(Major spoilers for anyone who hasn’t read/watched Fairy Tail)

(Like seriously, major)

Something that always haunts me about Fairy Tail is that Natsu isn’t really the original Natsu

Like Zeref said he brought him back to life as an Etherious

But as far as I can tell creating an Etherious seems to involve writing, in detail, what makes up that Etherious in terms of personality, in order to determine what the magic involved actually creates

Which would mean, technically, Zeref never actually resurrected anyone, he just created an approximate facsimile of his dead brother

I mean, he had like previous versions of Natsu and everything (see: Larcade) which means Zeref tried to recreate Natsu multiple times and our Natsu was just the most accurate recreation, the one close enough to Zeref’s original brother for Zeref to accept

Our Natsu is still our Natsu and always has been, but he is not, in fact, the original Natsu who died. He’s a copy of a little boy who died four hundred years ago.

Except he grew up into his own person of course

Also I wonder if some part of Zeref recognized that and that’s why he was totally okay with Natsu killing him even though that meant Natsu would die too, despite literally everything Zeref had suffered and done to bring his brother back to life

What's he gonna do? Oh I think you already know what

Do Zeref, Mavis, Lyon, Minerva, Kagura and Ultear, please 🙏

lol i dont really take requests but ive been thinking abt zeref a lot so have a first draft

Am I crazy maybe but I’m happy

Zervis Family 💕🥰

My coloring 🚫 NO REPOST PLS

0 energy to finish

Rewatching fairy tail and the scene where zeref is like "is there a chance you would call me big brother" and natsu is like "hell no" is so funny and I wish we got to see more of these types of interactions

Zeref and Gray

Something that always kinda struck me was how similar Gray and Zeref all are. Like they are dark haired, dark eyed, pale, emotionally constipated, and cold boys. I don't know if it was purposeful but the way they share these characteristics along with being brother figures to natsu is kind of wild and a little sad if you think about it. Like maybe it was a small piece of memory or instinct but the idea that maybe natsu got so close to gray is because he is zeref could have become if he didn’t go mad with grief. The version that he was when he was happy.

Gray and Zeref parallel one another in so many other ways then looks and personality. Both of them lived a happy life until everyone they loved were killed by a monster leaving them to become the only survivor. Both of them turned to magic, and their own hubris and need for more caused the loss of the system that taught them (death of Ur, zeref's expulsion and curse). The difference comes from what they did after. Zeref isolated and fell deeper into grief while Gray found a support system. They both eventually meet(create?) natsu and have a brotherly relationship with him but zeref pushes him away despite being his blood brother to be raised by igneel, while gray acts like his brother in all names but blood. The parallels between Gray and Zeref and their relationship with Natsu really brings the idea of blood family vs chosen family and how it's your own decision that affects your destiny.

god they look so happy and at peace

me when

Okay so I'm going through a rewatch of Fairy Tail and all these dark guilds and cults trying to "revive" Zeref. . .like don't you know my boi Zeref is out there alive and well, just chilling on Tenrou Island

Is exactly how I see it

Can someone tell me where i can read this manga ???

POV- You just came to school and found out god killed everyone you knew because you made em angy

@fairytail-redraw

He's fine. Don't worry about it.

I’ll probabaly make a side blog for these guys brother fixation go hard

If this gets two likes I’m going to delete my account/j

I know I wrote on it already, but I think the comedic potential of Zeref reading about all the antics Natsu gets up to is END-less.