Sin's First Appearance

[Dionysos]

How do you know? In the video it really looks as though Auron purposefully raises his flask at the oncoming wave.

I think he is just raising it as if offering a toast to Sin.

I checked the video Mandi provided and I can see that, while he isn't firing anything out of the flask to do anything to Sin, you can see something travel upwards at the same part where the flask is.

I think if anything it might be the drink leaving the flask and being pulled upwards and towards Sin just like the water droplets from the puddles.

I took a screenshot.

If you get to that part of the video you will see little (actually pretty large) droplets leave what is likely the flask. Perhaps he had the cap off and was almost giving Sin (aka

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Jecht

) a bit of drink. It's a nice thought.

I would have said these droplets were something else as they are quite large, but we don't see anything else like this go upwards towards Sin during that shot, and therefore it looks like it is coming from Auron's flask specifically.

So I wouldn't say that he is firing anything weird or damaging at Sin, but perhaps offering him a drink.

 

[Donald Trump]

It's hard to say what they are, because the liquid, which doesn't look like sake, wouldn't be in drops, but there is only water below sin at that point, so it probably is sake.
However

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Sin/Jecht doesn't take Auron to Zanarkand. Auron goes after he dies. He has been in Zanarkand 10 years, which is obviously the same amount of time he has been absent from Spira. And as there was no sin at that time, Braska et al having defeated it, Auon must have made his own way there.

 

[Kitab]

Regardless though, he was not shooting anything out of his jug at Sin. He was holding the jug upward.

But why? And so what are the droplets that move towards Sin?

I think he is just raising it as if offering a toast to Sin.

Why would he do that though? OK, I'll concede that your interpretations are valid, and maybe there is no deeper meaning to be found here, but even when I first saw this video in the game, it looked to me as though Auron was doing something purposeful.

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I get the feeling he was trying to hold Sin/Jecht off from attacking just yet, at least until he could get close to Tidus, but obviously Jecht didn't have the ability to do so being controlled the way he was.

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I also get that impression, but it is not stated explicitly anywhere in the game. The game never explicitly says that Dream Zanarkand has a physical location in Spira, nor does it explain why Sin was covered in a ball of water, and nor is there any indication of whether Tidus or Auron actually care about what happened to Dream Zanarkand after Sin destroyed it. Yu Yevon recreated it, presumably? We can made educated inferences about all of these things, but the lack of an explicit discussion about it in the game itself left me feeling as though questions were unanswered.

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Sin/Jecht doesn't take Auron to Zanarkand. Auron goes after he dies. He has been in Zanarkand 10 years, which is obviously the same amount of time he has been absent from Spira. And as there was no sin at that time, Braska et al having defeated it, Auon must have made his own way there.

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Good point, but the game definitely tells us that Auron used Sin to get to Zanarkand. Tidus asks him when they're underneath Lake Macalania.

 

[Dionysos]

Why would he do that though? OK, I'll concede that your interpretations are valid, and maybe there is no deeper meaning to be found here, but even when I first saw this video in the game, it looked to me as though Auron was doing something purposeful.

I'd argue that toasting to Sin is very purposeful... Probably more so than firing something towards Sin.

Since Sin is essentially

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Jecht

, Auron raising his sake flask is reaching out to the element that is

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Jecht

inside of Sin. Like

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old times etc

. I think I remember that

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Jecht liked to drink, and so this would be quite a good offering to him

. It's a great way to show

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appreciation to an old friend, even though they both know that they will have to work against each other as Jecht cannot control

Sin.

So really, if this is indeed what is happening, then this scene is reaching out to the part of Sin that

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is Jecht

. It is something that perhaps the creators only expected the players to pick up on during a second playthrough, if that.

Personally, if it is to be viewed like that, I think it is pretty awesome. It symbolises the weird relationship that Auron has with this incarnation of Sin.

 

[Kitab]

Personally, if it is to be viewed like that, I think it is pretty awesome. It symbolises the weird relationship that Auron has with this incarnation of Sin.

Thanks. Well argued!

I still think the game could have made things clearer, but, of course, it's perfectly normal for a story to leave at least a few unanswered questions. And Auron's character is frustratingly taciturn.

 

[Meds]

Those just look like bubbles. Do they not? Bubbles floating up towards the surface?
That's all I thought they were..

And Auron is definitely raising his flask in a manner of 'good to see ya buddy'. You also see people doing stuff like that in movies. This might be irrelevent, but like in the movie Twister, the main character held his beer up in a toast to a big tornado right in front of him.