Musings about Auron

[auronlu]

This is yet another long post, several observations and thoughts about Auron. So lemme snippy it.

Spoilers, obviously, but why would you be here if you didn't know all about him?

Comments

[muggy_mountain]

My idea on his unsent status is similar, in that I believe a sort of inner spiritual energy keeps him around, good and "himself". It is a struggle, but he essentially is able to remain the man he has always been, thus the aging and curative spells. I, like you, have an idea that it is difficult to keep himself together and that he must force it through sheer will, though not precisely in the same way as you propose. Yunalesca, however, is feeding the cycle and, I believe, draws power from the cycle. She only *appears* to be her former self, as you learn when you fight her.

Also, unlike many unsent, Auron simply wants to remain himself --the same self that made promises to Jecht and Braska. He doesn't manipulate his unsent status like Yunalesca and Seymour do. This fact speaks volumes about the man.

I believe Yunalesca killed him and I too believe he has more scars than we can see in the game. Just a nitpick: there's no Agency in the Ronso village --it is probably the Lake Macalania one you are thinking of, both snowy places. So the best guess is it would be the Calm Lands where he stopped.

Auron is my favorite character in the game, (as if that wasn't obvious!) his character being appealing and complex. However, sometimes it seems his character is also full of plot-flaws and must be smoothed out with too many fan-explanations. Oddly, this can add to a character's appeal for fanfic-writers, can't it?

[ayleid]

There is an Agency in the Calm Lands. ._. It never really specified where he was when Rin found him, but it's safe to say that Rin was at his hut for Auron to stay the night.

I don't think he has any other scarring. Rin specifically said; Head injury. "I was surprised to see you gone the next morning with that wound. An oridinary man wouldn't have been able to walk."

He said "wound" not "wounds". If there had been two, he surely would have made note of them. Yunalesca only struck him once. Right in front of his face.

I find that... most Auro fans like to fantasize about other scars. That's why Jecht is so popular. He's scarred, wild, and rough. Auron lacks those "fangirlish-loved" qualities. Which is why it's so speculated. I would love for him to have more scars, but I would also love to simply be wrong and accept the truth.

[muggy_mountain]

Yeah, I assumed the Calm Lands. As for his wound, I imagined it as a long continuous thing, from one hit from Yunalesca, though it's nothing I've explored in my fanfic yet. I suppose the only reason I assumed this is because the scar on his face didn't look fatal, it looked almost cosmetic. I assumed there was probably an ugly-mess elsewhere. I can see it either way, though, being as head-wounds are among the most likely to be seriously traumatic.