After Braska gains his first aeon, Auron gives him a bath.

Yuna asks Auron about her father. Yuna voudrait qu’Auron lui parle de son père.

Jecht gets to know his fellow students.

The night before the Final Summoning, Auron and Braska confess their feelings.

Several years after Yuna’s mother decides not to visit her people, the family moves to Besaid. Braska and his wife find their marriage under pressure, faced with suspicion in their new community, their teenage daughter’s rebellious behaviour, and Braska’s nascent feelings for a dear friend. When Yuna declares her intent to take the summoner’s pilgrimage, the stakes are raised, and they find themselves not content with the mere defeat of Sin, but actively trying to destroy it.

The journey north across the Moonflow is quiet.

Auron ought to be able to let Braska go.

The most promising of the young warrior monks of Yevon gradually learns that some things are more important than his career. Pre-pilgrimage.

It’s rare for all of them to sleep through the night.

A summoner and his guardians reunite [spoiler].

There is Yevon, then there is Braska, and then there is nobody.

A quiet night on the pilgrimage.

It will be good to have a guardian who is less invested, Braska thinks. Auron disagrees.

No amount of love can convince Braska to change his course.

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The lines from this part of FFX are “It’s all right. It’s been long enough. This is your world now.”, while the official subtitles from the kabuki are “I’m fine. I’ve kept Braska waiting for ten years. The world belongs to you all.” The first and third of those sentences aren’t significantly different between the two versions, so I used the lines from the game for those because they sound a bit more elegant and are better known; the kabuki’s version of the second sentence was the reason I made this gifset in the first place! Tfw your OTP’s shippiest moment in canon isn’t technically canon and only actually involves one of them in person … sigh.

“I was just a BOY“

You knew this was to happen, my friend.