Quote Originally Posted by TheSpoonyBard View Post
Yuna didn't know the temple fayth while they were alive so doesn't share the same ties ("the bond between husband and wife, mother and child, or between friends") as she would with her guardian's Final Aeon.
Good explanation. But seriously think Squenix chose a really lame deus ex machina there. Actually, an immensely lame one because I have no recollection of there ever being any mention of severing of ties causing death in the game. And surely, if the aeon is killed (which probably happens in a play through) would that not sever the tie just as badly as if it is possessed? And how exactly does the summoner get rid of the aeon then if they don't sever the tie? Because, if the tie isn't broken, then the summoner shouldn't be able to come back. Or does Yu Yevon steal the aeon out of the summoner's mind?

End of that rant about Square Enix. But maybe there are more final summon statues lying around soulless somewhere, and they are soulless because of Yu Yevon eating them (or whatever it is he does). Because, after X, don't all of the fayth lie dormant, and Yu Yevon ate all of them in the final battle. Until X-2 came along again and they decided to wake up.

I give up on trying to figure out Squenix plot holes. From now on, I'll just accept them as exactly that: plot holes.