Okay so I do agree with you! Jude was a gigantic piece of shit but that’s not really what I meant by childhood differences. I’m not really sure what you meant by the clothing bit but what I meant was that Lucy wears whatever she wants all the time even if it’s not helpful for where she is going next. Ex: her wearing a mini shirt in forest terrain or heels in a desert.
Lucy is privileged in that she never had to wonder where her next meal was coming from or whether or not she was going to have somewhere to sleep tomorrow.
The fairy Tail kids are privileged in the fact that they found friends and camaraderie in each other when they were younger.
Of course one isn’t better than the other:
What Lucy had on lifestyle comfort (a cook, new clothes all the time: even if she didn’t choose them to wear, a large property) she lacked in parental love and companionship. There was only so much her spirits could do. Also the doll not quite the companion you would need to keep your spirits up after your mother has died and your father has gone insane.
What the Fairy Tail kids had in companion ship (and some parental guidance) they lacked in stability. Cana started drinking when she was younger after, Gray became a smoker before he turned 20. Natsu had to build his own house. They had the fairy dorms and I’m quite sure they were allowed to make late payments but they still had to go on jobs.
Actually now that I’m thinking about this does show up, Lucy is so worried about money because she’s used to having a lot of it but when she’s low on it things go to shit, however when the rest of team Natsu is low on money it’s not a big deal because they always have been. There was no time in their lives where they had an excess of wealth so the lack of it doesn’t matter to them.
Oh! And the street rat thing is an excellent point, I actually forgot about that. I do think that this is a reason she assimilates so easily to Fairy Tail life because Lucy Heartfilia the heiress and Lucy the runaway are two different people obviously . I’m also sure she used skills she knew before her street rat life to help herself, like merchants haggling and offering to be someone scribe (I’m not really sure what the education level is in Fiore).
I think generally her being a street did teach her some things (seduction, discounting, taking food where you can get it) but she was still alone for most of that time. And this is where I think the differences come in.
In my original posts i didn’t mean “oh poor little orphan fairy tail kids, Lucy had it so good in life idk why she ran away” I meant it more as in Lucy had stability in her housing and needs (I know Jude was a pos but I’m quite she he got her whatever she needed, the best money could buy so he could sell her off for a profit later) which I’m realizing now it didn’t come off that way.
Generally I do still think Lucy’s lonely lifestyle will come at odds with her guildmates, such as her saying something like she used to play hide and seek with her doll and just hide for hours because her father wouldn’t let her play with anyone else. Hence the childhood stories telling bit, it might not affect her as much now but they definitely have different childhoods. (I also such this influences Lucy’s need for space sometimes whereas the rest of team Natsu are practically on top of each other all the time)
(Also I would like to die on this hill because I think Lucy deserves more good memories with her mom. Lucy was about ten when Layla died so it stands to reason that Layla could have taught her to swim. I’m quite sure her parents put her in swimming lessons early but also Layla having Aquarius would have made this ends our more worthwhile. Not that I think Jude would continue these lessons if Layla had died before Lucy learned to swim)
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