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[everyjuvia]

unlike in the anime, Juvia didn't follow Team Natsu all the way to Impatiens, and only hangs out near the guild that is being rebuilt

(also, in Japanese she says 'Juvia' here instead of 'I')

Juvia mentions Gray by name: 1

[everyonehappy]

[saelterlude]

Random headcanon. Loke has always dressed modest but back when he first join fairy tail he wasn't as modest/covered as he is when Lucy joins. Instead of the big coat he would more often be seen in a variety of T-shirts and ⅞ cargo pants like we see him in Tenrou Island. It's just that as time goes on and his magic fails he start noticing how patches of his body would flicker and become transparent. And it slowly spreads so he started covering up more and now he's always using the coat.

When the flickering and transparency finally spreads to his hand, that's when he admits defeat. It's finally time, his magic can't hold on any longer. So he quits fairy tail and prepare to die.

Good thing Lucy Heartfilia was there.

[teatitty]

If there’s one thing I would change about the Loke Arc it’s Happy’s response to Lucy getting grabbed by those sleaze dudes, who then proceed to use magic to paralyze her so they can walk away with her. It’s very obvious what their intentions are even before Loke himself confirms that they prey on women and when Lucy does turn to Happy initially for some help he turns away and pretends to be a normal cat, and even as someone who doesn’t like Happy’s character (as someone who finds him endlessly annoying) even I am aware how weirdly out of character such a response is

Loke would’ve shown up regardless so I really don’t get why M/shima felt the need to do that with Happy instead of, idk, have him fly off to get someone and then Loke shows up or maybe he tries to help directly and gets batted aside. Either of those would’ve been leagues better than that stupid little “meow” gag

[teatitty]

The irony that in the Loke arc Lucy says Karen is a super famous Celestial Mage and then in Loke’s backstory he directly tells Karen she’s not able to summon 2 spirits at once (which is why he can stop her bringing forth Aries) and in that same arc Lucy manages to summon all 5 of her Zodiacs for a few brief seconds and then by the end of the series she’s capable of safely summoning 2 Zodiacs together and sustaining them

But even before that we see her and Angel are both capable of using multiple Zodiacs in the same day so Karen got de-throned in no time flat ansfdegr

(For my non-FT followers if a mage/wizard used too much magic then they die. In Tartatos, Lucy summons 3 Zodiacs, which Loke tells her not to do because of how dangerous it is)

[teatitty]

Re-reading the Loke arc for the thousandth time because what else am I suppsoed to do with my life and how could I forget the tiny details that fucked me up most on my re-reads, both in the “damn I’m never gonna recover from how cool Loke is” sense and in the “fuck me I’m sobbing into my pillow” sense

(Under read more because I fangirl a little bit oops)

1: For all he avoids her due to his ~trauma~ he doesn’t hesitate to punch someone’s lights out for her either. But that’s not what I’m focusing on here; he says these guys are known for “preying on women” and that he was here on a job to track them down. This might be a small resort town but it still gets a lot of tourists so Loke was either keeping an eye on his guildmates (Lucy and Erza/ Juvia is also here in the manga but not the anime) in case they needed him OR he’s been patrolling the streets at night to protect women in general and go after every sleaze he comes across (my kingdom for FT’s writing to have stayed good like this eugh)

2: Loke starting off as far from her at the bar as possible but then moving right next to her when she tells him he doesn’t have to sit so far away. Again, this is a subtle trauma thing because of Karen, but the fact he’s willing to get that close to her speaks volumes on how much he does trust her despite rarely interacting with her

3: Loke does not want to die. If he had truly 100% accepted his death there’s no way he would’ve reached out to Lucy (a celestial mage) here and told her this. Also look how tightly he clings to her...oof

4: His expression shifts from the dark numb one above to a more helplessly frustrated one here once he realizes what he just did. He might not want to die but he still thinks he deserves to (in panels following he also scolds himself for getting emotional and dragging her into his shit)

Also turning his face away from her so she can’t immediately tell that his laughter is false

5: Letting her slap him and not at all defending himself. Just...this panel has a lot of sadness behind it

6: This fucking shot of him and Plue looking at eachother. Because Plue knows who he is and Plue knows he’s dying but can’t do anything about it...*bursts into tears*

7: This is more just a funny addition for me but Loke breaking up with all his girlfriends in one night...I really wanna know how he did that lol

8: Just...how quickly she figured out who Loke was simply based on learning that he had a connection to Karen 

Bonus sadness: this soft fucking look she gives him here. Also the implication that she could “feel” he was a Spirit after finally spending a while with him. Celestial Mage lore isn’t touched on enough quite frankly 

9: Loke surviving on his own life force for three years while slowly dying is such a painful image btw. But anyway Lucy wasting no time demanding he let her help him (I’m trying very hard not to fluster over Loke’s earrings praise me for holding back)

10: This little tidbit which is just never expanded upon so it was either forgotten about or retconned. But then it also says the “real reason” he avoided Lucy was because she was his type which I simply don’t believe given all his angst lol

11: Bob’s anger over how Karen treats her spirits was good civ. I really wanted him to interact with Lucy and thank her for taking care of Aries and Leo

12: Loke, as the leader, can force his fellow spirits to switch places with him. He’s also strong enough that he could block Karen from summoning Aries completely

Subtle detail but Karen actually is afraid of him from the moment he pops up!

13: This entire exchange

14: Loke hits this state after 10 days

Yet still manages to hold out for another 30. And then another 3 months. And after Karen dies there’s the 3 years he then spends exiled. His power levels are so underused it’s ridiculous

15: Loke telling this story about Karen’s abuse to Lucy like man did you really think she was gonna see you as the villain here, just look at this face

16: Not as noticeable in the anime but when he’s fading away you can see the stars themselves

17: His happiness at just being able to meet someone like Lucy. Fuck me up man. + him thanking her for taking care of his fellow spirits 

18: Thinks about this panel every single fucking day (also they both wear shoes with multiple belts on them lol)

19: This whole bit but specifically his face in the last panel

20: GENUINELY HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO BE NORMAL AFTER THIS!?

21: Spirit King’s arrival is so fucking cool my dude

22: Lucy has a fucking spine of casted iron is2g

23: THIS BIT! THIS BIT LIVES IN MY HEAD RENT FUCKING FREE (ignore the translations keeping some of the JPN words btw)

24: LOKE IMMEDIATELY REACHING OUT TO HER WHEN SHE COLLAPSES

25: I don’t think Loke has ever had a bigger “WHAT THE FUCK!?” moment in his life tbh

26: This. Just this

27: Bonus scenes I just find to be really cute

(Note that Lucy is more exasperated with his flirting than anything. Loke’s character assassination later on was an unforgiveable crime)

He says this was a place he planned to take all his girlfriends to and given Gray’s comment about the hotel there are strong implications that Loke was fucking loaded 

[nagirambles]

Rambling about Fairies - Anime Episode 32

This final wrap up of the arc reflects what happened in the Phantom Arc as well. That’s exactly what happened-- and exactly the lesson she learned.

This arc is when Lucy looks upon it from the perspective of an outsider, and finally, fully understands from an emotional standpoint how everyone took what happened in Phantom Arc. It’s one thing to be told and assured, another thing to see it from the other end and go through the same emotions. 

From the point of the person being helped, she charged headfirst to become the helper, and she’s the one that yelled, over and over, that Loke was not at fault.

Growth.