FFX

[mllelaurel]

Sooo... I've finally finished playing Final Fantasy X last night. No coherent meta yet, just a couple of thoughts.

- Auron makes my pants happy. OMFG, Auron!
- I actually, actively ship Tidus and Yuna. For those of you who know me, that's rare. I almost never ship het. Which is not to say I'm opposed, but with most het ships, what I feel ranges from indifference to mild affection. My heart does not get involved. But... Tidus and Yuna talk, they make each other laugh, they're just... good together, dammit! I can't even explain it. I just love those two. Part of it is also that their relationship is wonderfully understated rather than shoved in my face. It does this Cold Prickly good.
- From a narrative perspective, the ending was perfectly, wonderfully bittersweet. From an immersive perspective, it managed to rip my fucking heart out. In a good way. And I'm kind of pissed that, in FFX-II, Yuna only gets Tidus back if you get 100% completion. Because that wasn't the main motivator or anything? Argh! Yet another reason I'm not playing FFX-II.

Auron's ending also made me tear up, but that was a cleaner and happier sort of sad. He's accomplished everything he set out to do ten years ago: looked after the kids, freed Jecht from being Sin, took down a major religion! And now he gets to finally move on. He's good.

Comments

[trialia]

Meh, you should play X-2. It's actually really good, and even when you get 100% you won't necessarily have completed every little detail (it's possible to get 100% without completing the Via Infinito, which is a bitch of a dungeon).

[nevacaruso.livejournal.com]

*shields eyes from spoilers*

Auron, we can has?

[nyren.livejournal.com]

The ending to FFX was great. I loved it. However, I disliked the implications they were trying to make with the brief scene post-ending. I hated that they tried to retcon it with FFX-II, attempting to undo the awesomeness they had created.

[trialia]

Oh hon, I'm gay and Auron's arms even made me drool a little bit, lol.

[nevacaruso.livejournal.com]

Oh, he's one of those, huh? ^_^

I have a weakness for certain types (very similar to mllelaurel's, actually) and just hearing Auron's character described gives me a happy.