Final Fantasy X (2001 Video Game)

Matt McKenzie: Auron

Quotes 

• Auron : [as Lady Yunalesca prepares to battle them]  Now! This is it! Now is the time to choose! Die and be free of pain or live and fight your sorrow! Now is the time to shape your stories! Your fate is in your hands!

  Kimahri : Yuna needs Kimahri. Kimahri protect Yuna.

  Rikku : Well, I'm fighting!

  Wakka : I can't believe we're gonna fight Lady Yunalesca! Gimme a break!

  Lulu : You can always run.

  Wakka : Hah! I'd never forgive myself-no way! Not if I ran away now. Even in death, ya!

  Lulu : Hm. My thoughts exactly.

  Tidus : Yuna! This is our story! Now let's see this thing through together.

• Yuna : But... what of Sin? I am a summoner, my lord, like my father before me! I am on a pilgrimage to stop the death that Sin brings. Are you... Are you telling me that, too, is futile? Grand Maester Mika, I am not alone! All the people who have opposed Sin... their battles, their sacrifices - were they all in vain?

  Maester Mika : Not in vain. No matter how many summoners give their lives, Sin cannot be truly defeated. The rebirth cannot be stopped. Yet the courage of those who fight gives the people hope. There is nothing futile in the life and death of a summoner.

  Auron : Never futile... but neverending.

  Maester Mika : Indeed, that is the essence of Yevon.

  Yuna : [in disbelief]  Lord Mika!

  Maester Mika : Yevon is embodied by eternal, unchanging continuity, summoner.

  Yuna : No... that can't be right!

  Maester Mika : Those who question these truths - they are traitors!

  Yuna : Lord Mika!

• Auron : [responding to Tidus' query about Jecht]  It depends on what you mean by "alive". He is... no longer human. But then, I could feel something of Jecht there in that shell, didn't you? You must have felt him when you came into contact with Sin.

  Tidus : [realizing what Auron is saying]  It can't be...

  Auron : It is. Sin is Jecht.

  [beat] 

  Tidus : [unable to believe it]  No! That's ridiculous! No way! I don't believe you!

  Auron : [unfazed]  But it *is* the truth. You'll see for yourself. Come with me.

  Tidus : And if I say no?

  Auron : Every story must have an ending.

  Tidus : [irritated]  I don't care about your stories!

  Auron : I see. Sorry you feel that way. Fine, then. Come or don't come. It's your decision.

  Tidus : [yells in frustration]  What am I supposed to say? You tell me it's *my* decision! But I don't have a choice, do I? *You're* the only one who can tell me what's going on here, anyways! I have to go with you! I *have* to!

  Auron : Irritating, I know. Or are you afraid?

• Auron : [to Sin]  You are sure?...

  Auron : [to Tidus]  This is it. This is your story. It all begins here.

• Tidus : Don't break any bones, old man!

  Auron : Hmph...

• Maester Seymour Guado : [appearing in front of Tidus and Rikku]  Ah, the son of Jecht.

  Tidus : Rikku, run ahead and tell Auron!

  Rikku : You are not fighting him alone!

  Tidus : Just go! *Go!*

  Maester Seymour Guado : Now is your time to die. Prepare yourself, son of Jecht.

  Tidus : Not if I can help it!

  Kimahri Ronso : [approaching with the others]  Save some for Kimahri!

  Maester Seymour Guado : [noticing Yuna]  Ah, Lady Yuna. It is a pleasure.

  Lulu : Yuna!

  [Yuna gets ready to send Seymour to the Farplane] 

  Maester Seymour Guado : A sending? So soon? Let me say something to the last Ronso before I leave. Your's was... truly a galant race. They threw themselves at me to bar my path. One... after another...

  [Seymour laughs] 

  Kimahri Ronso : [realizing what Seymour is saying]  No...

  Yuna : Kimahri...

  Maester Seymour Guado : You could end the suffering of this poor Ronso.

  Yuna : I don't understand you!

  Maester Seymour Guado : Allow Kimahri to die and release him from his suffering. Spira, is consumed by the spiral of death. To destroy - to *heal* Spira - I will become Sin with your help Lady Yuna. Come, Lady Yuna.

  Auron : Don't listen to him!

  Maester Seymour Guado : [to Tidus]  Once I become Sin, your father will be free again.

  Tidus : [frusturated]  Ah, what do *you* know?

  [takes his sword and rushes towards Seymour] 

  Maester Seymour Guado : Pitiful mortal...

  [the unsent Seymour begins transforming into Seymour Flux] 

  Maester Seymour Guado : Your hope ends here! And your meaningless existence with it!

  [after defeating Seymour Flux] 

  Tidus : [exhausted]  And *stay* up there!

• [after defeating Seymour on Mt. Gagazet] 

  Yuna : He will become Sin... with my help? With my help, Sir Jecht will be free once again once.

  Auron : Lies. Forget them.

  Yuna : You know something! Tell me!

  Tidus : Sin's... my old man.

  Wakka : [stunned]  You hit your head?

  Tidus : My old man's Spira's suffering.

  Yuna : Even knowing... that Sin is your father... you know... I must...

  Tidus : Yeah... Let's go get him!

  Lulu : You would fight your own father?

  Tidus : No problem there...

  Wakka : Are you sure this isn't some toxin dream?

  [Tidus shakes his head] 

  Wakka : That means... Chappu... I'll just pretend I heard nothing. I'm confused, ya? Why'd everything turn out like this?

  Auron : We'll find out soon once we reach Zanarkand.

• Auron : [after defeating Ultima Weapon]  That was not Omega. Just a shadow born from Omega's wrath.

• Tidus : I'm not done talking to you! Don't you run away!

  Auron : [walking away]  *You're* the one running.

• Auron : [Maester Seymour finds the group, surrounded by bodyguards, one of them carrying Maester Kinoc's corpse] 

  [shocked] 

  Auron : Kinoc!

  Tidus : [to Seymour]  Why, you - !

  Maester Seymour Guado : I have saved him. He was a man who craved power. And great power he had, but he feared losing it. Trembling at unseen enemies, he spent his days scheming petty schemes, chased by his fears, never knowing rest. You see... now he has no worries, he has been granted sleep eternal. Death is a sweet slumber, all the pain of life is gently swept away. Ah, yes.

  [Seymour turns to Yuna] 

  Maester Seymour Guado : So you see... if all life were to end in Spira, all suffering would end, don't you see? Do you not agree? That, Yuna, is why I need you. Come, Lady Yuna. Come with me to Zanarkand, the lost city of the dead. With death on our side, we will save Spira, and for this... I will take away from you your strength, Yuna, your life, and become the next Sin. I will *destroy* Spira! I will *save* it!

  Tidus : You're totally *nuts!*

• Auron : [when fighting in the Via Purifico]  I hate this place.

• Rikku : [after Yuna escapes]  Cover your eyes!

  [Rikku tosses something, and a bright light goes off. In the ensueing chaos, the group escapes] 

  Wakka : [bewildered]  Wh-What was *that?*

  Rikku : An Al Bhed flashbomb!

  Tidus : Lemme go! I'm gonna *kill* that Seymour!

  Kimahri : Yuna said leave! We leave!

  Lulu : We'll join up with her later!

  Auron : Break through!

• Maester Seymour Guado : [Seymour, defeated, falls to his knees. Yuna walks forward]  Yuna... you would pity me now?

  [He falls on his back, dead. Yuna rushes to the dead body and closes his eyes. Tromell and two Guado escorts suddenly enter] 

  Tromell Guado : Maester Seymour! What has happened here?

  Wakka : [stunned]  What... What have I done...?

  Tidus : [as the Guado check Seymour's body]  Wait a minute! It's not our fault at all! Seymour struck first; he's the bad guy!

  Tromell Guado : Y-You did this?

  Auron : Yuna. Send him.

  Tromell Guado : [angered]  No, stop! Stay away from him, traitors!

  [the Guado carry Seymour's body out of the chamber. Yuna falls to her knees] 

  Yuna : [in disbelief]  Traitors...?

  Wakka : We're finished.

  Tidus : Now, hold on! Seymour's the bad guy, right? We'll just tell everyone what happened!

  Auron : It won't be that easy - let's get out of here.

• Rikku : [the group is approaching the Thunder Plains]  I think I forgot something in Guadosalam.

  Auron : [knowing she's trying to talk her way out of going through the plains]  Nice knowing you.

  Rikku : Okay, okay! I'll go!

• Tidus : What do you want?

  Auron : It was a bad call. Your team lost because of you.

  Tidus : You came to say *that?*

• Auron : Once Lady Yuna fixes her hair, we leave.

• Auron : [seeing Evrae, the guardian wyrm of Bevelle]  The red carpet has teeth.

• Auron : [to Tidus]  It's been... long enough.

• Maester Kinoc : Come out. Your sentence has been decided.

  Auron : "Sentence"? Don't you mean "execution"?

  Maester Kinoc : Really, now. What person would execute a dear friend?

  Auron : *You* would.

• Auron : Summoners challenge the bringer of death, Sin, and die doing so. Guardians give their lives to protect their summoner. The fayth are the souls of the dead. Even the maesters of Yevon are unsent. Spira is full of death... only Sin is reborn, and then only to bring more death. It is a cycle of death, spiraling endlessly.

• Auron : [in a flashback]  Where is the sense in all this? Braska believed in Yevon's teachings and died for them! Jecht believed in Braska and gave his life for him!

  Lady Yunalesca : They chose to die... because they had hope.

• Auron : You remind me of myself. Before, the closer I came to Zanarkand, the more I wondered... when we arrive, Braska will call the Final Aeon... He will fight Sin, then die. I thought my mind was made up long before. But when I stood here, my resolve wavered.

  Wakka : Huh, never would've figured. Legendary guardians choke sometimes, too, ya?

  Auron : Legendary guardian? I was just a boy. A boy about your age, actually. I wanted to change the world, too. But I changed nothing. That is my story.

• Auron : Enough! Dwelling in the past is futile!

  Rikku : Hey! You don't have to say it like that!

  Auron : You want to waste time listening to her regrets?

• Auron : Not much has changed over the past 10 years...

• Auron : [while fighting Seymour in his first unsent form]  Although he was not the man I once knew, Kinoc was still my friend, Seymour! You will pay for his death!

• [sometimes, when winning a battle] 

  Auron : That's how it's done!

• Auron : [after Omega Weapon's defeat]  Find your peace on the Farplane. Leave Spira to the living.

• Tidus : [after hearing about the Chocobo Eater]  A large fiend, huh? Let's get 'em!

  Auron : Why?

  Tidus : It's the right thing to do!

  Auron : "It's the right thing to do"...?

  [Auron starts chuckling] 

  Tidus : [confused]  What'd I say *now?*

  Auron : Jecht said that a lot, too. And everytime he said it, it meant trouble for Braska and me.