[ Tidus can take a hint. He brings the arm around Madoka to be more snug, or brings himself in closer to get snug to her. It's time for a story - a story that isn't really his, even with his part in the ending. ]
Yeah, in the end. But it went on for a thousand years - a long time where no one knew where it came, or why. [ Well - not entirely. ] It was at the end of this big war, between people with magic and machines. It was the biggest one ever with machines, the first - and they were more powerful than the other side. The other side was going to lose.
So they summoned a monster. [ No- ] It wasn't why they summoned it, but to everyone else, that's what happened. From the magic side, a large fiend appeared, and it came and took out all the machine cities, bringing them to the ground.
A whole religion got built around trying to find an answer to deal with it. 'Sin came because of the machines. The only way to get rid of Sin is to stop using them, and repent.'
[ Repent, it was always about repenting. For sins they had nothing to do with; for sins that weren't even real. ]
They figured out a way to get rid of it for a while. People would go - people called summoners - and give everything they had to take it down. [ ... ] But it wouldn't last. They'd get a year without it, and then it came back. But they kept going for the chance it wouldn't. To keep everyone safe.
[ ...it's not the most uplifting story, is it. Not really a sad note he wants to stay on. There's hope in there, in a multiple of places. ]
The people...even when everything was hard, they held on. They helped each other, worked together - they lived how they could to keep going. Sin would go around and make it so they couldn't live in big towns, but they kept on going, you know? They did everything they thought would work.
[ As for him... ]
I didn't live the same life everyone else did - I didn't know about Sin. But I learned about it sometime before I showed up here. I ended up journeying with a summoner, Yuna - she was ready to give her life to take down Sin. Just for a while...
[ There's a softened note to his voice, a tone that had already softened up with the tale; trailing at the end, at the pang of what could have been.
The tale of a planet suffering in false hope. Except- ]
But we found out the truth: that what summoners were doing wouldn't get rid of Sin forever. They believed it - that one day, it'd be gone for good. The people in charge knew, and the second we decided, no more, and put a stop to the trials that sent summoners off to die? They ran, scared!
[ Here his voices becomes impassioned, low - a contempt, a disgust. ]
They didn't believe in another way. But we believed in it, and we tried - we found out the truth and went to the source of the problem, inside Sin. The guy who summoned Sin all those years ago, still in there, summoning it over and over.
We took him out - we stopped him so he couldn't summon anymore. And then - finally, [ finally, ] it stopped.
Sin was gone. That whole tradition propping it up, propping up all the lies... it was gone. After everything - the people were free.
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Yeah, in the end. But it went on for a thousand years - a long time where no one knew where it came, or why. [ Well - not entirely. ] It was at the end of this big war, between people with magic and machines. It was the biggest one ever with machines, the first - and they were more powerful than the other side. The other side was going to lose.
So they summoned a monster. [ No- ] It wasn't why they summoned it, but to everyone else, that's what happened. From the magic side, a large fiend appeared, and it came and took out all the machine cities, bringing them to the ground.
A whole religion got built around trying to find an answer to deal with it. 'Sin came because of the machines. The only way to get rid of Sin is to stop using them, and repent.'
[ Repent, it was always about repenting. For sins they had nothing to do with; for sins that weren't even real. ]
They figured out a way to get rid of it for a while. People would go - people called summoners - and give everything they had to take it down. [ ... ] But it wouldn't last. They'd get a year without it, and then it came back. But they kept going for the chance it wouldn't. To keep everyone safe.
[ ...it's not the most uplifting story, is it. Not really a sad note he wants to stay on. There's hope in there, in a multiple of places. ]
The people...even when everything was hard, they held on. They helped each other, worked together - they lived how they could to keep going. Sin would go around and make it so they couldn't live in big towns, but they kept on going, you know? They did everything they thought would work.
[ As for him... ]
I didn't live the same life everyone else did - I didn't know about Sin. But I learned about it sometime before I showed up here. I ended up journeying with a summoner, Yuna - she was ready to give her life to take down Sin. Just for a while...
[ There's a softened note to his voice, a tone that had already softened up with the tale; trailing at the end, at the pang of what could have been.
The tale of a planet suffering in false hope. Except- ]
But we found out the truth: that what summoners were doing wouldn't get rid of Sin forever. They believed it - that one day, it'd be gone for good. The people in charge knew, and the second we decided, no more, and put a stop to the trials that sent summoners off to die? They ran, scared!
[ Here his voices becomes impassioned, low - a contempt, a disgust. ]
They didn't believe in another way. But we believed in it, and we tried - we found out the truth and went to the source of the problem, inside Sin. The guy who summoned Sin all those years ago, still in there, summoning it over and over.
We took him out - we stopped him so he couldn't summon anymore. And then - finally, [ finally, ] it stopped.
Sin was gone. That whole tradition propping it up, propping up all the lies... it was gone. After everything - the people were free.