#(c'mon we had laxus' final rejection of his father's legacy and jellal's backstory of being siegrain

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YIPPIE YIPPIE i'm very thankful for your insight!!!

for me it does seem like he allows himself to be emotional (c'mon, it's natsu we are talking about, the moment he does not wear his heart in his sleeve is a great worry for the whole world) but it's more like he either doesn't question them (beyond obvious "he/she/it/they hurt my friends") OR does not allow himself to question it.

we know for the fact that igneel's disappearance took a huge toll on him, and when he joined fairy tail he stayed alone for the most part, even isolated i must say. i mean, being ridiculed for saying your parent is a dragon, for not being able to read missions, only lisanna made him feel welcome, really. and then lisanna died, and the only person left in the guild he was really connected to was happy!

(it could also be a reason for his fierce protectiveness of guild and his team and lucy, protecting every bit of companionship that he has by the skin of his teeth, because he was starved of it-)

as probable as it is for him to not realise the weight of his emotions, there is also a strong possibility that he consciously stops himself from realising them. because, if he actually took a dig at them, well, i'm afraid he would downright spiral! and thats a big no-no! we can't have ourselves being incapacitated and doubting (and actually depressed)! how then will manage to protect what's important for us! There Is No War At Ba Sing Se!

and oh boy, as you said, stack at it our unresolved identity crisis!

i've said it somewhere before, but we really lack any sort of arc that challenges natsu's character, like:

- we have galuna island for gray, where he is met head on with guilt over the fact that he was the cause of ur's untimely death.

- we have phantom lord arc for lucy, where she is battling her own guilt for bringing trouble to guild and feeling of inadequacy, that she later conquered by meeting her father face to face!

- we have tower of heaven for erza, with her survivor's guilt AND savior complex in regards to jellal.

- we have nirvana arc for wendy, where she learns that she can not only stay on sidelines, but also stand up for herself and fight!

- we have edolas arc for happy and carla, for fuck's sake! with the history of their own race and their conflicting feelings over it!

and what does natsu have? what arc can we call as his arc? where is his retrospection?

we had all of this for team natsu in a span of 100 episodes, and nothing like that for natsu to the 328 episode of Fairy Tail, and from 1 to the 170 chapter of Fairy Tail 100yq! isn't that insane? no wonder no one takes him seriously!

...uh, i realised i went off on a tangent here, oops. i hope you don't mind, really glad that you responded!

hi hi! i'm v-mo, the one behind "natsu's smart moments" posts! i've seen some of your posts and i enjoy them!!! and also you liked some of mine, so i wondered, do you have any thoughts on them? maybe there is some things i missed, or you have some advice to me?🥺🥺🥺

i'm just a little anxious about posting in fairy tail fandom, i haven't interacted with it for a very, VERY long time

so, yeah!

hope you have a good morning/day/evening/night!!

Hi!!! Gosh I’m so flattered you’re coming to me for evaluation🥹 Even if I’m 100% sure you’re covering more than I could even think of (I do however find it hilarious that team Natsu is just a herd of sheep that Natsu tries to keep from sacrificing themselves) (laughed very hard at that lol)

Lisanna was supposed to die and not come back, so her being beaten down to the bone is, just as you say, unlikely that she survived without problems. I live her but the animation team was foul for making Mashima brig her back to life

(That’s not about Natsu being smart, I realise, but you’ve covered that so well that I just read and nod along) (and I see now that you mentioned it in the tags😭 sorry I’m not the sharpest knife in the box)

Natsu is a very active person in general, so anything that gets him moving, is stuff that gets his brain into motion too. Fighting someone and using smell, sound, touch, experimenting with eating etherion (crystallised magic) and diving head first into things, gets him going.

A lot of people (me included) take the fact that he isn’t very analytical when it comes to emotions, and grab the “dumb” marker and starts putting it all over him. But even when he isn’t analytical, he still notices and cares for other people’s emotions. The fact that he’s rowdy, easygoing and has a bright demeanour shouldn’t result in getting called emotionally constipated.

He is emotionally constipated, but not for those reasons (his unresolved identity crisis however, howdy!)

Anyways I hope this sufficed as some insight! Natsu is such a complicated character to me bc it’s so hard to clock his intelligence. He CAN be smart and mindful and caring, but it’s like he has a block on himself that catches himself before he confronts his own feelings about it. Classic case of Emotion Bad But Anger Not Emotion ☝🏼🤠