Hi, I’m really into Fairytail! Literally the fixation that wiggled into my brain when I was like 8 or something and it never left lol. I remember watching the episodes on YouTube and Natsu would say ‘Don’t sit too close to the screens kids’ and I’d actually back up.
Fire away at my ask box! I’m open to anything lol!
Fairy Tail, 9-1-1, The Stars Align, The Prince of Tennis! You name it and I’ll tell you if I’ve watched it (My lists of fandoms is kinda random)
Honestly one of my biggest issues with Mashima character designs is the fact that he makes all his male characters and Female characters have the exact same build. Our ladies are all large chested with hourglass figures, while all the men have abs and big muscles. Literally the only characters that don’t fit that bill are the older characters (makorov, Ooba, Ichiya etc.) and Wendy!
Like, especially when it would make sense for characters like Erza to be buff as hell. She’s a close range melee fighter. Natsu fights with his fists, it makes sense that he would be buff!
But specifically, I don’t think it makes sense for Gray to be buff. We see him in early Fairy Tail and he’s pretty twiggy. It’s really only post tenrou when they start animating him with a similar build to Natsu. Grays a victim of “hey let’s slap abs on this guy, that’ll make the ladies love him.”
Here’s pre Tenrou Gray
And here’s post Tenrou Gray??
It just does make sense to me?? Grays a mid to long range fighter! He also takes shit care of himself?? I’m not saying to twinkify him, but I generally think he’s built a lot leaner. Mashima is allergic to giving characters body types that would make sense
EDIT: I’ve had this in my drafts for a while, but I just saw that my moot @gem-ini24 made a very similar post, so go check that out :>
Mmmm thinking about Natsu giving Gray a warm rub down because he can hear Gray’s muscles stiffening up from excessive cold and with all the crazy stuff happening to them Gray hasn’t been able to keep up with his normal yoga/stretching regime to prevent it.
He confronts Gray and the man is denying it but it is getting harder for him to comfortably squat and even bending over is getting to be pretty hard so when he’s in bed laying on his stomach and Natsu breaks in to start kneading the knots in his back he’s not going to tell him to stop.
They fall into a lull Natsu slowly warming Gray’s muscles back to life and knocking the knots out of his back and then once he turns Gray over to do the same to his front he starts moving him around like a physical therapist pushing his knees to his chest and flat to the bed and so on the check the limberness of his ligaments.
Once Natsu is satisfied with their progress and Gray is a puddle of jelly they agree to do it every week or two only because they don’t want Gray’s body to get so stiff again. (Definitely not because Natsu enjoyed rubbing his hands all over Gray’s skin, spreading his scent all over him and relishing in the knowledge that he gets to feel what others can only dream of when they see it. Definitely not because Gray enjoyed feeling Natsu’s hands all over him and stretching him out and he was totally not thinking about what those hands could do el—)
It really is such a shame that Mashima was so committed to making every guy having the same bulked up, compact, buff body at the end of the series and making every girl have the same huge bust, non existent waist and wide hips.
Because I always thought team Natsu was going to end up as lean4bulk + Wendy and exceeds.
See yes at the beginning of the series they start out with relatively similar bodies, (they are in their late teens so it make sense) but I thought as the series continued things would fan out like this:
Lucy and Gray as mid range fighters and also people with terrible eating habits would stay lean to a degree and participate in more agile moves in fights than their teammates.
Erza and Natsu as close range fighters and the two people we see with the most healthy eating habits would have more muscle mass and be physically stronger than their teammates.
It makes sense to me than Natsu would get stockier than Gray because not only does he eat more but he puts more focus on the physicality of his body. He needs the muscle mass to be able to win more fights as he gets older so him bulking and getting bigger is logical.
It does not make sense that Gray is enormous at the end of the manga because we, as the audience, see him take terrible care of himself but also he is not focused on getting bigger muscles. He doesn’t need them, he needs to agility to give himself space to take a correct ice make stance. Hence why I don’t think he’d be as huge as he is at the end of the manga.
It makes sense to me that Lucy stays lean over the course of the series because she is not dedicating herself to building fat that can be cut into muscle. Also as a writer myself I know she is putting off meals to write one more sentence. But generally Lucy does not need the extra muscle mass because she is not a close range fighter, she can fight close range but that does not make that her go to. (Lucy definitely deserved muscle tone though, Mashima did her dirty on that one)
It does not make sense to me that Erza stays lean over the course of the series because Erza’s indulgence of sweets (and food in general) would build fat that would add overall to her muscle because she is constantly swinging around swords, resulting in her bulk. And generally Erza is the teams heavy hitter, it would make more sense for her to have the most muscle out of anyone in the team.
Oh boy, a complex character who's a woman! I love messy characters who hurt everyone around them and continue the cycles that hurt them!! Can't wait to share this joy with fellow fans– why's everyone calling her a bitch
I hate to say it but Minerva: what she did to Lucy, Milliana, and Kagura was completely unfounded HOWEVER that doesn’t mean she should be getting more hate than say Gajeel or Jiemma.
Just like Sting and Rogue she was a product of her upbringing, arguably worse off because she was raised from the ground up by Jiemma.
The only reason people hate her more is because she was strong enough to capture Milliana and beat Lucy and Kagura, while Sting and Rogue were too weak to beat Natsu and Gajeel.
I guarantee if they were stronger than them they would have done something equally as cruel just to get the point across. (Do we remember what they did to Wendy BEFORE the GMG even started?)
I know we all like Natsu’s badass moments, and he does deserve them considering how often the fandom likes to put him down but I can’t help but think the GMG fight: Fairy Tail vs. Sabertooth would have been so much funnier if it was Natsu & Gray vs. Sting & Rogue.
Now I know why canon did it the way it did. Dragon slayer v. Dragon slayer or whatever but honestly it didn’t amount to much, especially because they had Natsu do away with Gajeel.
I think it would have been a bigger impact to have Stingue v Gratsu (not using this in a shipping way) because the way I see it is Sting and Rogue are the second coming of Gray and Natsu. (Especially the way they are portrayed later in the series.) But you know this match up might have been a little too obvious 🤷♀️.
Anyway do we remember that time Natsu and Gray fought for three days and got so into they punched Erza when she tried to get them to stop?
I think it would be hilarious if that happened again but during this fight. I mean picture it!
Sting and Rogue hear who they’re fighting and have a moment of cockiness. Not only are they stronger than Natsu as second generation dragon slayers but they’re also fighting a no name ice mage that Rufus has already beat. This battle is as good as won.
Rogue is a little disappointed that he won’t be able to fight Gajeel but he’s determined to see Sting’s dream of surpassing Natsu through, even if that means he has to settle for fighting a mediocre mage like Gray.
They walk onto the field, ready to say their piece except Natsu and Gray aren’t paying them any attention. In fact they walked out arguing about who was going to beat who. The argument gets so bad Erza has to yell at them from the stands to get them to stop and acknowledge Sting and Rogue before the match starts.
So Gray and Natsu turn to Rogue and Sting, listening as they start spouting bs about Fairy Tail being washed up and what not and then the match starts. But instead of immediately rushing in Gray and Natsu start making bets about who can beat both Rogue and Sting at the same time.
Obviously Sting and Rogue use that time to attack but Gray and Natsu are still arguing with each other as they’re dodging. AND THEN THEY STOP FIGHTING STING AND ROGUE AND START FIGHTING EACH OTHER. They are completely ignoring Sting and Rogue’s attempts to fight them at this point.
Eventually Rogue and Sting get so fed up that they try cutting in with their combo move and Natsu and Gray get so pissed at the interruption that they turn around and punt the fuck outta them, accidentally ending the match but they don’t even notice. They just go back to arguing with each other.
Now the match is over to everyone’s surprise but Natsu and Gray are NOT paying attention to the announcer saying they need to get off the field and are instead rolling around throwing punches so Erza has to go down to the arena.
Erza gets down to the arena and the same thing happens, they accidentally punch her. BUT SHE JUST TANKS THE HIT AND KNOCKS THEM OUT! And the whole crowd goes wild.
Anyway I hope that made sense because I feel like out of all the gags in the GMG this one could have been the most hilarious. (And much better than the pervy swimsuit/modeling bit)
i think the hardest part about writing day 6: childhood friends is because im genuinely struggling so hard to come up with a fanfic centered around/based off this trope because...that's EVERY fanfic with them
UNLESS it's an AU where they WERENT childhood friends TAT in which case that fic cannot be used as a prompt fill. or maybe it can? i'll think more on that later
so far— ive got a fic idea of lucy watching natsu and gray interact and have no boundaries and just being like "oh. must be because their childhood friends"
no twin their boning sorry u had to find out this way.
This is so funny, you have no idea. And to make matters worse the rest of the guild is the exact same way. Every where Lucy turns there is someone doing some boundary crossing unhinged shit.
Do we remember when Cana fondled her after they had been apart for a year?