Hmmm.

That was one of the things about X-2 that bugged me, Yuna saying how wrong it was that she'd had to kill her aeons, that it sucked. I was seeing it from their perspective, angry that the X-2 game designers seemed to have forgotten the aeons' wishes in the matter. They were tired (said Bahamut) and wanted to rest; they were prisoners of the cycle as much as Sin.

But you bring it around to Yuna's perspective and remind me that whether or not the aeons were pleading to be let go, she still had to be the one who killed them (and Auron, in a way) which was hard.

You prompted me to go and read Aftermath, too -- is that yours? -- an excellent story filling in the gaps for most of my favorite secondary characters. And Beclem.

I felt a little lukewarm towards him on first read of this, but after reading Aftermath, I see him more clearly. This works. I'm not quite sure I could ever see him as a sympathetic character to Yuna-- he seems to clash with her style in so many ways-- but it's a reasonable attempt to see them trying to bury the hatchet ( which they do indeed seem to be trying to do at the end of X-2).

Anyway, enough rambling. :)