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Title: A Song Played On Muted Strings, Part 2. Key
Setting: Besaid, AU
Fandom: FFX
Characters: Auron/Lulu
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: AU. ANGST. Sap.
Summary: Written for a challenge at aulu: have Auron make the first move. AU. Auron never went back to challenge Yunalesca, now he's a pensive retiree on Besaid ( Read more... )
Setting: Besaid, AU
Fandom: FFX
Characters: Auron/Lulu
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: AU. ANGST. Sap.
Summary: Written for a challenge at aulu: have Auron make the first move. AU. Auron never went back to challenge Yunalesca, now he's a pensive retiree on Besaid ( Read more... )
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Auron is bordering on being too hopeless/helpless, I think, but perhaps, if he had failed to honor his promise to Jecht, that guilt on top of all the rest would crush him. This feels like an Auron who is a little closer to the desperation, frustration, and passiveness of the one we see in the flashbacks; he hasn't grown as much ( ... )
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He is a good man, but he doesn't always have the best way with people. That's probably a more accurate portrayal than what I've been doing.
In the game, he's not exactly reassuring, but he is good at little snatches of cool, detached wisdom. So I love the way you write your Auron, so witty and keen with Lulu, and think it is completely him. But it's an Auron who's been through different things than this one. I think Auron learned a lot in dream Zanarkand in the ways of dealing with people, and the pre-dream Zanarkand/AU Auron is a lot more fumbling that way.
The eerie image of the river coming out of nowhere is strange -- I can't decide whether I want some clear hint that this is Auron's own memories of the aftermath of the Final Summoning, or whether it's fine to leave it ambiguously metaphorical, so that it's just vague poetic images evoking the emotion of the moment, without need for logical reason.Aah, that's why I wished for another set of italics. I ( ... )
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