I'm not sure if Dream-Zanarkand has any solid reality. It may be solidly real like the world inside of Sin, which is evidently composed of the dreams of Yu Yevon, the fayth/host, and, perhaps, fiends/dead/pyreflies that Sin had absorbed. I get the impression from the lengthy end-sequence that it was somehow inside that pillar of pyrefly-water right next to the Fayth wall. When they drain out of their statues, it loses cohesiveness and falls apart, and the bubbles are all faces of dream-Zanarkand inhabitants.
I know in the Ultimania guide that it went into some depth about the pyreflies being in the water, causing it to cohere into spheres that could hold memories and dreams. (In fact, they even cause the sphere pool to stick together, and are providing the oxygen blitzers breathe. Ah, meta).
Back to Auron: I think you're right. He wasn't planning to bring Tidus to Spira, he said, but Jecht asked him to, and Auron then had the sense that somehow, Jecht and Tidus were going to make a difference. Older Auron seems extremely adept at improvising, a more mature version of the impulsiveness/brashness of his younger self. ("You act first and think later!" Tidus complains at one point). So he'll jump across a bridge. He'll charge a maester. He's hoping that when they get to Zanarkand, they'll find something.
It's still a heck of a gamble. He couldn't talk Braska out of it-- how can he be sure Tidus will talk Yuna?
And I'm quite sure that older Auron has decided that saving Spira is a secondary priority to saving a friend. Not that he doesn't care: he still loves Spira; he's homesick. But I think his promises to Jecht and Braska were driving him far more.
Yet I think you're right; during Braska's pilgrimage, he was still bent on saving Spira. He couldn't have become Sin then; it would be a betrayal of everything he had been striving for, as opposed to a desperate measure to shoulder a friend's burden.
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Date: 2010-08-20 09:55 am (UTC)I know in the Ultimania guide that it went into some depth about the pyreflies being in the water, causing it to cohere into spheres that could hold memories and dreams. (In fact, they even cause the sphere pool to stick together, and are providing the oxygen blitzers breathe. Ah, meta).
Back to Auron: I think you're right. He wasn't planning to bring Tidus to Spira, he said, but Jecht asked him to, and Auron then had the sense that somehow, Jecht and Tidus were going to make a difference. Older Auron seems extremely adept at improvising, a more mature version of the impulsiveness/brashness of his younger self. ("You act first and think later!" Tidus complains at one point). So he'll jump across a bridge. He'll charge a maester. He's hoping that when they get to Zanarkand, they'll find something.
It's still a heck of a gamble. He couldn't talk Braska out of it-- how can he be sure Tidus will talk Yuna?
And I'm quite sure that older Auron has decided that saving Spira is a secondary priority to saving a friend. Not that he doesn't care: he still loves Spira; he's homesick. But I think his promises to Jecht and Braska were driving him far more.
Yet I think you're right; during Braska's pilgrimage, he was still bent on saving Spira. He couldn't have become Sin then; it would be a betrayal of everything he had been striving for, as opposed to a desperate measure to shoulder a friend's burden.