[Auron goes completely silent, his single eye wide with what can only be described as wonder at how a thing of sadness is transformed into something so beautiful.
He takes one deep breath and exhales, relaxing and letting that sadness ebb away. He gives Regis' hand one more pat on his shoulder before letting go.]
Yeah. I'd like that.
[He starts talking. Slow at first but then filling in more details as he keeps going.
Braska started their pilgrimage by deciding to become a summoner. It took a particular kind of strength to take the path, knowing that success meant your demise. His desire to have a chance to end Sin was even greater than parenting 7 year old Yuna. However, having married someone out of the Church, an al Bhed, he was shunned from a lot of contacts who would be his Guardians.
So he found out about Auron, who had been in some disgrace after refusing a position of power that he felt he hadn't earned and a political marriage that hadn't been welcome. There was kinship there and respect that formed from the start.
And then there was Jecht. Brash, rude, drunk a lot, supposedly from the ruined city of Zanarkand. Except he had so many stories that you began to wonder if he was, in fact, telling the truth. He had a lot of demons that he'd never faced in his life that came to the forefront of their journey.
Perhaps that's why, these three separate men, lonely in their own ways, bonded so closely as they took the long road on their pilgrimage, one step at a time. And perhaps that's also why when they got to the end of the journey, when Sin was fought defeated and Auron discovered that there wasn't a way at the time to truly defeat Sin that he reacted so violently to the truth.
Perhaps it's also why, as he keeps talking, that he'd managed enough strength to make sure Yuna had someone to look after her and take her to safety. Why he could not let their deaths be in vain and for Jecht's son to not have anyone to look after. Why he used the loophole unique to Spira and died...but stayed.]
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He takes one deep breath and exhales, relaxing and letting that sadness ebb away. He gives Regis' hand one more pat on his shoulder before letting go.]
Yeah. I'd like that.
[He starts talking. Slow at first but then filling in more details as he keeps going.
Braska started their pilgrimage by deciding to become a summoner. It took a particular kind of strength to take the path, knowing that success meant your demise. His desire to have a chance to end Sin was even greater than parenting 7 year old Yuna. However, having married someone out of the Church, an al Bhed, he was shunned from a lot of contacts who would be his Guardians.
So he found out about Auron, who had been in some disgrace after refusing a position of power that he felt he hadn't earned and a political marriage that hadn't been welcome. There was kinship there and respect that formed from the start.
And then there was Jecht. Brash, rude, drunk a lot, supposedly from the ruined city of Zanarkand. Except he had so many stories that you began to wonder if he was, in fact, telling the truth. He had a lot of demons that he'd never faced in his life that came to the forefront of their journey.
Perhaps that's why, these three separate men, lonely in their own ways, bonded so closely as they took the long road on their pilgrimage, one step at a time. And perhaps that's also why when they got to the end of the journey, when Sin was fought defeated and Auron discovered that there wasn't a way at the time to truly defeat Sin that he reacted so violently to the truth.
Perhaps it's also why, as he keeps talking, that he'd managed enough strength to make sure Yuna had someone to look after her and take her to safety. Why he could not let their deaths be in vain and for Jecht's son to not have anyone to look after. Why he used the loophole unique to Spira and died...but stayed.]