[ SECRET POST #4060 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4060 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Altered Carbon]


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03.
[Celeste]


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[Travelers, Philip and Trevor]


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05.
[Cassandra Clare (formerly Cassie Claire)]


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06.
[French pair skaters Vanessa James and Morgan Ciprés]


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[Final Fantasy X -Will-]











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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

NA

Yep.

Plus "Will" is fucking terrible and nobody should ever listen to it. And the fact that it has Yuna go back to her summoner appearance and praying is one of the major reasons for that.

Praying for Spira's future. Yuna. She fucking killed God.

The whole story of FFX is about how the Yevon church was hypocritical and evil as shit and their god was also evil as shit. Yuna would never return to praying, ever, because the whole religion she was raised in was a huge lie from top to bottom.

And the designs for Will are just lazy, too. Yuna, but with longer hair! Tidus, but wearing Jecht's headband! Pathetic.

[(Anonymous)]

SA

Yuna wasn't forced to become a summoner, but she was deceived by the church and the role of a summoner, as defined in Yevon's teachings, was ultimately unnecessary - and if the Yevonites hadn't been so focused on the cycle of sacrifice, they'd have discovered this much earlier. (Jecht couldn't possibly be the only person in the world who had a connection to something that could have been used to distract or pacify their Sin; the process of systematically destroying Yu Yevon's potential hosts could have been done by many parties strong enough to get to Zanarkand and receive the Final Aeon.)

"Summoner Yuna" isn't who Yuna really is, because she explicitly rejects that role at the end of the first game! There's a difference between saying that Yuna freely made the choice to become a summoner and saying that being a summoner is the Most Yuna She Ever Was. Being a summoner isn't just about being willing to sacrifice oneself to try to defeat Sin; the Crusaders and the Al Bhed working on Operation Mi'ihen had that too. Being a summoner is inherently a religious role, and that's the aspect that makes it impossible to say that being a summoner was Yuna at her most self-realised.

[(Anonymous)]

DA but she absolutely was forced. Not physically, but it was definitely expected she follow in her father's footsteps. And if you don't think that factored in to her life and "choice" to be a Summoner, then you're incredibly naive.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

I'm not willing to say "forced" point blank, because I think it gives the wrong impression. She was also surrounded by people close to her who desperately wanted her not to become a summoner and who attempted to convince her not to do it (before accepting her decision and supporting her through it once they realised she wouldn't change her mind). There were expectations that, having become a summoner, she would go on to become High Summoner like her father, but I'm not sure it was expected that she would become a summoner in the first place, because the way Lulu and Wakka talk about it makes it sound like they were blindsided by her decision, which they wouldn't have been if it was something everyone was talking about.

And even if we assume that that was indeed the case, I still think that "factored into her life and decisions" is not the same as "she was unambiguously forced". She was lied to and manipulated, but so was every single other citizen of Spira.

I think describing it as "she was forced" takes away from the reveals during the story. If it was something that she hadn't wholeheartedly wanted to do and believed in, it wouldn't hurt so much that it all turned out to be a lie. If it was only something she was forced or brainwashed into, the strength she showed when she continued on with her mission despite being excommunicated by Yevon stops being a positive aspect of her character and becomes tragic and a sign of manipulation. I think it massively detracts from Yuna's character arc to say that she was just forced to be a summoner.