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Give me a character/canon and I will ramble about them
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blep?
rar🍲
belated but tell me your yuna thoughts
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oh gosh
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so the thing is that Yuna is stubborn af
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like it's a bit of a narrative bait-and-switch because Tidus doesn't know the key shit about her when he meets her
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so she's like, the demure nice girl-next-door healer chick
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and it's only when he finally gets the truth bomb dropped on him that he learns: the submissive healer chick is a myth. healers are dommes
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(I am thinking about fiction & also real MMO dudes who want a pocket healer girl who will do what they say and do sexy RP or whatever)
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(and also how every healer main I know says "I want to decide who lives and who dies")
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anyway Yuna is lowkey about it and very sweet and gentle but also: she is on this trip against the advice/pleading/possibly attempted physical force of everyone who loves her
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it's not "group of friends/family saves the world", it's "Yuna insists on saving the world, friends/family decide to have as much time with her as possible"
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anyway.
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Auron isn't wrong when he describes her as "naive, serious to a fault, and doesn't ask for help," but he's also very much seeing/describing her as a mirror of his own younger self
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- not Braska; Braska was none of those things at least in comparison to Auron himself
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but she does, also, have a sense of humor - remember going up to Kilika Temple, when she volunteers to start the race and takes off early herself?
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but she takes her calling incredibly seriously - as one might expect of a calling that will kill her, and she knows this and chose it anyway
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the whole story theme is that if she's not stopped she will burn herself out to save the world in any way she can
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including agreeing to marry Seymour as a negotiating tactic
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...I'm still not sure why she thought "I'll let you fuck marry me, if you turn yourself in for patricide, a crime traditionally punished most highly of all," would work
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naive
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but like, Spira naive. she's much less naive than Tidus.
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anyway umm
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I actually don't mind her characterization in X-2, because I think she like the world is trying to find a new state of being
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and she's still very much pressured by What Would Make People In General Happiest
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Sin is dead, so she should be happy! and relaxed! and having fun! and definitely not mourning her boyfriend ha ha what are you talking about everything is Fine now
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it's been two whole years
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but you know - actually, I think she resonates a little with. people who've been seriously depressed/abused/suicidal throughout their adolescence.
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and say, "I never expected to make it to 18/20/30; I have no plan for this"
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she was 17 and (considered herself) mentally and emotionally prepared to die...and then she didn't
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and now she's 19 and ??? what do
rar🍲
OH EATS THESE THOUGHTS UP!!!! our sleep schedules are almost exactly opposite of each other but these thoughts are all so good....
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very much love the "yuna insists on saving the world, her friends/family go along to spend more time with her" because it's very true obviously but also a very very good way to word it it i think
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also "X-2 is good becasue yuna's just trying to figure out what hte fuck she's doing" is also very good take (i know nothing about X-2 except superficially tho lol)
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X-2 is interesting
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in part because the "good" ending is in conflict w/the story's overarching theme
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like it's about moving on from grief and the traumatic past and creating a new day
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and then in the "good" ending Yuna's dead boyfriend gets magically resurrected
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good/perfect
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but the first time I played I got the "bad" ending and it seemed...like it should be the ending of this story
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I mean, I also 100% get the desire to bring Tidus back; I always thought he was going to come back after the end of X because, like with the Velveteen Rabbit, "real is a thing that happens to you"
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which is why my Tidus/Yuna tag on tumblr is "#velveteen boyfriend"
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oohhhh that's an incredibly smart tag
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but also nods nods... sometimes it's just about moving on from grief and thats enough
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Omg these Yuna thoughts are so good
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THIS IS GOOD CONTENT, ANOTHER
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GIVE ME A CHARACTER OR CANON THEN
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fine give me your big tear emotions. let's keep the theme of "healer girls who aren't actually the typical healer trope"
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hmm
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the trouble is I've read Bladework way more recently and with way more attention to detail than, uh, canon, which I played once several many years ago
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but what I've got going on with Tear is the contrast between the way she presents herself/is initially presented by the narrative, and the fact that she is MAXIMUM SIXTEEN YEARS OLD, THAT IS A FUCKING INFANT
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WHO LET HER OUT OF THE - oh right her home is a cult, fuck
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YOU'RE DOING AMAZING SWEETIE
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like, her issues w the Score can read as lukewarm (hah) compared to the people going "fuck the Score as a concept", but like...she's deprogramming herself from an Extreme Learned Helplessness cult
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the fact that she's arrived at Moderate Learned Helplessness cult is...not her fault
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there's no group, no structure available to support her that isn't some kind of Learned Helplessness cult
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(because the Learned Helplessness cult blew them all up)
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like, she got herself, on her own, from "nothing we do matters" to "maybe some things we do matter? so I should kill my brother"
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cannot overstate how difficult it is to extract yourself from a cult, particularly a cult whose beliefs are mainstream/mainstream-compatible
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like Mormons, if evangelical Christians ran the entire government
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(they would like to, but they don't)
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(the existence of religious freedom, as in "you cannot be arrested for being non-Christian, they have to pretend there's another reason," for one thing)
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like. heretics can very much be killed on Auldrant
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that is literally Asch's job
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and Tear was raised in the place that those people think of as a weird extremist cult
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she is doing! her best! she is sixteen and was never taught to questions!
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and besides that, she knows only a little more about the world outside Yulia and Daath than Luke - she's better-read, and because she's not a rich noble she has learned about things like "buying"
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and she has a very put-together Adult attitude...that is very much put on to cover the fact that oh sweet lorelei everything is so much
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because she has to perform adulthood to be taken seriously, and has to be taken seriously to live in the world
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anyway I want to replay Abyss with Bladework thoughts in my head but the one I want to look at most is Tear
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who is just Kind Of There in my memories
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when I assumed she was 18-22 age range
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but she's not
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she is baby
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also I deeply respect and think that some material does not acknowledge that the first moment we see her she is attempting fratricide
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I mean, mood, I'm sure my sister would take me trying to destroy the world as a wonderful excuse to take me out which is why I won't tell her
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but also: holy shit she has no one in her life
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the only window to anti-Score thought she's had was Van "destroy the planet in order to save it" Grants
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not a great recommendation
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