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fandomweekly2016-05-16 03:46 pm
[#013] Chasing Daylight (Final Fantasy X & X-2)
Title: Chasing Daylight
Fandom: Final Fantasy X | X-2
Rating: PG
Warnings: angst
Bonus: Yes
Word Count: 926
Summary: Spurned by his ex-lover once again, Tidus returns to Besaid and mulls over Sin's return. What could it mean? He didn't know; he spends the whole night worrying about what he can't change, before realizing what he can do. Takes place during the events of audio drama –Will–. Hints of Tidus/Yuna.
“–Sin came back, right? What’s to stop anything else from coming back?”
Lulu’s words echo in his head over and over, making it impossible for him to fall sleep.
Tidus tosses and turns on his makeshift pile of quilts and blankets, until he finally gives up, staring up at the ceiling.
‘It feels like I’m right back where I started… Back in Besaid, where Sin prowls the sea again, and the world feels so unreal… ‘cept this time, Yuna’s not here for me to tag along. I wonder what she’s doing right now…’ His thoughts race inside a cobweb of his own making where his anxiety hovers as the bloodthirsty, patient spider torturing its next meal. He scowls, frustrated at himself and this feeling of utter helplessness. ‘What am I doing here? I should be with her right now.’
Why did he leave her back there in Bevelle, the first place Sin decided to spook upon its return?
Tidus went to the beach that day, wanting to put in some extra morning practice to make up for his decline in performance lately – it’s happening again, just like those first couple of months he came back from limbo, playing blitzball with the Besaid Aurochs only to discover that they had surpassed him where he failed to keep up, and that had been a year ago, around this same time – and when he resurfaced to call it a day halfway through, that’s when he saw it.
It appeared out of nowhere, like a hideous growth you woke up to one day. Except this one moved at a colossal pace, hovering in the air to eclipse the sun, gathering energy from the mass collection of pyre flies that surrounded it. Flashbacks of Operation Mi’ihen blasted into mind, of corpses littering the beach, of Yuna dancing, Sin unleashing a gigantic shock wave of pure white destruction. Insidious colors seared his eyes, blinding him– this is it, I’m going to die– but then he heard a horrific screeching sound, like that of two opposing forces colliding, wrenching him out of the memory and into reality.
Sin’s psychic blast bounced off of Bevelle’s magical barrier, stunning the monstrous whale for only a moment. Sending wave after wave of cataclysmic energy in its howling rage, Sin could not breach it. The shimmering wall crackled and rippled, but did not shatter, and Sin eventually turned to swim back into the ocean. Its terrifying calm departure foreshadowed the promise of its return, for someone had beckoned it, and who alive would want that nightmare back?
For whatever reason this wall managed to stand, perhaps better fortified to last longer since Sin’s previous tyranny, the people were granted divine reprieve in the pandemonium that followed. Now that the danger passed, Tidus found his feet moving, but he didn’t know where he wanted to go, just somewhere far away from the water as possible, torn between counting his blessings and cursing his own damn luck.
He used to consider himself lucky – the man he used to hate disappeared on him like a dream come true; the sport he used to be terrible at became his breakthrough in stardom; all the times Tidus stood in front of Sin, he managed to survive death and toxin while so many others had fallen. But now he wonders if that had been the Fayth’s doing all along. Because Yuna found him, without warning or communication. They hadn’t spoken in weeks, if not maybe months, but she found him, just like that.
And then she reopened the wound, reminding him why he left Besaid for Bevelle in the first place. Expressing her jealousy towards a new friend he made, a woman named Marphi who shared his love for blitzball, serving as the new manager for the Besaid Aurochs– Tidus couldn’t understand her, not when Yuna had been the one to push him away and call an end to their relationship. ‘What’s she thinking? I thought she didn't want me anymore, so why's she acting like she can't live without me?’
And he left, too confused and hurt to stay, accompanied by Chuami, a member of the Spiran Council (from church to faction to government, they still reek of Yevon) and apparently God's messenger who acted as the bridge to reunite them. He sought counsel with the only other person he hoped would know Yuna best. Cryptic as ever, Lulu sowed more seeds of doubt than he ever dared to imagine, and no matter who he talks to, they all seem to criticize him: You're indecisive. Leave Yuna alone. The world’s at stake; relationship problems are the least of your worries.
Yeah, sure, the world’s in danger, but it’s always in danger. That’s nothing new. The fate of the world is nothing to laugh at, of course, but– Yuna is his world. She brought him back, She wanted to be with him, if even for that single moment she felt inspired. Even though he can never hope to understand half the things she says or does sometimes, he’ll fight to the ends of Spira if he had to. Just like she did for him once.
Where Lulu displayed the initiative to depart for Yuna’s well-being, Tidus faltered. But now he makes up his mind. He leaves at first daylight with Lulu and Chuami in tow, watching the horizon paint the sky in everlasting blue as the sun rises.
“I made a promise—that we’d always be together.”
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4gZlHBGxA4