[ SECRET POST #4060 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4060 ⌋

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

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02.
[Altered Carbon]


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03.
[Celeste]


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04.
[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)]

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.