#rhodonite-ch6

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Rambling about Fairies - Rhodonite Chapter 6

I miss when canon actually gave Gajeel personality and characterisation outside of his evil spy schtick and Gajevy importance. Like, this and Ice Road filled one subtle need I needed in FT--- the worldbuilding, and the indication that the world is moving around them, even if we stay in one place. 

Like, just look at that. Minstrel is a whole sea travel away! 

And I like the implication that Gajeel’s funky style of music is weird to people in Fiore (but not to Juvia and Elfman which means it’s an acquired taste for some) because it’s just a foreign music style that is probably not very prominent in this country. Though Gajeel’s got bad execution either way, the style of music with the weird jazz and rap mixture isn’t supposed to be in itself bad in-universe. 

Also, cute reason to why he dresses up to the nines in white hat and suit while he does it. He’s imitating them. 

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Rambling about Fairies - Rhodonite Chapter 6

And finally, my favourite thing about spinoffs, the fact that Natsu and Lucy are out of the picture, so we can explore dynamics between characters not associated with the main characters. 

It’s hardly emphasized much how people grew closer to Gajeel after slowly accepting him in canon. Of course, Jet and Droy had the scene of beating him up and Natsu had the reluctant teamups, but Gray and Erza, for example, never really gets touched upon in regard to how they’re accepting Gajeel into the guild. They just had a rushed convo in Edolas regarding the situation and then it’s done. We’re just to assume they grew to tolerate and accept him over time because there’s no time to look into those things.

But here, we see Juvia being fascinated to learn more about it, Gray putting pieces together to judge him for his crappy personality (half-affectionate), and Levy being slightly solemn in realizing there’s still distance between them, setting up some flags for Gajevy to develop.