Final Fantasy X - The Length of Dreams
A while after playing Final Fantasy X-2, I thought about how the ending of X-2 was a little too perfect. Tidus returns, and you expect that he and Yuna will live happily ever after. It didn't seem very realistic to me. So I wondered, what if he returned and it wasn't perfect? What if they stayed together because they felt obligated to stay together? And soon, that obligation would chafe against them, and they would break apart, each leading their separate lives.
This idea apparently isn't all that original. There are fanfiction existing where Tidus and Yuna encounter strife upon his return. Well, those stories usually have Tidus and Yuna getting back together eventually. This story would eventually lead to their separation. Unfortunately, other than the enticing idea of breaking Yuna and Tidus apart, I really had no other inspiration for this story. So, I'm posting this very tiny fragment here, and relegating this idea into the dust bin.
Title: The Length of Dreams
Fandom: Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy X-2
Summary: All dreams end some day.
Characters: Yuna, Tidus
Genre: Drama
Warnings: None
It was supposed to be perfect. The ideal dream. The ideal ending. The “happily ever after” after everything. She had worked hard, had always maintained her faith in him, believed that he would come back to her, just as she had whistled for him that day two years ago…
And he had returned just as he had promised. He would come when she whistled for him, no matter where he was, no matter how far away. He would cross Spira for her. He would cross the Farplane for her. Perhaps he took longer than she had expected, but in the end, he had come. He had returned to her side.
But it wasn’t perfect. She wondered if it ever had been perfect.
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Chapter 1: Loving a Dream
There are some people that say that a woman never really falls in love with a man. She only falls in love with her own fantasy. She only falls in love with what she believes the man is, not what he actually is. And as she begins to learn about the man, she becomes more and more disillusioned, until she realizes that the one she had fallen in love with was not the one that she had imagined.
At this point, the woman would probably break up with her boyfriend, if she wasn’t already married to him. But most women don’t realize that they are marrying a fantasy until it’s too late. And then there are women who have spent too long pursuing a fantasy to simply let it go.
Two years spent imagining, recreating, embellishing someone you love is a long time to perfect the image of an ideal dream. Long enough to erase all faults that a person may have had. Long enough to forget that time passes for both, to forget reality.
So what happens when the dream returns?
She looked out to the sea, her feet dangling above the water, watching him and Wakka playing blitzball with the other Besaid Aurochs.
Discontinued
This idea apparently isn't all that original. There are fanfiction existing where Tidus and Yuna encounter strife upon his return. Well, those stories usually have Tidus and Yuna getting back together eventually. This story would eventually lead to their separation. Unfortunately, other than the enticing idea of breaking Yuna and Tidus apart, I really had no other inspiration for this story. So, I'm posting this very tiny fragment here, and relegating this idea into the dust bin.
Title: The Length of Dreams
Fandom: Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy X-2
Summary: All dreams end some day.
Characters: Yuna, Tidus
Genre: Drama
Warnings: None
It was supposed to be perfect. The ideal dream. The ideal ending. The “happily ever after” after everything. She had worked hard, had always maintained her faith in him, believed that he would come back to her, just as she had whistled for him that day two years ago…
And he had returned just as he had promised. He would come when she whistled for him, no matter where he was, no matter how far away. He would cross Spira for her. He would cross the Farplane for her. Perhaps he took longer than she had expected, but in the end, he had come. He had returned to her side.
But it wasn’t perfect. She wondered if it ever had been perfect.
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Chapter 1: Loving a Dream
There are some people that say that a woman never really falls in love with a man. She only falls in love with her own fantasy. She only falls in love with what she believes the man is, not what he actually is. And as she begins to learn about the man, she becomes more and more disillusioned, until she realizes that the one she had fallen in love with was not the one that she had imagined.
At this point, the woman would probably break up with her boyfriend, if she wasn’t already married to him. But most women don’t realize that they are marrying a fantasy until it’s too late. And then there are women who have spent too long pursuing a fantasy to simply let it go.
Two years spent imagining, recreating, embellishing someone you love is a long time to perfect the image of an ideal dream. Long enough to erase all faults that a person may have had. Long enough to forget that time passes for both, to forget reality.
So what happens when the dream returns?
She looked out to the sea, her feet dangling above the water, watching him and Wakka playing blitzball with the other Besaid Aurochs.
Discontinued