underrated funniest natsu moment is when Zeref turns his scarf black on Tenrou and he gets pissed because yes that is his last remnant of his missing Father but also ITS MESSING UP HIS DRIP. He literally turns his clothes inside out for the rest of the episode(s) to restore his fashion sense like helloooo??? colour coordination king??? it's so funny that he would even care about that we need to implement this into his agreed upon persona immediately.

Broke: Wendy Marvell being subjected to creepy men left and right

Woke: feral child Wendy Marvell stuck in the middle of a custody battle between Bickslow and Mest Gryder. Neither of which are fit to be fathers, both of them oddly endeared to this unhinged 12 year old.

how would you write a fairy tail self insert fic? like how would you structure the story and go about it?

out of the big 4 het/canon fairy tail pairings jerza is by Far the worst imo like. he needs to leave her alone i'm so serious and the fact that mashima wrote in a 7 year age gap for no reason is Not helping... erzas ass is NINETEEN the first time jellal makes an open pass at her i don't care that they used to be the same age it is fucking weird. gruvia is a close second though because while yes we objectify men here sir and i live to serve women juvia's creepiness is really just too much like at a certain point it starts to feel really gross and the fact that gray seems to fall for her by the end of the anime/manga just reeks of coercion. not even bringing up how genuinely awful juvia's character writing is she gets like 5 minutes of being interesting before getting instantly reduced to a creepy stan who completely revolves around gray and has less depth than the average bossfight of the week. i guess its equality that erza and mirajane are some of the best characters in this story (which is admittedly a low bar considering half of their personality is being subjected to the most voyeuristic shots possible) so mashima had to balance it out by making juvia one of the worst

me: im gonna rewatch fairy tail and not skip a single episode

Me, later: so that was a lie

seeing mashima discourse on twt kinda made me realize something... on most shonen series i grew up with... Fairy Tail was actually one of the rare ones I grew up with where the protagonist, the main POV the story, is a woman.

I'm talking about this in a way where the majority of the cast aren't men or women due to appealing to certain audiences. (Like Sailor Moon (ily) etc). I mean like in series where the casts' gender are generally distributed.

And it's not like the women are written in a way where you give them one arc and they disappear into the series. Even if they aren't the main highlight anymore they still appear on arcs necessary.

Heck, the main gang (Lucy, Natsu, Erza, Gray, Wendy) almost have the equal amount of women and men. Lucy, Erza, and Wendy aren't treated as supports either. They're pretty much essential to the team. Lucy is intelligent and her deductions pretty much helped them multiple times. Erza is the leader and her ability to made the proper judgement pulled the team through. Wendy is a healer, support, and attacker and she's able to fulfill a wide variety of roles.

Sexualization aside since a lot of shonen mangas pretty much do that, the women are pretty much treated with respect and even if Mashima is not the best writer of women out there, atleast he has the sense of giving the female characters he creates proper roles that doesn't diminish them from the narrative.

It's not also like, they receive a major arc then just become support. The way Fairy tail started, the first arcs were more of an introduction to the main gang's backstories. We see their history and them making peace (or atleast resolving) with it and see how they finally move on. Then as the series went on we received new arcs and developments from them. They don't just disappear into the background. They are still written with love. And y'know what, I appreciate that

fairy tail rewatch. i just found a plothole. in the oracion seis arc, natsu chooses which area of nirvana to go to bc he can smell that zero is there. even erza says that she knows natsu did this. but then in the tenrou island arc he chooses the E route thinking its Erza and is completely convinced erza is in the e route literally until he sees gildarts. but he’s known gildarts and erza for so long he’d definitely know how to tell them apart. makes no sense im coming for mashimas knees with a bat

you know what i need, more lisanna. i haven’t read 100 year quest but i just feel like i need more content of her that isn’t just fighting or being with her siblings. not that it’s not good, i just need her.

like, my girl frickin died. except, she didn’t because of magic reasons. she got separated from her friends and family and the boy she loved and transported to another world that has them, but not them.

and, (i’m headcannoning here) she tries to go on. she still has her siblings, just different versions of them. i bet she tries connecting with the version of the boy she loved but finds that this new girl, though not new there, is a much better match.

it’s fine though. she knows he’s not the same natsu anyways. lisanna keeps going. she keeps trying to become their family, but she can’t help but miss her old one. have they forgotten about her already?

she keeps going. keeps moving on or at least trying to. they need a lisanna, she needs a home. she has to be there for them.

and then she’s back. back, to her real home. her real family. she can’t help but feel her hard work was for nothing.

but the world has moved on. everyone has moved on. they’re happy that she’s back, but now she doesn’t know what to do. everything’s so different now. she feels like she’s back in edolas, lost in a whole new world where everything isn’t the same as before.

even the boy she once loved is different. lucy’s there too after all. she tries to rekindle what they once had, but he’s moved on. and in a way she has to.

she goes on quests with her siblings, with old and new friends. she tries to get back into the loop. but people still forget that she’s back from time to time, still jump when seeing her. but eventually, she gets to a point where everything seems to be okay.

and then tenrou island happens. and she’s been gone for seven years this time. she had just started putting her names in the papers again, and now she had to start over.

she puts on a smile, encourages her friends that it will all be okay in the end. she doesn’t really believe it herself.

she is lisanna strauss. the ghost of fairy tail, and the girl who died twice.

basically i just want a lisanna arc.

NaLu Headcanon Pt. 1

Throughout the series, Lucy is shown with different colored bows/hair ties that she uses to tie her hair up and often match with her outfits. It’s her signature style (and she totally owns it!!) I think that if Natsu sees some hair ties during a job he might buy it for her. He probably thinks of a color or shade that she might not have and get that one. I think this is so cute!!

He would also be the type of boyfriend that wears Lucy’s scrunchies on his wrist. One reason is because she might need it during a mission/battle (ex. During Tenrous Island Arc, Lucy tied her hair up when Natsu and she reformed their team to fight against Kain). Another reason is because he just likes it. Natsu is shown wearing his single sleeve vest and one wristband. Instead of the wristband he might just have Lucy’s hair tie (or the hair tie and the wristband). I also have a feeling that if Lucy has a bow on, he might carry one around that matches the one she is wearing. He just wants the world to know that Lucy is his and he is hers.

On the side note, she has so many colors!! I couldn’t add them all because of the limit on how many images can be added! But which one is your favorite?! I personally like the purple one from the Sun Village arc and the ocean green one from the final arc. That’s probably because I really like the two pigtail hairstyle on her!! ❤️

What do you think?!

i love gray's friendships with female characters, at least through tenrou arc! like that he's at once the "cool guy," sweet underneath, kinda flirty, and embarrasses a little easily - it's very easy to come up with HCs for his female friendships and you can't often say that about the cool rival guys(TM) in anime!

like for cana - -they're were the OG kids in the guild and i like the idea that cana felt like she could complain about boy troubles to gray -they were also friends with benefits at some point 👀 they broke it off very amicably and cana still rants to him about "girl stuff." he always finds it boring when she starts but eventually he gets invested and starts ranting with her, by this point mira also joins in on their gossiping <3

for erza - -she was definitely his first crush/love around his own age and one of the reasons he responded so strongly when he saw her crying alone, was because he was reminded of when ur used to do the same thing since she lost ultear (like the flashbacks in tenrou island arc of her sobbing while clutching ultear's old baby clothes). except back then, he didn't know how to help and just pretended he never saw anything, and it's one of his biggest regrets. so he decided to do something about erza even if he was really clumsy at it. -eventually he learned ice-making and wielding all those weapons because he asked erza to help teach him (even if he had to swallow his pride to do it). at first it's just between them but eventually a lot of the guild gets invested and watches their sparring sessions - levy helps him find books about specific swordplay techniques based on erza's recommendations -once, erza criticizes his fighting style and says she can read every move because he keeps playing it safe and is constantly on the defensive; she urges him to be more spontaneous and unpredictable because that kind of creativity is well-suited for maker mages. so during the fight, she's got him pinned (as usual) and the guild thinks it's over until, on a whim, he suddenly kisses her... and in erza's shock he manages to unpin himself and hold his own ice dagger at her throat instead. the guild's holding their breath and thinks erza's gonna beat him up LMAO, and gray also immediately tries to apologize and grovel, but erza simply brushes it off and says he was the smarter fighter that time, so he won fair and square. they both don't know that it was the other's first kiss 👀 -to thank erza for training him, gray gifted her those diamond-knife earrings (i figured bc he also wears that cross necklace and occasionally earrings...) - he's not really sure if she even likes them because she didn't show too much interest in jewelry/makeup/anything that isn't strictly practical, but to this day, he's never seen her take them off -erza made him quit smoking lmao, he used to be smoking buddies with mira until they both quit. he still doesn't do it but sometimes at a town event or similar occasion, he might indulge in a cig or two - nothing more. but he never does it in front of erza -gray standing up to erza in galuna island arc is like a guild legend now. people always bring it up when they introduce him to a newcomer; gray feels kinda embarrassed and uncomfortable by it and tries to apologize to erza about it, but she says she doesn't mind at all and he taught her a valuable lesson that day

for lucy - -sometimes he sits in on her and levy's discussions about the short stories she's writing and her eventual novel. he doesn't really throw out too many ideas, he just prefers to listen because he's reminded of the tales of adventure that ur used to tell him and lyon after dinner. sometimes lucy asks him about his home country and stuff so she can write short informational articles about it in sorcerer weekly, and he's happy to reminisce. -he really does find lucy's apartment comfortable because it has multiple thermostats. lucy always keeps the laundry area a little cooler just for gray whenever he drops by, since she knows he likes sitting there

for ultear - -it's a little hard to look her in the eyes sometimes because she resembles ur so much, but gray always appreciates her presence. sometimes ultear asks him to talk about little things about her mother, like her favorite foods or a story about her, and gray's always happy to indulge. lyon joins in too when he can! -once lyon hit on her in front of gray much to the latter's complete mortification, but ultear just burst out laughing and lyon turned brick red (there's an unspoken plea from lyon to never bring that incident up, but gray's just waiting for the chance to use it against him) -he always feels a little jolt in his chest when there's something ultear subconsciously does that's just like ur - they both put their hands on their hips the same way when they're pleased, she dots her "i's" with big circles like ur did, and they have similar tastes in food. gray doesn't know whether to feel pleased or pained -ultear thinks gray's stripping habit is endearing -ur was kinda gray's first puppy crush in the early says of being her student (before she became like a mother to him), and sometimes he wonders if he might end up feelings similarly about ultear if they spent more time together -ultear gave him a very rudimentary communication lacrima where you can tell the other person's mood/general state of mind if you let a little of your magic flow into it. sometimes gray uses it at night to see if she and crime sorciere are doing okay <3

i love exploring Grays relationship with others so much, also this is so long and as much as i love it i cant think of things to add on to it

but this absolutely needs to be shown to the world and praised bc holy shit this great and im definitely stealing at least 90% of these

Chapter 545: Irreplaceable Friends

In the year X793, Lucy wins an award for her new book while all the guilds in the country of Fiore move on with their lives. Hisui pardons Crime Sorcière of their crimes, allowing them to live on to the future.

Gajeel points out that since Lucy and Anna have the same smell, it means he likes Anna. In which Natsu does not deny. It's cute how the Heartfilia Clan has this history with him. He even got the heiress, as his.

Lucy wakes up thinking everything was just a dream. Then sees Natsu and Happy in his house comfortably waiting for her to wake up. She remembers what she did while drunk. We should've seen more of it! Don't fret Lucy, you are Natsu's future bride.

And as Natsu invites her for a job, Lucy is bombarded with memories of them together. Let's dissect this:

1. The Duke of Everloo episode, wherein Natsu tells Lucy that she must burn the book since this is their job. First job and first partnership together!

2. Galuna Island Arc

3. When Natsu saves Lucy from falling, Phantom Lord Arc

4. Loke Arc, when the monsters (Natsu, Gray, and Erza) were having a pillow fight.

5. When an injured Natsu talks with Laxus

6. Oracion seis arc, when they were bombed by Zero

7. Edolas arc, when Earth Lucy met Edo Lucy.

8. Tenrou Island Arc, their battle with Cain Hikaru

9. GMG Arc, Natsu thanks Future Lucy

10. Tartaros Arc, Natsu vs Mard Geer and Igneel vs Acnologia

11. Natsu comes back after the 1 year timeskip

12. Alvarez Arc, the end of the war

Lucy envelops Natsu in a hug. She is thankful and happy with everything that happened. And when it gets emotional, Natsu drags her out to go for a job.

With a promise.

We end Fairy Tail on their 100 year quest.

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I never thought that this would happen. Many people were supporting me along the way. I shared with my first blog that I was doing this to heal my inner child who has always been a Fairy Tail fan since 2011. It's been part of my growth and will always be part of my heart.

I'm happy I was able to finish the whole series and finish my NaLu blog! I'm still thinking if I shall proceed with the 100 year quest (it's still ongoing thus I'm hesitating). We'll know when we cross that bridge.

For all the FT fans and the NaLu fans, I'm wishing you all the best. Hope we can see you again soon! Love lots 🩷💛

Do you have any Cana and Lucy headcannons? I feel like their friendship doesn't get enough attention, and it's so sad considering how well they worked together in the Tenrou Island Arc.

I love their relationship so much! I have a soft spot for Cana in general so the fact that Lucy is someone she trusts and loves makes me so happy

Lucy is the one local bars call when Cana is passed out drunk

She's got the routine down. Take Cana home, glass of water, bucket, tuck her into bed, etc

Lucy has a key to Cana's apartment for this exact reason

They always team up for S-Class trials

One year they were both put in and Cana tried to drop out just so she could be Lucy's partner instead

Makarov refused and Cana was bitter about it the entire time

If a guy is making Lucy uncomfortable, she always pretends Cana is her girlfriend. Cana goes along with it every time

Cana calls Lucy her girlfriend anyways so it's not hard to sell the lie

Cana is always draped over Lucy. Any excuse she can find to get her hands on Lucy, she's gonna take it

Lucy loves it (even tho sometimes she pretends to hate it). Lucy's cuddly and everyone knows it

Cana, Lucy, Gray and Loke are the Plastics of Fairy Tail

Cana is the captain of the Lucy defense team. Everyone thought it was Natsu but then Cana decked him for making Lucy cry and everyone realized the true pecking order

The feeling is mutual! Lucy is Cana's biggest supporter in the Guild and has threatened to kill people for upsetting her

Lucy is so protective of Cana. You should've seen what she planned to do to Bacchus after he stripped her in public

Cana sent Lucy letters while Fairy Tail was disbanded. She didn't realize Lucy had moved tho so Lucy never received them

Because of the way Cana talks about Lucy, Gildarts fully thought they were dating. He was so confused when Lucy got with Natsu

Cana, of course, did not help and told him that they were sharing Lucy. Gildarts believes everything she says for some reason

Cana always drags Lucy to nightclubs and they dance together the whole night. Sometimes they spend so much time on the dancefloor that Cana doesn't have a sip of alcohol

Ok I'm going to put this here. I have a hard time believing Acno can actually speak modern Fioren.

Like he wasn't even from Fiore, he's from some secret island that the name comes from Spanish. Sure he might have picked up ancient Fioren when he was at war depending where he was and what language those around him spoke but we don't know the exact location of the fighting since the placement of countries wouldn't have been the exact same 400 years in the past.

But he Def doesn't know modern Fioren. Like he's been a dragon for 400 years and did fuck all after there weren't any dragons he could find to kill to the point he was considered a legend until he showed up in Tenrou. As far as we know, his encounter with Gildarts could have been his first interaction with a human in years and he very clearly was not friendly. The best he can do is probably like a few specific words he's heard from the few times he shows up.

Plot twist that's why he doesn't speak in Tenrou cause he doesn't know how to lol.

Which also they never explained why Acno just suddenly was in Zonia for a bit or why Gildarts was there if the quest he took was in another country altogether.

Like I have my own idea that he was drawn to the sudden spike in dragon slayer signatures since we don't know how long he'd been in Fiore just that it had to have at least been 6 weeks prior to Gildarts return for him to have prosthetic limbs and since Gildarts comes back somewhere between late October to end of November (since the S-class trials are early December) then it's realistic for him to possibly have shown up after the phantom fight which was probably around July to August time, if not earlier.

Plus if you had at least Natsu, Gajeel, Laxus and Cobra actively using their magic all within a concentrated area then it would be a bit of a beacon.

Plus that idea also links up with the three times Acno does show up. Tenrou, Zeref mentions that the fighting had lured Acno but that would be kinda weird since there's been way worse fights in Fairy tail's history so why does this one specifically stand out. Because there are four dragon slayers who all used their magic in at least one fight, three all within the same tiny radius at one point.

Same with Tartarous, Mard Geer says he's there for END but why would Acno be scared of END unless he knows it's Natsu. Zeref is canonically afraid of Acno, it's why he helped create the plan for his destruction. END is supposed to kill Zeref but killing Zeref isn't the same thing as killing a very invulnerable dragon. Regular magic can barely hurt the dragons from the GMG arc and Acno killed half the dragons there. So unless Acno knew END was a dragon slayer, why would he assume he could kill him.

But at that point, 6 of the seven dragon slayers were present in the same area and their dragons did pop out (after Acno arrived but they appeared)

Then he shows up in Alvarez with the goal of killing all the slayers which lines up with his dragon killing goal cause slayers become dragons and he doesn't know about the dragon soul technique so why not just get rid of the future dragons before they change and become a harder kill. (Plus he clearly didn't care Irene was dead since he just pounded her corpse into nothing upon finding her so eh)

Wait what did you think was going to happen with the Dragon Slayers? That they were actual dragons? (I personally hate the whole END plot point like wtf was that)

I mean yeah kinda!! like. I'm trying to remember all my logic because this was thought of MANY years ago when I was more into the show and I haven't watched shit past the Tenrou Island Arc but like. my thought process was:

1.) Dragon Slayer Magic is something incredibly fucking rare and the only people who know it were taught it by Dragons while they were small children, with these Dragons being the only family they had(no humans or anything else around). The only exceptions being people who had a Lacrima with the Magic shoved into their body.

2.) Natsu was searching for Igneel in normal ass places like towns and cities. Places that would have a hard time hiding a giant ass dragon. But like. Remember the first episode where he's like "Oh there's some fancy fire mage showing off in town?! Might be Igneel!' and doesn't question the logic. Now this could just be 'Natsu is a moron(affectionate) and doesn't realize that a 50-foot Dragon is probably not hanging out in the middle of town'. But it could also be 'Natsu is a moron(affectionate) who never bothered to mention that Dragons could shapeshift into Humans and go into town for things'.

3.) The whole first hint that something is Up is the age restriction magic thing used during the Battle of Fairy Tail Arc which banned both Natsu and Gajeel despite them seeming to not hit the limit. Which while it eventually led into the Time Travel plot Canon went with, could also just be a thing of Dragon ages being fucky(an incredibly common trope in fantasy, whether you just make them long-lived or age slower or any number of things)

4.) While I can buy their Magic giving them passive immunity to their own element, and I can even buy the more questionable thing of their Magic allowing them to consume their respective element even though the Human digestive system should not be able to do that. HOWEVER: we swing over to the Edolas arc, where Natsu is still fireproof and able to consume fire even if he can't blast anything due to Edolas fucking with everyone's Magic. Which implies that these traits are /natural to him/ rather than part of his active abilities.

So yeah I just kinda. Expected that to be the fucking twist on the thing? That the Dragon Slayers were actually Dragons and just stuck in Human Form. And then I fell out of the show and came back years later and went 'hey what was that about' and looked it up and like. Time Travel? Really?

✦ Concept Design Work!

Did you know that, in the anime, Freed's Jutsu Shiki has an alphabet? It was created by concept designer, Yoshinori Iwanaga.

In the Fairy Tail Animation Guide Book, he writes,

“I also created new characters for Freed's technique in "Battle of Fairy Tail." I made English capital letters, lower case letters, and numbers based on the ones in the original work. At first, I wasn't planning to go that far, but as I was going to make a certain amount of solid text, I realized that it might end up looking similar depending on the scene. I didn’t want people to say, “Huh? Didn’t I see this before in another scene?” I started to make the numbers, such as four people out, or how many people were left, and I thought it was neat… so I ended up making all of them.”

I only compared the alphabet to a few scenes in the anime, but as far as I can tell, it doesn't really match up with anything directly in the BoFT. Though, some stuff does translate later on in the Oración Seis arc, Tenrou Island, etc. (One of the most notable examples I can think of is when Cana visits Mavis' grave.) But, again, I only looked at a few scenes so maybe I missed something.

It's definitely something to look out for if anyone plans on rewatching Fairy Tail!

Source: Fairy Tail Animation Guide Book [p. 145] Translated Using: DeepL (Disclaimer)

THERES LIKE A LOT I WANNA SAY BUT

1) YOUR ART IS SO BEAUTIFUL AND AMAZING AND SO SCRUMPTIOUS

2) DO YOU POST SPEED DRAWS OR ANYTHING? I WOULD LOVE TO SEE YOUR PROCESS IF YOURE COMFORTABLE

3) WHATS YOUR FAVOURITE ARC IN FT OR FT100YQ

4) IS IT OK IF I DRAW YOUR HEADCANONS (not to claim them as mind or anything) BUT THEY LOOK AMAZING AND WE HAVE SOME OF THE SAME ONES AND YEA I JUST WANTED TO ASK IF YOU LET PEOPLE DRAW THEM AND STUFF :3

sorry this was like a lot BUT YIPPIE

HIII!! Don’t even worry about writing so much, really appreciate the love 🙌💖💖

1) THX SMM 💞💖💖‼️‼️

2) I may post some of my process later on in the future! Will most likely b of my fully rendered pieces 🙌

3) Tbh my fave arc of FT would def b Tenrou island, some of my favorite character moments were in that arc ngl 🙌 and as for FTQ100 (spoilers) I’d say when they fought the earth dragon (not sure what the arc was called 😰)

4) I do not mind whatsoever! ^^I feel really flattered and super happy so many people like my headcannons and it’s super cool if you’d like to draw them 🫶‼️‼️