#🕊: v: i don’t know what to do without you / lacrima research

[reivun]

@lightrallies

more often than not these days, exhaustion clung to him more than cloak did. if he wasn't researching, he was travelling for research and if he wasn't doing that then he was caring for his sick son. what was it that Bob had said last time they spoke? ah — the bags under ivan's eyes were heart kreuz. he wished he could deny it, but denial was more his FATHER'S thing than his.

regardless, laxus has been having a good week. the medicine ivan's mom concocted had dulled the symptoms enough he was fully of energy. and thus, makarov offered to watch him, play with him or whatever it was the two did alone. it made ivan nervous, but how was ivan to say no to his son's excitement? and so, here ivan was, waiting their return in the guild hall. he hasn't spent much time here recently. isley and jio were gone now, as expected. macao was on a job. gildarts was wherever he went.

without much prompting, ivan sat at one the the less empty tables. there was someone already here, a somewhat familiar face — logan winchester. astrologer. leona had been interested in astrology and asked logan winchester for a reading before, ivan remembered. she was very happy with it. "good afternoon, logan." ivan drawled. he didn't bother asking for permission as he dumped his own books on the table and began to make himself at him. "how are the stars today?"

though his voice was quite monotone, there was an interest. unlike others, ivan respected astrology for what it was — a study in the relationship between stars and people. they lived in a world where constellations had keys, after all. there had to be something.

[reivun]

the following is both a tag drop as well as a verse explanation, which i will put under the cut.

i. 🕊: v: goddammit — i was worth something / childhood spanning from his childhood to young adulthood, stopping only when his wife, leona floros-dreyar dies. he is an s-class mage of fairy tail, somewhat withdrawn even then, but still helpful and hopeful. always happy to help out fellow guildmates and share his research. he’s just a little awkward! that’s all.

ii. 🕊: v: i don’t know what to do without you / lacrima research this is from the moment his wife dies to the moment he is excommunicated from fairy tail. he is desperately researching ways to find a way to cure his sickly son, laxus and is going everywhere for it. with his mother as a lacrima expert, it doesn’t take long for him to turn to the lucrative lacrima and how it could interact within one’s own magic. could this be it?

iii. 🕊: v: master of my own fate / pre canon leading up from his excommunication to founding raven tail and up until the summer of x784. he was feeling very bitter, very angry and the most unhinged perhaps in this time. he does calm the closer we get to x784 mainly for zilla. but. he is still unhinged and likes to play it up even more, the more his own father spreads bad rhetoric about him.

iv. 🕊: v: show them all you’re not the ordinary type / pre tenrou this is for the canon events that take place form lucy joining fairy tail all the way to tenrou. hilariously, it’s only three months of time in which he basically fucks with gajeel and makarov a bit.

v. 🕊: v: in the arms of restless anger / timeskip the 7 year timeksip was an interesting time. the more the core members of fairy tail aren’t found, the more upsetting it truly is. not only is makarov “dead�� and he had nothing to do with it….but…laxus is gone.

vi. 🕊: v: in my toxic era / gmg the gmg arc. not much canon divergence, EXCEPT, for ivan’s motives. of course he was going to come and ensure humiliation and expose makarov as the pos he is! by any means necessary. unfortunate he has to battle his own son, but yknow, his nose gets broken again. and raven tail is banned from any future games. which is fine with ivan, he has some house cleaning to do.

vii. 🕊: v: the unmaker of my own catastrophe / post gmg following the grand magic games, ivan begins to clean house at raven tail. if the games aren’t going to work, then raven tail is going to become one of the better guilds of fiore, then. fine! ivan’s hand is being forced. he does this dramatically by ‘disbanding’ the guild (but certain members knows its not disbanded) and giving the council the list of very suspicious mages. is he a bit of a narc? sure. but its to get back at makaorv. this ends with fairy tail being disbanded by makarov and it only makes ivan feel even better about his choices.

viii. 🕊: v: wake from your sleep — they’re coming / alvarez invasion during the events of the alvarez invasion, raven tail had protected the towns surrounding the guild and fighting off the ships at the harbor, as they were the closest group of mages in that area. ivan was leading them all until he got zapped away by the most annoying spell in existence, universe one. 

ix. 🕊: v: the crown of love has fallen — but it still fits / post war - main the main verse, in x794 a year after the war and what it means. raven tail is a legal guild and ivan is the head and fairy tail and makarov are back. ivan can be seen glaring daggers at makarov whenever he can, but mostly. he is. attempting. to fix some bridges. mainly with laxus and his mother.

/// the folowing are aus ///

i. 🕊: v: on the grave of an old love the flowers are blooming / adoption verse plotted out with momo, a verse where kagura and simon mikazuchi get adopted by ivan. it sounds like crack, however, when the headcanons are uploaded and ready it will make sense and i will return to this blurb and update it.

ii. 🕊: v: revenge is a dish best served professional / gmg au this au is basically ‘what if raven tail didnt need to cheat’ verse. the major difference is ivan is not competing, zilla, my oc is. another difference is that raven tail is not seen cheating at all and instead use their brain and wits. unfortunately, there’s nothing we could do about kurohebi.

iii. 🕊: v: in the time of dragons / dragon search au in this Big au, the dragons are not frozen inside their children, but are somewhere else, trapped. porlyusica, in charge of natsu’s education, theorizes that natsu is from the past based on his language skills and seeks out to find this igneel the fire dragon. in this search, she seeks out help from ivan. and ivan can never say no to his mother.

[reivun]

“you’re going to have some serious bruises for a while.” — sica

the millennium series starters

the last search lead him to an old mage's dungeon and yes, he got the lacrima but no, it was not the right fit for laxus. it was thunder, not lightning. very, very annoying. and yet, still worthwhile enough. he could sell it in era for a lot of jewels and laxus' education would be paid for. it was probably the move to do. what wasn't the move to do was press the teal button, not the green one even if the shade of teal was just a dash bluer than the true green. gods.

he was tempted to think of a new puzzle and put the lacrima there but alas, he was much too busy for such a thing. and if he injured himself making one as he did exploring one it would only worry his mom more.

"i will be sure to ice it when needed and watch it." ivan replied. the little infirmary in her home changed little, though there was a new picture on the wall. and it was undoubtedly his son's. the dinosaur theme and the skill of the drawing told him that. it made him smile. "i enjoy the new picture, mom, and i think i will beleive this apatosaurus' assurance that i will feel better."