| The_Liquid_Laser said: Surprise! Your party member is really a ghost. AND Surprise! Your party member is really a dream.
They are pretty similar. Your party member is fake somehow. Then they fade out. |
The implications are different, however. Auron was dead all along, but under the Death rules of Spira, he could come back to finish what he couldn't end before. He's not unlike Seymour, who dies several times throughout the game, or certain other characters that come briefly from Death before vanishing. He doesn't enter the Farplane because it would show (or he would be trapped due to) that he's dead. Tidus on the other hand can freely enter the Farplane because he isn't dead - he's merely not real.
The fact that they both vanish at the end is for two different reasons: Auron is an unsent - a deceased person, and therefore travels to the Farplane. Tidus is the recreation of a dream from the Fayth, who are also unsents, and because they aren't dreaming anymore, Tidus ceases to exist. There's a small moment of reunion between him and his father, surrounded by both Braska and Auron, but this still means Tidus will vanish entirely. Then there's the final sequence, with Tidus waking up elsewhere.
I get where you're coming from, since it's a similar effect used for both characters, but the meaning behind both characters vanishing are different. That being said, I've always said Auron being an unsent causes terrible issues to the plot, but I try not to think too much about it.
