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Welcome to Jelray Week 2020! We are very excited to run this event again and we hope you can join in the fun.
Event Dates: April 13-19
Prompts:
🌟 Day 1: Light
❄️ Day 2: Confetti
🌟 Day 3: Lock
❄️ Day 4: Mirror
🌟 Day 5: Tradition
❄️ Day 6: Horizon
🌟 Day 7: Family
Content Submission: Art, edits, fics, poetry, amvs, headcanons, manga colorings, playlist, text posts, etc, and pretty much anything else is acceptable.
Event Rules:
• Any NSFW must be tagged appropriately. If your content contains any triggers please tag them (ex. self-harm, depression, gore, etc.)
• Any work with incest, pedophilia, character or ship bashing will not be accepted.
• All work must be original and created for this event. Standalone one-shots from established works are acceptable. Any content that is submitted will need to be your own work. No plagiarism!
Event Tag: Content can either be submitted to this blog or you can use the tag #jelrayweek2020 in your first five so that we can see it! You’re also welcome to mention the blog @jelrayweek.
Additional Info: Prompts are only for inspiration, so feel free to use your own creativity. Late entries will be accepted. Any genre, including platonic content and brotp is welcomed!
Do let us know if your submission is not reblogged within 2 days.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask them by messaging us or sending in an ask.
Summary: Jellal was a galaxy and Gray was pulled into that stellar system, but he forgot that galaxies do not have oxygen, after all.
Pairing: Jellal x Gray
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It was his magic—luminous, glowing, so bright—which drew Gray toward him. And all of that was so ironic because both of them had darkness running so deep in their veins that they sometimes forgot the very existence of light.
Jellal's magic called to him.
And Gray blindly followed it in the dark.
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It was his eyes that made him stay. They glittered and shined and Gray coul swore that he would see galaxies in them.
Jellal was a galaxy. A system of stars burning and bounded by gravity.
The gravity of Jellal's eye called to him.
And Gray found himself being pulled closer to them every day.
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It was his heart which became his demise.
It was so full and had so much light inside of it that Gray almost found it blinding. He scoffed at the irony again. But Jellal would smile at him and hook his finger under his chin, pulled his face closer to his lips and whispered a promise of love which broke Gray.
And so, he would combust every time he would be with Jellal. He would throw his arms around him. Tightly. He would take rapid breaths because even breathing would stop being an effortless task.
Gray was pulled into that stellar system, but he forgot that galaxies do not have oxygen, after all.
Their love collided and crumbled down, like meteoroids shattering and swirling in space.
Once in a while, when Gray was back on his earth, he would catch a glimpse of those shooting stars. Their tail glittering with a love which soon turned into dust.
He would still look at them.
Because it was his magic—luminous, glowing, so bright— which drew Gray toward him.
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Summary: Jellal doesn't need to keep his heart locked. He would always have Gray. His safety. His freedom.
Little did he know that their love would become the anchor which will pull down Gray.
Pairing: Jellal x Gray
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“And this,” Gray whispered over Jellal's lips, trailing his hand down to his chest and tracing the skin where Jellal's heart is, “—is where I'll always stay.”
“I should keep it locked then, huh?” Jellal asked with a lazy smile. He cupped Gray's face in his palms. “I don't want to lose you.”
“As if that can ever happen,” the ice mage laughed and that sound melted all of Jellal's defenses.
When it's them, he doesn't feel the need to build thicker walls and cage himself behind iron bars.
He felt free.
(If there even is something like that for a criminal like him.)
“Right. That can never happen,” Jellal replied and closed the distance between them with a kiss.
He doesn't need to keep his heart locked. He would always have Gray. His safety. His freedom.
xxx
“It doesn't work that way, Jellal! ” Gray barked. His body was trembling and he was trying so damn hard to not shed his ugly tears. “You—We—You need to think about us! I can't keep going in circles with you.”
“I am sorry,” Jellal said softly and reached out to hold Gray but the man shrugged him off. Jellal pretended that it didn't hurt that badly.
“Sorry? You're fucking sorry? Jellal... All I have ever wanted was your time, your presence. I can't keep worshiping this love like a shrine. Jellal, I try. All this time, I have fought against time and stolen these moments of love that we share.
“Every day away from you feels like torture. I can wait, Jellal. I really can. But tell me,” he looked up at him, his gaze dark and cold. “Tell me that one day when all of this is over, you'll come back to me and will never go away. I'm tired of being your safety, your harbour. I'm sinking, Jellal....” he slowly slid down against the wall behind him and buried his face inside his arms. “I'm sinking.”
Jellal did not know what to say to him. Deep inside, he knew that this chase would never end; that even if his sins would get pardoned someday, he would never be able to wash them away from his blood and bones.
Gray deserved better.
“I don't think,” he said in a raspy voice, devoid of emotions. “You shouldn't throw your life away in the hope of me getting back to you one day. You're right. It doesn't work that way.”
Something dark crawled on his chest.
“I am your anchor, Gray. I always will be. Get away from me before you start drowning,” he said and closed his eyes. His nails dug deeper into his clenched fist and he was sure that would bleed soon.
“Not even trying to fight back, huh?” Gray smirked as he slowly raised his face.
“What's the point?”
Because he will hate himself anyway.
“Oh, well, I don't know. Maybe our love is supposed to be the fucking point,” Gray spat. “I'm tired of you trying to run away every damn time.”
Jellal shrugged, “It's the only thing I know.”
Because if he will run far away, maybe he will never have to face himself again.
“You'll get tired one day,” Gray said and thudded his head on the wall.
Jellal sighed and sat down beside him; a hot tear slowly rolling down his cheek.
“That's okay.”
Because this is something he has learned to live with ages ago.
“I really love you, you know?” Gray said in a broken voice. “But...you're slipping away and I don't know how to hold on to you. It's making me think th-that this love isn't.... isn't even real.”
The heavenly body mage only focussed on the pain stinging his palms.
Because how can he convince Gray that this love he has for him is the only thing which has ever felt real.
“We cannot live like an illusion, Jellal.”
Gray was crying quietly, his knees drawn to himself and chin resting on them, eyes red and puffy.
Jellal took a shuddered breath. “I'm sorry.”
He wanted to cry out loud too, but it was going to be futile at the end, wasn't it? Mourning wasn't meant for people like him. He could only bury his grief inside himself even if there wasn't any room to breathe.
He has to carry the weight of his sins.
He just never thought that a broken heart would be one of them.
Suddenly, Gray gave a hollow laugh. “Maybe you should've locked your heart, after all.”
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[A/N]: I am tired and I don’t know what this is, but jelray makes me write which I think is OOC Jellal (and Gray too probably, idk). At least their OOCness is consistent in my interpretation, lol.
Thank you all so much for taking part in the event to celebrate this beautiful ship! With your support, we are proud to watch JelRay blossoming more each day. And don’t worry if you haven’t been able to put together something: we are accepting late submissions up to a month from today!
Masterlist of Works (late submissions will be bolded)
Day 1: Light
It Was His Magic - @watcher-ofthe-sky
the light of a thousand suns - @ceruleanshockwave
Day 2: Confetti
(no submissions yet)
Day 3: Lock
Lock - @watcher-ofthe-sky
Day 4: Mirror
(no submissions yet)
Day 5: Tradition
(no submissions yet)
Day 6: Horizon
(no submissions yet)
Day 7: Family
(no submissions yet)
Miscellaneous
My Ship in 5 Minutes - @gaymirajane (ship meme)
we’re not broken, just bent - @gaymirajane, @j-ellals (playlist)
This Wall Between Us - @gaymirajane (fanfiction)
Once again, we thank all of you who have participated in this week of celebration and to those who helped us in signal boosting it and spreading the word. We really appreciate all your efforts.
We know we had a ton of fun viewing all your entries! Late submissions are welcomed with open arms up till May 20th 2020. Please mention the blog @jelrayweek so that your entries won't be missed!
Hey guys! Just checking in to see if you are planning on running this event this year, and if so when so I can add you to the calendar of upcoming events for fairytailevents. Thanks!
Yes we are! We haven’t decided on the dates yet but we plan to hold it in April, as usual. Thank you <3
