| Wright said: I've always felt it creates a terrible conflict within the world's rules in itself. Aside from gameplay segregation (i.e. Auron dying and getting a game over, but these are game mechanics and thus should be looked at differently), I've never understood why should anyone fear death, nor why sending is that important. You're bound to be an unsent because you have unfinished business, and as long as you don't envy the living, you don't really become a fiend. Seymour basically learn this and keeps going over and over because he can't truly be killed unless forcibly sent, but it also highlights the fact that there's nothing stopping you from coming back from the Farplane - Seymour didn't even envy the living, being an unsent gave him a new outlook about life entirely. Then there's Auron. Auron is an unsent because, well, he felt cheated by Yu Yevon and everything else, so he had to come back and make sure things stood right a second time. Why the hell does he age? How does Yuna can't felt an unsent presence so close to her? How come he didn't lose sanity? At what point do you actually have the willpower to come back from death and keep living your life? And if you can do this, why wouldn't some of the deceased do it as well? Auron is basically the prime example of posing the question why should anyone fear death in Spira? since he can basically camouflage himself as a living person and just happily stand with a bunch of guardians going on an adventure. It's explicitly stated (unless he's a damn great actor) that he feels emotions while being unsent (joking with Yuna at the temples or being extremely angry at Seymour), so there's literally zero downsides of his status. The only plausible thing I could think of is going insane and thus becoming a fiend - but since he's pretty much the same as a living person, any sane living person could go insane, get killed and come back as a powerful fiend, so the line that separates both is actually very, very thin. There's people that die in peace, such as Tidus' mother. But not every person can die in peace, and not necessarily every one of these have to die envying the living. Especially when what's there to envy the living of, since you're pretty much a living person being unsent? Auron makes death/unsent rules in Spira look like a joke. EDIT: I forgot to mention, Seymour's father despite being sent has the massive willpower to push himself out of the freaking Farplane to warn Yuna about Seymour. Seriously, nothing ever stays dead in this world, and has no reason to. |
I see where you are coming from. The idea of death means little when there are so many ways to preserve it in Spira, whether by being unsent, a summon dream or in the case of X-2, just being bought back for no reason. Most of those unsent had willpower to remain for various reasons, Seymore trying to seek more power, Mika because he belived Spira needed him (once Yunalesca was killed he basically gave up and disappeared). Auron even had enough will power to resist being sent when near Yuna doing a sending once.
I guess the idea behind it is that normally if you die and aren't strong enough you give in to the idea of wanting life and become a fiend but if you are strong enough you are able to remain yourself with your own willpower.
I getcha though.
Hmm, pie.
