[Intellectually, she knows that no one here is. But it's still easy to slip into the familiar and assume that people know what she's talking about. Now she knows how Tidus felt pretty much all the time.]
So where I'm from, there are lots of groups of people but they can be split into two groups: those that believe in Yevon and ones that don't. We Al Bhed are pretty much the only ones that fall into that second category, so the other races in Spira don't really like us much.
[Understatement.]
Also where I'm from, until very recently we had to deal with a giant monster called Sin that would destroy everything in its path and make you crazy if you stayed near it for too long. Yevon's whole deal was that Sin was punishment for past wrongdoings and that people had to atone and atone and atone and eventually it would go away for good. The Al Bhed believed there had to be another way. You can't expect anything to change if you don't change it yourself, you know?
[She pauses, then gives Ferran something of a self-satisfied grin.] We were right, by the way.
Anyway, how Yevonites dealt with Sin in the meantime is they would have summoners, who could summon fayth... uh, spirits of people who sacrificed their souls to become mini-monsters for the good guys, I guess?... go on a pilgrimage to a holy site and defeat Sin. But the summoner would die, and Sin kept coming back anyway. It was an awful way to handle things, but it's what they did.
My cousin, Yuna, who's half Al-Bhed but believed in the Yevon stuff, was one such summoner. I was one of her guardians, and we managed to find a way to defeat Sin once and for all without killing her.
[Rikku gives her bonded a once-over to see how much he's following. It's a lot of information she just dumped on him.]
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[Intellectually, she knows that no one here is. But it's still easy to slip into the familiar and assume that people know what she's talking about. Now she knows how Tidus felt pretty much all the time.]
So where I'm from, there are lots of groups of people but they can be split into two groups: those that believe in Yevon and ones that don't. We Al Bhed are pretty much the only ones that fall into that second category, so the other races in Spira don't really like us much.
[Understatement.]
Also where I'm from, until very recently we had to deal with a giant monster called Sin that would destroy everything in its path and make you crazy if you stayed near it for too long. Yevon's whole deal was that Sin was punishment for past wrongdoings and that people had to atone and atone and atone and eventually it would go away for good. The Al Bhed believed there had to be another way. You can't expect anything to change if you don't change it yourself, you know?
[She pauses, then gives Ferran something of a self-satisfied grin.] We were right, by the way.
Anyway, how Yevonites dealt with Sin in the meantime is they would have summoners, who could summon fayth... uh, spirits of people who sacrificed their souls to become mini-monsters for the good guys, I guess?... go on a pilgrimage to a holy site and defeat Sin. But the summoner would die, and Sin kept coming back anyway. It was an awful way to handle things, but it's what they did.
My cousin, Yuna, who's half Al-Bhed but believed in the Yevon stuff, was one such summoner. I was one of her guardians, and we managed to find a way to defeat Sin once and for all without killing her.
[Rikku gives her bonded a once-over to see how much he's following. It's a lot of information she just dumped on him.]
Did that make sense?