In Death ... There is Remembrance
[It's a new day as our party of heroes walk into Guadosalam; As they enter a Guado man approaches.]
Man: We have been expecting you, Lady Yuna. Welcome to Guadosalam. This way, my lady. This way.
[He goes to take her hand, but Wakka stops him.]
Wakka: Whoa, whoa, whoa!
Tromell: Oh, I beg your pardon. I am called Tromell Guado. I am in the direct service of our leader, the great Seymour Guado. Lord Seymour has very important business with Lady Yuna.
Yuna: Business with me? Whatever could it be, I wonder?
Tromell: Please, come inside the manor. All will be explained. Of course, your friends are also welcome.
[Everyone turns to to follow Tromell to the manner.]
Rikku: Twist our arms, why don't ya? Ah, I almost forgot!
Link: Hmm?
[She turns back to Link and shows him how to make custom equipment.]
Rikku: What would you do without me?
Link: Have rundown equipment?
[Link and Rikku catch up to the rest of the group and they all walk into Seymour's manor as Tromell opens the doors to the hall.]
Tromell: This way, please. I will go inform Lord Seymour. Please wait here.
Link: Sure, sure. This place gives me the creeps...
[Tromell leaves, and everyone talks amongst themselves. After a few minutes, Tromell reappears.]
Tromell: Truly, it is good to have guests again. Since Lord Jyscal passed away, these halls have been too quiet.
Yuna: The death of Lord Jyscal was a great loss for all of Spira.
[Link and Wakka stand off to themselves.]
Link: Was Maester Jyscal really such a great man?
Wakka: He brought the teachings of Yevon to the Guado. He was truly a great man.
Tromell: Truly, a loss for us all. But now a new leader, Lord Seymour, has come before us. Lord Seymour is the child of a Guado and a human. He will be the tie that binds our two races together. But that is not all, I think. Lord Seymour... He will surely become the shining star that lights the way for all the peoples of Spira.
Seymour: That is enough, Tromell. ~
[Seymour appears in the doorway at the top of the staircase.]
~ Must I always endure such praise? Welcome!
Yuna: You...wanted to see me?
Seymour: Please, make yourselves at home. There's no rush.
Auron: Please, keep this short. Yuna must rush.
Seymour: Pardon me. It has been a long time since I had guests. Lady Yuna, this way.
[The floor and the atmosphere of the room changes to that of space, with shooting stars and meteor showers. It's changes to Hyrule, showing images a more modern Lon Lon Ranch, Zora's Domain to Lake Hylia, and eventually of a bustling sight of a modern Castle Town and Market.]
Seymour: This sphere is a reconstruction created from the thoughts of the dead that wander the farplane.
Link: ?! Home.. Hyrule!?
Seymour: Correct. Hyrule... as it looked one thousand years ago. The great and wondrous machina city, Hyrule Castle Town. She once lived in this metropolis.
Yuna: She, who?
[The hologram scene then changes to shows a woman's chambers, complete with woman on her bed.]
Yuna: Lady Yunalesca!
Link: (takes a step back) She looks like Zel...da...
Seymour: She was the first person to defeat Sin and save the world from its ravages. And you have inherited her name.
Yuna: It was my father who named me.
Seymour: Lord Braska was entrusting you with a great task. He wanted you to face Sin, as Lady Yunalesca did. However, Lady Yunalesca did not save the world alone. To defeat the undefeatable Sin...it took an unbreakable bond of love - of the kind that binds two hears for eternity.
[Everyone returns their attention to the recording as a holographic man walks to Yunalesca. The man disappears, and Seymour asks Yuna something that only she hears. It's upsetting news; so much so, that she guzzles an entire glass of water to get her bearings.]
Rikku: Wow! Your face is beet red!
Link: Yuna? Everything ok?
Yuna: He...he asked me to marry him!
Link: What?! You serious?
Auron: You know what Yuna must do.
Seymour: Of course. Lady Yuna - no, all summoners - are charged with bringing peace to Spira. But this means more than just defeating Sin. She must ease the suffering of all Spira. She must be a leader for the people. I proposed to Lady Yuna as a maester of Yevon.
Auron: Spira is no playhouse. A moment's diversion may amuse an audience, but it changes nothing.
Seymour: Even so, the actors must play their parts. There's no need to answer right away. Please, think it over.
Auron: We will do so, then. We leave.
Seymour: Lady Yuna, I await your favorable reply.
[Auron walks to the door.]
Seymour: Why are you still here, sir? I beg your pardon. We Guado are keen to the scent of the Farplane.
[Link starts sniffing Auron, who pushes him away and leaves. Everyone heads outside to regroup.]
Lulu: Yuna, the high summoner's daughter. Seymour, the leader of the Guado. Married in the name of Yevon, overcoming the barriers of race. It would give Spira something cheery to talk about, for a change.
Wakka: Sounds just like a passin' daydream, like Auron says.
Link: Just for get it and let's continue the pilgrimage... i mean seriously? Marriage?
Rikku: Hmmm. Jealous?
Link: ... We have to defeat Sin. Romance can wait!
Wakka: He sure picked a fine time to lay this one on us.
Yuna: Maybe it is a fine time.
Link:... Are you serious?
Yuna: If my getting married would help Spira...if it would make people happy... If I could do that for people...maybe I should do what I can. I never imagined doing anything like this. But, I won't answer till I know what's right.
Link: ...
Rikku: You can always just quit your pilgrimage and get married.
Yuna: I will...go on. I'm sure that Lord Seymour will understand.
Rikku: Umm, I guess so...
Yuna: I am a summoner! I must fight and defeat Sin.
Auron: Like Braska before you.
Link:(narration) It was all I could do to keep myself from punching a wall... What's there to think about?
Yuna: I'm going to the Farplane. I'm going to see my father and think on this.
Lulu: Go on, we'll be right behind you.
Link:(narration) I wondered why none of the others ever asked Yuna. Do you love Seymour? Do you even like him?
[Everyone heads to the Farplane's entrance.]
Link: About this Farplane... When somebody dies, a summoner sends them to the Farplane, right? So their souls, or whatever they are, they go to the Farplane, right, which is the very same Farplane we're headed to? And Yuna's old man's there, too? Do dead people live there or something?
Wakka: You're thinking those funny thoughts again, ya? You'll see once we get there.
[Everyone starts heading in, except for Auron who takes a seat on one of the steps.]
Link: You're not coming?
Auron: I do not belong there.
Link: Scared?
Auron: Searching the past to find the future... This is all that is there. I need it not. You'd better get going.
Rikku: You're not really going to see the dead, more like your memories of them. People think of their relatives, and the pyreflies react to them. They take on the form of the dead person - an illusion, nothing else.
Link: ... (to himself) My memories... am... am I ready for this?
Rikku: Well, have fun!
Link: What, you're not going either, Rikku?
Rikku: I keep my memories inside.
Link: Huh?
Rikku: Memories are nice, but that's all they are.
[Link walks into the Farplane.]
Link: What the...?
[As Link walks in he sees a platform where everyone is standing. It is dwarfed by a huge view of waterfalls and a moon, with pyreflys hovering over flowers on floating islands. Link sees Yuna with Braska and her mother.]
Link:(narration) The Farplane was beautiful, but I couldn't stop thinking about Yuna. Her parents - they looked so happy together. But it got me worried that maybe seeing them would make Yuna really consider Seymour's proposal.
[Link walks over to Yuna and her 'family' after talking with Wakka and Lulu.]
Link: So...Yuna?
Yuna: I've decided.
Link: You have? That's good.
Yuna: I remember, when I was only seven years old, in Bevelle that day. My father had defeated Sin, and the whole town was out in the streets. Everyone was laughing. They all seemed so happy. If I defeated Sin, that would make everyone happy...wouldn't it? I must do what everyone wants, not just what I want.
Link: Let's go back! You gotta tell Seymour.
Yuna: Before that... Call Sir Jecht. Give it a try. Don't worry. He won't come.
Link:(narration) This whole time I've been trying to keep my head empty of thoughts of Jecht... and home... Thoughts of Zelda... of Midna...
Yuna: See, told you!
Link:(narration) He isn't here because he's not dead. He's Sin.
Yuna: That means he's alive, you know?
Link:(narration) What if my old man really is Sin? What would I say to Yuna...hell; to everybody in Spira? Wait, why should I have to apologize for him, anyway?
Link: Jecht... I'd rather not see him ever again.
Yuna: What makes you hate him so?
Link: Everything he does just pisses me off. It was his fault that Midna... that she... she...
[Link looks up to see Midna floating near him.]
Link: Midna...? I...
Yuna: She's very pretty.
Link: But... Wait. No one ever performed the sending for her.
Yuna: She must have accepted death while she was still alive.
Link: Hold it right there...
Yuna: Oh, I'm sorry!
Link: (sighs) It's ok... I think I just figured something out.
Yuna: What?
Link: Why I hate my old man.
[Link flashes back to Hyrule. Link and Midna are getting ready to head into the Twilight Realm to fight Zant. Jecht shows up and takes Midna aside to talk to her.]
Jecht: See? So I told him what I thought of him, right there!
Midna: Really?
Jecht: 'Course!
Midna: I suppose, but...
Link: Midna?
Midna: Just a sec.
Link: Whenever my old man was around, Midna wouldn't even look at me. Maybe that's when I started to resent him, even hate him. A few days later, after stopping Zant, we were on the way to Hyrule Castle to stop Ganondorf... Jecht left... and he Midna lost her energy.
[The flashback goes ahead a ways. Auron is there with Link in Kakariko after burying Zelda.]
Auron: Is she all right?
Link: Why should you care?
Auron: If she dies, I wouldn't know what to do.
Link: Don't say Midna is gonna die!
Auron: I apologize.
Link: The Shaman of Kakariko once told me that... when a lovebird dies, the one left behind... It just gives up on living so it can join its mate. But that wasn't the case... When I found out what actually happened, I hated my old man even more. But really, my old man he was being controlled...
[Link recalls the scene a few seconds earlier; a shadow had over taken Jecht and he did the unthinkable:]
Link: Midna...!
Midna: Link!
Jecht:(possesed) Go to him... He can't save you now and Hyrule is mine!
[The flashback ends and Link is back on the Farplane.]
Link: Man... I sound so weak... so pathetic... I really am an unfit hero...
Yuna: I don't think so.
Link: ... this is embarrassing.
[Wakka and Lulu are waiting for the two.]
Wakka: Well? Need some more time?
Yuna: No, I'm ready.
Lulu: Did I miss something?
[They leave the Farplane and go back to Auron and Rikku.]
Yuna: Thanks for waiting! I'll go give my answer to Maester Seymour.
[Suddenly, a Guado spirit from the Farplane tries to leave, struggling to move through the barrier between the Farplane and Guadosalam.]
Guado Woman: Lord Jyscal!?
Guado: Lord Jyscal!
Auron: He does not belong here.
Yuna: Why?
Auron: Yuna, send him.
[Auron nearly collapses for some reason, but no one sees him because their backs are turned. Yuna goes to Jyscal's spirit.]
Yuna: Lord Jyscal...
Lulu: He is Lord Jyscal no more. Send him now!
[She sends him and he drops a sphere, which Yuna picks up.]
Auron: Talk later. We leave now.
[On the way back:]
Wakka: Wha...what was that just now? That really Lord Jyscal?
Link: Is it possible that he was never sent, becoming a fiend.
Lulu: I would think he was sent once...but he stayed on Spira. Something, a powerful emotion could have bound him to this world. Such things happen.
Rikku: That's against the rules, isn't it?
Auron: It means he died an unclean death.
[The party makes their way past the shops and homes and regroups in front of Seymour's manor.]
Yuna: I will go ... meet with Maester Seymour.
Auron: Yuna! Jyscal is the Guado's problem, not yours.
[Yuna enters the manor and the party waits around. Rikku runs over to Link. ]
Rikku: Wait up, I'll go with ya!
[They walk for a bit.]
Rikku: Yunie's not getting married, is she?
Link: Seems that way.
Rikku: It's your big chance, huh?
Link: You're probably right.
Rikku: That's the way to go! Then you could take her away and live a quiet life somewhere.
Link: You ... serious?
Rikku: Yeah.
Link: Why?
Rikku: Because it's tough, you know? In the end, she has to fight Sin.
Link: Yeah, but she... She would never marry someone who wanted her to quit.
Rikku: I guess you're right. Too bad.
[Rikku returns to the others, and Link walks down by the Thunder Plains entrance . Shelinda appears.]
Shelinda: My... Was the lady summoner not with you?
Link: She's at Seymour's at the moment.
Shelinda: That's 'Maester Seymour' or 'Lord Seymour.'
Link: Right... I'll be careful from now on.
Shelinda: That's all right. Maester Seymour left Guadosalam a short while ago.
Link: You serious?
Shelinda: I believe he went to the temple in Macalania. Maester Seymour is also the high priest of that temple.
Link: Whoa, I gotta tell the others!
[Link runs back and tells the story. Inside the manor, Yuna stares at Jyscal's picture on the wall.]
Yuna: Lord Jyscal, please tell me. What can I do to help?
Rikku: Yuna, let's go!
Link: They say Seymour went to Macadamia Nut Temple.
Wakka: Macalania Temple.
Link: That always cracks me up.
Wakka: What I don't get is... Why would the lord maester head off without a peep to anyone?
Rikku: Maybe he wasn't expecting Yuna's answer so soon.
Wakka: Ah, that's probably it.
Link: My gut says otherwise...
[Yuna looks uncomfortable.]
Auron: Yuna, what is it?
Yuna: Oh, nothing.
Auron: Hmm... You're a poor liar.
Yuna: It's true. It's nothing! Come on, let's go.
(And with that our crew leave Guadosalam and rush toward Macalania Temple. but first it looks like its going to be a shocking experience as they walk through the Thunder Plains. Stay tuned for what happens next in ... Shadows Over Spira.)