Thread:MMYP999/@comment-27109830-20170118233609/@comment-27416494-20170119001210

Mysterious JRPG swordmasters coming from two of the most famous games of their respective franchises. (They're also the most popular members of the party to boot.)

They are seen saving the main protagonist from certain death in their first appearance and later go on to serve as a sort of mentor to the main character while also assisting the kind and naive female lead as a personal guardian as she travels the world on an epic pilgrimage that has been taking place for thousands of years.

They are typically portrayed as stoic and worldly warriors and tend to show a strict no-nonsense attitude when dealing with the younger main cast. (Though they have been known to throw in some sarcastic quips now and again.) As such, they are responsible for delivering some much-needed exposition towards the main hero whenever the time requires it.

To compliment this enigmatic demeanor, both of them make it a point to hide their pasts and keep a large number of important secrets from the heroes, as it is eventually revealed that they have a large role in many of the events that took place over the course of the game. (And naturally, these revelations end up angering/upsetting the main protagonists to an extreme degree) Namely, Auron has been watching over Tidus for many years at the request of his father Jecht, and he was even responsible for bringing Tidus over to Spira. Meanwhile, Kratos actually betrays the party once their pilgrimage ends (less than halfway into the story) and he is later revealed to be the father of Lloyd Irving on top of that.

While they do make amends with the heroes and their past mistakes by the end of the game, they are then forced to leave their worlds forever (for distinct reasons of their own), and they never saw each other again from that point.