side of the road.
Yuna kindly tells her not to be so hard on herself.<br />
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I think they’re probably around the same age. Even though she’s a
summoner, Yuna doesn’t consider herself more important than any other
person trying to improve the world. Shelinda, however, is very excited
that a summoner is talking to her like this and kind of becomes Yuna's
Number One Fan. (Kind of missing the point Yuna made about them both being equal.)<br />
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Afterwards I finally managed to drag the party
out of the Random Encounter Gauntlet to the Mi’ihen Travel Agency, at
which Wakka did not want to stay because it’s Al Bhed-run.<br />
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You can hear somebody – I think it’s Waffles – whistling innocently in the background here during the Collective Facepalm.<br />
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We still haven’t learned exactly <i>why </i>Wakka hates the Al Bhed so much, other than that they’re non-Yevonites, but we will in the next installment. <br />
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“EVER. There will be no more sleeping. I am buying all the coffee right now.”<br />
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Heehee and okay this is a weird little detail but I noticed that
whenever you talk to Shelinda here, it triggers Lulu looking down at
this bin of pears like she’s inspecting them for sacrilege. <br />
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More Waffles rubber ducky face.<br />
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The sunset he saw in Kilika did have a gigantic murderbeast sailing along through it.
He finds Yuna sitting alone and comes up to ask “Whatcha up to?” She puts something away hurriedly and smiles up at him, embarrassed. What was she up to?<br />
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Preparing to make everyone cry several hours of gameplay later! It’s
possible that the conversation they had on the road about the Calm, Sin
returning, and whether or not it’s worth it, is what prompted her to
record this farewell to all her friends.<br />
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Let’s stop and look at
it now so we have a better sense of the frame of mind she was in when
she made it, and during the conversation immediately afterwards. <br />
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It’s
still fairly early into her journey and she’s only known Auron for a
few hours at this time. She probably met him briefly when she was
seven, but I don’t think he’d have paid much notice to a little girl and
his main concern would have been Braska. (Also, her attention seems to
have been captured by Jecht during that meeting.)<br />
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Yuna is
intimidated by the honor of having Auron as a guardian. She always
addresses him as “Sir Auron,” throughout the game, and even though she
doesn’t know him well she puts him first in her farewell message.
Because of her awe of him, and also because of his aloof personality,
they never become close friends like she does with the rest of her
guardians. He’s sometimes even quite harsh with her, although there are
a few times where it’s evident that he is fond of her, in a grumpy
uncle kind of way. Her promise to defeat Sin as thanks to him is
significant because that is exactly what he wants from her, and she may
have already picked up on that from him, although she doesn’t know the
real reason yet – she is the one who can free Jecht and avenge Braska.<br />
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Her
farewell to Kimahri is the most backstory we ever get about Kimahri. I
wish we could see more interaction between them because he obviously
means a lot to her. Originally, Auron was given the responsibility to
bring Yuna to Besaid but he died, and then decided to go to Zanarkand.
(Like you do.) At this point in the game, the “man facing death” sounds
like Braska, but it’s actually referring to Auron too. Before dying,
he passed Braska’s request onto Kimahri, who found him dying near
Bevelle after his fight with Yunalesca and tried to rescue him. Kimahri
was there because he had just left his home on Mt. Gagazet after losing
his horn in the <a href="http://mintywolf.dreamwidth.org/3104.html">earlier mentioned</a> fight with Yenke and Biran and was striking out on his own. <br />
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We
learn here that Braska did not want Yuna to grow up in Bevelle, and in
fact, as far away from it as possible. He probably recognized how
difficult it would be for a half Al Bhed child growing up in such a
strict Yevon environment, and at this point, he didn’t know whether he
would defeat Sin or whether he would die in the attempt, but either way
he was planning never to return home. If he did become High Summoner,
he could have the hope that people would regard Yuna with greater
reverence, but if he failed, he’d know that she’d only be recognized as
the daughter of the heretic summoner, and treated accordingly.<br />
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Ironically,
while everyone was celebrating Braska, apparently no one was paying
attention to his daughter, because somehow a seven-year-old was able to
wander off alone into the largest city in Spira at night and climb onto a
bridge. (Which, if she was staying in the temple, and if it was the
Highbridge, wasn’t that far away, but she does say she went into the
city.) I also wonder how many little girls Kimahri had to approach
before he found the right one.<br />
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So Kimahri abandons all of his
life plans to take responsibility for some child he has never met and
has no obligation to and bring her to a distant island, a journey which
must have taken several days at least. In that time she gets attached
to him, and when he prepares to leave her in a strange new place she
begs him not to leave because he is her only friend and the only source
of familiarity and stability in her life at that time. And so he stays
with her, in a tropical environment completely alien to him, the only
member of his race among strangers, patiently subjected to the caprices of a little girl, for the next ten years. That is a
BEAUTIFUL STORY and it’s given almost no attention during this game.<br />
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We
rarely get to hear from his perspective, but I’m pretty sure that he
had gotten attached to her too, and she was also the only friend that <i>he</i>
had at the time, since he had outcast himself from the other Ronso.
Maybe he had nowhere else to go either. At the very least, he was
compassionate enough to realize that this tiny crying child whose entire
world was in upheaval was dependent on him. He was also, according to
Ultimania, 15 years old at the time, although it’s possible that Ronso
reach maturity faster than humans do. (The “Ronso Youth” in X-2 all
seem to be full-grown.)<br />
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Moving along, I’m disappointed that her
farewell to Wakka and Lulu is so brief and also that she doesn’t address
them individually. Her bond with each of them is clearly emphasized
during the game and it’s very apparent that they both care about her
deeply. So I don’t know why this part of her recording is so short.
Maybe she’d already told them in person everything she wanted to say,
except for this. Also, I think this is the only time we hear Yuna
mention Chappu. Perhaps all the memories of their childhood together
are too painful for her to dredge up, especially when she’s dwelling on
her own death.<br />
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And then finally, she gets to Waffles, whose name
she clumsily avoids. (Personally I like to think that she forgot it,
and was too embarrassed to ask.) As I mentioned before, Yuna is a late
bloomer falling in love for the first time. She began training as a
summoner at 15, knowing that from then on the rest of her life was
planned out for her and accepting that she would die young. Compared to
her self-sacrificing love for Spira, romantic love is a personal,
selfish luxury that she didn’t allow herself or even expect herself to
be subject to. But now unexpectedly she finds herself falling for
Tidus, and even though she is caught in the blushing, giddy joy of her
first-ever crush, she is in pain because she knows that it can’t last,
because she has to die. And she doesn’t want to tell him, so she is
bearing the pain of that secret by herself. Also, she was apparently
planning never to confess her love to him while she was alive, since
this message is meant to be seen after she’s defeated Sin, either
because she’s too shy or too devoted to her pilgrimage. (Or both.)<br />
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On
a tiny side tangent, this may also be the first time she’s noticed a
boy paying particular attention to her. Not only was she busy in
summoner training for the past two years, but her adolescence has been
spent growing up alongside Lulu, who, whether she intended to or not,
had probably captured the eyes of all the boys. When Yuna was an
awkward 13-14 year old, Lulu was a mysterious and graceful 18-19. I’m
sure a lot of us can relate to the experience of being the mousy,
unnoticed one next to a friend or sister who is more striking, more
mature, or at least knows how to properly put clothes and makeup on
herself. (I know I can, anyway.) So when she found herself the target of Tidus’ attentions,
Yuna’s first reaction may well have been “ . . . Me?”<br />
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Not to
mention that he was probably first guy brave/blithe enough to get
through the barrier of her overprotective big brother, big sister, and
big kitty. <br />
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I don’t know why Yuna thinks the side of the fiend-infested highway is
such a haven of peace and smiles considering she grew up in a tropical
paradise. Maybe by “a place like this” she just means “a place not
currently being attacked by Sin.”<br />
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NOPE.<br />
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So now we’ve seen that Yuna was just in the process of
saying goodbye to everyone in preparation for her inevitable demise when
he plunked himself down next to her and started cheerfully talking
about what’s going to happen after she defeats Sin. (She was also
fumbling ineptly over her feelings for the very guy who is now two
inches away and unaware of this.) This explains her subdued attitude
during this scene; she barely bothers to pretend to smile when he starts
making jokes, but she manages to keep an admirable grip on her
composure.<br />
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I love how optimistic he is about this. He’s still not entirely certain
of what a summoner is, and he’s only met a handful of other ones, but
he is sure that whatever it is, Yuna is the very best. Just like your
dog is 100% certain that you are the best person in the world.<br />
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("omg. very summoner. much aeon. so defeat sin. wow.")<br />
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He
was there when Belgemine said that she couldn’t defeat Sin, so he might
have taken away from that that if you fail to defeat Sin, you just
don’t get another chance because of your own lack of skill or strength.
But he’s positive that Yuna can do it, TWICE if need be.
Unfortunately, he has no idea what he’s talking about.<br />
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Yuna explains that “Sin is punishment for our vanity, and it will not go
away until we’ve atoned,” repeating the explanation that Wakka gave at
the beginning of the game. Waffles, who was not raised on the teachings
of Yevon, is suddenly not satisfied with this answer and wants to know
HOW they are supposed to atone, not just why. (Which is a good
question; so far the dominant practice seems to just be “Endure Sin, be
miserable.” But throughout the Middle Ages there was a similar belief,
pushed by the Church, that earthly suffering was transitory, and
necessary, and endurance of it would lead to a good afterlife.) We see
him beginning to pull at the Yevon Jenga blocks here.<br />
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He asks if it was the use of machina, and then asks if that was really
such a bad thing, after all. His question catches Yuna off-guard, and
she says that it’s not something she ever questioned, even as a child.<br />
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Coming from Yuna, this sounds like simple naiveté, but Lulu, of all
people, expresses a similar sentiment later. Even though she is very
knowledgeable and world-wise, she is still kept in the dark under the
mantle of Yevon.<br />
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Meanwhile Waffles is relieved to know that he’s not the only one around here who doesn’t always know what’s going on.<br />
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He starts trying to explain in his native tongue of blitzball metaphors.<br />
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I am reasonably certain that Yuna has never had to think about either of these things.<br />
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Also, I find it really charming that he remembered this girl:<br />
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This whole conversation takes on a heart-stabbing new depth of meaning
after a first playthrough. All this time he’s been talking about the
future and what she’s going to do after she defeats Sin, blissfully
unaware that she’s not going to be around for that future. And he’s so
happy that she can’t bring herself to tell him. :(<br />
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I really love how he spreads his arms to indicate the breadth of Sin.<br />
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Then he starts enthusiastically punching the air, apparently to
demonstrate how he’d do it. I am the tiniest bit sad that he never got
the chance to become Yuna’s Final Aeon.<br />
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Yuna knows that Operation Mi’ihen is doomed. This is the reason she tried to deter Luzzu and Gatta.<br />
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I think this must be the first time that anyone’s mentioned to him where
they’re going, because he is very surprised to hear that the
destination of the pilgrimage is Zanarkand. They’ve talked about
Zanarkand before, but just to say that it’s only ruins now and isn’t the
city he remembers. I don’t think anyone has said to him, “But you can
see it for yourself, because that’s where we’re headed, by the way.”
But Auron interrupts the conversation to say just that.<br />
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He has meanwhile been over here making sure they don’t get up to any
shenanigans. Also probably pleased to have Tidus and Yuna finally in
the same place so he can guard them both at once like he promised their
dads. <br />
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“Look at me, chaperoning these kids like a pro. I can do this.”<br />
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(Apparently Tidus doesn’t have a curfew.)<br />
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As they go back inside, Yuna trots after him and for a second it looks
like she’s thinking about slipping her hand into his, but she stops. It
looks like the same animation from after the Macalania spring scene,
where she does take his hand. Instead she takes a moment to look back
at the sunset one last time.<br />
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We find out later that she does this because she is saying goodbye to the places she’s not expecting to see again.<br />
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Her arm-flailing run is really cute. If you’re going to wear giant
flags on your arms you might as well have some fun with them.<br />
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The
sign in Spiran on the right says “Chocobo Rental” and the one on the
left says almost the same thing, as far as I can tell, only the letters
are kind of backwards. The sign isn’t backwards; the letters all face
the right way, but as best as I could decipher it, it says
“bochoclatner.” It’s good to know that someone is catering to the
dyslexic Al Bhed demographic.<br />
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I want a sacrilegious pear!<br />
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And I suppose I will leave it on that cliffhanger.<br />
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<a href="http://mintywolfplaysffx.blogspot.com/2014/01/part-9-fiend-fight-at-chocobo-corral.html" target="_blank">Next time</a>: a horrible beastie! Will we be able to avoid being pushed off the cliff? (Probably not.) Mintywolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03450557499971082731noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7532666560771740367.post-71983060906045076742014-01-29T17:08:00.000-05:002014-01-30T13:13:11.080-05:00Part 7: Smile, Smile, Smile<a href="http://mintywolfplaysffx.blogspot.com/2014/01/part-6-memories-of-that-day-still-haunt.html" target="_blank">Last time</a> we made our way to Luca, Blitzball capital of Spira, where
Waffles made a fool of himself in front of several cameras, met a
blue-haired creeper, misplaced Yuna, found Yuna, and managed not to play
any blitzball.<br />
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But wait! Who is this mystery guy coming up the stairs!!<br />
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Clearly
he’s not here for the blitzball. I wonder if he knows what’s about to
happen? Or maybe he just came here looking for Waffles, after having
seen him on the spherecam in the café, facepalmed, and decided to come
collect him before he can cause any more damage.<br />
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Rude.<br />
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It’s pretty hard to win against the Goers in this match,
even with the Jecht Shot, because at this point their starts are so much
higher than yours. (They fall behind at higher levels, and once you
can assemble your own team everyone else is pretty much left behind in
the dust. Er, bubbles.) <br />
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The best strategy is to try to keep
them from scoring in the first round until Tidus levels up at halftime
and can finally USE the Jecht Shot. (Yes, the Star Player of the
Zanarkand Abes is only level 2. I guess Wakka was right when he said
that a team living in the luxury of Old Zanarkand would be pretty soft!)
Then you have to try to get the ball to Tidus at all cost and score as
many goals as you can in the next three minutes before you lose him. <br />
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Of
course, at this low level, you are still pretty much at the mercy of a
bunch of random numbers and there is more luck than skill involved.<br />
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But I got lucky. :)<br />
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The Enter-Your-Name feature gets really amusing during blitzball. On
the playthrough where I finally got Wakka’s Celestial Weapon and really
good at blitzball, I had named him “This Guy,” which was constantly
hilarious. “So-and-So passes to This Guy!” “This Guy shoots!” “This
Guy fumbles the ball!” <br />
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" . . . it really was the Aurochs' and Wakka's show, after all."</blockquote>
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Even
though he just pulled the score even, he realizes this isn’t his game,
or his world. He’s disappointed that the crowds aren’t cheering for
him, but he graciously trades places with Wakka to let him and his team
have their moment.<br />
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Then the pain of Wakka’s broken ribs catches up with him, because
apparently Yuna was sitting on her hands the entire time instead of
doing any white magic. (Or maybe there’s some kind of anti-magic
forcefield around the locker rooms to prevent cheating, I dunno.)<br />
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For
some reason nobody rushes out with first aid, but Waffles goes out
alone to check on him. (Where are the referees? The other Aurochs?
The commentators? Why is nobody noticing this?)<br />
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And then somebody somehow unseen manages to let a bunch of giant fangy fish into the sphere pool. (Spoilers: it was Seymour.) I <i>assume</i>
it has something to do with pyreflies. While escaping Macalania Temple
later on we see even normal Guado guards able to conjure fiends out of
thin air, so a Guado summoner probably has an even better grasp of this.
But I am still not sure how he managed to let a bunch of monsters
loose in the stadium without anyone noticing.<br />
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Where were you guys??<br />
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What’s happening is that monsters are
erupting from everywhere, but fortunately for everyone involved (except,
of course, the monsters) this happens: <br />
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(You know he means business when he bothers to take his arm out of his
sleeve.) Whatever, giant monsterface. He’s seen worse than you.<br />
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This scene echoes his first appearance, where Auron strolled calmly through the chaos while everyone else was running around in a tizzy. I really like the audible sharpness of the blade as the camera passes over it, haha.<br />
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Waffles and Wakka catch up with him, but the fiends are too many for the
three of them to handle. Conveniently (a little too conveniently),
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Fiends on the rampage? Never fear! This looks like a job for . . . <br />
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. . . some kind of hellborn . . . <br />
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. . . many-armed, bespiked, betusked, befanged . . .<br />
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. . . mummified fish monstrosity in a Venus flytrap. <br />
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This is a face that will surely inspire confidence in the people!<br />
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Let’s park here and talk about Anima for a moment, because her design is loaded with symbolism.<br />
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Her design evokes imprisonment much more clearly than the other aeons.
Her chains are more prominent, her arms are bound to her by bandages,
and, unlike the other aeons, she is fixed in place, unable to move. The
chain around her neck is held in place by the clasp of a pair of
cyanotic arms, suggesting an embrace that is both loving and
constricting to the point of strangulation. Seymour’s mother, being the
fayth of his Final Aeon, confined herself to her fate and this form out
of love. <br />
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I’ve wondered if Anima as an aeon has always looked so nightmarish, or
if the pain of seeing what her son has become, coupled with Seymour’s
anger against the world (since the aeon is the merging of the fayth and
the summoner), transformed her over time, but I think it must be the
former. There are elements of Anima visible in her fayth statue
(although perhaps that also changes over time, containing a living soul)
and, overall, her design seems to be representative of her grief and
guilt over her son. His mixed parentage doomed him to a life of fitting
in nowhere, shunned by both men and Guado, and she gave her soul to
become his fayth when he was still a child, despite his pleas for her to
stay with him. She may have even been the one who pushed him and
trained him to become a summoner at such a young age, in the hope that
he could redeem himself in the eyes of the Spiran people by defeating
Sin.<br />
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In Catholic mythology, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anima_sola">Anima Sola</a>,
or “Lonely Soul,” is an image of a soul in purgatory, represented by a
penitent woman, chained and surrounded by flames. (The word for “soul”
is a feminine noun in Latin; in contrast to “animus” the masculine noun
for “mind.”) The notion of purgatory is distinct from hell as it is a
place or state of temporary suffering and purification through fire.
(The root etymology of the word is <i>purgare</i>, which can mean “to
cleanse,” “to purify,” or “to exonerate.”) What is being cleansed from
the soul in purgatory? Why, sin, of course! Once the soul is free of
sin via personal atonement or the prayers of the living on its behalf,
it attains the purity to ascend to heaven.<br />
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Images of Animae Solae
are used on prayer cards, generally containing a prayer to be said on
behalf of the soul in purgatory. If you look closely at Anima, you’ll
see that she is wearing one around her neck, with an image of her own
fayth in chains and flames, but also a halo like a saint, symbolizing
her martyrdom as the chains symbolize her guilt. The serrated edges of
the wing-like structures around her, which contain her summoning glyph
on the inside, also conjure the image of her being surrounded in flames.<br />
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Like
many of the Ci’eth in FFXIII, Anima’s eyes are covered. Her bottom
half has straps or bandages over its empty eye sockets, and her top half
has bandages over its whole face, with only one eye visible through a
bloody rent.<br />
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Anima’s special instant-death attack is simply called “Pain,” and it’s
clear from her demeanor and general appearance that the pain is to <i>herself</i>.
Even her normal attacks seem to cause her torment, underlining her
theme of atonement through suffering and the manifestation of emotional
pain as physical pain. I would hypothesize, based on comments made by
Yuna and the bond between fayth and summoner that creates the aeon, that
this causes the summoner pain as well.<br />
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His scheme here of course was to win the faith and trust of the people by saving everyone from the fiend attack (which, unbeknownst to them, he started). Being bound to him, Anima has to do as he commands, but check out that Mom Glare there. She knows he's up to no good and she does not approve of the way he is misusing his aeon for personal gain. <br />
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The people of Spira are more amazed and impressed than disturbed by this
display. I guess there are a few aeons that have a kind of sinister
design, Ifrit especially has an infernal theme going on, but wow you
guys. You’d think someone would take a clue from this that something
might be up with their new Maester.<br />
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(There’s a Guado girl in the middle there. I wonder if it’s the Seymour fangirl from outside the café.)<br />
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(By “Crystal Cup” we apparently mean “Giant Unicorn Horn.”)<br />
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There
seems to be some disconnect between gameplay healing and story healing.
We do see people walking around with scars, missing limbs, or other
injuries so I suppose white magic and potions have their limits. As
soon as we touch a save sphere he’ll be fine, though. ;)<br />
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Wakka
bestows the Crystal Alicorn upon his teammates and then leaves. After
all that, he doesn’t even get to see the celebration back on Besaid <br />
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This dialogue doesn’t change if you lose the tournament but it’s more
meaningful if you win. But it’s also kind of worse because he wanted to
win the tournament for Chappu. Who said that if the Aurochs won, he
was going to propose to Lulu. Who is standing right there. Under her
own personal raincloud.<br />
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Although Yuna hands it out to everyone she comes across, guardianship is
actually a big deal, analogous to knighthood. I think this may be the
only time we hear one of her guardians other than Auron addressed by
their title. (They’re all friends, so it would seem silly and
pretentious for them to address each other like that, but there are no
random NPCs in the street who are like “Well met, Sir Waffles,” either.)
But Yuna calls him “Sir Wakka” here to make it official, knighting
him. I don’t think we ever find out what the honorific for female
guardians is but I assume it is “Dame” or “Madame.” Possibly “Lady,”
but that is also used for female summoners and denotes a higher rank.
(Even though “dame” is just French for “lady.”)<br />
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He gets all up in her face to ask this for some reason haha. If you cover up the caption it’s like “COME AT ME, BRO.”<br />
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Meanwhile Yuna is over here whurbling to herself about Seymour’s aeon
and feeling insignificant about how much more powerful a summoner he is.
Good news, Yuna! You can have one too. All you need to do is go to
Zanarkand, decide which one of your friends is your favorite, and ask
them to die. Then you too can walk away with your very own soul-wracked
hellbeast.<br />
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Meanwhile meanwhile, Auron has drawn Waffles away
to the privacy of this crate-walled dock so they can have a talk.
Probably because he is well aware of Waffles’ reputation as a crybaby.<br />
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“Gettin’ swallowed by Sin, ending up here in Spira! Not being able to go back to Zanarkand – everything, everything!”</blockquote>
Instead
of answering, Auron just starts to laugh, which is pretty unsettling.
As usual, he knows far more than he’s letting on. But all Waffles knows
it that the last time he saw Auron, he grabbed him by the overalls and
flung him aboard the Space Whale Express on a one-way trip to the middle
of nowhere. Since then he’s been stranded, cold, hungry, almost eaten,
prodded with weapons, forced into indentured servitude, bonked with
blitzballs, scolded, pushed around, glowered at, made fun of, and
dragged around with very little idea of what is going on or why. And
the one guy who can give him answers isn’t giving him any.<br />
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(No answer.)</blockquote>
Tidus confirms that he is, in fact, the same guy who knew both his own
father and Yuna’s, which he claims must be impossible. Auron, without
offering any explanation for why it’s not impossible, or how he managed
to do this, simply says that it isn’t and that the three of them
defeated Sin ten years ago, after which he went to Zanarkand to watch
over young Waffles, per Jecht’s request.<br />
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Despite his troubled relationship with Jecht, and his repeated assertion
that the only thing he has to say to him is that he hates him, he looks
genuinely hopeful at the thought that his father might still be alive.<br />
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. . . Auron replies, evasively. “He is no longer human. But then . . . I
felt something of Jecht, there in that shell, couldn’t you? You must
have felt him when you came in contact with Sin.”<br />
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After dropping this bombshell, Auron, with a certain lack of tact,
bluntly tells him that too bad, it's the truth, now time to get going.
Waffles is just like “You can’t make me!” and Auron is like “Well, fine.
Stay here then.” Then Waffles has a meltdown like a little kid who is
tired but doesn’t want to be told to go to bed. He knows he <i>has</i>
to go with Auron whether he wants to or not, because Auron is
withholding all the backstory.<br />
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Auron just kind of stands awkwardly to
the side and waits for it to be over. But he's more gentle with him afterwards.<br />
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“So you’re pretty much doomed, kiddo.” <br />
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Random encounters: they can happen ANYWHERE!!<br />
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Yeah, funny thing about that . . .<br />
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“Is it because they don’t have a red balloon?”<br />
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Back at the
exit, the summoner party hasn’t managed to hit the road yet because
they’re still discussing Waffles. He is the protagonist, after all. <br />
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Yuna is still completely earnest about Zanarkand. These two seem to be
gently humoring her by this point while inwardly wishing she would talk
about something else.<br />
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She knows she has to get going but she doesn’t want to leave Waffles
behind, even though he has no reason to come with them anymore, so she's
looking for a reason to stall.<br />
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Fortunately for her, Auron turns up right then, trailing him along like a dog that doesn’t want to go to the vet.<br />
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Auron merits the Yevon bow.<br />
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He requests to become Yuna’s guardian, flabbergasting everyone. Yuna
and Wakka stammeringly accept, but Lulu, with a greater propensity for
critical thinking than the other two, questions why the legendary
guardian would want to attach himself to this ragtag group of failers.
Given, Wakka did just captain the winning team of the blitzball
tournament, but that is pretty much their only claim to glory right now.
(And it's something that depends on the player.) Otherwise, Yuna has
been a summoner for less than a week and her only well-known asset is
that her father is famous. Kimahri is an outcast from his tribe. Lulu
herself has already attended two failed pilgrimages.<br />
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(Little does
she know that that they have that much in common; although Braska’s
pilgrimage was a success, Auron lost his summoner, too, and since they
could not end the cycle of Sin, and he died trying to avenge Braska and
Jecht against Yunalesca, he also regards himself as a failure. So he
fits right in!)<br />
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Auron tells her that it’s something he promised Braska, and I am really
annoyed that we never see Kimahri during this entire conversation. They
never even give any indication that they’ve met before, and the whole
reason Kimahri is guarding Yuna is because Auron asked him to. Ten
years ago, when Kimahri found Auron on Mt. Gagazet dying from the wounds
he sustained in his fight with Yunalesca, Auron transferred his promise
to Braska to bring Yuna to Besaid in the event of his death (having
presumably already arranged for Auron to look after her) to him. And
Kimahri did. And he stayed with her, when she asked him not to leave, forever.
All of that was supposed to be Auron’s responsibility.<br />
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Tidus realizes he's part of the pilgrimage for real now and is going
to have to start acting like it. This has to be pretty jarring for him,
since Auron’s been treating him like a little kid and then suddenly
shoves him into a very adult position of responsibility.<br />
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“This one I promised Jecht,” says Auron. <br />
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Braska
and Jecht didn’t coordinate this very well. Knowing that they were
going to die, they both asked Auron to look after their kids, despite
that their kids were living in <i>separate worlds</i> at the time. So
he decided to go with Tidus and I guess just hope that the random Ronso
he sent in search of Yuna was a good chaperone. As far as I know, he
never came back to Spira until Jecht came to Dream Zanarkand at the
beginning of the game, so he never went back to check and see if she
made it to Besaid, or even if Kimahri ever found her.<br />
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Logically,
the best way to uphold both promises would have been to bring young
Waffles to Besaid too after his mother died and arranged to have them
raised together where he could keep an eye on both of them. Which would
have been really cute, but would probably have derailed the whole plot
somehow. At least he has them together now.<br />
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“Is Sir Jecht alive?” asks Yuna.<br />
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Tidus pointedly looks the other way as Auron glibly lies to Yuna. (Or
at least omits some essential facts.) He didn’t spare Tidus’s
feelings from the blunt truth but he’s strategically shielding Yuna from
it for now.<br />
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She seems not to realize the discrepancy between his saying that he
doesn’t know if he’s still alive and then assuring her that they’ll
meet.<br />
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I love how he assesses the entire group and then appropriately identifies Lulu as
the bastion of competence here. Apparently he doesn’t trust Yuna, the
summoner, with her own travel plans. <br />
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Because real guardians never make mistakes. Uh . . . <br />
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Lulu’s fears
that Waffles would become a permanent fixture of the pilgrimage have
been realized and now she has to account for the variables of two extra
guardians.<br />
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Maybe they should start making this excuse for Yuna, since she’s the one
who’s been telling anyone who will listen about the Star Player of the
Zanarkand Abes recently.<br />
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Yuna notices that Waffles is looking a little blue and endeavors to cheer him up, resulting in the game’s most infamous scene.<br />
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<i>And then she smiles.</i><br />
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Now we know to look more closely at every scene of Yuna smiling and
wonder if she is sincerely happy, or if she is wearing a mask to hide
her breaking heart. Hint: it’s frequently the latter.<br />
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She encourages Waffles to show off his latent powers of smile as well.<br />
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Results are sub-par.<br />
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You’ve all seen this, but pictures alone really cannot convey the full effect.<br />
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Reportedly, the worst thing that can happen to you during this game is
that right at this moment, someone who has had no prior experience with
the game walks into the room and you have to try to explain what the
fluff you are playing. (Parents who don’t get video games, roommate who
thinks Final Fantasy is dumb, girlfriend you are trying hard to
impress, etc.) But I can only imagine that having someone walk in
on you and having to explain the scene in X-2 where Yuna is giving Leblanc a massage is
a BILLION TIMES WORSE.<br />
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A lot of haters try to hold up this scene as an example of terrible voice acting but it’s <i>supposed</i> to be terrible. It’s supposed to be awkward and silly. The laughing is supposed to sound stilted and forced, because it is. <br />
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These guys probably didn’t even hear the conversation that led up to
this. All they know is that all of a sudden Waffles stood up and
started doing his best seagull impression for all of Luca. But frankly,
this is kind of par for the course for Waffles.<br />
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Yuna, realizing the hole she has dug Waffles into, decides there’s
nothing else to do but jump in it with him, and they seagull together.<br />
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"And I really can't count on Lulu or Kimahri there."<br />
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Cutiefaces. <br />
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I like the sentiment that she is ready and willing
to come rescue him as well, if needed. (In essence, the catalyst for
X-2, since she thought from Rikku’s sphere that he was in prison on her
behalf, although that plot gets derailed awfully quickly.)<br />
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Then they turn around and suddenly remember that they had an audience.<br />
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(At least three of them just clamped their lips together to prevent any even accidental smiling.)<br />
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was too hard to cap with the map over it but Waffles gives Yuna a
casual “let’s go” pat on the shoulder as they run off, like he would a
teammate. It’s a really cute gesture, and shows that, past the awkward
flailing of their blossoming romantic overtures towards each other,
they’re becoming friends.<br />
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<a href="http://mintywolfplaysffx.blogspot.com/2014/01/part-8-random-encounter-gauntlet_3722.html" target="_blank">Next time</a>: little talks. Mintywolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03450557499971082731noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7532666560771740367.post-61746208504237713042014-01-29T00:50:00.000-05:002014-05-25T12:09:14.373-04:00Part 6: Memories of That Day Still Haunt Waffles<a href="http://mintywolfplaysffx.blogspot.com/2014/01/part-5-dad-omg-youre-embarrassing-me_28.html" target="_blank">Last time</a>, our intrepid crew of seafaring misfits set out for Kilika, only just escaping a brush with the Fail Whale. (Kilika itself, however, was not so lucky.) Yuna performed the first of three miracles necessary to qualify as a saint, Lulu hurt everyone's feelings, and Waffles failed to make any friends.<br />
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On the way back to the docks I had Tidus attempt to take down a killer
bee that had only 1 hp left and be nagged by Lulu when he missed. Then I
pressed the wrong key and had her attack it with her mog rather than
casting a spell and she missed it too. <i>And nagged herself</i>.<br />
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This guy has a particularly bleak view of Sin, but you can’t really
blame him after everything that happened here yesterday. He doesn’t
even have the hope that humanity will be free of Sin through atonement.
He just sees it as a punishment to be suffered.<br />
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Yuna sitting up on this barrel here with her feet dangling is really cute. :)<br />
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Aboard the <i>S.S. Winno</i>,
Waffles hangs around downstairs with the Aurochs while Yuna is upstairs
making polite conversation with the Goers under the watchful glower of
Kimahri.<br />
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(And the binoculars of Wantz. Uh . . .)<br />
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Which of the Aurochs do these Goer girls have their eyes on? <br />
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Waffles? Nope!<br />
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It's Keepa!<br />
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Good advice.<br />
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Yeah, like the couple who stand around making out in clear view of everyone. Get a room, you two!<br />
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(Also check out Gatta asleep on the floor over there next to Luzzu.)<br />
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I stopped by to see the chocobos again and read this sign.
Underwhelmingly, it just says “Feed.” You know, like the sack of
chocobo feed right here. I don’t know what I was expecting.<br />
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Above deck, the Goers start giving Tidus a hard time, prompting this
excellent scowl from Yuna in the background. They remember him from
outside Kilika Temple, where he loudly proclaimed that the Aurochs are
going to win the blitzball cup this year.<br />
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(It is kind of hard to argue with this logic.)<br />
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Unfortunately, he doesn’t back her up, leaving her to hold up the
“Zanarkand is Real” argument by herself. The Goers exchange glances,
then brush Yuna off as either crazy or simple. They can’t really argue
with her since she’s a summoner, so they defer to her with a transparently patronizing
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And she looks so sad. :(<br />
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Waffles asks her what’s wrong, and we learn that she really does earnestly believe in Zanarkand:<br />
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She isn’t just saying so to humor him; she’s believed ever since Jecht told her about it when she was a little girl. <br />
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This
seems like something that would be possible to disprove, but I guess
the only people that have been over Mt. Gagazet and survived are
summoners. Who did not come back. (I wonder how all the crowds of
tourists manage to get over there in X-2 if it’s such an arduous
journey?) Everyone is going by the historical knowledge that Zanarkand
was destroyed 1,000 years ago in the war with Bevelle, but you know,
that could have been easy enough information for the Church of Yevon to
falsify, if no one ever goes there.<br />
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It’d be a really neat twist
if it turned out that there WAS a thriving machina city there after all,
isolated from the rest of Spira and waiting to strike back at Bevelle,
and Tidus was actually from present-day Real Zanarkand. And ordinarily
civilians from either side simply weren’t taught about the existence of
the civilization on the other side of the mountain, so it was a secret
only known by the Maesters of Yevon and whoever was in charge in
Zanarkand.<br />
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*drums fingers, stuffs into a file of AU Fanfics I Don’t Have Time to Write*<br />
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Yeah, he really does. But it has to be big enough to accommodate the yellow-booted FEET he is constantly stuffing into it. <br />
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(I like how Wakka sits down in preparation for what he knows will be a long lecture.)<br />
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Wakka: “Relax! He’s bound to know someone in Luca.”<br />
Lulu: “And if not?”<br />
Wakka: “He could always join a blitz team. Anyhow, it’s better than just leaving him in Besaid.”<br />
Lulu: “What? Just leaving him in Luca?”<br />
Wakka: “What do you want me to do?”<br />
Lulu: “Yuna wants to make him a guardian.”<br />
Wakka: “Oh yeah, geez . . . There’s that too, eh?”<br />
Lulu: “And whose fault is that?”<br />
Wakka: “Not mine!” </blockquote>
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Wakka: “It is mine, huh?”</blockquote>
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Lulu actually does care about Tidus, if
nothing else than for Yuna’s sake. She is concerned about Wakka’s lack
of foresight in bringing him along, and worried that he doesn’t have
any other plan for him other than “see if someone will claim him when we
get to Luca.” She may also be concerned that they’ll end up
responsible for him in the long run, but she can’t in good conscience
just dump him in a big city and hope for the best. (She’s also
apparently a bit perturbed that Wakka has talked up being a guardian as
this great job when she knows from experience that it is not.)<br />
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Wakka: “Oh, right. Wait, you sure ‘bout that? He’s really Sir Jecht’s son?”<br />
Lulu: “It’s hard to say, but Yuna seems to believe so.”<br />
Wakka: “Okay.”<br />
Lulu: “‘Okay?’ <i>‘Okay?’</i> That’s all you have to say?”<br />
Wakka: “Well, yeah, I mean . . . He’s gotta decide for himself, ya? Well, him and Yuna, I guess.”<br />
Lulu: “You’re right, for once.”<br />
Wakka: <i>“Ahem.”</i> </blockquote>
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(Tidus’ becoming a guardian and going with them, or staying behind in Luca.)<br />
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I guess Wakka has won at least <i>one</i> argument against Lulu, but not very solidly. <br />
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Wakka: “Should what?”<br />
Lulu: “Become Yuna’s guardian.”<br />
Wakka: “Why me?”<br />
Lulu: “Because Yuna can’t.”<br />
Wakka: “Why not?”<br />
(See
this is what I was talking about when I said she must get frustrated
not being able to carry on a coherent conversation with anyone.)<br />
Lulu:
“He hates his father – what he was, what he did. Do you really think
she can possibly say to him . . . ‘I want you to be my guardian, like
your father was to mine?’”<br />
Wakka: “Aren’t you being over-sensitive?”<br />
Lulu:
*huff!* (I like to imagine that her fur ruff fluffs emphatically
whenever she does this. Making it a huff and a fluff. Heehee.) </blockquote>
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(Wakka is being soundly out-sassed in this conversation.)<br />
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Wakka: “I’ll try talking to him after the tournament.”<br />
Lulu: “Be discreet.”<br />
Wakka: “I know. It’s his decision.”</blockquote>
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Lulu has gotten all this information on Tidus’s personal feelings from Yuna, who apparently tells her everything. I can <i>very</i>
easily imagine Yuna gushing breathlessly and in great detail to her
about every conversation she had with him that day. And Lulu listening
patiently while silently willing her to <i>omg please just go to sleep</i>.<br />
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You guys are all terrible gossips. (Which is pretty realistic for the behavior of a family, if mine is any example.) <br />
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Wakka: “Hating your own father, huh? Sounds like a luxury to me. I
don’t even remember my parents. Can’t say how I feel about ‘em.” </blockquote>
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Wakka: “Dammit! Sin just takes everything away from us.”</blockquote>
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This
conversation raises some questions. Wakka is two years older than Lulu,
meaning that if they’re talking about the same incident, he was seven
when his parents were killed. That’s the same age that Yuna and Tidus
were when they lost their fathers, and they clearly have memories of
them. So either Wakka has a poor memory, or he and Lulu are referencing
separate Sin attacks on Besaid. (Or Lulu, as I hypothesized earlier,
is from somewhere else.) <br />
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Either way, he is probably thinking both of their lost parents and of Chappu when he slams his fist into the deck. <br />
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“About that conversation which I’m sure you didn’t just overhear.”<br />
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I always forget how short Lulu is, even including her hair and her heels. (According to <a href="http://finalfantasythings.tumblr.com/post/60679509435">this</a>,
she’s 5’5” without them, and Tidus is 5’9”.) I always assume she’s
taller. Maybe it’s just her attitude and her regal bearing. And that she looks so much taller than Yuna.<br />
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“Those Lucans dragged off Keepa! I . . . I hope I’m next.”<br />
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Ohhh dear. D:<br />
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(If the Luca Goers are the Career Tributes, then
Doram and Balgerda are definitely Clove and Glimmer. Bickson is Marvel
and Graav is Cato. Keepa should get out of there.)<br />
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(Tidus has a memory of failing to do his father's outrageous Jecht Shot
as a child, earning a bonk on the head from the floor and ridicule from
Jecht.)<br />
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Notice Bahamut’s creepy child fayth lurking around in the
background here. Either he was hanging around at the time that this
happened, or he’s infiltrating Tidus’ memories as he is remembering
them. <br />
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MEMORIES OF THAT DAY STILL HAUNT WAFFLES.<br />
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The Jecht Shot
Challenge is way more amusing if you fail it, which was fortunate for me
since I’m playing this with a keyboard and am still getting used to the
controls. <br />
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“I’ve had enough of your smug face, blitzball!” *punt*<br />
Good thing everyone has like, an endless supply of them.<br />
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Then the camera pans over and up and oh no. <br />
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She was there <i>the entire time</i>. She saw the whole thing. She saw you fall on your head. She saw your wee temper tantrum. <i>She knows you tried to do a Jecht Shot.</i> <br />
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He asks her how she knows that and she says that Jecht showed it to her
when she was little. That must have been an extremely busy day,
considering that she says Jecht showed up the day her father left on his
pilgrimage. So in one day, Jecht was dumped in Spira by Sin, got
himself arrested, was sprung from jail by Braska with Auron in tow,
became a guardian, met Little Yuna, told her a bunch of stories about
Zanarkand, showed her the Jecht Shot, and then left with Braska and
Auron to go on pilgrimage without even time to buy a pair of shoes.<br />
<br />
“Hey,
kiddo. What? No, I’m from Zanarkand! I rode here on a giant whale.
Yeah it’s totally a real place. There’s a huge blitzball stadium all
lit up at night and nobody ever goes to bed. Of course I’ve been there!
I’m the star player of the Zanarkand Abes, you know! Wanna see
something cool? I call it the Sublimely Magnificent Jecht Shot Mark III.
*punt* Uh, sorry about your ball. Well, I gotta go, your daddy made me
a guardian or something and now me and him and this grumpy dude are
gonna go fight Sin. See ya!”<br />
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Tidus believes her that they’re talking about the same Jecht now, though.<br />
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He asks if she thinks he’s still alive, and she says she doesn’t know, but he was famous in Spira, too: <br />
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This is a very good point Yuna makes. Why is nobody looking for Jecht?<br />
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In
the eyes of the Spiran people, he should be a legendary guardian just
like Auron. As far as I can tell, a legendary guardian is one whose
summoner defeated Sin, and who survived. Due to the rarity of that
happening, Auron has achieved celebrity status. So wouldn’t people be
curious about the fate and whereabouts of Braska’s other guardian?
Especially if they don’t just assume that he’s dead?<br />
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Then she asks him what he would do if he found him.<br />
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“After everything he put Mom and me through. And because he was famous,
I was always . . .” He brightens, realizing they have something in
common. “Well, you should know, Yuna. Your father’s famous, too.
Everyone in Spira knows him, right?” </blockquote>
(Good face.) <br />
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“But the honor of having a father like him surpasses all that, I think.”</blockquote>
Yuna’s
early childhood wasn’t easy, either. Although her father was (as far
as we can tell) loving and supportive of her rather than harsh and
dismissive like Jecht was of Tidus, he had to abandon her when she was
seven, too. He did it partly to free her from the life of
discrimination she would have endured on all sides as the child of an Al
Bhed and a disgraced priest. Since her mother died when she was younger
and her Al Bhed family had not tried to reach her yet, she was left in
Bevelle, probably in the care of the temple orphanage, where she would
not have been exactly welcomed. (Mind you, I’m extrapolating this from
what little we know about Yuna’s early life, but she does mention that
Kimahri found her wandering the city alone at night, indicating that
whoever was supposed to be watching her was not doing a very attentive
job.)<br />
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While Tidus is rebellious and resentful of his father for leaving him
and his mother, Yuna remains a model of filial piety. But
interestingly, neither of their perspectives is presented as necessarily
wrong. <br />
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If you miss the Jecht Shot, you get this cute line. (After Wakka gets
Tidus’ attention by whacking him with a blitzball, per usual.)<br />
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If you succeed, he asks Waffles to teach the shot to the Aurochs.<br />
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The Sublimely Magnificent Waffle Shot Mark III!<br />
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I dunno. It looks like Datto just sprained his everything back there.<br />
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The next morning we arrive at Luca, and Tidus’ face lights up with joy
when he sees the blitzball stadium. Look at how happy he is! It’s
finally something he recognizes. <br />
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However, his good mood is soon crushed when the announcer starts ragging
on the Aurochs before they’re even off the boat. It gets worse when
they start talking about how great the Goers are immediately afterwards.
Wakka is used to this kind of reception towards his team, but Tidus
certainly isn’t. He’s the star player of the Zanarkand Abes! <br />
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(<a href="http://thecurrerbell.tumblr.com/post/42338263074/always-thought-this-was-funny-because-theyre">Somebody on tumblr</a>
pointed out Tidus’ blithe lack of awareness of the irony of telling a
team called the “Goers” to STOP RIGHT THERE and I can’t stop laughing.) <br />
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This time everybody but Yuna is embarrassed to be seen near him. Lulu
appears to be considering the merits of just leaving Tidus in Luca after
all.<br />
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Fortunately everyone’s attention is diverted by the arrival
of Maester Mika, head of the Yevon church and leader of all the peoples
of Spira. (Even the non-Yevonites.) Lulu briefly exposits that the
tournament is being held to commemorate his 50 years in office. Waffles
makes a good point: <br />
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And gets walloped by Wakka for his disrespect. It's possibly that Grand Maester is a lifelong office, but that is still a long time for one old guy to be in charge . . .<br />
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I can empathize with Waffles here. Actually, in a crowd, I am more on
par with the crying child to the right who can’t see anything at all. (According to that above-linked list of FF character heights, I am<i> shorter than Rikku</i>.)<br />
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I like the buildup to Seymour’s big dramatic reveal. You see people whispering about
him. Then you see his dragon tattoos and open shirt. Then you see the lower half of
his face and his mysterious smile. The big secret must be his face, since it’s being kept so carefully concealed from us. Then suddenly he whisks around and
!!!! <br />
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BLUE HAIR ANTLERS.<br />
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Also he is obviously the bad guy because Final
Fantasy does a terrible job of hiding them. Smoothly handsome,
charismatic, pleasant-voiced guy with improbable hair and a leadership
position? Yeah he’s definitely going to turn out to be evil.<br />
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You can see Lulu bowing respectfully here with everyone else. I wonder if the Yevon bow <i>originated</i>
1,000 years ago as the blitzball symbol for victory that Tidus knows it
as and was appropriated by Yevon, or if it was just used for blitzball
in the fayth-constructed Dream Zanarkand, and stripped of its religious
connotation in a world with no religion. At any rate, Waffles is
confused.<br />
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Mika introduces Seymour to the crowd: <br />
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“Under circumstances that were in NO WAY MYSTERIOUS WHATSOEVER.” <br />
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Yuna’s father was working to do the same with the Al Bhed, but he was
less successful. (Probably because he wasn’t looking to convert them
like Maester Jyscal did the Guado, just make peace.) This was how he
met Yuna’s mother.<br />
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Then Seymour notices Yuna in the crowd and they exchange glances so
intense they cause my emulator to glitch some of the people standing
around Yuna out of existence. <br />
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I wonder if he recognized her
personally (or by reputation), or if he recognized her as a summoner, or
if she really just caught his attention because she’s cute. At any
rate, this kicks off one of my favorite subplots. Yuna is intimidated
and flustered but a little delighted to be the focus of his Intense
Gaze. Tidus is less delighted. Nobody else seems to have noticed.<br />
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He says, as Yuna’s poor little heart is pounding through her sternum.<br />
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“Why is <i>nobody</i> ever glad to see me?” <br />
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NO. SCREW YOU, TUTORIAL!! I CAN DO THIS BY MY OWN SELF. LET’S GO. <br />
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Waffles eloquently summarizes the way I feel about tutorials. And sports. In general.<br />
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But just then Yuna and Lulu bash into the locker room. Yuna is all excited because <br />
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She wants to go look for him <i>right now</i>, despite the fact that the
tournament is starting in like five minutes and Waffles is supposed to
be the Aurochs’ trump card. Yuna gets so carried away that it’s not
until she’s dragged him out of the room that she explains her reason for
bringing him along: Auron was also her father’s guardian, and she
believes he may be a way to finding Jecht. She doesn’t know that Tidus
already knows him. She just really wants to help Tidus find his dad,
and meet the man who knew hers. (Well, again. They probably met
briefly when she was seven.) <br />
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This time Tidus does believe that they have to be talking about the same guy. <br />
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A lot of the problems they are about to have could have been easily
solved if Lulu had gone with them. She must have noticed that Wakka was
stressed and decided to stay to calm him down. There aren’t a lot of
other reasons she’d voluntarily hang around in a stinky locker room when
she could be out enjoying the open breeze of Luca. Maybe she hates
crowds. <br />
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<strike>Headcanon: Or maybe she just really doesn’t want
to go see Auron, <a href="http://dippywerewolf.deviantart.com/art/Guardian-Page-16-406399960" target="_blank">because they already met ten years ago</a>, and <a href="http://dippywerewolf.deviantart.com/art/Guardian-Page-17-407909798" target="_blank">parted under embarrassing circumstances</a>.</strike><br />
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Poor Keepa is back here in the corner repeating the new goal Waffles gave him like a mantra.<br />
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Outside in the hall, Tidus runs across two Al Bhed Psyches players who are hanging around looking not at all suspicious. <br />
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“A lady summoner! We must report.”<br />
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Waffles, bless his heart,
starts clumsily trying to thank them for the help that the other Al Bhed
gave him the other day, under the assumption that all Al Bhed know each
other. When he realizes that they don’t understand his language, he
simply raises his voice and starts bellowing at them, like that’s going
to help. <br />
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There is something very stereotypically American about the way he does
this. He comes across like the caricature of the blundering American
abroad, which is an interesting detail in a Japanese game. Actually a
lot of Tidus’ impulsive, loud, and clumsy mannerisms seem very Western,
especially in comparison to Yuna’s more polite, reserved attitude. <br />
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Yes, you had better. :c <br />
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I love the female Ronso. And I love how she’s watching the fishies out the window here like a big kitty.<br />
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Apparently blitzball players get the “Sir” address like ex-guardians. But only really good ones.<br />
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Although
this makes sense, in a world where blitzball is so important because
it’s apparently the only entertainment they have, that really good
blitzball players would have honorifics and be treated as celebrities. I
was going to wonder why they don’t seem to be paid an obscene amount of
money, live in luxury, and do product endorsements like modern
athletes, but they probably <i>do</i>. But just the players on the
winning teams, and especially the stars. So the Besaid Aurochs, Kilika
Beasts, and other disadvantaged teams still live in relative poverty
while the Luca Goers are among Spira’s social elite.<br />
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There are miscellaneous signs on shops and things written in Spiran
around Luca. This one says “Weapon,” and over the middle, “Blitz Ball.”
I was going to go around reading everything but AuronLu <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/spiran-inscriptions-writing-ffx#module149387225">has already translated a lot of them.</a><br />
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Ronso family outing. :) I wonder how the Ronso blitzball players train
without access to the ocean. There must be some (freezing cold) lakes up in the mountains.<br />
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Luca Goers, Besaid Aurochs, Ronso Fangs, Al Bhed Psyches, Kilika Beasts, and Guado Glories.<br />
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I am sure nobody will be kidnapped or release a bunch of fiends into the stadium if that’s what you mean. <br />
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Hahaha um. That’s not ominous. Not at all. Usually people do their
eternal reposing from the inside of a coffin, just so you know, mister. <br />
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After the brief sightseeing tour I took Waffles on around the stadium he
catches up with Yuna to find her being filmed for a spherecast already.
(And Wantz’s blog.) <br />
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But he's the star player of the Zanarkand Abes! <br />
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This guy knows how to appreciate fine comedy.<br />
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I wonder where
these are broadcast to. There are big screens around Luca, but I wonder
if anyone has television-type devices in their homes in the more
affluent areas. For that matter, I wonder how people get information in
places like Besaid and Kilika where they don’t have them. I guess they
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Yuna: “Because when a lot of people start to gather . . .”<br />
Waffles: “Sin?”<br />
Yuna: “Mmhm.”<br />
Waffles: “What about Luca? It’s safe here?”<br />
Yuna: “It’s not any different. But the stadium is here. The Crusaders fight to protect it with all their strength.”<br />
Waffles: “They protect the stadium?”<br />
Yuna: “Blitzball’s really the only entertainment we have. Spira’s a little short on fun these days.” </blockquote>
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Here’s a glimpse of how bleak living in Spira really is, despite the
bright, candy-colored environment. Literally the only entertainment
they have is underwater soccer-volleyball. I’d like to hope that maybe
Yuna is exaggerating a bit, or that growing up with Wakka and Chappu,
she got a disproportionate sense of its importance. Where is the rest
of their culture? Is there no art, or literature, or music, or theatre?
Don’t people have hobbies?? <br />
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later she’s able to walk around the deck of an airship without a
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No, I said red coat, not red balloon! Are you even listening to me?</div>
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No, I said “grumpy guy in a red coat” not “dreamy guy with blue hair”!!
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Not pictured: a café. Also a bar does seem like the more logical place to look for Auron. <br />
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Inside, Kimahri runs across these two bullies from his childhood, and we
find out that our big blue kitty is actually, at 6’8”, small for a
Ronso. They allude to an incident ten years ago where they bested him
in combat and broke his horn. As a Ronso’s horn is a point of pride and
honor, Kimahri was left in disgrace, but he chose to leave the mountain
rather than admit defeat to these two. And ten years later, he still
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Waffles helpfully encourages him to “Take ‘em on!” Kimahri flattens
Yenke with one punch before someone with terrible priorities yells for
them to take it outside because the tournament’s starting, not because a
bar brawl between three aggressive manly Ronso could result in all
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Lulu comes running up and tells them that Yuna’s been kidnapped by the
Al Bhed Psyches, who want the Aurochs to throw the game as ransom. But
if you remember, she caught their eye because she was a summoner, so
this is probably a front for their real reason for summoner-napping, in
which case they wouldn’t get her back even if the Aurochs did lose.
(Which, statistically, has a high probability of happening anyway.)<br />
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Rather than complying with their demands, or alerting the authorities,
Lulu wants to track them down herself. (She likes to take matters into her own hands because she doesn’t trust anyone else to be as competent, especially where Yuna is involved.)<br />
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(Also, the whistling conversation happened right next to this probably-annoyed guy, so he might have overheard it. So he <i>knows what it means</i>, at least enough to bring it up to Tidus.) <br />
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“Somebody sneaked up behind me and BUILT A BARRICADE!!”<br />
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(Those revolutionaries are tricky.)<br />
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There are Al Bhed machina on the rampage around this area but this
sailor lady with amazing pants is not afraid of anything. But if you think about it, sailors must be the most incredibly hardcore people in Spira because they have to deal with the threat of Sin on a daily basis.<br />
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“I’ll stand over here while you do it!”<br />
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“Someone has to make sure this dock stays off-limits to civilians!”<br />
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Yeah you keep telling yourself that, buddy. I’ve got robots to punch.<br />
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These three take a break from their frantic pursuit of the Al Bhed boat
to watch the all-important blitzball match. They’re just in time to see
Wakka get sucker punched by one of the Psyches. <br />
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I think Lulu is probably trusting Wakka to buy them some time so that’s why she’s so unsympathetic but seriously, ouch.<br />
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Okay so, thanks to youtube we have long since <a href="http://mintywolf.tumblr.com/post/27417691170/cutscene-33-the-red-carpet-the-first-time-i-saw">solved the mystery</a>
of how Lulu manages to get from the airship to Yuna’s wedding without
teleporting, but what remains unsolved is how she manages to jump from
the dock here to the deck of the departing ship. Maybe her dress lets
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The Al Bhed have some kind of
blitzball-shooting attack machine on guard that I forgot to get a picture of.
Yevon knows why or how they have this thing, but it reappears in X-2. What could possibly be the purpose of such a thing?<br />
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The crane on board has the same “Salvage Dream – Cid” logo (backwards)
on it as the earlier salvage ship, but Waffles says it’s not the same
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After the battle, the door opens and Yuna emerges having shucked off the
Damsel in Distress trope and already rescued herself. And also
apparently beaten the stuffing out of everyone on board. They should
have known that even unarmed, a summoner has her pockets full of Pokémon
at all times. <br />
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But you get credit for trying, you guys. (I wish Yuna got experience for her unseen fight.)<br />
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Best victory shot.<br />
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Lulu continues her tireless fight against Yuna's cowlick.<br />
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She’s so proud. :*) <br />
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Tidus
is less enthusiastic about the walloping Yuna gave the Al Bhed because
he remembers his rescuers from the beginning of the game. Even though
they took him hostage, threatened him with violence, made him work for
them, and he whined about it the entire time. This is what he
remembers.<br />
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(I told you he wouldn’t forget it if Rikku fed him.)<br />
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Can you guys not read? His name is on all the ships. We just went through this.<br />
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Yuna
explains that Cid is her mother’s brother, (her older brother, I
think), but they became estranged after she married a Yevonite. (Yuna’s
mother was disowned by the Al Bhed after her marriage to Braska. When
Yuna was four, she was traveling back to Bikanel Island to try to repair
her relationship with her family, but her ship was attacked by Sin,
earning her a place in Final Fantasy’s illustrious Dead Moms Society.)<br />
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Lulu and I assume Kimahri already know that Yuna is half Al Bhed, but
they’ve been keeping the secret from Wakka. Lulu is about to explain
why – he’s a devout follower of Yevon and was presumably raised with the
customary antagonism towards the Al Bhed, taught that they are a bunch
of heretics and heathens. But his real hatred for them was sparked when
his brother chose an Al Bhed machina weapon in favor of the sword he
wanted to give him, a decision Wakka holds responsible for his death.<br />
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They all suddenly remember that Wakka is waiting to hear whether or not
Yuna is safe, and therefore whether or not to throw the game. While
everyone was standing around reminiscing, he’s been holding the score at
a tie all this time despite all his broken ribs.<br />
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When Wakka sees it, his tired face breaks into a smile and he musters
the Aurochs. They launch an all-out offensive, do sportsy things that I
forgot to screencap, and score one more goal right before the buzzer
sounds.<br />
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What is this “we” business? Waffles was everywhere in Luca except in
the sphere pool during the match and Yuna, you can’t even swim.<br />
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It just occurred to me that part of the reason for Lulu’s
apathy/antipathy towards blitzball is that it reminds her of Chappu.
But wow lighten up there Tardar Sauce. Something like this hasn’t
happened in 23 years, which is more years than you personally have.
(Ilu Lulu don’t punch me.)<br />
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Waffles, having still not learned that when Lulu is emotionally taut she
sprouts thorns, stumbles headlong into this bramble patch. It's really
sweet of him and great that he wants to reassure her that he <i>doesn't</i>
want to be a replacement for Chappu as was her concern, but he did not
think this conversation through at all. Poor Waffles. You tried. <br />
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It is interesting though that he's bringing up not only on the possibility of himself as a replacement brother for Wakka, but on Wakka as a replacement boyfriend for Lulu. Bear in mind that, regardless of what happens by the time X-2 rolls around, there has been no suggestion of a romantic pairing between Wakka and Lulu thus far. <i>Tidus </i>is the one who starts pushing the idea on Lulu. (Who does not appreciate it.)<br />
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Here we see Yuna beating herself up again for the terrible things that
happen to her. Rather than blaming the Al Bhed for snatching her, she
blames herself for getting snatched, and for the Psyches taking it out
on Wakka during the match when he refused to forfeit it. :( She also
feels bad for the worry she causes everyone.<br />
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They said they needed help finding their dog in a white van full of free candy I got kind of confused about the details.<br />
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I
do wonder how they managed to grab her from a crowded place without
anyone noticing, though, even with everyone distracted by the blitzball
tournament and the Ronso fight unless she had maybe wandered off looking
for Auron.<br />
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However, I find Wakka’s also blaming Yuna for this
really upsetting. I mean seriously even if we’re going to blame the
victim rather than the kidnappers here, what about all the people who
took oaths to protect her, including the two who were <i>with her at the time</i>? If only she had had some kind of, I don’t know, GUARDIAN, maybe this wouldn’t have happened.<br />
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She says, in a stage whisper so that everyone in the immediate vicinity can hear.<br />
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Hooray, sports. Do the thing. Win the points.<br />
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On a side note, those decorative panels near the ceiling kind of look like the various Evil Eye fiends.<br />
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Lulu wields words the same way Auron wields a katana: both to wound
others and to defend herself. (Also, sharply.) She doesn’t like to be
caught seeming vulnerable. The reason she came across as so harsh about
Wakka’s less-than-graceful win earlier was because she was worried
about him. She’s frequently mean to him, but she does care about him.<br />
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I adamantly <i>do not</i>
ship them, but I like their relationship. I see them more like
almost-siblings, like they would have been if Chappu and Lulu had gotten
married. I think their dynamic is much more brother-sisterly than
romantic. (And that the developers for X-2 REALLY dropped the ball when
figuring out how to handle this and what to do with them but that is a rant for another time.) <br />
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This inscription is for some reason mistranslated, even though it’s in English. It actually says <i>“To the dreams of my childhood – farewell. Captain Wakka, Besaid Aurochs.”</i></div>
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Which
is a lot more intense and melancholy than what we’re told it says. But
it fits with Wakka’s intention for this to be his last game, and win or
lose, he’s going to give up blitzball to become a full-time guardian to
Yuna.<br />
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(No pressure on me to win this thing then, is there?? D:)<br />
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Hello again! <a href="http://mintywolfplaysffx.blogspot.com/2014/01/part-4-hey-i-just-met-you-and-this-is.html" target="_blank">When we last left Waffles and Friends</a> we had said goodbye
to Besaid and set off on our way to Luca for the big blitzball
tournament. But first we have to swing by Kilika for an aeon, space
whale tragedy, and one very pretty cutscene.</div>
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On board the <i>S.S. Liki</i>, Tidus immediately fails to endear himself
to this one poor birdwatcher by jumping on his back, riding him around
like a reluctant chocobo, doing a handstand-backflip off his shoulders,
stealing his binoculars, and using them to perv on Lulu and Yuna.
Somehow, neither the owner of the binoculars, Lulu, or Kimahri dumps him
overboard for this. Yuna seems pretty amused by the whole affair.<br />
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Lulu is not invested in Your Story, Tidus. She just wants to drop you
off in Luca so she can get back to what she was doing. So stop asking.<br />
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(She's also probably already tired of listening to Yuna talk about him.)<br />
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If
you keep talking to her she says "If you interfere with Yuna's
pilgrimage, we won't take it lightly." Lulu has already seen two
pilgrimages end badly so she's probably got this one planned out in as
much detail as she can to make sure that nothing she has control over
goes wrong. Now she has to account for Tidus as well, and he's not a
variable she can control.<br />
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(Of course, he <i>does</i> interfere.) <br />
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I'm not really sure why O'aka is considering a market for Tidus' clothes
in the first place. Especially, apparently, the set he is <i>currently wearing</i>. I bet his clothes are pretty grody, though; he's been wearing them for awhile. :/<br />
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They are transporting sinspawn for Operation Mi'ihen. Probably not a
surprise that Sin attacks about ten minutes into the trip, then, since
their entire plan hinges on the fact that Sin always returns for its
spawn. Maybe you should have thought that through, you guys. <br />
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I dunno how to feel about these chocobos being used to power this
paddleboat. It doesn't seem like two of them would be enough to power
the entire ship easily, even augmented by wind power, so they'd have to
work hard. But they seem pretty happy, I guess. At any rate, FFX
chocobos are SUPER CUTE.<br />
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Rats I think that is an Al Bhed primer on the floor that I forgot to pick up!! <br />
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<a href="http://dippywerewolf.deviantart.com/art/Bored-of-Blitzball-324582909">Lulu seems to be the only person in Spira who is not a super blitzball fan.</a>
And after hearing Wakka talk about almost nothing else for years, it's
no wonder. Wakka has yet to win an argument against Lulu but he's
probably used to looking to Chappu to back him up. Tidus knows better
than to get involved.<br />
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Lulu also doesn't have the same faith in
the power of prayer that Wakka does. She obeys Yevon precepts and
taboos, but I don't think we ever see her praying independently or
reflexively doing the Yevon bow when talking about sacred things like
Yuna and Wakka do. She's still a practicing Yevonite, but she's
probably had too many of her prayers go unanswered in the past to rely
on prayer as a solution to problems. <br />
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Kimahri still doesn't want to talk to Waffles. I think this is the part
where if you pester him enough times he pushes him but I forgot to try. <br />
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I wonder if becoming a summoner confers nobility, or if Braska actually
was a noble to begin with, before he married Yuna's mother. All
summoners are addressed as Lord and Lady, but the mention of Yuna's
"noble blood" makes it sound hereditary. According to the <a href="http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Lord_Braska">wiki</a>,
which probably gets its information from the Ultimania guide, he was a
priest before becoming a summoner, and the clergy seems to occupy an
elevated social class in Spira, but it's possible that he actually was a
member of Bevelle's upper class.<br />
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Then he fell in love with and
married an Al Bhed woman, causing the Church of Yevon to frown at him
and the Al Bhed to frown at her (and their daughter to be frowned at
universally), and they were more or less cast out of society. The only
way he was able to regain his esteem was by defeating Sin and dying.<br />
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it's kind of hypocritical for people to be making a fuss about Yuna's
"noble blood" after she and her family were social outcasts until Braska
died for Spira. <br />
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"Please take good care of yourself so you can die at the appropriate time." <br />
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This line just makes me giggle because of the poor unpopular Aurochs. I
wonder if Yuna is usually mobbed by crowds outside of Besaid because of
her famous father, or if this is a recent phenomenon since she's become
a summoner herself. We don't see Dona or Isaaru with crowds of adoring
fans so I would guess it's the former. The people of Spira are super
fickle. <br />
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Tidus says this with a pointed sigh to Wakka, trying to get him to ask
about it so he has an opening to confide to him about Jecht. Wakka does
not take the hint. Lulu seems to have had some experience with this
type of situation, haha.<br />
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It must be lonely for her not having
anyone in their immediate social circle of the same maturity and
intellectual level to talk to. (Until Auron arrives.) She probably
confides some things to Yuna but doesn't want to burden her with all of
her concerns (especially since a lot of them are <i>about </i>Yuna) and Kimahri doesn't seem like much of a conversationalist.<br />
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Waffles is trying to be smooth and do that yawn-and-stretch thing like
they're at the movies. Either that or he just realized they're in the
right spot to re-enact the <i>Titanic</i> flying scene and he doesn't want to miss the opportunity.<br />
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Yuna attempts to break the ice by making small talk, and then
immediately realizes that that was, in fact, extremely small talk. I
love how awkward these two are. He's a hotshot hometown celebrity used
to showing off to fangirls, and she's almost certainly had some training
in social graces in preparation to become a public figure, but put them
together and they're both suddenly like "OH GOSH HOW DO I WORDS I
FORGOT HOW TO WORDS." <br />
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She manages to pull the conversation around by talking about blitzball,
because Waffles is a dog and it is the language he recognizes. He asks
if she heard about his being from Zanarkand from Wakka, which she confirms. This isn't the only
time someone mentions something they heard about Tidus from someone else
so apparently they all talk about him when he's not around.<br />
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Yuna
is also the only person to believe from the start that he's from
Ancient Zanarkand, because ten years ago she met a man named Jecht who
was also a blitzball player from Zanarkand and she believed everything
he told her too. (Granted, she was seven.)<br />
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I'm pretty sure it was less "blessing of Yevon" and more "machinations
of a space whale." It's definitely not a coincidence that Sin brought
Tidus to Yuna right before she was set to leave on her pilgrimage.
Jecht may not have much control over his monstery self anymore, but I
think that inside he's still struggling to find a way to break the cycle
of Sin as he promised he would. He had Auron help bring Tidus here,
and now he's ensured that his son and Braska's daughter cross paths.<br />
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Also,
that is a really short railing. You guys are going to be in trouble if
something, say, suddenly shakes the boat really hard.<br />
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Tidus
says it can't be the same Jecht, because his father died, or rather,
disappeared, ten years ago, and suddenly Yuna gets really excited,
because that's when her Jecht turned up in Spira. <br />
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I don’t think it's ever mentioned why or how the previous Sin brought
him here. Tidus just says he went out to sea for training and never
went back. Maybe the veil between worlds is thinner out that far, at
the edge of Dream Zanarkand, and she just happened to be cruising by and
picked him up. (I say "she" because the fayth of Lady Yocun's Final Aeon was a female warrior monk.)<br />
<br />
Well, speaking of Jecht, Sin puts an end to any
more awkward flirtation between these two by suddenly arriving, much
like he did when Tidus was talking to Rikku. Thanks, Giant Whale Dad.
Tidus just can't catch a break with the ladies.<br />
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The boat shudders, guardians are flung everywhere, and the camera
operator is soundly concussed. Yuna almost goes overboard but
fortunately Kimahri is on top of things as always. <br />
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<i>"Daaaaaad omg you're embarrassing me."</i> <br />
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The sailors from Kilika want to shoot harpoons at it in an effort to
distract it, despite Wakka's warning that that could pull the entire
boat underwater. Yuna only nods solemnly, granting them her forgiveness
and permission, even knowing that it could result in the deaths of not
only herself, but all her friends. (As clearly evidenced by the framing
of this shot.) She's already prepared to make that sacrifice for the
people of Spira. <br />
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I enjoy Sin's cute corkscrew tail. (It's a spiral!!) <br />
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I also enjoy the size contrast between Kimahri's hands and Yuna's. And
how he always holds her so gently, like he's afraid of squishing her.<br />
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After
the fight with Sin's fin, it snaps the harpoon cable and gets away.
Afterwards, everyone notices they're down one Waffle and Wakka jumps in
to save him. Yuna sincerely looks like she's about to too for a moment,
but Kimahri stops her. <br />
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Here's some more dolphins.<br />
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Afterwards, despite everyone's best efforts, Sin wrecks the heck out of Kilika.<br />
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It's a really effective scene to show the dread and horror that the
people of Spira have to live with, and the urgency of the summoners'
quest to defeat Sin.<br />
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When we return to our friends we find Tidus lying with his head in
Yuna's lap. I always thought this was kind of weird and uncomfortable.
She didn't just revive him or anything because Wakka did that by
lobbing a potion at him underwater. Yuna is very generous with her
trust and affections, and this gesture shows off her caring nature, but
it just seems too intimate for her this early in their relationship,
especially with everyone else standing around.<br />
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Even from behind Lulu is visibly embarrassed to have to answer this question.<br />
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"Filled with grief over their own death, they refuse to face their fate.
They yearn to live on, and resent those still alive. You see, they
envy the living. And in time, that envy turns to anger, even hate.
Should these souls remain in Spira, they become fiends that prey on the
living. Sad, isn't it? The sending takes them to the Farplane, where
they may rest in peace."</blockquote>
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This is the most beautiful cutscene in any video game I've ever played.
I don't even get tired of seeing it come around on tumblr all the time.<br />
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I
love how it's never actually explained how or why Yuna walks on water
to do this. We never see her do it again, or another summoner, for that
matter. It's just a thing she does. There's probably an explanation
that can just be summarized with a shrug of ~*~pyreflies~*~ but I like
it better unaddressed. I also like to think that other summoners have
different styles or methods of performing the sending and this is unique
to Yuna. (Some of their outfits don't look like they'd allow for much
dancing, but you never know.)<br />
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This is also the moment when I
began to suspect that she was supposed to die at the end of the game.
It was 2007 so I knew that X-2 was a thing, but I thought she'd die and
be resurrected, because Yuna projects a very clear aura of the Messiah.
(<a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MessianicArchetype">Which is, mind you, a trope not exclusive to Christianity</a>.)
She is willingly going to die to rid the world of its symbolic
embodiment of Sin – the people are literally expecting her to die for
their sins.<br />
<br />
Interestingly, though, the embodiment of the
messianic archetype is not limited to Yuna in this game. (I will return
to that when it's relevant.)<br />
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Blue flames frequently appear in
gothic literature, almost always to indicate the presence of spirits or
the supernatural, to spooky, otherworldly effect. The flames suddenly
burning blue here herald the presence of the departing spirits.<br />
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It
is intriguing that Yuna, the character so strongly associated with life
and healing, is the one with the responsibility for shepherding the
dead. In this scene she is literally conducting a spiral of death, a
motif which recurs throughout the game. <br />
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You can tell by the way that for the HD remake these are the models they
remastered. I don't understand why they started with the low-poly ones
rather than the more expressive higher-poly but still non-FMV ones but
it bothers meeeee.<br />
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These are some of my favorite lines, though.<br />
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Everyone turns around and stares at them when he naively asks this
question. Lulu doesn't answer, and looks very uncomfortable to be
standing next to him. <br />
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However, the moment was ruined for me
when I was cropping my screencaps and realized there are at least three
people in this shot wearing their underwear wrong. SPIRANS. That is not how you do
clothes.<br />
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Waffles has his exposition privileges temporarily revoked when Lulu
finally loses patience with him and goes off in a huff, leaving him to
wonder what he said wrong. She does not want to have to be the one to
explain to him in front of all these people that at the end of this
trip, her baby sister is going to die.<br />
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Aaaaah I love this exchange but I hope they manage to fix the fact that when
the camera angle changes it becomes apparent that Lulu's hands aren't
actually touching Yuna and we're just meant to infer that they are.<br />
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Lulu
herself is very guarded with her emotions, unlike Yuna, who is so open
and honest with hers. But Lulu knows that, as a living symbol of hope
for the people of Spira, a summoner has to keep her own feelings in
check and present a serene and cheerful demeanor to the public, even if
it's just a mask. The sending is a performance as much as it is a ritual. I have a feeling it was Lulu who stressed to Yuna the
importance of smiling even when she's sad. <br />
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I also wish this scene were in higher res because these models don't
show a lot of expression, which seems like it would have been an
important thing to have for a conversation about crying, but ohhh
well.<br />
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I assume Yuna actually is crying, and Lulu muffles her
against herself, shielding her from all the gawkers until she can regain
her composure. Everyone stands three feet away watching her, which
Tidus remarks is strange and horrifying, except that he is totally doing
the same thing.<br />
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He says he hopes never to see it again, which is TOO BAD
for him. We are not done with tragic deaths, sendings, or crying.
Welcome to Final Fantasy X, Tidus.<br />
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You can talk to miscellaneous people who were at the sending yesterday. All of their stories are sad. :(<br />
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A Cycle of DEATH. (We're not done belaboring this theme.)<br />
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You
would think that at some point these people living in an area prone to
random sea monster calamity would have learned to build their village
somewhere other than literally RIGHT ON THE WATER. I mean, I understand
their livelihood depends on maritime trade and revolves around the
port, but after 1,000 years they would have weighed the advantages (easy
access to water) against the disadvantages (periodic giant whale
attacks) and moved at least their houses inland.<br />
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Best reaction face.<br />
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Becoming a guardian is no small responsibility, and Yuna's suddenness in
asking someone she's only known for two days reveals how earnest but
ingenuous she can be. What she really wants is to keep him around
longer than Luca, but she can't think of another way to ask him to come
with her. <br />
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Lulu quickly interrupts Yuna, partly to give her an escape from the
awkward hole she has dug herself into, and partly because she is eager
to put off this conversation until later, or better yet, until never.
She doesn't want Yuna getting too attached to Tidus out of concern that
he might disrupt her pilgrimage in some way, but also out of concern for
her feelings. She's already had her own heart broken, and wants to
spare Yuna that pain. <br />
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Tidus is a star where he's from,
confident and used to getting attention from adoring girls, and it's
likely that Yuna is not his first girlfriend. Yuna, in contrast, seems
like a late bloomer in the thrall of her very first puppy crush. Tidus
is kindhearted but sometimes careless, and Yuna is full of tender and
vulnerable feelings, and Lulu wants to shut this mess down before she
gets hurt.<br />
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She and Wakka both are also reluctant to acknowledge
that the little sister who has always been an innocent in their eyes is
finally growing up and taking an interest in boys.<br />
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(Yes I read all that in this little exchange.)<br />
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He seems completely unaware of the blisteringly bad pun he just made haha.<br />
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Considering
I'm about to stomp all over this thing with a completely unleveled
party, that doesn't say a whole lot for the Crusaders.<br />
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Yeah then he can be a blitz ace/guardian/Crusader! Does this <i>look</i> like someone good at multitasking, Gatta?<br />
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There's an interesting owl statue here.<br />
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Everyone gathers at the bottom of the eighty million steps up to the
temple. Tidus guesses that the blitzball players want to race, despite
the fact that they kind of sound like they want to drag him into an
alley and empty his pockets. Wakka asks Yuna to signal the start of the
race, but she runs ahead of them giggling like a big cheater. <br />
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It's
nice to see that the pilgrimage hasn't beaten her sense of humor out of
her yet. She does have a cheerful, playful side that we don't see very
often because there isn't much opportunity for it with everything
godawful happening all the time. It comes out more in X-2, which was a
shock to some people who apparently weren't paying much attention to the
first game.<br />
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Waffles, completely confounded by this tricky
maneuver, stands there spluttering. I like to talk to Lulu here because
she gives the most adorable little chuckle when she says this. I bet
he didn't know Lulu even knew how to laugh.<br />
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(Says the 22-year-old.)<br />
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These pudgy dragon statues are unbearably cute. They're so happy-looking. :) (I am not going to win this race.)<br />
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Then there's a rumble, and these heroes come barreling down the steps,
having apparently abandoned Yuna to the tender mercies of the giant
sinspawn erupting out of the ground. Good job, guys.<br />
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Lulu's back there like, "Yeah, come complain to me after you've done it
wearing high heels, a corset, and 15 pounds of belts." And she <i>booked it up all those steps</i>.<br />
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Wakka
tells him "You handled yourself pretty well. You got talent." It's a
well-earned compliment, since ever since he got here Tidus has been
bungling around being told he's doing everything wrong, but he brushes
the compliment off. He's developing a sense of modesty, and
understanding what it's like to be part of a team where he's not the
star.<br />
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I'm an obsessive-compulsive symbol translator. This one means "Sin." In the middle is the symbol for "Yevon" again.<br />
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This one at the corners of the design is also in the middle of <a href="http://images.wikia.com/finalfantasy/images/f/fb/IfritSeal-ffx-artwork.png">Ifrit's seal</a> so presumably stands for Kilika.<br />
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On
the way to the temple, Wakka casually asks a question about Zanarkand,
which Tidus starts to answer and then suddenly remembers that Wakka has
never believed him about Zanarkand before. Wakka shuffles around and
starts to put forth a new theory he has. Believing in Tidus' Zanarkand
opens a little window of hope about his brother:<br />
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"Maybe Sin carries 'em through time. Like a thousand years through time. And then one day, maybe they just pop back, see?"</blockquote>
Lulu shuts that window immediately.<br />
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"Sin didn't take Chappu anywhere. Sin crushed him and left him on the Djose shore! Your brother won't just pop back."</blockquote>
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(Yuna doesn't like it when they fight. :()<br />
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Then, in case anyone
was still in a good mood today, Lulu turns on the rest of the party and
knocks down all their hopes for good measure. Kimahri wisely gets out
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"No one can replace Sir Jecht, for that matter. And there's no
replacement for Lord Braska, either. It's pointless to think about it,
and sad."</blockquote>
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This seems unnecessarily harsh, but she's tired of
having Wakka, prompted by the sudden appearance of Tidus, constantly
unearthing painful memories about Chappu. He's been dead for a year,
but it's difficult for her to let go of her grief and move on when Wakka
is still talking like he'll come back. She would rather leave the hope
and pain buried together rather than getting her hopes up only to have
them dashed again, like he's doing to himself. She also finds it
disrespectful to Chappu's memory that he's so eager to replace him with
Tidus, and finally tells him this bluntly, because she knows he won't
get the point otherwise.<br />
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She reminds everyone else that this goes
for them and their dead loved ones as well, and then stalks off leaving
everybody stunned and dispirited. Yuna, knowing that it's not like her
to lose her composure like this, runs after her.<br />
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Wakka mopes for a minute but bounces back surprisingly quickly. Excellent life lesson here.<br />
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Kilika temple is really interesting looking. I don't know if this is
mentioned in the game but I always assumed it was built on a (hopefully
dormant) volcano, being fire elemental and on top of a mountain.<br />
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The Luca Goers live in an affluent area of Spira, have access to the
stadium and best training equipment, more publicity and better sponsors,
and therefore have a marked advantage over teams from poorer areas. It
makes me think of of the Career Tributes from <i>The Hunger Games</i>,
where the prospective tributes from wealthy districts have the same
advantages and almost always win the Hunger Games. (Of course,
blitzball isn't a tournament to the death, although that would make it a lot more interesting.)<br />
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I really like the image of seven-year-old Yuna following Jecht around
while he indulged her with stories about Zanarkand. Maybe Braska was a
good influence on Jecht, or maybe he was just kind to Yuna because she
was adorable. But it's a little sad that he was apparently so gentle
with her when he was so harsh with his own son. <br />
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There are not a lot of career options for Spira's many orphans. (And
she is one; if you talk to her later she mentions that her parents have
gone to the "far plain" and asks when they're coming back. :() I would
imagine that a lot of them are taken in by the temples and automatically
brought up to join the clergy.<br />
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Haha oh man. Dona really strikingly reminds me of someone I know in
real life. (She is enough like her that she would probably be flattered by the
comparison.) Dona has a lot of good points but she definitely has a
diva temperament.<br />
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It's hard to tell what Dona's deal is and why she's so mean to Yuna.
Part of it seems to be jealousy, that Yuna is so famous because of her
father, while other summoners who are just as earnest about defeating
Sin, and possibly more experienced, get less attention. Some summoners
are probably also just by nature competitive about the pilgrimage.<br />
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I
also once saw someone's headcanon that I really liked on tumblr, but I
can't find now, because tumblr's archiving system is terrible. It may
have been <a href="http://macalaniaspring.tumblr.com/">MacalaniaSpring</a>'s,
but I'm not sure. Anyway, she put forth the theory that Dona is
resentful of Yuna because had wanted to perform the sending herself. As
a native Kilikan, it would have been deeply meaningful to her, but she
wasn't there, so Yuna got the responsibility and the honors.<br />
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Whatever the reason, she never passes up the opportunity to give Yuna a hard time.<br />
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I like the slight hesitation as the camera pans over this group of
winners and she can't come up with any descriptor than "these . . . <i>people</i>."<br />
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"Quality over quantity, my dear. What ever were you thinking?"</blockquote>
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Yuna,
seeing no problem with her dream team of one outcast Ronso, one gloomy
goth, one blitzball failer, and one confused time traveler, steps up to
defend her friends. I really like her response here:<br />
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Then she asks Dona to please leave them alone, which Dona proceeds to not do, ever.<br />
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<i>Psssst Tidus she thinks you're super cute. Even Wakka has figured this out. Why am I the one breaking this news to you?</i><br />
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Tidus is an everything! He's a busy guy.<br />
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This guy is super pumped about everything.<br />
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Here's another hint that the Cloister of Trials is more dangerous than
it appears. A priest outside did mention that it's full of flames and
that "Those who disobey the precepts and enter unsanctioned may forfeit
their lives." *pokes Tidus* <br />
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Everybody piles into the elevator but leaves Tidus behind because he's not a guardian yet. He's a little sore about this.<br />
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Don't be mean, Tidus! It's not Yuna's fault Valefor didn't hear her
prayers for like a day. She tries her best. Go get a snack or
something if you're bored geez. Play Pokemon with the village kids.<br />
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Dona and Barthello just came out of the Cloister of Trials when we got
here and then left the temple. Then they come back looking for Yuna, I
can only imagine because Dona thought of something else mean and pithy
to say to her. Instead, she decides to try to get her in trouble by
sending her unsanctioned guest into the Cloister without permission. As
we learn that Yuna could really get in <i>serious</i> trouble for this, this is pretty vicious of Dona.<br />
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Wakka
and Lulu tell him that the penalty for his infraction could be
excommunication, which sounds like it would disqualify Yuna from
completing the pilgrimage since she wouldn't be allowed to access the
temples. <br />
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I wonder about these disintegrating/regenerating doors that must reset for every summoner.<br />
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"Why are you guys never happy to see me?"<br />
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Tidus finally thinks to
ask what is inside the room nobody but Yuna is allowed to enter,
prompting Lulu to explain the nature of the fayth:<br />
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"Yevon took their souls, willingly given from their still-living bodies.
Now they live forever, trapped in statues. But when a summoner
beckons, the souls of the fayth emerge once again. That's what we call
an aeon."</blockquote>
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I find it particularly resonant with meaning that Lulu
is the one to give this speech, considering she's the one who volunteers
to become a fayth for Yuna in the end. (FEELINGS.) But what a bleak
existence!<br />
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Tidus is kind of freaked out by the intensity of this description. (And rightfully so,
haha. Lulu is a vivid storyteller.) I think he's picturing Yuna in a
room with a tormented statue surrounded by restless souls. He has an
active imagination.<br />
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If you try to keep talking to Lulu she just makes this exasperated gesture and shakes her head. She is 500% done with Tidus.<br />
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Kimahri just pushes him. But that's what you get for trying to enter a room that you were <i>just told</i> is forbidden.<br />
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Yuna almost faceplants outside the Chamber of the Fayth again but at least there are no stairs this time.<br />
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Poor Waffles. :( He recognizes the Hymn of the Fayth from hearing Jecht
sing it in his childhood, proving there is a connection between Spira
and Zanarkand, but he doesn't know how to reach it. And then, seeing
Yuna with her family gathered attentively around her, he's suddenly
lonely and homesick.<br />
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(The fayth should probably stop entrusting me with aeons.)<br />
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Waffles: "I . . . I don’t know."<br />
Yuna: "What do you want to do?"<br />
Waffles: "To scream real loud."</blockquote>
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"AAAAAAAAARGHH!"<br />
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And Lulu doesn't even flinch.<br />
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<a href="http://mintywolfplaysffx.blogspot.com/2014/01/part-6-memories-of-that-day-still-haunt.html" target="_blank">Next time</a>: Will we finally get to Luca? Mintywolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03450557499971082731noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7532666560771740367.post-72980415708371836472014-01-28T17:01:00.000-05:002015-05-08T16:43:35.208-04:00Part 4: Hey, I Just Met You, and This Is Crazy . . .Hello again! <a href="http://mintywolfplaysffx.blogspot.com/2014/01/part-3-its-good-thing-wakka-is-dog.html" target="_blank">When we last left Waffles</a> he had just charged into the
cryptic recesses of the Cloister of Trials with all the reserve of a
feral chocobo. And this is why we love him.<br />
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The Yevon inscriptions here are (clockwise from top) O, G, I, and K. I
thought they'd be compass directions or elements or something, but those
are represented by different symbols. <a href="http://The Yevon inscriptions here are (clockwise from top) O, G, I, and K. I thought they'd be compass directions or elements or something, but those are represented by different symbols. Does anyone know the meaning of these?" target="_blank">My question about them was answered by AuronLu on DW</a>.<br />
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It's actually Valefor's seal, and the "I" glyph means "light" (I had forgotten that Yevon symbols can stand for entire words.)<br />
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After Wakka says this, we walk into a room containing a big blue lion
man and a mysterious-looking lady. My first assumption was that the
lion was supposed to be the one with the temper and the aloof, cryptic
one was the woman but . . .<br />
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That assumption was debunked immediately. <br />
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Kimahri's not even going to dignify Waffles with his attention. He
glances at him briefly and then resumes what he was doing. (Kimahri has
one job, and he takes it very seriously.) Ronso are Yevonites, and
this is an important day for Yuna, so he's annoyed that this stranger
has come barging in here in violation of all kinds of Yevon taboos, but
he either feels that it's not his place to deal with Tidus, or that it's
not worth his time.<br />
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I only got a low-res screenshot from an earlier run of this scene but
Wakka braces himself as Lulu storms over. He's not an official guardian
himself so he's technically not supposed to be in here either, even
without a noisy otherworlder in tow, so he knows he's in trouble. And
that Lulu was probably already in a bad mood before he got there.
Guardians don't come out of the Cloister of Trials until the summoner
does, so she's been parked in this underground room with only a
mostly-silent Ronso for company and nothing to do except worry about
Yuna for the past 24 hours.<br />
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Lulu doesn't actually pay much attention to Tidus either until he
addresses her to ask if the summoner is all right. Then she whips her
head around and stares at him. Later she mentions that she's surprised
to see him because of his resemblance to Chappu, but I always thought
that her first reaction was simple outrage that this overalls-clad
weirdo she's never seen before has the nerve to intrude on this sacred
place and cast doubt on her ability to protect her summoner. <br />
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Fortunately for him, Yuna diffuses the tension by finally arriving. And
her first act as summoner is to fall down the stairs like a champion.
But like I said, Kimahri takes his one job very seriously. :)<br />
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I
wonder if the term "fayth" is another label given by the Church of Yevon
like "Sin", given the spiritual connotations of the word. The priest
outside calls the aeons "the blessing of Yevon," a gift to the summoner
as a result of their faith/the fayth.<br />
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(I learned from AuronLu that in Japanese they are called <i>inorigo</i>, "Child of Prayer," which has a slightly different connotation but the same meaning of something being given to the summoner by an act of piety on their part.)<br />
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I'm not sure how he came to that conclusion, considering nobody ever
says anything to him about the age (or gender) of summoners. Given,
he's only had about five minutes of Spiran historical education, but
looking around at the temple statues would seem to imply otherwise. An
overwhelming majority of summoners must die young. Of course, he is a
teenage boy, so anybody Braska's age or older might seem impossibly old
to him. ;)<br />
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(Kimahri, what do you think is going to happen when Lulu tries to step forward? You might want to move your foot.)<br />
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Kimahri frequently stands way in the back keeping an eye on Yuna from a
distance. Maybe he doesn't like crowds, or maybe, even after ten years
of living in Besaid, he doesn't feel like he belongs. I wonder where
exactly he lives, if he has one of the theoretical houses in the
village, or if he has a room in the temple, or if maybe even he built
his own house nearby out in the jungle. (Where DO Ronso live normally??
What does a Ronso dwelling look like? When we go to Mt. Gagazet they're
all just standing around. There are no houses. Do they live in caves?
Do they have houses elsewhere on the mountain? Do they live communally,
or separately?)<br />
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White pants man is being careful not to step on Lulu's dress. It's even
bunched up out of the way, which is a nice detail. Lulu is strikingly
different from everyone else around her in appearance, mannerisms, and
dress. In my headcanon (and therefore <a href="http://dippywerewolf.deviantart.com/gallery/38222634">my comic</a>)
she is not native to Besaid but came from another village (which no
longer exists), and is from the same background as Paine. (They were an
austere community of people living in a harsh northern climate, with a
tendency towards pale complexions and red eyes, and a penchant for
belts.)<br />
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Valefor is my favorite. :)<br />
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Of all the aeons, Valefor is the one
most like Yuna. Her fayth was a young girl, she has a similar color
scheme, and her design suggests a kind of ethereality and delicateness.
Tidus comments on her gentleness, despite her being an otherworldly monster
he has never seen anything like before. I always imagined that Yuna
has a particular bond with Valefor over her other aeons, because they
are so alike and because she was her first one. In X-2, after having to
confront Dark Valefor, Yuna sounds absolutely <i>heartbroken</i> when she says "That was my very first aeon."<br />
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I had <a href="http://mintywolf.dreamwidth.org/1890.html?thread=9570#cmt9570">an interesting conversation</a>
with cumuluscastle on the last entry about the freedom and agency of
aeons. I mentioned that several of them incorporate chains of some sort
in their design, symbolizing servitude. You can see Valefor's here.<br />
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Also look at poor Waffles back there! He just wants to be included.<br />
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Or maybe he's just flabbergasted that Yuna pulled a monster out of thin
air, but he looks like he really wants to come over and join them in
celebrating. <br />
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They're so proud of her. :)<br />
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Wakka and Lulu both know that this is the beginning of the end: by
receiving an aeon Yuna is a real summoner now and has already taken the
first step on the pilgrimage that will, in a best-case scenario, end
with her death. They didn't want her to be a summoner for this reason,
but it was her dream, and this is the biggest accomplishment of her life
so far, so they're happy for her.<br />
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(Also I've always been amused
that the line "I could feel a strange kind of gentleness coming from it"
is superimposed over Lulu.)<br />
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It took a few tries but I managed to get a picture of Lulu petting
Yuna's head with both of her hands. (And pretty forcefully too, haha.)
She is really excited. This scene is one of the few times we see her
unguardedly happy, and possibly the happiest we ever see her in the
entire game. (Of course, we can't see her face, so I still haven't
found an answer for my question <i>Do we ever see Lulu smiling at Yuna?</i> She smiles very, very rarely.) It's definitely the most effusive we ever see her with her affections, though.<br />
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"Um, guys, I know you're happy and all, but . . . do I really need to be here for this?"<br />
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I hope the summoner isn't really tasked with naming her aeons on the spot because I would fail badly.<br />
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I am not exactly sure what he's alluding to here other than that he and
Yuna developed a crush on each other. But – and this is probably a
controversial opinion – I don't feel that the lovestory is really the
focus of FFX. The overarching plot is much deeper than that. <br />
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And
the thing that really changed him was his contact with Sin, which made
him "more than a dream" and therefore unique. He doesn't think about
becoming a guardian until Kilika and he doesn't officially become part
of Yuna's pilgrimage, the action that ends up having world-shaking
repercussions, until Auron drags him along in Luca. He would have come
along by Auron's request (and by proxy, Jecht's) regardless of whether
he had feelings for Yuna. So I'm not sure what exactly changed that
night in Besaid. Unless it just means that this was really the beginning of his unexpected journey, although he didn't know it yet.<br />
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(I have a feeling it might be a Tidus/Yuna
issue, so Tuna shippers who have given more thought to their
relationship than I have, feel free to weigh in.)<br />
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Everyone's favorite line. :D (Also an injunction which almost nobody in
the game will follow, as she gets kidnapped about 12 times, haha.) <br />
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Yuna
is sitting over here with the village elders and this little girl. I
wonder what her relationship is with them, because we never see her with
them again. Also, is this the aforementioned "old hubby" who bears a supposed resemblance to Lord Ohalland? Because he doesn't look ANYTHING like him. Maybe she was referencing a former husband, or maybe these two aren't even a couple. They could be brother and sister or just friends.<br />
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Little Miss Red Pantaloons contributes to the Waffles Shaming Circle for good measure.<br />
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Calm down, old dude, he's just a toxin-addled, taboo-breaking,
blitzball-punting maniac with poor fashion sense claiming to be from a
civilization a thousand years in the past! I'm sure he's harmless.<br />
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It makes me kind of sad that Yuna takes responsibility for what happened
in the Chamber of the Fayth. And she's not just taking the blame for
him in front of everyone so he doesn't get in trouble, either; she
really believes it was her fault. (From her perspective, she took too
long to receive her aeon, causing everyone to worry and therefore
causing him to come in after her. She tends to get distressed when she
causes her friends worry, and sees herself as the problem rather than
whatever it was putting her in peril.)<br />
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Her confession that she
was "overconfident" and the inordinate length of time it took her to
commune with the fayth makes me wonder if she wasn't quite ready to
become a summoner, and I wonder if it was her decision to enter the
trials early or if someone else prompted her. She makes it sound like
she took it upon herself, but that is also the sort of thing that she
would take responsibility for even if someone else had talked her into
it.<br />
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I automatically discount any Tidus/Yuna playlist that doesn't have "Call
Me Maybe" on it because it is, in my opinion, perfect for them. They
are goofy awkward teenagers crushing on each other in a way that can
only be expressed by a silly catchy pop song.<br />
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<i>"Your stare was holding,<br />Ripped jeans, skin was showing,<br />Hot night wind was blowing,<br />Where do you think you're going, baby?<br />Hey, I just met you, and this is crazy . . ."</i> etc.<br />
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/ruining everything<br />
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I have no doubt this little girl was deployed by the grandparents to cut off any further flirtation.<br />
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Apparently Spirans are strangers to the high-five.<br />
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There is no safe way to answer this question, haha. But the first one
gets you a big boost in Yuna Friendship Points. (And actually, a lesser
one in Wakka Friendship Points as well I think.)<br />
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Somewhat
cruelly, you can make any of the three women in the game fall for Tidus
by manipulating the hidden friendship mechanics and picking certain
dialogue options. (But no matter what you do, he's still going to jump
in the lake with Yuna, so Rikku or Lulu's (!!) crush on him will go forever unrequited.) I didn't know this existed until after my first
playthrough, so I was really confused about why Lulu seemed so attached
to him.<br />
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Does anybody even sincerely ship Lulu/Tidus? I've seen various other combinations but that one just seems really far-fetched. Although she was dating a guy who was supposedly just like him only a year ago. <br />
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Where did everybody go? This isn't much of a party. Apparently Kimahri
and Lulu slipped off to have a moment alone or something. (Still a more believable ship than the aforementioned.)<br />
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I don't really feel like psychoanalyzing Waffles' tripped-out dream
sequences so I'm just going to leave this here without comment.<br />
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Afterwards, he wakes up to hear this going on outside and goes to investigate: <br />
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This is Lulu's fmv introduction, and it's great. Supposedly, her dress
was designed as a challenge to the CGI team (who then got around it by
only showing her from behind or the waist up after this one scene) but
I'm pretty sure that Tetsuya Nomura's belt fetish had something to do
with it. There's a reason Lulu is the longstanding poster girl for the <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TooManyBelts">Too Many Belts</a>
trope. I love the long slow vertical pan from the ground showing her
outfit in all its crazy detail and I just wish it was all one shot, all
the way up to her hairsticks. I love the way she jingles when she moves
because of all the buckles and I love the way the beads on her braids
clack when she turns her head. I love how she moves like her dress has
actual <i>weight</i> to it.<br />
<br />
Now, the belt dress is a thing that
serves absolutely no practical purpose, especially in a tropical
climate, worn by an otherwise very sensible person preparing to
undertake a journey that will involve literally walking across
continents. But then, she fights with dolls, so it seems that Lulu has a
penchant for flair over function. She also seems to have designed her
outfit to annoy herself at every opportunity so it could also serve as a
kind of conditioning, to test her patience and endurance for
discomfort, or perhaps even as a kind of self-punishment. Underneath
her harsh and angry belt-wrapped exterior Lulu is still carrying the
guilt of her past failures and has internalized it rather than seeking
forgiveness.<br />
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And I am probably reading way, way too far into what
was just meant to be a cool/sexy design, but (in case somehow you
couldn't tell) I really like Lulu and I think she is a complex character
that a lot of people are too quick to dismiss as simple fanservice.<br />
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Humorously,
I was also really wary of her the first time I played the game and
actually afraid that she was going to turn out to be evil at first, but I
am probably going to make a separate post for that because there is
some backstory involved. At any rate, I remember the sudden start of
nervousness when Wakka turns around and sees Tidus, like I had been
caught watching something I wasn't supposed to see too. <br />
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"Yeah, well, he never used it."<br />
<br />
This is a generous gesture on
Wakka's part, but it's also pretty sad. He has already seen that Tidus
has a perfectly serviceable sword, but he wants him to have the one that
was meant for his brother. He's only known Tidus since yesterday, but
it's clear he wants to regard him as a surrogate little brother, and
wants Tidus to look up to him like a big brother. He's not necessarily
looking to replace Chappu, he just misses having a kid brother around.<br />
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Lulu
on the other hand is starting to get annoyed by what looks like a
continued effort to replace Chappu, or at least forget that he's gone.
She does not have the same immediate bond with Tidus on the basis of him
being like Chappu that Wakka does.<br />
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(Tidus gets impatient and asks why they're waiting for Yuna. They reply with some backstory.)<br />
<br />
One
of my favorite things about this game is the family dynamics between
characters. I really, really like stories about families that are built
from characters that are not necessarily biologically related. Whether
it's a group of people who come together in adversity and come to love
and trust each other like family, or a group of orphans who have to take
it upon themselves to take care of each other, or siblings who have
lost their parents so the older one has to take responsibility for the
younger. I like message that love is more important than blood ties,
and that adopted families are just as strong as biological ones. I
would imagine that in Spira, with so many families pulled apart by Sin,
that there are a lot of patchwork families like this.<br />
<br />
I also
really enjoy the relationship between Yuna and her adopted siblings. I
have two younger sisters, but we were not close or even on good terms
with each other until we were all in college. I think we were too close
in age to get along – I'm the oldest by less than two years – and
they're twins, so they share a bond with each other and also with my
mother, who is also a twin, that I didn't have. I always hated having
to be the oldest and spent a lot my childhood feeling lonely and
excluded and wishing that I had a big brother or sister of my "own" to
look up to. So it makes me happy that Yuna has this.<br />
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There's something resigned and a little wistful about the way he phrases
"She's been like a little sister to us . . . but she had the talent."
When she discovered her potential as a summoner (two years ago,
according to Ultimania) that was the day they first knew that they
wouldn't be able to keep her forever. This is the first clue that
Yuna's becoming a summoner is not as joyous an occasion for them as it
is for the other people in the village.<br />
<br />
Lulu's emphasis on "This is <i>our</i>
journey," is more direct. She is not happy that Tidus is tagging
along. This was meant to be their last trip together as a family, her
measurably last days with Yuna, and now Wakka has invited along some guy
he found in the ocean yesterday who is completely oblivious to their
customs, who has no idea where he's going or if he will ever find anyone
who knows him, but whom Yuna is already infatuated with and who bears a
striking resemblance to her own dead boyfriend, to boot. It's no
wonder she's so icy towards him in the beginning.<br />
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The conversation is broken off by the tumbling thump of Yuna's suitcase
falling down the stairs. Lulu tells her to leave it behind, I guess
because the wheeled suitcase has not been invented yet and they don't
want to have to drag it all the way to Bevelle, but the implication that
they can't accommodate a few gifts for the temples is kind of harsh
coming from a woman who is apparently able to carry up to 99
potions down the front of her dress. (And, if you teach her the Use
skill, she can fit the whole damn inventory in there! If you can fit
chocobo wings, monster fangs, whatever the heck an Underdog's Secret is,
and DARK MATTER in your cleavage, Lulu, you really aren't in the
position to be telling Yuna that the party can't make room for five
presents.)<br />
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And she just leaves it on the steps and walks away sadly, pausing to
look back at the place she has lived for ten years and will never see
again. I bet she hand-made all those presents, Lulu. DON'T YOU FEEL
TERRIBLE??<br />
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Oh thank you doggie it is just what I needed. You're so generous.<br />
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I forgot to go talk
to the dog girl's sister, but she has one of my favorite NPC lines: "If
there's anything you need to know about guardians, ask Lulu. Lulu
knows everything. She'll be a bigger help than Wakka for sure." This
girl knows how things are, haha. And she's right; Lulu steps up into
the position of Ms. Exposition when it becomes clear that Tidus has no
idea what he's doing.<br />
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It's the <a href="http://dippywerewolf.deviantart.com/art/Black-Magic-Lesson-394574210">Sassy Flan!!!</a> I wonder if he remembers Lulu.<br />
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I
don’t know why this isn't the quote people stick on photosets of Lulu
all over tumblr instead of that uncharacteristically-optimistic thing
about morning always coming. It's much more suited to her personality.<br />
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Of course, I like to annoy the heck out of everyone by doing it wrong, because I am a pest.<br />
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Judging by everyone's behavior you might think that Yuna is just sad
because she thinks she won't be coming home for a long time. NOPE.<br />
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(I just liked this shot, which was surprisingly hard to catch.)<br />
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Wakka frequently tries to rationalize Chappu's death, trying to convince
himself that if he had done one thing differently, it wouldn't have
happened. Maybe if he had prayed that day, maybe if he had used the
sword instead of a gun, he'd still be alive. He tries to gain some
sense of control over an otherwise senseless event that was out of his
control.<br />
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In Japan, roadside Shinto shrines are smaller shrines that house minor
spirits generally intended to protect travelers from harm. They serve a
similar function as this one, although FFX rarely mentions who or what
everyone is praying <i>to</i>. They don't seem to invoke Yevon as a
deity, and unless they are praying specifically to a summoner for
assistance, it seems that prayer is a more meditative ritual than an
invocative one.<br />
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Lulu bows a lot less deeply than everyone else.
(And it's not because she can't in that dress, as her victory pose
clearly reveals.) Perhaps it's a sign that her faith in Yevon is weaker
than Wakka's and Yuna's, after everything that Yevon has made her put
up with, although the breaking point in her faith doesn't come until
much later.<br />
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And then as they're walking along Kimahri comes
bounding in out of freaking nowhere and corners the unsuspecting Waffles
like the world's most inefficiently hostile toll collector.<br />
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I always thought this scene was kind of odd. It's the most aggressive
we ever see Kimahri in the game, even up against Seymour. (Also, the only time we see him bounding on four legs like this and looking so beasty, which is too bad because it looks really cool.) The rest of
the time he's mainly quiet and reserved. And the other guardians let
this go on for several rounds before interfering and even afterwards
they just kind of shrug the incident off. (And Lulu gives some
incredibly vague exposition about his being a blue mage, which does not
answer any questions.) Is it commonplace for Kimahri to assault random
travelers to Besaid on the road? Why is nobody concerned that he just
fell out of the sky and initiated a fight with Waffles? Yuna just
carelessly says "Sometimes we don't understand him, either," which is a
strange thing to say about her oldest friend and the guy she's been
trusting with her life since she was seven. Apparently he doesn't say
much, even to her.<br />
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I assume he was testing his combat skills, or
his worthiness to stand next to Yuna or something, but at this point
Tidus isn't even part of the pilgrimage yet. He's not a guardian. He
is just a guy walking down to the dock to get on the boat to go to Luca!
Also, Kimahri doesn't even join up with the party (as a useable party
member) until Kilika. So I don't really know what's going on here.<br />
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I spent forever trying to get to these treasure chests the first time I
played, haha. Some nice Besaid scenery. Everybody likes the little
secret cove on the beach, but I think under this waterfall has to be a
destination for romantic Besaiders too.<br />
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I wonder if this guy has an unspoken crush on Yuna. Which he never
could express to her, because she's constantly surrounded by grumpy
overprotective people. It's probably for the best, Green Shirt Man.<br />
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Learning what the pilgrimage is really for, and what happens at the end,
must be a kind of rite of passage for kids in Spira. (Like finding out
the truth about Santa Claus, only HORRIBLE.) Something they eventually
learn from their parents or from other kids via rumor. Because this
child clearly has no idea.<br />
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But this one does. Maybe he's just sad that she's leaving, but he's so upset he seems to know that she's never coming back. :(<br />
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Look at the complexity of the emotion in her face! You can see her
struggling to fix a smile to her face even though her eyes are sad. And
that's not even revealed as a thing that she does until later. <br />
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DO NOT SCREW THIS UP, HD REMAKE!!<br />
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<a href="http://mintywolfplaysffx.blogspot.com/2014/01/part-5-dad-omg-youre-embarrassing-me_28.html" target="_blank">Next time</a>: I will try to pick up the pace, haha. We just met a bunch of my favorite characters so I got a little starry-eyed there.</div>
Mintywolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03450557499971082731noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7532666560771740367.post-84592367388095079142014-01-28T14:05:00.000-05:002014-01-30T13:04:08.474-05:00Part 3: It's a Good Thing Wakka is a Dog Person<a href="http://mintywolfplaysffx.blogspot.com/2014/01/part-2-seagull-ive-feeling-were-not-in.html" target="_blank">Last time</a>, we followed the misfortunes of a sad and soggy waffle as he struggled to earn his Wilderness Survival badge. (He did not qualify.)<br />
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Sin drops off our hero off the shore of Besaid Island, where the Aurochs
see his apparently unconscious body drifting along and decide that the
best course of action is to peg a blitzball at it. These guys are <i>terrible lifeguards.</i><br />
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But he’s overjoyed to see something familiar, for once.<br />
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He does respond by Sphere Kicking their ball into orbit, though.<br />
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“Hey! That guy stole our ball!” Also wow Botta what happened to you?? (My guess is piranhas.)<br />
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Duly impressed, the team captain and his amazing hair gel ask what team he plays for.<br />
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Aaand it took him less than five minutes to forget Rikku’s advice. <br />
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This is pretty much the only time blitzball players’ superhuman lung
capacity is addressed, and even then it’s kind of vaguely handwaved. As
with most other belief-suspending aspects of the world of Spira, the
only explanation we’re given is that it has something to do with
pyreflies. (Pyreflies: the midichlorians of FFX.) It would also stand
to reason that a summoner’s ability to manipulate pyreflies is what
allows Yuna to walk on water. <br />
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Long-term breath-holding does
require training, though, so of our eventual team of party members, only
Wakka, Tidus, and Rikku are able to swim. While Rikku hasn’t had any
blitzball training, it seems likely that the Al Bhed would have some
kind of device to draw breathable oxygen out of the water. (Apparently,
even when she’s not wearing her wetsuit.) Either that or the Al Bhed
are all accomplished swimmers! <br />
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<a href="http://www.squidoo.com/fansub">“I think Walter is a good egg.”</a> <br />
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Waffles tries to find out what exactly did happen to Zanarkand, if it was destroyed 1,000 years ago. We’re led to assume that this is the event we witnessed at the beginning of the game, before we find out that the two Zanarkands are separate. <br />
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Incidentally, I was just listening to a Selected Shorts podcast today that featured the Ray Bradbury short story “The Veldt”. (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSoigRHHNLM">Read excellently by Stephen Colbert</a>.)
The story features a family living in a futuristic home that
automatically takes care of all their needs, allowing them to live lives
of indolence. As you can probably guess, this ends horribly, although
not in ways you might expect. <br />
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The society Wakka describes is a
setting of many science-fiction dystopias, an advanced society that
appears utopic but is fundamentally flawed in some way. In this case,
the flaw is Sin.<br />
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I wonder how soon after the Zanarkand-Bevelle
war all the machina cities fell to Sin. He makes it sound like it was
an immediate retribution. It could be that the first incarnation, Lord
Zaon’s Sin, was just so powerful that he laid waste to all of Spira on
one rampage, so that all the ancient technology was lost at once. Or
maybe Sin hit so frequently that the people simply had no time to
rebuild, and over time, with their machina crippled by Sin’s attacks,
they had no means of fending for themselves and died out except for a
few survivors who figured out how to cope without the help of machines.<br />
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Here’s another seagull. This one resembles Tidus. I don’t know what’s up with that . . .<br />
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Wakka
is in the middle of explaining how Old Spira was powered by machina,
allowing the inhabitants to live in luxury while the machines did the
work for them. Then Sin came along and destroyed everything, an act
that – he has been taught by Yevon – was punishment for their laziness.
Nowadays every Spiran bears the burden of Sin, whom they are taught
will never be really gone until they all repent for their sins. While
he stresses that it’s important that they repent, he also expresses the
opinion that it isn’t fair that everyone today has to suffer for “what
some goofballs did back way back when”.<br />
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This echoes the infamous
Catholic concept of original sin (“I poked a badger with a spoon!”),
whereby humanity is assumed to be in a constant state of sin inherited
for generations since the fall of man. However, Christian faith
necessitates intervention from the divine in order to be absolved of
your sins (you have to be baptized in order to be “saved”, or “make your
peace with God” before you die, or if you’re Catholic you go to
confession and tell the priest your sins). The concept of independent
self-improvement is more in line with the Buddhist interpretation of
karma, whereby performing positive deeds and overcoming negative habits
moves you along the path towards nirvana, a state of transcendent peace.
(Also, uncoincidentally, the name of Yuna’s ultimate weapon but I’ll
get to that eventually.)<br />
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Look at that tangent! Thanks, seagull. <br />
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Wakka adopts Stray Doggie Tidus and starts treating him as a little
brother immediately. (Including pushing him into the lagoon and
dragging him around in a headlock, which is a very big brotherly thing
to do.) We learn very soon that it’s because Tidus reminds him of his
own little brother Chappu, who died only a year ago, but he didn’t even
take the time to get to know him before deciding that he liked him. As
we’ll see, Wakka makes judgments of people’s character right away, for
better or for worse. <br />
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The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurochs">aurochs</a>, by the
way, is a now-extinct species of giant wild cattle similar to oxen. No,
I don’t have any idea what this has to do with blitzball or why their
logo is a seashell.<br />
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Most people get around the Your-Name-Here convention by not even
bothering to learn poor Waffles’s name. But as epithets go this one is
pretty poetic. I can see Yuna sitting on the dock a year from now
looking wistfully out at the ocean and romantically remembering ~*~<i>The Boy from the Sea</i>~*~. <br />
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Aiders?<br />
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I guess since Dream Zanarkand is a peaceful utopia, the
dream-people weren’t given any consciousness of war or unpleasant
history so he’d have no reason to know what a crusade was. This makes
me giggle, though. <br />
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Speak for yourself, Thong Skirt Lady!<br />
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Bawwwwww poor Waffles. It’s okay, neither do we. <br />
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Kitties!!! With the fur ridges along their backs, they look like tiny domesticated coeurls, which is probably what they are. Eeeeee what adorable worldbuilding.<br />
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The two main livelihoods on Besaid are weaving and fishing.
Unfortunately, the local economy, which relies on sea-based trade to
other islands and the mainland to export the handmade textiles and
import goods, is constantly imperiled by Sin. <br />
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Pictured: one of the few beds in the entire village. Not pictured anywhere: room for everyone to live.<br />
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There
are some beds in the Crusaders’ lodge, but that seems to function not
only as a base for the Crusaders but as a kind of hotel for visitors.
Apart from that, there are only four huts. Even if people sleep on
hammocks or futons that they only bring out at night, that is still not
nearly enough space for all the people who live in Besaid! (I do assume
that some of them, like Lulu and Yuna, live in the temple, but that
doesn’t account for everyone.)<br />
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I guess the only real explanation
here is Video Game Architecture. It wasn’t until fairly recently that
games, particularly open-world games, started showing every detail of
the worlds you’re playing in. The <i>Elder Scrolls</i> games, for
example, have villages with houses for every single NPC, all of whom
have families and schedules independent of you. Earlier RPGs tended to
supply just enough houses as were essential to the plot plus maybe a few
more (which you usually couldn’t enter) for flavor, and the layout of
Besaid seems to be an artifact of that.<br />
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I would have <i>loved</i> to see Spira redeveloped as an open world in FFX-2, where you could go everywhere and explore everything. But alas. <br />
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Wakka tells Tidus to go present himself to the temple summoner, whom I
guess is this guy? It’s definitely not Yuna, since she’s an apprentice
summoner and also he knows she’s currently in the trials. Also, Yuna
had to have been apprenticed to somebody in order to learn how to become
a summoner, and it stands to reason that the village would have one who
did not go on pilgrimage in order to perform sendings and other
necessary rituals at the temple. But it’s kind of weird that he's never named.<br />
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The village probably scraped together all the money they could to fund
this so Yuna could see it before she left on her pilgrimage. :( I’m sure
it was not an easy task for them to raise all that money but that shows
how much they care about her.<br />
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I like the idea of the High Summoners having fan followings, and
everyone has their favorite. It’d be really funny if there were like,
summoner trading cards, or something, but that’s actually pretty morbid.
And commercial culture doesn’t seem to have hit Spira yet except
perhaps in Luca. In the post-Sin Spira of X-2, though . . . it seems
like something they’d do. I feel like there’d be all kinds of
ridiculous memorabilia of Yuna and her guardians.<br />
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The dead summoners seem to function both like Catholic saints and Shinto <i>kami</i>.
As an alternative to praying directly to Yevon, people pray to the
summoners to ask for favors, blessings, and intercessions. There’s even
some specificity as there is for which saint or Shinto shrine to pray
to for a certain task: Wakka, for example, prays to Lord Ohalland for good blitzball
fortune because he was a blitzball player.<br />
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Around this time everyone and their dog starts expressing worry that the
apprentice summoner has not yet returned from the trials. With Tidus’
interpretation of High Summoners as “we should respect some great men,
or something like that” and the way everyone is deliberately not
mentioning the gender of the missing summoner makes it seem like it’s
supposed to be a surprise. But we are so used to men being the standard
characters in media that when a story starts concealing a character’s
gender we already suspect that it’s because it’s a deviation from the
norm, and therefore a woman. So it’s not really a surprise. (Also it's
mentioned right out in the instruction booklet.) <br />
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This old lady gives it away, but she’s the only one and you have to look
hard to be able to find her. (Somehow Tidus is still surprised later
when Yuna turns out to be not an old man.) <br />
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I don’t know who this comment is supposed to be referencing so I am
forced to assume it is Waffles. Or maybe the worried old man over
there, but what an awful thing to say, Green Shirt Man! <br />
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“Except to you, just now.”<br />
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Man, that would be pretty terrible. Everyone in the village is gathered
around to see how it went and they just bring out her broken little
body. :c <br />
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Which seems to be a horribly real possibility. (The second line of
dialogue is from the other person, btw. They’re not talking to Tidus;
he’s just eavesdropping on their conversation.)<br />
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What <i>did</i>
happen to the last summoner? And who was it? Did they become a
summoner? Did they die? (Did they become a summoner, go on pilgrimage,
and die that way?) Nobody ever mentions this person again. Maybe if the
fayth rejects you, or you somehow else fail to become a summoner, you
are shunned by society or have to go somewhere to perform penance before
you can try again.<br />
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Are you sure? We can go back and talk to all the villagers again. <br />
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This brings up a question that I have had for some time and for which I’ve never really seen a satisfactory answer: what <i>is</i>
so dangerous about the Cloister of Trials? When Tidus goes in (and he
manages to barge into all of them eventually) the only obstacle to the
Chamber of the Fayth is a sphere puzzle. So, unless there are more
trials that we don’t see on account of gameplay/story segregation, it
would seem that the real danger is the communion with the fayth itself.
(And we do see Yuna being overwhelmed by this, especially when she
receives Bahamut.)<br />
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I had a <a href="http://mintywolf.tumblr.com/post/45034789788/auronlu-mintywolf-kawohni-yunas-first">discussion about this with some people on tumblr</a> awhile back, which heck I will just repost rather than trying to paraphrase.<br />
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<i><u><a href="http://kawohni.tumblr.com/">kawohni:</a></u><br />Yuna’s first “real” appearance, and she’s all sweaty and gross. :[<br />But
in all seriousness, apparently obtaining an Aeon is a dangerous and
difficult task. Some summoners even die in their attempt to do so, as
indicated by Lulu’s backstory.<br />It’s pretty interesting, but I always
wonder what exactly goes into the art of summoning. We see the tail end
of the process of acquiring an Aeon in Bevelle, and it does look rather
jarring and uncomfortable and I’m sure it takes a ton of spiritual
power, but does something else happen?<br />Given that summoners are generally psychopomps of sorts, it really makes me question how one gains that power.<br /><br /><u>mintywolf</u>:<br />I
always wondered this too. Near the beginning Tidus asks Wakka if it’s
dangerous in there, and Wakka replies “sometimes,” and everyone in the
village seems worried about her, but we never see anything particularly
dangerous in the Cloister of Trials.<br />(Also, are the capabilities of
summoners really assessed by a sphere puzzle, or is that a
story/gameplay separation? Are there more Trials that we simply don’t
see?) <br />So is the danger from the actual communion with the fayth? We
do see Yuna fall down exhausted after receiving some of her aeons (to
the disdain of Dona in one case) and Bahamut knocks her right out.<br />I wonder if any summoners ever died during this process. :o<br /><br /><u><a href="http://auronlu.tumblr.com/">auronlu</a></u>:<br />When
I first played FFX, I also wondered what was so scary about the
Cloister of Trials. The characters seem to make an awfully big deal out
of MYST-style puzzles. <br />To some extent, I think it’s gameplay and
story segregation. However, I’ve seen some pretty awesome meta fanon
dealing with the Cloister of Trials in </i><a href="http://archiveofourown.org/works/70566/chapters/93445">Clarion</a><i> (story of Braska’s Pilgrimage) and </i><a href="http://archiveofourown.org/works/19886/chapters/100262">Aftermath</a><i> (dealing with the events leading to the foundation of the Youth League).<br />The
basic idea in those two stories (if I’m recalling correctly) is:
Someone died to become a fayth. The ritual of snapping all those spheres
into place somehow recreates or taps into the ritual that killed and
bound the sacrificial martyr, priming the sleeping fayth to be ready to
open up and loan some of that imprisoned life-force out. Summoners are
literally manipulating the stored powers of life and death in their
hands when they touch those spheres.<br />Powerful, dangerous stuff, which
may in turn be opening up the summoner’s spirit to accept the aeon.
(And, come to think of it, since the guardians have to participate, all
that mumbo jumbo with the spheres may be priming the <i>guardians</i>’
spirits and attuning them to their summoner in some fashion so as to
prepare them for the same death-ritual in the Final Summoning.)<br />It’s easier to understand why the ritual of obtaining the aeon could be dangerous to a summoner.<br />First,
there’s the prayer to the fayth. The fayth probably tests the
summoner’s spirit, will, and mind before agreeing to join with the
summoner, so there’s an inner trial as well as the outer one.<br />Then there’s the joining itself.<br />When we see Bahamut and Yuna at the moment of junctioning, </i>the fayth enters her body<i>.
Essentially, the summoner is opening up her body and soul to house that
fayth just like a living summoner’s statue. That’s pyreflies entering
someone’s living flesh, the same pyreflies that give aeons their
physical shape and that provide artificial life support to the
fleshly-but-terminal bodies of the unsent. Pyreflies are like a bridge
between matter and energy; they are both physical and non-physical, in a
sense.<br />The fayth is grafted to the summoner, physically (because of
the pyreflies), spiritually, and mentally. An alien is taking up
residence in her head.<br />I wouldn’t be surprised if some summoners go
insane, or that others die in a psychosomatic response that’s akin to
anaphylactic shock or donated-organ-rejection.</i><br />
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<a href="http://maclaniaspring.tumblr.com/">MacalaniaSpring</a>
also put forth the idea (on the same post but I can’t find it now
because I didn’t want to reblog it three times, but I liked it) that
before the trials summoners spend 24 hours fasting, so that they enter
the Chamber of the Fayth spiritually meditative and purified, but
physically tired and weakened.<br />
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And while I absolutely agree that
receiving the fayth is a spiritually, emotionally, mentally, and
physically taxing ordeal for the summoner, it’s also a completely
solitary one since it’s forbidden for anyone else to enter the Chamber
of the Fayth. So why do guardians need to be there? There’s a little
kid in the temple who says “Wakka’s a guardian, he should go help!” and
another one who wants to charge in there and help the summoner himself,
but what are they expecting to be able to do? Help what? How?<br />
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I
mean, maybe they’re just there for moral support, or to help the tired
summoner back out if necessary, but it still seems like there’s
something we’re not being told. <br />
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And of course our beloved Waffles just says “To heck with all that!” and in he goes.<br />
He has no real idea of who’s in danger or even what’s going on. He just goes.<br />
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At
first I was really annoyed with him about this, because clearly this is
a tradition that everyone around him places very heavy value on, it’s
something important and sacred to them (and his breaking the rules could
have serious consequences, such as Yuna’s excommunication, we learn),
and he just stampedes in his yellow boots over 1,000 years of someone
else’s cultural tradition like it’s completely meaningless. But his
heart is in the right place, and while Tidus is impulsive this shows
that he is also caring and courageous, willing to charge into an unknown
place he was just told is dangerous in order to save someone he has
never met.<br />
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<br />Mintywolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03450557499971082731noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7532666560771740367.post-52259638900566628662014-01-28T12:48:00.000-05:002014-01-30T13:02:55.105-05:00Part 2: Seagull, I've a Feeling We're Not In Zanarkand Anymore<a href="http://mintywolfplaysffx.blogspot.com/2014/01/part-1-funny-thing-happened-on-way-to.html" target="_blank">Last time</a>, we were introduced to our accidental hero: Waffles, a spiky-haired flailer in bezippered overalls who immediately got sucked up into a plot vortex by a giant space whale during a hometown underwater volleyball match, because Final Fantasy.<br />
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Tidus immediately ostracizes his only remaining companion. There are a
lot of seagulls in this game, usually just around in the background.
They are probably just meant to evoke a feeling of loneliness. Or maybe
that was Auron in disguise who just flew off. <br />
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You can see the statues of High Summoners Gandof and Yocun (or half of
her, anyway) in this area (and the Zaon half of the Yunalesca-Zaon arch
that appears in the temples), indicating that it was the main chamber of
the temple. Which means that Baaj island and the temple were destroyed
since Lady Yocun, the last High Summoner, defeated Sin, and probably by
the following Sin, the one that contained the fayth of her guardian. <br />
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Having a bad day. <br />
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Apart from the usual temple statues there is also this thing, which I
don’t think we see anywhere else. I had to do some research but I think
it might be a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shisa">Shisa</a>
statue. These are statues of mythical creatures from Okinawan mythology
intended to ward off evil spirits, similar to the Chinese guardian lion
statues at temples. <br />
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So how cold is it there? What is the climate like in Baaj? <a href="http://zeta-kai.deviantart.com/art/Map-of-Spira-103063039">Let’s look at a map.</a> (By zeta-kai on deviantART.)<br />
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The
ruins actually appear to be between the Mi’ihen Highroad and Mushroom
Rock Road in latitude, so either southern Spira is not as tropical as it
looks, or Tidus is a HUGE WIMP. Maybe it’s just a cool spring/summer
day in a temperate climate, and he did just climb out of the ocean, but
he’s a swimmer! Shouldn’t he be used to (and theoretically, dressed for)
this? <br />
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Baaj Temple is where Seymour and his mom were exiled while Seymour was
growing up. Numbers has a lot more to say about Seymour’s history since
he is her favorite, so I won’t go into it in depth. (<a href="http://summonerspilgrimage.tumblr.com/">Here is her playthrough.</a>) According to the <a href="http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Baaj">wiki</a>,
Baaj was once a thriving city that sank into the sea after Sin weakened
the foundation of the island it was built upon, leaving only the temple
behind, but the temple itself wasn’t ruined until another later attack
by Sin, after Seymour had installed his mother’s fayth statue there. So
they lived there for awhile between the time it was abandoned and the
time it was completely destroyed, which is lonely but not as completely
bleak as I was picturing when I thought they had to live in the ruins.
(I don’t know where this information came from, mind you, since it’s
uncredited in the wiki. Presumably Ultimania, although it could be
hidden dialogue in the game somewhere.) It’s unknown which fayth this
temple used to house before Anima.<br />
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At any rate they graffiti’d the heck out of everything. For translations you can check out <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/spiran-inscriptions-writing-ffx#module149393410">AuronLu’s Spiran Inscriptions page</a> and <a href="http://summonerspilgrimage.tumblr.com/post/37736985653/a-friend-of-mine-just-informed-me-that-there-is-a">this part of Numbers’ playthrough.</a>
It’s in places all over the rest of the temple, too. I was able to make
out “Fire” on the upstairs balcony floor, suggesting a black magic
lesson. <br />
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I changed my mind; THIS is the most depressing camping trip. <br />
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“A fiend! In human disguise!”<br />
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Yes he seems to be worried that
Tidus is an unsent. Most unsent can blend in among humans, and don’t
cause many problems (well, running a corrupt government in some cases,
but apart from that) but there are some that, while they still appear
human, are implied to be on the monstery end of the scale and resentful
towards the living. (As we will see later when we take a detour through
a certain cave. :() <br />
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The natural progression of souls who did
not reach the Farplane is into fiendhood. The unsent are those who
have, for whatever reason, remained on Spira after dying but resisted
becoming fiends. But it seems they would be at risk for deteriorating
into fiends in the end if they are never sent, especially those
propelled by negative emotions such as the ones who died bitterly, or
stayed around for revenge. On the other hand, there is also the benign
Maechen, who is 1,000 years dead and seems to be hanging around out of
sheer forgetfulness. <br />
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“I forbid it! We bring it with us!”<br />
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Everybody is all for killing
the overalls-clad maybe-fiend, but Rikku puts her foot down. She’s
clearly the leader of the scouting party, despite being the smallest and
youngest. Possibly because she’s Cid’s daughter, but hopefully just
because she is the most skilled. <br />
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Brother is such a weirdo and I like him. His wacky personality doesn’t
really come out until X-2 but you can start to see it here as he
pantomimes swimming for Tidus. Who still ends up needing a translator.
He never takes those goggles, either.<br />
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I wonder what Brother’s name was before Rikku was born, considering he’s the <i>older</i>
brother. In X-2 everyone calls him Brother, even other Al Bhed who
were probably not introduced to him by Rikku like Yuna and Paine. The
Al Bhed must be a close-knit community, though, for them all to address
him by what is essentially a term of endearment. I also wonder what his
tattoo says but I can't quite read the letters. <br />
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You probably shouldn’t be sassing your captors there Waffles. Rikku
translates from Brother, “He says you can stay if you make yourself
useful,” which seems to imply that they were going to <i>throw him overboard</i>
if he didn’t. I mean yes, he is tired, and cold, and hungry, and used
to living the life of a celebrity and now he’s getting pushed around by a
bunch of begoggled strangers speaking gibberish and pointing knives at
him, but does Brother look like someone you want to antagonize? <br />
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No! I like Waffles just the way he is! <br />
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It’s kind of interesting that ???? Diving Gear Rikku gets her own
portrait and access to her sphere grid, considering you aren’t able to
level her up at this point in the game. <br />
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I had not seen this little cutscene since I guess the first time I
played the game because it triggers when you go near that Al Bhed primer
and I never needed to do that again when I was playing on my PS2. The
only reason I can think that they would call attention to it is because
it is the same crane they use while trying to rescue Yuna in Luca,
meaning that this is the same ship. <br />
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Here’s the name of the salvage ship, which I puzzled over until I
realized that the logo was backwards. I turned it around and now we can
read it. It says “Salvage Dream” in Al Bhed, and then, in Spiran,
“Cid”! So we’ll see if it’s the same one later. It could be that
there’s a fleet of Salvage Dreams, and Cid’s name indicates the owner.
Or maybe since he's the leader of the Al Bhed, he owns all the ships.
We’ll see.<br />
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(I love puzzles so I get way too excited over translating the language ciphers in this game haha.) <br />
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We seem to be exploring one of the later-mentioned machina cities
*fights with autocorrect to accept the word “machina”* that made up
ancient Spiran culture, since it’s too technologically advanced for
postwar Spiran culture. (Spiran history can be roughly divided into
Before Sin and After Sin, or rather before or after the great Machina War
between Bevelle and Zanarkand that resulted in the destruction of
Zanarkand and the creation of Sin 1,000 years ago.) So although the
salvage ship is near Baaj, this is not the island city that sank into
the sea, but another one nearby. Or maybe new Baaj was built on old
Baaj like the many archaeological layers of Troy. <br />
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Waffles are you even a licensed electrician? *bash bash bash* I don’t
know why Rikku is letting him lead this operation. She seems to be
doubting the wisdom of this decision as well.<br />
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<i>Who pickpockets a piranha? How do you pick the pockets of a fish? Why was it packing grenades?</i><br />
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The
great mysteries of Final Fantasy. (I also love the outraged “!” that
monsters get over their head when you steal from them.)<br />
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First glimpse of the airship, all rusty and barnacled like the <i>Titanic</i>.<br />
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*shake shake shake* Doggy Waffles is the best Waffles.<br />
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Nooo Rikku don’t feed him. He’ll just keep coming back if you do. <br />
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Apparently I took a bunch of screencaps of Tidus acting like a dog.
(Also that one is supposed to say “you really do understand!” Expert
screencapping there Minty.) He is so happy to realize that he can
communicate with someone that he starts bounding around in joy. <br />
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Yeah you’re all laughing but can YOU do that? <br />
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(Teehee.) I mean no! Of course not.<br />
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We’ll see how long he keeps <i>that</i> in mind. It’s interesting that
an Al Bhed, an outcast from Yevon, is the one concerned about Yevon
religious beliefs. Or rather, other people’s reactions to an infraction
of Yevon religious beliefs. Either she is worried about him blundering
around and offending some Yevonite’s delicate sensibilities, or, more
likely, she’s worried that the offended person might take it out on him.
Between this and her promise to get him safely to Luca, we can see
that Rikku is already getting attached to Tidus and probably also feels
responsible for him, since she was the one who rescued him.<br />
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(I
imagine that in between scenes she went and found Brother below deck and
said “Come see what I found in the ruins! Can I keep him??”)<br />
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Also
that would be weird, accidentally time traveling 1,000 years into the
future and discovering that Las Vegas or Disney World or something has
become a holy place. <br />
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Poor Waffles. It’s super embarrassing when you’re hanging out, talking to a cute girl, and your dad has to come pick you up. <br />
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"Plot's this way, son!"<br />
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This is the most depressing camping trip.<br />
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This scene is of course loaded with meaning that doesn’t become clear
until we revisit it later in the game but even at the beginning you can
intuit a lot from everyone’s mood, expressions, and this little gesture.
Everyone is worried about some unknown but oppressive thing in the
future, and when Tidus approaches Yuna and briefly, reassuringly lays
his hand on her shoulder, we know that either she is the thing everyone
is worried about, she is the one with the particular reason to be
worried, or both. (Spoiler: it’s both.) No dialogue is needed.<br />
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As my college screenwriting professor would say, “That’s <i>film language</i>!” </div>
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They’re all together but they’re all sitting apart from each other,
pensive and lost in their separate thoughts. For a moment Wakka looks
at Lulu like he wants to say something, or expects her to, but doesn’t. <br />
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I don’t actually have a lot to say about the beginning because it opens
slowly after the first big cutscene. (Not nearly as much as XIII,
though.) Of course, it probably just feels that way to Western
audiences. I took a course on international film in college and my
professor pointed out that slow pacing at the beginning of a film is a
common feature of Japanese cinema, so it could just be a stylistic
difference. It starts to pick up (for me, anyway) once we get to
Besaid. It could just be because all my favorite characters are on
Besaid. <br />
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There are some stats for everyone's favorite Duggles player with the braids going
around on this hologram thing. Not answered: what the heck is a
Duggle. <br />
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All these kids are dressed not just like Zanarkand Abes players, but
like Tidus in particular, in their goofy bezippered overalls. Aww.
Also there’s either a set of twins or some lazy character design. (Actually, probably due to disk space limitations, a lot of people around Spira have character model doppelgangers, which could explain why Yuna is so nonchalant about Shuyin happening to look just like Tidus.)<br />
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Our hero. On other playthroughs I have (lovingly) named him Doofus,
This Guy, and Bob. My cousin called him KUMQUAT!! (sic) which was way
more hilarious than it should have been.<br />
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(Between this and admitting to not yet having played FFVII I probably just lost all my FF street cred.)<br />
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Clearly not here for the blitzball. Tidus kind of just takes it in
stride that a mysterious child only he can see materialized behind him
and is talking to him. <br />
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Tidus I am going to be so sad if they don’t re-ducky-fy your doofy face
in the remake. Blandly Handsome New Tidus is just not as endearing to
me.<br />
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Chill out, little guy! <br />
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If I could have fit this in the name box, I would have. <br />
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This will have to do. (Also, one of the few NPCs to address Tidus by
name. These kids have a better memory than Yuna, apparently, who ends
up vaguely referring to him as “him” forever. Because this was the
first FF game with voice acting, it was also the last one with the
name-your-character feature, meaning that nobody with a voice could ever
address him by name, so it’s unclear if Yuna even ever KNEW his name.
But hey, these blitzball fans probably have Waffles memorabilia up in
their rooms at home, which Yuna doesn’t. Although she would if she had
the chance. At least until Lulu made her take it down.) <br />
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Foreshadowing that something bad is about to happen. Wakka expresses a
similar complaint later when Sin is near. Proximity to Sin seems to
cause general malaise as well as memory problems. Also Tidus you
probably shouldn’t stand so close to that guy. <br />
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Zanarkand Duggles vs. Zanarkand Abes. If anyone can tell me what either
of those mean, I would be very happy. Otherwise I am going to have to
assume that this is a grudge match between honest dead Presidents and
some kind of burrowing rodents.<br />
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I was too slow to screencap the next scene with any efficiency, but you’ve all seen it. Here it is from youtube:<br />
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And I have to say this is one of the most exciting opening sequences to
any game I’ve ever played. Now, I hate all sports indiscriminately, so I
was kind of like “Oh great,” the first time but then it’s like GROWLY
METAL! MYSTERIOUS COOL GUY!! GIANT SEA MONSTER WRECKING THE HECK OUT OF
EVERYTHING!!! <br />
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I think Auron probably has the best introduction
in the game. We first see him just hanging out calmly watching the
approaching monstrosity as it rises out of the sea. And he raises his
jug of nog and toasts it. Clearly he has some kind of connection to it,
but we don’t know what it is yet. Friend of his? Did he summon it? Is
he in cahoots with it? (Yes/No/Maybe.)<br />
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Then he just strolls,
purposefully and unhurried, back to the stadium while everyone else is
running around rightfully losing their heads. Also I really love the
shot of the water floating up out of the puddle as he strides through
it. I think the FMV sequences in this game STILL stand up to the
cutscenes of most modern games, and surpass some of them.<br />
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Being told not to cry by a creepy immaterial ghost child just gives me
reason to believe that there really is something worth crying about.<br />
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I
don’t think we see this little dude again until Bevelle, but it’s kind
of interesting that he starts out as Tidus’ spirit guide. He helps lead
him to the real world of Spira because he wants him to, ultimately,
destroy Yu Yevon and end the dream of the fayth, freeing them but
destroying Dream Zanarkand and himself in the process. He later says
that he believes Tidus has the power to do this because he (and Jecht)
have been touched by Sin and become more than just dreams. But Tidus
is, right now, Sin-free and presumably so was Jecht before he went out
to sea to train that day and got warped off to Spira.<br />
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I think
Bahamut’s fayth must have led Jecht to Sin as well, bringing him to
Spira, where he led him towards the same goal, but when it failed and
Jecht became Sin, he tried again with Jecht’s own son so he could
exploit the bond between them. At any rate, there seems to be a lot
more to him than is first apparent and I’ve no doubt he has some
ulterior motives.<br />
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This is an interesting turn of phrase from Auron here. It implies that
“Sin” is not its inherent name, but one given to it by the people of
Spira, probably originating with the Yevon clergy. In essence, the
monster is just a pure destructive force, like a hurricane or a volcano,
but the Church of Yevon projects the concept of sin onto it, thereby
holding the people responsible for its existence.
Spirans are taught that Sin is the embodiment of punishment for their,
well, sins, and that the only way to be rid of it is through atonement
and obedience to the teachings. (Which is, we learn later,
not true.)<br />
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There is a lot of quite sophisticated deconstruction
and criticism of organized religion in FFX. The physical/allegorical Sin
has shades of Catholicism, but we will see that Yevon has Shinto and
Buddhist influences as well.<br />
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Look at this winner. Don’t hurt yourself, Waffles.<br />
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What a pretty monster! Sinspawn are often really beautiful in a really
monstery way. I like the spiral design. (Also fits in with the spiral
motif that recurs throughout the game.)<br />
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“Are you sure? <i>This</i> is the one you want? It’s not too late to go
back and get that one Duggles player or something. She seemed to have
it together.”<br />
“Yeah, I’m sure. Send him on up.”<br />
“All right, here he comes. Try not to screw this up, Jecht.”<br />
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The Zanarkand Abes logo is means to incorporate Jecht and
Tidus’ initials, and you can see it here. Who knows what their logo was
<i>before</i> those two became star players, though. (Probably an Abe,
whatever that is.) We see this stadium inside Sin with the flaming Abes
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<a href="http://mintywolfplaysffx.blogspot.com/2014/01/part-2-seagull-ive-feeling-were-not-in.html" target="_blank">Next time</a>: Waffles makes a bad impression on everyone he meets at Baaj Temple (including a passing seagull).<br />
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